He intended to give the gun he had invented to the king for a rich reward.

A few days later, when nearby residents smelled the stench and found his decomposing body in the room, they also saw a suicide note on the table. Reading between the lines, he accuses usury of evil, claiming that he has lost everything from the interest rate. Apart from suicide, there is no second way to leave oneself with dignity in this world.

And, of course, the rifled gun disappeared, along with all the research materials.

The human mind is so agile that the intelligence generated by the brain acts directly on reality. Maximilian looked at the secret documents left by previous popes, which showed that a total of thirty-seven inventors of rifling had died in the past few decades. Of course, there is a reasonable explanation for every homicide: burglary found killed in a fight, suspected wife cheating and stalking was cut off by her lover, someone was poisoned in a meal because of a family property dispute, and accidentally fell off a cliff while out playing......

Forty-one inventors of new types of gunpowder died.

Seventeen wheel-runners, inventors of rifles, died.

Six inventors of heavy repeating pistols and real objects died.

Twenty-eight inventors of primer-fired shells died.

Among them, there are many aristocrats who are interested in pursuing science and are full of exploration.

The attitude of the entire Holy See leadership is unanimous ———— the development of new weapons must be completely prohibited from any form of innovation and invention. The reason is simple, the northern giants have nothing to worry about, the patron saint they rely on will one day turn into scrap metal. Even if the giants have an advantage in physique and height, swords, axes, bows and arrows will never be able to defeat muskets and cannons. Despite their small stature, white Southerners have a higher scientific and technological power at our disposal, and we have an inexhaustible resource of sulfur.

So our biggest enemies are actually the kings and the nobles.

Agents of the Holy See penetrated into the people, and churches everywhere were spreading claims against scientific innovation, namely "contempt for the Holy Lord". There were no free schools in this era, and knowledge represented luxury, as well as a higher class. Civilians, whose minds are filled with religious worship, spontaneously become social surveillance groups. They will pay close attention to everyone around them who has abnormal behavior, and report it to the local church as soon as they find it, and then the clergy will take action, kill people, take away important research materials, and destroy all evidence.

The kings and nobles were always slow to react. Either they don't know anything about it, or they always slow down the rhythm and fall behind the Holy See.

It's not their fault. The Holy See has successfully guided the general public at the level of faith and established a complete system of churches at all levels. The hatred of the common people for the aristocracy is not a day or two, in contrast, they prefer to get spiritual cleansing from the church, purify their souls, in order to ascend to heaven after death, and kick the filthy and damned nobles into hell forever and suffer forever.

In order to keep it a secret, the Holy See has sealed all the research materials collected over the years and hidden them deep under the city of Gabriel. Even in the era of Maximilian's rule, there were no plans within the Holy See to develop and produce new weapons.

The Holy Army is indeed loyal to the Holy See, but this does not ensure that the new guns produced will not leak. The fewer people who knew the secret, the better, and the clergy carried out assassination missions only knowing that the goal was "blasphemy against the Holy Lord". However, unlike the actual item, the production process requires craftsmen and requires more experimentation to determine the specific performance. This means that more outsiders are involved and the likelihood of leaks is multiplied.

This world must be ruled by the Holy See, and any details that could lead to defeat cannot be overlooked. In any case, the Holy See has the richest research and development materials in the world, and in the underground prison of Gabriel, there are also hundreds of "scientific inventors" captured from the major kingdoms. As long as they live, the Holy See will be able to create new guns at the first time.

Folsom would never have known that his wife, Marlena, was dead. Her naked body was found in a remote alley early one morning, covered in bruises from the violence that had ravaged her. It is said that because Folsen absconded in fear of crime, she was caught by angry nobles and thrown to a group of thugs, demanding that she be humiliated to death within the allotted time.

Farmers found Tom's body in a field outside the city. He was buried head down. If it weren't for a heavy rain that washed away the top cover, he would have stayed there until it rotted, becoming a favorite nutrient for the next year's crops and weeds.

