Thirty-Eight Southbound

Things seem to be smoother than expected. When General Zorn got the information that Ailan Hill was going north to attack the earthen fort, his troops had already begun to move south on a large scale.

Although he did not take away a sufficient number of red-clothed cannons in one breath, because of the blueprints and smelting formulas provided by Chris, the Arante Empire still made 40 cannons and went south.

The Dothan Empire has been standing upright due to the dangerous terrain, and has become a serious problem for Arante. General Zorn has always wanted to take part of the Dothan Empire to prove his exploits.

The empire of mortals can only live in the shadow of the magic empire. This is an unchangeable thing - so the destruction of the Dothan Empire and the Arrant Empire does not dare to think about it. All they want is to take advantage, take enough advantage.

Conquests between mortal empires have been this pattern for many years. If one country is about to be destroyed by another, the magical empire will send troops to intervene to balance the power between these empires.

For a magical empire, a loose mortal empire that cannot be cohesive can guarantee their fundamental interests - so, once a mortal empire rises, those terrifying dragon knights will appear and destroy the mighty mortal empire. into the abyss.

"It can only be used once." Looking at the red-clothed cannons that were dragged forward by war horses, one next to the other, General Zorn sighed reluctantly: "It is estimated that the Dothan Empire only needs to be on the front. If you suffer on the battlefield, you will have to stab the matter to the Holy Devil Empire."

The soldiers of the Arlantean Empire took the reins of the war horses and walked step by step on the road that was no longer smooth. Behind the carriage, the ancient and heavy steel cannons glittered darkly in the sunlight.

Farther away, a group of soldiers carried three-meter-long spears and walked neatly across the entire hillside. An army of 100,000 is not a small number. There are not even 20,000 soldiers in front of them, and more soldiers are still behind, or walking ahead.

A war of unprecedented scale is about to kick off, and the grievances between the Dothan Empire and the Arrant Empire may be completely resolved in such a war. Of course, it could also get worse.

"It's Alan Hill..." Away his eyes from the red-clothed cannons, General Zon held the information in his hand, his tone was full of icy coldness, and he recited: "It's really not a peace of mind. Your Highness."

"Isn't it okay to wait for me to go back and kill you?...I'm going to make trouble." He squeezed the information in his hand into a ball, and threw it into the soil under his feet in disdain: "Wait until I beat too much. Sen, come and teach you how to be a human being!"

After he finished speaking, he pulled the reins of his war horse, and, surrounded by a group of guards, got on his horse, and gave an order: "Let the troops continue to advance! Just keep this speed!"

"Also!" Zon told one of his confidants on the horse's back while adjusting the posture of the war horse: "Send someone to Ailan Hill! Let them spit out the earth castle, North County and Vast Sea! If they If I don't agree, let them wash my neck and wait for me!"

When he said this, General Zorn had an air of heroism: when he returned to the capital of Arrant once again, he might have more than 200 cannons!

At that time, a small Alan Hill is not a threat at all. As long as there is a battle, the damn Archduke Alan Hill Kris will be captured without a hand, kneeling in front of Zorn, crying and begging for a fight. way to live.

Thinking of this, Zon snorted coldly and rode his horse forward. He wanted to bring his troops to the south before winter came - if he was lucky, he might win the crusade against the Dothan Empire before winter came.

When spring comes next year,

He could go north and attack Alan Hill. This is a good rhythm, allowing him to gain more military exploits and prove his ability to his brother-in-law, the emperor.

"Woo..." A melodious horn sounded from the distant ridge, which was the order for the troops to continue to move forward. All the soldiers continued to move forward, and they were connected to the end of the road.

...

"The production of the gun barrel has added iron, and the workers have experimented with the latest formula... It is stronger than the original." Smith began to talk about the recent good news at the work report meeting.

Because of the existence of a new metal of unknown origin, such as iron ferrite, the industrial development of Ailan Hill was countless times faster than expected. Many unsolvable problems can be solved with Ferrite, which saves a lot of time.

The only problem is that Ferrite is very rigid, but not tough enough, so there is no way to replace copper to solve the problem of bullet casings, otherwise, the production rate of bullets may be faster.

