Chapter 623: Fox Heart, Technological Breakthrough of the Divine Revelation Institute

The morning sun rose from the horizon, and a faint light floated in the fields. The crisp sound of wooden blades clashing rang out outside the king's tent, with clear order and each sound was clearly audible. This was the morning training, which lasted for a full three quarters of an hour until the sky was bright, and it was declared over.

The guard captain Eckart looked calm and slightly sweaty. Xiu Luote was bare-chested and sweating profusely. Under Nashu's service, he wiped his body with hot water happily and breathed a long sigh of comfort.

"Huh! Haha! Daily continuous training is the key to strong warriors and maintaining their will and physique!"

Xiu Luote patted his muscular chest and said with a smile. Then, he stretched out his big hand and pinched Nashu's cheek affectionately.

"Ah? Your Highness"

"Call me master! Nashu, my little fox, are you feeling better?"

"Ah! Your Highness. The master is feeling better."

Nashu's ears turned red, and she lowered her head and hesitated nervously for a few words. Such an awkward posture, appearing on her who is always generous, is very tempting with a contrast.

"Hmm? A little hot, is it a fever?"

Xuluot reached out and touched Naxiu's fair neck, and then touched the woman's red ears. Naxiu froze in place, like a puppet, letting the master manipulate her. The master thought about it, hugged the maid's head again, and pressed it against his forehead, and the heat became more obvious.

"Huh? It's so hot! Forget it, life in the military camp is always hard. Naxiu, you'd better not serve me. Go to the Tree Snake City and have a good rest for a few days."

"Ah! Master, I'm fine, I just..."

Nahsu opened her red lips slightly, nervously wanting to say something but stopping. In her heart, there was a warm flame, which was ignited by His Highness himself. She could feel His Highness's true feelings, which far exceeded the attitude of the great nobles towards slaves, and was completely different from the indifference of the priests and elders.

In the eyes of His Highness, she seemed not to be a shadow slave without self, not a plaything to please the master, but a truly complete woman. These wonderful feelings were the first time she had felt them since she was born. And all of this has brought her courage and her gradually budding self little by little in the past few years. She slowly struggled in the identity of a shadow slave, and had a desire, an instinctive desire as a woman.

However, these feelings and desires, like seeds, were firmly bound in the strict soil by the dogmas trained and instilled in the temple since childhood. However, when the high priest's divine body suddenly appeared in front of her last summer, in incredible shock and confusion, after being sad for His Highness's sadness, she finally broke free from the shackles in her heart, and her desire to sprout and grow like a seed could no longer be suppressed.

Because the high priest who was like a mountain and controlled the holy city had left. And her fate will no longer be determined by the ruthless mountains, but in the hands of His Highness, not the master, who is as deep and warm as the sea.

"Your Highness, I just..."

"You just have a small cold. You need to rest!"

Xuluot shook his head and gently stroked Nashu's smooth cheek. Looking at the little fox who opened his mouth stubbornly, he stretched out a finger and pressed the other's mouth. Then, his expression became serious and ordered.

"Nashu, I order you to go to the tree snake city and have a good rest. Remember, drink two cups of healing herbal tea every day and rest assured! As for the guards in the tent, they will be handed over to Eckart for the time being. When you are well, come back and take over."

Nashu opened her eyes wide and stared at Xuluot's serious face. For some reason, her eyes gradually became misty, and her legs became a little weak. After a while, she suddenly stretched out her tongue and held Xuluot's finger in her mouth, licking and biting it twice like a kitten.

"Hiss!"

Feeling the wetness and softness of his fingertips, Xuluot suddenly shuddered, and a fire rose in his heart. He immediately withdrew his finger and pretended to be angry.

"Nashu!"

"Master."

Nashu licked her lips and lowered her head. She showed her snow-white and red neck and responded obediently, like a silver fox in the hands of a hunter, letting him do whatever he wanted.

"I'll listen to you!"

After a gentle and brief interlude, Xiuluot sat in the big tent again, looking through the letters from the heads of various departments in the Divine Revelation Institute.

First, there was a report from Kushinki, the director of the military industry department. In the past two months, a batch of bows, crossbows, arrows, axes, spears, shields, and leather and bronze armor have been accumulated in the warehouse of the royal capital, which can equip two thousand-man camps.

