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They despise human scientific research and industrial capabilities. At the same time, he also believes that any contribution and achievement made in the human world is not a big deal. None of this is worth mentioning. With this in mind, these guys rightfully looked down on Leonardo.

Also for this reason, many of Leonardo's dwarves were not convinced, believing that this guy who had no ability and no ability was not qualified to be their boss.

Until then, Leonardo had usually used two methods to solve the problem.

The first is to oppress people with identity.

Although the dwarves are stubborn and have a very good brain, they are a very orderly race. That is, very obedient. The use of power and identity to suppress people is very effective.

Of course, this tactic also has a side effect, that is, the suppressed dwarves are not convinced, or even unconvinced, and just reluctantly obey orders. In this way, the efficiency of these dwarves can be imagined, very low.

In this case, Leonardo has to come up with another tactic, that is, to use technology to suppress people. He'd go head-to-head with the best and most capable dwarves - not swords and axes, of course, but skills.

The use of lathes, turning parts, as well as mechanical design and manufacturing, etc.

Master Leonardo, who is almost a decathlon in the technical field, is enough to burst out of the dwarf who is only a relatively good engineer.

In this way, the dwarves who accept the reality will be convinced, and their work efficiency will be greatly improved.

It's just that there is another limitation, that is, when there are few people, it is more convenient to do this, because Master Leonardo can take care of it alone.

But there are more people, and the master doesn't have so much time to do things.

So far, William has hired dwarven mechanics, engineers, senior engineers, scientists, inventors, and senior miners, weapons and ship designers, etc., to work in the Russian-Gothic Empire...... The number of technical personnel has exceeded seven thousand, and the number is growing. The empire welcomed them with open arms, and gave them very high salaries.

But.

With this number, it is very difficult for the master to level them all one by one, so that they realize that they are very good engineers, and none of them can compare.

To make matters worse, as the empire grows, dwarves who are really capable, or a little worse than the masters, but are definitely geniuses, will definitely be attracted to employment. These guys aren't as easy to handle as the other dwarves.

If these guys clash with Leonardo, it will be very difficult to keep them at bay.

Therefore, William's idea to the master was to leave them alone - because if the dwarves wanted to get ahead and be recognized, there was another way to succeed in the dwarves' own world, and that was to come up with real and convincing inventions.

No matter where the dwarf is, no matter how he manages it, as long as he can come up with something, and that thing proves to work, then the dwarves will recognize his status and ability.

This is also the reason why Master Leonardo was very, very reluctant to leave the institute and leave the research of the ironclad before this.

He put his bet on the ironclad ship, as long as this kind of thing came out, and then played a role in the next naval battle, destroying a hundred and eleven first-class battleships with three decks that had previously been recognized as invincible, then everyone would recognize him Leonardo da Vinci as the best inventor in the world.

The problem is that if this is the case, then he will not be able to get the post of Minister of Railways.

As I said before, he was able to suppress those dwarves, the first was identity, and the second was ability. If another dwarf is replaced and becomes the highest-ranking dwarf in the empire, then Master Leonardo will be strongly suppressed for a long time. This is absolutely unacceptable to him.

"Presiding over the construction of a strong country, such a long, so vast, and such a grand scale of the railway network, is also a good way to be recognized, master. William had known this old dwarf for a few years, and what was in his heart, William could naturally guess it. Seeing that he was a little depressed for a while, he comforted him like this and said:

"Moreover, the principle of the ironclad ship and the initial model have been confirmed. You have the greatest credit for this. When the ironclad ship is completed, you will still be the first to work, and no one can take it away, so you can rest assured. ”

Hearing William say this, and even coaxing and persuading, the dwarven master smiled again. muttered two sentences, saying that no one believed it: "I don't actually have to do this or that...... Then he took William's two bottles of good wine and left happily.

Looking at the back of Master Leonardo leaving, William breathed a sigh of relief. Well, well, it's pretty good, though this guy has a big temper and doesn't have enough respect for William - this is the point that William is most dissatisfied with since he became the quasi-emperor.

With everyone having a lot of respect for him, only a handful of people, that is, guys like this guy, would shout at him.

