"Uh...... General Lawrnes. Chris looked at Berman's body lying on the ground with some embarrassment, and said, "I think your allegiance is not very valuable......

Lawrence laughed, his shoulders shrugged as if he had heard some particularly funny joke. It was only when he stopped laughing that he spoke, "Everyone on the boat behind me can assure you that as long as you treat the people of Ferry City well, we will fight for you to the death!" ”

"Sounds good." Chris nodded, "I'll try as much as I can." ”

"So...... I'm your man. Lawrence looked like he was at ease.

He glanced at the dense cavalry behind Chris, walked to Chris's horse with a big grin, looked up at Chris, and said with some words: "If you defeat Mayne, it means that you have to pay a tax tribute of 1,000 gold coins for that fool of Ensel, so I think that since you can afford to pay 2,000 gold coins, you must be able to afford 3,000 gold coins." ”

"The analysis is reasonable." Chris nodded: "I do have a way to get 3,000 gold coins." ”

"You're now the owner of the three castles, so it's up to you to take on your responsibility - to help pay the taxes for Ferry City." When Lawrence had finished speaking, he turned sideways and shouted loudly in the direction of the sailboat: "All right! Let's all get off the boat! Ferry City is saved! ”

"......" Chris didn't expect that the other party would be so single.

"Actually, I'm curious......," Lawrence said, not continuing on to the topic of taxes, but instead of continuing the topic of taxes, "how did you manage to quickly crush Ensel and take Mayne almost at the same time?" ”

"Wagron and my soldiers are separated, and there's nothing that can't be figured out." Chris replied with a smile.

"I can't figure it out, why, you can win both ways in two ways...... Lawrence shook his head and said: "You have a maximum of 600 men, and you are not a heavy cavalry, how can you win 2,000 men in a quick battle?" ”

"Want to see my new weapon? I might have a way to make your navy a little more presentable. Chris seduced, "Still, I'm going to take a closer look at your troops, and I hope they're as reliable as you say." ”

Lawrence frowned and looked at Chris, but finally did not refuse Chris's offer: "Good! Take me to see it! As long as you can fulfill your promise to Ferry City, my life is yours! ”

Chris didn't speak, pulled the reins, and walked out of the city. He did not intend to hide the strength of his artillery, because he could not hide it at all. Soon the news of the Battle of the Eastern Forest and the Battle of Ferry City will spread everywhere, and his weapons will become known to the world.

His real killer weapon is not these cannons, nor are they more powerful modern weapons. What can really make him strong is the great modern industrial system that has begun to rise in Seris!

Therefore, Chris doesn't mind letting Lawrence go and see his artillery unit, completely tame this dragon on the sea, and let this admiral serve himself with all his heart. And at this time, Lawrence didn't know how powerful what he was about to see was!

……

"Clang! Boom! "In a wooden shack, the steel behemoth lies in the center. At this moment, it was making a loud noise, driving a huge iron shaft to turn.

"Just burn coal...... This kind of device can go on and on! It's a machine that's even more magical than magic! Looking at his masterpiece, Smith burst into tears of excitement. A month ago, he was just a blacksmith, but now he is a great craftsman who has participated in the miracles.

For mortals who are unable to practice magic, they can only live in a land without the breath of magic, and can never see the glory of magic. However, the great lord of the city, Alan Hill Chris, told them that even if magic was not used, mortals could harness greater powers.

"Coal! Coaling! He stood beside the already advanced steam engine and commanded his apprentices in a loud voice.

Following his orders, the two apprentices carried shovels and added more coal to the combustion chamber, raising the temperature of the entire steam engine even higher.

Looking at the pressure gauge, Smith nodded in satisfaction. Now the internal pressure of the machine is completely within the design value, and the output has already met the shooting requirements.

The steam engine was connected to 20 looms that had already been arranged, and theoretically could work non-stop as long as they were connected to the powertrain.

"The experiment begins!" Smith looked at the women standing beside him and gave the order for the test in a loud voice.

