industrial lord

Chapter 543 Recent Achievements
The war is about to begin, and it will be a large-scale operation. The entire Principality of Wessen is once again moving at high speed.

The 1st and 3rd Divisions were about to go out, and two out of three mobile forces were gone, making the military situation of the Principality of Wessen suddenly become bad.

This was considered "terrible" by the Wesson Army Command, but none of the surrounding neighbors thought so.

As soon as Frederick returned to Weissenburg, messengers from his neighbors came knocking on his doorstep, saying that they would not take this opportunity to have any improper thoughts, because those who had such thoughts and actions had already worked hard on the railway construction site.

The headquarters office building was brightly lit for several nights in a row. Orders on troop mobilization, material allocation, and action plans were issued from here, and then various feedbacks were received.

Frederick stayed in the sandbox room for three days, listening to Franz the Younger and Eugene's proposals on military operations in the direction of Hammer City and action plans to reinforce the Kingdom of Tarragona.

A few days later, Army Commander Franz the Younger, Chief of the General Staff Helmut, 1st Division Commander Heinz, 2nd Division Commander Bernd, 3rd Division Commander Eugene, Guards Cavalry Regiment Commander Jurgen and other senior officers, as well as Sword Masters Richardnar, Dennis, Branimir and Dixon gathered in the conference room to hold a top-level meeting before the operation.

Frederick ordered:
1. Franz the Younger went to the Hammer front with his headquarters, the 2st Division, the 1nd Cavalry Regiment, the st Magic Regiment, and Richardnar;

3. Eugene led the 3rd Division, the 2rd Cavalry Regiment, the nd Magic Regiment, the Air Force Experimental Group, and Dennis and Dixon to the western defense line of the Kingdom of Tarago under the name of "Brother Germain's Order of Saint Elizabeth" to assist in the defense against the pagans;
2. The nd Division and Branimir were moved to Putz Province bordering Bohemia in the east;

4. Form the th Division and appoint Jurgen, the former commander of the Guards Cavalry Regiment, as the division commander. The officers will be graduates of this year's military academy, and the soldiers will be selected from the city defense force and the border defense force, and veterans who have retired within five years will be recruited.

5. Establish an internal security headquarters to unify the management of the city defense forces and border defense forces, and the Minister of Logistics Stefan will concurrently serve in this position;
6. The navy was formally established, and Alfred, the former first officer of the Flying Tulip, was appointed as the deputy commander to preside over daily work;

7. Appoint former commander of the French Division, Gaide, as deputy commander of the Air Force to oversee daily work;

8. Master Psyche serves as the general reserve and does not move.

Military orders were quickly issued layer by layer, and Psyche was qualified to read all the decrees of the Duchy of Wessen. After reading the last one, she went to find Frederick with a brown glass bottle.

"You're using me as a joke, believe it or not, I'll pour this bottle of wine up your nostrils."

Looking at her aggressive look, it seems like she will start a fight if there is any disagreement.

Frederick stopped writing the plan for the iron ore mining in Grouse Forest and the plan for occupying the island where the coal mine was located in Gray Crow's hometown, stood up to make tea and pour water for her, then picked up the bottle to study it.

"Iodine?" Considering the tasks assigned to him previously, he quickly guessed what the brown liquid in the bottle was.

Psyche sipped her tea and said, "There is not much problem in extracting iodine from kelp. The alchemists used a method you don't know about, which is to use chlorine to replace the iodine."

“We encountered a problem when doing disinfection experiments. We needed to increase the concentration to more than 5% to start achieving the desired effect.”

Frederick sighed, "The microorganisms in this world are really tenacious. Fortunately, I am a soul traveler. If I were a flesh traveler, I would probably be killed by them."

He then asked the most concerned question: "Can it be mass-produced now?"

There are wars everywhere now, and many people are injured in factories and the animal husbandry industry. Iodine is used in many places.

Psyche put down her teacup, shrugged and said, "Not that much kelp and seaweed."

