The invention of the steam engine made Lelouch immediately begin to vigorously promote his application, after Decres discussed with all the current private entrepreneurs of a certain scale, the demand for the introduction of this new type of machinery has increased greatly, especially after seeing the demonstration production of the steam engine in the first steelmaking plant, it is even more hungry to place orders for no less than 5,000 medium-sized steam engines and this is the first wave, as they take back the experiment, this demand will continue to increase, if you add the government-run industrial and mining enterprises of the empire, the demand for the steam engine is enough to directly tens of thousands in the first batch。

Moreover, with the steam engine, the water source problem of the original industrial zone site can finally be ignored, after all, the previous power was dependent on the water source, but now it can be built anywhere, and the development space of industrial facilities has been greatly strengthened.

This is not the end, in addition to further building a pure steam engine industrial production area, Lelouch is also preparing to officially start the construction of a steam naval factory and a steam dock, the construction scale of these two things is definitely the largest in the entire history of Middle-earth, the naval factory will be in the coastal area of the heaven-given land to find an excellent military port to build, this is not to say, but the construction of the steam dock is extremely grand.

In the palace of Augustus, the large map of Middle-earth was temporarily put away, and the map that now hangs on the huge curtain inside the palace of Augustus is a plan of the building.

"Your Majesty, have you really decided to start such a project?"

Declan looked at the buildings on the map in disbelief, not only everyone he was present was in disbelief, the appearance of the steam engine had given them a great shock, they had also thought of various plans for the use of the steam engine, they thought that every plan they thought of could definitely be called a large-scale construction plan, whether it was the town-to-railway plan or the steaming of the whole village, or even the church's plan to build a super church in the center of the lower city of White City with the help of the steam engine, it was dwarfed by it。

"We humans now have the opportunity to develop, the use of small steam engines and the development of machinery will give priority to agriculture, so that we will liberate a large number of manpower in six months to a year, and half of these manpower will be removed to cultivate new land, and the remaining number of people will be tens of millions, and these tens of millions of manpower, I plan to turn them all into steam workers. ”

"Workers, you mean, workers who are only engaged in industrial production and construction?!"

Wang Zifeng was a little puzzled, after all, the church still prefers the social structure of agriculture where everyone can engage in agriculture with peace of mind, but Lu Luxiu nodded:

"Yes, ten million workers specializing in industrial production. ”

The people present gasped, De Leus was full of fanaticism, no one will love Lelouch more than him this decision, human beings seem to be many, but in fact, in the current comprehensive revival, and the process of industrialization that has just begun, De Cress for the first time experienced the manpower gap that Lelouch once said, he came to power as the left palace minister in charge of internal affairs and economic construction in the past few years, it can be said that almost all the policies are revolving around increasing the number of workers.

In particular, the privatization of light industry has just begun, a large amount of private capital has not only paid a huge amount of taxes for the empire, but can almost be said to have expanded the industrial base for the empire out of their own pockets, in addition to heavy industry, mining and road management rights are still in the hands of the government, the development of private light industry has almost advanced by leaps and bounds in recent years, and the result of this rapid development is a huge shortage of workers, and now it is not purchasing power and demand that restricts industrial development, but the shortage of production workers.

Declan had discussed this matter with Lelouch several times before, but in the end no result came out, and now with the introduction of the steam engine, if the pole is used to replace some human work as Lelouch said, then it will definitely be able to liberate a large number of people, 10 million people are still available, even if Lelouch plans to build a huge project, it is impossible to occupy 10 million workers, in terms of scale, 500,000 people are about the same.

Well, yes, if any of the forces in Middle-earth could participate in this meeting of the Terrans, they would be absolutely stunned, because the Terrans were so arrogant as to directly requisition 500,000 workers to build something, and these workers were no longer ordinary medieval workers, but trained steam workers, who did not rely on their own hands and strength as the basis for construction, but relied on the countless steam engines.

"But speaking of which, if this project is built in its entirety, it will definitely be regarded as a thousand-year project of our human race second only to Fort Horn. ”

"An ocean project that can run like a horn fortress for thousands of years. ”

Lelouch looked at everyone present with arrogance, he directly held his sword and pointed in the center of the map:

"I, I want to build a port city here that encompasses the entire Dragon River, and I want to turn the mouth of the Dragon River into an inner lake of the city!"

The picture turns to the map, it is a port city with an extremely wide area, he directly occupies the entire Dragon River estuary, and will artificially reclaim the sea to build a semicircular huge city wall on the ocean, the city wall covers a considerable area of the sea, the existence of the city wall, will make this the best harbor city in the whole Middle-earth, no matter how big the wind and waves can not affect the internal sea, the city will be built along both sides of the Dragon River, because of the flat terrain, the planning of this new city, directly according to the modern city of the 20th century in Lelouch's memory, the appearance of the steam engine means that the elevator is possibleHumans can finally overcome the limitations of height on architecture, and the possibility of building skyscrapers has become a reality.

"This will be the world's first modern industrial city. ”

When Lelouch thought of the rows of city scenery, he was excited and couldn't extricate himself, Lelouxiu was still a farming party in his bones, and the pleasure of building was far greater than the pleasure of conquest.

