In the early days of the Industrial Revolution, in addition to the well-known steam engine, there was another industrial product that changed the handicraft industry, which increased people's work efficiency several times, and even further triggered the famous British enclosure movement in textbooks.

For the Jenny machine, Duke has actually begun to arrange it a long time ago, and it can even be said that the prototype of the Jenny machine has been made out by the tailor shop before Storm Castle, because compared to the steam engine, which requires a little high technical content, the high-tech content of the Jenny machine is simply low, because there are already old-fashioned multi-spindle hand-spinning machines in this world, and the so-called Jenny machine is just to place the yarn spindles horizontally vertically before, and then use a spinning wheel to drive them, so that the efficiency is directly increased several times.

Think about the fact that one spinning wheel drove one spindle before, but now one spinning wheel can drive eight spindles, and the direct efficiency is eight times higher. And the spinning machine may not only drive eight, in the later most exaggerated time, a Jenny machine directly put eighty spindles on it, the efficiency is equivalent to a disguised increase of eighty times!

This is a small change to a machine that brings an efficiency increase beyond the limits of manpower, and it is possible that Stormfort is currently only able to achieve this efficiency increase with a hydraulic hammer forging machine. Therefore, Jenny machine is definitely a super epoch-making period for the textile industry in this era.

It's just that the Jenny machine was too low-tech before, and Storm Castle didn't have such a big market to dump this kind of textile. If the technical secrets of Jenny's machine are leaked too early, it is very likely that other territories will seize the opportunity, and then they will directly seize the market with the advantage of their size, and then Duke's Storm Castle will want to grab it back, it is not so simple.

Therefore, Duke has been preparing the technical reserves for a long time, and has even developed a batch of cotton fields as a future raw material supply. Because with the development of the Storm Army, the Storm Armor will be slowly changed, after all, like the Musketeers, not only will the Storm Armor have no effect, but the idea of a Storm Armor as high as tens of kilograms will greatly affect their flexibility and marching speed.

Not to mention the musketeers, even the Storm Army itself, it is very difficult to change this disadvantage at present, because the times are changing, and Duke does not have the ability to make a more ergonomic storm armor, so he has to face the situation that the existing storm armor will be eliminated in the future, and the hot weapon will definitely come.

Of course, at this stage, it is unrealistic to completely eliminate the Storm Warframe, after all, firearms have not yet reached the stage where they can be crushed. However, the mixing of cotton armor and plate armor can also greatly reduce the cost of weapons and equipment in the storm fort, and now the storm army plus the soldiers absorbed by Alpine City can have nearly tens of thousands of soldiers without the storm armor, according to the production capacity of the hydraulic factory, even if it is full firepower, it will take at least more than half a year, which does not include the war horse iron armor and spare stocks, etc., and even does not include the production capacity required for weapons. Cotton Armor will solve this problem very well, allowing the Storm Army to equip all members of the Armor in a faster time.

Another point is that Stormfort now has its own Stormcastle Firm, and the market is no longer just Stormcastle, a small territory with a population of a few hundred thousand. The population of tens of millions of people in the entire Flange Empire is enough to meet the future needs of Duke's production capacity, not to mention the billions of people on the mainland, these are potential stocks, once the storm cloth is dumped, it is something that traditional family handicrafts cannot resist now.

Therefore, Duke's Jenny machine was directly launched, and the first textile worker in Storm Castle was established, and in order to improve the treatment of women and liberate the female labor force, Duke directly announced that the proportion of women in the labor force of the textile factory must be more than 70%. Moreover, the scope of recruitment has been fully expanded to the territory of Alpine City, and Duke has begun to extend some of his previous policies in Stormcastle to the territory of Alpine City, so that he can get the support of ordinary people more quickly, instead of making them feel that it is just a matter as simple as changing a lord.

On the other hand, Duke also took advantage of the winter break to begin to gather some poor people in Alpine City on a large scale to implement the method of cash-for-work, so that they could start building cement roads on a large scale within the territory of Storm Castle, at least to ensure that a two-way four-lane line was built between Storm Shelter, Storm Fortress, Storm Hydro Factory, Dwarf City, Storm Castle Main City, Storm New City and Alpine City.

If it weren't for the fact that the power of Watt's steam engine was not very sufficient, Duke even wanted to make a big leap forward and directly build a railroad to completely solve the problem of material and personnel transportation, so that there would be no need to worry about any attack, as long as it was not a joint attack that had been communicated before the northern defense line, Duke could take advantage of the time difference and concentrate all his superior forces in Storm Fort to catch the opponent by surprise.

It is no exaggeration to say that with the addition of the Alpine Army, the number of active troops in Storm Castle has exceeded 30,000, which can be regarded as a prince-level force in any territory of the French Empire. Moreover, with well-equipped equipment and modern firearms, even in the face of the previous ice demon attack of this scale, Duke not only has the courage to defend, but now has the ability to fight in the field.

It could even be said that in the current perimeter of Storm Fort, the Storm Army is capable of dealing with attacks from either side. The only thing to worry about is that both sides attack at the same time, after all, the territory of Stormkeep is sandwiched in the middle.

As soon as Duke's recruitment order was released, it directly attracted tens of thousands of former Alpine City farmers to sign up, because the previous changes in the lives of the farmers of Duke Storm Fort have affected some of the mentality and cognition of the farmers of Alpine City in many cases, and their suspicion of Duke has been reduced to the minimum, and it can even be said that from the moment Duke took over Alpine City, they have already identified with Duke's identity as the city lord.

Of course, this is more due to poverty, even if it is Alpine City, because it is located in the southern frontier of the empire, there is only one trade route to the outside world, so in a sense, they are also taking the risk of being attacked by the Ice Demon, so the wealth and prosperity of Alpine City is only relative to Storm Castle, and compared with another territory of the same size, it is actually not a very powerful territory, and naturally there are many poor people who want to survive.