Magic Industry Empire - 931. Chapter 931

After leaving the Duke’s mansion, the Duke of Windsor light car Jane Cong, with only the butler, put on a very ordinary cotton clothes, took a worn-out carriage from the back door of the Duke’s mansion, and drove slowly towards the city of Canberra.

The scenes I saw along the way were not much different in normal times, but if you look closely, you will find that the streets are a bit more deserted than usual.

In the past, there was a lot less yelling and selling in the street, and the crowd willing to stop on the street was naturally much less.

Looking from both sides of the street, the densely packed shops have also closed a lot at this time. Some shops seem to be walking in a hurry. Even the gates are not closed tightly. You can see that there are only a few homeless people lying inside. Among them, I regard this as my temporary residence.

Seeing this situation, the Duke of Windsor couldn’t help frowning slightly.

“Riken, why do you say this? Even if other places have added business opportunities because of that damn new flying business association, but this does not mean that our southern province has no money at all. Why do these businessmen just shut down here? Leave here?”

The middle-aged man with the appearance of a housekeeper is Riken as the Duke of Windsor said. It is different from the respectfulness and even trembling of others when facing the Duke of Windsor. This theory is calm in front of the Duke of Windsor. Although it is still respectful, it is nothing. Looks in awe.

Hearing the question from the Duke of Windsor, Ricken was silent for a moment, then raised the whip in his hand and made the carriage turn around.

The Duke of Windsor grew up with Ricken, knowing that his temperament has always been this way, and he didn’t care if he didn’t answer his questions.

However, seeing Ricken turning around, the Duke of Windsor knew that he must have an answer in his heart, so he fell silent, observing the situation on both sides of the street, while sitting in a carriage slowly drove out of the city.

The carriage led the Duke of Windsor and Ricken dangling out of the West Gate of Canberra City. After driving for two or three kilometers west, he saw a large village with hundreds of households appearing in it. before.

At this time, it was the late spring season, and the southern provinces were close to the south of the mainland, and scattered golden signs appeared in the wheat fields on both sides of the road.

Originally this time should be the most important moment before the harvest. Farmers should take care of the ripening wheat fields every day. However, the Duke of Windsor glanced over, but only saw scattered farmers in the wheat fields. It doesn’t mean busy at all.

The Duke of Windsor couldn’t help frowning again.

“These lazy farmers are still lazy at such a critical time! Don’t they know that the spring harvest is coming soon?”

Ricken turned his head and glanced at the Duke of Windsor, then shook his head: “Master, it’s not that they are lazy, but that they have no one.”

The Duke of Windsor was taken aback: “What do you mean?”

Ricken pointed to the field in the distance: “Look, there are old people in this field, and you can’t see any young people.”

The Duke of Windsor calmly took a look at the surrounding fields, and found that it was indeed the case. He couldn’t help but be even more surprised.

“Why is this? What about the young people in the village? Did they all get lazy? Or something happened? Ricken, what do you know?”

Ricken shook his head without answering, but drove the carriage to the edge of a farmland and jumped off.

In this farmland, an old farmer who seemed to be at least 60 years old was bending over to check the situation in the field. After hearing the sound, he raised his head and saw Ricken jumped off the carriage and walked over.

“This old man, why are you alone here? Where are your family members? How about your son and daughter-in-law? Why didn’t you come?”

The old peasant glanced at Riken. Although he could see that the other party might be different from his own identity, he said that he was very amiable in speech and manner, so he put down his guard and said with a smile: “They all go out to work, leaving me as an old man. Take care of this little field at home with the old woman.”

“Working?” Ricken had a surprised expression on his face. “Where do you work? Didn’t you even plant the fields?”

“They said they were going to a city called…what Neil, saying it was Xinfei…” Just after spitting out these two words, the old farmer suddenly had a trace of terror across his face, he coughed hard, and turned his back. The words swallowed back.

As if he hadn’t seen the old farmer’s movements, Ricken blinked his eyes and continued to ask: “Are you talking about the New Flying Merchants Association? What kind of Neil’s city, should it be Saran Neil? Then The place is in the province of Tural, which is a bit far from here.”

Hearing “Xin Fei Shanghui”, a word that has almost become banned in the southern provinces, was unscrupulously said, the old peasant’s demeanor instantly relaxed a little, and he smiled and shook his head and said, “It’s nothing to be farther away. You can earn money. If you go there, you can earn five gold coins with a minimum guarantee of one month, and you can even earn ten gold coins. It’s not much better than farming at home. If it weren’t for me and my old lady, I’m not in good health. , I am not willing to leave here, I am afraid I will go to work with my two sons.”

