Chapter 234 Magic Crystal Charging
The manufacture of the microscope was not smooth, and it took several years to succeed.
Until Ruiz joined the project team. He has extraordinary visual talent and can observe the subtle differences in lenses. Although Ruiz was later transferred to the intelligence department and needed to participate in some special tasks, he has always worked part-time at the Institute of Optics. Last winter, under the guidance of Ruiz, the first microscope was successfully built in the Harland Territory.
Through this microscope with a magnification of 50 times, doctors in the Harland Territory saw cells and bacteria for the first time.
The discovery of bacteria will greatly promote the progress of medicine.
The discovery of cells also has a very big effect on magic research.
Because the microscope is so magical, magicians and doctors in the Harland Territory are all scrambling to use the microscope.
In order to plan the use time of the microscope, Richard also formulated strict regulations and formulated a machine time use system according to different levels and different contributions.
To get a longer machine time, you need to prove your ability first and make contributions to the research of medicine and magic.
For every successful research, Richard has formulated a contribution system. Only those with a high contribution system have priority in using advanced instruments.
There are only a dozen doctors and magicians in Harland Territory who can use microscopes for research.
Heath, Butler, Adrian and others have low contribution. In order to use the microscope, they even need to adjust their work and rest habits, sleeping during the day and studying at night.
From the time the territory made the microscope last winter to now, in less than half a year, many results have been achieved in both medicine and magic, and more than 20 papers have been published in journals within the territory.
Some of the papers are of very high quality, which makes Richard feel refreshed.
Now, more than 30 magicians, magic apprentices, more than 20 doctors, and six teachers in Harland Territory have published papers.
Although these papers are not published publicly, only a few dozen copies are printed each time. However, scientific research in Harland Territory has begun to take root and sprout. As long as this seedling is protected, it will grow into a towering tree one day.
After making the first microscope, Ruiz and two lens grinders continued to work hard and spent three months to make continuous adjustments to make the second microscope.
This microscope has a greater magnification of 120 times.
It is impossible to study the microscopic structure by relying on a 120x microscope.
However, there is magic in the Dawn Plane. Through visual magnification magic and superimposed with a microscope, the visual effect can be further magnified.
Visual magnification is only a second-ring magic. Standard magic can only magnify images ten times. But if you invest thirty points of mental power, the visual magnification effect will increase to one thousand times. With a 120x microscope, the magnification effect will be superimposed to 120,000 times, which is barely enough to observe the internal structure of the crystal.
While Richard asked the Optical Research Institute to continue to improve the microscope, he began to study the difference between the structure of magic crystal and abandoned magic crystal.
Gradually, Richard discovered the difference.
There is a special mechanical structure in the magic crystal atoms full of magic energy. This structure is a natural magic rune. Once the magic power in the magic crystal is exhausted, this special mechanical structure will lose balance and the rune will dissipate.
By studying this rune, Richard discovered the fundamental problem of magic energy storage.
He created the first artificial magic crystal through super magic metal. Even though this artificial magic crystal was large and weighed several hundred kilograms, the magic energy stored in it was not enough to release a zero-ring trick. This artificial magic crystal, which cost thousands of gold coins to create, was not practical at all.
But this was a breakthrough from zero to one. After completing this step, the magician's theory of magic energy storage has been completely opened up.
There is a dawn of magic charging, and Richard immediately mobilized all magicians to participate in this project.
There are many problems that need to be solved, such as magic energy conversion, magic output accuracy, magic energy interface, charging array efficiency, etc. Richard alone, I don't know how long it will take to succeed in research?
The first person to make a contribution was Butler. Because he switched to meditation, he had a special understanding of magic factors. A sudden inspiration allowed him to create a special rune to solve the problem of magic energy conversion.
Then, with the help of the Institute of Optics, the Territory Mage Association overcame the problem of magic output accuracy.
The problem of the magic interface did not last long. In May, Wendy led the research team to solve it.
The most difficult problem is the efficiency of the charging array.
This problem is particularly difficult to solve. The charging efficiency of the charging array is too low, only about 1% in 500, and it takes more than ten days to charge a magic crystal.
