North: Smoky City!

It has become a huge construction site, countless workers push wheelbarrows to transport all kinds of materials, and huge houses made of steel and brick are densely packed on this vast construction site.

For the Smoky City, Lelouch has paid infinite attention, there are not only countless workers here, but also a large number of low-level officials, these officials may only know about a hundred words, but as Lelouch's diehards, they have their own enthusiasm and loyalty, and they ensure the affirmation of every construction period.

Lelouch will leave the north in a few days and return to the White City, before leaving he decided to take a final field trip to the construction of the Smoky City, at this time, in the most central residential area, hundreds of residential communities have been built here, Lelouch stands in the highest building in the core, where he can overlook the entire urban area under construction.

In the middle is the production area, so the factories here are the tallest and widest, and from a distance they look like huge palaces.

Workers put bricks and stones together on the scaffolding like building blocks, eventually forming huge walls, except for a few vents flowing out, the whole factory is quite in the style of the monopoly factory in the later period of the industrial revolution.

"In the first phase, we plan to put into operation five large factories: including an armor factory, an armament factory, a research factory, a machine tool factory, and a gunpowder factory!

An official in charge of construction while advancing, while explaining the actual situation to Lelouch, he is extremely proud to explain the construction situation, and constantly explaining the situation of the workers, the construction of the entire work area is still very satisfactory to Lelouch, and the quality is not to say, the characteristics of the theocracy system give the Lelouch system super bottom execution, the current buildings, it is not an exaggeration to say that they are a century-old project.

Just the walls of the factory, there are no less than two meters thick, this thickness of the plant can even resist the attack of a trebuchet for a period of time, of course, Lelouch really cares about not these, the quality of these projects Lelouch is still very confident, what really makes Lelouch happy, or the most important three new plants.

In addition to the conventional armor and armament two factories in the Banker Industrial Zone, there is also an informal machine tool factory, the first two can also be said to be factories, and the one behind can really only be said to be a small workshop, until the establishment of the Black Smoky City, regularization, large-scale machine tool factory can be regarded as the morning, this factory will be used as a hotbed for the future Lelouch industrialization, so it is particularly important.

However, they have only added a more reasonable and efficient management system and more advanced technology integration, and then expand the scale, although important, but it is not a big problem, relative to the machine tool factory, the latter two are the future that Lelouch values:

Gunpowder and scientific research!

In the future, the gunpowder factory will provide the most important link for Lelouch's army reform, the difference between hot weapons and cold weapons in later generations is only the use of gunpowder, and the continuous reform of modern hot weapons is only to continuously optimize the use of gunpowder, and at the same time optimize gunpowder, this situation can not be changed until the use of atoms.

Therefore, the gunpowder factory will vigorously study gunpowder and continuously improve the production process to improve the level of weapons, Lelouch only took a slight look at the production process and process of the gunpowder factory and nodded slightly, although he sighed at the offset of production efficiency and the backwardness of production capacity, but he was still comforted to take his time, and now he can only live gunpowder, right?!

The last research factory, this factory has the smallest area, but it is the most critical factory in Lelouch's hands, and for this factory, Lelouch even built a towering internal wall for them to protect his safety and secrets.

At this time, the research factory had completed the preliminary construction, and the original team in the castle in Limburg had also been relocated early, along with several extremely mysterious chests.

Another main purpose of Lelouch's visit today was to look at the boxes.

A researcher waited early for the gate of the city wall, and when he saw Lelouch coming, he greeted him directly, first drawing a cross with great reverence, and then kneeling on one knee and calling out: Your Majesty the Son of God.

"Okay, get up, I've already said it a million times, and when you see me in the future, I can completely abolish the prostration, it's a grace to you!"

Lelouch's words moved the kneeling researcher even more, but he still stood up according to Lelouch's instructions, and now they needed to take Lelouch to see their achievements in the past five years.

The researchers brought Lelouch to the factory area, where several boxes were already in the open space in the middle, two of which were relatively long, and the other was so large that he could fit almost five or six people compared to the boxes.

Lelouch was particularly excited by his arrival, and after greeting him in unison, Lelouch walked over to a small box, and as the researcher opened the boxes, several long strips of weapons appeared in his eyes.

Flintlock pistol!

These flintlock pistols differed from the elongated flintlock pistols of the Earth in that they were much larger and more suitable for holding small-caliber guns than guns.

If the physique of Middle-earth humans can hold muskets of larger calibers, why should they pursue the standards of the earth?

