All the robbers will be escorted to the prison tomorrow, Charles is still the second to enter the palace, he was originally locked in the prison, he was rescued by Zhang Li when they were fighting with the councillors, and then he stayed in the Elwyn Forest as the leader of a handful of bandits, but because of the delusional desire to annihilate Zhang Li, he went back.

Really, if the protagonist is so easy to deal with, the readers won't do it.

In short, after cleaning up the stubborn diseases in the territory, Zhang Li can finally start building his own territory.

This is not an easy project, Zhang Li's subordinates, in addition to the old people and children who were accepted by him, there are only 50 families in the security brigade, and if they want to quickly develop their own forces, of course, the population must be small.

Fortunately, the last thing in the Alvin area is people, and there are people everywhere without work.

And for a force, the most important thing is the armed forces, without force you can't even protect yourself, let alone protect the people.

"You invented this rear-loading artillery?" Zhang Li sat opposite Judd in a simple shack.

"No, this style cannon has appeared a long time ago, and I only invented this mecha. "Recently, Zhang Li knows that Judd is a very "honest" engineer, although this person has some nerves, but he can do whatever he wants, if he didn't invent it, it's not, unlike those goblins, whether it's his or not, can be bragged nonsense.

"It's already there!?" Zhang Li looked at him with a surprised expression.

"If such a powerful weapon has been available for a long time, why not mass produce it?"

"Because it's so expensive. ”

"Expensive?"

"Yes, just to make such a cannon barrel requires a master who is proficient in blacksmithing and engineering, and this style of cannon also has high requirements for materials, almost fifty gold to make one, which is actually nothing, the real cost is the cannonball, you know, it costs at least ten gold each. ”

Zhang Li knew about the ten gold shells, but he thought that the reason why they were so expensive was because of the elements, and those shells were all elemental shells, and if they were replaced with ordinary gunpowder bombs, would it be much cheaper?

In the mage world, energy is an absolutely scarce resource, and in terms of human beings alone, except for Dalaran, a mage holy land, other mage organizations can only passively collect energy.

In ancient times, when the original Eternal Well had not yet exploded, there was no arcane energy except near the Eternal Well, that is, near the Eternal Well, a mage could easily collect enough energy, but once out of that range, you used up the energy in your body and it was gone.

In Blizzard, it is recorded that Ronin traveled back to the Ancient Times through the Gate of Time and Space to help the Night Elves fight the first invasion of the Burning Legion, where Ronin was surprised to find that his spells were a little more powerful for no reason, and his magic power was restored very quickly, which was because he was in the area of effect of the Eternal Well at the time.

Later, Ronin also became Illidan's teacher at that time, but Illidan, who had obtained magical powers, was not satisfied with his current situation and pursued other powers, which was not discussed for the time being.

All in all, after the Great War of the Ancients, the original Well of Eternity exploded, and its fragments were scattered all over the world, so that the whole world had a faint arcane energy, and the mages built huge towers to collect this energy.

But the speed of collection is very slow, like the Royal Mage Group of Stormwind City, the energy they collect in a year is almost only the energy that Zhang Li transforms two or three hundred times, and these energies are shared by more than a hundred mages, and on average, one person gets a little more than once, so it will be extremely difficult for a newcomer to join in.

Generally speaking, the energy in a mage apprentice's body will not exceed the energy of Zhang Li's transformation once, that is, a junior mage, his energy is only between one and two times, if their body is about to overflow with energy, then they will carefully make the energy into magic water in case of trouble.

Human mages don't squander their magic, and they don't want to waste their energy on small places like brooms like the High Elves (Quel'Thalas is full of self-cleaning magic brooms, floating flower pots, and the like).

Someone must be saying that since energy is so scarce, wouldn't it be nice to build a few more mage towers?

It's not that simple, the Mage Tower is not something that can be built casually, if it is not built on a certain node, its effect is very unsatisfactory, and the large nodes in this world are very rare, and a large part of them are not under the control of humans.

By the way, in the future, that is, in the 80s of the game, the Blue Dragon King Malygos will regain his senses, as the guardian of magic, Malygos is horrified to find that mortals are squandering magic, which is too similar to the scene before the invasion of the Burning Legion in his memory, so he plans to take back all the magic, and ends up in the dungeon.

He may be the only boss in the history of Warcraft who doesn't want to destroy the world, wants to do the opposite, and wants to protect the world, but was killed just because he offended the interests of too many people, he just woke up, and obviously didn't know that mortals had become the mainstream of the world.

And the so-called retraction magic is actually to reclaim those nodes.

As for why Dalaran is not short of energy, it is because Dalaran designed a giant magic array when it was built, rejecting other energy, and the speed of collecting energy is very fast, and at the beginning of the construction, the high elves were also involved, and they were not short of energy, so Dalaran could become a mage holy land.

Thinking of this, Zhang Li expressed his doubts, and the answer he got was no.

He said that ordinary gunpowder can't make cannonballs, at most they are solid shells, the kind that don't explode when they fly.

Because except for elemental shells, no one can make something that explodes after being fired, and the gunpowder here is not very stable, and a strong vibration can detonate it, and most people will wrap it in cotton when transporting it.

Only now did he know that the gunpowder of Azeroth was completely different from the gunpowder he was familiar with, and the composition of black powder was almost familiar on the earth, one nitrate, two sulfon, three wood charcoal, but in the world of Azeroth, there was no black powder here, and the most common gunpowder here was called inferior gunpowder, which was not made according to this recipe.

Inferior gunpowder is something that engineers have extracted from certain stones, and this gunpowder has some connection to the fire element, and the effect looks similar to that of black powder, but the essence is completely different.

"Of course the refill musket can do it, but then the power is limited, you don't understand why the mainstream is a flintlock pistol? Okay, I forgot that you are not an engineer, so let me explain to you, in general, you and your men use the most ordinary flintlock pistol, which can only be filled with inferior gunpowder, and if it is replaced with fine gunpowder, this gun will explode after a few uses, so you want to get a more powerful, The longer the range of the musket, you have to make a musket from stronger metal, fine gunpowder is much more powerful than inferior gunpowder, and after the explosion often burns for a while, in order not to hurt the sought-after, we can only make a closed barrel, so there will be no style of musket you said, of course, if you think the power of inferior gunpowder is okay, I can make you a few backfill muskets. ”