Time passed, and it was December in the blink of an eye.

After the large-scale invasion of demons, the entire Karen Kingdom entered a "state of emergency" for a long time, but after entering the harsh winter, the enemy's offensive did not escape the physiological category of "normal creatures", and inevitably weakened the frequency of attacks.

In the north, where the temperature has dropped the most, there are almost no new demons appearing, and the portals and handful of demons that have sprung up like mushrooms after the rain are gone, apparently looking for a place to lie dormant in this ice and snow, waiting for the climate to warm.

The southern side of the continent has therefore become the area with the most frequent demon attacks at present, but most of the residents of the Karon Kingdom have retreated to the fortress, and although the demons seem to be "encircled" offensive, most of them are actually small forces, and the combat effectiveness has an advantage in the face of ordinary armies or farmers, but in the face of the city wall fortress, it is still not easy to break, so after adapting to this combat method, the casualty number has begun to decrease significantly, and today, there are few mass casualties in the Karen Kingdom.

And with the increase in the number of battles, the combat experience of the human army about "demons" is also rapidly improving, and even the targeted weapons, spells, and magic circles are being updated accordingly - after the communication magic circle was urgently put on the mass production list, almost every fortress now has the ability to quickly report the battle situation, and the intelligence and information gathering capabilities have undergone earth-shaking changes.

Behind this is the result of the "Magic Research Department" working together to optimize cooperation, and at the same time, it can only be achieved after the cabinet is willing to spend money regardless of returns...

At the same time, the number of aircraft of the "Karen Kingdom Air Force" has finally gotten rid of the state of "custom production" due to the completion of a specialized factory, and has the ability to streamline the production of parts. With the improvement and optimization of the process, it has just reached the production level of one "Falcon" reconnaissance plane in three days and one "Albatross" transport plane in two weeks.

Although it has improved significantly compared to before, Roddy still feels that the "thug speed" is still not enough.

But he couldn't help it.

The "Holier City Automobile Factory" has been fully put into operation, and the mass-produced trucks can build three trucks a day, but the technical content of the aircraft is much higher than that of the "truck", and most of the production links and processes are basically forcibly promoted by high-level "magicians", not to mention replacing them with workers, even with low-level magicians.

"Industrialization" within the kingdom was still in its infancy, far from being fully industrialized, and most of the regions were not much different from those of a decade earlier.

However, as time went on, in February, the quantitative change finally brought about a qualitative change.

This winter, the support range of the Karen Kingdom's air force and the five dragon clans gradually spread to most of the countries on the continent. From "causing disputes" at first, to "speaking with strength" to solve the demons that killed countless people, the "Karen Kingdom that cooperated with the dragons" quickly spread its fame to all these countries.

After all, in the "fight against demons", no matter what country the human beings are, they will not stand with those vicious and cruel monsters. Moreover, the airborne troops and dragons of the Karen Kingdom have effectively solved the crisis caused by the demons, and they have not asked for any "military funds" except for food and lodging.

The only thing they did after the battle was to show off their sophisticated new weapons, indicating that they could all be sold to help defend against demons.

After dozens of supports, those "spar guns", "spar trucks" and even swords, arrowheads, axes, spear heads, etc., produced under stamping machines and advanced formulas, have become the key military supplies purchased by Rasiman and the eastern countries.

The small towns south of Hollier near the mines quickly built up more factories in a matter of months, and black smoke could still be seen rising on winter days when no one had gone out before.

Factories work overtime to produce all kinds of military materials - because of the increase in industrial productivity, from the purity of "ore smelting" to the reduction of time, and then the blacksmith is no longer "hammered" to remove carbon impurities, and the large stamping machine assisted by steam power and magic has shortened the manufacturing time of countless expensive cold weapons to one thousandth or even one ten-thousandth.

Under such efficiency, the demand for all kinds of ores and coal mines has become strong, and the advantages of train and road transportation that have been opened have been highlighted - not only the production areas of various materials have brought a large number of jobs, because of the gathering of people, villages have become towns, urbanization has become cities, hotels, hotels and various industries have driven a large number of jobs...

Many farmers were forced to leave their land for refuge, and they had a hard time in the winter without farm work, but the huge shortage of jobs made these people quickly realize that if they were willing to work hard, they could earn a lot of wages.

In the past, they could only hide in the farmhouse and roast the fire for the winter, but now they can go to the tavern to buy a warm beer after work, and even solve other needs.

In Roddy's mind, the "sheep eat man" enclosure movement associated with the Industrial Revolution drove farmers away from the land they had cultivated for generations and replaced them with sheep for the textile industry...

The situation is quite similar now, except that the peasants are not driven away by the capitalists, but by the devil - so in a sense, although these peasants are homeless and have become "outcasts" who can only do odd jobs, they are really emotionally stable, they just count their hatred on the devil's head, and even after reading the newspapers, they are constantly grateful to the cabinet for giving them the opportunity to work.

"Stability" is the most important thing for Roddy at the moment: he doesn't want to be in a mess at home when there is a foreign war.

The rapid expansion of military exports and large orders allowed the central government of the Karen Kingdom to quickly earn a large amount of "war money", and the "trade surplus" became a huge shortcut to increase national strength.

In the history of the earth, Spain had a surprisingly large trade surplus after the opening of the Age of Discovery, which could be described as a huge amount of money, but this surplus led to a serious deflation of gold and silver coins in the country - when there was not enough money in the market, although the prices of goods on the streets did not change, people found themselves without money to spend...

In other words, a large "trade surplus" can likewise cause serious problems for the entire country, and the problem is far more terrifying than the consequences of "inflation".

But now Roddy has paved the way in advance: the anti-counterfeit currency printed with the face of Sally I was quickly printed and issued, and the central bank cautiously put the currency into the economic system through infrastructure projects, so that the rapidly growing economic power of the Cullen Kingdom did not have the deflation like Spain, and ensured the circulation and purchasing power of the people.

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