"Your Highness, General Simon is back. Philip woke up Murphy, who was sleeping soundly in his study.

"Simon is back, take them to the banquet room, and tell me to cook with the royal kitchen I brought from the court, and I'll be there later. Murphy rubbed his eyes, surprised.

"Also, Your Highness, the craftsmen that your knights of Roland helped to recruit with the help of Lord Arthas were attacked by the Theban scouts outside the city, but the Knight Chief Simon happened to pass by, routed the Thebans, and captured the thieves alive. Philip paused, then reported back to Murphy. "These are the statistics of Your Excellency Alsace. ”

"Were there any casualties?," Murphy took the statistic, but when he heard that something was wrong with his craftsman, he hurriedly asked.

"Five craftsmen and twenty-one soldiers died, but under the wise leadership of Captain Simon and Knight Roland, fifty-three Theban soldiers were killed and ninety-seven were captured alive. Knight Simon also hung the corpses of the fifty-three enemy soldiers on a tree in the west of the city, and cut off their heads and brought them back. ”

"And cut off your head?" Murphy's expression was a little unnatural, the four Theban spies he had ordered to be hanged had been ordered out of serious political considerations.

And the Knight of Simon was simply to show off his martial arts, although it played a deterrent role, but at the cost of angering the Thebans and shortening the development time of Remlos Fort.

In Murphy's opinion, those robber scouts can be killed if they are killed, and they can be thrown on both sides of the road, but it is not in his interest to cut off the head and hang the corpse.

"Well, since it's done, let's be thorough. Murphy thought to himself.

"Order, take the prisoners of war into the dungeon for interrogation, allow the use of memory stones to assist in interrogation, and release anyone who has not killed the people of Wallen, and no one is allowed to trouble him, but those with blood on their hands, you don't need me to say that you know what to do, right?"

Beheaded, of course, hanged!

"That's right!" Philip, who was about to turn away, was stopped by Murphy again. "Assign the two leaders to two rooms, and I'm going to torture them individually. ”

"Go ahead, it's okay this time. After giving the order, Murphy waved his hand to signal that Philip could go.

Murphy, on the other hand, returned to his desk after he left, read Alsace's statistics, and then picked up the quill pen in the inkwell and wrote his thoughts on a piece of paper in Chinese characters.

After fifteen minutes of laying out the plan and ideas, he put the "encrypted file" on the table and turned to leave.

"Simon, knights, welcome home!" Murphy said as he pushed open the door and walked into the ballroom, speaking to the knights who were sitting at the long table eating Hesse and gobbling it up.

The food and grass in the city are about to run out, and Murphy hopes that the stars and the moon will finally bring Simon back.

It can be said that the return of Simon and others gave Murphy a shot in the arm.

"Subordinate Simon, fortunately not dishonored!"

When Simon saw Murphy come in, he hurriedly put down the greasy chicken leg in his hand, wiped the oil on his hand, and saluted Murphy who came over, and all the knights also put down the chicken thigh, mutton, and beef steak in their hands, and saluted Simon in unison.

"Please, you're the heroes of Remloth Castle!" Murphy picked Simon up and beckoned the knights to their feet.

"Take a seat, don't be stunned, there's no place to eat the food cooked by the palace chef on the way. Murphy sat down on the throne and beckoned the knights to sit down and eat.

A table full of roast chicken, roast suckling pig, mushroom soup, honey-glazed lamb chops, white bread and the finest wines from the vineyards of the South are fragrant and appetizing.

It just so happened that Murphy didn't eat either, so he picked up a knife and fork, forked a piece of beef steak and put it on the plate, cut it along the texture of the beef, dipped it in the secret sauce on the side, and put it in his mouth.

The aroma of the beef bursts in the mouth instantly, the beef is chopped by the imperial chef and put into the starch, packed in molds, and fried on the iron plate after molding, you can eat it with sauce, soft and glutinous, melt in the mouth, it is one of Murphy's favorite dishes since he came to this world.

The knights, on the other hand, were already very greedy, and they didn't care about any aristocratic etiquette at the moment, so they put their knives and forks aside and grabbed them directly to eat.

Dozens of knights ate all the food in a hurry, and even the flesh on the bones was gnawed away.

Everyone was so full that they couldn't move as they leaned back in their chairs.

"Simon, take the brethren back first. Murphy stood up, "You, Roland, call Arthas and Marshall again, and come to my study later." ”

"Your Highness. ”

Simon arrived, stood up, and beckoned the knights back to their chambers to rest, and when the attendants saw that the banquet was over, they stepped forward to clean up the messy banquet hall.

Murphy also returned to his study and waited for a few people to arrive.

After a while, there was a knock at the door.

"Come in!" Murphy didn't look up, just shouted.

The four of them lined up and stood in a row at Murphy's desk.

"Sound barrier!" Murphy casts order magic so that the outside world can't hear the conversation of the people in the room.

After a period of immersion, Murphy has a deeper understanding of the magic of the order system, and has reached the level of a first-level peak magician, while the main magic Blazing Flame system has also reached the level of second-level and medium, and has learned at least twenty or thirty ways to arrange the inscriptions of magic.

Several people were surprised at first when they saw Murphy using magic to insulate the sound, and then their faces immediately became solemn, and even the sound insulation spell was used, which showed that His Royal Highness the prince must have something important to say.

"Your Royal Highness, has something big happened?" Arthas asked cautiously.

Murphy shook his head: "Actually, it's not a big deal, just put the newly learned magic in your hand, and it doesn't cost much magic anyway." ”

If it wasn't the prince sitting there, they would definitely have pressed the man to the ground and beat him up.

"Hahaha, no kidding, I still have something to announce. Murphy saw the speechless expressions of several people, and laughed, "I have read the statistics given to me by Arthas, and the first batch of craftsmen had six hundred, three hundred blacksmiths, two hundred carpenters, and one hundred stonemasons, but five carpenters died on the way, so it was one hundred and ninety-five carpenters.

"So I plan to open a large steel mill in the east of the city, and first build a new type of furnace, which is the blueprint, and give it to the stonemasons and carpenters, and tell them to build it according to it. ”

Murphy puts a design drawing into the hands of Arthas.

"There happens to be a large number of unemployed people in the city, and it is easy to recruit 2,000 people to participate in construction, and in addition, it is necessary to recruit another 1,500 people to mine. ”

"Mining, but Your Highness, are there any mines near Fort Remlos?" Marshall asked, confused.

"Yes, that black flint pit found in the misty forest of the Ersor Mountains east of the city, that's the mine, I call it a coal mine. ”

"Your Highness. "Marshall didn't know what black flint or coal was, but he had heard about it and knew the location.

"With that coal, and another magic machine I designed, called the magic steam engine, we were able to make cheap steel on a large scale that was as hard as oralcose.

"When the time comes, we will even be able to build walls and houses out of steel, and we will no longer have to worry about the Thebans attacking us. Murphy stood up and spoke his thoughts.

"So this plan, also called the Steel City Plan, was going on at the same time as the Marshall Plan. ”