Alien landlady

Chapter 304 Discovering Opportunities
Bai Tongtong saw an opportunity to make trouble, and went to Farrell's house during the New Year's holiday.

"Rybjanik is now mentally ill. Is there a chance to instigate civil strife?" Bai Tongtong said with a smile while sipping the top-quality wine that Farrell got from somewhere. He patted Harding's head.

"Our country is not ready yet, are you so anxious to think about their civil strife?"

"If they don't have civil strife, how can we annex them? If we don't get the sea, the military won't see the gift for them."

"What kind of good things must be seen at sea? Inland rivers and lakes?"

"With such a large dock, there is no place to hide in the inland river, but the seaside is easy to handle."

"Why don't you show us a test boat first?"

"Not now, there is a problem that has not been solved."

"Then let's talk about the sea after you solve the problem."

"No, there is a large lake in Rybjanik. There is no sea, and that lake is fine."

"There are lakes connected to the boundary river in China, the area is not small, and there are ready-made docks."

"The shores of those lakes are cities, crowded with a large number of people. The dock is useless to me. I want to build a brand new one, but if I build the dock on both sides of the water, I can't hide the secret if I do experiments. No sound of wind."

"Okay, for your ship, which is probably still on paper, I will try my best to see if there is a chance to stir up civil strife among them."

"Ha, since you said that, there must be an opportunity to take advantage of it?" Bai Tongtong put down his wine glass and sat up straight.

"Compared to hot-headed civilians, it is not easy for the nobles to spend real money to support the construction of the new holy city. They have promised many benefits, but if they see that those benefits may not be realized, they will be very happy. Opinion."

"Can the magicians who stay in the country also be used? Do the magicians really wholeheartedly agree with God's leadership of them?"

"Wait to stir up the nobles, and then get the magicians. The Calvert who gave you the medicine is now the leader of the magicians."

"The new president?"

"That's not true. After the guild was taken over by the church, he refused to be the new president, and he did not obey the command of the church. He is the son of the duke and the princess, the nephew of His Majesty the King, and a fourth-level mage, and the church can't do anything about him , There are not enough magicians in their country, and many secret places are not protected by anyone, so they have to be kind to the magicians, and the forbidden items are only effective for magicians, and they are useless to ordinary thieves." Farrell thought of an interesting things, with a smug smile.

"Hmph, you must have stolen a lot of information." Judging by his white expression, you can tell how many confidential documents he has stolen in the past few years.

"Are you trying to bend the corner and ask me to praise your magic copier?"

"Do you want to deny it? It's still a test prototype, you can't wait to use it, and if it doesn't work, return it to me."

"That's no good. I'm going to steal their military information recently. They seem to be planning to send troops to follow the holy city to fight jihad. I don't know which country is going to be unlucky. I have to keep an eye on it."

"They're going abroad to fight? Who pays? They still have money in their treasury?"

Farrell shrugged, "If the expedition goes well, there will be money in the treasury."

"Oh, foreign plunder, replenish the national treasury with loot, aggression is aggression, what is the banner of jihad. Are they going by land or sea? After they set off, rob their supply team?"

"I don't know these things. The information was only discovered in the letters between the Church and the Holy City before the New Year. There are too many documents to be copied on that one copier, so I can't keep busy. Why don't you make a few more test prototypes?" ?”

"You really know how to dream, do you know how expensive one is?"

"Think about it, if they fight well and get a lot of loot, and we send troops out to rob them before they step into the territory of Rebjanik, wouldn't you earn back the little money you made for the prototype?"

"Farrell, you are really mean and shameless."

"Do you want to get along with me?"

Bai Tongtong's eyes were bright, but he tried his best to maintain a reserved posture, rubbing his face with his hands, "It depends on which country they plan to declare war on. It would be boring to fight against poor countries."

"Of course it is a country with certain influence. An unknown poor country is not worthy of the banner of jihad."

"That makes sense. Then, do you want to see the effect of unscrupulous cannonballs on the soldiers' phalanx?"

"Do you have that much dynamite?"

"The craftsmen and technicians in the experimental workshop have this craft."

"Okay, let's take a look at the actual combat effect."

Two top Warcraft partners, with evil smiles on their faces, raised their wine glasses and clinked lightly.

