"My lord, this is the military expense book for the purchase of war horses, these war horses were personally selected by Lusignan to the Kingdom of France, fifty horses, of which twenty-three have been trained and can be directly handed over to the cavalry company to fight, and the rest need to be sent to our horse farm for training. This batch of horses totals 370,000 pfennigs, and you need to sign before you can pay for them. ”

"This batch of war horses, plus the high-quality horses selected from our horse farm, the war horses of the cavalry company are complete."

In the Beiguan military fort, Angus happily handed an accounting book for the purchase of war horses to Art, who was processing military affairs in the regiment commander's barracks.

Art took the paper produced by Wells, glanced at the text, and confirmed that the clerk, the civil steward, and the cavalry captain Lusignan, and the baggage officer Spencer and Angus had signed their names, so he reached out and picked up the quill pen inserted in the ink cartridge, dropped the words "Zhun Fa" and signed the name.

"If this pen goes on, three or four hundred thousand fennigh will be gone, and this is just a war horse, and the cavalry equipment and weapons and armor are a huge consumption."

"The cavalry is too expensive~" Art couldn't help but sigh.

Handing the book back to Angus, Art motioned for him to sit down and speak.

"Sergeant Major, you've seen the new weapon we've secretly developed, do you think it will change the entire order of war? Oh, that is, will it change the rules of war since ancient times? ”

The gunpowder weapon was an absolutely new product, and Angus was still obsessed with the shock of that terrible power, and he had not thought about such a profound question at all, "My lord, I had a deep conversation with the alchemist that day, and I learned that this kind of thing actually appeared in the Kingdom of France more than ten years ago, but it has not yet appeared. In addition to the fact that the royal court kept it an absolute secret and kept it secret, it was more because the world regarded it as ~doom~en~ as an evil and terrifying force. ”

"I don't think God wants that kind of power in the world."

"You mean the church?"

"Well~ Although the church is declining for a few days, it is still something we need to be feared~"

Art agreed, "So for so many years I haven't been able to turn it into a sharp blade in my hands. ”

Art smiled again, "But something new is going to come out eventually. ”

As he spoke, Art casually opened the drawer of the wooden table and took out a few drawings, on which four or five balls of various sizes were drawn with charcoal, and the sides of the balls were densely covered with annotations.

"This is a new weapon pattern that I plan to make, I'm not good at drawing, but the structure of this thing is not complicated, the weapon research laboratory is about to be established, I plan to let them try to make it, maybe we will have to rely on it to fight in the future~"

Angus took the drawing, and several objects of different sizes and shapes came into view.

"My lord, this is ~"

"The big ones I call grenades and the small ones are called grenades, cast from pig iron with built-in gunpowder and special rush grass as a fuse, ignited and thrown into enemy lines with trebuchets or soldiers' bare hands......"

"You've seen the power of this thing's explosion."

Angus stared at the drawings in his hand and couldn't speak for a long time.

"What do you have in your head......?"

............

Outside the Earl Balwyn's mansion in Besançon, two businessmen-looking guys, one fat and one thin, had just been driven out of the house by the palace guards.

The skinny guy has a white face, the flesh on his face is supported by his facial bones, and his face is slightly sunken, and his eyes are small, but he always reveals a shrewdness, "I really don't know what is in the head of Lord Earl!" It's not good to offend anyone, but you want to offend the palace minister. The European Comptoir is making more and more money now, why is he unwilling to increase the profit share of the palace minister? Now, the palace minister instructed those merchants from Jonah Province to go to the west to grab food from us~"

The slightly chubby merchant ignored ꓹ and glanced at the closed gate, shaking his head to summon the carriage that was parked not far away.

"Lord Salt, would you like to think of another way? We can't afford to offend the Prime Minister, if he is unhappy and abolishes the trading privileges of the European Merchant House, then we will be finished, and then the Lord will blame you. The thinner man grabbed Salter, who was about to turn around.

"What can I do? The share of profits given to the palace minister is set by the adults themselves, do you want me to come up with the money myself to curry favor with the palace minister? Salter turned again, he didn't quite understand why Art had offended Balwin, and he had to go to the Chancellor's office to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer Galvin for help.

The thin man hurriedly grabbed Salt, "Lord Salt, don't worry, I have another way." ”

"What can you do?"

In just half a year, he has attracted more than a dozen business allies for the European Merchant Bank, so Salter has always taken him in and out of the mansions of major merchants and nobles recently. However, Salter did not think he could solve such a complex problem.

"Lord Gong Xiang, we must have offended, but the mansion housekeeper next to Gong Xiang has always been friendly with us, as long as you can ask for help from the housekeeper, maybe there will be a delay~"

Seeing that Salter was a little hesitant, the thin man continued: "The housekeeper has long intended to meet with you in private, and he greatly appreciates you."

Salter nodded, and suddenly felt that something was wrong, "You are very familiar with the housekeeper of the palace minister's mansion?" ”

"No, no, I just figured it out from the butler's attitude towards you."

"Oh, okay."

