Chapter 178: The Daily Life of the Family

Lorist took Reddy, Tagger, and the others to Fengle Yuan to inspect the construction of various defenses in the villages and central towns of the districts, and when they returned to the Darkiron Smelting Ground in the Blade Mountains, it was already the end of July.

In more than two months, the valley here has changed a lot. First of all, Master Farin had moved his crossbow workshop to the vicinity of the valley, and was testing a row of objects on the hillside based on Lorist's crossbow blueprints. From time to time, he got together with Master Yu Lian next to him and muttered......

Secondly, there is a row of hydraulic forging machines under the mountain wall waterfall, some are large and some are small, some are simple and some are very complicated, it seems that these should be the hydraulic machinery that was later transformed by themselves.

When Lorist passed, Master Falin and Master Yu Lian were very happy.

Master Falin ran over and reported: "My lord, the elastic steel plate you want has been made, we have made a series of crossbows, tested the steel sheet, and finalized it......

Master Yu Lian opened his mouth with his teeth open, and he was happy.

"Yes, I'm satisfied. Reddy, in a while, Master Falin and Master Yu Lian will be rewarded with one hundred gold merits, and the rest of the meritorious personnel will be rewarded with ten gold merit. "Lorist has never been stingy with these technical talents.

"Thank you, sir, but you see, this is based on your crossbow design, and we found two problems during the test...... "Master Farin said.

The crossbow designed by Lorist was not made entirely of steel, except that the crossbow arm was made of steel, and the eccentric wheel and upper chord structure were made of steel. The rest are still wooden structures.

"Oh. What's the problem?" asked Lorlist.

"Your Excellency. The crossbow arm is made of elastic steel sheet, so that the direct shooting distance of the crossbow arrow can reach more than 320 meters to more than 350 meters, and the error is within two meters. During the test, we found that the usual wooden crossbow bolts were fired with some erratic and unstable center of gravity, which was the biggest cause of aiming error. So we made some iron crossbow arrows, and the direct range was reduced to between two hundred and eighty meters and three hundred meters. But the error of aiming and firing at the target is already no more than half a meter. It's just that iron crossbow arrows cost twice as much as wooden pole crossbow arrows, so it is up to adults to decide which crossbow arrows should be used for this steel car crossbow. Master Fallin said.

"Which crossbow bolt is powerful?" Lorist asked.

"Iron crossbows, of course. Master Fallin replied.

"Then all iron crossbow arrows will be used, and a crossbow arrow processing plant will be set up, just because Master Lian is in charge. Lorist was the final word.

"The second problem is the bowstring of this steel crossbow, which is so staggering. In the past, the car crossbow could fire more than 20 arrows before the bowstring needed to be replaced, and this kind of car crossbow because of the use of steel plate as a crossbow arm, the amplitude of the steel plate crossbow arm after the arrow was released, the bowstring was very harmful, and the bowstring needed to be replaced after seven or eight arrows were fired. But now we and Master Yu Lian are preparing to weave a new bowstring using steel wire plus beef tendon and hair. After a while it will be finalized. Master Fallin reported a second question.

"Very well, Master Fallin. Master Yu Lian, I am very relieved that you will do something, and the new steel crossbow will be handed over to you, and it will be finalized as soon as possible and enter mass production. It's the end of July, and before October, I hope to have 3,000 steel crossbows, so that I can be much more sure of dealing with the Warcraft tide. Lorris nodded.

"Your Excellency, we won't let you down. Master Fallin replied.

Seeing that Master Falin continued to instruct his disciples to test the steel crossbow, Lorist looked around and asked Master Yu Lian, "Why didn't Master Sid come?"

Master Yu Lian pointed to the waterfall: "My lord, since you designed that hydraulic forging machine, Master Sid has been fascinated by machinery, you see that those were all rebuilt by him." He is currently designing a hydro-wire drawing machine, preparing to use hydro-pulling to draw the wire ...... for the manufacture of intimate chain mail."

Lorist laughed: "Yes, Master Sid's brain is quick to think of this." Reddy, don't forget to give Master Sid a reward of one hundred gold merit, and he also has ten gold merit for each of his men......"

"Yes, sir. ”

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After being a fortune boy for a while, Lorist returned to the Rock Castle satisfied. After a few days of making out with Miss Theresti, Lorist finally remembered what was going on, got up from her tender nest, and told Reddy to summon Dorus from the chariot.

"Why, my lord, we didn't do anything wrong, why did we cut our fleet?" Dorus was stunned by the blow, and his lips trembled and he was heartbroken, knowing that the formation of the chariot team had taken most of his effort.

