After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 686

Knowledge was shared much more in Alterra, because people knew it would be good for the territory. This was still something the Golds hadn’t completely comprehended but had seen in many forms. _{freēwebnovel.com}

Not even counting Oslo’s upgrade, they had witnessed stores selling specific spices that demoed several recipes for free.

While they found out it was a ’great marketing’ strategy (Otto learned a lot) to sell the product, most aborigines normally wouldn’t be willing to share recipes just by instinct.

They had also learned a lot about apprenticeships and the like, and they knew it wasn’t anything like the apprenticeships that they knew. An apprentice here would learn years ahead of his peers under another master!

They had also read the so-called newspaper (Oslo brought one home) to show that a school would be opening for an affordable price.

In the city, going to a similar establishment was something commoners could not afford nor would they even have the right to enter.

Here, by the way people were talking about it, it seemed that there was no stopping anyone—as if anyone who wanted to go would have a way to do so.

A school was like the paragon of sharing knowledge already, and now…, there was a library, which was an accessible place of knowledge.

The closest the nobles had to a library were rooms within their respective family estates. These rooms were also rarely accessible to outsiders. Oftentimes, even family members might not be able to get inside.

Rich families would even employ array masters to protect their libraries, setting it so only specific conditions had to be met in order for it to open.

For example, in the Bleuelle Lord’s house, only the lord and his heir had the right to enter this library, no one else. It was a tradition of sorts and they heard a few siblings would scheme against each other to get the right to enter.

This wasn’t actually indecipherable. After all, noble families tended to have a lot more access to papyrus and recorded knowledge. Some important knowledge that would likely increase a person’s strength was inside.

Oslo let the idea brew for a bit before pointing at the final building along the Southwest Avenue, near the gates. "The last building, which should finish construction in another hour, is the hospital," Oslo said. "We’ll go there later."

It was placed near the gates for easy access during mobs and beast tides. He also told them of its effects, as well as the rates discussed. "Employees of the territory would have a certain amount of free use," Oslo told them. They were told nothing in the meeting earlier was top secret, anyway.

"Private companies would also have the option of providing the same to their employees, though they’d have to pay for it."

The concept of employee benefits was still new to Oslo, what more to his siblings, but they could tell it was the territory caring for its citizens.

"Unbelievable…"

Otto looked at his brother. "I’m impressed."

"Yes, so please help me get more drawing sets," Oslo said, unable to help himself.

"Should we sell aether blueprints, then?" Otto asked, as business-minded as always. "I can find a way to make deals, provide the raw materials and the like."

Oslo looked intrigued, though he did not answer definitively. "I’ll ask the territory, but they should agree as long as they obtain some shares."

The two brothers looked at each other, their azure eyes bright as the skies above.

In the future, a single blueprint of Oslo’s unique buildings (except for sensitive ones like libraries) would sell for tens of thousands of gold each.

He would give most of the proceeds to Alterra, becoming one of the great sources of liquid funds for Alterra.

Of course, this was a story for much, much, later.