Amid the cheers and exclamations of tens of thousands of citizens on both sides of the river, the steel-built new magic warship sounded its whistle, and it slowly sailed across the river and entered full power after crossing the gate on the north bank.

The reports of the controllers everywhere sounded in the bridge: "The basic layer of the magic net is in normal condition!" "The power spine is working fine!" "The mechanical cabin is working properly!" "Prepare to unfold the Magic Wings - engine output goes up!" "Stable attitude, power group - forward three!"

On both sides of the Magic Command Battleship, wing-like devices made of a large number of narrow metal plates and mechanical devices slowly unfolded, and the shining magic shield rose first, covering all possible weak points on the ship, while the dense runes and magic wires on the surface of the three pairs of "wings" reflected the glimmer of the shield. This wing-like structure is one of the most important structures on the Wizard Battleship – and on all possible oversized Wizard Vehicles in the future, as it can provide additional mana energy supply to the power ridge and release a large amount of waste energy to the outside of the Wizard Mechanism in time, and only by opening these wings can the Wizard Battleship be able to operate at full power.

With the roar of the three sets of magical energy engines, the speed of the battleship gradually increased, and it began to sail in the direction of Tanzania.

On the riverbank, I don't know who was the first to shout, and gradually, the shouts became one:

"Have a safe journey!!" "Have a safe journey!!" "Long live Cecil!!"

Godwin? Orlando stood on the high ground on the south bank, pressed the shooting button of the magic energy terminal with his own hands, and then he lowered his head and wrote down his feelings in his shorthand notebook for a while:

“…… The steel water fortress lifted the spirits of all, and the people stood on the banks of the river, regardless of their birth, cheering excitedly and blessing the voyage - the pride of the Cecil people had been created as the lord had said, and now this pride had begun to be built - a powerful industrial creation, and an industrial creation created by 'us', enough to make every citizen ......proud."

The still slightly chilly spring breeze blew from the river, so that the old scholar from the royal capital couldn't help but tighten his clothes, and then he raised his head and looked at the hazy north bank, as if his eyes had crossed the river, over the plain, over the mountains in the south, until he reached the northern part of the plain of the Holy Spirit, and arrived at his hometown in San Sunil......

When will such a ship be able to sail the vast rivers of the plain of the Whitsunday?

A student noticed the old scholar's trance and couldn't help but ask, "Teacher?" What's wrong with you? ”

"It's nothing, people are old...... Easily distracted. ”

……

The Trailblazer will continue sailing, its engine crew and controls put to practical testing for the next few hours, and it will not stop until it reaches Tanzania Town, which should be renamed Tanzania New City.

At that time, the technicians will begin to check the operation of the engine and the condition of the power ridge, Gawain and the others will disembark from the port of Tanzania, and then return to Cecil City in the magic guide car, and some of the sailors on standby in Tanzania New City will rotate to board the ship, after which the Pioneer will continue to set sail to complete its next nearly half a month of cruise.

- At the speed of this ship, of course, it won't take that long to make a single tour, but for the sake of the effect, the ship certainly doesn't go full speed, and it also needs to dock many times in the middle to make the necessary mechanical inspections and adjustments.

Gawain left the platform at the front of the bridge, and in the rest area at the rear of the bridge, he called the Byron knights.

"How do you feel about this ship?" He asked with a smile.

"Energetic, very energetic," Byron smiled brightly, "I've never touched anything so powerful in my life—the Aurora and Morningstar were far from it. ”

"Actually, I was worried at first, I was worried that you wouldn't be happy to let a knight like you fight on land run away to be the commander of the Navy," Gawain was very comfortable with the down-to-earth way of speaking of this mercenary-turned-ruffian knight, and he was quite direct when talking to the other party, "I guess most traditional nobles will think of it as a kind of demotion and suppression - after all, no one has ever paid attention to fighting on the water." ”

Byron stretched out his hands: "Let them say this to six naval guns, I don't believe that anyone can stiffen his neck and say that this thing is not good after seeing a water fortress more than 100 meters long, full of steel, six heavy guns, and two layers of shields - if there is, I am willing to personally serve him wine and food, take a bath and change clothes, pay a sincere salute, and then stuff it into the railgun and launch it." ”

Obviously, Byron, who was born as a mercenary, rarely thinks about the question of "whether it is honorable to sit on a ship and fight", what he values is that the ship can fight, and it is very capable of fighting - and that is enough.

