It took a day for Fatty Shi and Director Speer to rush back to Raging Bear City from Sakura Ridge Manor. Seeing their arrival, Lorist was relieved, and immediately handed over all the aftermath of the family turmoil to Fatty Shi. , the family administrative center composed of director Speer and director Kedan is in charge. The top priority is not how to deal with the rebellion of Chief Hansk, but to arrange the resettlement of the five or six hundred thousand immigrants stranded in Winston Province to the Northland.
Immediately afterwards, Lorist took Reddy to the artillery training base in the Blade's Edge Mountains, which was the guarantee for the family to conquer the city and conquer the battlefield in the future. The biggest trump card in Lorist's hands was the accidental heavy injury before he left the army, which made Lorist feel extremely aggrieved and angry.
Schwader has already assumed the command of the artillery battalion. He reported to Lorist that there are currently 342 soldiers in the artillery battalion returning from injuries, and there are still more than 1,300 soldiers left in total. In addition, there were more than 100 disabled soldiers. This time, 1,563 soldiers died because of the attack of the great swordsman. The most heartbreaking thing is that more than half of the soldiers who died were well-trained artillery launchers.
Lorist went to visit Jim, the former commander of the artillery battalion who was seriously injured. Jim's injury has recovered a bit, at least he can sit up and tell Lorist about the night attack. He believes that artillery can pose a great threat to the Great Swordsman, but the operation is complicated and inconvenient to move is its biggest weakness.
When he was attacked by the Great Sword Masters during the daytime, Jim used the feature of firing cannonballs to cover a large battlefield space and formed a defensive line with forty-six bronze cannons. The Thunderbolt killed three Great Sword Masters on the spot and severely injured two A great swordsman, forcing the enemy to retreat. It's just that he didn't expect that the rest of the great swordsmen would use the cover of night to sneak into the artillery position. The bronze artillery lost its effect as soon as they got close, and they had to fight the enemy in close quarters.
The soldiers of the 3,000 Artillery Battalion fought against the nine great sword masters. This was a massacre, and the soldiers could not resist it at all. Seeing that the casualties were getting bigger and bigger, the seriously injured deputy commander Paul Binns rushed forward with a gunpowder barrel and a torch. There was a loud bang, Paul Binns' bones were gone, and those great swordsmen were still alive no matter how fast they dodged. One was hit hard.
Seeing that this method was effective, the rest of the soldiers imitated the gunpowder barrels and wanted to die with those great sword masters. There were explosions in the valley one after another, and after another great sword master was severely injured, the remaining great sword masters were finally scared. , While cursing the lunatic, they evacuated the artillery training base with their injured companions.
When Jim said this, tears were streaming down his face, and he couldn't make a sound. Lorist was also saddened, he could only comfort Jim, he would not let the great sword masters who attacked the artillery training base be spared, and he would definitely avenge the sacrificed artillery battalion soldiers. After asking Jim to recover from his injuries again, Lorist left his house.
Compared with Jim who was seriously injured and Paul Binns who died heroically, Professor Bob and his wife in the gunpowder laboratory were not greatly frightened. Careful Jim moved the old couple to another place before the Great Swordsman came. Although the gunpowder laboratory was turned upside down by those great sword masters, and even most of the house was destroyed, at least Professor Bob was fine, which was the best news for Lorist.
What Professor Bob introduced to Lorist this time is his research and experience on gunpowder in recent years. Regarding the bronze cannon, Professor Bob’s achievements are gunpowder granulation and custom packaging. Lorist just mentioned it casually before. After several years of unremitting experiments, Professor Bob finally achieved these two goals. The achievement of these two goals alone has doubled the firing frequency of the bronze cannon. Now the difficulty has turned into the heat dissipation of the bronze cannon. Professor Bob plans to discuss this with Master Julien and Master Sid again. Let's see if we can use better materials to cast the cannon to solve this problem.
In addition, Professor Bob's greatest achievement is the improvement of the collection and refining process of soil nitrate. In terms of effect, Lorist believes that this is the greatest contribution made by Professor Bob. Galintia is not the earth. Certain physical and chemical principles and laws of this world are somewhat different from those of the earth. Like gunpowder, the earth is made of one sulfur, two nitrates, and three carbons. Adding the ratio of materials, it forms the most standard black powder , but in this world, one more fire crystal powder is needed to achieve the explosive effect of black powder on earth.
It's a pity that Lorist was just the director of an ordinary small handicraft factory in his previous life. Physics and chemistry were not his forte. In the same different world, Lorist's common sense was completely lost.