There was no other way to do it at the moment, so Salter nodded his head in agreement, "Then let's take the butler out for dinner in the evening, and in the afternoon I must go to Besançon Cathedral to report to Archbishop Orlof about the Welsh Papyrus." ”

"Good! Good! I'll arrange it! The thin man nodded in agreement, and a hint of evil light appeared in his eyes......

............

“...... After improving the process, the straw paper workshop can produce 500 pieces of straw paper per day, which is the minimum production scale, and after the market opens, the workshop will be expanded and manpower will be increased, and the daily output of 3,000 will be no problem. The first batch of finished papyrus we produced last year has been delivered to churches in all the Allies with the Continental Comptoir, and with the Bibles that we had previously copied on papyrus, we have already begun to receive orders for two monasteries and five churches, and although the order is only 1,300 sheets, it is believed that it will not be long before the Welsh papyrus will be spread throughout the church world. ”

"After the government calculated, the straw paper workshop can be expanded from next month, and the specific scale of expansion is detailed in the submission."

Standing at the Governor's Office of the Governor's Office of the Wooden Castle in the Valley to report to the Governor of Wales Cooper, on the production and sales of straw paper was a thin, half-grown boy, who was already a deputy steward in the Governor's Office, responsible for the calculation of various data in the territory of Wales.

"In addition, the Earl has ordered the calculation of the grain needed for the second half of this year, and we have calculated that according to the current rate of growth of grain production in the whole of Wales and the rate of growth of new people, we need to buy at least one million pounds of wheat before the winter comes, otherwise five or six thousand people will starve this winter."

The paper had been submitted, and the half-grown boy had finished his report, but he was still standing straight by and waiting, because he didn't want to report to Cooper today.

After listening to the report, old Cooper had already signed the last official document, he straightened up slightly and beat his waist, and said to himself with a smile: "Old, old after all." Thankfully, you young lads are helping me to take care of me, and I'm afraid I won't be able to finish these nerve-wracking things even if I'm exhausted. ”

"Master Cooper, I'm tired of counting these numbers every day, and I'm applying to join the Weapons Lab again." The half-grown boy had a solemn expression.

Old Cooper slowly got up with the handrail in his hand, and then moved his wrist to the half-grown boy, "Jack, you're thirteen years old, aren't you?" ”

"Master Cooper, I'm fourteen years old."

"Uh-huh, yes. You were brought to the valley four years ago, apprenticed for two years at the Civil Affairs Academy, then assigned to Emma as a bookkeeper for a year, and moved to the government office this summer to be promoted to deputy steward. ”

"You know what? Because you are good at calculations, you have been promoted to deputy steward in just over a year, which is a miracle in Wales. Many of the children who came out of the school with you are still trying to be a clerk. ”

"What I want to express is that you are so gifted that you were born to be a civil magistrate, and it may not take seven or eight years for you to be the Governor of Wales."

The half-grown boy named Jack was unmoved, "Master Cooper, I don't care about that, I just want to enter the weapons research room, since I experienced that powerful power firsthand last month, I have been completely fascinated, and now I dream of that mushroom cloud floating in the sky every day." ”

"I've asked the weapons workshop, and that's what they do, and I like that."

This guy named Jack has been weak since he was a child, he has been bullied since he was a child, and he has an infinite yearning for powerful power in his bones, after seeing the big explosion outside the wooden fort in the valley, he was completely obsessed with that powerful divine power, three days ago, the steward of the weapon workshop recruited members to set up a weapon research room, and Jack, who was the deputy manager of the government office, naturally knew about it, and with his mind, he had already guessed that this weapon research room must be related to that mysterious and powerful thing, so he strongly asked to join the weapons research room.

"No, your father Salter will not agree to this matter, he has already told the Earl, next year you will be transferred to the European Continental Trading House to be promoted to steward, that is the right place for you." Cooper flatly refused.

Jack didn't say a word and left the government office in disappointment.

............

The sky is shining brightly in July, and there is not a trace of coolness in the hot world.

In the training ground outside the North Pass Military Fort in Wales Province, the high-intensity training seemed to be endless, and the sticks in the hands of the officers fell on the flesh of the recruits from time to time, in exchange for a muffled scream.

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At the edge of the training ground, Captain Art, the commander of the Wells Corps, had already run around the training ground three times in heavy armor, his body stuffed in a steel shell was already soaked with sweat, and there seemed to be no oxygen in the ignited air, and the lobes of his lungs were about to explode.

"MD, I don't exercise much on weekdays, and it's not good after only three laps." Art cursed in his heart, but his pace did not slow down in the slightest, he did not want the soldiers who were undergoing brutal training to see the Supreme Commander so weak.

Just as Art felt the smell of blood in his throat, Ron's hurried figure appeared on the edge of the training ground.

Like a savior, Art trotted towards Ron, adjusting his rapid breathing by the way.

"Ron, what's the urgency?"

Ron handed Art a small note, "Northern Hawkeye has sent back a secret message, and Balwyn has done something to you." He began to buy our people and tried to divide us from the inside......"