Overall, Merita's steam engine was a success, at least the machine was functioning normally without exploding, and although the power was still relatively small, this was the first prototype, mainly used for testing, and if there was no problem, it would soon be put into the research and development of the second machine.

Menes is still very satisfied, this is only a little more than two years in this world, the development of the steam engine, the next step is to make trains and ships, especially trains, if the train appears, then the whole transportation will be turned upside down.

After being frightened, everyone present exclaimed from the bottom of their hearts, "The mechanical magic of the gods should build a temple for the god of machinery!"

It was a good idea, and Menes felt the need to erect a temple to the god of machines, so that the common people's reverence for the gods could be used to develop industry and promote the development of science and technology.

The temple was set up in the temple of the Mojia sect, and by the way, a larger college was expanded.

Menes rewarded Merita in public and looked forward to the future development of the steam engine, and the people below did not understand that this mechanical god was so powerful?

Gu A actually talked nonsense in public, attributing the power of machinery to the credit of his vegetarian temple, and pointed out that because the gods asked to stop killing fraternity, they arranged for the god of machinery to come to the mortal world and use the power of machinery to change the world, and in the future, machines will be able to produce inanimate meat, and everyone will no longer have to slaughter animals.

Gu A's nonsense remarks did not leave any impression in the hearts of the common people, after all, meat is fragrant, and machinery has no taste, but Menes did suddenly find that Gu A's ideas were so advanced, is this talking about biotechnology?

After the demonstration of the steam engine, Menes assigned Merita a new research task, the "Textile Machine"

The textile technology of the Kemmer Kingdom is naturally still relatively primitive and pure work, but the basic principles from spinning to weaving and printing and dyeing all exist, and now it is only necessary to design a set of more elaborate and complex equipment and use a steam engine to drive it.

The main textile raw material of the Kemmer Kingdom was flax, which was wool for the first time, and Egyptian long-staple cotton, which was once the most famous in the world, did not yet exist, so the main textile target was set on wool.

The number of sheep in the Kemert Kingdom itself is not much, this valley area is mainly based on farming, there are some pastures in the southern region, but they are not rich enough, the best pastures are in the southern Noa Kingdom, where there are rich and vast grasslands and herds of cattle and sheep, and the holy cat and ram states are on the border of the Noa Kingdom, there are originally a lot of cattle and sheep trade in the future, and the wool industry will replace the live sheep trade in the future.

The story of sheep eating people will be reproduced in this land, it is the throes of an industrial revolution, and besides, the people who eat the kingdom of Noa are not the ones who eat themselves.

Regarding the matter of spinning and weaving, it is basically a woman in the territory, and it is very appropriate to hand it over to Merita to study, this machine has high requirements for finesse, Menes just briefly explained the basic ideas, Merritt roughly understood, with Merita's current genius ability, it is estimated that it will not take long to develop it.

Menes's territory is now the steel center, the future is still the textile center of the whole world, the industrial revolution is about to start, but the most critical steel smelting capacity is still not enough, the steel smelting technology is still defective, mainly the furnace temperature can not be improved, the oxygen top blowing technology can not be done, and because of the limited manpower, the basic blast furnace construction can only be stopped.

Steel is the lifeblood of the Industrial Revolution, whether it is trains, rails, ships, or future textile machines, all of which require a large amount of steel, and it is necessary to find the technology for air compression and separation or more people to participate in the smelting of steel.

It's just that in the current state system, the peasants are chained to the land and can't leave at will, and in this case, Menes can't recruit more men, unless the country is up to him!

Of course, there is no need to be in such a hurry, that is, these things that are now owned have caused a shock in the whole kingdom, and the matter of the god of machinery has attracted the attention of the Holy City, and a messenger was specially sent to inquire about it, Menes said vaguely, it is just an ordinary toy, fooling the people, the so-called god of machinery is even more nonsense, the messenger of the temple happily accepted a large number of gifts from Menes, and after returning to the high priest, he said that Menes' so-called machinery is just an unsightly magic, in fact, the bellows is pushed in the dark by mummies.

The temple high priest was not so easy to fool, but he didn't think that Menes was in any danger about that machine, as for the mechanical god, there was absolutely no existence, because the gods were already in place and were all in the misty swamp, if the temple couldn't even figure out the gods, what was the use?

This year, the overseas merchant fleet sent to the Punte Kingdom has returned to the territory, the Ebony Harbor on the edge of the original ocean has been built to a large scale, the population has begun to gather, ships sail every month, and trade is communicated with the White City and Lily Harbor through the sea, and the farthest ships are already trying to establish contact with the Kingdom of Babel, as for the trade of the Punte Kingdom, which used to be only one ship per year, has now grown to basically ten ships per year.

