Salian left Solingen with the two girls and continued north, returning to Bellerin on the banks of the Sunbei River, the capital of the Neo-Makk Territory, in April 2496 AD.

Had it not been for Cezella's guidance, the local lord would have barely been able to find his new Miyagi. This new fortified mansion was built at the expense of Lorana Ise and is claimed to be Miss Schönecke's dowry.

As he walked through the long corridor, Salian noticed that on both sides, like the castle in Hehingen, hung huge paintings praising the contributions of the Hohenstrygen family to the country. When Sanjo arrived at the main hall of Miyagi, the courtiers of Duke New Mark were already waiting for him.

"Welcome back, dear elder brother. ”

"Haha, you've dismantled all the bellerin during my absence!"

"Salian, we've just filled this empty space a little bit. ”

"It's somewhat decent, isn't it?!"

After a gossipy gathering, the Duke of New Mark finally met his eldest son, Fritz Jr. He took the child from the hands of the court lady, the Countess of Lonny, and kissed him on the forehead.

Of course, Miss Schönek on the side was still most concerned about the status of her child, although he was the eldest son, he was also born out of wedlock.

"My dear Salian, what family name are you going to let this child inherit?"

"Well, let me think. Eva, do you have a good idea?"

Evangeline took the child and tried to get him to call him Auntie, but was unsuccessful.

"Hehe, I think I can make him the head of the knights. ”

"Oh, what do you mean by that?"

"Recently, the Knights of the Sword Monk have sent another secret message, still wanting our assistance. Last time, they were willing to let your son be the Grand Master, and this time they were even more urgent, and directly sent messengers to bring their holy relics. ”

Hearing this, Miss Schöneke was a little reluctant.

"Oh, I don't want to let a child like me go to the bitter cold land of Prosh, and be besieged by Gryzno, the Kingdom of Beiting, and the orcs. ”

The duke's sister explained.

"Sister Lorana Ise, little Fritz can take the position of head of the regiment from afar, and there is no need to go there in person. We're just sending some troops and supplies to help the Order defend itself against the invasion. ”

"Well, that makes sense, little Eva. What do you think, Lorana Ese?"

After a brief weighing, Miss Schönecke nodded in agreement.

"Okay, then little Fritz will be called Fritz von Pros from now on, that is, the Fritz of Prop, and he can be regarded as an independent prince in the empire. ”

Evangeline continued, "Brother, then we need a general to go to Pros to defend the town. ”

"Alright, then Baron Weldon, you should lead a group of elite troops to Pross as reinforcements to assist the Knights of the Sword Monks. ”

"Yes, sir!"

"When little Fritz is five years old, you will be his master!"

"Thank you for your kindness. ”

In Miyagi's newly built chamber, Sarian and his henchmen sat together for the first formal cabinet meeting of the New Mark Principality. Chaired by Prime Minister Jerry Even. In addition to Duke Salian, the Minister of the Interior and Commerce, Estaffalia, the Minister of War, Anna, the Minister of War, Lorana Ise, and the Chief of the Secret Police, Cezela, were present, while the Minister of Magic, Theresa, was absent.

Evangelin first talked about the recent affairs of the principality.

Estherfaria then spoke: "Salian, by accepting a large number of fleeing peasants from the south and the oppressed people of the Kingdom of Franços, our labour shortage has been greatly alleviated, and the construction of various infrastructure works has been carried out in an orderly manner. However, the quality of the land in the Nova Maki is really poor, and it can only rely on the reclamation of wasteland to increase production. ”

"Well, there's no way around it, if only there was a staple food that could be grown in abundance in the sand. So how is the construction of the arsenal, and does that little guy I grabbed from the abyss help. ”

"Hehe, the demon Cumberland of the Dubu clan is very hard, and we have used a lot of means to deal with him, but the technology of the abyss is indeed very helpful to the arsenal. ”

Evangeline added, "Oh, by the way, elder brother, the magic gun in your hand and the matching self-sustaining magic beam sword can be updated, and I have made another set with the help of the leading abyss technology." ”

"Okay, we'll talk about that later. Anna, how is the army's training plan now? Can we use the way your master, Marshal Córdoba, is it organized?"

"Well, I studied his method, the population of Mulason far exceeds that of the New Mark Principality, one of their infantry wings has three thousand people, the magic gun wing has two thousand people, and one division has more than thirteen thousand people, which is too large for us, and the national strength is simply not able to support it. So I just learned their organizational structure and recruitment system. We now have an infantry wing, a cavalry wing, and a magic wing, all of which are unified to the standard of four hundred. Ten wings are a regiment, and the ratio of the three arms can be flexibly changed according to the situation. A number of regiments can be turned into divisions, and divisions are only administrative organs in peacetime, and there are no combat units, only staff units and logistics units, and they will be reorganized when the war is launched. In this way, a division can be used as an independent army at any time. “

"Oh, that's a clever thing to do, so that we can use the army much more maneuverable than others. ”

"But the core reform was the conscription system, in which all landed nobles and yeoman farmers in the principality were treated equally, all according to the number of fields they produced, and the regiment was recruited according to the region, served for five years, and returned to their places of origin after discharge. The deficiencies are supplemented with mercenaries. We have a standing army of 30,000 men. ”

"Yes, we don't have enough money, it's too difficult to support all mercenaries, in fact, in the past few years outside, I have seen many wars, which makes me think of a way to not only easily feed the army, but also make money in turn. ”

"What is it?"

