Iger isn't available right now, he's busy.

It's enough, Arya annoys herself, he can't afford to provoke and can only dodge, because the relationship between them is so close that he doesn't even know where to turn his face. But what is the matter with Asha Greyjoy, the enemy she fought on the battlefield and the public enemy of the North, who also ran to her to mention this and that?

Maybe it's really too much for her?

Ig secretly scolded and reflected on his preferential treatment of prisoners, and as he walked, he listened to the accounts of the guards who stayed behind in Houguan Town, and quickly understood what Asha was talking about in his last words.

Since the key plot of the War of the Five Kings became the siege of the Five Kingdoms in the West, Robb did not encounter resistance on the battlefield in this timeline, and did not send Theon back to the Iron Islands for help. This means that during the first rebellion of the Iron Islands, Seinshang was a hostage in the Northern Army - this clearly meant that he was abandoning his safety and even wanted to get rid of him as the first heir by the hands of the Starks.

Who wants to end up very embarrassed, Daddy Baron Greyjoy died at home and ended up clean, but the sister and brother one put on black clothes and the other became prisoners, coincidentally, they both came to give land, and they were both arranged in Houguan Town.

We haven't seen each other for nine years, but we meet again in this situation. Looking up and not looking down, after the initial embarrassing period, Theon began to complain and accuse, at first he only muttered and complained, but Asha was also a hard temper who would not accept the soft apology, and after two sentences of rejection to each other...... New and old grudges and dissatisfaction with the status quo all came to my heart, and they developed into quarrels without any suspense. During the time that Egger was gone, the siblings of the sea monster family just broke out in public and attracted onlookers, and there were enough times twice, and the entire Houguan Town knew about the conflict between them.

Compared to this, the "female affair" between Jaime Lannister and the blonde savage princess, and the petty fights between Joffrey and his peers at school, are not big news.

......

Egger supports his forehead, and this will be the end of all kinds of living treasures gathered together, and while Houguan Town is developing rapidly, it is also staging the first chaos in history - but he doesn't have time to be a mediator.

"Wait. After walking a few more steps, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he found a blind spot: "How could it be so coincidental that I had just entered the door of Houguan Town when I bumped into Asha Greyjoy? Someone must have revealed to her the news of my trip back to Houguan Town today!"

The subordinates who followed Egger turned pale with a blank face, knowing that someone was going to be unlucky, how could they dare to answer?

The staff of the logistics department are almost all young men from the south, and most of them are single...... Although Houguanzhen is no longer a state of only men, the gender ratio is still out of balance. Although Asha Greyjoy is not stunning, she is definitely a great beauty compared to the wild women who came from outside the Seychelles and the clan women who grew up in the mountains.

If she is willing to sacrifice her hue and the jailer's suit, she can't hold on to it, so she naturally has to answer all questions and has nothing to hide.

At best, this matter is just a lack of vigilance after getting along for a long time, but on a larger scale, it is a mistake and a collaborator! Today, Asha just wants to ask herself to understand, if she wants to escape or assassinate herself another day, if she is willing to show the determination of "you can do anything", will there be anyone among those young men with strong blood who will be enveloped by her with her body, and even die to her with real feelings?

The people who brought the land gifts were all good young men, but Iger didn't dare to pack the ticket and say: everyone can be as strict with themselves as he is, and control the lower half of his body.

After all, they are just wage earners, and they don't think the same way as they themselves - Egger himself was also an "exploited" under the boss before the crossing, and he has experienced this inevitable mentality.

"Give me the word to Yam, and ask him to find out the jailer who stabbed the date of my return to Asha Greyjoy, and then transfer him from his post. The guards of the prisoners should be changed frequently, and if possible, it would be better to recruit a few able-bodied women from among the hill clansmen to be in charge. ”

"Yes, sir. ”

......

At the moment of the great enemy, why are there more and more forced things? Egger was unhappy in his heart, but he understood that this was his own psychological effect - in fact, there have been a lot of forced things, but he has kept them backlogged and not dealt with, and now they are starting to explode.

Shaking his head and leaving his thoughts behind, he led the guards to the small lake behind the castle.

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Climbing the tech tree first or exploding first, this is an eternal topic that cannot be avoided in strategy games, and it is this choice that Iger is now facing.

When playing the game, he likes to pick a low difficulty level, then hide in a corner of the map and develop comfortably, waiting for the best class to be pointed out and then push it through in a wave - the rookie can only get a little fun from the process.

Emotionally speaking, he really wants to get the ultimate killer weapon like long-range artillery out before going to the battlefield and pushing all the bulls, ghosts, snakes, and gods. Unfortunately, the enemy is not a low-level computer AI: whether it is the Iron Fleet harassing the west coast of the North, or the dead army that is ready to launch a general attack south, they all have the initiative on the battlefield - they have the final say when the war starts.

......

The good news is that the Sean tribe who moved in from outside the Seychelles had experience in smelting bronze and knew how to distinguish tin ore, and after a large number of people had searched and explored, they had found tin ore that could be mined in the mountains of the land grant - which meant that the land would soon have the ability to produce bronze.

