Chapter 506

In the days after the establishment of the "Cabinet", the Karen Kingdom's pattern has not changed on the surface. On the contrary, the news that the royal family hosted envoys and the shocking appearance of the floating battleship completely aroused people's emotions.

The eyes of the common people turned accordingly, and the topics of discussion in the streets and alleys were no longer inseparable from "Efta", as if the series of decrees were nothing more than formalism with much thunder and little rain. Farmers continue to do farm work, tailors continue to sew clothes, blacksmiths continue to forge iron, and the world has not changed much.

Even the people in Hollier City didn't feel any big changes in the past few days. Although they heard that the orcs were going to attack, there was no sign of busy training or gathering lords from top to bottom in the city. What I saw was the recent too frequent speeches and recruiting ceremonies of the "Rose Cross" sect.

[pig][pig][island] novel www.huhu.m; However, when the whole kingdom is gradually returning to its previous silence, Elson, located at the westernmost end of the country, can definitely be called "changing with each passing day".

Not to mention the inside of the city, just the large amount of farmland reclaimed in a short period of time outside the city is enough to be breathtaking. "Field" is the top priority for cities and even countries. Compared with the southeast, Efta's food production has always been low, and because of the lack of convenient transportation, the degree of affluence has always been lower. When the year is bad, there may even be famine.

This is naturally the most obvious shortcoming in the "bucket" of the territory.

And now Elson seems to be trying to make up for this shortcoming. He has changed the system of fixed tax payment for farmers, directly ordered the planning of the field area, and hired a large number of farmers to settle and cultivate outside the city in the form of "sharing"— —It sounds good, but in reality?

Thousands of farmers looked at the fields and couldn't help sighing: they were not worried that there were too few fields, but that the lord's decision-making was too childish!

Theoretically speaking, if all these freshly reclaimed farmlands are sown and harvested smoothly, it will be easy to "feed back" the entire Efta, let alone feed the city of Elson!

However, this is only a theoretical value, because there is no water conservancy for irrigation at all. From the perspective of the farmers, such development is a waste of land, and there is no solution at all...

But when the floating tower used arcane power to "artificially rain", all the pessimistic farmers were completely dumbfounded.

On April 13, the first "large-scale artificial rainfall irrigation operation" in the history of the Karen Kingdom was launched under the auspices of Luo Di. The rain lasted for an hour, and the precipitation area covered all the cultivated land after planting. From the floating tower relying on energy to draw river water to the end of spraying, all the processes have been recorded in the "Elson City Floating Tower Improvement Proposal", which has become valuable experimental data.

The farmers who witnessed the whole process looked at the floating tower in a daze,

I don't even feel it when I'm wet...

Because the rainfall range is very precisely controlled, and almost no water is wasted, the people in the city don't even know about "artificial rainfall"-compared with those irrelevant things, they are more concerned about "not keeping up with the times" "Witnessed the rapid growth of the city.

Under Roddy's order, the "rail transport ship" originally used by the High Elves to quickly transport city defense materials was launched, and the line from the "military factory" to the "outer city operation area" was fully opened. In Luo Di's eyes, this is actually the "intercity light rail" that looks like a ship. It relies on urban energy to travel, the whole journey is five kilometers, and the single-time carrying capacity exceeds 50 tons, which greatly reduces the need for a lot of manpower and material resources to complete. transportation tasks.

More importantly, it can transport some huge equipment that cannot be transported by ordinary carriages - such as the "exploration drill bit" more than ten meters high, or some newly released "magic crystal cannon".

In the eyes of ordinary people, this means of transportation is really out of tune with the times. There are even many people who wait for hours beside the stone track full of magic patterns every day, just to catch a glimpse of the huge transport ship roaring past...

"Goddess Siqi! I bet the most powerful mages in the kingdom can't do this!"

The reason why they are so amazed is that they found that similar tracks are almost all over the city, and even two or three of them extend all the way to the outside of the city gate. If this huge city can open all the "rail transport ships" in the future, its transportation capacity may be unimaginable.

In addition, some mages and apprentices who came here also signed a contract with Rody and entered the just-opened "Arcane Research Academy", and were not surprised by the "Arcane" system left by the high elves. Stupid.

When these pretentious mages came back to their senses, they found that they had been assigned to several R&D teams, dubbed "Magic Items R&D Department", "Building Defense R&D Department", "Biological Agents R&D Department" and so on. Different names, assigned tasks called "scientific research topics" by the city lord...

However, this behavior made Camilla complain unceasingly——

"The qualifications of these mages are mediocre. In my opinion... asking them to do research is probably a waste of time."

She flipped through the information of these mages and the investigation results for a period of time, her brows were slightly frowned, obviously not satisfied with these mages who came here especially.

In fact, the most famous mages in the kingdom are basically built by prominent nobles with their financial resources. It is difficult for this type of mages to leave their homes and join them because of the conditions thrown by Elson City. Therefore, among the dozen or so mages, the highest intermediate level is only "elementalist level 6", and the scene has a sense of "the strong ones are not enough, so the tall ones come together".

