Chapter five hundred and eighty second failed Bokal
Chapter 582: The Failure of Bok Al
Half a month later, Claude went to the Patres Military Port Shipbuilding Base for an inspection. This time he stayed at the shipbuilding base for a month and a half, and had close and friendly exchanges with the ship design department and power development center led by Master Bird.
More than ten academic conferences were held, and the designs of ultra-large passenger ships, ocean-going cargo merchant ships, and large whaling ships made of iron hulls were successfully launched, allowing the four major shipbuilding workshops in the shipbuilding base to finalize the drawings of these three civilian ships.
We have received orders for more than ten ships before, and everyone is beaming with joy. Everyone knows that the profit of building civilian ships is much higher than that of armored warships...
The clock design that Claude privately discussed with Master Bird also attracted his great attention. He believed that the development of clocks, a timing mechanical tool, would greatly improve the production level of precision instruments in overseas autonomous territories. However, he would
The development work of the clock was entrusted to his grandson Mallex, thinking that he was fully qualified for this development work. Naturally, Claude would not keep his illegitimate son a secret, and he told Malek all the clock knowledge he could remember in his mind.
He also drew several kinds of table clocks, pocket watches, and the appearance of watches.
In addition, Claude also discussed the possibility of establishing a polytechnic university with Master Bird, but Master Bird poured cold water on him. Quite simply, the technological development of this Faslan world is
Based on the alchemical magic talisman array, rune mages who can conduct various experiments in the alchemical magic talisman array are the main force in promoting technological development. This can be called a practical research-based technical magic system.
And as Claude requires, establishing a university that allows ordinary people to learn these technologies is equivalent to knocking down this magic building and building a new one. It's not that it can't be done, but it's
The time, energy, and money spent are too much, and the gains outweigh the losses. Ordinary people do not understand alchemy magic experiments. Even if they learn magic knowledge, they do not know how to practice without magic power. All efforts are in vain.
To take the simplest example, a rune mage can conduct experiments in the alchemical magic array, understand the changing process of the test items, and understand the principles of the synthesis of two metals. However, ordinary people cannot do any alchemical magic experiments.
Achieving the same experimental results means re-establishing a training and experimental system to let them understand why two metals become a completely new metal when combined. This requires a new synthesis that can be clearly understood.
The theory needs to be tested in reality, and the cost is not a small sum of money...
Claude knew very well what Master Bird meant by these words. It is not that there is no knowledge of physics and chemistry in this world, but that this knowledge is in the hands of magicians, called alchemy, and it is not systematic or communicated with each other.
.Just like Master Bird, he turned from a firearms master to studying fire engines and steam engines, then developed into various mechanical power, and now turned to ship design. It can be said that he changed the research direction at will according to his own hobbies...
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Most other rune magicians are like this, and their teaching methods are also similar. They either give step-by-step instructions or watch the teacher's alchemical magic experiments and then understand it on their own.
After all, whether they learn or not depends entirely on the magic apprentice himself. This kind of education method and efficiency are actually very backward and low.
Moreover, even if these rune mages gained some experience from magic experiments, they kept it hidden and refused to communicate with other magicians. This largely caused the delay and stagnation of the world's technological level. If it hadn't been for
With the unexpected variable of overseas dominions, Claude can discover that in the more than twenty years since he traveled back in time, the technological level of this world has not improved at all...
However, since the kind of polytechnic university that Claude had in his previous life could not be established, would it be possible to establish a magic academy to train qualified rune mages in batches for overseas dominions, and at the same time, it would also be a forum for exchanges among rune mages serving overseas dominions. Gram
Lord hopes that rune mages in overseas dominions can present their discoveries and experimental principles to other magicians, learn useful things from other people's experimental results, and further promote technological development.
If such a magic academy can be built, the Dominion Military Region can propose the establishment of a magician association, provide annual salary and welfare subsidies, open an alchemy academic journal to publish papers and give rewards, etc. Master Bird's proposal to Claude is a bit
Although he was excited, he still wasn't very optimistic about the academic exchanges between rune mages. After all, many mages regard their discoveries in alchemical magic experiments as opportunities for themselves to make profits. It is really a bit hard to persuade them to give up this traditional habit.
difficulty......
Master Bird finally said that he could try to persuade the rune mages who worked for the overseas dominions. He had doubts about establishing a magic academy. After all, for hundreds of years, the impression of magicians in the minds of ordinary people was
Evil, even these rune mages who work for the overseas dominions hide their identities as magicians from the outside, and conduct alchemy magic experiments in hiding instead of conducting experiments openly. It is difficult for him to imagine the public establishment of a magic academy
What changes will it bring to overseas dominions and magicians...
Master Bird thought over and over again and said that Claude was too impatient. He did not think that it would be a good thing to openly establish a magic academy. This would instead expose the identities of the magician teachers and magic apprentices to the public, which would incite public anger.
Without strong opposition and public rejection, it would be difficult to guarantee the personal safety of teachers and students in this magic academy. He thought it would be better to select and train magic apprentices secretly, just like a magic academy, but cover it up under another name.