After the New Year's holiday, it was confirmed that Rebjanik wanted to fight abroad, and it was still related to the expansion of the Holy City. The church's sphere of influence was far from as large as they advertised. The farther you went west, the fewer believers. The geographical location of the holy city is not good either, and it can only attract believers from neighboring countries to worship. If the new holy city is built, the boundary river will be full of believers from the Ni sect on both sides of the long river from its source to its estuary.

For this point, the Menni faction and the Kellogg faction, which are now soaring in power, will definitely not watch the Nei faction rule the Jiehe Basin. When the three factions fight in a melee, it will be obvious which side will suffer more.

Before the new year, profiteers took advantage of the reduced grain production in Rebjanik to plunder. The treasury was short of money and food, and they sent troops to fight abroad. Obviously, they wanted to get rich spoils, so as to subsidize the empty treasury and let the construction plan of the new holy city can go on.

The spies sent by the military and Farrell followed Rebjanik's army. After Bai Tongtong handed over the greening and reconstruction of Bango City's mining area to the students, she was busy making explosives and testing new prototypes. The stone gave her inspiration. Since people in the northern region use it for home heating, she can also use it as a steam engine.

After racking his brains to make a working prototype, Bai Tongtong installed the extremely crude steam engine on a four-wheel scooter, and then installed the steering wheel, brake seat and other components. There was no frame or roof, only the chassis The simple steam car was born. Bai Tongtong drove this thing back and forth on the driveway of the research institute, causing countless driving accidents, either hitting a tree or turning into a green belt, and several times the car ran over a small stone. The brakes of the car were broken, either it couldn't stop, or it braked suddenly and Bai Tongtong flew over the steering wheel.

Fortunately, she is an earth mage, and the leader's ring with top-notch defense is also protecting her. She was not seriously injured in so many car accidents, and her nose and mouth were broken at most, but after so many times, every time Seeing her driving this dangerous thing again, the driveway was absolutely clean, with no pedestrians.

After half a year of tossing like hell, collecting data every time the car overturned, combined with the opinions of craftsmen and technicians to improve it a little bit, when the annual summer waterside barbecue party was held, Bai Tongtong was finally able to drive her car steadily. The simple version of the wooden wheeled steam car with only the chassis shuttled freely between the town and the village, and drove along the forest road all the way to the border station at the end of the road, and then drove back.

People think this thing is quite new, but after seeing too many accidents of Bai Tongtong in the past six months, no one dares to go up there to experience it by himself, just watch the beloved lady lord have fun by herself.

No one is interested in steam power, and Bai Tongtong doesn't mind. The only prototype car is kept as a means of transportation. A few pillars are erected, covered with leather and coarse cloth, and made into a car shell, except for the four sides. Except for the window glass, everything else should be there.Then drive from the Baron Manor to the guild every morning, and drive back to the manor after returning from Bango City at night. All the car lights use magic lights, which are quite easy to use in the early morning foggy weather.

Both Farrell and Amos have seen Bai Tongtong's new toy, and seen her tragic car accidents several times. They are both daring characters, and they don't want to buy such an ugly car in the capital. It is a new field of power that has attracted their attention. Although the current prototype car is too ugly to describe, and it is not as safe as a horse-drawn carriage, it may not be so in 20 or [-] years.

Because the half-year-long test process was too tragic, this weird test was famous all over the country. When Bai Tongtong finally perfected the basic structure of the prototype car and used it for daily transportation, His Majesty, who heard the news, summoned her to the palace to care about her condition. Work is too tiring.

Then Bai Tongtong took advantage of this summons to argue with His Majesty, lent himself a military camp with a lake, and asked her to do a new experiment.

Obviously there is a pond in the territory, she doesn't use it, she insists on borrowing the lake where the military camp is stationed, and also borrows soldiers to help her with work. In the dock used for boat repairs, she made a flat-bottomed boat out of huge iron sheets like never before.

No one, including the officers, believed that the tin canoe could float on the water. After the soldiers spent a month making it by hand, when it was time to launch, the tin canoe slid from the dock into the water lightly, drifting with the current , the soldiers onlookers on the shore were dumbfounded, Bai Tongtong folded his arms triumphantly, with his nostrils facing the sky.

