Chapter 21 I Don’t Know

Zeren: "But I've heard you say before that corpses engulfed by the black smoke of necromancy, along with their equipment, will be refined into various undead soldiers. For example, after a warrior wearing heavy armor dies, his body will be refined into pure energy under the interference of the power of necromancy, and drive the skeleton warrior to stand up again with only a skeleton left."

Vivian: "That's right. I told you this in class back then, but you also know that our country's science and technology have made great strides, and I There are few shamans, so as early as your grandfather's time, our shamans did not develop much. Most of the time, they appeared in the army as medical soldiers. "

Zelen: "Hmm..."

Vivian: "However, your idea is good. Obtaining guns and ammunition by killing enemies is of great significance to the military logistics of our country. However, Zelen, do you still want to learn magic? Your mother thought you had no talent and didn't let you learn this. Do you want to change your mind now? "

Zelen: "Uh."

When it comes to this, Zelen himself is embarrassed.

He was tested once when he was born, and the shamans in charge of the test concluded without hesitation that he did not have the ability to learn and successfully use magic.

Until he was 10 years old, his mother still did not give up and took him for another test, but he still had no magic talent.

So Zelen shook his head. Even if he learned it now, he estimated that he would not be able to compare with Mu Jie, who had talent since childhood. After all, in the Krurod Empire, the people with magic qualifications accounted for one in ten thousand to one in fifty thousand of the people in the country. Moreover, compared with men, women are more likely to have individuals with magical qualifications, and if they get the opportunity, they will attend the shaman academy, which is basically only for girls.

Yes, you heard it right and you didn't see it wrong, if you get the opportunity.

As everyone guessed, the Krurod Empire has many historical remnants, and the problem of male superiority and female inferiority is more obvious than in other countries. Whether it is a rich family or a poor mass, if it were not for the thorough legal investigation of female dropouts during the Pao Republic, it is estimated that Zelen himself would not dare to imagine how many female people would lose the opportunity to receive education, and then wait until the right age to find a husband's family to marry directly.

There is no way.

Even Zelen's grandfather thought so, and he felt that the duty of women was to listen to their fathers, husbands, and even sons, live a stable life, and not do anything to waste time.

He even publicly said that the legal age of marriage for women should be lowered from 16 to 14.

However, now that the republican concept from the outside world has spread to the society of the Japanese people, Zelen has realized that his grandfather's concept cannot continue. Marrying at the age of 14...

Zelen himself does not have that feeling when looking at Paula and others of the same age.

So as His Majesty the Emperor, he should focus on how to combine magic with technology.

Vivian: "Actually, if you think about it this way... Well, if it is not a war period with foreign invasion, but a peaceful period like your grandfather's early ascension to the throne, I think it is worth studying. But compared to these, you should think more about how to complete my course here."

Zelen: "Yes."

Although Zelen heard Vivian's verbal refusal, Zelen still saw a smile of praise on Vivian's face.

There is a possibility here!

In short, following this idea, Zelen, under the intentional guidance of Vivian, used all kinds of unwanted garbage in the arsenal to assemble a wristband with a crystal slot, and then came to the institute to ask a group of researchers for help.

Researcher: "Your Majesty, what you are talking about... um... is a bit like a recycling station sorting out different raw materials for industrial production... But you want to turn the bodies left by the enemy and their equipment into guns and ammunition, is this possible? But I think your wristband can be equipped with a freely extendable sharp blade."

Zeren: "Ah?"

Researcher: "After all, this... Your Majesty, your question... maybe no one in the world will raise it."

Obviously, Zeren's wonderful ideas did not have an effective way to implement them.

Therefore, Zeren had to continue to find ways to improve his invention until April 25, 999 of the Bingyang calendar, when a group of strange caravans from the Krurod Empire visited Sugui City and sold their products in a square in Sugui City.

Mike: "Your Majesty, they are from another continent in the east, the southern country of Neoland, the caravan of the Negan Empire, they are selling us mortars and pistols, as well as some medicines and mechanical parts."

Zeren: "Negan Empire? These guys with pointed ears are the rumored Dark Elf tribe?"

Mike: "Yes. They are exactly the targets of those underground black market profiteers."

Zeren, who came to see the background of the foreign merchant group members, what they look like, and what products they sell, immediately understood how many problems there are here after hearing Mike's sudden low voice.

Zeren: "Are you inviting a wolf into the house?"

Mike: "They are facing the same attacks as us, including black-haired dog-headed people and some humans with white eyes. So, they hope to strengthen our cooperation with them through trade."

That being said, Zelen shook his head.

Although these guys with white and brown skin, all handsome men and beautiful women, look very serious and really set up stalls to sell their goods to the military and civilians in the city; but Zelen is always wary of them.

Even if the Congress agreed to this group of tall, pointy-eared humanoid intelligent race creatures to set up a foreign trade store in Sugui City out of the idea of ​​having one more friend and one less enemy.

Zelen: "But... Mr. Bai, let's not talk about anything else. Do you have the nerve to watch them sell mortars to our soldiers?"

Mike: "This is a big guy with a 120mm caliber. The power of a shot is very strong. Moreover, the number of our arsenals is limited, and the supply of raw materials is insufficient. We can't escape the fact that foreign trade weapons and equipment are given to soldiers."

Zelen: "The question is what can our country use to buy their products?"

Mike: "Spices."

Zelen: "Uh."

Mr. Bai is right. The most abundant resource in the Krurod Empire is a variety of spice crops, including pepper.

Moreover, compared with spices artificially synthesized by chemical methods, spices provided by natural spice crops are always more pure and high-quality. Therefore, after the Japanese people escaped from slavery and found a suitable island to settle down, spices became an important and profitable commodity in the Krurod Empire.

This is why the Japanese people have mastered the production of guns and weapons, and can still gain a foothold in the current island group, and have not been re-captured by the slave owners who are hunting them down.

Mike: "Actually, if possible, I also hope to trade with other things. However, our country still has almost two-thirds of its territory that has not been recovered, and even the original fleet has disappeared. There are only a lot of transport ships and a few warships that can be called small gunboats. Who will continue to look at us with the same eyes as before?"

For Mr. Bai's words, Zelen understood that as His Majesty the Emperor, he needed to make the country strong again. Therefore, he reconsidered the wristband on his left arm.

The Kruro Empire needs a recycling technology that can turn everything left by the enemy into resources that can be used by itself. So, can these Nigan Empire caravans from the other side of the ocean help themselves?

Or...are they also enemies who want the Kruro Empire to decline or even perish?

I don't know.

He can only take one step at a time now, especially when the former powerful naval fleet has long become scrap iron with a lining, and two-thirds of the territory and the people on it have fallen into the hands of the enemy.