Chapter 224 Chapter 707 The Head of the Family

Chapter 224 Chapter 7.07 The Master of the House

In the weapons test site, a 300-meter area was surrounded by gullies and barbed wire.

A wild bull was controlled by the mind and jumped out of the iron cage of the forklift, breathing hot white air from its nose, and its hooves rubbed anxiously on the ground.

This thick-skinned and thick-fleshed bull was wearing a layer of silver-white armor, and a layer of glass was covered on his eyes. A row of people stood on the other side of the area.

He began to charge towards the line infantry 50 meters away.

Good guy! So awesome!

Fifty meters away, the bullet hit this layer of silver armor and directly sparked. Kinetic energy release will be converted when it exceeds a certain intensity, and in this world, except for the energy of ordinary people's chopping level that conforms to the classic Newton's theorem, other things will have this phenomenon.

Of course, the armor on this wild bull is not thick, that is, a 3mm steel plate. If it were on Earth, it would have been penetrated by the bullet long ago.

But the skin of the barbarian bull seemed to release a force field. When the kinetic energy of the bullet hit the armor, the kinetic energy on the armor seemed to be spread out and transferred to the barbarian bull at the first time. The original puncture damage was just a heavy punch to the barbarian bull.

Bullets cannot penetrate armor first, then penetrate cowhide, and finally penetrate muscle like the physical common sense of the earth "needle penetrates paper", release kinetic energy, and create a cavity.

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On the observation platform nearby, Wei Keng saw through the identification technique that after the piercing firepower came into contact with the armor, like Newton's pendulum, most of the kinetic energy was directly absorbed by the barbarian bull's skeleton. This is equivalent to wrapping the bullet with cotton, like a small fist hitting the chest.

When the barbarian bull resisted the bullet and rushed forward, it released its talent "fear shock".

This group of militiamen with insufficient willpower obviously could not be exempted, and their hands holding the guns were unstable.

This was an exercise, and Wei Keng could not let his militiamen get hurt. When the barbarian bull rushed to the front of the line regiment ten meters away, the groundwater in the ground in front of it seeped upwards, and the mud magic immediately stopped the bull's charge. As the whistle blew, these musket troops hurriedly retreated.

Of course, Master Wei still underestimated the bottom line of the peasant soldiers.

In the panic of the line infantry retreat, some people didn't even have time to collect the bayonets on the card slots, and when they turned around, there was a terrible scene of scratching each other.

This made Wei Keng, the lord, slap his forehead and feel quite embarrassed.

Wei Keng muttered in his heart: "Giving them guns is equivalent to burning sticks. This won't work. I have to stack equipment and give them a morale badge."

Morale badge, a fixed version of the first ring magic of the protection system, can store your energetic state in the badge to enhance immunity.

Narrator: If you are too excited to sleep at night, you can store the state and replace it with the sluggish state when you get up early in the morning. It is a practical arcane equipment.

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The musketeers' drill ended here.

Although it was not satisfactory, Wei Keng still gave them a reward of extra meals, of course! In the next month, they have to practice more.

For example: It should be a habit to put away the bayonet before retreating, and it must not happen again to cut your own people.

Master Wei went down to curb the wild bull that was going crazy in the mud. The arcane light flashed in his hand, and a series of "charm" and "hypnosis" were issued, combined with the automatic syringe on the external armor to inject "anesthetic drugs" to form a combination punch.

The wild bull that forced its own peasant soldiers to be in a hurry fell asleep.

Then the weapons engineers in the test site came in and took screwdrivers and screwdrivers to remove the armor on the wild bull.

This set of diamond armor, which looks like a lobster shell, has no runes loaded, but relying on the wild bull's own "kinetic energy dispersion" (tough skin) talent, it has reached the point where the upper limit of individual firearms cannot penetrate it. This made it difficult for Master Wei to imagine how tough those high-level knights were.

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After Wei Keng and the engineers checked the effects of the first group of musketeers, they clapped their hands and signaled the second group to enter the field for testing.

The piercing damage of the musket was just like this, so what about the magic damage?

A whole team of young students appeared in blue and white school uniforms. They all wore a badge on their chests and energy emitters on their arms.

There were two energy-shaping spells in this energy emitter, one tremor shock and one frost ray. How powerful were they~

The former could electrocute a toad to death or make a person's heart stop for one or two seconds, while the latter was equivalent to a cup of dry ice directly sprinkled on you.

These were all zero-level arcane spells. In terms of real lethality, they were not even as good as the damage of a dagger stabbing. ——That is to say, the junior mage is not as good as the assassin.

However, in the process of spell stacking, quantitative changes can produce qualitative changes. One electric shock can make your heart stop for one or two seconds, which is not a big deal, but ten electric shocks can make people incontinent and lose their ability to fight. One frost ray can be tolerated by ordinary people, but ten will make people's body temperature drop and slow down their reaction.