But the bad news is that although the profession is related to metal, Egger's connection between bronze and artillery is limited to the level that "bronze can cast cannons". What is the ratio of tin, copper and some other metals in bronze, how much strength is enough to reduce the impurity content to for emission, how to make molds for casting, and how to ensure power, accuracy and safety...... As a member of the refined division of labor structure in modern society, he doesn't know anything.

As a science and engineering graduate, Egger is definitely better at leading a team to tackle scientific research than anyone else, but unfortunately, as the leader of the land grant and the Night's Watch legion, he doesn't have the energy and time to do everything himself, so he can only let the technicians of this world figure it out on their own after pointing out the general direction, and occasionally come to monitor the progress.

In order to avoid the bad situation that the enemy is not ready to come to the door, Egger's military policy can be summed up in one word: while exploding troops while climbing science and technology, balanced development.

As far as the details are concerned, for the time being, we will not consider the firing thermal weapons like guns, and give priority to the creation of explosive weapons, and in terms of delivery, use ready-made light trebuchets and ballistas to undertake the task -- it is conceivable that even if the artillery is successfully developed, there is still a long way to go before the power, range and accuracy can meet the actual combat, and the two imminent major battles cannot wait for people.

He gave the military industry two major mission goals: to develop incendiary weapons against the iron-folk wooden warships and the mass tide of ghouls, and to use the dragon crystal bomb specifically against the ghosts.

In the former, the pyromancers gave Iger two options: a fire-breathing crossbow and an incendiary grenade.

The firethrower, there are ready-made devices in this world, similar to - no, it should be said that it is the prototype of the modern flamethrower. A manual air pump is used to blast air to form an air flow, which presses the liquid out of the pipe and ignites it at the nozzle to form a jet of flame.

Needless to say, there are several disadvantages that seriously hinder its use: first, it requires a complete set of equipment, which is not small in weight and space, and the current industrial level of the land grant cannot be manufactured; The fire-breathing crossbow uses either freshly produced liquid wildfires or ordinary fire oils, the former being rare and dangerous, while the latter is less powerful, and the range is too close: the attack range of less than ten meters is okay for city defense, and if it is used in naval battles, it will already collide with the other side when the Iron Min's warship is set on fire. The Northern Navy would certainly be at a huge disadvantage in the number of warships in a war with the Iron Islands, and could not fight such a war of attrition.

In short, after some consideration, the pyromancer's assistants suggested the latter: incendiary bombs. It's not as complicated as a firethrower, stuffing combustibles into a container and having the means of ignition ready, whether it's an ambush with mines, a hand-thrown attack on a close-range target, or even a trebuchet to attack a distant ...... Only the unexpected, the unattainable.

The most important point is that it can be used as incendiary bombs, and the wildfires after passivation can also be used, and the large number accumulated by the Targaryen dynasty is enough to burn the entire iron fleet to the ground.

"There are two options for incendiary bombs, one is the fuse method, which ignites the fuse and then explodes when it is burned, and the other is the impact ignition method, in which some small bottles and canisters are added to the outer shell of the incendiary bomb, which contains the material that will react and release heat when it bursts - and eventually ignite the wildfire. "The latter option is more reliable, considering that it may be used for long-range attacks between ships......

Iger didn't come to listen to the dissertation defense, he waved his hand: "Which plan is better, you can decide for yourself, I just want the finished product." Where's the Dragon Crystal Bomb?"

"We're halfway through R&D...... Your Excellency, you told us about the ratio of gunpowder, but after doing some comparative tests, we found that it may be due to the impurities in the raw materials, which is not the optimal ratio. So we spent some time doing controlled experiments to summarize the ratio and grinding and stirring process to maximize the power. Then there was the structural problem of the explosive bomb, to ensure that when it exploded, a large number of obsidian fragments were splashed around, so we adopted a multi-layer wrapping structure, with gunpowder in the innermost and obsidian fragments on the outside......"

"You don't need to tell me the details, just the results. ”

"It's done, but you said you couldn't test it around Houguan Town, so you haven't tried it once. Probably because the person in charge was a little uncomfortable not being able to show the results in detail in front of the leader, he held back for a while before spreading his hands and continuing to report: "But even if it can be successful, there is another problem - the explosion needs a closed environment, and the packaging we are using now is a clay pot." Unless the adults are planning to set a trap to lure the strange spirits to a specific location, they must consider throwing them remotely - the clay pot will break when it hits the ground, and the gunpowder will only burn when it spills, and it will not be able to form an explosion. ”

Egger nodded: "I see, I will instruct the relevant departments to get you suitable wood or metal cans as soon as possible, which one is more suitable, you will decide after the experiment." ”

"Master Xie. ”

The military industry didn't surprise Egger, but he was satisfied with the progress. The reason why the test explosion was not allowed in Houguan Town was because there were many people here, especially the observers sent by the Iron Vault...... But now, it's time to find a place for the gang to move on to the next crucial practice.

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