The day of delivery is coming soon, this time the Black Hammer Castle's aid to the Imperial Province of Osterling, said to be aid, in fact, it is more like a transaction, a hundred engineering technicians from Baker City arrived at the Black Hammer Castle as early as half a month ago, and Rhodes also according to the agreement, as soon as the ice pepper is ripe, it will be directly loaded and sent to Baker Harbor, no longer sold to other regions, but directly supplied to the disaster area.

Of course, being able to grow so many ice peppers in such a short period of time is also thanks to Caroline. Without the Frost Witch, this deal couldn't have gone so smoothly. Caroline herself didn't know, but Rhodes knew in her heart that this innocent girl was no longer the third-order witch she was at the beginning, and judging from her performance, she had at least reached the level of the fifth to sixth order. Otherwise, magic could not have been so abundant. Ice peppers can ripen quickly, which is inextricably linked to Caroline's frost magic.

Rod guessed that this may be due to her constant fighting in the past two years, after all, before the outbreak of Erlengrad, Caroline had not experienced much actual combat, and in these two short years, she continued to fight, and even almost died because of it, all the progress was obtained through countless actual combat training, and the Frost Witch was no exception.

Looking at Caroline's innocent smile, Rhodes was reluctant to tell the truth. Otherwise, the pressure on Caroline's shoulders is heavy.

And the hundred imperial engineers from Baker City, Rhodes had already arranged them to the R&D department half a month ago, specializing in overcoming the technical problem of harvesters. The results were very satisfying, and it turned out that as long as the money was in place, everything could be done. With the strong support of the authorities, the engineers of Baker City did not disgrace the empire, and in just half a month, the prototype of the harvester was designed. Moreover, coal water is used as fuel. It's a lot cheaper than alcohol. So Rhodes gave the job of producing the harvester directly to the Baker City engineers.

Because of this incident, Rhodes has a new plan - perhaps the industry of Black Hammer Castle must be subdivided. Those specializing in the production of weapons and artillery and those specializing in the production of civilian agricultural use must be divided into two different sectors. Engineers who are good at different fields can work in their respective factories to maximize the use of human resources. Otherwise, just like before, the task of generating harvesters will be handed over to the dwarves, who will not be able to build a truly practical agricultural harvester for a hundred years if they use alcohol as fuel.

And when this task was given to the engineers on the Imperial side, they quickly solved the problem. Use whatever ingredients you have. Use whatever is cheap and practical. Rhodes was in favor of this, but he couldn't say, especially in front of the dwarven engineers, that they should praise what they had made. After all, these dwarfs are just a tendon. They think their stuff is useful, and they probably think so for the rest of their lives.

As summer draws to a close and autumn approaches, Rhodes asked the Minister of Agriculture to select a few skilled farmers and let them try to harvest wheat with this machine first. Every new thing that comes out causes some opposition and discomfort. This time is no exception, although the agricultural harvester can quickly harvest a large area of wheat fields, saving a lot of labor costs, but this thing is a new thing after all, farmers are still very resistant, worried that this guy has opened the field, and the crops they have worked hard for more than half a year will be directly destroyed?

Rhodes understood this concern, so he experimented with a small wheat field. At the same time, these farmers are now farmers. At the same time, these farmers were called to watch.

In autumn, the roar of machinery contrasts sharply with the apprehension on the faces of farmers. Wonderful Pen Court

"Are you sure this thing can be used to harvest wheat?"

"I don't know, it's the first time I've seen it, but I believe in Lord Rhodes, as long as something he makes is useful. ”

"Let's see, he didn't make this thing, it was made by the engineers of the Empire. I've never trusted the Empires, those arrogant and cold-blooded guys. ”

"I bet this weird car can move. ”

Next to the wheat field, the farmers were talking, and in the wheat field, the imperial engineering technician had climbed to the top of the harvester and skillfully controlled the big guy. In the early autumn sun, the huge roar of the harvester sounded, and the billowing smoke erupted from the exhaust vent, and soon the machine, which was twice the size of the horse-drawn carriage, was in operation.

It was like a tank, grinding over the golden wheat field, and everyone stared at the scene in front of them with wide eyes, this is all ripe wheat, and it was crushed by this four-like machine? What is Lord Rhodes doing? The farmers had a look of surprise and confusion on their faces.

However, when the big creature drove away, people saw that the originally tall ears of wheat were directly cut in half, and the wheat swept towards the inside of the harvester like a torrential rain. The efficiency is simply a hundred times higher than that of the farmer's manual work. Even the Secretary of Agriculture, Dallas, was dumbfounded, he had heard that Rhodes had been working on a machine for harvesting wheat quickly, but he had never imagined that it would be what he saw.

In the flattened wheat field, all the wheat is put into the harvester storage bin, and the whole test field is harvested after two trips. When the storage silo was opened, people saw that the golden wheat was piled to the brim, and the joy of the harvest was on everyone's face. Now, you don't have to worry about it being too late to harvest. Some farmers immediately decided to pay for this artifact for harvesting grain. But Rhodes was adamant not to sell. It's not a matter of price, but that there is currently only one such machine...... It would take at least three to five years for the farmers to use such machines, during which time Rhodes planned to lease the harvesters to various farmers and kulaks. Let the wealthy farmers decide for themselves whether to continue harvesting by hand or use this new tool.

As for the poor peasants who had no money, Rhodes would not force them to use them, after all, the difference between the poor peasants and the rich peasants was still very large, and it was not a problem for the rich peasants to rent a harvester to use it, while the income of the poor peasants was sometimes only enough for them to maintain food and clothing. However, there is only one consequence of not using new technologies, and that is to continue to fall behind.

In order to prevent the poor peasants from being annexed by the rich peasants, Rhodes felt that it was necessary to buy grain in the official name. Anyway, in a place like the north, it's always right to stock up on some food for your family. The devil knows when the Beastmen, Greenskins, and Chaos Legion will come. When the farmland is destroyed, it will be necessary to store grain to appease the people.