No wonder Dores reacted like this, because the order Lorist gave him was that in addition to handing over the twelve small crossbows to the guard battalion led by El, the remaining more than 300 siege vehicles and crossbows in the convoy were selected to be the best batch to be sealed together with the siege vehicles of the White Lion Legion.

In Dorus's mind, would the convoy still exist without those crossbows? Tearful Dorres was so sad that he almost burst into tears.

Lorist was almost amused, and Dorus thought of where.

"Dores, Dores!" Lorist was furious.

"Ah, my lord, I'm ......," Dorus looked at Lorist with a sad face.

"After sealing the crossbows and handing them over to the steward of Speer, he immediately went to recruit troops, and within three months the chariot brigade was expanded into a corps, a total of five brigades, each with five hundred crossbows, and two thousand five hundred men. The rearmament was completed by October, and then the new steel crossbow was received. I've sent a dozen family knights to serve in your chariot corps, and all the equipment has been ordered, just waiting for you to sign and approve. This winter's Warcraft tide is coming, and your chariot corps will be the main force to deal with Warcraft, don't drop the chain for me then, do you understand?",

"Great, my lord, you're not trying to cut down on our fleet. But it is going to be expanded into a chariot corps?" Dorus will be too happy to find the north again.

"That's right. You bastard. Did you understand what I was saying?" Lorist looked at Dorus helplessly.

"Listen, I understand, my lord, I'll go and do something. Dorres ran out in a panic, and then stuck his head in again: "Great, my lord, are there really so many new crossbows for us?"

Loris nodded, "Of course it's true, and it's much better than your old-fashioned castle guard crossbows." Otherwise, I wouldn't have asked you to mothball. ”

"Oh yes!" said Dorres in cheer, and ran out merrily.

"This idiot......" Lorist shook her head, continuing to look down at the papers that had accumulated on her desk for months.

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As of August, the family territory was relatively peaceful, and the good news continued. The potatoes sown in April were harvested in July with more than 170 million catties, which is conducive to supplementing the consumption of the family's grain reserves, and then there is a batch of millet and millet sown in May to be harvested in September. It can't fully offset the food consumption of more than 500,000 people, but the harvest is good news.

In addition, the sweep of the demonic beasts left behind in Fengle Yuan ended at the end of June. This time, more than 100,000 demonic beasts became the source of meat for the family territory. According to the report, boiled potatoes with Warcraft meat have become one of Fengleyuan's favorite dishes. However, in the process of sweeping the demonic beasts, there were still hundreds of family soldiers killed and wounded, these soldiers were sacrificed and injured while hunting those carnivorous demonic beasts, if it weren't for the family's large number of golden knights and silver knights, I am afraid that the casualties would increase.

However, Lorist believes that if Dorus's chariot corps is also invested in the Demon Beast sweep next year, the casualties of the family's soldiers will be greatly reduced. According to the report sent by Bodfinger, except for the archers' battalion in Joske and the women's battalion in Miss Bersa, the rest of the family forces are scattered to various cantonment villages and central towns in various districts to assist in the construction of fortifications such as walls and walls......

As the head of the family's industrial and mining department, Papa Balek submitted the most reports and reported the most good news. First of all, the salt drying field in the Blade Mountains has produced high-quality salt in large quantities, which can not only fully supply the needs of the family, but also become a fist product of foreign trade. Secondly, the gum vine valley has also produced a large amount of green rattan gum juice, but all of it is currently used for the construction of Fengle Yuan's defense facilities. According to the development plan of the family domain, at least for five years, the supply of this green rattan juice will be in short supply, and maybe some will have to be imported from abroad.

What pleased Lorist the most was the booming opening of the Minsheng Commodity Workshop that Papa Balek was in charge of, and more than 50,000 people are currently working in these workshops. The largest is the vellum paper processing plant, which has nearly 10,000 laborers, thanks to the harvest of sweeping the monsters, the processing plant has produced 100,000 pieces of vellum paper that meet the specifications in the past six months. According to statistics, by the end of the year, it is expected to produce up to 500,000 pieces of animal skin paper, and its total commercial value is nearly more than 20,000 gold fords. It is beneficial to supplement the tension and consumption of family administrative paper.

For the rest of the production workshops and workshops of daily necessities, Papa Balek adopts a strategy of support and competition, and each industry has two related workshops, each with its own characteristic products to maintain survival, and form a competitive relationship with other products. For example, there are two pottery workshops, one is mainly engaged in the production of small plates and bowls, and the other specializes in the production of large pottery pots and pots, etc., avoiding the monopoly of a certain industry by one workshop.

