Chapter 491: Complicated Affairs

Fat Shi and Director Speer rushed back to Angry Bear City from Sakura Ridge Manor a day later, and when they arrived, Lorist was relieved and immediately handed over the aftermath of the family civil unrest to the family administration center composed of Fat Shi, Director Speer and Director Codan. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The priority was not to deal with the rebellion of Governor Haske, but to arrange for the resettlement of the five or six hundred thousand immigrants stranded in Winston Province to the Northlands.

Immediately afterwards, Lorist and Reddy rushed to the artillery training base in the Blade Mountains, which was the guarantee of the family's future siege and land grabbing battle. The biggest killer weapon in Lorlist's hand was that he was unexpectedly hit hard before he left the school, which made Lorist feel extremely aggrieved and angry.

Schward, who had already assumed the post of commander of the artillery battalion, reported to Lorist that there were now 342 soldiers in the artillery battalion who had returned from wounded, adding up to more than 1,300 soldiers left, and more than 100 soldiers who were wounded and disabled, and that 1,563 soldiers had died in the attack of the Great Sword Division. The most heart-wrenching thing is that more than half of the soldiers who died were well-trained artillery firing crews.

Lorist went to visit Jim, the former commander of the seriously wounded artillery battalion, who had recovered from his injuries and was at least able to sit up and tell Lorist about the night attack. He believed that artillery could pose a great threat to the Great Sword Master, but it was its biggest weakness that it was complicated to operate and inconvenient to move.

During the day, when he was attacked by the Great Sword Division, Jim took advantage of the characteristics of the artillery firing shotballs to cover a large area of the battlefield space with forty-six bronze cannons to form a defensive line, and with a single blow of thunder, he killed three Great Sword Divisions on the spot, severely damaged two Great Sword Divisions, and forced the enemy to retreat. It's just that he didn't expect that the rest of the great sword masters would use the cover of night to touch the artillery position, and as soon as they got close, these bronze cannons would lose their effect, and they had to fight the enemy in close quarters.

The soldiers of the 3,000 artillery battalion fought against the nine great sword divisions, and it was a massacre that the soldiers simply could not resist. Seeing that the casualties were getting bigger and bigger, the seriously injured deputy commander Paul Binns held a powder keg and held a torch to pounce, and with a loud bang, Paul Binns's body was gone, and even if those great swordsmen dodged quickly, they were still severely damaged.

Seeing that this method worked, the rest of the soldiers also followed suit and wanted to die with those great swordsmen, the explosions in the valley were heard one after another, and after another great swordsman was severely damaged, the remaining great swordsmen were finally frightened, and they cursed the madman while evacuating the artillery training base with their wounded companions.

Jim burst into tears as he said this. Lorist was also saddened, and he could only comfort Jim that he would not let go of those great swordsmen who attacked the artillery training base, and would definitely avenge the sacrifice of the artillery battalion soldiers. After telling Jim to recover from his injuries again, Lorist left his house.

Compared to Jim, who was seriously wounded, and Paul Binns, who died heroically, Professor Bob and his wife in the gunpowder laboratory were not very frightened. Before the Great Swordsman attacked, the attentive Jim moved the old couple somewhere else. Although the gunpowder laboratory was turned upside down by the great swordsmen, and even most of the house was destroyed, at least Professor Bob was fine, which was the biggest good news for Lorlist.

Professor Bob introduced to Lorist this time his research and experience of gunpowder in recent years, about the bronze artillery Professor Bob's achievements are gunpowder granulation and fixed-loading, Lorist used to just mention it casually, after several years of unremitting experiments, Professor Bob finally achieved these two goals. The achievement of these two goals alone has doubled the firing frequency of the bronze artillery, and now the difficulty has become the heat dissipation problem of the bronze artillery, which Professor Bob is ready to discuss with Master Yu Lian and Master Sid again to see if he can use better materials to cast the cannon to solve this problem.

In addition, Professor Bob's greatest achievement is to improve the process of collecting and refining soil nitrate, which Lorist considers to be Professor Bob's greatest contribution. The continent of Gelinthia is not the earth, and some of the physical and chemical principles and laws of this world have some deviations from the earth, like gunpowder, the earth is one sulfur, two nitrate and three carbons, plus the material ratio constitutes the most standard black powder, but in this world, it is necessary to add a fire crystal powder to achieve the explosive effect of black powder on the earth.

It's a pity that Lorist was just an ordinary director of a small handicraft factory in his previous life, physics and chemistry are not his strengths, although he has some of the most basic common sense, but in the other world of the Gelinthia continent, which is different from some laws of the earth, Lorist's common sense is completely blind.

