After sending away the messenger who came to ask for weapons, Chris knew that he should develop his own weapons and equipment more urgently.
He has spent a long time accumulating his industrial base, and now it is time to test his strength.
So, on the tenth day after the messenger left, Chris held an all-hands meeting to discuss the next stage of development.
At the meeting, Chris first asked Gurlo about the popularization of education, because he knew clearly that in order to systematically develop industry, the reserve of talents is an issue that must be paid attention to.
In the past, the model of individually hand-made weapons and equipment, where Chris personally took the lead and worked overtime, could not support a large-scale war.
Hearing Collins' question, Gurlo adjusted his glasses on the bridge of his nose and said: "According to development needs, we have built 30 primary schools and 9 junior middle schools. Using the movable type printing technology you provided, we have produced
A large number of textbooks are distributed free of charge to all students."
"It only takes a year for us to train a lot of talents. By then, the factory will have enough talents to use." He said while pushing a report to Chris: "We bought it from nearby.
A large number of young people can be easily cultivated.”
"Having money is really willful..." Hearing that even the population of this world can be collected with gold coins, which is like cheating, Chris feels that having money is really a very pleasant thing.
In fact, there are still many problems that can be solved with money. In order to support its own industrialization process, Seris City purchased a large amount of industrial raw materials from the three surrounding regions, but basically did not export anything of value.
Gurro imported a large amount of cotton and stone from the Alant Empire. The cotton was used to support the textile industry and the production of some explosives, while the stone was completely used in the infrastructure construction of the entire Principality of Eilandhir.
According to Chris's request, the gravel was stored to prepare for the laying of railway roadbed in the future, and the entire stone was used in the construction of factory buildings. Countless factories were erected at almost any cost.
Since then, many of them have not even had time to install machinery, so they can only resize them and leave them vacant.
Similar constructions that only invest without asking for returns can be found around Seris City, but there are also projects that have been put into operation to make a profit. For example, the two newly built cement factories are currently the busiest factories, and manual cement manufacturing has always been the most popular.
It was going on day and night, but the cement produced was simply not enough.
Everything purchased was used in the construction of Eiland Hill, and nothing was wasted. Products from the cement plant and stone materials were used to build buildings, and minerals were used to smelt metal throughout the principality.
The quality of life of civilians is improving at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the hundreds of thousands of gold coins Des brought with them are also disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"I am desperately trying to purchase food." Deans, who was almost out of shape, reported tiredly: "Our population has at least doubled in the past two months... The food reserves are definitely not enough.
So we must be prepared in advance.”
His report fully proved how money is gone: Grain procurement is definitely a major direction. In order to feed the growing population, food can only be ensured by procurement. This is by no means a one-time deal, because next year
The population of the Principality of Ireland will definitely be larger.
Because of the lack of people, we have to gather the population, and because we have to gather the population, we have to provide sufficient food. This is almost an endless cycle. Most of the time, in order to allow the surrounding civilians to immigrate to Ireland, Chris will also give orders.
Provide food subsidies to all residents.
Now he has enough manpower and soldiers, but the pressure has been transferred to Deans, who manages population and civil affairs. This middle-aged man is now so busy that he even has little time to sleep.
The situation on Strider's side is not much better: "I just came back from the Higgs Kingdom yesterday...the kerosene over there...uh, no, the price of oil has increased by 50%. The biggest problem
Yes, the output of this thing is not that big. We have money, but we can't buy much in stock."
Although there is consumption of alchemy in this era, in most cases, kerosene is only a weapon used to defend cities, so the output is small and the demand is not large. Now Chris is consuming a lot of oil and plans to reserve more.
If there are too many, this would be a bit overwhelming.
This bald-headed Mr. Strider bought almost all the kerosene in the Kingdom of Higgs, but he was not able to meet Chris's request, not even a small change.
Because the number of purchases and the number of products sold are too much, the current situation of Ireland Hill is that whatever it sells plummets, and whatever it buys rises sharply. In order to grab the speed of development, such annoying things, love
The Principality of Landseer could only recognize it by pinching its nose.
"The construction speed of the factory is very fast! After all, most of the expenses of Eiland Hill are piled on the industry I am responsible for." Smith, who is already the best engineer in Seris City, said.
He took a report on the industrial process and said to Chris: "We built ten blast furnaces and started using a new timer to smelt steel. The efficiency increased dozens of times. The pass rate of steel is already satisfactory.
