Chapter 33 Members of the Exploration Team
After a simple test flight, Purficott ended the first flight test of the airship and did not immediately conduct further tests on the performance of the airship.
Although she was confident enough in her skills, she had no intention of omitting the necessary tests.
It was only because of the visits from James and Oliver that she had to take time out to accept their visits, delaying the test of the airship.
The two people did not know each other and had no communication in advance, but they chose to visit Perfectcott on the same day as if they had made an appointment, which made her sigh with emotion at this coincidence. .
Of the two, James was the first to arrive. He mainly came to report to Purficott about the formation of the exploration team.
"Dear Baroness, according to your request, I have gathered people to form a professional exploration team." It was still the same living room as last time, but this time James stood and asked Purphy Kurt reported on his work: "I hired a ready-made exploration team from Imperial Exploration Company and chartered one of their exploration ships for your use.
They provided for this exploration We have recruited professional engineers and related staff, all of whom have considerable work experience, and are a very capable team.
In addition, I also recruited two related staff, one of whom is from Royal Lang. A history professor at the University of Illinois, he is a famous adventurer with rich experience in exploration. He is very interested in your Arctic scientific expedition plan and wants to take this opportunity to go to the Arctic to search for traces of ancient civilizations.
The other is a professional security personnel. He once served Frans in the desert kingdom. He is an excellent mercenary. He has rich combat experience and certain command skills and can provide the exploration team with Reassuring security service
However, he seems to be very concerned about remuneration. I have not yet reached an agreement with him on the treatment issue. It is up to you to decide whether to give him double the market price.
With the joining of these two people and the professional team of Imperial Exploration Company, I believe that our exploration work will be successfully completed and achieve your predetermined goals. ”
James gave full play to his eloquence, and after two days of good rest, he spent a little time and money on himself. He looked like a bad person, but he didn’t have the dissipation that Perfectcott had always disliked. That's it.
At least now James looks more like a Langton gentleman, rather than a boring colonial playboy.
"The intended target? Are you sure you can achieve my goal without even figuring out what I want to do? "However, in the face of James' self-confidence, Purficott did not give him much face.
Fortunately, she just said it casually, and then asked again: "What are the names of these two people? Do you have their relevant resumes? Have you done a background check? I don't want to meet a liar."
"The history professor from Longton University is Dr. Henry Jones. He has had quite thrilling adventures in the desert kingdom and other parts of the world, and has rich wilderness survival experience." James told Per Ficott introduced the information about Dr. Jones and seemed to have some respect for him: "Although the doctor himself is a history major, he needs to go to field trips and archaeological excavations, and when necessary, he also needs to serve as a security guard. He has developed quite good skills as a robber who robs antiquities, and with his rich adventure experience, he will definitely be a great help to you."
"That sounds like it. But a historian? Field archaeological excavation... You might as well call it a tomb robbery. Anyway, everything in the Victoria Museum was stolen." Purficott curled his lips in disdain, and then picked up the food in front of him. Teacup concealed his slight disdain. Regarding Purficott's comments, James certainly understood what she meant, but even James didn't have any good reasons to refute this matter.
After all, any Langtonian knows that the precious collections displayed in the Victoria Museum are not so much historical artifacts as they are the spoils of imperial robbery and plunder.
But what does this kind of thing have to do with Purficott? No matter how powerful Dr. Jones is, or how many historical relics and cultural relics he has "discovered", as long as he is as experienced as James said, then he can serve as the leader or deputy captain of the team, reducing the cost of exploration during the exploration process. Ficott’s daily workload.
As for the other person James mentioned, Purficott didn’t care much.
After all, he is just a foreign mercenary from Frans. Although he has good combat prowess, he has not been able to catch the eye of Perfectcott.
If you fight against a real extraordinary professional, even an extraordinary professional like Perficott who has no combat ability has quite extraordinary combat power for a mortal. It can be called a dimensionality reduction strike.
Not to mention that in Purficott's plan, the old butler Foster is about to be promoted to a high-level transcendent, which can be enough to fight an army in the cold weapon era.
Not to mention that what she prepared for Foster was not only a tube of concentrated life potion, but also a set of powerful equipment that she carefully crafted for the old butler.
So after writing down that the mercenary's name was Richard O'Connor, and that he was clean and had no suspicion of espionage, she didn't ask any more questions.
After reporting this, James also chose to say goodbye and leave.
But before he left, he also got a promise from Purficott to hire the two people he recommended.
And Purficott also approved a new amount of funds for him to purchase various materials needed to travel to the New World.
The amount of this fund is not large, but it is no less than a reassurance for James, allowing him to prepare for the exploration team-related matters with more peace of mind.
As for Oliver on the other side, after he used some connections to get some relevant information, he decided without any hesitation that he would firmly seize the opportunity given to him by Perfectcott.
Even if the information he received was vague and everything was just a fragment of words, he did not figure out what happened. He only knew that something big happened in the empire, something that he exhausted all his connections. A big deal that you can’t even ask about!
The only thing he knew was that the top brass of the empire were very concerned about the projects led by Purficott. The royal family even gave her special powers to mobilize all resources under the royal family's name.
It may be difficult for ordinary people in the empire to understand the concept of all resources under the royal family's name, but for a businessman like Oliver, he clearly knows what this means!
(End of this chapter)