Chapter 25: New Things
DR 1826 Varanka station
After last year's military campaign, Josephine and her army halted and began to work the state of Aroon in preparation for the next New World raids. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The situation in other states is still not obvious, and the brainless colonial forces are fighting every day, and even the slave city-state of the dragon's roar, which is known as the most powerful, is only running as usual, except for a few more strangers and Wyverns, a specialty of the Dark Mountains.
In these cases, Josephine's specially set up Internal Security Inspectorate (a group of black skins) and the Foreign Intelligence Service (a group of pompous gray skins) are ready to deal with unexpected situations and achieve a double insurance mechanism.
But none of this had anything to do with Lorraine, who had been working on the train.
The easiest way to connect Belland, Lane and Varanka is no longer a horse-drawn carriage, but a new whimsical train and railroad from Lorraine and the Wizarding Academy.
After receiving the news from Lorraine, Josephine immediately established the Ministry of Railways, and at the same time set up a special railway company to prepare for future development.
At the beginning of the establishment of the organization and the company, the distribution of profits was decided through internal discussions, and it was specifically made mandatory to the local governments of the state that no checkpoints were allowed to be set up on the railway tracks.
You must know that in this era, there is no so-called free trade agreement, and caravans going to any town need to pay taxes and obtain customs clearance records, otherwise once they are found out that something is wrong, you will wait to be sent to the mine as a smuggler and wait for death.
Therefore, merchants from all over the country gradually became accustomed to the rail trains, pulling a large number of goods to trade in Varanka, Lane and Belland, and ordinary people also chose to travel by rail trains, which was the fastest and most convenient way to travel, which cost much less than horse-drawn carriages, and was recognized by the Brittanians in less than a year.
The most immediate effect of this effect was that the people of the territory began to call themselves Bretanians, and the proud lily people pledged their allegiance to Josephine in this way, of course, for fear of being caught by the blackskins and sent to the mines to die......
In short, the rudiments of belonging to a country are showing, and if there are no particularly big changes, Josephine is likely to establish his own country in the New World, so Lorraine has to accompany his girlfriend to go crazy these days, such as thinking of some inconsistency country names.
As for everything in the Old World, Josephine said that since they were all traitors, they should be liquidated after development, and besides, the calamity of Korsalan was getting worse and worse, and it is said that the League of the Nineteen Nations of Cherland lost 40,000 troops in one go in the battle at the end of the year, encompassing an entire naval detachment and six empty ships.
At the current rate of those undead bones (the grapevine says their leaders are Baron and Britannia), if they don't go to sea after dominating Korsalan, they can only attack the Normans and St. Orlando, whichever one is Josephine's enemy, let it be.
"So what the hell are we going to do now?" Lorraine was dressed in casual clothes and accompanied his girlfriend to the Varanka station, and the girl next to her was dressed as a civilian, and as for the sneaky entourage and bodyguards, she had already been distributed around, so she didn't have to worry about security at all.
"Go to Belland, I haven't seen my Skyfire in some days." The girl smiled and replied that there were three trains a day from Varanka to Belland, one at six in the morning, one at twelve at noon, and one at twenty o'clock in the evening, and they took the one at noon.
The station is located just north of the city of Varanka, which was damaged last year but was emptied of the platform, which is more than 400 meters long, and is considered the largest before the railroad trains spread to every part of the New World.
Like the rails we've seen, the rails they designed were wide, and very thick, all an inch and a half thick and three inches wide, with sleepers underneath and quarry residue at the bottom.
Thanks to the presence of magic and the children of heaven, the whole project can be compared to the earth with heavy machinery, and the speed of laying depends on the transportation of materials and the magic of the magicians.
It didn't keep the noblest man and woman of Aroon waiting long, but while they were chatting quietly, the train came, and the rails were dragged by twelve batches of domesticated brute horses, with a long eight carriages hanging behind them.
"Looks like these brutes aren't bad, but they still can't be used as cavalry?"
"Due to their talent, these domesticated wild horses are not bad as coolies, but they are really slow to charge, and they also need to replenish their meat, have you noticed that their eyes are relatively red, and they also wear a special spar on their heads?"
Josephine looked closely and realized that the horses were indeed like this, and she could feel the unpleasant smell in the air, and she looked at her boyfriend with suspicion.
"This is because their recipe is the same as that of the Gnoll, and the hedron uses that red thing, the new invention that has been parsed as a limit, and you can use it as a control lever to make the brute obedient and not accidental."
"There will always be accidents, as for them...... Hum. ”
Well, the princess has the strength to dare to say that, **forget it.
Passengers boarded the train, each of which was at least eight metres long, with two rows of seats facing each other as iron shelves for luggage, and of course Lorraine and Josephine were the only luxury carriages.
Fifty times the price of other ordinary cars, but it was clearly for the nobility, with purple velvet curtains hanging from the windows, comfortable sofa beds in the seats, snacks prepared at the small tables, lighting problems provided by magic lights, and personal hygiene in the small bathroom in the room.
There are only three such carriages, which occupy a whole carriage, but the profit brought is a hundred times that of ordinary tickets, except for the pit people or pit people, but every three months you can see that the tickets in your hands become more and more, and all the shareholders will not put forward other opinions.
After thirty minutes at Varanka, the train moved to the cacophony of railroad tracks and the roar of wild horses.
The speed is not very fast, the train only slowly picks up speed after three kilometers out of the city limits, and the thunderous hooves of the horses are indeed noisy, but the carriages are constructed with noise-reducing materials from the beginning, so ordinary ticket passengers can still accept them, and as for the noble cars, they are not heard at all.
Looking at the scenery outside the window and quickly receding, Josephine was a little distracted, Lorraine was calculating the speed of the train, from now on, the rail train was indeed much faster than the horse-drawn carriage, almost reaching the cruising speed of the active magic guide armor.
Aroon is full of farms, agriculture is very developed, and the traces of war have been hidden by the industrious people, and the potential for war is rapidly accumulating due to the fact that Josephine's government is not sparing no effort to develop.
However, with the state compulsory procurement method that Josephine wanted to carry out before, as well as the army training program that has never stopped, it seems that his girlfriend has already thought about the next battle.
But so what--she's all my girlfriend, helping her is helping me, I'm afraid of a fart!
Josephine gave Lorraine a strange look, not understanding what this guy was thinking, "What are you laughing at?" ”
"It's nothing, I just want to laugh."
"There's a big beautiful woman sitting next to you, you just want to laugh?" I don't know what came to mind, Josephine's queen state returned, and hugged Lorraine gloomily, "Now, what do you want to say?" ”
"I'm going to say--you're not going to think about it again...... My back hurts so much......"
"It's useless to talk too much!"
Well, forgive the young man's thrill-seeking behavior...... (To be continued.) )