The sound of explosions coming from inside the study also alarmed Allen, who was guarding the gate of the castle, and he immediately rushed to the study, saw the mess in front of him and asked, "Lord Lord, are you okay?"

"It's okay, just find someone to change the table. ”

Duke said helplessly, now Gandalf is a guy he still can't afford to mess with. And you can't offend him, after all, he can be regarded as a thick thigh, so he has to hug him well.

"By the way, Alan, how is the military training now?"

"Lord Hui, the military training is going very well, and the training methods you invented have made the team grow very fast, both in terms of array and discipline, far beyond the recruits I have trained before, Lord Lord, you are really a genius. ”

Alan praised from the bottom of his heart, this is not his sycophancy, the most veteran who has served in the army for more than ten years, and also served under the disciplined Duke Otto, Alan has seen too many troops and recruits.

But he had never seen such an effective training method that could make a fundamental change in recruits in a short period of time. Duke's kind of transformative military training, not to mention how much strength can be enhanced, but the discipline is no longer inferior to many famous legions on the mainland.

In the face of Allen's exaggeration, Duke wanted to be modest, but he was not a modest person, and the smug smile on his face had already exposed his true thoughts.

But soon Alan's words pulled Duke from his pride to reality.

"My lord, although the military training has been very effective, the Storm Keep arsenal has been in a state of near desolation for a long time. The cavalry with their own equipment is a little better, many of the Storm Legion are trained with wooden sticks, and the armor is very scarce, if the warrior does not have sharp weapons, solid armor, it is like a lion without fangs and mane. ”

Alan was very excited, this is also the current situation of Storm Castle, the defects in equipment, in fact, there have been problems since the ice demon's tentative attack. As a frontier castle, it is really incomprehensible that it does not even have any large-scale defense equipment, and it is enough to see how weak the storm castle is in terms of equipment.

Now after the expansion of the army, the problem of equipment shortage is even more obvious, before there was an iron sword or something, but now it has reached the point of using wooden sticks, and equipment renewal is imminent.

After listening to Allen's story, Duke actually knew these problems, a group of unarmed soldiers, no matter how strong the training was, it was meaningless. It's just that Storm Castle was financially strapped before, and it had to solve the problem of survival before it could consider becoming stronger.

But since it's already here, it's time to do it, and it just so happens that Gandalf has always been curious about what scientific power is, and now it's time for him to see it.

I saw a smile of excitement on the corner of Duke's mouth, because he was about to start the first formal technological change in Storm Castle, but the earliest use of nature by human beings, that is, hydraulic engineering!

"Alan, I see, you go down first. I assure you that the soldiers of Stormfort will soon be dressed in the best armor on the continent and use the sharpest blades!"

"Yes, my lord!"

Alan replied excitedly, he didn't have the slightest doubt about Duke's words, because this young lord had created too many miracles!

As a civil engineering dog in his previous life, Duke was naturally no stranger to construction steel. In the Middle Ages on the earth, Europe lagged behind the East in the iron industry, and in the case of pig iron smelting technology, Europe was only improved in the 14th century through the Mongol expedition to the west, which can be said to be thousands of years behind.

However, this does not mean that there is no good steel in the West, such as the famous "Damascus steel", which is the world's most famous top steel, which was called iron iron in the ancient East. But to be precise, this kind of steel is not smelted, but forged, so the output is also extremely low, and it is impossible to popularize it.

However, with the beginning of the Renaissance, Europe began to make rapid progress, iron-making blast furnaces began to be popularized on a large scale, and at the same time, the application of new processes such as hydraulic blowers and coke made the level of smelting in Europe soar. But the real epoch-making scientific and technological product is the emergence of a large hydraulic forging hammer, which is forged with a force of hundreds of kilograms per minute, and the speed can also come up 200 times per minute.

Hydraulics also has a variety of other applications, such as irrigation, mining, crushing, drainage, and more. It can be said that before the first steam industrial revolution, the application of hydraulic power can be called the beginning of the industrial revolution, and the reason why it has not been called an industrial revolution is because hydraulic power has not completely gotten rid of the use of nature.

There was no Mongol expedition to the west in this world, and the East and West were isolated by the terrifying Sea of Death and the unknown continent, so in Duke's memory, the hydraulic application was still only in a simple waterwheel mill stage, and there was no fragment of high-level hydraulic application.

As soon as he thought of this, Duke had an irrepressible urge to summon Galileo and Bruno to discuss with them the renovation of the existing waterwheel. As for Copernicus, Duke has officially appointed him as the medical officer of Storm Castle, and it would be a shame if this delayed the development of Copernicus' astronomy, because Duke needs a more pragmatic career than an astronomer.

Copernicus did not resist the appointment in the slightest, after all, he was essentially a doctor. Moreover, Duke's effective means of isolating the epidemic at the beginning also made Copernicus very admired, and he was full of curiosity about the bacteria and viruses that Duke had inadvertently said, as if it opened a new door to medicine for him.

Therefore, after Copernicus received this appointment, he began to renovate the astronomical telescope with Galileo, wanting to invent the optical microscope and see the legendary bacteria and other microorganisms. At the same time, Copernicus wrote to his friend Vesalius, the founder of modern science on a par with Copernicus, inviting him to come to Stormcastle to conduct medical research.

Duke is no stranger to Vesarius, who was also one of the "heretics" persecuted by the Holy See in the Middle Ages. As a court physician of the Bourbon Empire, he was very dissatisfied with the conservatism of papal medicine, so he used cadavers for dissections, and standardized the naming of anatomy, becoming the founder of modern anatomy.

But now his act of dissecting the corpse, while pointing out the medical errors of the Holy See, seriously violates the authority of the Holy See and is being wanted by the Holy See. But Duke didn't care about this at all, his Storm Fort was almost about to become a "rebellion" base, what kind of wanted criminal was the Holy See afraid of?

Not to mention that this is also the "father of anatomy", who can make Storm Castle medicine develop by leaps and bounds, and modern medicine may be born in advance. Duke doesn't want to die young in this world where there is a shortage of medical treatment, because of a small cold, infection or something, and the development of medicine is also a top priority!