Infinite Reincarnation – Arthur Hurt - Chapter 173



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Infinite Reincarnation – Arthur Hurt Chapter 173

30-Ignaqua

When Arthur arrived at the carriage waiting area and called the waiting area staff, the staff who came out panicked for a moment upon seeing the customers rushing in. Fortunately, the staff quickly came to their senses and quickly sent a servant to call a carriage from another waiting area.

“Okay, then let’s go.”

“Me first,”

“No, are you trying to steal something now?!”

“If you keep making a fuss, we’ll stop here for today. Please board in the order you arrived.”

There was a brief scuffle over who would ride in the same carriage as Arthur, but Arthur, who seemed tired and exhausted, warned them to ride in the order they had visited. They were treated as intellectuals and gentlemen, so they kept order well. Could they be living witnesses who prove that people need to learn?

The carriage carrying the scholars arrived at a factory built in the upper reaches of the River St., in the suburbs of St. Skal.

This is because the water in the lower reaches of the Saint River, where all kinds of domestic and industrial wastewater are discharged, was not suitable for producing Lux, or rather Ignaqua.

“Okay, is everyone here?”

“””exactly!”””

“Hmm. I don’t think so.”

Arthur quickly counted the number with his eyes and waited for a while, embarrassing those who answered yes in their haste.

Only after the last carriage arrived did Arthur lead them into the factory. Inside the factory, several workers were moving around and working. A middle-aged man who was looking closely at the densitometer noticed Arthur and immediately approached him.

“Boss! What’s going on?”

“Olo, Factory Manager. How is work? Are there any problems or concerns?”

The former factory manager of the leather factory that was originally located here was the factory manager. However, due to complaints that the leather factory was polluting the water supply, the factory was closed and he became unemployed. However, Arthur took over the leather factory and turned it into a factory that produces a liquid called Ignaqua, and he was able to work again.

It wasn’t difficult to learn and adapt to the job because the leather factory and the Ignaqua production plant had something in common in that they both dealt with alkaline liquids.

Rather than dealing with leather soaked in alkaline liquid, that is, lye, the work was easier. All I had to do was get clean water, mix in some salt, use the lightning injection device(?) as instructed by the factory owner, and then seal it in a ceramic container.

Arthur took over the leather factory and the workers, expecting such a quick adaptation to the work. As expected when he took over, the Olloh factory manager had some knowledge of the precautions when handling alkaline liquids, and he also had a decent ability to control his subordinates and direct their work.

In other words, he was a talented person who could ease Arthur’s burden. In particular, he understood and agreed well when educating about safety regulations.

In an era when safety regulations were hard to come by, no one was as skilled as the leather factory workers in handling alkaline liquids. This was because they had personally built up their know-how through their own hard work.

Even though no one was more thirsty for safety regulations than these people, Arthur’s emphasis on safety actually made the employees more diligent in following the safety regulations.

Another advantage of this situation was that Arthur tried to do exactly as he instructed, which was in line with Ignaqua’s goal of maintaining consistent quality.

Arthur had anticipated this and had originally intended to take over the leather factory.

However, because most of the wastewater was in the downstream area, a separate process to secure clean water was necessary, but luckily, the upstream area was able to take over a failed leather factory, so the work was easier. Was it because someone thoughtlessly built a polluting factory in the upstream area and went bankrupt?

He was a truly wonderful person who left behind the factory site and even a talented person like the Olloh factory manager. I hope he didn’t throw himself into the St. River due to business failure.

The Olloh factory manager answered Arthur with a smile.

“How could there be any problems when His Majesty is taking care of it?”

“Safety always comes first, you know? If you get hurt, you can’t work.”

“Of course.”

In this world where most factory owners say that if you get hurt, you can just find another worker, don’t get hurt because you won’t be able to work? Arthur Hurt Jr. was definitely an angel sent by the Lord.

Arthur, who had not seen the factory manager make a small sign of the cross, introduced the people behind him.

“These are scholars and doctors who came to tour the factory. I will personally escort them, so don’t worry and focus on safety.”

“yes.”

Arthur began his tour of the Ignaqua factory in earnest after patting the Olo factory manager on the shoulder.

“Ignaqua’s process is largely divided into two parts. One is to generate the power of lightning, and the other is to dissolve that power in water.”

“What is that white powder?”

A doctor asked as he watched workers pouring sacks of white powder into a wooden water tank.

“It’s salt. They say it’s the catalyst needed to fix the power of lightning into water.”

“Oh! Is that what was written in that ancient alchemy book?”

“yes.”

Arthur nodded, but inwardly he wondered if he had used the ancient alchemy excuse for nothing.

Look at their gazes at you. Isn’t it like the eyes of a religious person who has discovered evidence of God? Well, it wasn’t strange, since there was a witness who embodied the ancient mystery right before your eyes.

Arthur moved again. He was in a place where steam engines were chugging and something was spinning furiously.

“This is where the power of lightning is created.”

“Oh! What’s the principle?”

“I don’t know either. I just did what was written in the vision book.”

Arthur was completely ignorant. Even if I explained the principles of electromagnetic induction, it would just sound like an alien language to them.

