At night, Richard was in his study, studying the drawings of miniature spell-tracking missiles and making improvements to the second version.
"Bang bang bang", there was a knock on the door suddenly.
"Come in." Richard raised his head and said.
The door opened with a creak, and Gallie walked in with a nervous look on his face: "Master, there is something I want to report to you."
"What's wrong?" Richard asked, guessing a possibility, "It's something on the list, but I can't buy it?"
"Yes." Gallie nodded, "The rest of the things are easy to talk about, but the high-quality glass you require is not easy to buy."
"Isn't it okay to buy it at a high price?"
"Small quantities are okay, but large quantities are difficult." Gallie explained, "The glass in Jialan City is only produced by Marquis Vian's factory. I heard that special substances are added to the glass, which is better than the glass from other places. It is quite sturdy and is a rare item.
Because of this, the quantity produced every month was not very large. As soon as it was produced, it was bought by many nobles. Very little went to the market, and the price was very expensive.
If you want to obtain a large amount of high-quality glass in a short period of time, you must either find a way to establish a relationship with Marquis Vian and enter his inner circle. Or go to other cities to buy. But Master, you also know that the rest of the cities are far away and the roads are not very good. If you transport them by horse-drawn carriage, you won't even be able to get half of the intact glass. It's a waste of time and money, and it's likely to affect your construction plan. "
"Is that so?" Richard listened thoughtfully.
The reason why it built the wind tunnel laboratory in the manor instead of building it in the Garden of Eden was that it was building a similar building for the first time and was ready to test the waters first. In addition, they want to use a large amount of external manpower to save time.
If the glass had to be purchased from other cities, it would conflict with his purpose.
As for buying from the local area, Marquis Vian would not be able to pass the test. After all, he had no contact with the other party, so it was not easy for him to establish a connection with the other party, and he could not force the other party to sell him all the glass produced by the glass factory.
So, build a glass factory to produce glass yourself
He does master the production processes of many special glasses, and he can actually build his own glass factory. The glass produced will definitely be of higher quality than Count Vian's glass factory.
But if you do this, it will only take more time than buying glass from other cities, not less.
How to solve it
"Pap tap tap..."
Richard tapped the table and kept thinking, muttering the name: "Marquis Wei'an, Marquis Wei'an..."
After reading it a few times, I suddenly felt something familiar. I thought of something, turned to look at Gallie and asked, "Jialie, on the first day we moved into the manor, we received a lot of invitations. I asked you to take them all." Gone, do you remember?"
"Remember," Gallie said, "I put them all away."
"Okay, find it for me."
"Yes." Gallie didn't hesitate and quickly turned around and left the room. Not long after, he ran in with a large pile of invitations and placed them gently on the desk. "Master, they are all here. I promise not to miss any."
"Good job." Richard said with satisfaction. According to his memory, he glanced at the many invitations. Then he picked up a gilded light red invitation. When he opened it, he saw a few lines of words.
The mysterious wizard from afar:
Welcome to settle in Jialan City. Although I don’t know your experience, I have always been in awe of your extraordinary power. I hope that my children can follow the same path under your guidance.
If you have time, I hope you can condescend to visit your humble residence, or I can take my children to visit you, so that I can understand your strength. I am extremely grateful.
Vian Sisko.
Richard pointed to the signature on the invitation and asked Gallie: "Is this person the Marquis Vian?"
Jialie took a look and was slightly surprised. He didn't expect that Richard could remember such a long time ago, and then nodded firmly: "It should be him. As far as I know, among the nobles in the city, he is the only one with this name. There are no duplicate names.”
"Okay." Richard made a decision, "Take my name card, go to the other party's mansion, tell him that I plan to visit soon, and see what he means."
"yes."
…
Soon, Richard knew what Marquis Vian Sisko meant, and he responded: The wizard is welcome to visit at any time, and I will always be waiting for you.
That would be easy.
After receiving the response, Richard did not hesitate and went directly to the door the next day.
…
In the afternoon, a carriage stopped at the Marquis's residence in Jialan City, and Richard got out of the carriage.
The Marquis walked out of the door to greet him personally, and then led Richard all the way to the living room.
Enter the living room, sit down, serve tea, and taste tea.
With a few polite words, Richard proposed his purpose - he needed some high-quality glass at a good price.
After hearing this, Marquis Weian agreed readily. He patted his chest and promised: "In the next few months, the glass factory's production will be fully supplied to Wizard Richard. If it doesn't work, you can remove the glass used in my mansion." Come down and deliver it to Lord Richard."
"It doesn't matter. As long as you give me a sufficient share of the glass produced by the glass factory."
"It's easy to talk about." Marquis Wei'an said with a smile. He paused and looked at Richard, then asked respectfully: "By the way, Mr. Wizard Richard, I have a question that I have been wanting to ask you. I don't know. Convenient or inconvenient.”
"Please say."
"That is, what level is Lord Wizard Richard's wizard level?" Marquis Wei'an asked, and then explained, "Master Richard, don't get me wrong, I'm just curious. You also know that Jialan City is not a big city, Wizard Yes, but not many, I want Sir Richard to open my eyes."
"Is that so?" Richard said, but he knew very well in his heart that this was not curiosity at all, but just a feeling. As a noble, the other party holds the title of marquis, which is not low in the main continent. There are magic knights under his command, not many in number, and they still use magic potions to maintain their combat effectiveness, but it is still enough to fight against a first-level wizard or a weaker second-level wizard.
Such people would hope to get close to wizards and earn benefits, but not all wizards would like them. Not at least a first-level wizard, especially one who has just been promoted from a wizard apprentice.
Only second-level wizards will pay attention to it, give it a certain amount of respect, and conduct various transactions on the premise of equal exchange.
As for third-level wizards, they will be treated to the highest standards, and they will give everything they have to meet various requirements. You can also pay more.
If it was a level four wizard, the other party might consider calling him dad directly. Of course, the other party also knew that this possibility was very low.