"The battle with the Totonaks has broken out, and it's time to add another batch of equipment."

Xiuluot thought about it and ordered this batch of armaments to be transported to the front line of the Eastern Expedition as a reserve for the army. When the army goes out, the more intense the battle, the faster the equipment will be damaged and consumed. Although the craftsmen accompanying the army can repair some of them, the remaining gaps must be filled with new equipment, among which the replenishment of arrows and armor is the most urgent. Therefore, with the current military production capacity of the Mexica Alliance and the Kingdom of the Lake, there is only one Bronze Armored Corps that can be maintained.

Next, it was the document of the Director of the Crossbow Bureau, Kundiri, who was still talking about the new bamboo-wood composite bow. The bamboo-wood composite bow technology of the Crossbow Bureau has finally made a breakthrough. A new batch of thousands of composite bows are being manufactured, and it may take another year to complete.

The new bamboo-wood bow of the kingdom is different from the traditional Chinese bamboo-wood bow with upper and lower bow arms fitted together. It is based on a whole longbow as the bow frame, and bone glue is used on the back of the bow to carefully stick bamboo boards to further increase the shooting power and improve efficiency. Then, three layers of bamboo pieces are stacked at the tip of the bow to form a recurve and increase the initial velocity of the arrow.

The progress of crossbow technology cannot be achieved overnight. It takes years and months to make a composite bow, not to mention improving the technology. The improvement of this composite bow is the simplest, but it requires a high level of strength. It is difficult to use it on the battlefield if you are not a real warrior.

"Compared with the bow-making technology accumulated for thousands of years in Eurasia, it is still a new gunpowder weapon, which is more suitable for the American tribes to catch up!"

Xuluot gradually had some enlightenment in his heart. He lowered his head and quickly skipped the information of the other departments.

The Industry and Mining Department added thousands of miners, the scale was further expanded, and the production capacity was increasing. Some iron tools were also used in the mine. However, compared with bronze tools, the new iron tools have not yet shown their advantages.

The Industry and Construction Department produced better quality purple pottery and began to try to add bone powder to the firing according to the divine revelation. The Construction Department expanded its scale and tried the medium and large brick kilns of the divine revelation without stopping, and adopted simple brick-making tools.

The Printing Bureau used softer metals to try to make flexible printing movable type, and currently selected lead and tin. Of course, this exploration of movable type printing is just a reserve of technology under the advanced divine revelation. Now the main task of the printing bureau is to print the scriptures and pictures of the main god with woodblocks day and night, and transport them to the counties in the north and south, and even to the village sacrifice.

After many years of silence, the director of the Special Trade Goods Bureau, the stonemason leader Lozano, finally made new achievements. Unfortunately, even after nearly ten years of research, he could not make transparent glass. However, he ordered a high-temperature resistant iron pipe from the ironware produced by the Black Rock Mountain Iron Mine. Then, according to the instructions of His Highness many years ago, he put one end of the iron pipe into the molten glass liquid and played with glass blowing.

"Hmm?"

Xuluot raised his eyebrows and looked at the glass bottle brought with the letter, and he was silent. The firing cost of the glass bottle can be ignored, but the pattern of the sun hummingbird on it took a lot of carving. Compared with practical pottery, the biggest advantage of such gorgeous utensils is.

"Not bad, it can be sold at a high price! It's called. Lake Gemware!"

Xuluot nodded slightly, confirming another high-profit commodity monopolized by the kingdom. Then, he finally reached out and opened the letter from the director of the Bronze and Cannon Casting Bureau, the casting master Tilipi. However, after reading for a while, the king's expression suddenly changed, revealing unbelievable ecstasy!

"Your Majesty! According to the divine revelation you left behind, we spent more than a year to test-produce a bronze mortar specifically for siege. It has a very special shape, short and fat, with a wide caliber, and can fire heavy stone bullets weighing 30 kilograms!"

"This is an indestructible artifact given by the Lord God! We tested it more than a dozen times, and its power is so great that it can even break down stone walls! God bless your majesty! From now on, no castles or fortresses in the world can stop you!"

"It's just that in the last test, we replaced the new granular gunpowder, added a full 15 kilograms, and fired a dense 30-kilogram stone bullet. Then the cannon exploded!"