"Uh... General Lawns." Chris looked at Berman's body lying on the ground with some embarrassment, and said, "I think your loyalty is not very valuable..."
Lawns laughed, shrugging his shoulders as if he had heard some particularly funny joke. When he stopped laughing, he said: "Everyone on the boat behind me can promise you that as long as you treat the ferry well,
The people of this city, we will fight for you until death!"
"Sounds good." Chris nodded: "I'll try my best."
"Then...I am yours." Lawns looked happy and content.
He glanced at the dense cavalry behind Chris, walked to Chris's horse carelessly, looked up at Chris, and said in a chatty voice: "If you defeat Mayne, it means you have to pay for that idiot Ensel."
The tax is 1,000 gold coins, so I think that since you can afford 2,000 gold coins, you can definitely afford 3,000 gold coins."
"The analysis is very reasonable." Chris nodded: "I do have a way to get 3,000 gold coins."
"You are now the owner of three castles, so you have to take your responsibility to help Ferry City pay taxes." After speaking, Lawns turned sideways and shouted loudly in the direction of the sailboat: "Okay.
It's over! Everyone, please get off the boat! Fukou City is saved!"
"..." Chris didn't expect that the other party would be so single.
"Actually, I'm very curious..." After turning around, Lawns did not continue the topic of taxes and tribute, but talked about the battle in the eastern forest: "How were you able to quickly defeat Ensel and do
To the point where they captured Mayne City almost at the same time.”
"Wageron and I are divided into two groups. It's not unreasonable." Chris replied with a smile.
"What I can't figure out is why you can win both ways if you divide your troops into two..." Lawns shook his head and said: "You have at most 600 men and you are not a heavy cavalry. How can you win a quick battle with 2,000 men?"
Woolen cloth?"
"Want to see my new weapons? I may have a way to make your navy more presentable." Chris tempted: "However, I want to take a closer look at your troops. I hope they are as reliable as you say.
"
Lawns frowned and looked at Chris, but in the end he did not refuse Chris' solicitation: "Okay! Take me to see it! As long as you can fulfill your promise to Ferry City, my life, Lawns, is
It’s yours!”
Chris didn't say anything, pulled the reins, and walked out of the city. He had no intention of hiding the strength of his artillery, because he couldn't hide it at all. Soon the news of the Battle of the Eastern Forest and the Battle of Ferry City would spread to all directions.
Your weapons will also become known to the world.
His real trump card is not these cannons, nor more and more powerful modern weapons. What can really make him stronger is the great modern industrial system that has begun to rise in Seris!
Therefore, Chris didn't mind letting Lawns go see his artillery unit, completely tame this dragon on the sea, and let this naval general serve him wholeheartedly. But at this time, Lawns didn't know that he
What we are about to see is just how powerful it is!
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"Kang cut! Bang cut!" In a work shed built with wooden planks, a giant steel beast was lying in the center. At this moment, it was making a huge sound, driving a huge iron shaft to rotate.
"As long as coal is burned... this equipment can keep turning like this! This is a machine that is more magical than magic!" Looking at his masterpiece, craftsman Smith burst into tears with excitement. A month ago, he was just a
He was a blacksmith who made iron, but now he is a great craftsman who participated in creating miracles.
For mortals who cannot practice magic, they can only live in a land without magic and will never be able to see the glory of magic. However, the great city lord Alan Hill Chris told them that even if magic is not applicable, mortals can
Can harness more powerful power.
"Add coal! Add coal!" He stood next to this very advanced steam engine and loudly ordered his apprentices.
Following his order, the two apprentices carried shovels and added more coal into the combustion chamber, raising the temperature of the entire steam engine even higher.
Looking at the pressure gauge, Smith nodded with satisfaction. The internal pressure of the machine is now completely within the design value, and the output has reached the shooting requirements.
This steam engine is connected to 20 looms that have been arranged. In theory, as long as these looms are connected to the powertrain, they can continue to work.
"The experiment begins!" Smith looked at the female workers standing aside and gave the test order loudly.
