Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Lelouch walked through the long aisle, and the ministers and nobles on both sides of the court had the highest standard of courtesy to Luluxiu.

The huge glazed mural reflected the bright light in the main hall, as if it was emitting its own light, and Lelouch walked to the end of the road, stood under the huge and gorgeous glazed curtain, and stretched out his right hand forward to make a gesture:

"Flat!"

The nobles who had been pardoned by Lelouch straightened up gracefully, but the crowd did not relax now, but looked at the gate, the men's eyes full of admiration, and the women with endless jealousy.

"Lilith-sama has arrived~"

At the gate, a woman who was also dressed in a white dress slowly walked in, her posture was graceful, and every step was exuding an irresistible temptation, but this temptation made people unable to give birth to any evil greed, only simple admiration, only since Lilith migrated to the White City when Kelgen first came to Middle-earth, and never left, coupled with the soaring overall strength of the human race, the elves have not asked Lilith to return to the elven imperial city for some reason.

Lilith's appearance has an aura that is not stingy with Lelouch, but after Lilith crossed countless crowds and came to Lelouch's side to sit down, she didn't make any moves like Lelouch, just stood here quietly, and then the crowd relaxed, and the meal began to be slowly delivered at this time. The high-level banquet had no goodwill at all, and in Lelouch's opinion, the food cooked would be useless if it was not for the sake of deliciousness.

Therefore, although the food served is also very exquisite, it has not reached the level of modern art like a work of art, but in terms of deliciousness, the current food has to get rid of the modern I don't know how many streets:

Delicate cold noodles, meat floss cake, braised lion's head, sauce elbow, tender grilled fish... Wait, wait, these foods exude an attractive fragrance all the time, after Lu Lu Xiu sat at the top and took a symbolic bite, the ministers began to eat, and for a while, the hall was lively again, and the warm noise sounded again, Lu Lu Xiu waited for a while, got up and walked down, Qin Chuan followed behind him.

"My Lord~"

"Your Majesty~"

"Great Son of God!"

Lelouch was shuttled through the crowd while he held it, he kept raising his glass and smiling, Lelouch used this to encourage everyone's anger and achievements this year, Lelouxiu would take a sip of wine from time to time, and Qin Chuan would ensure that there was always wine in the glass.

The palace of Augulis was so large that it would take a long time for Lelouch to go through the whole banquet, and Qin Chuan changed at least three pots of wine in the process, but fortunately, Lelouch and Kelgen's dragon body were combined, so he didn't have to worry about getting drunk.

Lelouch returned to the top of the palace after walking around, and the crowd mingled so merrily that they did not notice that the emperor sitting on the throne had departed, and there were two fewer men and women in the towering palace of Augulis, but in the lively lower city of the city, there were two more men and women who followed the crowd to play.

The steam revolution has been going on for two years, and the power of the human race has made a qualitative leap compared to two years ago, the dwarves are preparing for a large-scale decisive battle after a two-year siege of the Supreme City, and the development of the elves in the inland sea is like a bamboo, although the forces of the inland sea are united in an emergency, but in front of the powerful elves, they have lost almost half of the inland sea in two years.

The two major groups of Mordor have broken out no less than five large-scale decisive battles in the Black Land, each time the scale of the battle is more than one million, the strength of Mordor is declining rapidly, and in the past two years, the Terrans are at ease to carry out the steam revolution and the construction of the Central Province, with the continuous improvement of the life of the Terrans, a large number of people are constantly moving back, and the Central Province has increased by nearly 500,000 people in the past two years.

In just two years, the Beastman clans in the Grey Swamp have grown in power, and even occupy almost one-third of the Grey Swamp, and the various races that were originally hiding in the Grey Swamp have fled in all directions in this chaos, and the only Terran territory in the entire Middle-earth that seems to be peaceful has become an ideal refuge for these migrating races.

Lelouch did not directly stop these immigrants, but there was no support, and for their arrangement, there was no guarantee at all, Lelouch's attitude towards them was to allow them to come to the Central Province, but there would be no benefits for them, after all, the land of the Central Province still has a large area, and it has to be said that many immigrants who escaped from the Ash Swamp are still close relatives of humans, such as a kind of elf between humans and dwarves, their size is similar to that of a goblin, but they look more like humans, but their eyes are larger。

For these close relatives, Lelouch is still relatively tolerant, after all, if you want to grow the population rapidly in a short period of time, you can't do without these immigrants, and the new life born after the combination of human beings and these close relatives is also occupied by human genes, how to say, Lelouch has seen the first generation of new humans born in the past two years, and they seem to be closer to the human beings on the earth.

More delicate and delicate, higher IQ, but slightly weaker, the growth cycle is also slightly shortened, to sum up, this is just as Lelouch said, the new human race seems to be more like the earth humans, so for many species that escaped from the gray swamp, most of Lelouch took toleration, and then secretly helped the humanoid race.

However, this kind of immigration is currently small-scale, 99% of the population of the entire central province and the God-given land is still pure human beings, and the land where human beings live is very different from the original human territory of the outside world, the mode of life has been very different from that of other races, how to say, human beings are constantly mastering the power of science and technology, on the main road connecting Baicheng in the central province, there is a steam train roaring by almost every hour, around the rich mineral fields of the sheltered mountains, every moment there are constantly emerging industrial cities are growing, and every small village has almost completed steamingA large number of small steam engines brought power to the village that was previously unimaginable.

