15 Bottlenecks of Development
"Uh... General Laurens." Chris looked at Berman's body, which was already lying on the ground, with some embarrassment, and said, "I think, your allegiance is not very valuable..."
Laurens laughed, his shoulders shrugged as if he had heard some particularly funny joke. When he stopped laughing, he said, "Everyone on the boat behind me can assure you that as long as you treat the people of Ferry City well, we will fight for you to the death!"
"Sounds good." Chris nodded. "I'll try my best."
"Then... I'm yours." Laurens seemed to be at ease.
He glanced at the dense cavalry behind Chris, walked carelessly to Chris' horse, looked up at Chris, and said with some words: "If you beat Mayne, it means you have to pay for that idiot Ensel. The tax tribute is 1,000 gold coins, so I think that if you can afford 2,000 gold coins, you can definitely pay 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 the three castles, so you have to take your responsibility - pay the tax for Ferry City." After saying that, Laurens turned to his side and shouted loudly in the direction of the sailboat: "Okay! Everyone, get off the boat! Ferry City is saved!"
"..." Chris didn't expect that the other party would be so bachelor.
"Actually, I'm very curious..." After turning back, Laurens did not continue the topic of tax tribute, but talked about the battle of the Eastern Forest: "How did you quickly defeat Ensel, and do to take Maine at almost the same time."
"Vagron and I are divided, it's not unreasonable." Chris replied with a smile.
"What I can't figure out is why, you can win both when you divide your troops in two ways..." Laurens shook his head and said, "You have a maximum of 600 people, and you are not heavy cavalry, how can you win 2,000 people in a quick battle? Woolen cloth?"
"Want to see my new weapon? I might have a way to make your navy look a bit more stylish." Chris tempted: "However, I'll take a closer look at your troops, and hope they're as reliable as you say. "
Laurens frowned and looked at Chris, but in the end he didn't reject Chris' solicitation: "Okay! Take me to see! As long as you can fulfill your promise to Ferry City, my life, Laurens, is yours!"
Chris didn't speak, pulled the reins, and walked out of the city. He didn't intend to hide 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 will spread all over the world, and his weapons will become known to the world.
His real trump card is not these cannons, or 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 doesn't mind letting Laurens go to see his artillery unit, completely tame this sea dragon, and let this admiral serve him with all his heart. And at this time, Laurens didn't know how powerful what he was about to see was!
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"Cangqi! Bangqi!" In a workshop built with wooden boards, a giant steel beast was lying in the center. At this moment, it is making a huge noise, driving a huge iron shaft to rotate.
"As long as coal is burned... This kind of equipment can keep turning like this! This is a machine that is even more magical than magic!" Seeing his masterpiece, the craftsman Smith burst into tears with excitement. A month ago, he was just a blacksmith, but now, he is a great craftsman who participated in the creation of miracles.
For mortals who can't practice magic, they can only survive in the land without magic, and can never see the glory of magic.
However, the great lord Alanhill Kris told them that even without magic, mortals could wield greater powers.
"Add coal! Add coal!" He stood beside the already very advanced steam engine and ordered loudly to his apprentices.
Following his orders, 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 in satisfaction. The internal pressure of the current machine is 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 work non-stop.
"The experiment begins!" Smith looked at the female workers standing beside him, and loudly gave the order for the test.
Dozens of female workers began following their previous training, turning on the equipment to connect the loom to the power of the steam engine.
"Wow!" The first loom began to operate frantically, and the finished cloth began to roll down 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, and there was no lag at all.
At this time, the pressure of the boiler is normal, the steam engine is still working stably, and the various pressure gauges are also fluctuating slightly within the normal value range.
As expected at the beginning, these female workers can complete the entire processing work by manually pulling some shuttles according to the operation procedure.
A well-trained female worker can manage three of these looms, and the production speed of these three looms is ten times that of the original looms.
Starting today, cheap cloth will be available to every household, and as long as the raw materials are plentiful, the textile mills in Ceris City can even supply the world with enough cloth!
This production speed is simply the rolling of the previous cloth production process. What is even more frightening is that with the increase in production speed, the production cost of cloth begins to drop wildly.
The cloth that used to be produced by 1,000 people can now be produced by only 20 people. The production cost saved is enough to destroy the original cloth production ecology.
Even more frightening is that with steam engines, such factories can continue to expand, 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. At that time, the fragile production mode of raw materials will disappear in an instant, like a snowflake evaporating in the sun, and nothing will be left...
"The second and third steam engines have already been put into use at the blacksmith's shop. There are ten more in the production process. I heard that three of them are specially used to make new weapons." Smith handed over the receipt report in his hand. To another engineer by my side.
The engineer in charge of supervision signed his name on it, nodded and said, "The production capacity of the Serris City Steel Plant is almost at its limit. We need new iron ore to support our production."
Today, the industrialization process of Serris City is restricted by the lack of qualified engineers and the insufficiency of the amount of steel raw materials for production. In order to increase the speed of production, Serris City has even begun to purchase steel from surrounding areas.
"The nearest iron ore 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 their ore a lot recently, but the price is really too high."
"There's no way." The other engineer, who is very knowledgeable about current affairs, shook his head and said unhappily: "Didn't the Lord City Lord go to Ferry City in person, and the Lord won't come back triumphantly, how can we have the energy to move any earthen fort... "
He paused and said, "With this in mind, the machinery factory should hurry up and pile up the number of machine tools to try to produce more cannons."
"I thought so too, but we have to have this time." Looking at the constantly rotating steam engine, Smith said helplessly: "The current production speed is already the fastest speed we can make."
Naturally, industrialization cannot be accomplished in a day. Although there are many skilled blacksmiths and foundry workers in the original Seris City, they can only complete the tasks in their hands little by little.
Automated machine tools cannot be produced yet, and the parts of steam engines are produced by pure manual processing. The failure rate is quite high, and the accuracy cannot be guaranteed. Therefore, the current steam engine is huge, but the power is not high.
The scrap rate of parts was high, and the machinery Chris designed could barely be produced at a snail's pace. Even if the standards are relaxed, some machines cannot run smoothly, and most machine tools can only be driven by manpower.
Because there are complete industrial technologies, detailed recipes, and completely accurate processing time data without experiments, Chris is not promoting the technological development of this world, he is pulling the technology of this world forward.
Because there is magic in this world and alchemy is very common, the world accepts Chris's bizarre new ideas very quickly. Almost no one questioned where Chris's technology came from, and everyone believed that this Lord Lord was inspired by God.
The reason is actually very simple. Since God has endowed mages with powerful magic, it is normal to leave some hope for mortals after thousands of years of suffering.
From a technical point of view, Chris is pulling rather than promoting the development of science and technology in this world. What restricts him is no longer the accumulation speed and development of technology, but the serious lack of production capacity and lack of talents. .