In the world of the Gelinthia continent, the biggest factors that shattered the illusion of the Lorist Firearms Age were two points, one was the steel used to refine firearms, like the dark iron refining base of Master Sid, which still relied on the primitive forging method to train the refined iron into the required steel. Although Lorist provided the idea of a hydro-forging machine, forcibly raising the Norton family's iron-making level to the top of the continent. But there is a desperate generation gap compared to the steel needed to make firearms. Before the fiery molten steel was directly baked, Lorlist's firearms era could only exist in the world of dreams.

The second is the lack of nitrate ore for refining gunpowder, it is said that only the dwarven kingdom in the Tidanini Mountains has an underground nitrate mine, the reserves are not much, and it is regarded as a treasure by the dwarves, and the gunpowder used by Lorist is completely dependent on the collection of nitrate refining to be configured, for the Norton family, the biggest factor limiting the appearance of artillery battalions on the battlefield is the amount of gunpowder reserves.

Some of Lorlist's experiences on Earth in his previous life are not applicable in this world, just like gunpowder granulation, which is very simple on Earth, just wet it, knead it into a ball, use a sieve to divide it into particles and dry it. But here, as a result of the same operation, the resulting gunpowder particles became smoke powder, which ignited and emitted smoke instead of a violent explosion. Professor Bob's guess was that the fire crystal powder lost its effectiveness when it was wet with water, and the results of the test proved it. In order to granulate this gunpowder, Professor Bob conducted three years of research and experimentation to overcome this difficulty.

The granularization of gunpowder not only improves the quality of gunpowder, enhances the effect and power of firing, but also reduces the amount of nitrate used, and also makes the gunpowder of bronze artillery a reality. At the same time, in several years of research, Professor Bob discovered the medium with the best ratio of soil nitrate, which more than doubled the output of soil nitrate collected, and finally increased the family's gunpowder reserves several times, and also made the appearance of artillery battalions on the battlefield a short-term necessity.

Although Lorist was saddened and resentful by the heavy damage suffered by the artillery battalion, he was overjoyed by the good news that Professor Bob had told him. There was no better news than this, as Lorist made Professor Bob a Viscount of the Realm on the spot, a decision to be announced at this year's New Year's celebrations. Professor Bob was also overjoyed, finally he didn't have to look at Master Sid in front of him, everyone was a viscount of the territory, and no one was a head lower than anyone else.

Lorist circled around the artillery training base for more than ten days, and then went to Master Sid's Darkiron Refining Base, where he also stayed for half a month, readjusted the production plan, and arranged for Master Sid to cast a new batch of new bronze cannons to supplement the artillery battalion, and then Lorist returned to Raging Bear City with Reddy and Genorio.

It was October 7 when I returned to Bear City, and at the end of September, Princess Celevia, her four concubines, and two children had returned to Bear City from Sakura Ridge Manor. I haven't seen each other for two years, and the five of them are naturally very affectionate. The only thing that did not go well was that Miss Diner, who had no roots in her chest, Aridori, deliberately wrote a letter to show off in front of Princess Celivia and her four concubines, and everyone knew that she was pregnant with Lorist's child again.

So the jealous Princess Celivia was naturally annoyed, and asked Lorist whether to go to the Barony of Diner to live in seclusion to heal or to specifically deal with Aridor's belly, which made Lorist embarrassed, and it was the four concubines who added fuel to the fire, and they unanimously demanded that they be treated fairly, just as Fenna Gary said, her sister Aridori was just Lorlist's lover, but she could give birth to two children for Lorlist. She is Lorist's concubine and should not be far behind. So...... Lorist has started a desperate sexual life again......

Fat Smith, Director Speer, and Director Codan came to report to Lorlist. The three people who have the highest decision-making power in the administrative affairs of the Norton family have different expressions. Shi Fatzi was full of bitterness and preoccupations, but Director Speer was beaming with joy and a spring breeze on his face. Director Codan was expressionless and unmoved.

Shi Fatzi was the first to make a report, he was in charge of the relocation of the relocation of the plan and arrangement, with the assistance of Sedecamp and Baron Camorra, the immigrants have been escorted by the Flying Tiger Legion to their respective settlement sites in the Northland, it is expected to be settled before the arrival of winter at the end of November, with this group of immigrants, the total population of the Northland has reached 317 people, which has met the manpower needs of the overall development of the Northland. Shi Fatzi suggested that there is no need for large-scale immigration activities to the north in the future, and in another ten years, the population of the north will have a natural explosive growth.

The migration affairs are cumbersome and complicated, and Shi Fatzi can be regarded as laborious, and the whole person is a lot haggard. Lorist nodded, took his advice, and comforted him a few more words, telling him to pay attention to rest, and let Sedcamp do more if there was anything he could do. After the immigration affairs were disposed of this time, Lorist also had to discuss with the three of them the military reform of the family armed forces, and at the same time, Shi Fatzi also presided over this year's New Year's celebration, which was the first New Year's celebration held by Lorist after being promoted to the Sword Saint, and it was conceivable that it must be a grand and unprecedented celebration.