The magic well can provide energy continuously, and a large amount of magic energy is wasted every year. Even if the charging efficiency is too low, this technology still begins to bring profits to the Harland Territory.
With the continuous improvement of the charging array, the charging efficiency has gradually increased to about 1%.
The efficiency has increased five times, and a standard magic crystal can be charged in about three days.
If there are enough waste magic crystals, this technology can bring 100 gold coins to the Harland Territory every month.
As the charging efficiency continues to increase, the benefits will increase. If the charging efficiency can be increased to 30%, relying on this small magic well, the Harland Territory will earn 36,000 gold coins every year.
According to the monthly salary of eight silver coins for veterans in Harland Territory, four thousand soldiers can be supported.
In addition, the Lightning Tower also arranged a formation to gather magic power. The magic core of the legendary monster is equivalent to a magic battery that can be used an unlimited number of times, and can also charge abandoned magic crystals.
Because this technology is very promising and will even advance the level of magic civilization in the Dawn Plane. Therefore, Richard attaches great importance to this technology, and Wendy personally participates in the improvement of charging efficiency.
Although the benefits are not great now, Richard still ordered Hayden to mobilize the elite troops of the intelligence department to secretly monitor the personnel involved in the research to prevent them from contacting outsiders.
This research was also arranged by Richard in the Flame Tower.
Because of the fear that the Venus family left a secret door, Richard has not arranged anyone to the Flame Tower in recent months.
After entering June, the Lightning Tower has been completed, and the members of the Harland Mage Association have basically moved to the vicinity of the Lightning Tower.
The magic laboratory of the territory has also moved to the Lightning Tower.
In order to serve the magician community, Richard also arranged thousands of people near the Lightning Tower.
The Lightning Tower is located at the northern end of the Harland Territory, more than 100 kilometers away from the Malte Castle in the south. Because of the strict migration order of the territory, there are basically no outsiders in this area.
The Flame Tower is very close to the Lightning Tower. The magicians of the territory can do research in the Flame Tower during the day and return to the Lightning Tower at night.
Richard has arranged garrisons outside the two magic towers and prohibited strangers from approaching.
It was September, and the efficiency of the charging array was improved again, reaching about 3%. According to this efficiency, a piece of abandoned magic crystal can be charged in one day.
Because the charging efficiency has been improved, the abandoned magic crystals in the Harland Territory were soon consumed.
Richard began to purchase abandoned magic crystals at a premium of 10% through the commercial channels of the Harland Territory in June.
After years of development, the scale of the commercial channels of the Harland Territory has become quite large. Relying on a wide variety of goods, it has spread across the three provinces of the Northern Frontier and has also developed into the three dukedoms of Jonathan, Edward, and Fox.
The scale of the caravan is second only to the three dukedoms in the Northern Frontier.
Relying on the commercial tentacles of the Harland Territory, the caravan negotiated with hundreds of hereditary nobles and also found many professional families. In a few months, the caravan traveled all over the three provinces of the northern border and purchased more than 5,000 magic crystals that had exhausted their magic power.
Compared with the purchase price of the royal family, the Harland Territory gave a premium after all, and it could also exchange various commodities with discarded magic crystals.
The small nobles lived frugally. This time, the acquisition almost plundered all the discarded magic crystals accumulated by the small nobles of the northern border for several years.
After acquiring enough discarded magic crystals, Wendy continued to lead the research team to improve the efficiency of the charging magic circle.
Entering September, the autumn harvest has been completed.
This year's climate is a bit dry, and the grain output has decreased by 30%.
Fortunately, the Harland Territory has developed the paddy fields near Graveson on a large scale this year, extracting water from the Black River for irrigation, and is less affected by the drought. When the autumn grain is stored in the granary, the grain stored in the granary has reached 80,000 tons.
Food reserves are related to the survival of the territory.
In order to prevent the granary managers from embezzling and reselling grain, Richard formulated a strict system, asking Tang En, who was in charge of agriculture, to check and count the granaries once every two weeks, and Richard would also conduct random inspections from time to time.
Although the random inspection system could not fundamentally solve the problem and only treated the symptoms, it still played a role and caught some rats.
