When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

Chapter 1198 Brandon's Signal Machine
If you think about it carefully, you'll understand. Dragons and golden flames are things from hundreds of thousands of years ago on a historical scale.

In Horn's hometown, that would have been billions of years ago.

This is similar to the fear that one day the meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs will strike again.

It's not impossible, but constantly worrying about it is just needless anxiety.

So after resting for a morning, Horn still got up and went to work as usual.

He has now set two goals: to intensify research on antiquities and to raise the crisis level of the royal court once again.

This time, the situation is very complicated, and even Horn is having trouble keeping up.

Since we can't control it, we should try our best to prevent it from happening, such as doing everything we can to stop the eastward expansion of the royal court.

Originally, there was a prevailing notion within the Cardinals of an unspoken alliance with the Royal Court.

That is, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Although the royal court is currently an enemy, there is no fundamental conflict between the two sides.

The nobles and the empire, though the Holy Alliance is currently coexisting with them, will inevitably be enemies in the future.

Therefore, it would be best if the Holy Alliance and the Royal Court did not form an alliance, but had a tacit understanding with each other.

The Holy Alliance gradually encroached upon the Empire's southern territory, while the Royal Court gradually encroached upon the Empire's northern territory.

After annexing the prime lands west of the Dragon Sleep Mountains, they will then drive out the royal court from the north and unify the entire world of Mysera.

Horn had been considering this idea, but now it seems too impractical.

If Horn is not mistaken, Serfayer's goal has always been to collect the seven crowns of the elves.

So far, with the Blood Crown and Triple Crown on her head, she has collected four.

If the Invisible Alliance's strategy is followed and she obtains the crown of the Norn Elector, then she will have an absolute majority.

Horn was unsure what this meant, but now he had to sabotage whatever she wanted to do.

“Petit,” Horn called out as he walked to the door, toward the Privy Councillor’s office outside.

“I’m here.” Petit immediately stood up.

Horn handed him a prepared speech: "I need to give a speech at the meeting the day after tomorrow. Could you help me polish the speech and arrange the schedule?"

Petit quickly scanned the manuscript before settling on it: "Are you planning to revise your strategy towards the Royal Court?"

“Yes.” Horn nodded. “Things have changed, and we have to change too.”

“Understood.” Petit handed the manuscript to the Privy Councillor beside him, while Horn took his coat off the hanger.

In early spring, the suburbs can still be quite cold.

As for why Horn was wearing a coat in the warm Holy See building, it was naturally because he had to change his schedule at the last minute.

"Your Majesty, what are you doing?"

"I read in the newspaper that the Brandon signal system has completed 200 kilometers of construction, and we're celebrating today, right?"

Yes, would you like to go?

“Yes, after lunch.” With his coat draped over his arm, Horn walked toward the door. “Let’s go have lunch first and give them some time to prepare.”

Since getting a wife, although Horn doesn't like to get special treatment, he still has to do it.

Simply put, Jeanne enjoys doing some cooking herself.

Even though she is now in a high position and has many things beyond her control, she is still unwilling to give up a normal, traditional family life.

For example, a family having a meal together.

Horn could understand; Jeanne desperately needed a home.

Therefore, Horn specially arranged for a small kitchen and dining room to be prepared for Jeanne.

If Jeanne has time, she will cook for herself and the two of them will eat together. If she doesn't have time, she will have the cafeteria cook for her and have it delivered to them so they can eat together.

After lunch, Horn and Jeanne took a short nap, then kissed goodbye and boarded the carriage to the outskirts of town.

At that moment, in just one noon, Petit had compiled the data on Brandon's signal machine and handed it over to Horn.

The Brandon Signal is named not because Brandon himself invented it, but because its patron was Brandon, a former oligarch of the Megadyne Chamber of Commerce and now the general manager of the Saint Union Lottery Company.

As for Brandon funding such a machine, he naturally had his reasons.

Simply put, with the promotion of Shenglian Football, sports lottery began to shine.

Of course, 60% of the net profit (excluding labor and operating costs) will be used for education, and only 40% will be the profit for shareholders.

The problem is that the Saint Union lottery draw mainly relies on Saint Union's mail truck system.

Even on a road as good as the Holy Alliance, a postal carriage system can only travel 7-10 kilometers per hour.

Previously, this timeliness issue was not so obvious in the Thousand River Valley region, especially in the four plain counties.

With the Holy Alliance's territory encompassing the New Five Counties, Shattered Stone Plains, Black Snake Bay, and other areas, the Five Mountain Counties were restored.

This means that it will take 8-10 days for Silver Bay City to receive the lottery winning information issued by the Holy Machine Court.

Lottery buyers in outlying counties have to wait several days to find out the results, leaving ample room for speculators to operate.

For example, Brandon discovered at one point that the number of out-of-county winners was extremely high, resulting in significant losses for the company.

Only after tracing the source did it discover that this group of scoundrels relied on advance notice from fast horses to buy lottery tickets based on the winning numbers.

Brandon was furious and immediately offered a reward of 200 gold pounds to recruit engineers to solve the problem.

With the establishment of universities and research institutions such as St. Regis University, the Holy Alliance attracted a large number of Leia scholars.

The unrest in the coastal areas led to a new wave of engineers and scholars leaving their homes and coming to Saint Union.

Nowadays, Saint Alliance has an abundance of engineers.

The world of Mysera has now subtly formed two educational and research centers: Flowerhill City and the Holy Mechanism Court.

However, the former leans towards humanities, while the latter leans towards science and engineering.

If you have money, it's incredibly easy to create a machine or something.

Starting in 1453, it took only one year and three engineers to work together to successfully develop the Brandon signal.

And starting in 1454, Brandon completed the first 230-kilometer route, with a total of 15 stops, from Jenderburg to Rapids, in just nine months.

Following this, he continued his efforts, spending nearly 500 gold pounds to build eight stations along a 100-kilometer stretch from Rapids to Little Pond.

This year, he finally completed the 330-kilometer journey to Xialucheng, passing through 21 stations.

The 660-kilometer-long signal transmission station effectively eliminated almost all lottery cheaters in the entire Thousand River Valley.

Lottery cheaters only exist in areas like the New Five Counties, Shattered Stone Plains, and Black Snake Bay.

However, Brandon was already quite satisfied.

According to the information, he planned to finish transmitting information to the five new counties and important peripheral cities.

As for areas like Black Snake Bay and Shattered Stone Plain, then we'll open branch offices there.

The lottery draw center in Thousand River Valley is located in Holy Machine Court and Rapids City, while in Black Serpent Bay it is located in Celestial Maiden City, and in Shattered Stone Plains it is located in Silver Bay City.

Lottery outlets will not be set up in cities that cannot be reached within a day.

After all, the people in these places are less willing and able to buy lottery tickets than those in the core area of ​​Thousand River Valley, so it would be too uneconomical to set up signal lines for them.

“This won’t do.” Horn picked up a red pen and drew a red circle on Brandon’s internal business plan.

Originally, he intended to leave Brandon's signal machine to its own devices.

Because this kind of signal is relatively inferior to the telegraph.

With the advent of the ether clock, he believed that a telegraph-like information transmission system was not far off.

However, it seems that the Ether Telegraph is still a long way off, and war is likely to break out quickly and its intensity will also increase.

In this situation, the only option left is to use the Brandon signal machine.

"Your Majesty, we have arrived."

As Horn stepped out of the carriage, he looked up and saw the towering Brandon signal.

(End of this chapter)