With the empress's explicit support, Xia Lin finally breathed a sigh of relief, in his plan, the magic stone industry is very important, and its status can be comparable to that of steel, chemicals, and agriculture, because no matter what world it is, energy is the lifeblood of the country's and industrial development.

If he can't establish his own voice in this industry, when the industrial system he has established grows and grows, it is equivalent to being dragged into the hands of others.

With this critical issue in mind, Charin returned to the industrial park and began to take stock of the progress of his plans, processing the various reports and paperwork that had been put together by Wyatt and the managers of the New Leaf Chamber of Commerce.

On the military side, the defense line of the Fefa Forest-Dak River tributary of the New Army has been almost established thanks to the efforts of hundreds of engineers and conscripted civilians, and although the third regiment of the New Army has completed the work of discipline and purge, although the level of training has not improved much, it has been able to carry out the orders of the officers without the interference of those black sheep.

This kind of organization is about the level of ordinary militia, and it is not possible to fight an offensive war, but in a strong position, it is more than enough to conduct defensive operations under the leadership of veterans.

After briefly reading the reports submitted by the new army, Xia Lin turned his attention to another matter related to his next plan, that is, the New Leaf Chamber of Commerce and the Colin family cooperated to build a shipyard and dockyard, and designed and renovated new warships.

Previously, in the face of the threat of the 1st Navy Division swimming up the Seine River, the 80 breech guns produced by the gun factory showed considerable effectiveness after the establishment of batteries along the Seine River.

The range of the rifled artillery was two to three kilometers away, and the position on suitable commanding heights on both sides was sufficient to achieve a fire blockade of the Saine River with an average river width of about 800 to the right.

The 1st Naval Division from the port of Dafa made several attempts to invade the lower reaches of Urgana, but they disappeared from the Seine after the towering river and coastal ships were sunk by the guns of these batteries.

By the way, these mobile targets, which are not a threat to artillery, also helped the emperor to train a lot of qualified artillery.

An ordinary river ship of the same size as a warship costs at least forty or fifty gold lundes, not to mention the sturdy and huge imperial navy warships, and even a naval division of 10,000 people in the empire is only fifty warships, and a warship like this made of special wood or even magical materials costs at least two hundred to three hundred gold lundes.

If it is destroyed in battle, it doesn't matter, and no general in his right head will continue to try to die like this, sailing on the river in a good manner, and suddenly being sunk all the way by an enemy who doesn't know how far away.

After these artillery pieces showed such strong combat effectiveness, the Imperial Affairs Department did not hesitate to take out a heavy amount of money to place an order for 150 80 breech guns from the gun factory, and the price of an 80 breech gun was 25 gold lunt, plus the supporting shells and other artillery equipment, this order reached 4,000 gold lunt.

Charlin's gun factory also made a good profit from it, and the price of this kind of cannon quoted by Charlin to Empress Dorothea was based on the steel cost price of 12 silver mar 31 copper pess per weight of the steel mill at that time, and now the steel mill after several months of process improvement, the cost per kilogram of steel is only 2 silver mar 33 copper pes, which is converted into a weight of 8 silver mar 30 copper pes, that is to say, the profit of an 80 breech gun is 1/3 of its selling price.

However, in order to produce these artillery, the gun factory had to recruit some employees in the Xinglan Industrial Park, and at the same time added a lot of production equipment, the original small workshop production took two to three days to produce a cannon, and later replaced the plant equipment, and at the same time trained a group of skilled workers to improve efficiency, on average, about a day to produce a cannon.

Up to now, with enough skilled workers and raw materials, the gun factory can even produce three to five 80 breech guns a day, and at the same time, the production of shells has also increased to 150 rounds a day, which is not a huge improvement.

With these artillery, plus the Military Affairs Bureau's proposal to Xia Lin to move the artillery

The idea of going to the warship is also quite interested, the Colin family also has ideas for expanding their own industrial scale and getting involved in the military industry, the United Shipping Company proposed by Xia Lin is progressing rapidly, in order to gain the power to defeat the rebel navy as soon as possible, the Colin family proposed the idea of building new ships while renovating old ships, and this idea naturally won the approval of the emperor and Xia Lin.

According to the reports at hand, the old shipwrights of the Colin family have transformed a warship capable of erecting six guns on either side of a river transport vessel with a deadweight of about 180 tons.

It's just that this kind of "warship" originally used for inland and offshore shipping is bloated, it looks like a big turtle, even if it is equipped with a wind sail, the speed of full progress does not exceed 15 kilometers per hour, and it wants to use it to deal with a slightly smaller size, but the sturdiness, speed, and flexibility are far beyond its imperial traditional warship, it can only be said that the old birthday star can't think of eating arsenic.

However, other faster ships could not withstand the recoil of a salvo of three guns, and many ships could capsize even if fired from a single gun, so it was a bit of a headache to come up with a ship that could defeat the rebel navy as soon as possible.

Xia Lin thought about it for a long time, and felt that if he wanted to achieve the idea of fierce firepower and fast speed as he imagined, he still had to start with the magic motive, although the current magic motive performance was still very poor, but there was a lot of room for improvement.

For the sake of ease of use, Xia Lin asked Sophia to design a magic motive that is not very large, an MD1.4.2 type motive is actually just a cylinder about the size of a strong adult's arm, on such a cylinder, it is enough to depict 16 to 18 spinning magic circles and obtain considerable power.

If you further amplify the motive on the ship, you can also get more power through more spinning spell circles, but at the cost of increasing the size of the motive, the additional power loss will also increase.

"However, if you think about it another way, if you make the magic motive hollow, it may be able to reduce a lot of power loss, and the large motive may not be without prospects."

Thinking of the new structure of the large magic motive that might be applicable on the ship, Xia Lin's eyes suddenly lit up, and he thought of a good idea.

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