Steam wheels, steam mills, and even steam dwellings, the land is full of traces of the steam age, and the second central province to the sacred mountain range is also under construction, for this new type of machinery, the dwarves have shown unprecedented enthusiasm, they have a natural love for this kind of mechanical products, but this technology Lelouch still takes secret measures, after all, Lelouch does not dare to try whether the dwarves will lose the existence of the steam engine to study the internal combustion engine.

Although the Terrans are now a lot stronger, they are far from being able to achieve the level of Mordor when the Lord of Mordor was alive that was comprehensively ahead of the entire Middle Earth, and even if the Mordor of the civil war suddenly united and expanded again, Lelouch still needs to deal with it carefully, now for Leluxiu, time is money, time is power, and now the Terran is using the east wind of the steam revolution to continuously explode The Terran has almost doubled the power of the empire two years ago after only two years of development, and the output of grain has reached its peak, and no matter how much food production is no longer beneficial to the empire。

Even if most of these rich foods are used to raise pigs and cattle and other large domestic animals, it is far from one-tenth, and then remove one-tenth and one-tenth of the normal consumption of foreign trade, the remaining seven-tenths of the food materials can be used for all kinds at most, and the remaining five-tenths have been stored for several years, there is no place to store them, and the price of grain has fallen to a record low, and even the cost of buying food from the human race with the dwarves has been declining.

Well, at least before the dwarves retake the Supreme King's City than the penguins push the black hand back to the King's Pit, Lelouch doesn't plan to restrict them too much, and I have to say that the dwarves' attitude is already very good, after all, the Terran protector beast is the culprit who destroyed the Dwarven Supreme King's City, and the dwarves can still maintain a relatively good relationship with the Terrans, which is already very good for the dwarves' tempers, even if there is a forced helpless dependence factor in it.

A half-strong dwarf is what Lelouch needs, not a dwarf who is getting weaker and weaker.

Lelouch is bent on building his empire into a steampunk empire, because after ten years of development, Lelouch found that the talent of the Middle-earth people for machinery is not bad, but it is not good for information technology, in other words, the Middle-earth people are more suitable for mechanical technology, and different from the comprehensive and balanced development of the earth people, so Lelouch feels that steampunk may be more suitable for his empire.

In fact, the world of steampunk has many necessary characteristics, most of which Lelouch has not realized, but there are also many small points that have been realized, and what has not been realized also has the basis for realization, this foundation is the magic of Middle-earth, a general direction technology system that has never appeared on Earth.

The characteristics of steampunk can be concluded in the following ways:

Magic and science coexist. There are people who are driving robots to fight, and there are people who are using magic.

There is always a perfect settlement or city like a utopia. Or the characters struggle for moral and spiritual utopia.

A modern metropolis has emerged, typified by London, with wooden spire houses and pebbled roads.

Imaginative means of transportation, including airplanes, airships, cars, trains, ships, submarines, among which airships are the representative.

With the coexistence of multiple energy sources, including coal, oil, and wind power, electricity has become another new source of energy, but there are also overhead energy sources.

Propellers, gears, pistons, and bearings began to be used in machinery in large quantities, and they all tended to become huge.

A large robot that can ride appears. Just as airplanes are to fighter jets, robots have been used in the military.

The steampunk vibe is positive and completely incompatible with the decadence and ****** that punk represents.

The people wore the four major pieces that favored the English gentleman, tuxedos, top hats, crutches and pocket watches, and they were often seen in steampunk.

In fact, the influence of steampunk culture in China is gradually increasing, and as China becomes more and more open, steampunk culture is being recognized by people in China as part of the diverse culture of the West. The "retro" trend known to the Chinese people through the earlier LOFT (industrial style) is an opportunity for the steampunk culture to be recognized by the Chinese people. Nowadays, more and more Chinese steampunk researchers are beginning to produce steampunk works with sole design rights.

Unlike foreign ideologies such as "rock", which once caused a frenzy in domestic culture, steampunk culture pays more attention to effective dissemination through mutual communication between producers and collectors, which greatly limits the growth of the domestic steampunk community. Indirectly, the increase in the number of steampunk makers and the progress of the concept of design works are important keys to the development of steampunk culture in China.

Technology has become magic in steampunk;On the other hand, it seems that magic has become a kind of high-tech,And this,After the establishment of the Academy of Magic, it has become one of the two legs of the development of the human race,Now the thigh of industry has taken a big step forward,The next step should be the thigh of magic,I still remember that when the Academy of Magic was first established, Lelouch gave his first order to Esther,That is, to study a new energy that can be driven by magic,Even if this energy is weak,It must be studied,As a result, two years have passed in a flash,The Academy of Magic Sciences has spent countless manpower and material resources,But no results have been taken outWhenever the minister questioned the effect of the Magic Academy, Lelouch would eventually persevere to the end, and Huang Tian lived up to his wishes, that is, on the first day of the Chinese New Year, Esther walked into Lelouch's palace with a fist-sized delicate equilateral blue crystal stone.

The crystal stone that Esther brought to Lelouch was accompanied by a huge chest that was much taller than the Nevsky barbarian, a weapon that Lelouch loved very much, and this was an indispensable part of the characteristics of steampunk civilization.

Steam exoskeleton robot !!

It was a robot far taller than the strongest barbarian, his size was slender, although it was the same height as the trolls of Mordor, but it was much more slender, but the miniature steam engine behind him was powered by the power of the magic crystal, he was strong enough to lift the boulder, and when the robot lifted the boulder and roared forward with a constant spurt of steam, Esther said almost with a cry:

"Emperor, I'm proving that I'm not stupid!!"

Lalala, I have collected more than 10,000~~~

(End of chapter)