Chapter 211

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During the period when the Black Brown Marquis headed north to resist the enemy, Rand was working hard to advance the construction of the territory.

In short, it is paving brick and stone roads and then testing the performance of the carriage.

The world of bricks has existed for a long time, and the technical content of bricks is not high.

Many noble territories also have some brick buildings.

It seems ordinary.

But Rand still believes that bricks are an epoch-making invention.

Thatched huts and wooden houses cannot be built into cities because such a building cluster will be easily destroyed by a fire.

Therefore, most of the towns in this world are composed of stone houses and brick houses.

However, unless carefully selected stones such as high-quality marble, the building composed of stones is neither warm nor soundproof, and is very easy to damage.

Moreover, it is difficult to cut stones in this era, so it is actually very difficult to build a stone house.

However, bricks are different. The bricks are mainly made of clay. The appearance can be set before firing. After firing, there are many good architectural characteristics, such as red bricks have good thermal insulation and sound insulation effects.

Blue bricks are more wear-resistant and sturdy.

The cost of burning bricks in this world is not low. The main reason is the waste of heat. It takes more than 900 degrees to burn red bricks, and thousands of degrees to burn blue bricks.

The traditional brick-fired earth kiln is very efficient and consumes a lot of money.

The technological breakthrough made by the den power is to make some design changes to the traditional earth kiln.

If an earth kiln is one door, Rand's brick-burning kiln has a total of twenty doors.

In short, it is the "wheel kiln".

A wheel kiln is a brick kiln that produces continuously.

During the production process of the wheel kiln, the flue gas produced can preheat the brick embryo in front. When a 20-door wheel kiln is produced, about 4 doors are burning, 7 doors are preheating, 5 doors are cooling, and the remaining 4 doors are left. The door is out of bricks like this.

The flame will move between the kiln doors, thereby achieving continuous production and making full use of waste heat and waste heat.

This can greatly save energy consumption and greatly improve efficiency.

The cost will be reduced to a very low level.

Only at this level can masonry pavement be feasible. Otherwise, it would be ridiculous to want to build masonry pavement with the efficiency and cost of the earth kiln, but it can only be said that the cost is too high.

When Rand paves the roads in the territory with bricks, bricks can also be sold to the surrounding areas.

Even after the port is completed, Rand can make a lot of money by selling bricks.

This is low-priced dumping!

It would be funny if pirates plunder merchant ships in the future and plunder a ship of bricks.

"How do you feel?" Rand was sitting in the carriage and asked Grand Duke Thorn's aunt.

The other powerful kingdoms have returned. Among the strong kingdoms, there seems to be the pursuer of Aunt Thorns, but now they are married and have children.

Ellie smiled when she knew about this, which made the aunt of the single Grand Duke Thorn and the former suitor a little depressed.

The aunt of the Grand Duke of Thorns is still here, saying that he needs to take care of his niece and supervise the construction of the port.

After all, the Thorns family's investment in ports is second only to the royal family.

Grand Duke Thorn’s aunt himself also invested a lot with “private property”.

"Very stable." Grand Duke Thorn's aunt commented, "and it's very convenient to turn."

During this period, the aunt of Grand Duke Thorns repeatedly overturned the evaluation of the speed of port construction.

I originally thought that even if I was invested heavily, even if there was a sea giant construction for three days in the early stage, it would take five or eight years to build the port and shipyard to the point where it could be used.

She didn't believe that the "building in about two years" that Landra brags about when she invested. She felt that she would go right in about two years.

Until she saw Rand paving the way here, she experienced the stability and cargo load of the four-wheeled carriage.

Now she believed it a little.

Now she regrets that she still doesn't invest enough.

Chapter 303 Deterrence of Burning

As a general of the den power, Taner is still quite burdened now.

After all, the Count of Moon Phase is quite a big deal, and there are quite a lot of military affairs that Taner needs to handle.

In addition to maintaining the security issues of the entire Moon Phase Earl's Corps on a daily basis, Taner also needs to complete the tasks assigned by Rand.

For example, the countermeasures for the burning place.

Tal and Fenris, as well as Tata and Sere, the four main military figures of the den, appeared on the border of the Burning Land with their army.

Since I did not really enter the territory of the Burning Land, there was no feeling that there were too many changes nearby.

But if you look further, you can still clearly feel that the color of the land has changed.

However, it is still different from the one I imagined that the flames were burning.

I think so. If there were flames burning everywhere, then no one could survive here.

After arriving at the border, the army of the den forces did not advance anymore, but began to build camps and cut down trees to form the prototype of engineering equipment.

The ratio of veterans and new recruits brought this time is almost one to one.

In the camp, Taner looked through the documents, while Sele and Tata were both looking at the war-based learning practices.

Fenris was a little idle. It wasn't that he was really fine, but if he felt he was not in a hurry, he would pile up things and handle them uniformly with high efficiency.

Until Tata and Serei asked Fenris with the contents of the war-learning compulsory study.

Fenris showed a smile on his face. He was now familiar with these compulsory books on war studies, and he could even memorize them backwards.

Not only did he personally participate in the compilation, he also reviewed and thought about it day after day.

"What's the problem?" Fenris looked at Sele and Tata. These two juniors were very young, but Sele had too many scars on them, and they were also burly, making them look a little fierce.