In the world of Galintia Continent, there are two biggest factors that shattered the fantasy of Lorist's firearm era. One is the steel for refining firearms. Like the black iron refining base of Master Sid, it still relies on the original forging method. Forge refined iron into required steel. Although Lorist provided the idea of a hydraulic forging machine, he forcibly raised the Norton family's iron-making level to the top of the continent. But compared with the steel needed to refine firearms, there is still a desperate generation gap. Before the flaming molten steel came out directly, Lorist's age of firearms could only exist in a dream world.
The second is the lack of nitrate mines for refining gunpowder. It is said that only the dwarf kingdom in the Titanini Mountains has an underground nitrate mine. The reserves are not large, and it is regarded as a treasure by the dwarves. The gunpowder used by Lorist is completely refined by collecting soil nitrate. For the Norton family, the biggest factor that restricts the artillery battalion from appearing on the battlefield is the amount of gunpowder reserves.
Some of Lorist’s experiences on Earth in his previous life are not applicable in this world. It’s like granulating gunpowder. On Earth, it’s very simple. Wet it, knead it into a ball, use a sieve to divide it into particles, and then dry it. But here, as a result of the same operation, the final gunpowder particles become fuming powder, and when ignited, thick smoke is emitted instead of a violent explosion. Professor Bob's guess should be that the fire crystal powder loses its effectiveness after being wetted with water, and the results of the experiment also proved this point. For the granulation of gunpowder, Professor Bob has carried out three years of research and experiments to overcome this difficulty.
The granulation of gunpowder not only improves the quality of gunpowder, enhances the effect and power of firing, but also reduces the use of soil salt, and also makes the gunpowder fixed installation of bronze artillery a reality. At the same time, in several years of research, Professor Bob discovered the optimal ratio of medium for cultivating soil nitrate, which more than doubled the yield of collected nitrate, and finally increased the family's gunpowder reserves by several times. times, it also made the artillery battalion appear on the battlefield soon inevitable.
Although Lorist felt sad and resentful for the heavy damage suffered by the artillery battalion, he couldn't help but be overjoyed by the good news that Professor Bob told him. There is no better news than this. Lorist canonized Professor Bob as Viscount of the territory on the spot. This decision will be announced at this year's New Year's celebration. Professor Bob was also overjoyed. Finally, he didn't have to look at Master Sid's embarrassing appearance in front of him. Everyone was a fiefdom viscount, and no one was inferior to anyone else.
Lorist hovered around the artillery training base for more than ten days, and then went to Master Sid's black iron refining base. He also stayed there for half a month, readjusted the production plan, and arranged for Master Sid and the others to cast another round. After a batch of new bronze artillery was supplied to the artillery battalion, Lorist returned to Bear City with Reddy and Genorio.
It was already October 7th when we returned to Bear City. At the end of September, Princess Sylvia, four concubines and two children had returned to Bear City from Sakura Ridge Manor. The five of them, who haven't seen each other for two years, are naturally very affectionate. The only dissatisfaction is that Miss Dina, who has no brains, deliberately wrote a letter to show off in front of Princess Silvia and the four concubines, telling her that she was pregnant with Lorist's child again. Everyone who preaches it knows it.
So the jealous Princess Sylvia was naturally very annoyed, and asked Lorist whether he went to live in seclusion in Baron Dina's territory to heal his wounds, or if he was going to mess with Da Yali Dori's belly, which made Lorist very embarrassed and added fuel to the fire They were four concubines, and they unanimously demanded fair treatment. Just like what Fennagalli said, her elder sister, Aridoli, was just Lorist's lover, but she could bear two children for Lorist. As Lorist's concubine, she should not be far behind. So... Lorist started his hot sex life again...
Fatty Shi, Director Speer and Director Kedan came to report to Lorist. The expressions of the three people who have the highest decision-making power as the administrative affairs of the Norton family are different. Fatty Shi had a bitter and preoccupied look on his face, but Director Speer was beaming and full of spring breeze. Director Kedan remained expressionless and unmoved.
Fatty Shi was the first to make a report. The immigration and migration affairs he was in charge of had already made plans and arrangements. With the assistance of Sedkamp and Baron Camorra, the immigrants had already gone to their respective places in the Northland under the escort of the Flying Tigers. The resettlement site is expected to be settled before the arrival of winter at the end of November. With this group of immigrants, the total population of the Northland has reached 317, which has already met the manpower demand for the overall development of the Northland. Fatty Shi suggested that there is no need to carry out large-scale immigration activities to the Northland in the future. In another ten years, the population of the Northland will have a natural explosive growth.
The relocation affairs were cumbersome and complicated, and Fatty Shi worked hard, and his whole body was a lot haggard. Lorist nodded, accepted his opinion, and comforted him a few more words, telling him to rest and let Sedkamp do more things. After the immigration affairs are settled, Lorist will discuss with the three of them the reform of the military system of the family's armed forces. At the same time, Fatty Shi will host this year's New Year's celebration, which is held after Lorist was promoted to Juggernaut. It is conceivable that the first New Year's celebration must be a grand and unprecedented celebration.
