"Report to Your Highness, the shell landed seven kilometers away, and almost all the trees in the area of more than half a hectare or even close to a hectare were destroyed, and even the ground was scorched!" Ilya, the young knight sent to investigate the situation, rode back on horseback and reported to Murphy the situation where the shell had landed.

Murphy mentally estimated that a conventional one-fifty-two howitzer shell exploded on seven Earths. The rear killing area is about a rectangle of seventy-five meters long and twenty-five meters wide, and according to what Ilya said just now, the length and width of the grenade have been doubled, and the killing range has been more than quadrupled, and some irritable magic elements have been added to the inside of the grenade, such as the lethal magic circle that can be stored for a long time in the thunder spell and the blazing spell, and these small magic circles have greatly increased the lethality of the howitzer.

And all thanks to the Lich Carolon, they are truly extremely intelligent creatures of pure magic.

If it weren't for Carolen's idea of replacing the firing mechanism of the cannon with a repulsive array, so that the cannonball was discarded by the black powder propulsion used for propulsion, and the entire cannonball would have turned into a warhead, the power of the grenade would still be about the same as that of the earth.

While it can also inflict massive damage on enemies, who doesn't love a more righteous mushroom cloud?

Thinking of this, Murphy became even more determined to combine technology and magic.

"Your Excellency Carolen, we can have such a powerful weapon in Remlos Castle, or rely on your efforts, here, I salute you, may the blazing god Phoenix always protect you!" During the banquet, a knight raised his glass, raised his glass to Carolen, and then drank it down, very heroic, Carolon was also very face-saving, and also took a large glass of ale in one gulp, which caused everyone to cheer loudly, of course, that large cup of ale was directly connected to his castle from Carolen's mouth and sprinkled on the carpet of his castle.

Although Carolon is a lich, she is truly integrated into human society, and is deeply respected and loved by the soldiers and civilians of Lemlos Castle, as well as high-ranking officials and nobles.

It doesn't matter if he's a necromancer on the surface.

"Okay, listen to me!" Murphy walked to a high platform with his wine glass and looked at the cannon howitzer with passion, "Everyone, we in Remlos Fort will never have to worry about foreign invasion from now on! We will definitely have more and more powerful weapons like this in the future! With artillery, the safety of the territory does not need to be considered for the time being, because all enemies will be destroyed by our righteous cannon seven kilometers away!"

"From tomorrow onwards, the focus of the town hall will be on other things, such as solving the problem of overcrowded work of miners in the mines, recruiting high-quality displaced people to replenish the shortage of personnel in the machine factories, steel factories and arsenals, the fact that we do not have enough farmers to grow the land in the coming warm spring, and most importantly, the issue of universal compulsory education. ”

"Compulsory education?" everyone questioned this new term, after all, in this other world, education is a luxury that only nobles and transcendents can have, and if the words obligation and education are taken out alone, everyone may still be able to understand, but if they are put together, it will be difficult for them to understand.

"Yes, that's right. Murphy nodded, "Through my observations, I have found that the civilians in my territory are all illiterate people who can't read a single word, and it is difficult to even calculate arithmetic, which makes me determined to eradicate illiteracy!"

"I have actually had this idea for a long time, and I have been thinking about it for a long time, but since I took the position of lord, Remlos Fort has fought several battles with the Thebans on and off, so I have not had time to make a specific plan. ”

"Your Highness, can you tell me about the general implementation of this plan?" Arthas asked, rubbing his temples as he barely understood what "compulsory education" meant.

"In fact, it is very simple to implement, but it is very difficult to do it consistently. However, I believe we can do it, because the future of Remlos is at stake. Murphy's expression became serious, "As long as we popularize education, in a few years, there will be leaders in the territory who are smarter, more intelligent and intelligent than us, and there will be a steady stream of intellectuals entering our important jobs, and we will have an inexhaustible supply of talents in the future."

"As for the general plan, I plan to divide the education into two types of education according to the illiterate adults over the age of 18 and the minors between the ages of 8 and 18, one is the normal compulsory school and the other is the evening school. ”

"So, what's the difference between the two types of schools?" I don't know who asked in the crowd.

"As the name suggests, a night school is a school that starts at night, and the workers go home for dinner every day after completing their normal work, and arrive at the night school around 8 p.m. to study until 10 p.m.

"As for the other compulsory school, I have decided to only admit minors in the city, they will start with the most basic arithmetic and literacy, and gradually go deep into the magic law, the basics of potions, basic physics, humanities and history, alchemy general, magic guide production, etc., after graduation, they will enter a higher school to further more profound knowledge, and they will become the mainstay of our city in the future. ”

Murphy's vision left everyone pondering.

"Your Highness, can those sons of commoners really be what you say they are, or do they have that ability too?" One of the town hall officials was incredulous, the commoners he had seen were all the same, lazy, ignorant, petty thieves, and bad habits.

"You have to eat your stomach before you can talk about honor and disgrace. Murphy shook his head and said, "The reason why the nobles are more polite and orderly than the commoners is simply because they can eat their stomachs, and I cannot allow any commoner in my realm to fall by starvation, so I believe they can be what I think they are." ”

"But Your Highness, where can we find our teachers? Those scholars and teachers of high moral standing will not deign to come here to teach these civilians the knowledge of mud legs. The crowd was still pessimistic.

"Why are we looking for those people? who are not even willing to teach others, and are worthy of being called scholars and teachers?" Murphy sneered, "There are still many idle knights in our territory, and they are the best teacher resources, anyway, they are just teaching everyone to read and write, and it is far less difficult to kill the enemy in battle." ”

Murphy was shocked, he had never heard of a knight who became a teacher, or taught civilians, which was a shame to say.

"That's it! Alsace will come to me tomorrow to get the plan. ”

Murphy was extremely tough, took a firm stance, and finalized the plan for compulsory education against public opinion, and the officials did not oppose it, so they had to comply.

Marshall scratched his already thinning hair, a little frantically.

"It's really moving my mouth at the top, and breaking my leg when I run at the bottom! How can I get so much money to popularize education!"