But then again, Byron can think so simply and directly, Gawain can't just think about the question of "the battleship can fight".

He raised his head, looked at the several control platforms not far away, and the "mechanical sergeants" who were busy between the platforms, listening to the faint roar of machinery coming from the lower cabin, but what he thought about was how much derivative value this ship could bring.

The Pioneer is just the beginning, it is a technical aggregate that has been built up as best as possible after fusing Cecil's most cutting-edge magic technology with Kraken technology, and the value of this aggregate is not only to build a powerful warship, but also to each technological achievement gained in the process of building this warship.

For the current Duchy of Cecil, the Trailblazer can be said to be "parameter overflow".

As an inland river warship, its various values are far beyond the scope of river warships, and also beyond the current military needs of Cecil, from firepower to armor to power, it can be said that the Trailblazer has piled up all the advanced technologies at any cost on the basis of ensuring that it can carry out inland navigation, and if it is a finalized production of warships, this kind of technology accumulation can be described as wasteful.

But this is the point of building an "experimental ship", and the process of building the Trailblazer itself is equivalent to trying all the currently available technologies, which can be used in other fields, especially civilian fields, after a certain downgrade or modification.

According to the plan, after the ship rolls off the assembly line, the relevant technology accumulation will immediately enter the application and expansion stage.

First of all, the proven power technology will be applied to the Aurora and the Morningstar - the two half-finished magic warships will not be dismantled by the departure of new ships, and in the spirit of making the best use of them, Gawain decided to complete their rebuild and rebuild them, install them with engine sets and new outer armor, and integrate them into Cecil's fleet.

Subsequently, all civilian ships under the current Cecil shipyard and ship management department will also enter the transformation stage, the old cargo ships can be changed, and if they cannot be changed, they will be gradually scrapped and rebuilt, and the power and control technology accumulated on the magic warship can be used to build large-volume, high-speed civilian cargo ships after being downgraded, so as to greatly improve the material transportation capacity in the southern territory and alleviate the transportation pressure faced by various parts of the Principality during the period of major construction.

At the same time, the Trailblazer's highly integrated power ridges, magic wings, and shipboard shield technology can also be used on roadbed bunkers, large vehicles, engineering facilities, and other types of warships.

He called Hetty and talked about his plans, and after hearing that the transportation problem was expected to be alleviated, Heti, who had been worried about this matter for a long time, suddenly breathed a sigh of relief: "That's great...... If the power technology on the Trailblazer is used on civilian ships, at least in areas covered by rivers, more than half of the transportation problem can be solved. ”

But then she frowned: "But in this way, the new mechanical boats will soon monopolize river transportation, and those traditional ship owners should quickly go bankrupt...... Most of them can't afford to buy a magical mechanical ship......"

Gawain looked at Hetty with a little surprise.

"What's wrong?" Hetty didn't know why, she touched her face, "Is there anything on my face?" ”

Cecil's butler was puzzled, she remembered that she didn't wear smoky makeup today...... Could it be that I forgot to remove my makeup yesterday in order to cheat on a half-day holiday?

Gawain didn't know what this eldest granddaughter was muttering in his heart, he just suddenly thought of the beginning, and thought of Hetty's confusion after hearing the concept of "labor reward" system and "personnel management".