The construction plan of the harbor city was unanimously approved in the meeting, after all, Lelouch was not built blindly, he first had to ensure that he could indeed produce 10 million professional workers for the empire, and the number of workers in the entire Templar Empire was less than five million, which was not only because the proportion of the population in agriculture could not be reduced, but also because the industry did not have a revolutionary breakthrough before the simple accumulation of the number of people did not have much effect, so the application and construction of small steam engines in the village became the focus of attention of almost the entire empire。

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Junction Village is a village located on a rolling hill, the style of the village is more 'modern', unlike the houses on the other plains, because it is on the main road leading to Fort Horn in the Godsend, so you can buy a lot of building materials very cheaply, and the buildings here are almost all brick and stone, after all, there is no road in the interior, or it is not a village on the main road, but there is no merchant who will bring in less bricks and stones that will not make much money at all.

And it is precisely because the junction village is located on the most important main road in the entire empire that it is called junction village, and there are many such junction villages on this main road, but what we want to see today is this ordinary junction village.

It's Sunday, and the children in the village who have returned home from the town's primary school in the distance lie on a hillside next to the village, looking at a large procession at the foot of the mountain.

Those teams only appeared on the other side of the horizon two days ago, and now two days later, they are already at the foot of the mountain in their village, this team, that is, the construction team of the railway, in fact, it is not that these teams are built fast enough, but because under the sectional construction, the team that this group of children saw two days ago is actually still in the position two days ago, and these are the other teams that have caught up after doing their own work.

The children saw the construction of the team at the bottom of the mountain, and they looked at their own village, in the village, on the steep mountain walls, a group of people are also constantly building, and they can even see the magnificent picture of gunpowder opening once a day, the railway will pass through this junction village, and will try to build a winding mountain railway.

The village is very lively these days, because almost the entire village has been mobilized to become the grassroots labor force of the construction team, and what they don't know, in addition to the railway, they will also become a pilot place for a dozen or so steam villages, in a corner of the village, a village-level steam power room with a boiler room and a small chimney is being built, not only in the village, but in the field not far from the village, on their original well, there is also a steam building of this kind being built.

The steam room in the village is mainly used to build a steam mill for the village that does not need wind manpower to drive, as well as to provide lane change capacity for a suspension bridge in the village.

The children didn't know much about these strange things, and although the teachers at the school had done some science about the greatest inventions of the empire for the first time, after all, the teachers didn't know the principles of these things very well, after all, even the first real physics teachers were still in training.

Airplanes~~~

With this melodious sound, the children got up excitedly and ran towards the foot of the mountain:

"The boss is so smart, he actually guessed that the big monster will come today!"

The big monster in the children's mouth, it is at this time slowly slowing down, lying on the rails neat locomotive, this steam locomotive is no longer the trial locomotive that Lelouch and they are sitting on, but a real transport locomotive, his long and huge size makes these village children who have not seen this new thing a few times, are shocked, if it is not for the fact that the inside of these locomotives are all humans, they may think that this is some kind of man-eating monster.

"Come on, come and be careful, one, two, three. ”

A team of workers carefully transported the construction materials from the train, in addition to the construction materials, there are also the supplies of the construction team, fortunately this time is the winter leisure period, the temperature is not hot, but not afraid of the workers heat stroke, in addition to the necessary food, just transported some canned fruits, and even canned fruits, the number is not much, after all, this way, there are many villages in the two plates of the main road, the convenience of the road naturally attracts many villages around him, these villages provide a steady stream of fresh materials for the construction team。

"Wow, this thing is so big, bigger than my cows. ”

"I can't believe it's coal-eating. ”

A group of children surrounded the front of the train in amazement, and the driver and boilermaker on the train looked at them with a smile, and to be honest, they were proud to be a train driver, after all, they also had mastered a skill that almost the entire population of Middle-earth had not mastered, and the benefits were good, especially now that there was a shortage of personnel.

The driver and the boiler worker are now resting, the two of them are eating with a canned fruit, and now the canned food has long been completely eliminated from the crockpot, and now it is all iron, thanks to the existence of private light industry, such things as cans, the output is really not small.

"Little one, why are you here again? Didn't you say yesterday not to come here?"

At this time, the foreman found the children around the locomotive, and reprimanded them unhappily, but the children laughed and ran away, and they were slightly satisfied with their curiosity after seeing the train up close today, and then they were going to the village to see how the neat waterwheel fetched water.

The construction of the steam water wheel is probably the lowest, so it is also the fastest, and when you bring the waterway of the field to this side with a slight change, you can just start the water lifter and let the water flow into the field on its own to water the farmland.

This thing is still full of magic for the people in the village, except for the men on the railway, the whole village is almost surrounded here, all want to see how this thing comes to carry water, when the group of children finally ran to it, fortunately did not exceed the time, at this time the water lifter, is ready to start lifting water.

"Let's all let go, let go, it's about to come out of the water!"

A steam worker loudly dissuaded the crowd around this side, and then walked to the side of the machine, the boiler stood by a young man, he had put a lot of coal into the boiler, at this time the steam power was sufficient, all accumulated in the passage, as the steam worker with heavy gloves to remove the boiler controller, the squeezed steam gushed away, driving the push rod at the end, slowly moving.

(End of chapter)