These people also set fire to the granary, leaving no evidence.
Richard had seen granaries all over the world in his previous life, and knew about the news of granary fires. He did not expect that the same thing would happen in his territory.
Unfortunately, the lords of the extraordinary world did not need to compromise with the bureaucrats under their rule. All the bureaucrats in the granary were executed by Richard, and their families were sent to the mines to accompany the orcs, and even the two-year-old children were not spared.
The soldiers guarding the granary were all executed because they did not fulfill their responsibilities, and the officers were all expelled from the army and would never be recruited within three generations.
There were professional officers who had been in the army for eight or nine years, and there were also veterans who had experienced hundreds of battles. The leading officer was even a distant relative of the Harland family, Gibson, the Harland family's chief steward.
Richard was merciless in dealing with these people.
Even though many people came to Richard to plead for mercy, he was severely reprimanded and pushed back.
Through harsh punishment, it can still play a deterrent role.
Especially when the territory is not too large and Richard can still supervise it, the bureaucrats dare not go too far in order to save their families' heads.
With 80,000 tons of grain, Richard has to feed 140,000 contract slaves, and he has to keep the grain for next year's planting and reserve grain. Only 20,000 tons can be sold.
This year, due to drought, the grain production in the western inland area has been severely reduced. The grain price in Black River Fort is higher than in previous years. 20,000 tons of grain can be sold for 46,000 gold coins.
After September, Richard continued to patrol the territory, dealt with a group of corrupt officials, dismissed a group of incompetent officials, and promoted a group of newcomers with better performance.
For two whole months, Richard visited every village, factory and mine in Harland.
The lord took the trouble to personally contact the grassroots, so that many filth could not escape.
In a village near Vickburg, Richard randomly walked into a freeman's family and asked, "How is the harvest this year? Did the officials in the city hall bully you?"
"This year's harvest is not very good. The village chief was very unfair when allocating the fields. Our family was not allocated paddy fields. After paying the tax, we didn't have enough to eat. We could only live on wild vegetables and grass roots. We didn't even have money to buy winter clothes. Our life was so difficult. It’s not as good as when we were indentured slaves, Master Richard, you must not leave us alone!”
The man of this free family was named Joseph. He was a slave purchased by Richard from the Grand Duchy of Stanik. He had been working diligently in the Harland territory for five years, although he had not made any achievements or made any mistakes.
This group of people was pardoned by Richard one month in advance and became free citizens in March this year.
Becoming a free citizen before March will not delay spring plowing. Generally speaking, indentured slaves who enter Harland's territory before July will become free men some time in advance before spring plowing.
Joseph was very frightened when faced with Richard's inquiry, but he probably had deep resentment towards the village chief and the bureaucrats in the agricultural department, so he was very angry when he complained.
Richard looked in the yard and found a large amount of firewood piled up in the yard. It seemed that the family was relatively poor and could not afford coal, so they could only collect shrubs and dead grass for the winter.
The clothes they wore were also very shabby. They should have been issued when they were indentured slaves. The clothes on the children were already worn to tatters and their skin was exposed. Now that the climate is relatively cold, they are already turning blue and red.
The situation of this family can be said to be that they have nothing but four walls.
After listening to Joseph's statement, Richard would not listen to one side of the story. He nodded and said to the soldiers beside him: "Gather the villagers of this village together, and then find the officials of the agricultural department who allocate the fields to this village. In addition, bring the village chief and we will hold a meeting on site to see if the problem in this village is serious?"
After a short time, the soldiers brought the village chief to the courtyard of Joseph's house. The village chief wanted to get angry at Joseph, but due to the presence of Richard, he did not dare to speak nonsense. However, after hearing all the rumors about Richard punishing bureaucrats, his face suddenly turned pale, his legs were shaking, and he looked trembling.
Soon the villagers also gathered together, and Richard saw numb expressions on some people's faces.
Generally speaking, because the free people of the territory have changed their destiny, their lives have greatly improved, and their mental state is often positive. Seeing the many submissive and indifferent freedmen, Richard immediately understood that the problem in this village must be serious.