But it didn't matter, compared to the dwarven master's abilities and the benefits he could bring to the empire, his little flaw was completely small and not worth mentioning. William could treat him with the most lenient attitude.

Speaking of which, this also means that humans are different from dwarves. At least among humans, William had never seen a single being who yelled at himself like Master Leonardo. Even the most arrogant and arrogant scholars, or generals, were respectful in front of William.

At most, they dared to show a little, if not a little, disrespect for William. And this little bit of disrespect is enough to serve as a symbol of their fearlessness of power, so that they can brag for a lifetime.

But it doesn't matter, these guys are also talents, and William can forgive them as well.

In William's plan. The railway network that traverses the entire empire should be constructed of a total of seven railways in three horizontal and five vertical directions. One of the most important railways would run from the periphery of the empire to the heart of the empire, the Moscow Special Capital District, and then westward, through the entire kingdom of Wende, and finally to the central and northern regions, the former Magdeburg, the mouth of the Elbe.

Two other horizontal railways, one between the coastal regions, were to be built from the Holmgard region, the far edge of the empire, through Novgorod, through Bolotsk, and then to Livonia, to the edge of the empire and the Grand Duchy of Jutland.

The last transverse railway will run westward from the very edge of the Cuman-Kipchak steppe, the Kazan region, through a large steppe, then Ruthenia, and then all the way to the Carpathian Kingdom.

Of course, it's not over yet. William was negotiating with the Carpathian Kingdom that, if an agreement was reached, the railway would pass through the Carpathian Kingdom and extend to the edge of Austria in one fell swoop.

If Austria had been in power by the Swabian family, Wilhelm might have been given the power to extend the railway to Lombardy in the south. Of course, William didn't think that was very likely, because the Swabian family was about to perish.

He had now basically given up on the idea of helping the Swabians. Whatever, whatever, those guys are dead when they die, and William won't care too much. Although it is said that he will not be able to obtain the inheritance of the Swabian family, and after the demise of the Swabian family, he will definitely become a thorn in the side of the next Britton, but William does not care, his tactics have been very clear, and for a long time to come, William will pretend to be a grandson. There will be no more requests for territorial expansion.

Therefore, it is not very likely that the Empire will start a war with the Britons.

Among the three railways, this railway is the most difficult to construct. Because both the Carpathian Kingdom and the Grand Duchy of Austria are mountainous and hilly terrains. At the same time, there are no people in the entire Cuman-Kipchak steppe and Ruthenia region, so the cost and labor costs are likely to be high.

That's it. The five longitudinal railways that William expected were slightly less difficult to construct. Because it's shorter.

One is a railroad that spans the entire savannah. It stretches from the Kazan region to the Siberian region. This railway, along with the horizontal third railway, would become the Empire's best weapon for mastering the steppes.

The second runs from the western part of the southern Cuman-Kipchak steppe, that is, the Don region, to the north, through Perm, to Holmgard.

The second railway is a bit longer than the length of the first, but the vast majority of the areas it passes through are also very inhospitable. Desolate William couldn't help but want to complain to that extent.

The third railroad remained the most important longitudinal railway of the empire, starting from Tronika in the south, or more accurately, from the fortress facing south of the Crimean peninsula, extending through Ruthenia and then through the heart of the empire to St. Petersburg, which was under construction.

This railway will be in the shape of a cross with the first transverse railway that was previously mentioned. Travel through the core areas that are most important to the Empire.

The fourth railway will run from the edge of Ruthenia to the north to Polotsk. The distance between this railway and the third railway is the closest of all railway lines. The main reason is that this is the most elite region of the Empire.

Then there is the fifth railway, which traverses the entire kingdom of Wende and is also the one with the most branches of all railway lines. After all, the Kingdom of Wende is currently the most valuable of the various regions of the empire......

In this way, a total of three horizontal, five vertical and eight railways carried the vigorous ambition of the empire and the signal that the empire would develop strongly.

From this ambitious plan for the operation of the railway, all who paid close attention to the empire could feel the terrible nature of the ruler Wilhelm von Hereford. In the coming decades, these railways, and their branch lines, will cover almost the entire empire's railway network, and their power will be reflected little by little, so that everyone can understand what it means to have excellent strategic vision and what it means to be a respectable and formidable strategic master.