Chapter 636: Why don’t we use the transmission portal?

A few days later, in the evening

Robb sat in front of the crystal ball and looked at the queen opposite the crystal ball.

The queen, who used to be dignified, had a silly face today. While flipping through the books in her hands, she thumped the table and laughed, “this… This is a weird painting… No, I’ll laugh to death, too weird… A hero is a bald man… Hahaha…”

Robb, “Hey!”

As soon as he opened his mouth and was about to protest, the queen suddenly stopped smiling and turned back to a serious face. “Recently, there have been nothing attacking you, so you began to make such strange things again. How bored are you?”

Robb shrugged and said, “even if something is attacking me, I’ll still play with something inexplicable.”

It was reasonable and convincing, and even the queen had nothing to say.

She took out another book from the side. It was “forest covered in black pine trees”, which was well-wrapped and had more high-end paper. She opened it gently and said, “in fact, I prefer this book more, but I’ve heard that it can’t be sold out at all. The Corton family doesn’t dare to sell it too much either. They only brought two hundred books along to Bright Road, and only two hundred of them haven’t been sold out. Yet your manhua book is not only sold out in Westwind, but also on Bright Road.”

She concluded, “it seems that this elf elder has made the same mistake as I made for my movie.”

Robb smiled and said, “well, do you already know what mistake you made in the movie?”

“I strayed from the public masses.”

The queen stopped after only saying these words. She didn’t like to criticize herself in front of others. If it weren’t for Robb, she wouldn’t even bother to say these words.

Hearing the Queen’s words, Robb was happy “In fact, being an oasis in a desert or talking about domestic affairs are both art. They are profound, elegant and straightforward. They are also arts, but they are just expressed differently. We just need to know clearly what kind of audience we are facing when we are creating art. I respect the elf elder, who is dedicated to art. The only mistake he made was to make a mistake about his literary and artistic orientation and audience, so he printed a few extra books.”

The queen said, “I thought you were going to mock him, because he once mocked your manhua.”

Robb laughed, “No. I won’t mock him, because I also think my manhua is a children’s painting.”

The queen was rendered speechless

“Before the hard paper was invented, I could only do this kind of children’s painting,” Robb said. “Because I knew very well that at that time, I could only do this kind of thing. But now there is hard paper, I may be able to turn the manhua that looks like a child’s painting into a very exquisite manhua. Do you want to send a professional painter to me and help me draw an exquisite One Punch Man?”

“No,” the queen said seriously. “My painter needs to serve me. I’m going to start working.”

“Yo!” Robb said, “you are going too? You need a painter? Are you going to produce a book?”

The queen shook her head, “I found that this kind of cheap paper is very suitable for the promotion of national knowledge, so I plan to make some important production methods into picture books and then send them to every city. In this way, those remote cities can also get knowledge through books. I have even thought of the first batch of picture books to be spread out. I have already figured out the production methods and diagrams of the water wheel, the production methods and diagrams of the railway system, the production methods of sugar and… “

In a twinkling of an eye, she said a lot of things.

Robb was happy to hear that. “These are all my work.”

The queen squinted at him. “What? You don’t want me to turn these things into books? Do you still need to charge a patent fee?”

Robb shook his head with a smile and said, “no, I’d like to see you put these things into a book, which is much more reliable than word of mouth. To be honest, I really hate the way of mouth to mouth technology inheritance, because this method is not very accurate and prone to change. If we’re not careful, important technology will be lost to the world. For the major principle of being responsible for the whole world, it’s better to keep useful knowledge in books.”

The queen nodded and said, “well, since you agree, my merchant will go through the transmission portal to later and order them from your printing factory.”

“Can’t you just take the train? Why do you have to go through the transmission portal?” Robb said, “I’m telling you, it’s wrong to rely too much on the transmission portal. I set up this transmission portal between Bright Road and Westwind town in to deal with emergencies, not to let your Royal business men go through it easily.”

Since Robb said so, the queen had no choice but to give up. They had agreed that they couldn’t pass through the transmission portal without Robb’s consent. Therefore, as long as he didn’t agree, the queen couldn’t send anyone to go through the portal randomly. So she had to take the train.

But she couldn’t help but ask, “why do you have to invent something like a train even though you can open such a convenient transmission portal?”

Robb smiled and said, “didn’t I tell you this question before? Do you remember the big fire box of the iron furnace?”

The queen suddenly understood!

Back then, Robb had used a magic item to provide high temperature for the iron furnace, while the queen was unwilling to use the expensive magic treasures in this place. She had sent a few fire magicians to refine iron before. She didn’t expect that when Mondra attacked Bright Road, she had exhausted all of their magic power, which had caused their furnaces to stop for a while.

Later, Robb asked her to study the furnace without magic. It only used the structure of the furnace to provide the high temperature furnace technology. To put it bluntly, it was to save labor and turn what was originally done by people into technology to solve it.

After a series of efforts, the Queen’s furnace no longer needed magicians. With the help of the furnace heating technique, she could refine iron ingots with only coal, so that magicians could use their own abilities in a more precious place.

Robb smiled and said, “although it seems that it’s very convenient for me to rub magic scrolls with my hands, in fact, one day I will not be able to move, or even if I try my best to rub it, I won’t be able to let everyone in the world enjoy it. However, the train can run forever, so everyone in the world can enjoy the convenience it brings. I have to make the world get used to using the train, and slowly forget my transmission portal.”