Eugen's musket, the name given to this gun by Maria in her letters, was the first musket to survive in the factory of Lybour, almost entirely designed by Eugen, and has an extraordinary significance.

When designing this musket, Eugen referred to the structure of later rifles, simplifying the loading and firing process, while greatly improving the accuracy of shooting.

Of course, this is an ideal situation, and the real situation will not be determined until after testing and experiments.

Knowing this, Eugen couldn't wait to rush back to Lebor City to see the specific test results, and if the performance was good enough, it could be officially mass-produced.

Of course, before that, Eugen planned to transfer the robber treasure in the manor, the production of guns needed a lot of money to support, and these treasures could provide Eugen with the first funds to build an arsenal.

Originally, Eugen planned to transfer Corleone from Venice first, and then let him return to Lebor City with the treasure, but now that time was pressed and after thinking about it, Eugen decided to give this task to Captain Allen.

Captain Allen has just joined his staff, so he can take this opportunity to see his character, and Captain Allen himself already knows about it, so it is relatively easier for him to do things.

Thinking about this, Eugen directly called Captain Allen over and informed him of the mission process.

After arranging this matter, Eugen began to prepare for the return to Lebor and carry out some handover work.

It was the middle of winter, the activity of the disease had been reduced to its lowest, the transmission rate had been greatly reduced, and the Po line had been completely stabilized, in which case Eugen would be able to pull some of the world out of here.

With Count Sartre in charge of the entire line of defense, and the witch doctor Pirantz providing some advice to assist, there will certainly be no major problems.

In mid-December, Eugen once again set out on his way back to Leber, accompanied by Captain Allen and his infantry of two hundred men.

Two hundred infantrymen, escorting a dozen carts, chose a sunny day and left the city of Mantua in the forward area.

More than a dozen carts were disguised as grain trucks, with grain bags, vegetables and other materials on the outermost layer of the carts, and several huge mahogany boxes inside.

Except for Eugen and Allen and a few of Allen's own soldiers, no one in the entire team knew what was really being transported in the mahogany boxes.

It was claimed that the boxes contained some sophisticated machines and medicines, which were not of much value, but in fact, they contained millions of treasures.

Due to the large number of things being transported, the speed of the convoy could not be raised, and it took three full days before they reached the vicinity of Venice.

Before leaving, Eugen also wrote a letter to Corleone and Dirmit, who were in Venice, explaining his return to Lebor and asking if Corleone would return with him.

As a result, after waiting for a long time, Eugen did not wait for Corleone's news, and finally Dirmit sent a message back to Eugen, saying that Corleone had left Venice as early as the beginning of December and returned to the city of Leber.

Eugen was very puzzled when he heard the news, Corleone wanted to go back to Leber, but he didn't ask him for instructions, although Eugen would not pursue anything for this, but this irresponsible attitude really didn't look like Corleone's style.

After thinking about it, Eugen didn't understand the key after all, so he simply stopped asking more, and when he returned to Lebor City to see Corleone, the matter would naturally come to light.

Just as Eugen was hurrying, Maria from Lybor City was already anxious, and all kinds of things in the past two days had made her emaciated, and even dark circles came out.

In fact, the problems facing the city of Lebor at this moment are far more complicated than the letter says, and one of the most troublesome things is that Viscount Tariq of the House of Vetina officially declares himself an enemy of Eugen and begins to disturb the caravans that have dealings with the city of Leball.

The city of Lebor is located in the center of the Lebor region, and Tariq occupies more than half of the entire Lebor region.

At present, he began to target the city of Leber, and the commercial trade of the entire city of Lebor was immediately reduced by more than half, the goods in the city could not be sold, and the goods outside the city could not come in, and as time went by, the prices began to gradually rise, and the taxes were greatly reduced, and the problem began to become more and more serious.

Although Tariq has not yet officially sent troops to attack the city of Leber, once it is delayed like this, I am afraid that it will not be long before the city of Leber will be destroyed.

It stands to reason that the current city of Lebor has two great gods, Maria and Margaret, not to mention that he is a small Viscount Tariq, even if Billon, the Duke of Saxony of the Wetina family, comes over, he will not dare to attack Lebor easily.

Now this abnormal situation suddenly appeared, which suddenly made Maria very passive, for which she also wrote a sternly worded letter to warn Viscount Tariq, but Viscount Tariq ignored it, and wrote back that she had sufficient reasons and evidence to carry out a crusade against Eugen, and even the imperial princess had no right to interfere.

This reply made Maria angry, but Tariq didn't give face, and she really couldn't solve it for a while.

In addition to this, there was another thing that also gave Maria a great headache, and that was the Eugen musket.

The Eugen musket had been made, and the first rifle had been assembled with great success, exactly as it had been planned, but when the gunpowder and lead bullets were test-fired, the results were not as good as they could have been.

And the biggest problem at the moment is that the manufacturing cycle is not proportional to the benefits, this weapon cannot be mass-produced in a short period of time, because it is all built by manpower, once the person in charge of manufacturing loses the chain because of this or that problem, it will slow down the overall production rhythm.

In order to make the whole process convenient and clear, this is still a gradual process, which requires a long time of pondering, and it is not urgent for a while.

Just then, a servant walked into the office with a letter in his hand and presented it to Princess Maria.

As Maria read the letter, Margaret dragged her tired body in and said with a tired voice.

"Maria, once again the caravan between us and the Duchy of Bavaria has been stopped by Tariq, and all the goods have been seized by them, and the soldiers and merchants in charge of the escort have been driven back by them, many of whom have gathered in the town hall."

By the end of the day, Margaret was helpless, and she didn't know how to deal with the merchants now.