Todd looked at Emerson in surprise, "How did you come up with the idea for marriage?!"

Emerson touched his beard and analyzed to himself: "Mary is now the queen of the Holy Acropolis, and the strategic position of the Holy Acropolis and the strength of the army will help you very well, Your Majesty should know very well. Once you marry Queen Mary, you will find an extremely strong ally for our country, and at the same time, you will make up for the shortcomings of Dusk West in terms of reserves and weaponry......"

"The only thing that worries me a little bit is Queen Mary's fertility. During her years as Queen of the Silver Ring, she had no children, and many people questioned her inability to have children. In fact, even if the rumors are true, the problem can be easily solved, as long as His Majesty finds a mistress in the future, gives birth to an heir, and then passes on to Queen Mary......"

Todd's face darkened as he listened, and he couldn't help but interrupt the other party's words, shook his head and said, "My Prime Minister, are you thinking too much? ”

Emerson was stunned: "Your Majesty, you intervened in the succession to the throne of the Holy Acropolis and put Mary on the throne of the queen, don't you worry about how to control this power next?"

Todd sighed: "I already have a rough plan in mind about how to integrate the power of the Holy Acropolis into the kingdom, but it is not yet ripe to implement it. ”

"Plans?" Emerson's eyes widened, "Can you tell me a thing or two first?"

"Now is not the time, I can only say that this plan has to do with the Reformation that we are doing. Todd looked at Emerson with an inquiring face, and said with a wry smile: "So, let's finish the matter at hand first, and as for the marriage, let it go for a while." ”

Emerson glanced at Todd suspiciously: "If Your Majesty insists, then I will put the marriage proposal on hold for the time being." With regard to the Reformation conference you are talking about, I will go and gather the participants now. ”

Watching Emerson walk out of the room in a hurry, hurrying to arrange a meeting, Todd stood up with a smile and casually rang the summons bell on the table.

Gesturing to Huggins, who pushed the door in, Todd motioned for him to follow.

"Your Majesty, where are we going?"

"Walk with me down the street. ”

Sitting in an inconspicuous carriage, Todd lifted the curtains of the car's windows, first glanced at the knights of the Guards on horseback on both sides of the carriage, and then looked at the endless bustling Twilight City.

Walking along the wide, paved avenue from the palace, Todd saw the crowded central square, the majestic cathedral, the bustling shopping street, and the orderly town hall.

As the carriage went farther and farther, Huggins drove his horse closer to the window and whispered, "Your Majesty, further on, you will be in the workshop area." ”

Todd nodded, and lowered the curtains: "Go to Aiden Combe's workshop." ”

When Todd walked into Aiden's workshop, the old craftsman was directing the apprentices to hammer together on a wrought iron pipe.

Finding out that the king was coming, old Aiden first rubbed his eyes in disbelief, and then shouted happily: "Your Majesty is here!"

Todd first smiled at the people in the room, but when he saw that the left eye of old Aiden had burn marks and had completely lost his vision, he frowned and asked, "Your eyes?"

Old Aiden touched his blind left eye, and said quite ashamedly: "When I was experimenting with a newly made musket, the barrel exploded due to the material of the gun body and the amount of gunpowder......

Looking at Todd's concerned expression, old Aiden laughed out loud without caring at all: "Your Majesty, what a big deal is being blind in one eye?! ”

From the wooden box in the back of the workshop, old Aiden pulled out a tinder pistol that had not yet had time to be polished and painted.

As soon as Todd took the musket, he suddenly felt the weight of the weapon in his hand, he looked at the musket in his hand repeatedly, and asked with interest, "How is the performance of this gun?"

Old Aiden had a tight smile on his face, and coughed twice: "The effective range is about twenty-five meters, and within this distance, it can penetrate most of the scale armor and chain mail." ”

Todd, who only stayed in books and chats, nodded and said, "Very good." ”

The expression on Old Aiden's face became even more ugly, and he whispered: "Your Majesty, the musket you sent can have an effective range of forty meters. ”

Todd was dumbfounded: "So much worse?!"

"And that's not the most troublesome problem, the musket you sent is better than the musket we made in terms of service life and parts. Aiden Sr. looked a little discouraged: "I have also asked the scholars of the University of Twilight to help, they said that it is a problem with the manufacturing process and the quality of materials, and now we are working together to improve the ...... of muskets"

Todd played with the musket in his hand, but his thoughts drifted away.

The captured musket had been acquired by Aisha from an Abbasid officer more than three years earlier. Since it is the standard weapon of the army, it should be a mature firearm model. Counting the period of experimentation, refinement and service, the history of this musket in the Abbasid Empire, from its prototype design to the present day, may have exceeded ten years.

A ten-year-old musket was far superior to the imitation weapons of Twilight, and from this, Todd had already seen the backwardness of Twilight in terms of gunpowder weapons, and the huge gap in the technological level between the northern diocese and the southern empire.

Todd scratched the back of his head with a headache and exclaimed, "This is not scientific."

According to the general plot development, the time-traveler should have a supreme technological advantage, and then with the leading cannons and muskets of the era, a wave of technology flow is pushed to complete the harvest of the natives...... When it's your turn, you always feel like there's a rhythm that you want to be compared.

Todd handed the musket back to old Aiden and asked, "In your opinion, how long will it take to realize the process of capturing the musket?"

The old craftsman hesitated for a moment, as if he was afraid of the king's blame, and gave an answer tremblingly: "If the research at the University of Twilight goes well, it will probably take another year." ”

Todd listened dizzy.

A year?!

If it takes another year to make this musket, the enemy may have hit the doorstep.

Todd now regrets what he studied, if he had studied materials, mechanics, or energy and power, he might have figured out a steam tank by now...... But biochemistry majors are really at a loss in terms of climbing the military technology tree.

"I'll give Terrence a warrant to prioritize the study of gunpowder weapons. ”

After saying this, Todd, who was worried about the future military power of Twilight City, called Huggins and set out on the way back to the palace.