In order to win, Friedman needs to centralize power. In order to survive, Bishop needs to get rid of the disobedient nobles of Banshee Castle. In order to make money, the nobles and wizards of Banshee Castle join forces to push Powell to the forefront.
But when Powell disguised himself as a corpse collector and rode a carriage transporting seriously ill patients to Dense Fog Town under Adrian's surprised gaze, Zhou Qingfeng was leading an engineering team to the outside of Dense Fog Town.
This is a strange team, one hundred kobolds plus five hundred human workers. They were transported many times by more than a hundred heavy-duty carriages to the outside of the town. After unloading the tools and materials, they began to build simple houses and survey and construct.
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Due to the cutoff of trade routes, hundreds of caravan members gathered in Dense Fog Town. They eagerly hoped that Cold Wind City could send a powerful army to open up the trade transportation lines.
As a result, an engineering team came.
The leader of the team arrived and immediately attracted onlookers.
People stood outside the construction site and exclaimed: "Look, it's a kobold. This little night monster dares to come out in the daytime. What are they wearing on their eyes? What a strange thing."
The construction site was painted with lime, and the town residents crowded outside the lines with great novelty, pointing and pointing.
The thin kobolds are not used to being watched in broad daylight. They evade and evade. But with the lord personally supervising the work, at least they are not too afraid.
Because they are extremely weak, some people in the town habitually throw stones at the kobolds, deliberately bullying or even expelling them. In the past, they could only swallow their anger, but now those who throw stones and spit will be picked out and beaten.
After the screams were heard so many times, no one doubted Lord Hugo's determination to promote racial equality - a kobold who understands engineering is obviously more valuable than an illiterate idiot.
During the time when Powell went to Banshee Castle with the magic potion, the kobolds living in various parts of the North heard that there were human lords willing to take them in, and they tentatively sent some envoys to see the situation.
After confirming that Coldwind City was willing to accommodate the harmless race, an endless stream of kobolds arrived - this race has small individual strength, so it is particularly good at using tools and building fortifications to protect itself.
As the number of kobolds increased, Cold Wind City's engineering strength increased dramatically, and Zhou Qingfeng decided to implement his long-planned offensive and defensive strategy in advance.
Build military fortresses on the transportation thoroughfares around Cold Wind City to prevent enemies from advancing straight in and provide convenient logistical support for future military attacks.
The Northland is too big, and cities can often be hundreds of kilometers apart. Even in the real world, an armored force assault of one or two hundred kilometers is an extremely risky move. Only big countries would do this if they bully a weakling.
Now that the family has a big business, Hanfeng City cannot allow enemies to appear under its city walls at every turn. In order to carry out major projects in the cold winter, Zhou Qingfeng also used an artifact that can change the world - explosives.
In order to provide fuel for the iron-making furnace body, Arcee's coke oven must retort dozens or hundreds of tons of lignite every day to increase its calorific value. As a by-product of retort, the output of various magic potions is also particularly large.
The spirit slaves are extremely busy in the alchemy workshop, constantly separating and refining magic potions from the crude products of coal tar and wood tar.
Through Jason Wizard's repeated selection and the addition of stabilizers to ensure safety, the workshop can obtain about half a ton of explosives every day.
As an alchemist, Jason had seen a lot of explosive objects, so he didn't think there was anything special about the explosives he accidentally discovered. But Zhou Qingfeng cheered all day long when he heard the news.
Nothing else..., cheap, large quantity, sufficient.
Although it is inconvenient to use this magic explosive in combat, it doesn't matter if it is used in engineering. It doesn't matter even if it produces highly toxic smoke after it explodes, it will just dissipate naturally in the open area.
Zhou Qingfeng specially brought several tons of accumulated explosives to Dense Fog Town. The first thing he had to deal with was the freezing environment in the winter - the ground was as hard as iron, and when he swung a pickaxe, there were only white spots.
The kobolds spent one day surveying and selecting the construction site for the fortress, and the next day they drew lime-white lines on the ground. As for the reason why they can come out to work during the day - it is very simple, they wear sunglasses.
Goods from the street stalls cost ten yuan and five pairs, and discounts are given for large quantities.
Zhou Qingfeng bought hundreds of them at once, allowing the photophobic kobolds to go out and move around during the day and work together with human workers. This greatly improved labor efficiency. After all, it is very difficult for kobolds to do many physical tasks.
The residents of Dense Fog Town are also extremely curious. They can't figure out what such a group of kobolds are doing outside the town.
The little monster drew lines and punched holes in the ground, and also took out cylindrical objects from the wooden boxes brought by the carriage and stuffed them into the holes.
What is this mysterious thing about?
A bunch of people had their heads filled with questions and made speculations. Many people even laughed out loud when they heard that the kobolds were coming to build a fortress, finding it unimaginable.
Before it was clear, the human workers who maintained order began to clear the area. When the residents asked what they wanted to do, they didn't tell them directly. They only answered after a while.
Only one explosive was placed in the first shot, and all personnel retreated a hundred meters away. The kobold pulled out a half-meter-long fuse, lit it, and ran away quickly.
The onlookers couldn't see clearly from a hundred meters away. They stood outside the blockade and talked with each other. They were extremely curious. But when the fuse burned out, there was a roar of thunder a hundred meters away!
The good guys were frightened when they heard the sound, and they all ran around in a howl, bumping into each other like headless flies. Most of the people fell down while running around, but their heads were broken and bleeding, and they got up and continued running for several hundred meters.
It was only when I was exhausted that I stopped.
There were even worse cases where people peeed, fell to the ground crying and even fainted on the spot, which was extremely humiliating. Only the workers who had experienced it laughed beside them, never mentioning that they themselves had been frightened out of their wits by the explosion.
Each hole was one meter deep, and two kilograms of explosives were put into it. Although the explosives were of average power, they blasted the hard ground into a large crater about one and a half meters deep and with a radius of four to five meters.
There are actually broken pieces of soil in the pit, which can be dug out with a hoe. This is much simpler than melting the ground with fire, and the cost and time are greatly reduced.
Relying on the explosives produced by this alchemy workshop, Hanfeng City has greatly accelerated the pace of water conservancy and irrigation projects recently.
In the past, hundreds of people could only dig a shallow ditch of fifty meters in a day, which was still extremely tiring and hard work. Now, with the same labor, they can dig deeper, longer, and easier.
The kobold engineering team rushed to Dense Fog Town and carried out dozens of ground blastings that day, completing a project that would have taken a month or two to complete in the past.
Upon discovering the power of the explosives, the residents of the town returned from extreme fright to extreme curiosity. They once again crowded around the construction site, covering their ears every time a gun was fired, but refused to leave.
When the cannon fires, hundreds of busybodies will shout loudly, attracting more people in the town to come and watch - this kind of free show will make people talk about it and gossip endlessly.
By the time Powell arrived at Dense Fog Town again, the foundation of the fortress had been almost completely blown away. He got rid of the corpse collector's carriage and walked into the town on foot. When he heard the residents of the town greeting each other with joy - have you fired the cannon today?