Although Leo has firearms manufacturing knowledge far beyond this world, he has no intention of making subversive improvements to firearms, such as reducing the barrel, making special bullets, adding rifling, etc. He still follows the firearms manufacturing habits of this world.

He re-manufactured some firearms, but he slightly improved the decoration of the firearms, making the appearance of the firearms more gorgeous without affecting their use, making people feel that they are high-end goods at first glance.

The firearms in this world themselves are very bulky, and if they are decorated with decorations, they will be even heavier. Therefore, unless they are the kind of decorations placed in display cabinets, the appearance of the firearms that can be used are all very simple.

Although Leo doesn't need to worry about strength in his current physical condition, he can pick up and use even cannons that need to be hauled by train, but he does not just let the flaw of the weight of the firearm exist. He is making his own

When I was hunting a gun, I improved the metal smelting formula and created an iron alloy, which reduced the weight of the metal by one-third and increased its hardness and toughness by nearly half.

Although Sylvia is more experienced in matters like this that infiltrate the upper class, Leo does not intend to sit idly by completely. After learning about Berger Hans's hobbies, he already has a countermeasure in his mind.

Those gorgeous firearms that are different from the firearm styles of this world are just stepping stones, but the metal used to make these firearms is the highlight.

Sylvia visited Leo once on the way. After seeing those firearms with exaggerated barrels and gorgeous shapes, she couldn't help laughing. Although she was not a firearms manufacturing expert, she could still see the appearance of such firearms.

It's really against common sense.

However, after hearing Leo's idea, she agreed, and in order to cooperate with Leo's idea, she quickly acquired a small smelting plant in Beiluk City to prepare for the future.

Sylvia's purchase of the smelter also attracted some attention from the powerful people in Beluk City, but in their view, this was a good thing, because both the real estate and the industrial industry were purchased here, so this

This means that Leo and Sylvia are planning to live here permanently, and the huge wealth held by them will naturally be used in Beluk City, which can make Beluk City more prosperous.

Therefore, they also gave Sylvia great assistance in purchasing the smelting plant, reducing some of the troubles that many foreigners would encounter when purchasing an industry.

However, compared to Sylvia's purchase of the smelter, the big shots in Beluke City were more concerned about how the banquet at Belmont Manor was being prepared.

Judging from the information collected by these big shots, the preparations for the banquet are proceeding in an orderly manner. Almost all the dignitaries who can be invited in Beiruk City have been invited, and many scholars and celebrities have also sent invitations.

, this can be said to be a rare gathering of celebrities in Beluk City.

The banquet at Belmont Manor has become a hot topic in Beluk City recently. Everyone is talking about how grand the banquet will be, because judging from the procurement catalog of Belmont Manor, the scale of this banquet is already comparable to that of the federal government.

The marriage banquet of one family, the Haus family and the fourth Hans family, is comparable.

Some newspapers who were also curious about this banquet sent people to squat around the Belmont Manor, wanting to see what was prepared inside.

However, the security of the Belmont family was very good, leaving no chance for them at all. Anyone who tried to break into the Belmont Manor would be caught by the security personnel the moment they stepped into the manor and sent directly to the police.

Once inside the city police station, it is impossible to come out in a short time.

However, even so, some people still spied on the preparations for the banquet at Belmont Manor through some special methods. This special method was to simply set up a high advice shelf outside the manor, and then climb to the top of the shelf to cross the courtyard wall.

and the woods on the edge, and saw some situations in the open areas of the manor.

According to reports from these reporters, Belmont Manor was not only decorated with various gorgeous, ancient bronze sculptures for the banquet, but also built a crystal palace and installed electric lights.

Although the Crystal Palace has not yet been used, everyone who sees it can deduce that when the lights are turned on at night, the light of the lights shuttles and scatters in the Crystal Palace, which will inevitably illuminate the entire manor, making everyone in it feel like they are there.

Just like during the day, you will not encounter some misunderstandings and embarrassments caused by the dim environment at other dinner parties.

Soon the time for the invitation came, and Sylvia hired almost all the carriages in Beluk City specifically to pick up and drop off guests. Even though many people had their own carriages, more people, especially those scholars and social workers, had their own carriages.

No celebrity has his own carriage.

While they were still thinking about how to get to the banquet during the day, the carriage hired by Sylvia was already waiting at their door. This made them all feel inexplicably comfortable, and they also had a preconceived impression of the owner of Belmont Manor.

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Tonder Bruce is a professor of folklore at Belluc City University. He mainly studies folklore knowledge from all over the world. The evolutionary history framework of folklore he created in his early years has become the basic framework for folklore research in various countries around the world. He has therefore

Gained great reputation and became the world's authority on folklore research.

However, even though he has such great achievements and reputation, his life has not improved much.

Folklore is a fringe subject in academies in various countries. There are very few resources available from the academy. There are not many rich and powerful people in the private sector who are willing to fund folklore, a discipline that only invests but has no output. The vast majority of folklore researchers

Most of them do religious studies part-time, so they can earn two salaries that can barely support the family's expenses.

But a pure folklorist like Tonder Bruce has a very difficult life. However, compared to the lower-level folklorists, Tonder Bruce is pretty good. After all, in addition to his daily salary, he earns a living every day.

Yue also has a research award from the Folklore Society, which allows him to support himself even if he doesn't take a religious part-time job, which he hates most.

However, his good days have come to an end recently because his wife divorced him and the court sentenced him to pay a certain amount of alimony to his wife every month, and the amount of alimony is almost equal to two-thirds of his

salary income, and after paying the alimony, it may be difficult for him to live a normal life, let alone engage in folklore research.

