Chapter 15: Development bottleneck

"Uh... General Lawnes." Chris looked at Berman's body lying on the ground with a bit of embarrassment, and said, "I think your allegiance is not very valuable..."

Lawnes laughed, shrugging his shoulders as if he had heard a particularly funny joke. When he stopped laughing, he said, "Everyone on the boat behind me can assure you that as long as you treat the people of Dukou City well, we will fight for you until you die!"

"Sounds great." Chris nodded. "I will try my best."

"Then... I'm yours." Lawnes looked at ease.

He glanced at the densely packed cavalry behind Chris, walked up to Chris' horse, looked up at Chris, and said with some silly words: "You beat Mayne, it means you have to pay for that idiot Ensel. The tax tribute of 1,000 gold coins, so I think if you can afford 2,000 gold coins, you can definitely afford 3,000 gold coins."

"The analysis is very reasonable." Chris nodded: "I do have a way to get 3000 gold coins."

"You are now the owner of the three castles, so you have to take your responsibility to help Dukou City pay taxes." Lawnes said, turning his body and shouting loudly in the direction of the sailing boat: "Okay." Go! Get off the boat, everyone! Ferry City is saved!"

"..." Chris did not expect that the other party would be such a bachelor.

"Actually, I'm very curious..." Lawens did not continue the topic of tax and tribute after turning around, but talked about the Battle of the Eastern Forest: "How can you quickly defeat Ensel and do it? Almost at the same time took down Mayne City."

"Vagron and I are divided into two groups, there's nothing I can't figure out." Chris replied with a smile.

"What I can't figure out is, why, if you divide into two groups, you can still win both sides..." Lawnes shook his head and said, "You have 600 people at most, and you are not a heavy cavalry. How can you win 2000 people in a quick fight? ?"

"Want to see my new weapons? I may have a way to make your navy more decent." Chris seduced: "However, I want to take a closer look at your troops, hope they are as reliable as you said. "

Lawnes frowned and looked at Chris, but in the end he did not refuse Chris’s solicitation: "Okay! Take me to see! As long as you can fulfill your promise to Ferry City, my life, Lawnes, is Yours!"

Chris didn't speak, pulled over the rein, and walked out of the city. He didn't intend to conceal the strength of his artillery, because he couldn't hide it at all. Soon news of the battle of the eastern forest and the battle of Ferry City will spread everywhere, and his weapons will become well-known in the world.

His real killer is not these cannons, nor more powerful modern weapons. What can really make him stronger is the great modern industrial system that has begun to rise in Seres!

Therefore, Chris doesn't mind letting Lawnes go and see his artillery troops, thoroughly tame the dragon on the sea, and let the admiral serve himself with all his heart. At this time, Lawens did not know how powerful what he was about to see!

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"Chop! Chop!" A giant steel beast lies in the center in a work shed built of wooden boards. At this moment, it was making a huge noise, driving a huge iron shaft to rotate.

"As long as it burns coal... this kind of equipment can continue to rotate like this! This is a machine even more magical than magic!" Seeing his masterpiece, the craftsman Smith burst into tears with excitement. A month ago, he was just a blacksmith, but now, he is a great craftsman who participated in the creation of miracles.

For mortals who cannot practice magic, they can only survive in a land without magic, and they will never see the glory of magic. However, the great city lord Ailan Hill Chris told them that even if magic is not used, mortals can control more powerful forces.

"Add coal! Add coal!" Standing next to this already very advanced steam engine, he ordered loudly to his apprentices.

Following his order, the two apprentices carried shovels and added more coal to the combustion chamber, which increased the temperature of the entire steam engine.

Looking at the pressure gauge, Smith nodded in satisfaction. The internal pressure of the current machine is completely within the design value, and the output has reached the shooting requirement.

This steam engine is connected to 20 looms that have been arranged. In theory, as long as these looms are connected to the powertrain, they can continue to work.

"The experiment begins!" Smith looked at the female workers standing aside and gave the test order loudly.

