Chapter 578: The First Year of the New Calendar
In the later history books, the year 11418 in the Fantes calendar and 6454 in the Keos calendar...... There is a long list of reasons why the year 644 of the Femont calendar is collectively referred to as the first year of the new calendar. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
In this year, Sandru the Blasphemer was condemned to death after destroying the Holy See of Light, and the influence of the Five Holy Houses surpassed the Holy See and the Chiga Mountain in one fell swoop, and the Magic Continent entered a short and chaotic period of partition.
The collapse of the Cathedral of Light had a profound impact. The baptism ceremony of the Holy See and the disappearance of the Magic Pet Contract Sphere led to the gradual demise of the Demon Pet system.
The Church of Light, which had lost its core dominance, began a long period of decline, with various new religions popping up, and the Cult of Light itself deriving its own doctrines. Among them were the Old Testamentists, who cursed Sandru the Blaspher, and the so-called New Testamentists, convinced that the Holy See of Light had been corrupted by the devil, and enshrined Sandru as another oracle after St. Peter, the latter of which prevailed for only a few decades before being replaced by pessimistic doomsdayism.
The decline of the Holy See of Light also began to manifest its impact on Middle-earth in this year. Among them, the fall of the Angya Empire on the Kaios continent is the most symbolic.
At the end of the first year of the new calendar, this ancient empire that had lasted for more than 6,000 years finally fell apart, and the world-famous Thirty Years' War on the continent of Kaios began.
However, what is truly recognized by historians as a landmark event of the New Calendar was the promulgation of a decree called the "Magna Carta" of Femont on the continent of Hulls in western Middle-earth.
Interestingly, people in history feel very different from what people feel when they read history years later. In May of the first year of the new calendar, this decree, which was later called the "Glorious Charter", did not cause much repercussions at all at the beginning of its promulgation. In fact, even the most famous prototype of the "Om Machine" in the history of Lantestar technology did not cause the sensation it deserved.
Because at that time, in the Femon Empire, and even in the entire Huls continent, people's attention had been firmly attracted by the "Truth Monthly" published in February of that year.
In this monthly magazine, which first printed 50,000 copies, and later increased to 260,000 copies, there is a strange article that opens the door to the wizarding world to everyone.
Five concise and perfect magic element curves, from the shape to the meaning, and even to the things you need to pay attention to when drawing. At the beginning of the article, it is clearly pointed out that regardless of male or female, young and old, regardless of magical talent, anyone can condense the magic element by drawing these five magic figures.
For half a year, the "Truth Monthly" that continued to be distributed was like countless torches, igniting the entire continent.
Three months after the publication of the Monthly, the Constitutional Council, headed by Mr. Merkel, had to promulgate the Magna Carta of Femont ahead of schedule in order to calm the chaos, and on the same day, the Imperial Police Headquarters was inaugurated in Coenas, with Kane, the former director of the former director of the Imperial Knight Academy of Femon.
At the end of July of the new calendar, the Faimon Empire convened its first meeting of the House of Commons, and 173 members hastily elected from 39 provinces spent a full seventeen days in the makeshift hall of the Imperial Academy of Engineering to draft and adopt the "Draft Imperial Magician Management Law", "Imperial Criminal Law Draft", "Imperial Civil Code Draft" and so on.
On August 11 of the same year, the 173 members of the House of Commons elected 39 elders representing the provinces, and the letters of appointment of the elders were signed by Queen Lucia. The first thing the Presbyterian Council of the First Femont Empire did after its establishment was to approve the bills that had been discussed and drafted by the House of Commons.
The next day, the first meeting of the Imperial Council of Presbyterians, which is equivalent to the House of Lords, elected Merkelback, one of the members of the Presbyterian Church, the Elder of Santan Province and the former Governor of the Northern District, as the first Prime Minister of the Reich - the latter automatically withdrew from the Presbyterian Council, and the office of elder was replaced by Jimmy Pierce (Knight Jimmy), one of the representatives of Santan Province in the House of Commons.
At noon on August 16, Empress Lucia, in the presence of tens of thousands of people in the Royal Square, personally handed over a golden scepter to Chancellor Merkel, who took the oath of office with the Magna Carta of Femont in one hand and the imperial scepter in the other.