Ebony, agarwood, myrrh, frankincense, animal leather, gold, ivory, and various plant medicinal materials produced by the Punte Kingdom were continuously shipped to Ebony Port, and these materials could not be digested by the Menice territory, so they were basically shipped to Baicheng and Lily Port for sale.

The so-called Ponte Kingdom is actually just a geographical term for the world, not a real country, and its geographical location is about the east coast of Africa, which was once said by the world, and there is no certain boundary.

The glass produced in Menes' territory, steel, was also transported to the northern region of the kingdom from here, and Menes' steel quickly opened up the sales channels of the entire kingdom, which cut off the financial route of Odysseus in Lily Harbor, and Odysseus originally sold black iron to Menes in exchange for glass, but now, Menes opened the export of steel.

Menes stood at the docks of Ebony Harbor to greet the arrival of the heroes of Troy, and Odysseus temporarily left the Lily Queen for the sake of the business of the Achaians.

"Odysseus, the wise man of the Achaians, the hero of Troy, welcomes you to my realm!" Menes warmly embraced Odysseus, the hero of Homer's epic poem.

"Is Achilles the demigod really dead?, is the old king Acammnon still king in Mycenae?" Menes asked Odysseus, deliberately selling his knowledge.

Odysseus looked at Menes in amazement, how could this young lord care so much about the Achaians?

Looking at Odysseus' surprised gaze, Menes became smug, I know more things than you, aren't you all stranded in the Kemert Kingdom?

Odysseus paused for a moment and immediately replied, "Dear Lord Menes, thank you for your concern, the demigod Achilles is still alive, and King Acammnon is galloping in the sea of the Orbiters, is your message inaccurate?"

As soon as Odysseus finished speaking, he saw a slender woman in a white toga with blond hair coming up to her with a smile and saying, "Oh! This is our great and handsome Mistress Menes, your name has spread throughout the mortal world, but your beauty still astoudes me!"

It is a bit inappropriate to use the word beauty to describe a man, but the beauty in front of him is indeed a little weak if it is only described by beauty, Menes couldn't think of how to describe this beautiful woman for a while, so she had to stare at this woman with wide eyes.

"Hmm!" Odysseus interrupted Menes' musings with a voice.

"Dear Lord Menes, this is my wife, Penelope, Queen of Ithaca!"

"Oh, I'm sorry, I thought your wife was still in Ithaca, and the gods blessed you Odysseus with such a beautiful wife!" Menes couldn't help but praise.

"It's really a moon and a sunken fish!" Menes said in Chinese.

Naturally, everyone didn't understand and looked at Menes curiously.

"What are you talking about, my lord, that we didn't understand?" Odysseus was more curious.

"Hahaha...... I am praising your wife in a magical language, which means that her beauty makes the flowers shy, and the birds of the sky are so surprised that they forget to fly when they see your wife!" explained Menes.

Penelope pursed his lips and laughed, "Your Excellency, you really praise people!"

Menes praised his wife in front of her husband, and if she was in ancient times in a foodie country, she would probably be beaten by others, but this is different, and Odysseus is happy to accept Menes' praise.

It seems that Mr. Homer's words are not reliable, not Achilles is not dead, Cagamenon is still robbing everywhere, and the queen of Ithaka actually came to Menes's territory.

Odysseus came to Menes' territory this time mainly to discuss future trade, of course, he also wanted to see the legendary various magical machines of Menes, and by the way, he also helped Queen Lily bring a message to fight for the union of Menes.

Menes was not in a hurry to talk about trade and alliances, but Odysseus had to open his eyes.

A ship in the harbor is unloading, a merchant ship that has just returned from Ponte, and it is loaded with Ponte suvenirs.

Odysseus enviously stroked the whole ebony and the piles of fur ivory.

Ebony is a specialty of Ponte, and in the past, the trade was very small, so the price was extremely high, and only the pharaohs and the high priests of the temple used it, and the average person had not even seen it, but now the transportation price of such a large scale as Menes was much cheaper.

As for the price of leopard skins, lion skins, zebra skins, ivory, rhinoceros horns and other materials brought with them, they were reduced a lot, because these materials were originally monopolized by the Kingdom of Noa, and the prices were very high, and Menes' merchant fleet went further, all the way to the southern end of Ponte, where there were more wild beasts, and the local trade prices were very cheap, and an elephant ivory could be exchanged for only a small glass bead, and now glass was one of Menes' largest industries.

Menes had never paid attention to Ponte's merchant ships before, because these things were just luxury goods, not raw materials that Menes wanted, so this was the first time Menes had taken a closer look at Ponte's specialties.

In a fine clay pot filled with black beans, small in small quantities, Menes curiously pinched it out and put it under her nose to smell it.