Seeing Sophia's expression, Sean understood that she might have misunderstood.

So Sean left his mount and walked towards Sophia:

"Sofia, you are overthinking. Dalia was injured in the Elf Forest and lost her ability to move, so I sat with her."

"real?"

Seeing that Sean was willing to explain to her, Sophia felt much better.

Sophia thought to herself: "Your Highness Sean must care about me to explain this to me, right?"

Thinking of this, Sophia suddenly became happy, and deep happiness surrounded her.

"That's right, you are all my wings." Sean rubbed Sophia's head kindly: "Besides, I have always regarded you as my biological daughter."

Sophia: "..."

...

...

After chatting with Sophia about the current situation of the mercenary group, Sean came to the entrance of the administrative hall in the center of the town.

In the center of the town, Sean asked Anduin to summon all his subordinates to come to the administration hall for a meeting, and then asked Windsor to take the Bloodmarsh Raptor and Dalia Bladesong back to the castle to rest.

Sean himself took Sophia to the Morning Star River to visit the papermaking beater made by Musoni.

Compared with 8 days ago, there are two new buildings built of cement and bricks on the Morning Star River. One is a water-powered mill and the other is a paper-making workshop.

[Mad Scientist] Musoni came to Sean, pointed at the mill and said to Sean:

"Sir, this is a water-powered mill. The principle is to use the water power of the river to drive the water wheel to rotate, thereby driving the stone mill to grind grains. I learned this from my panda friends!"

"Yeah." Sean nodded.

Indeed, the Pandaren of Azeroth like to build water-powered mills, while humans tend to use wind-powered or animal-powered mills.

Sophia was surprised: "Do you still have Panda friends? The Panda Empire is thousands of miles away from us!"

Musoni knew that he had let something slip, so he could only reply calmly:

"The Pandaren I met in dreams, the Pandaren also told me knowledge through dreams."

Sophia: "???"

Musoni ignored the confused Sophia and began to change the topic:

"Sir, the principle of the papermaking mill is the same. It uses the water flow to drive the waterwheel to rotate, so as to offer the fresh flesh and blood to the dragon...wrong, so as to crush the fresh bamboo into paper pulp."

Seeing that Sophia still wanted to ask questions, Sean put his finger to his mouth and made a "shh" gesture, and Sophia suddenly became quiet.

Sean nodded to Musoni and said, "Let's go in and take a look!"

...

After entering the papermaking workshop, what comes into view is a rectangular iron machine.

The iron casing wrapped the machine tightly, and Sean didn't know the internal structure.

Musoni began to demonstrate on the machine. He first started the waterwheel. The rotation of the waterwheel accelerated the rotation of the machine's gears, and the entire machine began to run.

Then, Musoni took out a young bamboo soaked in potion from the potion bucket, peeled it off and threw it into the machine.

The efficiency of the beater is very high.

After a while, the fibers of the young bamboo were crushed by the machine and turned into pure white pulp.

While operating the machine, Musoni also suggested to Sean:

"Bamboo is still a bit too hard. I suggest using wood or reed instead in the future."

"You can test this in the future! Which one is better to use? The decision is all up to you." Sean waved his hand indifferently: "By the way, what is the liquid you use to soak the bamboo?"

"Oh, this is corrosive liquid." Musoni replied: "When we die...my people will be able to get some of it."

Musoni breathed a sigh of relief, and with Sofia still beside him, he almost spilled the beans again.

"Isn't the corrosive liquid toxic?" Sean worried. He didn't want people who used paper to suffer from poisoning or other problems in the future.

Musoni shook his head: "No, the corrosive fluid is actually a bacterial colony that can be inactivated by high temperatures."

"That's good!" Sean nodded.

...

Sofia couldn't understand what the two were talking about, and she knew that the scope of Sean and Musoni's chat was confidential, and she might be very inconvenient here.

So Sophia left the papermaking workshop on the grounds that she "wanted to go out for a walk", and then stood by the river and thought about her thoughts.

After about 10 minutes, Sean and Musoni walked out of the papermaking workshop.

Sean smiled at Musoni with satisfaction and said:

"Musoni, you did a good job! I will give you more scientific research funds!"

"It couldn't be better, sir." Musoni said happily: "In addition to my own efforts, I was able to successfully build this machine, but also thanks to the help of the members of the Craftsmen Association!

Especially the two blacksmiths Lucy and Hanson and Occam Sparks, without their help it would be difficult for me to build this machine in just a few days."

"Then increase the overall remuneration of the Craftsmen Association!" Sean said happily: "We just have a meeting now, and we will discuss this issue at the meeting."

At the same time, Sean also greeted Sophia: "Sofia, let's go!"

Sofia hesitated for a moment and then said with a smile: "Your Highness Sean, you are going to have a meeting, right? Then I won't go, the mercenary group still has things to be busy with!"

"All right……"

Sean didn't say anything, said goodbye to Sophia and took Musoni to the administrative hall.

Sophia sighed and left the place.

...

...

The meeting lasted for three hours and did not officially end until two o'clock in the afternoon.

At exactly two o'clock in the afternoon, Sean walked out of the administrative hall and couldn't help but stretch:

"The meeting is finally over! I haven't even eaten lunch yet!"

But Musoni's voice came from behind Sean: "Sir, what do you think about our establishment of a party? Do you agree?"

Sean couldn't help but rolled his eyes: "Of course not!"

At the meeting just now, Musoni proposed that members of the Craftsmen Association take the lead in forming a "Hetan Town Industrial Party."

Sean didn't want them to mess around, so he vetoed it directly.

"Why? I think it's pretty good?" Musoni touched his head, not sure why.

Sean sighed, turned around and explained:

"Then what is the purpose of establishing a party? Other parties are either for elections or for rule. What are you for?"

"It's just... fun." Musoni replied.

Sean: "..."

So Sean no longer paid attention to Musoni, but looked at Anduin:

"Anduin, according to what was said in the meeting just now, you go recruit people and form a prototype of a central bank first.

When my strength reaches the bronze level, I can summon the [Vicious Banker] to further improve the functions related to the central bank!"

In the meeting just now, Sean and Anduin discussed the possibility of issuing gold-linked currency. The territory also urgently needs a central bank to help residents keep their property and provide loans to merchants.
Chapter completed!