"Why don't we attack now?" Sele and Tata asked, "Didn't the war-based learning practice also say that they are unprepared for attacking them? The burning place should not be much prepared now."

Fenris smiled with a handsome face and said, "Because of inconvenient transportation."

Selai and Tata were puzzled. There was a situation where there were roads everywhere in the war, so it was normal for inconvenient transportation.

Fenris also opened the compulsory course of war and began to explain: "Because the Burning Land has no allies, and if we do not move forward here, it will not consume much. Our goal is to conquer the Burning Land, but this Not in a hurry.”

Military is an extension of politics, and the consumption of war will directly affect a country's national strength. Naturally, the same is true for Lander, an Earl's leader.

Now they are garrisoning here. Since the road to the Full Moon Territory has been repaired, it is very convenient to transport grain and the consumption will not be very large.

They can also build school grounds here, train troops, and farm farms.

And these actions will put substantial pressure on the people in the Burning Land.

It is obvious that Rand is going to attack here, but the initiative to take action is entirely here with Rand.

On the contrary, if they attack directly, they have a chance of winning, but they are not familiar with the terrain of the burning land. They march through the mountains without roads, even if the food route is not cut off, the cost is still very large.

The burning place is not small. Even if they are not prepared to march in the burning place now, they will not have the effect of a surprise attack.

And if you really fight, you will die. If you win, Rand cannot immediately gain benefits from the Burning Land. It is better to give some pressure here.

You can also train troops and farm farms.

Then no matter what actions are in the burning place, it is enough for soldiers to block the water and soil to cover it. Anyway, there are no allies in the burning place.

Rand's judgment is that the Burning Land is likely to split and a group will turn to them.

Tan and Fenris felt that even if they couldn't fight, it didn't matter. It was difficult to cultivate food in the burning land. If this land could not be conquered at the minimum cost, then it might be a good choice not to conquer it.

Anyway, the bandits here can't make a difference, even if their combat effectiveness is OK.

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The bandits in the Burning Land soon learned the news.

After all, there is still a lot of noise in the overwhelming territories.

The bandits in the Burning Land have been worried since they helped the Anti-Travel Committee fail to deal with Rand.

And they were quite frightened. After all, there were very few people who escaped, and the news they passed were all inexplicable.

It was all Rand's army and the strong wind together, easily defeating their army.

That Rand wouldn't really have the outrageous ability to control the strong winds, wouldn't that mean that a new king has been born?

Originally, they expected Rand to look down on the barren land of Burning, so they would let them go.

But now it seems hope is shattered.

This Rand should be an earl now, and he didn't expect to hold such a grudge.

"What should we do?" asked the leaders of several major forces in the Burning Land together, and one of them was bald and strong.

The Burning Land has no owner, and the people here are divided into many forces to compete for each other for profit.

"I don't think we have no chance of winning." A leader of a force who was dressed in good clothes said with his hands crossed his chest, "The news about those who escaped must have been exaggerated. If Rand were really so powerful, he would have destroyed us long ago. Now."

Some of the leaders of the Burning Land nodded, while others felt that they could not underestimate Rand.

"What are you going to do?" asked the bald strong man.

The leader of the forces who were dressed in a pretty good manner said, "They must be unfamiliar with our land. When the army of Earl Rand enters this burning land, we can rely on the advantage of familiar geography to make them suffer."

It looks like a good strategy.

They had held this meeting to consider surrender, after all, his reputation has been spreading since they heard of Rand.

Even though the strategy of the leader of the well-dressed force was pretty good, they still didn't have much confidence.

After all, they themselves know that although their individual combat effectiveness is pretty good.

However, due to poverty, the land is not very suitable for farming food. They have a small population and cannot equip the soldiers with weapons and armor.

The group of people who went to help the Anti-Travel Committee were actually already in the Burning Land.

Now we can only take one step at a time.

It is unwilling to let them surrender directly, so now they can only try the strategy of ambushing and sneak attack.

It's ridiculous to say that it is precisely because they are poor and have no money to build roads, so it is very inconvenient for the outside army to invade them.

This advantage of inconvenience in transportation also reduces a lot of trouble for them.

Chapter 304 The Torch Church doesn't seem to be all good people

It was another morning, the sky was high and the clouds were light and the spring breeze was gentle.

Rand held the giant sword in his hand and waved it repeatedly. Now he felt that he was invincible in the world.

It can even be said that he is already looking forward to someone coming to provoke him and then show his skills.

After becoming the Earl of Moon Phase, Rand lived a very comfortable life.

Although the wedding is approaching, it is difficult for Rand to keep practicing his personal martial arts.

But overall, there was no pressure within his Count.

There are internal and external troubles, but the level is not good, so it cannot put any pressure on Rand.

The issue of the external burning land has now been dealt with by Tan Er. Some of the nobles who were unwilling to obey Rand's actions were basically discovered by Elsa's intelligence system.

Some were arrested on the spot.

Some were dispatched to solve some problems by Elsa himself.

So much so that Elsa's first thing she did after she came back during this period was to take a shower. If she killed too many people, she would always have a little bloody smell.

According to Elsa, he is a thief and must always be careful not to have any smell on his body, otherwise it will be easily discovered.

But Rand actually didn't care much about whether Elsa's smelled bloody.