Chapter 91 Elf Invitation
He has been the first human to be invited to the Elf City for thousands of years. Can you imagine what kind of glory and scene it is?
——Gandaar, an elf scholar
Today's Rome Island is more glorious than when Villa first arrived. The whole island has been dominated by the tourism and transportation industry and has been successfully transformed into production and sales. The blacksmith shop has been successfully upgraded to a large steel production plant under the design and improvement of Arkado, and the mine under Hubert has also built a large mining institution, handicraft industry and agriculture with functions such as warehousing, excavation and exploration. With the development of the industry, more than 80% of the total food demand of the island's residents has been able to be completed, and only a small amount needs to be imported from the mainland of Yavia.
The island has begun to build residential apartment buildings with two-storey and above in accordance with the requirements of Arcado, in order to save space and accommodate more island residents. After primitive accumulation, the population of Rome Island has exceeded 100,000 and a labor force of more than 60,000. More than 10,000 people are trained and studied in various schools, most of whom are school-age children, as well as professional schools such as official training, sailor training, worker training, etc., which have significantly improved the overall quality of the island's residents.
Romai Island's business activities and tax revenues have made Arcado and his group worry about how to spend money all day long. His army has been expanded to 3,000 people, and the weapons and armor used are almost the best configuration for all mankind. The training has made a lot of reference to Arcado's previous experience, and the soldiers are brave and good at fighting.
With Sean's efforts, the navy has more than 500 sailors, who are also extremely elite. These sailors usually train on the Black Pearl-class merchant ships and are responsible for protecting these merchant ships. Two Zhenghe-class troop carriers specially designed for them are already under construction, and each ship will be able to carry 500 fully armed naval soldiers. Of course, the main role of these two ships is to train and transport troops, and the real warship is still in Aka. On many drawings.
In order to support Acado's various experiments, there are also large sums of gold coins every week, supporting Arcado and Anthony's various crazy experiments. As a strategic material of Rome Island, the reserves of magical crystals have exceeded 1.2 million tons.
On such a peaceful afternoon, Rome Island maintained its prosperity as usual. The fleet responsible for the transportation route of the Elf Forest slowly entered the port. When the fleet stopped, the dock was shocked to watch the elf soldiers walk down the cabin and then quietly line up on the dock.
Slowly, more and more workers and sailors gathered around and looked at these elf soldiers curiously. Finally, 70 soldiers protected an official-like elf and walked towards the Holy Sword Castle under the leadership of the captain of the fleet.
Soon, this team of elves came to the Holy Sword Castle. As soon as the leading elves saw Arcado, they knelt on one knee and said in a respectful voice: "Alger, Baron of the Elf Forest, pays tribute to Rudolf Arcado, Honorary Count of the Elf Forest."
"Oh, Alger, old friend, why are you here?" Arcado came forward and picked up Alger and asked happily.
"The Elf Queen sent me to take a look at Rome Island to see the life of our elf people on the island." Alger does not shy away from these ** topics.
"You are always welcome. The elves can go to any place on the island at will. Of course, you can also go, but I can't make a decision on some military secret places. It has to be reviewed by the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Criminal Justice and the Ministry of Darkness." Arcado said with a smile.
"I only care about the situation of my people. We elf haven't paid attention to the military power of Rome Island." Alger is still the elf- supremacist discriminatory face, which makes Arcado very helpless. Sooner or later, I will let you see how powerful I am! Arcado thought badly.
Thinking about it, it still didn't show up on the surface. Looking at Alger with a smile, Arcado made a gesture of invitation and took Alger to visit his castle. Of course, in Alger's eyes, this can be described as shabby.
"One more thing, I would like to invite you to attend the birthday party of Her Royal Highness Elena, the second princess of the Elf clan, two months later. This banquet is also to celebrate the safe return of the third princess Phoenix, so Phoenix asked you to go, hoping that the count would not refuse. Thinking that Princess Phoenix learned a lesson after being rejected, it seems that she deliberately told Alger.
"Of course, I will definitely go." Arcado said with a smile.
"You should know that the people attending this banquet are all important people in the elf clan, and even the elf queen may participate, so you have to prepare carefully, including etiquette, clothing, and even gifts." Alger took good care of it.
"Oh, I don't know what kind of gift Princess Elena likes, so that I can prepare it in advance." Arcado doesn't care about giving some gifts to please the elf princess.
"I can't tell you about this. The whole elf forest is guessing the princess's preferences. She has never shown her love and enthusiasm for anything. She doesn't seem to be interested in jewelry or works of art, because she herself is very artistically talented." Alger sighed and said, "Many young male elf nobles are trying to please the second princess, but they have not succeeded."
"This is difficult, Alger." Arcado also frowned. Such girls are the most difficult to serve. They don't like vulgar things and look forward to surprises and excitement. Obviously, this is not something that a gem or a poem can do. What they expect is not this kind of small touch. You have to prepare an atomic bomb to make them scream.
"Although I can't tell you what she likes, I can tell you many examples of failure. A marquis once gave her a bag of precious gems, but she casually rewarded her servants." Alger said kindly, "So the gems don't look good."
"What else?" Accado occasionally has a little interest in this kind of gossip.
"The gift of art did not fail immediately, but those works of art were then piled up in the warehouse and disappeared for many years." Alger continued, "Jewelry, clothes, orcs' teeth show their bravery, and some people have sent poems, all of which have failed."
"Alger, let's talk about the treatment of elves. I'll accompany you to visit now." Arcado really doesn't want to hear it. These revolutionary ancestors have tried all the ways and blocked almost all the roads. What kind of bullshit gift does this make him give?
After the two chatted, visited the elf village and confirmed that the elf clan was not discriminated against here, Alger asked to leave Rome and return to the elf forest.
"Count Arcado, everything is very good here, but it's too simple. There are no trees, only steel and stones. It's simply ugly." This is a comment that makes countless people vomit blood after hearing it.