Handing over the heritage of the old days, which nominally belonged to the Triss family's collection, experimenting with the power of elemental cannonballs in front of many witnesses, and returning to the Scavengers' Guild, a senior manager from Cedar Bank visited the house.

Aldrich warmly entertained him alone in the office, and after a brief exchange of pleasantries, he immediately got to the point, about the rivet factory in Tris's name would be used as collateral to obtain a low-interest loan totaling more than 50,000 gold oumar.

It was a huge sum of money equivalent to ten years of income from the Scavengers' Union, but with the grass-created workshop as collateral, Aldrich immediately understood that this was a reward from the sales committee and the core high-ranking of the City Guard after assessing the power of the secret weapon, and did not hesitate to sign his name in the agreement, and the family ring was branded on the burnt fire paint.

The bank manager immediately presented a beautifully decorated cigar box in both hands, and then took a check from his coat pocket and placed it on top of the box.

Aldrich glanced at it quietly, and there was a series of zeros behind the lingua franca number 5, but there were only six in the count, and after removing the silver and bronze positions, there were actually only five thousand gold oumar.

"Hey, hey, hey, I obviously said that it was 50,000 gold coins, but how did it become 5,000 in my hands, and the remaining tenth, the amount of profit deductions in the middle layer is inevitably too much!"

The pillar of faith in Tris's heart was violently shaken, and his anger was like a giant beast constantly rushing into a cage, shaking the originally calm source of faith to the waves, and the holy mountaintop palace was suddenly enveloped in haze and thunderclouds.

He stretched out his right hand and pinched the corner of the check, calmly carried it in front of his eyes, and repeatedly checked the numbers to make sure that there were no mistakes, omissions, or traces of modifications, and then pressed the tissue paper on the table, which could be withdrawn at any time from the bank.

There was silence for a long time, and his face did not change, and finally the bank manager sat up straight and leaned forward slightly: "Dear Lord Triss, why don't you say anything about the amount on the check that does not match the expected amount? ”

"Oh! I was just thinking about how to use this huge amount of money to expand the scale of the factory as much as possible. By the way, in case you don't know, I'm the only one who can concoct the ammunition needed for a secret weapon so far, and I'm not going to hand over all the recipes that belong to the Tris family. The person who should be anxious is not me, but the person standing behind you. There weren't enough ammunition to be had, and the secret weapon was just an ornament on a ship. ”

After hearing Aldrich's explanation, the manager's face changed instantly, but his heart was strong enough to quickly return to its original state: "Mr. Triss, you actually have a more important recipe in your collection, and you don't plan to release it, you want to blackmail me, the Grand Duke of Eastwood, and the Customs Union?"

Aldridge leaned back, his broad back resting on the back of the seat, and his tone changed to relaxed, for he was sure that he had caught the other's sore feet and weaknesses, and the bank manager was still unaware of the exchange of positions.

"Probably because I give the impression that I belong to the traditional knighthood of virtue, so that some people mistakenly judge that I can sacrifice and give without principle...... Like the three sons of war in Cetanis' arsenal, although they have reached the pinnacle of their lives and become great knights, they still obey the orders of the top and let the knights of the city guard, who are far inferior to themselves, dictate their heads. ”

Speaking of this, Triss smiled in surprise: "I'm very sorry, in addition to the traditional virtuous knights, I am also the lord of the noble clan who rules a knight's estate, and my knightly lords are very rich, if it were not for the wave of commodity economy to wash away the natural embankment of the pastoral countryside, the Tris family would not have succumbed to the nouveau riche nouveau riche." ”

The bank manager was in awe, before coming to the Scavengers' Guild, he had done his homework, checked the relevant files of Aldrich Tris, and it could be said that he knew the character and character of the Fourth Horseman very well, and before this interview, he was sure that he could catch the psychology of this leader of the Triss family, but in the blink of an eye, the situation changed in an instant.

Even though he was within easy reach, the bank manager felt that he could not see Aldrich Triss clearly, and the original impression of the white knight collapsed in an instant, and he was at a loss at this time, and the loss in his heart could not be picked up at all.