Dozens of female workers began to follow the previous training, turn on the switch of the equipment, and connect the loom to the power of the steam engine.
"Wow!" The first loom began to operate crazily, and the finished cloth began to roll into the groove below, and was automatically rolled into a roll.
The same thing happened on the second loom, then the third and fourth. Soon, all 60 looms in the entire factory were working without any lag.
At this time, the pressure of the boiler was normal, the steam engine was still working stably, and the various pressure gauges were also fluctuating slightly within the normal value range.
As expected from the beginning, these female workers only need to follow the operating procedures and manually pull some shuttles to complete the entire processing work.
A well-trained female worker can manage three such looms, and the production speed of these three looms is ten times that of the original looms.
Starting from today, every family can use cheap cloth. As long as the raw materials are sufficient, the textile mills in Seris City can even provide enough cloth for the whole world!
This kind of production speed is simply a crushing of the previous cloth production process. What's even more frightening is that as the production speed increases, the production cost of cloth begins to drop crazily.
Cloth that used to require 1,000 people to produce can now be produced by only 20 people. The production cost saved is enough to destroy the original cloth production ecology.
What's even more frightening is that with the steam engine, such factories can continue to expand in scale, allowing workers who are not familiar with textiles to join in, making textiles easier and more common.
Soon, children and the elderly will join the production sequence. When the time comes, the fragile production model of primitive materials will disappear in an instant, just like a snowflake evaporating in the sun, leaving nothing behind...
"The second and third steam engines have been put into use at the blacksmith shop, and there are ten more in the process of production. I heard that three of them are specially used to make new weapons." Smith handed over the receipt report in his hand.
Gave it to another engineer next to me.
The supervising engineer signed his name on it, nodded and said: "The production capacity of the Seris City Steel Plant has almost reached its limit. We need new iron ore to support our production."
Today, what restricts the industrialization process of Seris City is the lack of qualified engineers and the amount of steel raw materials that cannot satisfy production. In order to increase the production speed, Seris City has even begun to purchase steel from surrounding areas.
"The nearest iron mine is in Tubao, which is actually quite close to us." Smith seemed to be anxious to expand his business and suggested: "We have been buying a lot of their ore recently, but the price is really too high."
"There is no way." Another engineer was very knowledgeable about current affairs. He shook his head and said unhappily: "Didn't the Lord of the City personally conquer the Fukou City? If you don't come back in triumph, how can we have the energy to build any more earthen castles...
"
He paused and said, "With this in mind, the machinery factory should seize the time to increase the number of machine tools and try to produce more cannons."
"I think so too, but we have to have this time." Looking at the continuously rotating steam engine, Smith said helplessly: "The current production speed is already the fastest we can make."
Naturally, industrialization cannot be completed in a day. Although there were many skilled blacksmiths and foundry workers in the original Seris city, they could only complete the tasks at hand bit by bit.
Automated machine tools cannot yet be produced. The parts of steam engines are all produced by manual processing. The failure rate is quite high, and the accuracy cannot be guaranteed. Therefore, despite the huge size of current steam engines, the power is actually not very high.
The scrap rate of parts remained high, and the machines designed by Chris could only be produced at a snail's pace. Even if the standards were relaxed, some machines could not operate smoothly, and most machine tools could only rely on human power to push them.
.
Because he has complete industrial technology, detailed recipes, and completely accurate processing time data that does not require experiments, Chris is not promoting the technological development of this world, he is completely pulling the technology of this world forward.
Because magic exists in this world and alchemy is very common, the world accepts Chris's bizarre new ideas very quickly. Almost no one questions where Chris' technology comes from, and everyone believes in this lord
Sir, I have received revelation from God.
The reason is actually very simple. Since God has given the mages powerful magic, it is only normal to leave some hope to mortals after thousands of years of suffering.
From a technical point of view, Chris is pulling rather than pushing the development of science and technology in the world. What restricts him is no longer the accumulation speed and development expansion of technology, but the serious shortage of production capacity and the lack of talents.