It was the same as if Einstein had gone to Athens, Greece and preached the theory of relativity, stating that the speed of light is constant, but it sounded like the nonsense of a madman.

Then someone said,

“Aren’t you willing to tell me the contents of that vision book?”

For a moment, it was quiet. All that could be heard was the squeaking sound of the steam engine and the whirring of the engine.

The question just asked was no different from asking for the goose that laid the golden eggs. In a situation where the theory of 瘴氣 has been proven(?) in a field hospital, the ‘water with the power of lightning’ that burns 瘴氣 will rise to the position of a panacea and sell like hotcakes.

After a moment of silence, Arthur smiled and said,

“Of course there is.”

Wow!

An exclamation of admiration erupted in response to that answer. Really? Really? Really?

Arthur raised his hand to calm the commotion and continued speaking.

“Ignaqua will play a big role in eradicating the disease. Isn’t it wrong to turn a blind eye to human life for the sake of money?”

If you ignore people’s lives for personal greed, you will most likely be criticized. In any case, demand will be overwhelming, and even if competing products emerge, you are confident that you will be able to compete in the market.

“Don’t be too impatient, we will be filing a patent for the Ignaqua production process soon.”

“Rather than the production process, we want to supply Ignaqua to our hospital first!”

At one doctor’s words, other doctors also quickly raised their hands and raised their voices to demand a supply contract. But Arthur shook his head.

“Right now, our factory is insufficient to supply even the field hospitals.”

“I will invest the money!”

“me too!”

Suddenly, a chance to make a fortune came. The scholars and doctors gathered here were convinced that the stake in the Ignaqua production plant was a goose that laid golden eggs. After all, eradicating disease was where the rich spent their money most freely.

But the patent for manufacturing Ignaqua? Is that important now? If you receive a goose that lays golden eggs, you have to feed it and raise it well. Wouldn’t it be better to have a contract where you can get golden eggs just by paying the feed? Because most of the people here were not businessmen, but medical doctors. They didn’t have the know-how to build a factory, hire workers, and operate it.

“Hmm… … I think I need to think about that part a bit.”

Arthur held back on his answer. It wasn’t because he didn’t want to split the stake. He could make money if he ran a good business like this himself, but his identity was not that of a businessman.

Looking back now, Arthur was more of an investor than a businessman. He was looking for people who were good at business, giving them business ideas and capital, and creating a system to generate profits.

But is there a need to become a businessman now? It’s the beginning of a business, and you should be busy refining the system.

Anyway, Arthur was able to finish the tour by answering the scholars’ questions appropriately and smiling, but with a half-defeated mood.

The smile was due to the fact that the patent for producing Ignaqua had been applied for, allowing anyone to confirm the vision, and the half-shit atmosphere was due to Arthur pretending not to know, saying that he had answered most of the questions as written in the vision book, so his thirst for knowledge was not quenched.

They looked forward to Arthur’s patent every day. The businessmen who smelled money were no exception. Since the documents submitted for patent would be only one copy, they had to obtain the original or a copy before anyone else and enter the Ignaqua market first to get a piece of the pie.

Everyone can guess that Arthur’s factory, which has already produced and supplied field hospitals, is the number one in the Ignaqua market, but it couldn’t take away the number two spot. Considering that the market is so big, even if it came in second place, it would be a huge success.

But when it comes to business, no one can be left out.

“Arthur!”

Samuel came to Arthur in a hurry.

Arthur, who had been working at the workshop for the first time in a long while and was working almost as a hobby, wondering what he should make this time, didn’t know why Samuel had come to visit him so suddenly.

“Ignaqua?”

“If there was something like that, you shouldn’t have said anything, you punk!”

Samuel patted Arthur on the shoulder with a big smile on his face.

Arthur replied indifferently.

“It was something that was tied together with the field hospital.”

Who was it that so abruptly kicked out Arthur, who had tried to help with the supply work at the field hospital?

But he responded to Samuel jokingly.

“Hey. You’re not crazy, are you?”

“Well, Mr. Samuel had his own thing to do, so let’s move on.”

Isn’t the love front also a problem? Especially when that vicious man, Viscount Kato Zeltny, is your love rival.

Samuel asked with a smile.

“As expected, Arthur. Then… you’ll let me do it together, right?”

“Who would I trust if not Mr. Samuel?”

“Yay!”

Samuel expressed his joy by throwing an uppercut into the air.

“Let’s start by looking for a hospital to supply to, increase the size of the factory, and look at exports. Let’s make some money.”

As Samuel was coming, he was already sketching out the outline of the business.

Arthur felt the irony of the world when he saw Samuel like that. Out there on the front lines, soldiers were fighting and dying while getting shot, but here, they were sitting on a pile of money, thinking they were hitting the jackpot.

However, in some ways, it is worse for the country to unite and wage an all-out war. This means that the damage will also be maximized.

“I’ll tell the factory manager about this, so the two of you can discuss it and come up with a solution.”

“No, shouldn’t you be the one teaching it?”

Arthur answered as Samuel tilted his head.

“I have nothing more to do with factory operations.”

The virtue of the factory manager was that he did not do what he was told not to do. As he became the factory manager, he had a good memory and a bright side, so he thoroughly followed Arthur’s instructions on the parts he did not understand.