Master Tongtian

Chapter 218 Pornographic paintings are out of the circle! (14)

Something happened in Crescent Town, but it had little to do with the nobility.

For example, the popularity of the newly opened ‘Purify the Soul’ gallery in Chengzhong District has hardly been affected at all.

From time to time, a carriage stops outside the gallery courtyard, and one or two well-dressed and elegant gentlemen walk out, buy one or two, or a dozen confession coupons, and come to the gallery to enjoy the beauty. No, it should be purification. soul.

After bidding farewell to Harrick and Chabollet, Rosen also came to the gallery without stopping.

Of course he is not trying to purify the soul, but to purify other people's souls.

After quickly drawing four new spiritual paintings, he went to Patsy's office in the annex building of the gallery.

Patsy was busy organizing documents, and Rosen didn't bother him. He stood by the window with his hands in his pockets, looking at the scenery outside the window leisurely.

The customers who kept coming into the gallery made him feel very happy.

After waiting for a while, Patsy finished her work and opened a bottle of moonshine wine: "Master, would you like a drink?"

Rosen glanced at it: "I don't like drinking moonshine wine, just give me a glass of water."

"All right."

He poured half a glass of boiled water into a good flawless crystal wine glass and handed it to Rosen with a mage's hand.

Then he poured himself a glass of moonshine wine, walked to the thick leather chair, sat on it with his legs curled up, and sipped the wine leisurely, as lazy as a cat.

Rosen took a sip of water and reminded: "Before the overall situation is settled, Vobos may come to trouble you. You have to be careful and call Sharina immediately if you find something is wrong."

Fubos would not mess with things that passed through the open road, such as 150,000 yuan of land reclamation materials, because the count was watching, but that was not necessarily the case with things in the dark.

"Thank you for your concern, Master, but I don't think Fubos would dare to come directly to the church gallery to kidnap someone."

Of course, Patsy knew the dangers of the struggle for the earl's heir, so she made up her mind to huddle in the gallery and rely entirely on her subordinates to do the investigation.

"Fubos won't, but his supporters may. But as long as you wear protective magic weapons, there won't be any big problems."

Turning around to look at Patsy, he was puzzled to see her pouring more moonshine wine into the glass.

"Is this stuff that delicious?"

It's not that he cares about money. In fact, he specifically granted Patsy 300 kronor a month's living expenses.

He was worried that his intelligence officer had drunk his body badly.

Peixi smiled: "The moonshine wine produced by Demitlan's private winery tastes much better than the commercial products."

She glanced at Rosen softly again.

"Master, good wine can actually refresh you. It can even untie the shackles of reason and let your imagination run free."

There is some truth to this, and everyone has quirks. He likes beautiful and charming girls, but Patsy likes fine wine, so there is no difference between them.

"Fine wine is always harmful to the body, so be careful."

He stopped looking out the window, walked back to sit on the thick leather chair opposite Patsy, leaned back lazily, and crossed his legs.

"How is the background of the civilian mage in the highlands, and how is the investigation going?"

Patsy narrowed her eyes and smiled: "It's ready a long time ago. I've been waiting for you to pick it up."

Her magic power has increased greatly recently, and she has become familiar with her mage's hands.

At this time, a mage's hand was used. The bookcase on the side opened and a neat stack of manuscript papers flew out, which recorded the family background and past resume of a full 600 informal young mage who had the power and knowledge of the official mage.

Why informal?

Because these mages are from civilian backgrounds, they can only withstand the most demanding assessments.

The exam fee of 1,000 crowns, triple review by the mages guild, lords and temples, and many unspeakable but real unspoken rules to make things difficult.

Unless this civilian mage is really talented and good at maneuvering, it will be difficult to become an official mage before the age of forty just by relying on ordinary talent and hard work.

After all, the status of a formal mage is equivalent to an honorary knight, and a knight must either exchange for military exploits or have to spend decades in the officialdom before being awarded the title.

Therefore, ordinary civilians usually have to be in their early forties before they can obtain the distinguished title of official mage.

And if you are not an official mage, then your daily spellcasting is a violation of imperial regulations, and you have to find a formal mage to buy a spellcasting guarantee.

It's a bit like the Earth's senior engineer certificate.

So the official mage has another way to make money.

Unless a formal mage has serious character flaws, he won't do too badly.

Back to business.

Rosen quickly looked through the information in his hand, not reading it himself, but handing it over to the computing core for automatic analysis.