"If the background of magic is completely blank, then this research institute is of course meaningless, but now...how should I put it?" Rody lifted his eyes from the pile of letters and books in front of him, "...we are actually standing in front of giants. On your shoulders, you also know how many years the arcane civilization of the high elves is ahead of the current magicians, so even if they just sort out these things, it is enough for Elson to lead the entire continent."

"It costs so much money to find a mage for such a simple thing... Sigh!"

Despite this explanation, Camilla still muttered a little dissatisfied—because she shouldered the responsibility of managing the city, she was now in a state of "preoccupied" with any resources, wishing she could break a silver coin in half and spend it. Even though the "Cabinet" decree diverted a large amount of resources to Elson City, she still felt stretched to deal with the immediate crisis.

"If you don't spend money, you can't do anything. This is actually saving money. If you study from scratch, God knows when you can come up with these things."

Luo Di scanned the virtual column list of the "Academy of Arcane Studies" in front of him - because the opening standard of "three advanced mages and ten mage apprentices" has been met, there are already six or seven items in the "researchable" activation State, as long as these mages are exposed to arcane arts step by step and conduct research, these projects can be completed in three months at most, or two weeks at least, sooner or later.

Don't think that these "theoretical studies" are useless. In fact, the "Academy of Arcane Research" is extremely important to all of Roddy's next plans: from "spell unlocking" that affects personal combat effectiveness, "magic arrow manufacturing", "enchanting weapon formulas" ", to the "energy recovery circle" that affects the strength of the territory, etc., all rely on this "scientific research institution" to develop and upgrade.

Roddy never thought that simply farming, building ordnance, and developing military power could solve all problems. In fact, having experienced the "high-tech" era, he understands that the impact of "high-tech" technology on a country is far more important than raising ten powerful armies.

To give the simplest example: If there is a nuclear bomb in hand now, the threat of Augustine and the orcs is not a threat at all.

However, although the high elves are far superior to human mages in arcane arts, they are not yet powerful enough to make nuclear weapons. Rody also knew in his heart that although the civilization of this city can bring him a technological lead, if he keeps going, he will be crushed by the wheels of history sooner or later... So he also started to establish Elson's own mage training system, and strive to have sufficient talent reserves in the future.

"...Let me see, here, Baron Koska has signed two new ordnance orders, which can ease the financial problem, huh—"

As a staff member, Camilla has already handled most of the affairs of the territory with full authority, and what she does at this time is to report the results of the processing. And after Rody didn't have to worry about the minutiae, he focused most of his energy on the strategic level-of course, his "strategic level" Camilla still didn't understand, because she didn't understand that Rody was in a pile of high elf books. What can be found to guide the development route of the territory.

"There is also news that Charles II is receiving envoys from the Kingdom of Rahiman in the palace, and I don't know what these people want to do."

"People in the royal family have a lot of money, and mages are mostly money-lovers. They probably want to talk about business."

Roddy responded casually, but Camilla gave him a blank look and said angrily, "Why does it sound like you're mocking me?"

These words, coupled with her slightly akimbo posture, inexplicably reminded Rody of the hot female secretary who teased the boss—of course, the plot that popped up in the otaku's mind seemed a bit inappropriate, he coughed twice, Mian smiled and said: "No, no, don't forget that I am also a mage now."

Camilla also realized that she looked unladyish with her hips crossed, so she lowered her arms unobtrusively, trying to restore the serious and serious posture of the past.

However, she felt that her heartbeat was inexplicably faster. Obviously, what she did just now was the expression of some deep emotion in her heart—this kind of emotion cannot be expressed in words, but people always do many things that are difficult to control.

On the other hand, Rody lowered his head and smiled dryly, as if he didn't notice it, and continued: "Well... If you have time, please collect a detailed information about the Rahiman Kingdom for me. I'm curious about their political structure."

Roddy was actually a little puzzled. Because in my memory, I hardly had any impression of the "Rahiman Kingdom" during such a long period of time from 590 to 597. The only thing that has something to do with it is that someone posted an "uncle post" predicting that the new version of the expansion pack in 599 must be related to "Laximan", but what was said in it was almost forgotten by me, the only thing I remembered was That person clamored that "the Lord will rule the world".

"I'll sort out this kind of thing, but you'd better keep an eye on your eyes first... By the way, according to the news reported yesterday, the exploration team sent out before still didn't find a vein suitable for mining, but a team near the Gondola Mountains found it. I got some white 'moonstone', but it's not profitable to sell that stuff... I don't think it's necessary to mine it."

Camilla is a mage herself, so she knows that "Moonstone" is not a high-end product, because only some unpopular spells use it as a spell-casting material, so there is not much demand for it in the market.

But just as she was about to report the next piece of information, Rody suddenly reached out and interrupted: "Is there a river in the place where the Moonstone was discovered?"

"Huh? Let me see..." Camilla's memory is amazing, and she recalled the contents of the original letter without flipping through the letter: "It is said that it was found next to a stream in the mountains, and it was exposed by the river bed."

After her words fell, Rody waved his fist excitedly: "It's done! Let's do it now!"

Looking at Rody who looked like a child, Camilla couldn't help but rolled her eyes again—"Cut...most mages are money fans!"