The target of the new weapon is, of course, the Five Kingdoms. In the face of rifled rifles, which had an advantage, the old arquebuses were always inferior.

Again, this is a huge, long-term plan.

By the time of the last pope before Maximilian's accession to the throne, more than twenty years ago, the Holy See had revised the plan again, reinforcing the details.

Steam isn't a surprising novelty. More than sixty years ago, someone repeated Watt's experiment in the history of civilization and became interested in a teapot filled with boiling water. It was a father and son of Saxon craftsmen who had built a steam engine in its original form. Thanks to the unique advantages of the white people in the south in machining, they continuously improved the machine in two years, and finally completed a new machine that can be suitable for normal reciprocating operation.

It's all going on in private. The Church strictly regulated all types of scientific inventions, and the attitude of the nobility and the king was vague. On the one hand, they did not want to offend the Holy See, and on the other hand, because of the collection of tithes, and because the rulers of the kingdom were also afraid of the emancipation of the minds of the people. After all, from ancient times to the present, it is the stupid people who are the easiest to obey, and the rulers do not need them to think, as long as they work honestly, the tax they should pay is not less than a penny, which meets the requirements of the superiors.

Father and son wanted to monetize the invention. They were cautious and secretly contacted a miller, claiming that "there was a machine that could keep the wind running as long as it burned coal, completely replacing the windmill." If they could, the father and son would like to use the machine to take a stake in the mill and take a share of the profits.

When the miller came to inspect the machine, the church's spies came. The father and son were taken to a local church, tortured, forced to hand over all technical information, and then had their tongues cut out and executed by the inquisition for "blasphemy". That night, the steam engine was dismantled into parts and shipped to Gabriel with all the materials.

This epoch-making technology was sealed and sealed in boxes, sealed with an "A" classification, and stored deep underground until now.

Maximilian went to see this steam engine. More than half a century has passed, causing irreparable corrosion to metal components. All parts are unusable, and even if they are put together, they cannot be put together. It has completely turned into a pile of scrap metal, like the owner who invented and created it, forever becoming a secret buried on the dark side of history.

Successive popes, including Maximilian, thought it was very well done. They have seen the R&D materials and have an unusually clear understanding of the powerful role of machinery in terms of kinetic energy and productivity. In the Southern Continent, although the Holy See is a country of its own, in terms of comprehensive strength, it is only equivalent to one of the five kingdoms.

The significance of the steam engine is to free your hands and increase your work efficiency exponentially. Anything from weaving, transportation, navigation, forging, etc., means freeing up a lot of labor to produce a surprisingly large amount of matter.

Once used publicly, the Holy See could not keep the secret. Rather than allowing the five kingdoms of the Rhine, Saxon, Vikings, Plantagenet, and Lord to fully liberate the productive forces, it is better to keep this secret sealed forever. In this way, the Holy See has at least an advantage in the faith of the population.

After all, who hasn't seen what the Holy Lord looks like. Only the vast number of civilians who are living in hardship and struggling on the poverty line have a need for faith. Unable to get enough food and clothing from reality, they choose to worship ethereal gods.

Maximilian didn't know what Maslow's hierarchy was. He only knows that when people are full, they will be cranky and have more desires for the real world. They want women, they want beautiful and luxurious clothes, they want luxurious and spacious houses, and they want to rule over others.

The Holy See will not sit idly by and let such a situation happen under any circumstances. As a result, everything related to "science" was banned, and the inventor was either executed by the Inquisition, depending on the circumstances, or imprisoned forever in the beneath the city of Gabriel.

These technologies will be available one day.

As long as the Suolong Pass is captured, the Holy See will have an advantage in the land distribution of the northern continent, and on this basis, it will attract a large number of civilians from other kingdoms to move, and with a cycle of ten or twenty years of operation, the Holy See will be able to increase its strength, and openly compete with the five kings with the advantages of population, production capacity, economy, and military strength.

