Listening to Duke's relationship, Nicole was moved in her heart, and she nodded and replied, "Lord Lord, I will pay attention to my body." ”

"That's good, I'll arrange for Adra, the agricultural officer, to come over and add more people and rebuild the seed laboratory, and you can just mention it to him when the time comes." ”

Duke replied a little guiltily, after all, he didn't expect that seed cultivation would be so difficult, and that seeds would be in such high demand. It's really inappropriate to put this kind of thing on a little girl.,You have to treat the seed lab as a real laboratory.,Add an assistant to help Nicole.,Otherwise, she's too tired to be alone.。

"Thank you, Lord. ”

Nicole also said gratefully, these days he is basically in a state of near-exhaustion of his magic power, desperately carrying the seeds of cultivation. Maybe this is far from the real magic seed, but compared to the previous kind of uneven breeding, at least the seeds can be guaranteed to be full and healthy, and the grain yield of next autumn harvest will definitely increase to a certain extent.

After coming out of the seed lab, Duke told the agricultural officer all the promises he had made before, guaranteeing the expansion of the seed lab, and at the same time raising Nicole's treatment standards, and everything was provided according to the standards of scientists. That's what Duke has always been based on, and those who are capable live in it, not by their status.

Basically, after inspecting the seed laboratory, there is nothing particularly important, and the rest of the time Duke has nothing to do to wander around, to observe the people's feelings and get closer to the grassroots, this kind of small gesture is a good way to win people's hearts.

At the same time, Duke also has a vision, that is, when the next spring comes, Storm New City will basically be almost built. As for the matter of the city wall, Duke has completely ignored it now, anyway, Storm New City is definitely not the boundary of the storm castle, and future expansion is necessary, so things like the city wall are not very necessary.

Storm City completely abandoned the construction of the city walls, and with the remaining materials and idle manpower, Duke still had other plans. He planned to ask Michelangelo to invite the best architects in the world to build a bridge over the Seine River after the snow melted in the spring, otherwise when the snow melted in the spring, if something happened to the Valley of the Monsters, it would be quite difficult for the Storm Army to reinforce.

Therefore, the construction of the bridge is a must, and this is also the passage through which the Storm Army wants to completely control the Valley of the Monsters. If it had been before, Duke would not have dared to imagine building a bridge with a span of 100 meters in the face of the productivity of the Middle Ages.

But now with the advent of reinforced concrete, it will be possible to build bridges. In addition, when Duke himself was an architect in his last life, he also had a certain degree of expertise in bridge design and construction, and he believed that as long as there were scientific and detailed design drawings and the help of reinforced concrete materials, a bridge across the banks of the Seine could be built.

At the thought of this, Duke summoned Michelangelo and told him of his plans to build a bridge across the Seine. When Michelangelo heard this, he was first surprised, and then he turned into ecstasy, because this is destined to be a super project that will go down in history, and it is very challenging, which is a feast not to be missed for an architect like Michelangelo!

With Michelangelo on board, Duke took him and a group of construction workers to the Seine every day to measure the data of various rivers while the ice was frozen. And there are also a large number of Sea Clan soldiers who have dived to the bottom of the river to find a suitable place to build. Duke believed that in the last month or two, he would be able to find out what was going on at the bottom of the Seine and lay a solid foundation for the construction.

Duke is preparing for the construction of the Seine Bridge, and on the other hand, the edict of the Emperor of France was also sent to Duke Otto of the Northern Defense Line, which stated that Duke's Storm Army will go to the Northern Defense Line in the spring to replace the garrison of the Second Army of the Imperial Army, and the supply, tasks, and arrangements of the Storm Army will be handled by Duke Otto.

When this edict came to the hands of Duke Otto, the Great Tent of the Northern Defense Line, almost all the generals of the Northern Army in the battle were stunned, the Second Army of the Empire was the main force of the defense line, and it was a large army of up to 8,000 people. Not to mention the Storm Army, the difference in numbers is as high as 5,000 people, what does His Majesty the Emperor think, does he plan to destroy the Great Wall?

In fact, Henry VII can't be blamed for this, he did let the Storm Army garrison in the past to play his own small calculations, but there was something unavoidable to do so. Because the two main armies of the Empire plus more than 20,000 people of the Guards have been stationed in the northern defense line for more than a year, this long time ago should have been rotated, at least to give the soldiers a respite.

But now the situation in the Francois Empire is very chaotic, and there are foreign enemies like the Milan Empire, and there are some big lords within the empire who are about to move, and there is quite a posture that the mountains and rains are about to come and the wind is full of buildings, because many lords can see that the Holy See wants to knock the Francois royal family, and they have the idea of replacing them.

Not to mention the big lords in the empire, even Henry VII's own son began to make various preparations. The one who is clearly pointed out is the Prince of Andorra, who directly invaded the imperial army, and the one who is secretly pointed out is Prince Edward, who is constantly cultivating his own power in the army.

Every time he faced such a situation, Henry VII's heart was full of dissatisfaction, he thought that he was a wise monarch, and there were no all kinds of unscrupulous behavior, why did the situation of the empire become so difficult in his hands?

No one knew the answer, but no one dared to tell Henry VII that it was because his ambition was too great and he wanted to regain the glory of his ancestors that he violated the bottom line of the Holy See. For the Holy See, it is not a good thing for the wise to want to revitalize the Empire, which will pose a threat to the rule of the Holy See, especially the French Empire.

So the logic is so absurd, it is better to be wise than to eat, drink and have fun, and there may not be so many things under the control of the Holy See.

Compared to the most elite and loyal troops such as the First Legion of the Empire and the Guards, the Second Legion of the Empire is slightly worse. That's why Henry VII will change the Second Legion to stabilize the morale of the army, and then want to replace the Guards and the First Legion.

As for the problem of weakening the defensive strength after the change of defense, Henry VII also made adequate preparations. If it is another lord's army, it is really difficult to deal with, after all, this is an order issued by the emperor, and the black cauldron has to be carried by himself.

But Duke is the son of Duke Otto, and if something goes wrong with the storm army, it is Duke Otto's problem, and it just happens to find this reason to ask the teacher for guilt, so for Henry VII, it not only saves expenses, but also eats and lives Duke Otto, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone!