"Report to the captain, a total of 612 enemies were killed and 401 were captured. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info" Adjutant No. 1 respectfully reported to Lin Xiaoyu.

Lin Xiao nodded and reminded, "Don't call me captain, call me an oracle." ”

"Yes, Captain."

Ignoring the adjutant, Lin Xiao sighed and returned to the camp with the wounded soldiers.

A few days have passed, and Lin Xiao's victories have also played his prestige.

The new aristocratic forces in Huangsha City were basically wiped out, and most of the territories they belonged to were also controlled by Lin Xiao.

Occupying so much territory at once, with a population of nearly 100,000, it was still because some people fled here, and he also had a tendency to indigestion, so he had to recruit soldiers from the territory under his control.

Because of the abundance of military salaries, nearly 1,000 men were recruited to administer the occupied territories, which was not subject to much resistance.

Of course, Lin Xiao was not afraid of these rebellions, he deliberately purchased all the grain in the territory and opened an official grain store.

At the same time, it was announced that all land for growing grain would be taxed highly, and all land for growing non-grain, such as hemp for weaving, would be taxed at a low rate and purchased by the government, and the profits would be much higher than that of growing grain.

Because of the grain store, these civilians did not have much resistance, and even if they dared to oppose it, they would be suppressed.

Controlling the food of these people, Lin Xiao didn't need to worry about rebellion at all, and he didn't even need to use a single soldier.

There is no need to worry about the food problem, Xiaozhou red fruit is a disaster, and it is more than enough to raise another 50,000 people.

And then there's the religious issue, and the church is built directly here, and the propaganda work is carried out, and this set of missionaries is very good enough to bluff these ignorant gray people, and give a little benefit, and it goes very smoothly.

The most important thing is the work of collecting species, the desert area is relatively poor, especially the number is not enough, but the slow accumulation is still considerable, mosquito legs are not also meat.

Subsequently, the nobles of Huangsha City sent another envoy, and Lin Xiao gave the bottom line and directly asked the adjutant to negotiate.

The other party wanted to cease fire, and Lin Xiao had already learned from the spies that the war between the Kingdom of Middleland and the Kingdom of Oss was not going well, and the king began to draw troops from various places.

Huangsha City was also included, but they were not very stable internally, but they had no choice but to send troops, so they had to stop fighting with Lin Xiao.

Lin Xiao naturally agreed, he was short of troops and couldn't occupy too much land, and he also needed to develop for a period of time to stabilize.

But you have to do it, if you want to stop fighting, it's no problem, I have to pay reparations for so many soldiers who died in battle.

Although this is shameless, it is also reasonable, and after intimidating the messenger, he hurriedly agreed.

A few days passed, and Huangsha City really came to pay the reparations, and it seems that they are really ready for a truce.

Lin Xiao didn't believe that the other party wouldn't do anything in the future, if they dealt with the temporary situation with the Osage Kingdom, they would definitely come to trouble him.

But he did not let go of these indemnities, and after driving away the envoys, he unhurriedly launched large-scale mining work, and seized a lot of resources from the new nobles, and most of the miners in Xiaozhou were finally liberated.

The work of the steam engine also went smoothly, and with the inadvertent help of the maintenance robot, finally a steam engine did not explode and was successfully running.

Lin Xiao was also extremely excited when he heard the news, and he hurriedly prepared his horse and rushed back.

When he arrived in Xiaozhou, he learned from the workers that the maintenance robot was seen by Chocolate when it was dismantling the equipment and bringing it down from the second floor.

Many of the parts could be used in the steam engine, and she brought them directly to the workshop, where the workers assembled a steam engine and it was successfully operational.

However, the steam engine was too small and could not be mass-produced, so it was basically useless......

The good news, though, was that this small steam engine could be used to make simple mechanical clocks and drive the precision of lathes.

You must know that workers can make those lathes, but being able to make them does not mean that they can make them, and the lathes they make are too rough, so the parts they make can also be rough.

The vast majority of things made from such parts are substandard, which is why steam engines always explode.

The precision of the lathe is a key one, and if it can be improved, the speed of manufacturing a steam engine will be greatly reduced.

Moreover, the parts obtained from the dismantling equipment are made of alloys, which are very hard, and it is easy to cut through those steels, which can be used on lathes.

This requires the modification of the lathe, which is not possible for the time being, but can use water and wind power.

The wind power basically doesn't have to worry, Lin Xiao wants to use both.

There is no big river here in Xiaozhou, and the only river is still drawn from the Worm Star, and the Worm Star river can just be used.

This is also a bit dangerous, after all, there are a lot of insects, and they are very dangerous, and Lin Xiao has not explored much of a position so far.

But after such a long time, especially after those wolf bugs disappeared, very few bugs entered the level 1 danger zone again.

In addition, not long ago, a group of alien insects stepped into the level 1 danger zone and was driven out, basically those insects know that the level 1 danger zone is now a forbidden place.

The food in the level 2 danger zone is abundant, and if there are no wolf insects, those alien insects rarely come to the level 1 danger zone, and this big river can just be used.

Without Lin Xiao's order, these workers started to do it themselves, but they were also looking forward to creating things in their heads, and they were also very active when they had this opportunity.

When Lin Xiao came back, the hydraulic lathe and wind lathe had already been made, and modern people looked very simple.

It is nothing more than the use of wind and water power to drive the rotation of machinery, which is difficult to make by hand, especially the rotating shaft, gear, etc.

These things are addressed directly in the dismantled parts of the equipment.

In fact, Lin Xiao also got a lot of alloys in the colonial warships, but their appearance was not suitable, and he had no way to change them, so he could only make do with them, so he made a small number of arquebuses and smoothbore cannons.

After obtaining the right alloy, especially the barrel and barrel, under the action of wind lathes and hydraulic lathes, they can be drilled open, which can solve the problem of guns that are difficult to manufacture.

It is impossible to continue like this forever, these alloys will always be worn out, and all the suitable lathes produced by themselves are king.

No matter what, after getting this good news, Lin Xiao was still in a good mood, and excitedly wanted to praise the biggest hero of this time to repair the robot.

But the other party was just a robot, and he didn't have emotions, didn't pay attention to the compliments, and continued to work......

Lin Xiao, who was ignored, was not angry, and directly rewarded the workers who assembled the small steam engine this time.

Finally, there was the chocolate, and if she hadn't reminded her, it might have been a long time before she found out.