Dozens of female workers began to follow their previous training, turning on and off the switch of the equipment and connecting the loom to the power of the steam engine.

"Wow!" The first loom began to work wildly, and the finished cloth began to roll down into the grooves below, where it was automatically rolled into a roll.

The same thing happened on the second loom, then the third and the fourth. Soon, all 60 looms in the entire factory were working without any lag.

At this time, the pressure of the boiler is normal, the steam engine is still working stably, and the various pressure gauges also fluctuate slightly within the normal value range.

As originally expected, these female workers only need to follow the operation process and manually pull some shuttles to complete the entire processing work.

A well-trained female worker can manage three such looms, and these three looms can be produced ten times faster than the previous original looms.

From today onwards, every household will have access to cheap cloth, and as long as the raw materials are sufficient, the textile mills in Seris City can even provide enough fabric for the whole world!

This kind of production speed is simply the crushing of the previous cloth production process. What's even more terrifying is that with the increase in production speed, the production cost of cloth began to decline wildly.

In the past, it took 1,000 people to produce cloth, but now only 20 people are needed to produce it, and the saved production costs are enough to destroy the original cloth production ecology.

What's even more terrifying is that with the steam engine, such factories can continue to expand in size, allowing workers who are not familiar with weaving at all to join, making weaving easier and more common.

Soon, children and the elderly will join the production sequence. At that time, the fragile mode of production of raw materials will disappear in an instant, like a snowflake evaporating in the sun, leaving nothing behind......

"The second and third steam engines are already in operation at the blacksmith's shop, and ten more are in production, and I heard that three are dedicated to making new weapons." Smith handed the sign-off report to another engineer beside him.

The supervising engineer signed his name on it, nodded and said, "The production capacity of the Ceris City Iron Works is almost at its limit, and we need new iron ore to support our production." ”

Today, the industrialization process of Seris City is constrained by a lack of qualified engineers and the amount of steel raw materials that cannot be produced. In order to increase the speed of production, Seris City has even begun to purchase steel from the surrounding area.

"The nearest iron mine is in Tubao, which is actually quite close to us." Smith seemed anxious to expand his business, and suggested, "We've been buying a lot of their ore lately, but the price is really too high." ”

"No way." The other engineer was very knowledgeable about current affairs, shook his head and said very unhappily: "Didn't the city lord go to the ferry city in person, if the lord doesn't come back triumphantly, how can we have the energy to move any earthen forts......

He paused and said: "With this thought, the machinery factory here should hurry up and pile up the number of machine tools, and strive to produce more cannons." ”

"That's what I thought, but we've got to have time." Looking at the constantly rotating steam engine, Smith said helplessly: "The current production speed is already the fastest speed we can make." ”

Industrialization is not something that can be accomplished in a day, and although there are many skilled blacksmiths and foundries in the original city of Seris, they can only complete the task at hand little by little.

Automated machine tools are not yet able to produce, and the parts of the steam engine are produced by pure manual processing, and the failure rate is quite high, and the accuracy cannot be guaranteed. Therefore, the current steam engine is huge, and the power is not very high.

The scrap rate of parts remained high, and the machines designed by Chris could only be produced at snail-like speeds. Even if the standards are relaxed, some machines cannot run smoothly, and most machine tools can only rely on manpower to promote.

Because there is a complete industrial technology, there are detailed recipes, and there is completely accurate processing time data without experimentation, Chris is not pushing the technology of this world forward, he is completely pulling the technology of this world forward.

Because there is magic in this world, and alchemy is also very common, the world is also very quick to accept Chris's bizarre new ideas. Almost no one questioned where Chris's technology came from, and everyone believed that the lord had received a revelation from God.

The reason is actually very simple, since the gods have endowed the mages with powerful magic, it is normal to leave some hope for mortals after thousands of years of suffering.

From a technical point of view, Chris is pulling rather than promoting the development of science and technology in this world, and what restricts him is no longer the speed of accumulation and development of technology, but the serious lack of production capacity and the lack of talents.