Fortunately, before leaving, the president had mentioned that when things did not go well, there was another response plan, and he immediately squeezed out a professional smile and gently opened the trap on the edge of the beautifully decorated humidor.

It's a pity that the slightly trembling hands undoubtedly exposed the tension in his heart at this moment, and in the eyes of Aldrich Tris, it was a flaw that could not be used better.

The wooden box, which was a palm's width and three fingers thick, and could hold two cigars side by side, quietly opened, revealing the contents inside, which made the scavengers' guild president raise his eyebrows slightly, and then slowly returned to his original state with relief.

Due to the obstruction of the view, the bank manager did not see the contents of the wooden box, and he couldn't help but be curious, and lowered the lid completely, only to find that there was no common high-end cigar inside, but a large stack of war bonds of astonishing denomination.

Bonds issued as collateral in kind, they are equivalent to hard currency circulating in the market, and the price in the underground black market has been speculated very high, usually more than 50% of the face value premium, after all, the trade goods from the Northern Sea Route, the double of the change of hands are rushed by the Chamber of Commerce.

Aldrich grabbed all the bonds, went through them in his hand, and immediately knew the approximate total denomination, which was more than the estimated loan of 50,000 gold euros, and if the operation was done properly, he could exchange about 80,000 gold coins from the underground black market.

With this huge amount of money, not to mention the medium-sized factory that specializes in fire medicine, even the rivet factory can expand production, after all, a large part of the bonds in hand are high-quality iron sand.

"It's not an April Fool's joke...... Perhaps someone wants to use you to test me and the Triss family behind me. I have to say that this is a bad idea, without your safety in mind, if it weren't for me, as a traditional knight of virtue, replaced by other ordinary knights, respected Mr. Manager, you would already be dead. ”

A cold sweat broke out on his back at Aldrich Triss's words, but the senior manager from Cedar Bank still squeezed out a professional smile: "It turns out that you are indeed a rare white knight, and I believe that it will not be long before the esteemed Lord Triss can break through his own limitations and become the fourth big knight in Eastwood City." ”

"The Fourth Horseman, originally a rumor spread by the underworld, used to slander and slander my reputation, and my reputation did not match my strength, but I didn't expect to go to the North Sea and unexpectedly fight the Storm Knight, especially the contact with that magical short-handled hammer, which made me touch a higher level in advance. ”

Everything is true, but part of it is cleverly concealed, so that even if the senior detective of the Secret Police Department is nearby, he will not be able to tell the truth from the false, and perhaps simply assume that what Triss said is all true.

The bank manager's smile immediately became unnatural, apparently he also knew about the adventures of the Knight of Tris, and knew very well the details of the so-called magic hammer, so he couldn't continue the topic with a sneering face, after all, his identity was on the table.

A bank manager really shouldn't know too much, and since he has successfully completed his mission, this visit should almost be over.

Delivered to the door in person, Aldrich waved goodbye to the bank manager, and when the private carriage was far away, he immediately reached out and gently summoned Mr. Golgau, the butler of the union, to take some of the bonds out of his coat pocket and ask him to take them to the special warehouse in the docks to exchange them for goods.

The scavenger union had a large amount of money and dispatched materials, and the originally idle manpower was activated and began to operate, and a warehouse was converted into a fire medicine workshop overnight, and the assembly process such as manual material making table, hydraulic screening device, and configuration workshop was hastily completed.

In order to maintain strict secrecy, Aldrich used wooden planks to separate the different processes in the workshop, so that the union members who handled it could not peek into the whole picture, even Gorgau, who was one of his cronies.

The shells were made in the rivet workshop, and the thin cast-iron casing with the built-in fragments was nothing to a veteran blacksmith.

The oldest, Kerry, unexpectedly came up with the design of a miniaturized sub-bomb, which, according to him, was a reference to a very special fruit that had been tasted.

Aldrich guessed that it was a pomegranate, and only it could give Old Kerry a flash of inspiration, otherwise such a dazzling design would never have come from a blacksmith who had worked in the blacksmith for half his life and his brain had dried up.

The scavenger union is acting in secret, but the masters of Yaba, after working together, finally reverse cracked the production process of the copper tire core cannon, and divided different factions with their own ideas.

