Time passed, and it was December in a blink of an eye.
After the large-scale invasion of demons, the entire Karen kingdom entered a "state of emergency" for a long time, but after entering the severe winter, the enemy's offensive did not escape the physiological category of "normal creatures", and the attack was inevitably weakened frequency.
In the north where the temperature has dropped the most, there are almost no new demons appearing. The portals and a small group of demons that sprung up like mushrooms before have disappeared. They are obviously looking for a place to hibernate in this ice and snow, waiting for the climate to warm up. .
As a result, the southern side of the mainland has become the most frequently attacked area by demons. However, most of the residents of the Karen Kingdom have already retreated to the fortress. At the same time, although the demons seem to be "surrounding" the offensive, most of them are actually small groups. In combat, the combat power has an advantage over ordinary troops or farmers, but it is still difficult to easily break through the walls and fortresses. Therefore, after adapting to this combat method, the number of casualties began to decrease significantly. Today, the Karen Kingdom has Mass casualties are rare anymore.
With the increase in the number of battles, the combat experience of human troops related to "demons" is also rapidly improving, and even targeted weapons, spells, and magic circles are being updated accordingly—the communication magic circle is urgently launched and put into mass production After the list, almost every fort now has the ability to quickly report the battle situation, and the intelligence and information collection capabilities have undergone earth-shaking changes.
Behind this is the result of the unified efforts of the "Magic Research Department" to optimize the cooperation, and at the same time, it can only be achieved after the cabinet is willing to spend money regardless of rewards...
At the same time, the number of aircraft of the "Kingdom of Karen Air Force" finally got rid of the state of "custom production" due to the completion of a specialized factory, and has the ability to streamline the production of components. With the improvement and optimization of the process, it has just reached the production level of producing one "Falcon" reconnaissance plane in three days and one "Albatross" transport plane in two weeks.
Although it has improved significantly compared to before, Roddy still feels that the "storm speed" is still not enough.
But there was nothing he could do in a hurry.
The "Hollier City Automobile Manufacturing Plant" has been fully put into production. The mass-produced trucks can manufacture three trucks a day, but the technical content of the aircraft is much higher than that of "trucks". Most of the production links and processes basically rely on high-level " Magician" forcibly pushed forward, not to mention replacing it with workers, even low-level magicians can't replace it.
The "industrialization" within the kingdom is still in its infancy, and it is still far from full industrialization. Most areas are basically not much different from ten years ago.
However, as time went on, in February, the quantitative change finally gradually brought about a qualitative change.
This winter, the support range of the Karen Kingdom's air force and the five dragon clans has gradually spread to most countries in the mainland. From "causing disputes" at the beginning to "speaking with strength" to solve countless murderous demons, "Karen Kingdom Cooperating with the Dragon Clan" quickly spread its fame to all these countries.
After all, when it comes to "fighting against demons", no matter what kind of country humans are, they will not stand together with those vicious and cruel monsters. Moreover, the airborne troops and dragon clan of the Karen Kingdom actually solved the crisis brought by the demons, and they did not ask for any "military expenses" except for board and lodging.
The only thing they did after the battle was to display their new and excellent armaments, to show that they could be sold to help fend off the demons.
And after dozens of supports, those "spar guns", "spar trucks" and even the swords, arrows, axes, gun heads, etc. produced by stamping machines and advanced formulas have become the focus of Rahiman and the eastern countries. Procurement of military supplies.
In the small towns near the mines in the south of Houlier City, more factories were quickly built within a few months. In the winter when no one went out before, black smoke could still be seen floating continuously.
The factory is working overtime to produce all kinds of military supplies—because of the improvement of industrial productivity, the purity of "ore smelting" has been improved, and the time-consuming has been reduced. After that, blacksmiths are no longer "hardened" to remove carbon impurities, and steam power and magic assist The large stamping machine under it has shortened the manufacturing time of countless expensive cold weapons to one thousandth or even one ten thousandth.
With such efficiency, the demand for all kinds of ores and coal mines has become strong, and the advantages of the trains and roads that have been opened up have been highlighted. Turned into towns, urbanized into cities, hotels, hotels and all kinds of industries drove a lot of employment...
Many farmers were forced to leave the land for refuge. Without farm work, they would not have a good time in winter. However, the huge gap in employment made these people quickly realize that as long as they are willing to work hard, they can earn a considerable amount of wages .
In the past, they could only hide in the farmhouse and warm up for the winter, but now they seem to be able to go to the tavern to buy a cup of warm beer after work, and even solve other needs.
In Luo Di's impression, the "sheep eat people" enclosure movement associated with the Industrial Revolution drove farmers away from the land cultivated for generations and replaced them with sheep for the textile industry...
The situation now is quite similar, except that farmers are not driven away by capitalists, but by demons—so in a sense, although these farmers are homeless, they have become part-time workers. "Refugees", but they are indeed emotionally stable, they just put their hatred on the head of the devil, and even after the newspapers, they are constantly grateful to the cabinet for giving them the opportunity to work.
"Stability" is the most important thing for Roddy at the moment: he doesn't want internal chaos to be the first thing to happen when there is a foreign war.
The rapid expansion of military industry exports and large-scale orders allowed the central government of the Karen Kingdom to quickly earn a large amount of "war wealth", and the "trade surplus" became a huge shortcut to improve national power.
In the history of the earth, Spain had an astonishingly large trade surplus after the age of navigation, and it can be said that it made a lot of money. As a result, such a surplus led to severe deflation of domestic gold coins and silver coins—when there was not enough currency in the market, although The prices of commodities on the street have not changed, but people find that they have no money to spend...
In other words, a huge "trade surplus" will also cause serious problems for the entire country, and this problem is much more terrifying than the consequences of "inflation".
But now Roddy has paved the way ahead of time: the anti-counterfeit currency printed with the head of Sally I was quickly printed and issued, and the central bank cautiously injected currency into the economic system through infrastructure projects, so that the Karen Kingdom, which was rapidly improving its economic strength, did not appear. Deflation like that in Spain ensures the currency circulation and purchasing power in the hands of the people.
()