For these flintlock pistols, Lelouch is still relatively satisfied, although there has not been a mass-produced transformation, but it is still more complex Lelouch needs, firepower is sufficient, the operation is relatively simple, suitable for the human physique, although because of the pursuit of firepower they are not very suitable for the installation of bayonets, but it still greatly makes up for the gap in the long-range firepower of the Lelouch army.

"How long will it be before production models of these guns can be studied?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, the research on mass production has been put on the agenda, and we estimate that we will be able to carry out small-batch mass production experiments in two months, and achieve large-scale mass production in three months. ”

When Lelouch heard that it would take another three months, although he frowned, he still didn't say anything, the speed was a little slower, but he had waited for five years, so he didn't care about these three months:

"How many muskets will we be able to use each month after mass production?"

"In the initial stage, there will be about 500 guns, and in the middle stage, it will probably increase to 1,000 guns, and after entering the full stage, we can guarantee the production of 1,005 white-rod muskets every month, and this process will take about half a year!"

Lelouch was quite satisfied with this, and after a year at the sest, Lelouch would be able to build a musket unit for himself to fill the long-range force, and the thought of the musketeers behind the disaster sheltering infantry in front of him was constantly spraying flames with large-caliber muskets, which made Lelouch feel extremely sour, isn't there a lot of people in Mordor? I want to see if you have more people or if I shoot fast!

Aren't dwarves hard in armor? I'd like to see if your iron coat is thick, or if my bullets are deep! And as for the elves who like to hide from the calamity trees, I'd like to see where the hell you're hiding.

Perhaps thinking of the image of the Musketeer taking shape a year later, Lelouch finally laughed, and then walked with great interest towards another large box, this one surrounded by more researchers, Lelouch put much more manpower into him than a musket!

As the wooden box opened, a monstrous beast appeared in front of Lelouch:

God of War: Artillery!

How about the musket Lelouch still has a bow and crossbow to temporarily fill the gap for his current needs, but the shock of the Mammoth Mordor has been lingering in Lelouch's mind, how should he face those terrifying beasts? Even trebuchets or heavy crossbows are helpless if they don't continue to attack their targets.

Therefore, Lelouch attaches great importance to the research and development of artillery, and the research team that has been under pressure also focuses on the development of artillery, and finally came up with its own results on this day.

The volume of this kind of artillery is not particularly large, for artillery, Lelouch did not strengthen them because of physical problems, because to be honest, the power of this artillery is enough to meet this physical gap, what Lelouch needs, is this kind of firepower to meet the needs, and can be mass-produced artillery, Lelouch needs sustainable weapons, in other words, Lelouch is actually a staunch adherent adherent of crowd tactics, but at the same time pay attention to their weapons and equipment.

With a strong mobilization ability and a strong weapon and equipment for them, this tactic is the most typical representative of the United States in World War II, so after the weapons and equipment meet their own needs, the quantity is particularly important.

"The power of this kind of artillery may not be very strong, but the distance is definitely far enough, and the accuracy is definitely high enough, mainly because of the benefits brought by the idea of the threaded inner wall proposed by Your Majesty, although it took us a lot of time to study and manufacture it, but when it was finally taken out, we can proudly say: within a kilometer, this kind of artillery can definitely be pointed and hit!"

The researcher's words made Lelouch nod with satisfaction, perhaps because of the abundant manpower, the maturity of the artillery is much higher than that of the musket, this kind of artillery has high practicality, and the output is also a lot, he seems to be the real weapon born for war, as long as it is slightly modified, it can be immediately put into mass production, and because of the volume, his requirements for skilled workers are also relatively low, which can greatly improve the proficiency speed of the workers, which strengthens the artillery production capacity in disguise.

"How much of this artillery is there per month?"

The officer in charge of the artillery said with great pride:

"With full production, we can produce 30 guns a month!"

The number of thirty guns seems to be very small, but in fact it is already an extremely good production capacity, and after the completion of the Industrial Revolution, Europe did not dare to say that hundreds of thousands of troops could be equipped with thousands of guns in the Napoleonic era.

For this, Lelouch is still understandable, and then asked and learned that it will take about a year for the production of artillery to be at full strength, Lelouch left the Smoky City with peace of mind, within a year, except for Mordor, it would be good for Lelouch not to fight the other forces in the Heaven-Sent Land, where would the other forces still have the courage to fight Leluxiu, so Lelouch waited.