1公斤干海带里含碘一般是2～3克，5%的碘酒是1升含5克碘，腓特烈面前这瓶500毫升的碘酒需要1公斤干海带，有6～8条，不小的一大包了。

To satisfy such a large market, we need a mountain of kelp.

There are only mountains in the Principality of Wessen, and no sea where kelp grows.

Frederick narrowed his eyes slightly and asked Psyche with a smile, "You are behind the United Fruit Company, right?"

The climate environment in the southern coast of the inland sea is very suitable for growing kelp and producing potatoes for alcohol, and can serve as an important production base for iodine tincture.

Psyche gathered her long brown hair by her ears with her hands, looked up at the ceiling with her equally brown eyes, and said nonchalantly, "Oh, I don't have the time to take care of this." If this matter only involved ordinary businessmen, it would be fine, but this time Frederick's fiancée and regular lovers were involved. It would be better not to express her opinion easily before knowing what he thinks about this matter.

Frederick picked up the teacup and said, "I found some purple mushrooms that you have been looking for in the north. They are delicious when stewed. I also wanted to give them to thank you for teaching her how to do big business."

Psyche thought he was trying to trick her, so she didn't answer him. Instead, she continued what the North had said and asked, "When I went to the North before, I saved a child and gave her to a friend of mine to raise. I wonder if you have met her."

Frederick put down his teacup, calmed down, sighed deeply, and then told him the story of the gray crow in general.

"Absorbing the vitality of fresh blood to stay young?!" Psyche showed a rare look of surprise on her face, "This is not the magic of this world!"

"My mother left me with memories of this magic."

"In the last world I visited, my apprentice's father also used a spell with this effect."

"The energy systems of those two worlds are similar in terms of souls. In essence, they both use blood as a medium to absorb the soul energy of others to strengthen their own souls. However, they are very different from the energy system of this world."

"Someone in this world has tried this before, but they all failed without exception."

"I guess it's more likely that she's bluffing."

Frederick looked as if he had suddenly realized something. He guessed that Psyche might be right, or she might be afraid that he would go astray in his pursuit of immortality. As for which way it was, only she knew.

After that, he didn't dwell on it anymore. He just lived day by day, earned money day by day, and enjoyed life to the fullest, so as to avoid being like a colleague in his previous life who won the lottery and died young due to an accident the next day.

Frederick asked about the other two studies: "What about glucose and photography?"

Psyche asked him, "There is no good news, which one do you want to hear first?"

Frederick said, "Hear the worst news first."

Psyche took a sip of tea to whet his appetite, but when he didn't respond, she said, "The celluloid we originally planned to use to make film failed. We don't have camphor here, so we have to import it from Taohuashi, and the cost is ridiculously high."

"The film made by Slime cannot be folded properly, and the negatives can only be pieces of cards."

"The problem is that we can't make a qualified fixer right now. It will take some time."

Frederick nodded and said, "This is not an easy matter. Our standards are high, so it is normal to encounter difficulties."

"How's the glucose?"

Psyche said, "Anyway, we used the acidification method to hydrolyze starch to obtain some products, which should contain a lot of glucose. We can't detect whether there are other impurities at present."

"Anyway, the piglets were given injections for ten days without being fed. They didn't die, but they looked a little uncomfortable."

"I didn't find any problems or anything unusual when feeding it to pigs."

After she finished speaking, she drank some tea and continued to talk about several recent key projects: "The most recent achievement is the preliminary establishment of a pH measurement system using a variety of plant reagents. Before this, no piglet injected with glucose solution could survive for five days."

"The electrolytic aluminum project has been successful in the laboratory, but there are no large-scale bauxite mines in your sphere of influence. You have to go to the southern continent to dig. I have seen it there before."

"There was a group of guys who almost got the Weissenburg city government to agree to let them use chlorine to kill rats in the sewers. I scolded them before, and you can do it again. It's exhausting."

(End of this chapter)