Compared with the embarrassing situation that piercing attacks can be blocked by armor, magic energy will not dissipate quickly like kinetic energy, but because of the quantum phenomenon here, it will continue to reverberate in heavy armor and flesh and blood, constantly destroying the activity of cells and organ tissues, causing 100% damage.

Of course, if there is equipment such as rune wristbands to export spell damage, like a heat sink, then the magic damage can also be reduced.

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As the march plays

The apprentices of the wizards began to line up and raise their hands towards the target. Lightning and frost began to be released. These frost and lightning dissipated fifty meters away.

After Wei Keng finished recording all the way, he asked them to withdraw.

The energy beam equipment has been tested. These young students can barely operate the first-level magic equipment after a year of training.

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In the past few months, Carret has also popularized the elementary arcane magic in various factories. When providing meditation methods, it also provided a batch of standard measurement equipment.

These equipment provide scalar references for these students when they perceive energy gaps.

And in the natural science books, it is also recorded what kind of phenomenon will occur when the scalar is reached. And finally, the badge on each of their chests records the scales they marked for various physical quantities with their mental power in class.

In this way, they can operate the energy beam equipment on their arms.

This ray equipment, the internal energy storage battery and various wires, and the lens exciter are the simplest arcane equipment. Of course, the level is only magic level.

But even so, all energy-radiating equipment needs to be controlled by mental power, otherwise the path will be wrong and it will explode directly in the hand.

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And this kind of equipment cannot be exchanged by everyone like on Earth.

After giving it to an apprentice, it is a private item like a mask, toothbrush, and towel.

Masks and toothbrushes are because the skin saliva mucosa is in close contact, and it is easy to be unhygienic when exchanged. And the spirit is more private than the oral mucosa in this world.

Arcane items are items that control energy with the mind. After any arcane item is used, there will be a personal mental residue.

Of course, most people have no problem, just like a good brother who knows each other well and drinks a bottle of water. However, it is not ruled out that some people's mental residue has a negative effect, which happens to be harmful to others.

More importantly, each of these arcane apprentices has a different understanding of scalar. During the exchange process, arcane items will cause the energy circuit to form a large number of small bumps caused by conflicts, accumulating instability.

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In the process of popularizing arcane in the factory compound, the data obtained by Wei Keng showed

The resource consumption of making students grow one or two points in intelligence is similar to that of making some young men born in farming families grow one or two points in strength.

In other words, with the support of industrial productivity, an arcane army can also be cultivated.

However, Master Wei did some calculations! The arcane army, these knowledge seekers are definitely not pursuing a full meal every day or entertainment. They need a salary of at least fifteen silver coins per month, and the total cost of equipping them with equipment is more than three times that of musketeers!

Knowledge is expensive, and the magic army is naturally expensive.

No, the system has popularized science for Wei Keng again.

Qin Xiaohan: "There are many precedents in history of arcane mages establishing kingdoms. They have made many attempts to form a spellcaster army. Without exception, in order to save costs and increase training speed, they all adopted the method of 'implanting blood vessels'. As for the even more unrestrained one, 'human body modification'."

Interface 1: A large number of arcane equipment such as medical cabins appeared. The syringe was inserted into the patient's blood vessel.

Bloodline implantation is to purify the blood of some high-level magic beasts that can naturally cast spells, and implant them into the human body so that the human body can cast spells along the energy of the bloodline. In this way, the process of learning arcane magic can be omitted. Anyway, most of these implanters are to stabilize their social status and do not pursue higher paths.

Interface 2: Medical equipment is much simpler, with a large number of bloody human surgeries.

Human body transformation is cheaper than bloodline injection. There is no need for the blood of high-level magic beasts, or even purification, and the spellcasting organs of low-level magic beasts are directly implanted into the human body.

For example, in the interface, the spellcasting organs of the evil eye, a low-level creature, are linked to humans. Such troops are often positioned as slaves.

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Finally, Qin Xiaohan reminded Wei Keng not to have too high psychological expectations for the "arcane mage troops". You are the god of industry, not the god of magic.

All the concepts that can be thought of have been thought of by the arcane mages in this world, and for the ultimate combat efficiency, these extreme arcane mages are crazy. A person with a moral bottom line can't even think of competing with them in this respect.

So, Wei Keng paced.

All the visible roads have been walked by people in this world, and there are not many roads left for him.

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Young Carret is thinking about his goal.

In the north, in the main city of Reiter, the task of breaking evil is being carried out.

When the high-level team from the imperial capital visited the Duke, they were naturally not welcome. The black-armored knight who stood guard for the Duke ruthlessly blocked this high-level team.

This black-armored knight can't see any face, just like a constructed object, but the cold light flashing in his eyes can make people sure that he is a human.