Master Edmundo decided to increase the maximum range of the elemental cannon by increasing the inner diameter of the barrel and thickening the pipe wall, and according to him, victory was within the range. Out of the idea of saving materials, Master Oliette made a miniaturized barrel, and the defect of shortening the firing range was relatively short, and he creatively used the parabolic equation to create a mortar that Aldrich should have the impression of his previous life.

Several other masters also had their own interpretations, including the idea of the Mithril Cannon, but it was prevented from being realized due to the high cost.

The secret weapons of the Three North Sea Kingdoms, captured by the sacrificial Grand Knight Lester at sea, were quickly dismantled into different parts and sent to Eastwood City through secret channels.

Each of the masters used their own miraculous skills to deduce the increasingly proficient reverse engineering to a higher level, successfully unraveling the metal smelting process originating from the dwarves, a new type of alloy with strong elemental affinity.

The harvest does not stop there, through rubbing and copying, the masters work together to decipher the secret of the elemental collapse, which was originally a unique technique in the old era of the fairy city Jinger, and it is not difficult to do it on the premise of having a sample of the real thing.

In the present day of the great ebb of the elements, the secret weapons of the Three Kingdoms of the North Sea cannot exert their original power to open mountains and waters, but it is still more than enough to penetrate the ordinary warships with copper skins wrapped in shells.

Master Elliot, who is proficient in alchemy, reassembles all the parts, opens the elemental collapse in the secret shooting range of the location, and the empty inner wall of the cannon barrel lights up the intricate arcane patterns one by one, continuously absorbing the free air element, and then turning into a hard block of air compressed to the limit, piercing the dummy wrapped in iron armor with a single blow, and the scattered wind blades even cut it into unequal pieces in the air.

"The limitations are very large, limited by the concentration of the elements, and they are not as good as the various cannonballs provided by the kid of the Tris family, and it is conceivable that the three kingdoms of the North Sea where the goblins waste the capital Jinger cannot use the skill of elemental collapse very well. ”

Edmundo, who had previously taken it very seriously, had now seen the so-called secret weapon, and immediately became dismissive.

"That's right, the Three Kingdoms of the North Sea were originally a desert of arcane law, and their elder sacrifices only knew some shamanic spells, and they failed to use the elemental collapse to the limit, which is not only their own limited misfortune, but also our luck. ”

Master Felix, a follower of the Way of the Oak Tree, has always been neutral, and his opinion was shared by all the masters present, especially Elliott, who was once again attracted to Yatsuha because of his selfless contributions.

"We have discussed the new ship modification drawings, two floors, left and right sides, a total of twenty-four elemental cannons, the bow of the ship is like a central force field protective shield, and there are three cannons in the stern. The kid of the Triss family is quite clever in the design, and there is still room for slight improvement, but there is no flaw in general. I agree, your opinion?"

Master Edmundo, who is the head of the eight leaves, spoke, and after the other masters fully exchanged views with each other, they also expressed their approval, and then sorted out the record and submitted it to the Archduke Eastwood for review, and it was not surprising that it was allowed.

Soon orders for new warships were placed in various well-known docks, including many of the cities of the Customs Union. The elemental cannon was dismantled into different parts, and orders were placed with the city's ironwork factories in the same way as warships.

Immediately afterwards, the pressure on the scavengers' union increased dramatically, and they had to make every effort to fill the gap in the artillery of the first fleet of twelve warships.

The alchemist with a complex background has his eyes fixed on these cannonballs and primer pill packets, and although he does not have the means of the masters, it is not difficult to decipher the general composition of the formula.

The scavengers' rivals soon emerged, and with the tacit approval of the authorities, a real challenge began, especially when Aldrich's fire potion factory was not well suited to meet demand, and it became a wonderful excuse to share the scavengers' worries.

Tris can't say no, especially for the sake of the overall situation of the North Sea front, he is already mentally prepared to sacrifice part of his interests.

The reality is that Aldrich is experimenting with a new powder recipe for explosive flames, and if successful, will not hesitate to replace black flame with nitrocellulose as the primer for firing shells.

According to Tris's previous life: "Go your own way and let your competitors always follow behind." ”