And the current north is the critical period of reform and construction, a year of time just to take over, wait until a year later the musket artillery is initially formed, 100,000 recruits have also completed the expansion of the army, plus the north ushered in the first harvest assembly, Lelouch will be able to really launch the reconquest war of the heaven-given land without worries, and has been in Middle-earth for more than five years, Lelouch has never had a good rest, and the pace of development in five years is still very fast, so Lelouch also needs time to sort out, and at the same time, casually solve the problem of Baicheng。

The blindness of the northern realm can already continue, and in the area that Lelouch actually controls, only the White City is still out of control, and Lelouch is not so much the owner of the White City, but the guest of the White City, but this guest is more wealthy and high-end.

Of course, Lelouch will not allow this to happen, and now that the northern border has been recovered, although the expanded border line has diluted the already small number of troops in Lelouxiu's hands, but after officially having a large rear, Lelouch finally has the confidence to make a move against the nobles of Baicheng, compared to the nobles of Baicheng, they may be the best party to deal with among the nobles that Lelouch needs to deal with.

They may have the wealth accumulated by their ancestors, they may have a large amount of vast land outside Baicheng, and there are countless farmers working for them, but they lack one thing, one thing they lack every day, that is, to protect themselves!

Each of their families did not have any troops at all, except for the armed forces of less than a hundred people, and these hundred people could still meet their needs when the royal family was on good terms with them, but when the royal family felt that they were redundant, or that there were too many of them in the White City, their end would come to an end.

Even in the early days of the Human Empire, the royal family would regularly clean up the nobles of the White City every once in a while, although this thing has not been carried out for nearly a hundred years because of Mordor, but this does not mean that Lelouch will not recover, in fact, Lelouch will not only recover, but also move bigger.

There are almost no nobles in Lelouch's forces, although most of the Guardians are rich nobles or big businessmen, but strong faith can make up for their losses, and Lelouch does not intend to force the nobles to a dead end, Lelouch just wants to deprive them of all their benefits and privileges, and then collect their wealth by the way, after all, if they don't confiscate their wealth, they have both connections and money, it is only a small loss.

Lelouch intends to turn all these nobles into the urban middle class, believing that they will be happy to sacrifice their strength for the strength of the Templar Empire.

The news of Lelouch's rectification of the northern realm was indeed a wake-up call to the nobles of the entire heaven-sent land, and they finally understood Lelouch's attitude towards their old nobles, although this attitude was too vicious!

No, this can no longer be described as vicious, this is simply a loss of conscience, they are even ready to pay more money for each family, and as a result, Lelouch not only wants their money, but also all their money, and this is not enough, even they have to be deprived of all the privileges of being a nobleman, although they still have the name of a nobleman, but what is the use of such a nobleman at the moment?

So when Lelouch returned to the White City with 10,000 troops, the attitude of the entire inner city of the White City towards Lelouch had changed one hundred and eighty degrees, and their eyes towards Lelouch had become extremely hostile.

Especially after seeing that Lelouch only brought back 10,000 people, the hostility was even higher, they didn't know the actual situation in the north very well, although the time ended quickly, but seeing the people brought back by Leluxiu, compared to Lelouch also lost no less than 40,000 people.

Well, in fact, the 40,000 Lelouch just put them all in the north, the industrialization of communism, the theocratic grassroots control, and of course, the militaristic strong army, Lelouch divided the 40,000 army into a large number of squads stationed throughout the north, they still train as usual, and then by the way are responsible for the training of local reserve peasants, which greatly strengthens the combat ability of the reserve mobilized peasants.

Moreover, it can also meet the needs of Lelouch to be able to quickly get troop support anywhere, so it can be said that this has the initial ability of army mobilization, anytime, anywhere, on call!

But this situation was unknown to the traditional nobles of the White City, and they were still watching this situation with their minds drifting, and His Majesty Lelouch, the new human emperor, seemed to be in his weakest time at the moment.

For the floating of these nobles, Lelouch had already received a report from the priests all over the White City, but Lelouch smiled and did not speak, as if he did not notice them, and even slightly contributed to the flames behind his back, even if Lelouch really only had 10,000 people left, could they, the nobles who had not seen blood for a hundred years, be able to defeat the powerful army in their hands?

Lelouch returned to Baicheng, and Baicheng also became floating, and the three major realms of the outside world were constantly sending all kinds of news and materials to Baicheng, they thought they were doing seamlessly, but they didn't know that everything about them was under Lelouxiu's control.

(End of chapter)