Next up was Director Speer, and it must have been another windfall for the family to be so excited. Lorist asked, and sure enough, the spoils of the Norton family's armed conquest of the Commercial Alliance, escorted by the Flying Tiger Legion, had arrived in the Northlands. Originally, Lorist led his family forces to sweep through the province of Andlviv, and the provinces of Portoorg and Cambona seized two or three million of property, and later the Flying Tiger Legion defeated the 100,000 reinforcements of the commercial alliance and entered the Marivia province to clear one-third of the noble territory of the commercial alliance, and seized more than three million property.

Later, Lorist was seriously injured in the duel against the Storm Sword Saint, and Tiger Ross and Jost took the Flying Tiger Legion and the Cavalry Hunting Legion to the front line in order to take revenge on the Commercial Alliance. There were nearly 1,000 horse-drawn carriages carrying goods alone. Tiger Ross and Jost also knew that their disobedience would make Lorist angry, so they decided to seize more property and plunder more people to alleviate their guilt......

Director Speer was pleased that the total value of the seizure was more than fifteen million gold medals, of which seven or eight million were gold coins alone, and the rest were precious works of art, decorative crafts, gold products, jewelry, and other goods. This is the second time that the Norton family has had so many war captures, the first being the destruction of the slave kingdom.

Since there are so many Lories in the account, you are not welcome, and a series of spending items are immediately arranged. In the past few years, the three major legions of the family have been fighting abroad, and the soldiers also need rest and rewards, so the two million goldfords are gone, and then another one million is allocated to the gunpowder laboratory and artillery training base, and the pension of the sacrificed soldiers and the cost of rebuilding the artillery battalion, as well as Professor Bob's experimental funds, are all a lot of expenses.

In addition, Lorist made a long list of the cost of reimbursing the experimental funds of Master Sid, Master Fallin, and Master Julien, the cost of recasting bronze artillery, and the replenishment of the standard equipment of the three major legions of the family's armed forces. Director Speer calculated with a bitter face, and found that only more than half of the fifteen million windfall that had just been happy for a long time actually entered the family treasury, but Director Speer also knew the severity, and frowned and packed up the list and prepared to go back before approving it.

Director Codan was the last to report, and he was in charge of the trial and disposition of all those involved in the family unrest initiated by Governor Haske. Director Codan pulled out a folder with the results of the trial of more than a thousand people involved. However, the names listed on the first piece of paper did not include a plan for dealing with them, leaving Lorist to decide the fate of the men herself.

The first name was Lesquet, as Lorlist's eldest son, Director Codan left a blank line after the name, believing that he did not have the authority to give Leskett a punishment plan, after all, Lesquet's situation was somewhat complicated.

Lorist asked, what kind of punishment would be given if a civilian committed Leskett's crimes, and the result was simple, decapitation or gallows, either.

"I have said that the prince is guilty of the same crime as the people. So, hang him, he has committed enough sins to be hanged more than ten times. It's not a sin to be put on the stage to become a puppet, the fault is that he has no self-knowledge, plus he was born pampered and connived, which has developed such a tyrannical character. If he hadn't committed these crimes, I could forgive him. But if he survives now, the Norton family will be disgraced by him. He's not bringing glory to the Norton family, it'......s shame!

Lorist personally decided the fate of his eldest son Lysket, although the father and son rarely lived together and did not have a deep relationship, but after all, they were connected by blood, recalling his ecstatic mood when Lesquet was born more than ten years ago, Lorist couldn't help but burst into tears......

Perhaps it was Lesquet's final fate that stimulated Lorlist, and the handling of the next people involved in the case was all strict. The culprit, Governor Hansk, was stripped of his family title, and the entire seventeen members of the family were beheaded in public. All those selected for the Leskett guard were likewise hanged, and their families were exiled to the Hanea Bada Islands. In addition, more than 300 people who were the first to respond to Hanks's support of Leskett as the heir to the family were also sentenced to hanging, and their families were also exiled to the Hanea Bada Islands.

The remaining people involved in the case were forcibly relocated from the Northland and exiled to Makinohara, because of the minor crimes. The verdict will be announced publicly, and the total number of people involved and their relatives exceeds 10,000, which is no less than a political earthquake for the family.

"As for the handling of the First Guards Legion, after postponing it for a while, I am considering whether to reform the family military system......" After reviewing the disposal plan of all the people involved in the case, Lorist only dropped a sentence and left the study with a gloomy face.

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