At that time, Hetty had no understanding of the life of the common people, although she had some righteous and compassionate thoughts, in essence, she was still a noble woman who had never left the castle and the manor, and only relied on fantasy to conceive of the suffering of the people, at that time, she did not even know why the commoners could only eat two meals a day, and why the commoners picked up the food scraps thrown out of the castle......

Today, she is able to think about what to do if the shipowners go bankrupt – although this is largely due to the nature of the work of the government department, but it is enough to say that her way of thinking has changed.

"We will not sit idly by and watch a large number of shipowners go bankrupt, since we want to promote the technology on the warship to the civilian field, we must let it really and thoroughly promote it to the people, so that it can serve people, not cause everyone to go bankrupt," Gao Wen laughed, "I have three preliminary plans......

Speaking of this, he thought for a while, and then said one by one: "First of all, open the channels for the sale and lease of mechanical ships, and when the time is ripe, we can even assist powerful private capital to establish small shipyards, and reduce the cost of magic guided mechanical ships to a level acceptable to the people as soon as possible, so that some large shipowners or wealthy businessmen have the ability to buy and lease ships, just like the commercial use of magic guide cars;

"Secondly, for some ship owners, the government department pays them to subsidize the renovation of old cargo ships, or let them use old cargo ships to buy new ships, and if the economic strength is not enough, you can lend them to buy new ships without interest - don't worry about this part of the cost, as long as the new cargo ships run on the river, the economic benefits they can bring far exceed the subsidy.

"Finally, smaller ship owners can set up a joint transportation company to raise funds to buy ships, or they can transfer jobs and enter the terminal freight system, all with their own subsidies. Now new cities are being built in various places, and there will always be job gaps, as long as the resettlement work is done well, there will always be a way out.

"As for the control in the specific implementation of these programs...... Then it's up to you. ”

Looking at Hetty's serious note-taking appearance, Gawain exhaled slightly in his heart.

The plan is very good, but there will definitely be many problems after the specific implementation, industrialization is a good thing, but the impact in the process of agricultural transformation to industry will always be inevitable - just like the original alchemy potion made a large number of alchemists bankrupt, last year's magic guide car also caused panic in the carriage industry, and now the mechanical ship ...... It will also certainly hit the owners who rely on the old river cargo ships for their livelihood.

In the past, more than 90% of the land in the south was controlled by other lords, and a large number of alchemists and apothecaries went bankrupt, and Gao Wen could not care about it, and he could even be happy to see it, because it would weaken and shake other territories, but now that the entire southern territory was under the rule of the Cecil family, and everyone was a citizen of Cecil, he had more problems to consider.

He could only rely on his own knowledge and experience to get through these shocks as smoothly as possible.

While Gawain and Hetty were thinking about the civilian use of new technology, there was another person on the bridge who was also deep in thought.

Next to the main control seat, Rebecca was looking at the flickering runes and silver-white levers on the platform with some distraction, while Tyr next to her was carefully coiling herself on the ground, and Miss Kraken couldn't help but look up at Rebecca while seriously stuffing the tip of her tail into the "snake ball": "Hey, what do you want?" ”

Rebecca woke up from her musings, she looked at Tyr who was playing with her tail, her face frustrated: "Your magic ship has been built, and my magic train is still blown up twice a day......

——Since using the Origin Lab and no longer being afraid of cost problems and explosion hazards, this girl's experimental explosion times have increased significantly.

Tyr tilted his head and said casually, "What do you have to be frustrated about - I've been working on this ship since last year with a few hundred people, isn't it normal to be ahead of you?" ”

"That's the case...... Rebecca still frustrated, "but if the train problem is not resolved, the mines on the other side of the White Sand Hills will not be brought back......"

Tyr thought for a moment, and little by little retracted into the ball he had knitted with his tail: "Then I can't help - we Krakens are not good at building vehicles that can run on land, and the engine crew of the Magic Battleship will definitely not be able to be used on your train." ”

Rebecca reluctantly glanced at Tyr, who had completely turned into a snake ball, and the marquis of the Cecil family was more depressed than ever......