“Oh? You can earn ten gold coins in a month? That’s a lot.” Ricken looked up around and asked, “I see old people like you in the fields. Not everyone else in the village is like yours, and the young people ran out to work?”

“Yes, you can earn a few gold coins or even ten gold coins in a month when you go out to work. There are more than one hundred gold coins in a year. If you stay here to farm, you can fill your stomach with the rest after paying the rent. Not bad, not to mention gold coins, there are not even a few silver coins. Let you choose, how do you choose?” the old farmer asked rhetorically.

Ricken hummed and nodded: “I chose to do the same for me. But is it really reliable to run so far to work? In case of any accident…”

“Cut, what’s the accident?” The old farmer curled his lips. “Anyway, all of us are cheap. If we have the opportunity to earn real gold coins, we must of course seize it. Besides, the factories over there seem to be new flying businessmen…”

Having said this, the old farmer still had a look, and after all he looked at, he lowered his voice and continued: “It seems to have something to do with the new flying business. You always know the new flying business, right? People are such a rich big business association. , Will not lie to us people.”

Ricken was a little strange: “You seem to know the new flying business association very well? How do you know this business association?”

The old farmer’s reaction was even more strange. He glanced at Ricken with a surprised look, then looked around again, but this time he forgot to lower his voice and asked directly, “You are asking too strangely, right? Why should I? Can’t you know about the New Flying Business Association? The things of the New Flying Business Association are so easy to use, and they are also cheap.

“Oh? Where did you know that the New Flying Business Association’s things are easy to use and cheap?”

“Didn’t the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and other chambers of commerce have come here once and brought a lot of good things. In addition, before the Governor issued the ban, there were also many other businessmen who brought in a lot of things. Now there are still others in our village. Quite a lot. Compared to those sold by the profiteers in Canberra, these items from the New Flying Merchants Association are particularly useful no matter what they are.”

Speaking of this, the old farmer suddenly seemed to think of something. He hesitated for a while before asking: “Actually, the time I heard that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce came, I planned to invest in some factories in Canberra, right? You said If the governor doesn’t issue any ban to allow these factories to be built, then my two sons won’t need to go to work as far away as the Tural province…”

“So…you disagree with the Governor’s ban?”

“Yeah, this ban is not good at all…” The old farmer suddenly waited with his eyes, looked at Riken vigilantly, and waved his hand quickly. “No, no, no, I didn’t say anything, don’t guess. It’s his business that the governor issued a ban, and it has nothing to do with us.”

Riken nodded, and did not continue to question, instead chatting with the old farmer about the upcoming spring harvest.

Regarding the coming spring harvest, the old farmers also have some worries in their hearts.

In the past, every spring harvest, the family worked hard, but it took a full month to barely harvest more than a dozen acres of land under their family’s name.

Now the two sons and daughter-in-law have left together with their grandson, who is already half their eldest son. He and his wife, the two old ladies, may only be able to harvest at most two acres of grain.

“But it doesn’t matter. Now my son and the others are doing well, we two old guys just need to collect some food for themselves, and they don’t need to be so tired.”

“What about the rent?” Riken asked.

“Renting food? It’s a big deal to buy some food to hand in. Anyway, the eldest son wrote back and said that the big ship from the Principality of Stantin also brought a lot of cheap food. With their current salary, they can buy a few hundred catties a month. Enough to pay rent.”

Ricken was speechless for a while.

The old farmer sighed again and continued: “Oh, in fact, I heard from my relatives who came to our house last time that Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has some kind of farmland magic machinery. It is said that it does not require half an hour to harvest an acre of land with that thing. If the Governor didn’t have this ban, it would be nice to get some farmland magic machinery to come in, so we don’t have to worry about what to do in this field.”

Riken and the old farmer looked at the green wheat fields with a little bit of golden in them, and were silent for a long while, then waved goodbye to the old farmer and returned to the carriage.

The Duke of Windsor has been watching Riken and the old farmer talking through the curtains of the carriage, because they are not far away, and all the content of the conversation between the two of them can be heard in his ears.

After Ricken returned, the Duke of Windsor looked at the vast farmland in front of him for a while, then lowered the curtains and fell silent.

After a while, the Duke of Windsor let out a faint sigh.

“Rickon, leave one thing to you.”

“Grandpa, please.”

“I heard that there is a Cantona Chamber of Commerce in the Kingdom of Lampari, which specializes in harvesting farmland. Please contact them.”

Ricken glanced at the Duke of Windsor and nodded in response.

The Duke of Windsor opened the curtains and stared at the old farmer in the field for a while, then let out a light sigh, signalling Riken to start the carriage and leave.