As for the establishment of the Dominion Magician Association, Master Bird believes that this is a good thing. Those rune mages will be happy to join. After all, this is also a recognition of their status of serving the Dominion. In addition, they have a lot of annual salary and income.
Welfare subsidies, no rune mage would refuse such an invitation.
The only difficult thing is to persuade them to come up with their own experimental findings, but this can be solved by offering a heavy bounty. Just like if there are any technical problems that cannot be solved in the Dominion Military Region or the shipbuilding base, you can offer a bounty to the rune mages in these associations.
Ask for help, whoever solves the problem will receive a bonus...
Some things really cannot be rushed. After listening to Master Bird's words, Claude realized that he was indeed too anxious. In fact, the rune mages working for the Dominion Military Region are currently cooperating with the Dominion Military Region quite smoothly. Now it is
The Dominion Military Region directly allocated funds to these rune mages and asked them to conduct alchemical magic experiments to obtain the results. The more than 400 technologies that need to be kept secret in the shipbuilding base that General Beach Kerin mentioned at the last military meeting came from this.
This is actually a different kind of reward, but it’s just a bigger waste of money.
Back in Lanhu City, it was General Boker who was the first to report to Claude again. This time he came to report to Claude about his contact with Erikson's Black Sail Pirates. The so-called hot face meets a cold butt.
This is the current situation in Bokoal. He wholeheartedly plans for Erikson, but Erikson is not as blind as he is to agree to Claude's request because of their friendship as a boy. Instead, he represented the Black Sails Pirates to the Dominion.
The military region put forward a series of conditions like a lion's mouth, such as delivering the six armored warships first, and then delivering six more after the completion of the project, etc...
"What did you tell him?" Claude asked: "Did you tell him all the reasons why our Dominion Navy cannot take action?"
Bockaar nodded somewhat dejectedly. In the past two months, he had contacted Erikson many times and wrote six letters. At first, Erikson was very excited in his reply, expressing his willingness to cooperate with the Dominion.
Cooperate with the military region and work with the armored fleet of the Dominion Navy to attack the Navy fleet of the United Kingdom on the Fox Islands, and plunder a few of them ashore.
But after Bok'ar discovered that he had misunderstood, he quickly wrote another letter telling him that it was not his Black Sail Pirates who were united with the Dominion Navy's armored fleet, but the Black Sail Pirates who independently took on the task of attacking, and the six armored warships were also in time.
The reward given to him. As soon as this second letter passed, Erikson's attitude cooled down in his reply. He asked Boquear whether the Dominion Military Region and Claude disliked his Black Sails Pirates.
Deliberately setting a trap for them to die?
Bockaar could only write another letter to reply to Erikson, telling him that Claude had no such intention. This time he had fought for an opportunity to give Erikson and the Black Sails pirates. Only by taking the initiative to attack Fox
After the naval fleet of the United Kingdom of Islands shows the strength and determination of the Black Sails Pirates, the Dominion Military District will consider listing Erikson's Black Sails Pirates as a target of support and cooperation. This time, for Erikson, it is indeed
It's the best opportunity.
Then Erikson's reply came, asking Bockaar to explain clearly why he thought this was an opportunity for the Black Sails Islands. In his opinion, leading his own Black Sails pirates to attack the United Kingdom's naval fleet on the Fox Islands was purely a crime.
An act of seeking death. Unless the Dominion Navy first lends him a dozen or twenty armored warships, then he can have the confidence to set up a formation and proactively attack the United Kingdom's naval fleet in the Fox Islands...
In order to convince Erikson, Bockar had to reveal some intelligence and inside stories about the military meeting, so that Erikson could understand the real reason why he was looking for him, which was mainly to make the Black Sails pirates have good relations with the Dominion Military District, and to satisfy Airy.
Erikson's wish to obtain the armored warships. But after Erikson learned the inside story, he opened his mouth and asked the Dominion Military Region to provide six armored warships first and six more later. He did not guarantee that the attack would be completed, he could only guarantee
The Black Sail Pirates will take the initiative to launch an attack, and at the same time, the Dominion Military District will pay military supplies worth millions of gold crowns as compensation for the Black Sails Pirates' attack...
Bockaar then wrote two more letters in an effort to persuade Erikson, but Erickson insisted on the conditions he proposed in the reply. Only then did Bockaar realize that this task was not easy to accomplish, and he could not represent the Dominion.
The military region agreed to Erikson's request and had to come back to Claude to admit that his plan to win over the Black Sails pirates and Erikson had failed.
Claude was not angry at all, but laughed heartily. He got up and went to the wine cabinet to get a bottle of fruit wine and filled a glass for Bockar. Then he told Bockar that he had expected that Bockar would fail. To be honest,
Regarding Erikson and the Black Sail Pirates, Bockaar was confused by his childhood friendship, his intuition and judgment, and he behaved neither like a businessman nor a soldier.
If Bockaar had remained as shrewd as a businessman, he should have discovered long ago that Erikson was not corresponding with him for friendship as a boy, but to get some news from him about the Dominion Military Region. At the same time, he would have turned Bockaar into a black man.
