Release that Witch - Chapter 1063

[Chapter 1041 Scars]

“Company…” Roland whispered.

“What?” Victor was slightly taken aback, “If you have any doubts, I can explain it again—”

“No need,” he waved his hand, “This is indeed an interesting plan, at least it seems to have no problem. If it is to be implemented, how soon can you get the funds ready?”

Victor’s eyes suddenly brightened, “I knew you would understand it—please forgive me, Your Majesty, if you are also a businessman, your achievements will definitely not be inferior to any big chamber of commerce!”

This metaphor seems to lower the status of the king, but placing the other party at the top of one’s own industry is a way of expressing high recognition in noble etiquette, and it can be regarded as a kind of undisguised flattery.

At this moment, Roland had a completely different idea in his mind: Isn’t this the large industrial company of later generations?

Settling down with technology, recruiting people spontaneously, organizing production and marketing, independent profit and loss… He never expected to hear such a complete idea from a contemporary population.

The biggest difference from the Chamber of Commerce is that the plan combines production and sales, which can be said to be the embryonic form of modern private enterprises.

This may be an excellent opportunity.

In the past four years, his territory has achieved considerable development, but its shortcomings have gradually been exposed-that is, the administrative office has almost arranged everything.

Any project needs to be controlled by the administrative department. From preparing the number of people to allocating the budget, these complicated work regulations take up most of the officials’ time.

As the scale of the project continues to expand, it will inevitably make the organization more bloated and administrative efficiency will decrease accordingly.

This can be regarded as a common problem of “state-owned enterprises” – once the profits and losses have nothing to do with the participants, stability becomes everything.

It has the advantages of ignoring returns and being determined by the will of the upper echelon. It can quickly meet the needs in the early stage, and can also be used to overcome those risky strategic projects in the later stage, but it does not mean that it is omnipotent.

This is also one of the reasons why Roland devoted all his efforts to developing heavy industry and agriculture in Neverwinter, but paid little attention to light industry—except for the limited working population, the Administration Department could no longer provide so many officials to deal with the expansion of industry types.

After all, it is simple to issue an order, but it is just a one-sentence matter, but if it is really implemented, even if it is to build an additional steam engine assembly plant, it will need a whole set of manpower to support it.

But now, he has a new choice.

Before the method of attracting investment was used, someone took the initiative to send it to him, and Roland naturally had no reason to refuse it easily.

Although this “company” has a background from an overseas family, and after making a profit, it will inevitably cause a certain amount of outflow of golden dragons, but as long as its production departments are all within the territory of Graycastle, this shortcoming is nothing.

After reaching the preliminary intention, Roland personally sent Victor to the gate of the castle, “When you are ready, I think new cotton seeds should be able to be cultivated. But I have to explain in advance that if other businessmen plan to If you follow your example, the Administration Office will also sell them the seeds at the same price—the more commodities on the market, the more affordable the price will be, and you should know this better than me.”

“Of course, Your Majesty,” Victor said with a confident look in his eyes, “The Dawn Merchant has never been afraid of competition. My father always said that the competition has already begun from the moment we were born.”

When he was about to resign, Roland suddenly stopped him again, “By the way, I want to ask you another question. My minister found out that you had a record of paying taxes to Longsong Fortress six years ago. Why? If you want to save this amount at that time, it should be easy for you, right?”

Victor nodded, “But the lord at that time promised that as long as he paid the tax according to the amount, he would provide certain convenience and protection for the caravans traveling between the border and Longsong. He did so—— At that time, this cost could at least avoid the threat of wild beasts and the troubles of peer attacks. I always feel that it is actually a good thing for merchants to pay a small price to obtain a stable and orderly rule. Unfortunately, There are a lot of people who would rather spend a lot of money on goods that aren’t worth it than see regulation as one of the costs.”

Sure enough, he is an interesting person. Looking at the back of the businessman leaving, Roland couldn’t help thinking to himself.

If there are such people as examples, Graycastle’s “private enterprises” should also usher in a period of rapid and vigorous development.

Just as he was about to return to the office, Nightingale’s anxious voice suddenly rang in his ears, “Your Majesty, Lightning is back, she seems to be in trouble—”

“What’s the situation?” Roland asked hurriedly.

“I don’t know yet… I just received a summons from Sylvie. After she was brought back by Maggie, she was sent directly to the hospital!”

His heart sank suddenly, “Is she injured? Take me there now!”

“Yes,” Nightingale reached out and grabbed him, and the two escaped into the mist together.

…

After rushing to the medical hospital in the west of the city, Roland saw the little girl lying on the hospital bed.

The moment he pushed open the door, UU read books www.sonicmtl.com The worries in his heart were dispelled a lot – Lightning looked intact, and there were no obvious scars or blood on his face, and his chest was still heaving, which meant that Nothing serious will happen to her.

Even if the reconnaissance was in danger, it is now safe.

But he soon discovered something was wrong.

Nana did not feel at all relaxed after the treatment, but frowned tightly, looked down at her hands, and looked puzzled.

Maggie was even more nervous lying on the head of the bed, wiping Lightning’s forehead with her hands, and shrinking her neck into her clothes when she saw Roland, as if she had done something wrong——he only noticed When I noticed, the other party’s face was constantly sweating, and there was a shallow moan between the slightly parted lips and teeth, as if immersed in a nightmare.

“What’s going on?” Roland looked at Nana, “Where did the lightning hurt?”

The latter raised his head and slowly pointed to his chest.

“nightingale.”

“Yes.” Nightingale stepped forward, carefully picked up Lightning, helped her take off that special windproof jacket, and then unbuttoned the inner lining little by little.

Just when it fell to the collarbone, she couldn’t help but stop her hand, “Your Majesty, this is—”

Roland approached the hospital bed and found a thumb-sized wound two fingers below Lightning’s neck.

Compared with the surrounding snow-white skin, this scar is particularly eye-catching, but if you look closely, it doesn’t even hurt the muscle layer, it just breaks the epidermis, which belongs to the kind of small wound that can heal itself if left alone.

It stands to reason that to Nana, healing such a wound is just a trivial matter that can be completed in the blink of an eye.

But her next sentence left Roland stunned.

“I can’t cure her…” Nanahua murmured, “No matter how I drive the magic power, I can’t make the wound disappear, just like my ability has failed.”

[End of this Chapter]