The test results were quickly reported to the Minister of Military Affairs, and then the minister passed them on to His Majesty. Those people who had been making fun of Bai Tongtong before, suddenly understood why Bai Tongtong had to separate the two places for the experiment. Tin boats that can float on the water, and cars that don’t use horses. If the two new things are combined, they will be gifts to the military in the future.

The military started to get a little excited. They wished they could assemble their teams tomorrow, enter Rebjanik, annex this land, take down the vast southernmost sea, build a new dock, and let their iron boats gallop across the ocean.

Two days later, Bai Tongtong was called to the palace to accept the award again because of this experiment. Originally, she wanted to wait for the establishment of the empire before taking out the gift. Unfortunately, the plan could not keep up with the changes. It's an idea. As for how to perfectly combine the steam engine and the iron boat, she really doesn't know.

Still holding the commendation order, while chatting relaxedly with the king and ministers, the attendants walked into the meeting hall with the emergency military affairs handed over by the subordinates of the military minister.

The military newspaper is divided into two parts, one part is the news sent back by the military's own spies, and the other part is the news detected by Farrell's men. The army won a big victory and got a lot of spoils and slaves. I asked His Majesty if he would like to send troops to show Gulis's national strength and military strength before they return, and save the country that has been ravaged by war by the way, or just on the way back. Raid them for loot.

Bai Tongtong's eyes lit up immediately, and he raised his hand high, "Support sending troops to attack the bad guys who invade other countries! We will definitely not let them return to the country and cut off their retreat!"

"Rebjanik sent tens of thousands of soldiers to fight. Counting the food and grass troops, the total number exceeds [-]. None of them are allowed to come back? Can it be done?" Although the king and ministers had similar ideas, they felt that they had to stop Hundreds of thousands of people are not allowed to return to the country, and the difficulty is not ordinary.

"Rebjanik's population is probably less than 1000 million. Compared with their land area, the population is a bit small. It is a heavy burden for a few million people to support an army of several 10 people. Let them have 10 people People don’t want to go back to the country, it’s tantamount to saving us trouble.”

His Majesty Askem IV and the ministers all showed a faint smile of approval after hearing this.

"Count Bai, you have also done some research on population." The Minister of the Interior is very interested in talking about this topic.

"When the empire is established and the countries with two large territories are merged into one larger country, a nine-figure population will be needed to meet the normal operation of the country, and cities with a population of one million will abound."

The Minister of the Interior counted his fingers embarrassingly, "Nine figures? Do you know how many people our country has now?"

"Counting the slaves traded in by foreign countries, is there tens of millions of people? If there is no tens of millions, don't talk about a big country. A big country not only has a large land area, but also includes a population. It is normal for an empire to have hundreds of millions of people. Otherwise, foreign countries will invade in the future. , not even enough soldiers to protect the country.”

"What Earl Bai means is that the technology to increase grain production will be made public in the future? Otherwise, how will we feed hundreds of millions of people?"

"It's okay for me to disclose the technology. The whole country will first open schools, make education mandatory, and eradicate illiteracy. Otherwise, how can I teach them to grow food with new technology?" , "Do you know how much effort it took me to educate the farmers outside Bango on how much water to add and how much fertilizer?"

"Cough~" His Majesty Askem IV on the throne coughed dryly, "Miss Bai is right. Education for all is good for the country. We will discuss the details later. Let's discuss the matter of sending troops now."

"Directly send the secret troops over with unconscionable cannons. When the cannonballs hit the soldier square, those who are not killed directly will die from internal injuries caused by the explosion shock wave. Heavy armored soldiers will not even think about surviving the artillery."

"This is for soldiers and not for siege warfare?" The Minister of War obviously wanted to use artillery on more occasions.

"Siege warfare doesn't use artillery, that's too slow. Just use hot air balloons to fly over the city and drop lit explosives."

His Majesty the King and the ministers suddenly had the scene of hot air balloons preparing to throw explosives in the sky above the capital, and suddenly felt a chill.

"Didn't that fly away with the wind?"

"There is a way to hover over the target area."

"Another test sample?"

"Uh, I have encountered some difficulties. The theory and practice have not been perfectly combined, and there are no samples for the time being."

"Count Bai has worked hard. He has to deal with guild affairs during the day, and he is busy with magic experiments when he gets home at night. Take your time and we look forward to your achievements."

"Thank you. I will definitely try harder."

(End of this chapter)