As the spokesperson of the Sail Pirates in the Dominion Military Region, with Bock'ar's identity, he can easily purchase some military supplies and in-demand commodities that need to be monitored in the Dominion. Erikson knew very well that he could not impress Bock'ar in terms of money or status.
We can only rely on friendship to win over Bok Al...
There is a saying that a drop of water can penetrate a stone. With the help of several years of correspondence, Erikson finally made Boker blind his precise businessman's eyes because of friendship, and imagined Erikson as the simple companion in his boyhood. Of course.
Over the years, the Black Sail Pirates have used the Buffalo Trading Company run by Bokoal's father, whether purchasing supplies or selling stolen goods, without letting Bokoar worry about it. This has also made Bokoar trust Erikson more and more.
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As a businessman, Bockar's performance was also very poor. As Claude said, as a soldier, you will not believe in a pirate's promise. Just like Erikson, although he is also Claude
Even though the Dominion Military District had no conflict with Erikson's Black Sails Pirates, Claude would still be wary of Erikson's Black Sails Pirates and not care about him.
Is he his teenage friend?
Bockaar trusted Erikson very much, so he did not hesitate to quarrel with Claude to speak for Erikson and the Black Sails Pirates. But when Claude gave him a chance, he fell in love with Erikson.
Claude gave him a very clear analysis. Ericson's correspondence with him cost nothing, but he could learn about the Dominion's movements from him. This could be regarded as a source of intelligence. So Ericson could
Rickson was happy to maintain his friendship with Bockaar and kept writing letters.
But when Bokoal asked Erikson to lead the Black Sails Pirates to attack the navy fleet of the United Kingdom of Fox Islands, Erikson had to consider the cost issue. He was the leader of the Black Sails Pirates. If he wanted to maintain the friendship with Bokoal,
If the strength of the Black Sail Pirates is harmed, then he will definitely reject this friendship. The rule of pirates is that the strong are respected. This strength not only refers to the strength of the individual, but also the strength of the pirate gang he leads. He will harm himself for the sake of friendship.
With his strength, his position as the pirate leader cannot be maintained.
Claude comforted Bockar, saying that it was a good thing to be able to see Erikson's true face through such an incident. It was much better than Erikson asking Bockar to do things that would harm the interests of the Dominion Military Region in the future. He asked
Bokoal put this matter aside, and he would follow Claude on a trip to the Pamigal National Republic. Claude hoped that during his visit, Bokoal would focus on the Vasiliko Principality colony and learn more about Skolo.
How did the armed conflict between the two indigenous peoples, the Homo and the Gisdians, happen...
The implementation of the first step of the Wildfire Plan can be said to be a success or failure. The success was that the Dominion Military District occupied the Rodex Bay Colony of the United Kingdom of Fox Islands, and at the same time promoted the independent establishment of the Pamigal people in the colony of the Morosik Kingdom and established an independent country.
It became the first indigenous nation-state on the west coast, and twice defeated the expeditionary forces sent by three colonial countries including the Molosik Kingdom to the mainland of Nubisia to regain the colonies.
What failed was the liberation movement of the indigenous peoples in the second colony of the Kingdom of Resniya and the colony of the Principality of Vasilko. The Rusmans in the second colony of the Kingdom of Resniya were given a
After the killing, everything became a mess. Although they drove away the colonists in the name of revenge for the great chiefs, they also massacred innocent white immigrants in the colonies. In order to compete for rights, the various large tribes fought with each other and became a mess.
Under the strong pressure of the Dominion Military Region, they also united in the war against the invasion of the three colonial expeditionary forces. However, after the war, fighting among the tribes began again. Even if the Dominion Military Region came forward to help them establish a Russ
The Alliance of Man Chiefs, but this is useless, it is just a title on the surface. In the country, there are still seven tribes fighting in a melee. No one obeys the other, making a good country a mess...
Finally, there is the colony of the Principality of Vasilko, which is even more troublesome for the Dominion Military Region. Originally, according to the plan, after the establishment of the Pamigal National Republic, troops were sent to help the two Skolo and Gisid people in the colony of the Principality of Vasilko.
The indigenous peoples were liberated and followed the example of the Pamigals in establishing an independent country. Of course, the Skolos and Gisdes also had to contribute, staged an uprising and attacked the colonists of the Principality of Vasiliko.
The uprising was successfully held, or rather a riot. The garrison of the Vasiliko Principality Colony was completely unable to suppress the armed uprising launched by these two indigenous peoples. They had no choice but to send people to the neighboring Opsaro City-State Alliance Colonial Garrison for help.
.Just when the situation was good, the uprising armed forces of the two indigenous ethnic groups, the Skolos and the Gisdes, clashed. Then the conflict turned into a war, and then developed into a genocidal war between the two indigenous ethnic groups.
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Now the two indigenous peoples in the colony of the Principality of Vasilko no longer care about armed uprisings, driving away the colonists, national liberation and the establishment of an independent country. The two sides are fighting fiercely, and the vendetta between the two groups is getting more and more intense.
Whether the expeditionary force invaded or the armed forces of the Pamigal National Republic came to help them resist, they ignored them and decided to start this life-and-death battle between the two races...