Dozens of female workers began to follow the previous training, turning on the switch of the equipment and connecting the loom to the power of the steam engine.

"Wow!" The first loom began to operate frantically, and the finished cloth began to roll down into the groove below, and was automatically rolled into a roll.

The same thing happened on the second loom, then the third and fourth. Soon, all the 60 looms in the entire factory were working, and no lag occurred at all.

At this time, the boiler pressure is normal, the steam engine is still working steadily, and various pressure gauges fluctuate slightly within the normal range of values.

As expected at the beginning, these female workers can complete the entire processing work as long as they follow the operating procedures and manually pull some shuttles.

A well-trained female worker can manage three such looms, and the production speed of these three looms is ten times that of the original loom before.

Starting today, every family can use cheap cloth. As long as the raw materials are sufficient, the textile factory in Seris City can even provide enough cloth for the world!

This production speed is simply a compaction of the previous cloth production process. What's more frightening is that with the increase in production speed, the cost of cloth production has begun to fall wildly.

The cloth that used to require 1,000 people to produce can now be produced with only 20 people. The saved production costs are enough to destroy the original cloth production ecology.

What's more frightening is that with the steam engine, such factories can continue to expand in scale, allowing workers who are not familiar with textiles to join in, making textiles easier and more common.

Soon, children and the elderly will join the production sequence. At that time, the fragile production mode of primitive materials will be wiped out in an instant, like a snowflake evaporating in the sun, nothing will be left...

"The second and third steam engines have been put into use at the smithy, and there are ten more in the production process. I heard that three of them are specially used to make new weapons." Smith handed over the receipt report in his hand. Give it to another engineer next to me.

The engineer in charge of supervising signed his name on it, nodded and said, "The capacity of the Serris City Steel Plant has almost reached its limit. We need new iron ore to support our production."

Nowadays, what restricts the industrialization of Seris City is the lack of qualified engineers and the amount of steel raw materials that cannot meet the production requirements. In order to increase production speed, Serris City has even begun to purchase steel from surrounding areas.

"The nearest iron ore is in Tubao, which is actually quite close to us." Smith seemed to be anxious to expand his business, and suggested: "We have not bought less of their ore recently, but the price is really too high."

"No way." The other engineer was very aware of current affairs and shook his head. He said uncomfortably, "Didn't the Lord of the city go to Ferry City? If you don't come back triumphantly, how can we have the energy to move another castle..."

He paused, and said, "With this mind, the machinery factory will seize the time, pile up the number of machine tools, and try to produce more cannons."

"I think so too, but we have to have this time." Looking at the continuously rotating steam engine, Smith said helplessly: "The current production speed is the fastest we can make."

Industrialization naturally cannot be completed in a day. Although there were many skilled blacksmiths and foundries in the city of Serris, they could only accomplish the tasks in hand.

Automated machine tools are still unable to be produced, and the parts of steam engines are all produced by pure manual processing. The failure rate is quite high, and the accuracy cannot be guaranteed. So not to mention the huge size of the current steam engine, the power is actually not high.

The scrap rate of parts remains high, and the machinery designed by Chris can only barely be produced at the speed of a snail. Even if the standards are relaxed, some machines cannot run smoothly, and most machine tools can only be driven by manpower.

Because there are complete industrial technology, detailed formulas, and completely accurate processing time data without experimentation, Chris is not promoting the technological development of this world, he is completely pulling the technology of this world forward.

Because of the existence of magic in this world, and alchemy is also very common, so the speed of this world to accept Chris's strange new ideas is also very fast. Almost no one questioned where Chris' technology came from. Everyone believed that the Lord Lord was inspired by God.

The reason is actually very simple. Since the gods have bestowed powerful magic on the wizards, after thousands of years of suffering, it is quite normal to leave some hope for mortals.

From a technical point of view, Chris is pulling rather than promoting the development of science and technology in this world. What restricts him is no longer the accumulation speed and development of technology, but the serious shortage of production capacity and the shortage of talents. .