About ten minutes later, he put the information back on the table and nodded with satisfaction.

"Yes, the information is very detailed and very helpful to me."

Of these six hundred informal mages, nearly three hundred met his requirements.

This group of people are generally under the age of thirty, their magic power is low to medium level, and their plasticity is very high.

He plans to use the petrification technique to build a small town. If these people use it well, they will be the backbone of the magical power to build Crescent Town in the future.

Naturally, Rosen would not be stingy with rewards for his capable subordinates.

"Paissie, the intelligence you have collected recently has been of great help to me, and it also proves that my original choice was correct."

"I decided to reward you, teach you some self-defense spells, and equip you with some powerful protective weapons."

Patsy and Lilith were his eyes, and naturally he had to take good care of them and never let them get hurt.

Rosen also felt that when he arrived in Crescent Town, he had to set up an intelligence department as a backup, otherwise he would be blind if something happened to Patsy.

Patsy was very pleased with Rosen's generosity. After thinking about it carefully, she shook her head.

"Master, learning spells requires a lot of energy and time, and this will greatly interfere with my work."

Gathering intelligence was her core ability under Rosen's protection, and it would be difficult for her to achieve great success if she started learning spells at this age.

As smart as she is, she will naturally not pick up sesame seeds and lose watermelons.

There's no big problem with what she said.

Rosen said: "I have naturally considered this. So to be more precise, I intend to teach you some methods of using powerful magic weapons, rather than actually mastering spells."

"I will try to simplify the use of powerful magic weapons to ensure that you can easily master them."

Patsy understood and nodded in agreement: "Thank you, Master, for your concern."

After a pause, she drank the moonshine wine in one gulp, stood up and walked to Rosen. With a 'pop', she naturally knelt down on the cashmere carpet and gently grabbed Rosen's hand with both hands.

"Master, but I also want a small reward."

Rosen knew what she wanted as soon as he saw her soft and charming eyes.

Don't get me wrong, it's not all day work.

Patsy was only twenty-five years old, and she was busy collecting information all day long, so her desire was not strong. As long as a man doesn't flirt, he won't take the initiative.

What she asked for was Rosen's comfort, just like a cat jumping into its owner's arms and begging to be stroked.

Naturally, Rosen would not refuse. He picked her up with his mage's hands and placed her on his lap, letting her nestle quietly in his arms. At the same time, he used his mage's hands to lift her hair that was scattered on his back. Thick and long hair.

Patsy narrowed her eyes with contentment like a cat, and lay motionless in his arms.

After a moment of silence, Rosen asked: "Is intelligence collection expensive?"

When it comes to professional issues, Patsy has them at her fingertips.

"According to the current scale, it will cost about one thousand crowns a month. And it is difficult to expand this scale. There are many powerful mages in Silver Moon Castle, and I dare not stretch my hand too far."

"You did the right thing. The information collected from the outside alone is enough to analyze the movements of big shots. There is no need to take big risks."

The main reason is that there are few people in the highlands, less than one million, and most of them are rural people. Many people cannot travel more than 50 kilometers in their lifetime.

There are only tens of thousands of residents in Silver Moon Castle, so if anyone has a big incident, it can easily spread throughout the city.

The main cost of collecting intelligence is basically spent on maintaining the daily dark network.

He began to assign new tasks.

"By the way, I plan to recruit a group of weapon-refining apprentices recently."

"Some apprentices will be selected from informal mages, and some want to train them from a young age."

"You help me go to the private sector to find a group of children from civilian backgrounds. They must be smart in mind and simple in temperament."

"No need for more for the time being, fifty will be enough."

Weapon refining is a technical job, but it is also laborious and time consuming.

If you really want to make a lot of money, it's not enough to rely on yourself and Gendeloni. You can't increase your production capacity, and you don't have enough time and energy.

You must open a weapon-refining workshop and train enough weapon-refining apprentices before you can truly make money.

Patsy nodded immediately: "No problem, Master."

The business was over, and Rosen patiently cashed in the small reward he gave to Patsy.

After a while, Patsy suddenly remembered something again.

"By the way, Master, I have recently received many requests for custom paintings from old gentlemen. When will you be free?"

Rosen was startled: "A lot, how many are they?"

"23 pictures."

"Why are there so many?"

It has only been a few days, are all the old gentlemen of Silver Moon Castle so hungry?

Patsy explained with a smile.

