Chapter 259 Phases and Production
Back in his office, Ji Lin sat on a chair and stretched his body. Everything went even better than he planned.
He thought it would take several months for the new artillery to come out, but this came much sooner than he expected.
A product is developed, experimented, and tested countless times, and finally the required mass production template is obtained for mass production.
They can develop and produce similar super-era military equipment on a small scale.
But it lacks the ability to produce on a large scale.
A territory of only 10,000 people was completely unable to support a relatively complete industrial system.
Even if he only supplies the most basic guns and artillery, he still needs rune craftsman apprentices provided by the Engineering College to complete the manufacturing. Runes are already an extremely critical part of the territory's production.
The number of rune craftsman apprentices is too small. There are only one hundred and thirty people in the entire territory.
One hundred and thirty newly minted rune craftsman apprentices and a college dean with strong business ability as the production supervisor have squeezed productivity to the limit.
Steam Spiders, Aerial Ships, Rune Engraved Gun Barrels and Cannon Barrels.
This is the price of wanting to forcibly leapfrog to the steam age technology since the colonial era. They lack the entire steam age production system to ensure that they can complete production, and can only use another special technology to make up for the missing parts.
Maintaining a mixed rapid reaction force of 600 people is the limit of the territory's current industrial capabilities. Judging from the current deployment of firepower, 500 people are enough to maintain their garrison defense and area control on large air islands.
Only aerial ships with 75mm ship-borne front-loading guns can truly possess air combat capital, and they can set up a dedicated airspace patrol team.
More people out of work will hinder the development of the territory.
Ji Lin passed the tip of his pen, thinking, and decided on the 5% conscription system. Young adults in the territory account for 90% of the total population. Of the remaining 10%, 7% are children under the age of sixteen, and 3% are older adults.
The proportion of real elderly people is very small, and the territory does not need to consider too much aging issues for the time being.
The fourth level of blood purification can directly increase the life span of the entire population. If he is selected in the next era, he will not need to worry about the aging of his subjects for a long time.
Compared with the 10% starting conscription ratio of other lords at the same time, he would rather release these 5% of the population to work in the territory... There is never a shortage of jobs in the territory.
However, due to the excessive working population in agricultural areas, part of the population was transferred to fishing areas to work in fisheries. These newly arrived refugees/immigrants were still responsible for taking care of the seaweed farms offshore because they were not familiar with navigation.
The slave fishermen in the original fishing area drove their boats to distant waters to fish.
Dried kelp is also a very delicious food. In addition, they also found that seaweed floated to the seaweed farm and took root in it. Maybe the territory will be able to drink delicious seaweed soup soon.
Looking at the newly delivered report from the territory, Ji Lin smiled.
Thanks to the population boom, the territory's food processing industry has also begun to gradually develop. Calculating the time, it should be the time of summer harvest and planting now, and another batch of grain will enter the territory's food reserves.
The price of alcohol, a strategic material, is now quite high on the market. Along with it, the price of purified sugar, which can be used both for daily use and as war supplies, is rising all the way.
Reminds me of Lord Market...
I don’t know if the two lords who have cooperated with me have successfully promoted to the fourth era.
Before the two lords attacked the fourth era, he provided Li Yan with various seeds of magic plants collected from the empty island. He had too many seeds, but he just couldn't grow them.
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Looking at the dark clouds and the tide of enemies fading in the distance, Li Yan breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the boss of March Wood reminded him that the tree people also needed to cultivate this technology tree, as well as the seeds provided by the other party.
Use offensive plants to build a line of defense, which greatly alleviates the casualties suffered by tree people.
The most fortunate thing was that the seeds provided to him by the other party contained a very special combat plant. It was a vine-like plant that would spread out its inflorescences and shoot deadly spikes at nearby enemies after it had grown. This spike-shooting vine will even form a symbiosis with the tree men, enhancing their combat capabilities.
This kind of plant almost constitutes the main part of his defense line... but they only recognize tree people. If Li Yan doesn't wear tree armor, he will be attacked by this deadly plant.
He breathed a sigh of relief, finally getting over it... He was very lucky to meet a noble person who was willing to help him.
Li Yan didn't know that the boss of Sanyue Mu was able to obtain such a dangerous plant, and the various magical plants that came with it. The other party was not a tree lord like himself.
Instead, he walks in front of everyone as an ordinary human lord... very powerful.
His initial sentence of "big boss" was not bad at all.
The other party is also willing to let him go through the difficulties and give these special plant seeds to him, which is enough to show the other party's trust in him.
"Is the wood ready to be collected? I want to collect some."
Li Yan looked at the ancient tree hero next to him who was still taking root and had a few wounds on his body. The other party slightly turned the broad crown of the tree and responded to him.
“The trees in Linyuan Nursery are mature and ready for harvest.”
He thought and asked the ancient tree of wisdom to notify the tree people guarding the nursery and botanical garden to start work.
"Collect some, I'll use it."
Then he turned around and opened the communication channel, and found the communication named March Wood.
Muzi Shanshi: 'Thank you for your help, I have successfully advanced to the fourth era. '
After speaking, he sent a batch of high-quality wood that had been collected directly to Ji Lin through the contract. Although this batch of wood has no special abilities, its toughness and hardness are excellent among ordinary woods, and it is a good material for making wooden trucks and wooden boats.
This is the output of Li Yan's territory, high-quality wood.
Muzi Shanshi: 'If you still need it, I still have a lot of wood that can be sold at 80% of the market price, and can be directly exchanged with materials. '
No matter whether the other party needs it or not, he must show this attitude.
He will never suffer any loss by cooperating with the other party.
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As for Fang Ai, Ji Lin threw all the equipment he had taken from other elf lords to her, and supported her to buy on credit first and pay later. Ji Lin believed in his own vision. They were all people who had fought side by side with him in the exercise battlefield. There would be no problem with Li Yan and Fang Ai in terms of character.
If you don't move forward fast enough, Ji Lin can reach a mutually beneficial agreement to develop together.
If you have bad character, you will be doomed... He will not cooperate with people he has not met and confirmed.
Fang Ai is still carefully taking care of the dragons and elves in the territory, so that they can live in harmony.
This batch of equipment can at least help the other party get through a more difficult stage. In the future, the magic and runes of his territory will still need the help of elves and dragons.
Ji Lin thought of asking Fang Ai to help him carve runes on mechanical devices. The number of rune craftsmen in the territory is limited in the foreseeable future. The dean can only teach about 250 people at a time. It is already painstaking to provide 130 rune craftsman apprentices for the territory every year.
If part of the rune drawing work can be handed over to Fang Ai, and he uses the people in the territory to complete the remaining work that does not require rune learning, it can save a considerable amount of engineering.
Such division of labor and cooperation...
Perfect!
Even if Fang Ai progresses slowly, he is slowly entering the track of development under Ji Lin's investment.
Or maybe he is really moving too fast.
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