Only then will these scientific and technological achievements, sealed under the city of Gabriel, be rediscovered.

This reason is not difficult to understand———— the same soldiers are armed with arquebuses, five to one, the latter will be defeated. However, if the weapons used by the latter are replaced with flintlock pistols, rifles, or even repeating guns, the latter can kill the former and unify the entire continent if a certain number of prerequisites are met.

This is the goal that successive popes have dreamed of.

With the successful development of the second No. 6 biochemical body, the issue of waging a new round of war against the northern giants has once again been put on the agenda.

Maximilian was confident in this fight.

The reason is simple: Biomorph Six is a remnant of the Age of Civilization. There are other biological weapons in the underground area of Gabriel that are in the state of development, but only it is the most anticipated and has the highest degree of control.

……

Dragon territory, Flying Eagle City.

The Eagle Flag, which had been hanging in the middle of the roof of the palace hall, was removed and replaced with a brand new Dragon Banner. It's a fetish that can't be found in reality. Compared to the old banner of the dragon clan, it has a pair of powerful and powerful wings.

The main hall remained largely unchanged, with the tall and heavy throne removed and replaced with a smaller wooden high-backed chair.

Tianhao strode in from the main entrance, Yonggang and Fierce Tooth followed closely behind him, and Yun Kai led as many as a hundred forbidden soldiers into the hall in a fan shape, standing on both sides of the stone pillar and the porch.

On the steps outside the hall, there were hundreds of Eagle nobles of different ages and genders. Although they were gathered, each of them had a piece of paper with numbers written on it. According to the order on paper, enter the hall and meet the regent.

Tianhao sat on a high-backed chair and watched the people who came to kneel down one by one.

With the death of Eagle Mountain, the Eagle Clan has become history. The dragon occupation forces have launched a complete cleanup of Eagle City, and the next step is to search the entire city to find all the rebels and nobles.

The work lasted four days. With the arrival of the follow-up divisions of the Eighth Legion from the direction of Black Feather Pass, it means that the cleanup and statistics of all the nobles in the Eagle Clan have been completed. Next, it's about disposing of them.

The nobles come from different parts of the Eagle Clan's territory. According to Tianhao's order, nobles above the city lord must go to Flying Eagle City to be examined and present all their property.

The nobleman kneeling at Tianhao's feet was an old man. He was holding his hands on the ground, and the muscles in his arms were shaking. His hair was gray, his head was lowered, and he couldn't see the other party's eyes from where Tianhao was, but he could see the old man's tears on the ground.

“…… I...... I am willing to take the following property on my own initiative...... Take the initiative to worship ...... Give, great ...... Regent ......"

He said this simple sentence for nearly two minutes. The asthmatic voice is hoarse to the extreme, with a hoarse reluctance, but it is rigidly suppressed within the boundaries that will not arouse the anger of the listener. Tianhao noticed that when the old man said the words "take the initiative to worship", the green tendons on both sides of his forehead burst out, and the trembling spread to the whole body, and the ten finger joints that were spread out and pestled on the ground were prominent, as if they were about to dig deep into the hard bricks.

Tianhao leaned forward, his shoulders tilted forward to the left, his elbow on his left knee, and looked down at the old man condescendingly.

"You don't seem to be willing to hand over these possessions?" The Regent's tone was flat, but the questions were sharp.

The old man raised his head with a sluggish movement, looked at Tianhao with a pair of cloudy eyes, looking, exploring, and thinking.

"Don't know what to say? Still don't want to answer Ben King's question? "Tianhao doesn't plan to give him more time.

In silence, the old man straightened up, his chest even higher, and his old face released a hint of cold arrogance, which showed that in the past few minutes, he had figured out some issues and made a decision.

"Take it if you want! You despicable transgressor. The old man's body no longer trembled, his face flushed with excitement, and his voice increased significantly: "You think you can rule the Eagle Clan forever?" It would be a mistake to think so. The royal blood is still there, and one day, we will ......"