Mage? Spell Engineer!.

Chapter 454 Did you get the wrong script?
At the beginning of summer in Bain, the temperature was alternating between cold and hot. Fortunately, there was no strange foehn wind like in the Central Mountains. But at this time, another kind of "foehn wind" was raging.

The Wool and Textile Guild received a shocking news: from the states along the Tam River to the north of the empire, all customers cancelled their contracts and the last batch of orders for finished spinning, and even wool was taxed at the same time. The workshop owner felt confused, because before the war, the various members of the empire in the north and south had never been so consistent.

As for doing business with Valois, those people can only issue IOUs, and they can't do anything. The workshop owners in Byrne are as stubborn as the imperial people. Even in the recession, they can't develop advanced methods such as operating at a loss or letting employees take out loans to work.

The workshops, feeling abandoned by the world, laid off employees first and then went bankrupt, releasing more skilled unstable factors into society. It was like cells bursting, the cell fluid inside gushed out, and inflammatory factors were released.

People who lost their jobs subconsciously continued to choose beer halls in the streets to kill time, but they didn't expect there would be free entertainment. From time to time, young people would imitate the old stories of the Republic and stand on the big wooden table to give passionate speeches:
"Our enemies are not the Valois, nor the Empire, nor the other states that have deserted our alliance. The enemy is evidently within, among us, and above us."

It's not a good thing to have inflammatory speeches in a beer hall in Munich.

Because the customers don't have enough money in their pockets, if they want to drink, they can only choose light beer that is as light as water, and it can't be drunk cold. In the early summer, it is just slightly sour horse urine.

The warmer the beer, the more irritating it makes the drinker.

Bang! The sounds of cups being smashed and police kicking the door in coincided with each other. The drinkers fled in panic and evaded the bill, but the speaker who stood on the table was chased and caught.

Similar speeches and arrests became increasingly frequent, finally attracting the attention of the Bavarian royal family and city hall.

"This must be a conspiracy of the Valois! We have to teach them a lesson, and let the imperial people know that Byng is not to be trifled with!" The eldest prince pounded the table with one hand. His aura and tone were somewhat similar to those of the speaker in the beer hall.

The second prince Otto frowned and thought, which successfully aroused the king's interest. Albert nodded: "Otto, what do you think?"

Otto had been following the Chancellor of the Empire, who shared his name, and the developments of the Empire. He proposed a possibility that seemed impossible at first glance:
"Could it be that the Imperials are inciting it?"

This. To his brother's shock, the second prince explained: "As far as I know, the Imperial Parliament is about to start reforms and try to promote the small constituency system. The biggest obstacle at the moment is us."

The relevant news has been widely circulated, many brokers with a keen sense of smell are active, and many forces that want to seek a seat are operating.

If so, it means that the Empire and Byrne are colluding from within.

At first glance, the call to emulate Valois is the loudest, but in fact, large trading companies and families that control city hall positions are more willing to bow to the empire and return to its trade system. The call from the former may just be a means for them to use their power to put pressure on the royal family.

Thinking this way, it is really possible. The eldest prince clenched his fist and hammered the table again, making it Hp-1: "They want to share our Ludwig's property!"

The king frowned and looked at the impulsive and irritable eldest prince, then turned to ask the second prince.

Otto hesitated for a moment: "Now what I am most worried about is the Special Zone. If they, no, Rorschach has the intention."

The king nodded in approval, "Let's not provoke them yet. Let's see how the spring wheat and the new batch of armaments are delivered."

The second prince suggested: "We can contact the members of the Autonomous Committee and free up one or two seats in the existing Imperial Parliament so that they don't have to circle around that wizard."

".Can."

In fact, the judgments of the eldest prince and the second prince were not entirely wrong. Now Byrne was being attacked from both the Empire and Valois.

Printed materials and newspapers from the Republic were imported crazily through the southwestern border, or the Special Zone. Even "dissidents" wanted by the Empire and seeking refuge in Valois were deliberately released to stir up trouble. The Empire put pressure on the business of Bain. After completely gaining control of the south, it immediately imposed punitive tariffs on Bain, and used various means to reduce trade between the trading companies in the territory and Bain.

