Nils soon receives a letter from Wayne, mentioning Beard's case against Nolan and hoping that Nils can resolve it politically.

This is that Wayne can't understand the current situation when he is not in the imperial capital, and the situation in the imperial capital is no longer a treacherous and unpredictable thing to describe.

Just a few days ago, when Olmedo finally held a family banquet, he found that he had more than ten children, and only two came, except for Audrey who left the imperial capital, the others had been staying in the imperial capital.

And these two people can only be the eldest prince and the fourth prince.

The reason for the other children is nothing more than illness, carriage breakdown, etc.

Looking at his two sons who were eating as if they had nothing to do, he couldn't help but be annoyed and overturned the table. Delicate plates, precious food, fresh fruits scattered all over the place.

But that doesn't change anything.

Even though Olmedo's health began to improve, the water did not know if it was a return to light. After all, Olmedo has reached this age, and when he reaches the curse that Emperor Rune cannot escape, he will not live to be fifty.

As a result of this situation, Nils was unable to help Wayne, and the northwest was an important area for Rune to defend against Stuyard and Ortuno, so he could avoid the political ripple of the imperial capital.

But Nils can't, he's not a Northwestern nobleman. It is not easy for him to act rashly now, and if he doesn't do it, he will be caught by the four princes again. Nils felt that Wayne's loss of money was nothing compared to here.

Seeking Nils' help was to no avail.

At this time, Wayne did not know the news, and a small blast furnace was being built in Longji City.

In order to speed up the progress, Wayne built six small blast furnaces at once and experimented many times.

Wayne set up the coking coal plant in Nolan, and if a large ton of coal was directly pulled to LONGi, I don't know how much transportation capacity would be lost, but now after refining in Nolan, it can be transported to LONGi to greatly reduce transportation costs.

The iron ore is fed into the furnace from the bottom inlet, which is already covered with a layer of coking coal. The blazing fire burns continuously, and the water wheel rotates continuously, transporting the heated air to the furnace.

There was constant smoke, coming out of the furnace. It has to be said that the coal in Ortuno is indeed of higher quality than that of the Stuyard, with less black smoke and a higher conversion rate of coal.

After firing for several hours, the bright red molten iron slowly flows out from the discharge port on the other side, enters the mold, cools, and shapes.

After paying the price of three small blast furnaces, this time it finally worked.

The audience burst into applause, and this success marked a new stage in Nolan's ironmaking. In the past, the earth furnace smelted non-stop a day, and at most two or three tons were smelted. This time, the small blast furnace was able to increase the output tenfold. It's just limited by the water source. And the fact that the furnace can use less manpower for the same output means that Wayne can expand the workshop even further.

It seems that the city of Kafei, which is rich in water resources next to Wasser, is also going to be included in the development.

When small blast furnaces begin to be popularized, Nolan's monthly iron output will soar from 5,000 tons to more than 80,000 tons.

I'm afraid the whole of Rune can't be compared.

Of course, it will take at least a year to accomplish this goal, and Wayne is not in a hurry.

Now the small blast furnace will have researcher Colin, and Reynolds will be in charge of the development of the railroad.

Now Evans has repaired the forty-kilometer road from Longi to Nolan, and the army is currently divided into two roads, Evans is responsible for the journey from Menan to Vasser, and his student Seth is responsible for the journey from Nolan to Menan.

Unconsciously, Nolan has been supported by Reynolds alone from time to time.

Of course, Wayne didn't care about these things that had already been accepted by others this time, he was going to be ready to teach this Beard a lesson and directly announce his existence as the overlord in the Northwest.

First of all, he had 12,000 infantry and artillery at his disposal, and 2,000 cavalry in white.

Plus the Iron Fist type, flintlock pistol. On the plains is invincible.

But the platoon gun crash is not that easy to achieve.

These nobles built forts on the hills, loaded them with artillery and crossbow arrows, and dug trenches in imitation of Wayne's prismatic walls.

These nobles also made a good calculation, if they couldn't win on the plains, they would guard the sky.

Of course, Wayne didn't plan to let this group of nobles succeed, he needed time to prepare.

War is not just about fighting, it takes time to fight food, grass, equipment, artillery shells, and war mobilization.

Of course, Wayne has something more important this time, the financing of businessmen. In other words, this war will need to be fought by the group of businessmen who will fund Wayne.

He needs to develop a consciousness, he needs the merchants to know that they too have great power. They can raise money to fight any war they want.

With the exception of Stuyard, almost all of the merchants' shipments passed through the territories of the Northwest nobles, and this time Beard didn't know how much trouble he was in trouble.

Nolan and Wasser's merchants lost a lot of profit because Beard didn't know how much.

He almost offended thousands of merchants, large and small, among whom there were more than ten, hundreds of thousands, and tens of thousands of merchants worth no less than a million gold coins.

Together, this group of people is a terrifying force.

When Wayne returned to Nolan, he began to announce that the registered merchants in Nolan and Vassar were to pay for the war at a tenth of the annual trade value.

One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and this move caused strong dissatisfaction among the merchants, why the lord needed them to pay for the war, unprecedented.

Hundreds of merchants joined forces to protest at the Lord's Palace. Wayne arrived at the scene, with no banners and no earth-shattering protests. There were only black heads, and no one's faces were full of fear, anger and fear. The luxurious clothes on each of them show their identity, but at the moment they are like sculptures in the sun, enduring the scorching sun.

These hundreds of businessmen surrounded their homes and protested silently. These businessmen were sent out to benefit, but they were still afraid of Wayne's aristocratic status and did not dare to go too far.

Wayne had already prepared the draft, which he had expected.

Wayne picked up the trumpet, which Reynolds had made of iron sheets, and Wayne cleared his throat, stood on the wagon, and began to speak to the hundreds of merchants.

"I know that there has never been a lord who has ever fought a war, and that the merchant needs to pay for it in advance. ”

Wayne slowed down and changed his breath, shouting like this really requires lung capacity. The merchant in the front row took a few steps back, the horn was too loud.

"But you know who this battle is for. It's not that my territory has been invaded, it's not that I've been insulted by other nobles, and my interests and reputation have not been damaged in the slightest. ”

Change your breath.

"It's you, it's you who have passed through the gates of those nobles, and the taxes have suddenly increased. It's your interests that have suffered. cough cough cough~"

"It is some of you who keep coming to me to seek justice for you. ”

Wayne's sonorous sound waves were amplified and reached everyone's ears.