I saw Smith turned to the next page, with an even bigger smile on his face, and continued: "The transformation of the power plant is going well, the direct current has been fully transformed into alternating current, and the scale of our use of electricity is not large, so the improvement is very simple. ."

"There are some problems with the electric lights. We encountered some technical difficulties in our production, but because there are formulas and drawings, we can solve them in a short time." After he finished speaking, he looked at Chris, who was in the first place: "Our problem now is the lack of professionals in all areas."

Gurlo heard this and knew it was time for him to appear, so he coughed, cleared his throat and said, "This matter cannot be rushed. The first batch of graduates we trained urgently have long been divided up. Yes. We will have to wait until next month at the earliest before another batch of new people can graduate."

"These graduates are not really talented. They just know how to operate some machines and understand some principles. There is still a long way to go before they can develop or do some experiments on their own." Knowing him, he is very interested in these talents. Not optimistic either.

It's not just that he is not optimistic, in fact, Chris is not too optimistic. These people who have lowered their training standards and are barely allowed to graduate are actually similar to those migrant workers in the 21st century. They can go to factories to work, but there is little room for improvement.

Chris also knows that this problem cannot be rushed now. The earliest time is to wait until the real primary school graduates, and the group of children who have completed junior high school and high school grow up-the problem is, this will take seven or eight years, and the shortest time is Waiting for two or three years is very worrying.

Chris, who has mastered countless knowledge, knows that practice and knowledge are two different things. Having ready-made talents who can use it is always faster than when he searches for economic books to study thoroughly. He lacks everything now, and the most lack is talents in all aspects.

The current Ailan Hill is actually no different from a large training base: soldiers who have been on the battlefield and heard cannonballs are training with a group of newcomers; old workers who have fiddled with machinery and understand basic operations are bringing A group of novice training, even in the school, a group of teachers teach another group of teachers how to impart knowledge.

The downside of this is that Des has to keep some apprentices who can't work and can't immediately expand his profits. This money was spent completely in vain, and it was considered a losing business.

But there is also the benefit of attracting the unemployed on the one hand, and the immediate expansion of the future workforce on the other. At least Mr. Gourlow is very optimistic about this, he thinks that in a year's time, the labor force in Ireland Hill will expand ten times or even thirty times.

"The improvement of alternating current makes the power generation equipment simpler. The thermal power plant is already being done, and we are also considering a large-scale power grid..." Smith took the conversation and talked about the power grid.

This power grid is also something that Chris considers. With electricity, modern cities can truly modernize. With electric lights, people can work around the clock, and with electric lights, people can extend their work and rest time, and have more spare time to study and supplement.

But now, only the factory itself has electricity to use, and most of it is used in machinery, even the lighting is poor. Chris believes that making the arsenal available for night work is an effective way to immediately increase production capacity.

"Stay and have dinner before leaving! Don't be so out of place!" Chris left everyone after the meeting and said, "Let the chef prepare the sea fish, which was just delivered today, the delicious food recommended by Laurens. !"

The current construction of Ferry City is also very good. Laurens has built a huge salt field there. The salt provided has been exported to the Prairie Empire and the Higgs Kingdom, and can even radiate to the north of Arrant.

At the same time, two modern shipyards are still being built there, as well as a large number of processing plants. Including the glass factory and the ceramic factory, the daily necessities produced by these factories have also joined the best-selling products of Ailan Hill, and began to bring a large amount of gold coins to Ailan Hill.

"Okay! Let's eat together." Des really likes seafood, so he naturally didn't leave when he heard that there was something delicious. In fact, it's hard for him, the young master of the Long Tait family. Since he started with Chris, his living standard has been getting worse day by day.

Although he went to Chris with a huge amount of gold coins, the profits were all rolled back to the construction, so the one he lived recently was called a poor man, which was not in the same plane as his original life.

"Very good, there are fish to eat." Gullo and Deans also laughed, hugging the engineer Smith who was leaving, and the smile on their faces deepened: "The last time! It was the last time. How to do it! It's super delicious!"