Although the scale of these newly opened livelihood daily necessities factories in the family domain is still very young and immature, it is already remarkable that they can meet the living needs of more than 500,000 people. When they settle down, these small factories will naturally develop, and as long as they can produce some distinctive products, they will become one of the important commodities of the family's foreign trade in the future.

The next thing Lorist read was the report submitted by the three major departments of the family, and the director of the personnel department, Kodan, specially submitted a report, which was full of praise for one of his subordinate managers, and strongly requested that this manager be promoted to become his deputy.

Lorist looked at the report and wanted to laugh because the manager's name was Camorra.

After being stripped of his title by Duke Lukins and thrown into a water prison, the former Baron Camorra rejected Lorlist's offer to recruit him as a staff member and insisted on living an ordinary life. But talent is talent, came to the family territory through the recruitment of administrative personnel, became the lowest level of the personnel department of a manager, and soon stood out in the daily administrative affairs, deeply trusted and appreciated by the director of Kedan.

Lorist smiled and wrote an approval on the report of Director Codan, and the manager could be promoted as appropriate according to the opinion of Director Codan. In fact, Lorist had already planned to keep Camorra under Director Kodan for a while, and then he would be entrusted with heavy responsibilities.

In the end, it was Shi Fat who submitted the report, and the shameful and brave Shi Fat Man spent a lot of effort on several things that Lorist explained to him, and in only half a year, he had completed the planning of the three new towns of the back city of the rock castle, the mountain city, and the industrial city at the junction of the Blade Mountains and the Morgen Hills, and started construction, relocated the population, reclaimed wasteland, and arranged the industry in an orderly manner.

As the family's most important weapons production center in the future, more than 40,000 people involved in a series of production personnel and their families have settled in the industrial city, and are building production bases and residential areas. The mountain city was planned by Shi Fatzi as a half-worker and half-farmer, and most of the production workshops for people's daily necessities were placed there, and the families of miners from various mines in the Morgen Hills were also arranged here. With nearly 30,000 farmers, the mountain town has become the most populous town in the Norton family's territory, with more than 70,000 residents.

The immigration camp of nearly 500,000 people behind the once bustling rock castle has been diverted and relocated many times, and only the relatives of about 40,000 family soldiers remain. The back city of the rock castle planned by Shi Fatzi was built on the location of the immigration camp, and it was also the slowest place to build. However, more than 100,000 acres of wasteland have been reclaimed outside the back city. Shi Fatzi's plan is to vigorously carry out the construction of water conservancy facilities next year, and this will become a big granary in the family domain in the year after that.

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When Targer entered, Lorist was watching a report about the mountain barbarians.

Perhaps when the Demon Beast tide receded, there were also a lot of demonic beast groups and carnivorous demonic beasts left near the Demon Dragon Mountain Range, so that in the first half of the year, the border areas of the Demon Dragon Mountain Range and the family territory were not disturbed by the mountain barbarians. The Five Swords Mercenary Regiment stationed at the junction of the two mountains reported that although many traces of the Mountain Barbarians had been found, most of them were hunting, and there was no sign of a large-scale invasion of the family territory by the Mountain Barbarians.

Lorist snorted softly, in the second half of last year, the mountain barbarians had launched a thousand-person attack on the military fortress, intending to pull out this nail military fortress that controlled the deep valley river. The Five Swords Mercenary Regiment lost thirteen of their members in that attack, but the warning they cast attracted Chosk's archers and Pachko's garrison squadron, and the barbarians suffered a great loss from both sides, leaving behind half of their corpses before escaping. I hope they still remember the lesson of last year, the family's current focus is on dealing with the Warcraft tide, and it will be their turn to eliminate the Warcraft tide.

"My lord, I'm back. Targer saluted respectfully.

"Oh, how's it going on over there?" asked Lorlist, putting down the report in his hand.

When inspecting Fengle Yuan in the first half of the year, Lorist led people to inspect the isthmus that Tagger suggested to lure the demonic beasts into the diversion, and he felt very satisfied. The reason why Tagger knew this place was to make a living and participated in Yuri's scout light cavalry, and traveled all over the Norton family's territory, and when he found this isthmus, he paid attention.

"It's done, and when the first snow falls in the winter, we can reinforce the defensive walls set up in front, and I guarantee that those monsters won't be able to get out when they enter the isthmus. Tugger replied.

Lorist stood up, walked to Tagger's side and patted him on the shoulder: "Good job, when the Warcraft tide arrives this year, we can implement the plan, whether we can let the family territory settle down as soon as possible depends on whether we can succeed this time." Targer, work hard, and when you reach the silver rank, I will accept you as a knight of the family. ”

"Yes, thank you for your cultivation. Tugger said.

...... (To be continued.) )