"Master, you have opened this soul-purifying gallery and developed a warm and healthy painting style. This has given many honorable men who are concerned about their reputation an excellent opportunity to break through the constraints of morality."

"So, this part of the demand comes from new customers that we haven't reached before."

Rosen understood immediately.

In other words, it was because of his series of operations that the gorgeous and elegant oil paintings were gradually accepted by the upper class of Silver Moon Castle and gradually grew into a mainstream art school.

That is, draw a circle.

In this way, the moral pickiness is much obscured by the elegant aura of art, making it less dazzling.

And everyone has the spiritual need to appreciate beauty. Without moral pressure, those moral gentlemen will get involved.

But the price was too low and Rosen was unwilling to paint.

"What price were you given?"

"Because these new customers have high moral standards but relatively low economic levels, they can only give 500 kronor per ticket."

"Compared with before, there is always a psychological gap between a 500 and a 500. Besides, I am also busy with work now, so I am afraid I won't have time to draw."

"Then I push it for the master?"

It's a pity to push it forward, after all, it is a good income.

After thinking for a moment, Rosen said: "Take it, but tell these customers that I am very busy and I have to draw based on my mood."

"The delivery time is uncertain, it can be up to three to four months, or even half a year."

"I remember."

She remembered something again.

"There are also investigation tasks assigned by the master. I also got the answer this morning."

Rosen couldn't remember much at once: "What investigation mission?"

"Candra's mission to sell paintings."

"Oh, I remember. Where did he sell my paintings?"

Patsy smiled and began to explain in detail.

"He mainly sells your paintings to big cities in the East. For example, Raging Wave City, White Sand City, Broken Leaf City, etc., and they are not sold in ordinary ways, but sold at auctions."

"The publicity stunt is the work of Master Liushu, the genius of northern magic."

When Rosen heard this, he knew that Candela must be making a fortune.

Sure enough, Patsy revealed a surprising piece of information.

"It is said that there is a painting called Bathing in the Forest. It was even taken into the golden hall of Thunder Castle by the Storm Duke of Raging Waves City. The auction price was as high as 12,000 crowns."

Rosen was speechless.

He remembered that the painting was sold to Candela for 50 crowns.

This guy actually sold the painting to the East for so much money, a profit of 240 times!

No wonder he was so generous. He was willing to rent the Egret Garden to him for three months for a custom-made painting. Sure enough, businessmen don't do business at a loss.

By the way, people from the East are really rich.

"It seems that there is huge room for cooperation between Candela and I on pornographic paintings."

Pornographic paintings and magical artifacts are two major ways to make money. If the business area is good, it should be able to earn funds for the subsequent construction of Crescent Town.

Later, while thinking about making money from pornographic paintings, Rosen masturbated the cat. No, it was his own intelligence officer.

Patsy lay motionless in his arms, and after a while, she actually fell asleep.

Intelligence work is very tiring.

Rosen waited for her to fall asleep, then gently placed her on the small resting bed in the office, covered her with a thin quilt, and then left her quietly after performing a home protection operation.

First, we found Uncle Harrick who was also dizzy with work at the Crescent Town Temporary Town Building.

Fortunately, the uncle found a lot of government assistants to share a lot of tasks with him.

Give him the list and information of the unofficial mages you plan to hire.

"Uncle, hire these informal mages as soon as possible. They will be divided into six levels according to their abilities. The monthly salary will be adjusted between 5 and 20."

Harrick looked at the list and his eyes widened: "280, this is a lot of money."

"I know."

Rosen smiled slightly: "I will make this money as soon as possible."

He wasn't sure at first, but after hearing about Candela's auction of pornographic paintings, he felt confident.

In addition, because they are all informal mages, in addition to money, they also lack guarantees for spell casting.

According to the empire's official mage order, one official mage can guarantee the spellcasting permissions of up to 8 informal mages at the same time.

Considering that many formal mage apprentices will take up part of the quota, it may take the help of more than a hundred formal mages to get the spellcasting permission.

For an ordinary mage, it is extremely difficult to gather the help of more than a hundred mages.

Such small detail constraints are not too big, but they can effectively prevent careerists from taking advantage of loopholes to do big things and subvert traditions.

So, where could Rosen find such a large number of official mages for help?

Naturally, we rely on the temple to send mages, and we can’t let people help in vain.

The Maple Leaf Tea Party happened to be in three days, and it was time to fulfill the promise he had made to Bilgu.

Of course, before that, he had to go home and get ready.