At the beginning of Merkel's tenure, she appointed Kane, the head of the Imperial Knight Academy, as the official director of the Imperial Police, and appointed Dwisberg (Wesley's father), the former director of the Triss Academy of Magic, as the supreme judge of the Empire.
When the rudiments of this combination of constitutional monarchy and separation of powers began to limp in, Donner, who had single-handedly created all this, was busy in the Avery Industrial Area.
For more than two months, from February to April, Donner closed himself in a desperate laboratory, hiding from danger, and by the way, completed the planning of the entire Avery Industrial Zone.
In late April, when he broke through the sealed Golden Barrier of Desperation and walked out of the lab, the production line of the Om-type magical energy engine in Foggy City was still being debugged.
Donner stayed in Fog City for a month, solved a series of problems in the mass production of magic engines, and then took more than 700 students from the engineering academy to the Avery Industrial Zone.
Throughout the first year of the new calendar, Donner spent all of his time in the Avery Industrial Zone, except for the agreement with Lucia to return to Coenas once a month to meet her and inspect the implementation of the new policy.
At the same time, more than 300 engineering students and more than 20,000 laborers remained in the Aili Industrial Zone.
Under Donner's unified dispatch and command, these labors have exerted amazing efficiency, including the Avery Steel Plant, Avery Machinery Factory, Avery Air Chemical Plant and other projects have been built in an orderly manner at a magical speed.
At the end of the year, the first blast furnace was put into operation to heat steelmaking using magic energy.
Because the melting point of Mystic Copper is quite close to that of pig iron, the energy source of the blast furnace is the Mithril Totem Pole with a higher melting point - since the implementation of the food-for-grain policy in the Knight Continent, precious Mystic Copper, Mithril and other precious secret metals are flowing into Fog City at an alarming speed. Mithril, which was once staggeringly expensive, is now hoarded with hundreds of kilograms in the Avery Industrial Zone alone.
Dozens of Mithril totem poles, each three meters long and less than half a centimeter in diameter, were evenly distributed throughout the bottom of the blast furnace like the heating wires on the early electric furnaces. The blasting, mixing, slag removal and other operations are all powered by the magic energy engine produced by the Wucheng factory - Wucheng has produced more than 70 units a month from the end of September when the first Om type magic energy engine rolled off the assembly line at the end of September, and most of them have been pulled to the Aili Industrial Zone.
In addition, in order to cooperate with the Avery Steel Plant, Downer also built an oxygen plant near the steel plant, using the low-temperature characteristics of the totem pole of the water system to decompose air and produce pure oxygen.
Due to the extremely high ore grade of the Avery Iron Mine, the magic energy steelmaking does not use any carbon-containing fuel, and pure oxygen is used as an oxidizing agent, the first furnace of the Avery Iron Mine has reached a very high level.
By the standards of the earth, the scale of this blast furnace is pitifully small, with a daily output of just over 200 tons of steel, but even this small production shows the capacity bottleneck of the Aili Industrial Zone.
In the case of the widespread use of animal transportation, transporting hundreds of tons of iron ore from a mining area more than a dozen kilometers away to a steel mill is an extremely difficult task. Moreover, the newly built Avery Machinery Factory did not have the ability to digest so many raw materials.
As a result, Donner was in no hurry to build a second blast furnace and shifted his focus to the Avery Machinery Factory.
Around this time, news from the Magic Continent reached Donner through the Holy See of Light, which was still functioning normally in Middle-earth.
The Holy Mountain of Light soared to show miracles, the blasphemer Sandru was punished and died, the Cathedral of Light was destroyed, thousands of holy mountains were attacked, countless priests were killed, the four holy courtyards tried to open the ruins of the holy mountain unsuccessfully, the only pro-Holy See Blue Holy Courtyard remained silent, the residents of St. Petersburg fell into panic, and the major associations began to evacuate the Holy City......
Every piece of news was so appalling, but it all fulfilled Donner's guess.
If only I could get my hands on Jingwei...... The thought just crossed his mind and went out instantly. Donner didn't dare to think too much about it until he knew if it was completely ruined. Besides, the Four Great Holy Courtyards can't open the Jingwei, and Donner thinks that there may not be anything he can do.