The dilemma of life also forced him to consider the suggestions of his colleagues and work part-time in religious studies. However, if he really did this, the beliefs he had persisted for many years would be completely destroyed, and his aversion to religion would be completely destroyed.

It became a joke.

Just when Tonder Bruce was hesitating at home whether he should go to religious studies, the invitation letter from Belmont Manor was carefully delivered to him by the servant of the manor.

Looking at this exquisite invitation in his hand, Tonder Bruce had an expression of complete disbelief.

The banquet at Belmont Manor has been the hottest topic in the entire city of Beluk recently. While everyone is talking about how grand the banquet will be, they are also concerned about who has received the invitation.

Because this banquet is not just for the dignitaries of Beluk City, but also a large number of scholars and celebrities. Whenever someone in the college gets an invitation letter, it will cause a lot of commotion. This invitation letter even has a certain degree of influence.

It also became academic proof for those people.

Tonder Bruce also imagined that he had received an invitation, but this was just a fantasy. In fact, he thought that it was impossible for him to receive an invitation.

This is mainly because folklore is so unpopular that it is always ranked at the bottom of the unpopular courses in the college. In the past two years, the college has even begun to discuss whether it is necessary to continue to allow folklore to exist.

Therefore, when he got the invitation letter to Belmont Manor, his first thought was not that he was lucky enough to get an invitation letter, but that he was wondering if someone was deliberately trying to mess with him. He didn't realize it until he confirmed it repeatedly.

I really got the invitation to the banquet.

This immediately gave him a new idea. He thought that most of the people attending the banquet were either rich or noble, and these people were usually not seen by a fringe scholar like him. If he could say this at the banquet,

If he can mobilize some powerful people to provide funds for his research project, then his current predicament will be solved, and he will no longer need to consider violating his beliefs and taking up part-time religious studies.

Thinking of this, he immediately put down everything in his hands and prepared specifically for the banquet. He even took out his only savings and bought a suitable dress. He also went to the barber shop to have his hair, beard, etc.

I combed everything out to make myself look tidier.

On the day of the banquet, he originally planned to take the urban train to the Great North Point District earlier, where he would wait until the banquet started in the evening to avoid being late due to some accident.

But what he didn't expect was that the servant of the Belmont Manor who had sent him the invitation just before he went out was waiting outside the door, along with a carriage. After seeing him, the servant immediately stepped forward and said that he would attend the ceremony that day.

He was waiting for him, and his robes were ready in the carriage.

Although the dress he wore was bought by himself, compared to the dress provided by the owner of Belmont Manor, whether it was material, fabric, or cutting, the style far exceeded the dress he bought himself, and it made him even more disappointed.

He felt embarrassed that even the fit and comfort after wearing it were much better than the ones he bought himself, as if they were tailor-made for him. This made him very interested in the owner of Belmont Manor, whom he had not yet met.

I suddenly felt good about it.

Now that he has a special carriage, Tonder Bruce no longer needs to rush to the Great North Point District to wait for night. He returns to his office in the college in the carriage. After the carriage enters the college, it immediately attracts a lot of people.

They noticed that because the badge hanging on the carriage was the badge pattern of Belmont Manor, they quickly recognized that this carriage was a carriage exclusively for invited guests, and they also wondered about the guests in the carriage.

who is it.

However, when they saw the carriage parked in front of the simple little house of Folklore, and Tonde Bruce stepped out of the carriage, each of their faces were stunned as if they had seen something incredible. Obviously, they and Tonde Bruce

·Bruce himself agrees that the folklore professor cannot be an invitee.

The surprised expressions on the faces of those around him were naturally noticed by Tonder Bruce. For some reason, he suddenly felt a strong sense of elation in his heart. This emotion even exceeded that of when he went to the New World Folklore Association.

The proud feeling when receiving the lifetime achievement award.

He didn't know whether it was due to psychological reasons or physical changes, but he suddenly felt that his steps seemed to become much lighter, and his whole body seemed to be flying.

These emotional changes were not revealed by him, and he did not look at the people around him. He just ordered the servants of Belmont Manor to wait outside, and then walked into the folklore school and came to his office.

, closed the door, and then he couldn't help laughing loudly.

He didn't know why he was laughing, he just felt that it was very pleasant to laugh like this. After laughing, he calmed down again, then thought about it seriously, and quickly rummaged through the file cabinets in the office. From a large number of

A dozen folders that had been sealed for many years were extracted from the files.

These folders were all research projects he had formulated before. At that time, he was still ambitious about folklore. He hoped that through the research on these projects, he could obtain results that would attract the world's attention. Unfortunately, the college was unwilling to provide any

A research fund, even if the research funds required for his projects are only a fraction of a research project in religious studies.

In the end, all the documents he prepared were collected into folders and stored in the filing cabinet to collect dust.

Now he feels that his opportunity has come. These research projects may have a chance to be brought out again, and the person who makes him feel hopeful is the owner of Belmont Manor.

He no longer places his hope of obtaining research funds on the powerful people in Beluk City, because he feels that even if those powerful people must have the same ideas as the academy, otherwise, his folklore research will not be possible.

No one has paid attention to it for so many years, so continuing to start with those powerful people obviously has a very low chance of success.

On the contrary, it is the foreigners who are the owners of Belmont Manor. Judging from their respect and attention to themselves, the other party is obviously also interested in folklore, and they also have a lot of funds on hand. As long as they can come up with an attractive enough research project
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