Next is Director Speer, so excited must be another windfall for the family. When Lorist asked, as expected, it turned out that the spoils of the Norton family's armed expedition to the Commercial Alliance, escorted by the Flying Tigers, arrived in the Northland. Originally, Lorist swept the province of Andover with his family's armed forces, and the provinces of Puerto Orgue and Campona seized two or three million in property. Via Province wiped out one-third of the aristocratic territory of the business alliance, and seized another three million yuan in property.
Later, Lorist was seriously injured in the battle against the Storm Juggernaut. Tiger Ross and Jost led the Flying Tiger Legion and the Chaser Legion to the front line in order to avenge the commercial alliance. Without Lorist's restraint, the two were like The wild horses who had a good time led the Flying Tiger Legion and the Chaser Cavalry Legion to sweep across the five provinces of the Commercial Alliance, and the property and trophies captured were countless. There are nearly a thousand carriages carrying property alone. Tiger Ross and Jost also knew that their violation of the order would make Lorist angry, so they decided to seize more property and loot more people to alleviate their crimes...
Director Speer is pleased that the total value of the seizures exceeds 15 million gold dollars, of which 7 to 8 million are gold coins, and the rest are precious works of art, decorative handicrafts, gold products, and jewelry such goods. This is already the second time that the Norton family has captured so many wars. The first time was when the slave kingdom was destroyed.
Now that there are so many Lorists in the money, it's not too polite, and a series of spending items were arranged immediately. In the past few years, the three major armies of the family have been fighting abroad, and the soldiers also need rest and rewards, so the two million Goldford is gone, and then another one million is allocated to the gunpowder laboratory and the artillery training base, and the compensation and compensation for the soldiers who died The cost of rebuilding the artillery battalion, as well as Professor Bob's experimental funds are not small expenses.
In addition, Master Sid, Master Falin and Master Julien's test funds, the cost of recasting the bronze cannon, and the reimbursement expenses of the family's three armies' standard equipment, etc. were listed by Lorist. . Director Speer calculated with a bitter face, and found that only a little more than half of the 15 million windfall that he had just been happy for a long time actually entered the family coffers, but Director Speer knew the severity, and frowned. Brow packed up the list and prepared to go back, and then approved it.
Director Kedan was the last to report. He was responsible for the trial and disposal of all the people involved in the civil strife initiated by Director Hanske. Director Kedan took out a folder containing the trial results of more than a thousand people involved in the case. However, the several names listed on the paper at the beginning of the document, Director Kedan, did not include a solution, which required Lorist to decide the fate of these people himself.
The first name is Leskett. As the eldest son of Lorist, Director Kedan left a blank line after the name. He believes that he has no right to give Leskett a punishment plan. After all, Leskett's situation is a bit complicated. .
Lorist asked, what kind of punishment would a civilian get if he committed Lesket's crime? The result is very simple, the beheading table or the gallows, choose one of the two.
"I once said that the prince broke the law and committed the same crime as the people. So, let's hang him. The crime he committed is enough to be hanged a dozen times. It is not a crime to be put on the stage and become a puppet. What is wrong is that there is no self-knowledge. He was pampered and pampered at birth, and he developed such a tyrannical character. If he hadn't committed these crimes, I could forgive him. But if he survives now, the Norton family will be ashamed of him. He gave the Norton family What it brings is not glory, but disgrace! Let's decide..."
Lorist personally decided the fate of his eldest son, Lesket. Although the father and son rarely lived together and did not have a deep relationship, they were connected by blood after all. Thinking back to when Lesket was just born more than ten years ago In his ecstatic mood, Lorist couldn't help but burst into tears...
Perhaps it was Lesket's final destination that stimulated Lorist, and he dealt with all the people involved in the case severely. The chief culprit, Chief Hansk, was deprived of his family title, and all seventeen members of his family were beheaded for public display. All those chosen for Lesket's bodyguard were likewise hanged, and their families were exiled to the Chaneyabad Islands. In addition, more than 300 people who first responded to Chief Hanks to support Lesket as the heir of the family were also sentenced to hang, and the family members were also exiled to the Haneyabad Islands.
The rest of the people involved in the case were forcibly moved out of the Northland and their relatives were exiled to Muyeyuan Province because of minor crimes. All the judgments and dispositions will be announced publicly. The total number of people involved and their relatives exceeds 10,000, which is no less than a political earthquake for the family.
"As for the handling of the First Guards Corps, I will delay it for a while. I'm considering whether to reform the family's military system..." After reviewing the disposal plan for all the people involved, Lorist only left one sentence, He left the study with a gloomy face.
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