Chapter 190 Hearts of Iron 2
Twenty-six-year-old Mr. Guy Burns is an artificer from the royal capital.
The so-called machinist is a craftsman who makes all kinds of strange and weird machines, such as music boxes that can play music, little people that can walk on their own after being wound up, and so on. In short, they are all To others, it is something that is very imaginative and ingenious.
For example, the clock in this world was created by a certain magician. However, when that master invented it, he probably did not expect that it would soon become popular across the continent, replacing the sun corona and the hourglass as the most popular weapon. Important timing tool.
The things made by magicians are very popular among the upper class, and some people are even willing to pay a lot of money to ask them to customize some strange devices for themselves.
Of course, the most popular ones are children from wealthy families, especially boys, who always have an innate interest in machinery.
Of course children from poor families also like it very much, but their family background makes them basically insulated from magicians. Whether they want to buy their works or learn their techniques, it is a lot of money. .
Archantists generally live a pretty good life relying on their craftsmanship and technology, as well as the profits they bring.
But Guy Burns is something of an anomaly in this business.
He was born in a lower-level noble family, and his family was relatively well-off. Since he was the second son and could not inherit the title of the family, his father sent him to a master of magic weapons whom he knew well, hoping that he could borrow some money from him. This makes you stand out.
When Guy was a child, he was immediately fascinated by the strange devices in his teacher's house. He stayed there all day long and couldn't even go home during dinner.
To be honest, in the eyes of the teacher, Guy Burns' talent in this area is still relatively mediocre, but he is very satisfied with this child's strong interest in machinery and his perseverance.
Burns’s teacher taught him everything he could and hoped that he could inherit his legacy.
After Burns finished his studies, he began to be active in the Jingyao area as a real artificer.
But it didn’t take long for him to do something that was resented by his colleagues - this kid actually taught the children from poor families the manufacturing methods and principles of various machines, charging very little or even taking nothing. Just because the other party said "Wow~ this is so interesting".
Is this a big deal? So many unpredictable technologies have been spread out in an extremely cheap way. In the future, won’t everyone be able to become an artificer?
Wouldn’t the profession of magic weapon master become as valuable as the farmer who cultivates the land and the blacksmith who forges iron?
Even Burns’s teacher reminded him that if he continues like this, he will offend many colleagues.
But Burns still insisted on his usual style.
Finally, some colleagues could not bear it anymore. They fabricated charges through the nobles they were friends with, and threw Burns into prison, allowing him to "reflect" in prison for a year. This was still His teacher gave him the result of his plea in front of a group of industry leaders.
On the day he was released from prison, some gangsters came to his door and warned him: Don't let us see you in Jingyao in the future, stay away.
Burns knew that it was not the gangsters who didn't want to see him, but the people behind them.
Just when he was hesitating about where to develop, Hansel happened to be recruiting people in Jingyao, including the profession of Artificer.
Northwestern Bay? It's a bit remote. But I was just about to leave the royal capital when I met someone who was recruiting people there. Could it be that this was the path God showed me?
So Guy Burns signed up for Hansel with confusion and hope.
And I discovered there that there were several other colleagues who could not stay in the capital for various reasons. In short, every family had their own sutras that were difficult to recite. In this way, Burns said goodbye to his family and set out with a large group of people on the road to the northwest bay.
After arriving here, the ordnance factory's flintlock development work encountered a bottleneck, and the local craftsmen were struggling with how to make qualified spring blades.
With the attitude of giving it a try, they asked the magicians from the royal capital for advice. It happened that Guy Burns had a lot of experience in making high-quality spring blades, and he was not technically qualified. A man who liked to hide his secrets taught the craftsmen the spring leaf making technology he knew.
This earned him a large reward and high prestige among the craftsmen.
Of course, he didn't know at that time what the high-quality springs that craftsmen needed were used for. The military industry department would not immediately open it to foreigners like them who had just arrived. They had to go through various long-term tests. .
The official job Burns was assigned was at the Huxin Town Machinery Factory, where he was responsible for developing a new type of carriage equipped with a spring shock absorber.
There he saw a strange machine called a "harvester". This monster could easily replace several farmers in harvesting large tracts of grain, greatly saving time and labor.
Burns seemed to have opened the door to a new world instantly. He had always had a vague point of view in his mind before, but he finally refined it with great clarity at the moment he saw the harvester:
Machinery is not just for viewing and playing, it should play a greater role in more fields!
When he first arrived in Huxin Town, he still had this faint sense of superiority in his heart. After all, this place was remote and too secluded. Most people had probably never even heard of the profession of Magical Weapon Master, let alone seen it. Weird and wonderful inventions.
But at that moment he became humble. There were already people walking in front of him on this land. This silly, big, dark machine may not be as sophisticated as a music box, but it can do far more than a music box that can only be used for entertainment.
When he learned from the craftsmen in the machine shop that the original design of the harvester was proposed by Count Grayman, Burns looked forward to the opportunity to meet the lord.
On this day, he came to the workshop of the machinery factory as usual and was busy around an experimental carriage. Suddenly someone came in and asked for him by name.
Guy Burns was very reluctant to be interrupted from his work, even if the other person was a fellow from Jingyao - Bernard Wood, the current chief secretary of the lord.
Bernard greeted him warmly: "Mr. Burns, long time no see. It seems that you like your current job."
"I do enjoy it. Does Mr. Chief Secretary have anything to do with me?" ”
He added in his mind that it would be better if no one came to disturb him.
"I am here today on the order of Count Greyman. The lord would like to invite you to sit in his office at two o'clock in the afternoon."
"Invite me? Come. His office?”
Burns was a little happy, wasn't this what he expected?
"Please reply to Count Greyman, I will go there on time."
(End of this chapter)