There is no problem in producing a new 75mm caliber infantry gun."
"However, there are some unsatisfactory aspects." He pointed to a line in the document and complained to Chris: "The quantity of copper is seriously insufficient. We have smelted 1 million copper coins, but we still cannot keep up with the consumption of copper.
speed."
A sufficient amount of copper can be said to be the calcium flake of modern industry. A large number of problems that could not be solved in early industry were solved by using copper's good metallic properties. This metal also has incredible conductivity, which is the insufficiency of electric wires and telephone lines.
Two choices.
"The copper issue can only be solved by increasing purchases." Chris said somewhat depressedly: "In addition, find a way to use iron as an alternative."
During World War II, Germany was also a country with a serious shortage of copper. When they were in short supply, the Germans could only make bullet casings from iron. Although the bullet casings made of iron were not as good as copper bullets in terms of extraction performance, they still had bullets.
Better than no bullets, right?
Therefore, on the premise that he could not think of any good solution, Chris could only lower the usage requirements and let the factory start mass-producing iron-cased bullets. Anyway, front-line soldiers should understand the problem of occasional jamming.
As the saying goes, something is better than nothing, right?
Glancing at Wageron, Chris raised his hand to indicate that he did not need to introduce the military training situation. Because he had only visited it yesterday, and the situation in the military camp was not ideal: "I will talk to you about your problem alone later!
"
"Yes!" Wagron reluctantly gave up his plan to expose his family scandal. In fact, a lot of money has been invested in military training recently, but the talent in the army is too scarce. He has been running around and can only give in.
Training can barely keep up.
Because the recent focus of Eiland Hill's construction was not on the military, no one had any intention of asking Waggron to report. Soon they passed him, and Gullo continued to talk about the extremely important issue of education.
It is not an easy task to move a society towards industrialization, and the actual operation is much more complicated than Chris thought.
Even if he has countless books and knowledge to guide specific actions, the accumulation of a large amount of work is still a daunting and huge project.
Now, the original surrounding areas of Seris, including Arant in the south, the Citadel in the north, and the Kingdom of Higgs in the west, have all benefited from the crazy and unruly development of the Principality of Airanhill. They have benefited from the development of Airanthil.
Hill earned a large amount of gold coins and once made the border area extremely prosperous.
But who would have thought that Alan Hill, who has been burdened with too many unreasonable contradictions, has made up his mind from the beginning to use a war to transfer all the domestic contradictions, open up the market, and complete a
Gorgeous transformation!
As long as the defeated countries can be allowed to pay for their own development, this illogical leap of development can be established. Eilan Hill will be able to eliminate the trouble invisible and gain a short-term development opportunity.
Of course, if it continues to develop like this, Eiland Hill will still expand externally and attack the next neighboring country like a glutton. It will not stop until it has eaten all the neighboring countries.
"The next thing we have to do is to set up an arsenal as soon as possible! No matter what method we use! We have to prepare for a war!" Chris looked at his confidants and said.
He folded his hands in front of his chest and thought deeply about the decision at this moment: "If we continue to sit back and make nothing, we will only end up collapsing."
"Yes, I just made a statistic. If we can't get a huge sum of 300,000 gold coins within half a year, we will be insolvent... and we can declare bankruptcy." Des is relatively sensitive to this aspect.
, and it was he who reminded Chris to pay attention to the problem of insufficient funds before the meeting.
If the internal digestion is slow and other new industries are developed, it is not impossible for the Principality of Eilandhill to digest its own industrial achievements. But that will only slow down its own development speed and waste precious time.
Including Chris, Des, Deans and others all know that they seem to have a more irresponsible, or better, choice of war!
The truth is really simple: since war can be won, why not use war to solve problems? From the perspective of winning, war brings alluring benefits!
As long as the war can be won, Ireland can expand its territory, have more people, offset part of its debts, and reduce pressure on the border...
All these things are very tempting in front of him. For the first time, Chris experienced the mood of those war madmen: after careful calculation, this kind of gamble can roughly determine the winning or losing. It is really too tempting to want.
Placed a bet.
What is different from others is that Chris's bets are large and his chances of winning are huge. Neither Des nor Chris have even thought about losing the war. In fact, there is no need for them to think about it, because
People like them will definitely not live to see the outcome of losing the war.