Until Byrne gave in and accepted the small constituency plan.

On the continent of Floren, when the eldest and the second in command fight, it is a natural and beautiful thing for the third in command to get beaten. In the early stage, the two fought too fiercely and no one had time to care about each other. When the intensity of the fight between the two sides dropped to the bottom, they found that Byrne was so gentle. How could they tolerate this?
The "Empire's Strict Father's Flying Kick" and the "Republic's Sister's Brainwashing Light Wave" are finally here.

So is there any impact on the Kempson-Lansted District? Yes, the impact is that the orders are full.

Inside the Mage Tower, in Rorschach's workshop, Andre was reporting to the Big Boss who had been out for several days.

"How much?" Rorschach thought there was something wrong with his ears after hearing this, so he repeated, "You want to order 50,000 tons of steel ingots? And you want to process them into steel bars and plates?"

If production is not expanded, one order can consume nearly half of Rorschach's production capacity, and his plans for the "gas car factory" and mass production of puppets will have to be postponed. Now the labor force in the special zone has reached its limit.

“It will be delivered in stages within a year, with the Black Forest East section to be completed first, and an estimated 1.2 tons of steel will be used.”

These steel materials will be used to build the strongest and most impregnable fortress defense line in the history of Floren Continent, named after the new Marshal Helmut.

Rorschach and Andre did not know the name of the defense line, but the steel mill had been selected as one of the main suppliers, and from the news from the Bardolom Chamber of Commerce, the Empire was preparing for the construction of the defense line. The first line included the currently occupied area and the disputed area of ​​Valois, and the second line was bounded by the southern border before the war.

The defense line had extremely high standards, with fortresses and permanent fortifications included, and it was said that many mages were mobilized to work together to speed up the process. The design even took into account large-scale constructs that only appeared once. In order to prevent such assault weapons, recoil slopes and high barbed wire were required to delay their attacks and ensure that they could be destroyed by artillery or spellcasters in the fortress.

Wait, this script is wrong. Did I get the wrong one?

Andre integrated the known information and gave it to Rorschach. The cost of the defense line was divided into three parts, which were borne by the capital appropriation after the parliamentary audit, special bonds, and local funds. Local refers to the place where the defense line was built, that is, the southern states.

Now Rorschach understood, what Mahlmut Line? It was clearly the "Zhengguo Canal"!
The Republic is using "terror" to rebuild the center-local system; and the Empire is integrating the southern states. In addition to the small district reform, it is also using the Republic to intimidate these disobedient members of the Imperial Parliament, causing them to invest a lot of manpower and material resources in the future, leaving them breathless and with no spare energy to stir up trouble and challenge the imperial capital.

Fine, fine, what the wisdom of our ancestors is! Rorschach still thinks that the Imperials got the wrong script, shouldn’t they continue to work hard to create miracles?

He didn't know that the Empire's lightning conquest plan had essentially failed. The new marshal and even the entire military had changed their thinking, and the "turtle flow" myth that had played a key role had been refuted. Building a large defense line became a way to consolidate the results of the war in both a practical and institutional sense.

Theoretically, this is not wrong. The National Guard likes to charge in waves, so let them stop and then launch a defensive counterattack to wait for them to tire themselves out.

Rorschach suddenly thought of a key question: "How do we pay for the orders given to us by the military? Don't tell me Byrne will also have to pay for it."

Andre didn't know why Rorschach used the word "also": "Cash, all cash. If we accept it, the first phase of the advance payment and the iron ore will be in place by the end of the month."

Byrne mainly produces coal, and its iron ore output can no longer keep up with the special zone's pig iron and steel production capacity. The Empire not only gives money, but also guarantees the supply of raw materials, which can be said to be full of sincerity.

Hiss. Is this buying off the Special Zone? The big-money Rorschach took a breath and began to rub his hands: "Hey!"

Now that he had money, he had to recruit more people. The first thing he thought of was not labor: "Andre, do you think we have too few spellcasters? Can we recruit people from the Tower of Secret Magic?"

(End of this chapter)