So he could only show the emperor's order and force his way in.

However, after entering, although he could detect the obvious evil breath, he couldn't determine the source of the evil.

The Duke looked pale and looked like he was overindulging himself. He stood in his guard team and looked at this high-level team.

Facing the Knight Commander's righteous rebuke, the Duke's eyes flickered but he was determined not to let them control him: "This is persecution! It's the people in power in the imperial capital who are hunting down the defeated royal family!"

Faced with such accusations, the Knight Commander was obviously in a dilemma. Now that he had been chased to the territory of the losing party in the battle for the throne, it was indeed a little hard to convince.

In this stiff confrontation,

the accompanying arcane mage Rob broke the stalemate. No one knew what his familiar had done, but there was a magic riot in the Duke's backyard.

Black smoke seeped out of the building like water, accompanied by the banshee's screams.

Judging from the evil and chaotic breath, this was a visitor from the abyss.

Carret's father signed a contract with the succubus. As for the reason for signing the contract, it was not to become a powerful mystic, but purely for enjoyment. The succubus is the most depraved and dangerous creature.

As a sorcerer, the Duke obviously fell in love with this succubus, and faced with the disturbance of the uninvited guest, he showed great anger.

(The master-servant relationship between the sorcerer and the lord may be ambiguous, but most of it is just the wishful thinking of mortals. The lord just makes better use of the feelings of mortals to serve himself.)

After the face was torn off,

and after getting such clear evidence, the knight took a deep breath, righteously took back the title of duke on behalf of the royal family, and then began the crusade.

And Rob, the mage, listened to the roar of the demon language coming from the dark smoke, and a mysterious smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

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On the upstream river where Xiange Town is located.

On the endless farmland on both sides, Wei Keng watched three steam tractors plowing the farmland. ——This is the technology of the dwarves. The core components are three cylinders, and the magic runes on them can store high-pressure steam for a long time.

This is definitely black technology. High-pressure steam maintains a supercritical state in an insulated cylinder. This is much more powerful than the steam engine on Earth.

And this mechanical structure is also simpler than the internal combustion engine. The explosion reaction of the internal combustion engine is much more intense than steam, and the intensity of element penetration is even stronger. To make qualified cylinders and gas pipelines, the standards must be higher, and of course the price will be more expensive. Therefore, internal combustion technology is still in the cold palace of the dwarf technology system.

After the tin plow cut the land, the soil was like a surging spring, turning over from the plow.

The farmers on the side watched in awe as this steel behemoth plowed the land honestly under the control of the city pilot.

As for the tax officer on the side, he was busy flattering the young heir to the territory!

In this process of agricultural mechanization, Wei Keng was worried about the resistance to land acquisition at first, but later found that he thought too much!

There is no land trading in this world, only the nobles own the ownership of the land. And the biggest landlord in the entire Reit Territory is his own family.

Master Carret directly took all the taxes that his father wanted to collect this year, and then the best land in the two river areas was contracted by Master Carret.

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This farmland is not only mechanized, but also needs an irrigation system. After mapping the terrain of the area with the Magic Eye, Wei Keng plans to build three water diversion channels. This water diversion channel is like a concrete bridge, which is three meters high above the farmland, and pours water into the land farther away from the riverbed.

The water in the water diversion channel is pumped by a large water truck to a ten-meter-high water tower and then released.

To replicate such infrastructure in various places, it is necessary to mobilize enough social forces. The existing tax system will definitely not work for the rough collection mode of village farmers.

Wei Keng glanced at the seemingly honest tax officials and cursed in his heart: "Don't think I don't know that you can collect twice the amount of tax set here."

In the history of Chinese dynasties, tax collectors have a profound way of making money.

For example: when the price of grain is low, copper coins are collected directly, and when the price of grain is high, rations are collected directly. In this price difference change, you can enrich yourself.

Agricultural countries collect grain taxes or head taxes from farmers, which is the easiest place to get muddy. At the same time, they directly put pressure on the bottom, and the governance costs are extremely high.

However, these are all institutional problems.

Young Master Wei Keng began to think: How to reasonably arrange these "experienced tax teams" and make them formal.

Wei Keng naturally thought of: "I have to collect stamp duties."

Stamp duties are taxes that prove the legality of commodity flows and are proof of bulk commodities before entering the formal market. The ruling party can collect taxes as long as it controls the market warehousing, transportation, and sales.

For merchants, small commodities are difficult to supervise, and they may evade taxes, but bulk commodities need to be transported and stored, and they cannot escape. If they enter the market without paying taxes, the probability of being seized is almost 100%.

When Wei Keng was calculating the supply method of social public construction funds during industrial development, a sudden sense of weirdness lingered on him.

Wei Keng immediately stood up from his seat and opened the system's calculation system.