"Hmm...... For example, I am a double-paid mercenary alone, and after a long time, I will know some people who are also mercenaries, and if they trust me, I will become the head of these people, and when a certain leader is looking for someone, I will take everyone with me and let everyone make money. If it is generalized, then I, as the Duke of New Mark, will lead the regular army of the duchy to serve a certain archbishop or earl, and the money I get will naturally be military expenses. ”

"Brother, I have to say that this is really a good idea, the army can be trained, and someone will help us pay for the military expenses. ”

"Hehe, this requires an army that can be flexibly deployed, and it just so happens that Anna has prepared for us. Okay, now there's the navy, how is Lorana Ise doing on your side?"

"Our fleet, that is, the fleet of the Han Xie Alliance, has clashed with the Beiting Kingdom several times, and we have won and lost each other, and I think the war will continue before the contract is signed, and the deal with the Orc Bear Claw Tribal Alliance in the northeast is very smooth. Salian, the friendly relations you have established in the city of Severus and the three chiefs of their Varyasov family have paid off. These orcs have no access to the sea, so they will pull furs, gems, or other minerals in sleds and carts to Pros, where they will be transported by sea to the ports of our Hansie League. ”

"Hehe, that's good. Now that you are the mother of the Grand Master of the Knights of the Sword Order, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of my New Mark Principality, you can take full responsibility for the problems of the North Court Kingdom and the Orcs. ”

After that, everyone talked about some major policies and ended the meeting. After dinner, Salian accompanied Evangerine and Estherfaria to the armory in Miyagi. Since the loss of the Imperial Flame Two-handed Sword and the ancestral chain hammer, Salion's happiest topic has been to forge new weapons.

"Brother, take out the pre-trial magic gun and magic beam sword that you gave you last time, I have a better one for you. ”

"Hehe, that's what I'm waiting for. ”

After a burst of opening the password and the sound of the machine ringing, a square table appeared in front of the three of them, on which a magic gun of about 1.5 meters was placed, as if there was nothing special.

Evangelin pushed her magic glasses and earnestly popularized the principles for her brother.

"The accuracy and power of this magic gun made according to demonic technology have been greatly improved, and the biggest improvements are the projectile and rifling. According to the experiments of the Cumberland Devil, rifling, that is, the spiral groove in the chamber, allows the cone-shaped projectile to obtain a spin stabilization force when it is discharged, which is used to improve the accuracy of the shot. ”

"Oh, so why does rotation improve accuracy?"

"There is a mechanics expert among the demons, called Euler, who has found the biggest factor affecting the accuracy of the projectile after a lot of experiments, that is, the projectile will encounter a shock wave of resistance during high-speed flight to deflect the projectile. Later, he was inspired by the toy spinning top, and transformed the projectile into a cone and made it rotate at high speed, so that the resulting rotational inertia could effectively resist shock wave resistance. ”

"Well, why is this projectile made of brass?" asked Salian earnestly.

"Hehe, in fact, there is still a lead core inside, if it is all light metal like brass, it will lose its spin inertia soon after it is discharged. We just wrapped a layer of brass around the projectile. The reason, first of all, the projectile should not be too hard by the armor, otherwise the rifling will be easily smoothed out and lose its effect. And the lead is so soft that it is easy to be scraped off by the hard rifling when it rotates, and the lead hanging on the rifling will completely block the rifling after firing a few shots, causing the weapon to be scrapped, and brass does not have this problem. ”

"Well, I understand now. ”

Evangelin patiently continued.

"Secondly, there is actually an interference effect on the projectile and the chamber. We know that the power to push the projectile is the high-temperature and high-pressure gas produced after igniting the magic explosion powder, the less gas leakage in a closed environment, the greater the propulsion of high pressure, and the higher the initial velocity of the projectile, the straighter the trajectory, the power and accuracy will rise, so we use the principle of thermal expansion of brass, that is, at the high temperature of the gas, the brass on the armor will expand and embed in the rifling wire to form a completely sealed chamber space, which can greatly improve the gas efficiency, and in this way, we can also make the projectile slightly smaller than the caliber, which is convenient to charge from the gun。 ”

"Haha, my little Eva, after all the advantages, its disadvantages must be obvious, right?!"

Evangeline's eyes flashed.

"Hey, you guessed it, because of the scarcity of materials and the complexity of processing technology, we have been making this one for three months. ”

"So amazing!"

"Yes, because tungsten and chromium are required to make this rifled tube, which is the saying of the Abyssal Demon, and in our main material plane, it refers to extremely rare materials such as magic titanium. ”

"Oh, so I'm giving Max a Messer Straight Blade made out of a whole piece of magic titanium, it's a shame!"

"That's it! These heavy metal elements are very rare in the main material plane, so we don't study them enough. I had to spend a lot of money to buy it all over the Western Continent, but I only found a tiny weight, and the machinery for manufacturing and producing the gun tube itself cost a lot, and the remaining materials were only enough for this magic gun. ”

"Do we still have to occupy the Abyssal Plane for the sake of these elements, because it is almost impossible to make a deal with them. ”

"If you have money, you can still find a way, but the most important thing is that the processing technology is too difficult and completely out of the times. The bare tube needs to be made into a steel rod with a uniform content of rare elements, and then hollowed out little by little, and the front and rear diameters must be consistent, and finally six rifling lines are carved with a rotary drill knife. With today's technology yield rate of less than 1 in 1,000, I think the cost of making a magic gun of this kind is even lower than making an artifact. Magic Guns made using technology that is more than two hundred years ahead of the main matter plane of the Abyss Plane are destined to be impossible to produce in large quantities. ”

"Oh, that's the conclusion!"

"Well, because the consumption-to-output ratio is so low, we unanimously decided not to produce anymore. The demon of that abyss has also been completely erased to prevent the spread of technology. The one you've already made will be your toy. Within 500 meters, you can point where to hit it. ”

"Well, it's really inappropriate to spend so much to improve the efficiency of killing a little bit. ”