Out of the cage

In the weapons testing ground, an area of ​​300 meters was tightly surrounded by ravines and barbed wire.

A wild bull jumped out of the iron cage of the forklift under the control of its mind, exhaling hot white air from its nostrils, and the hooves of the bull rubbed anxiously on the ground

This rough-skinned, thick-skinned rammed product was wearing a layer of silver-white armor, and its eyes were covered with a layer of glass. There was a row of people standing on the other side of this area.

Started to charge towards the line of infantry fifty meters away.

Good guy! Awesome!

Fifty meters away, the bullet hit this layer of silver armor, sparking directly. Kinetic energy released beyond a certain intensity will be transformed, and in this world, except for the energy of ordinary people's hacking level, which conforms to the classic Newton's theorem, this phenomenon will occur in everything else.

Of course, the armor on this bull is not thick, that is, 3mm steel plate. If placed on the earth, it would have been pierced by projectiles long ago.

However, there seemed to be a force field released under the bull's skin. When the kinetic energy of the bullet hit the armor, the kinetic energy on the armor seemed to spread equally to the bull at the first time. The original piercing damage is just a heavy punch for the bull.

The bullet cannot penetrate the armor first, then the cowhide, and finally the muscle like the common sense of physics on the earth that "the needle penetrates the paper". The kinetic energy is released and the cavity is punched out.

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On the observation platform at the side, Wei Keng saw through the identification technique that after the piercing firepower touched the armor, like a Newton's pendulum, most of the kinetic energy was directly absorbed by the bull's skeleton. This is equivalent to the bullet wrapped in cotton, like a small fist hitting the chest.

When the barbarian resisted the bullet and rushed forward, he released his talent "fear and awe".

This group of militiamen with insufficient willpower obviously cannot be exempted, and their hands holding guns are not stable.

This is an exercise, and Wei Keng cannot possibly injure his militiamen. When the barbarian bull rushed ten meters in front of the line corps, groundwater seeped upwards in the ground in front of it, and the mud swamp technique immediately stopped the bull's charging momentum. withdraw.

Of course, Master Wei still underestimated the lower limit of the farmers and soldiers.

In the panic of the line infantry retreating, some of them didn't even have time to close the bayonets on the slots, and when they turned around, there was a bad scene of scratching each other.

This made Wei Keng, the lord, slap his forehead with a slap, feeling quite ashamed.

Wei Keng murmured in his heart: "Giving them a gun is equivalent to lighting a stick of fire. It won't work, it won't work. You have to stack up your equipment, and you have to give them a morale badge."

The morale badge, a fixed version of the first ring of magic in the protection system, can store one's energetic state in the badge and enhance immunity.

Narrator: If you are too excited to fall asleep at night, you can save the state and replace it with the state of sluggishness when you wake up early in the morning. It is a practical arcane equipment.

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The drill of the musketeers ended here.

Although it was not satisfactory, Wei Keng still rewarded them with extra meals, of course! In the next month, I have to practice more.

For example: It should be a habit to put away the bayonet before retreating, and the thing of bleeding one's own people should never happen again.

Master Wei ended up restraining the mad bull in the mud, the arcane light in his hand flickered, and a series of "charm" and "hypnosis" were issued, combined with the injection of "anesthetic drugs" from the automatic syringe on the outer armor to form a combined punch.

The wild bull that drove his peasants and soldiers into a hurry fell asleep in a deep sleep.

Then the weapons engineers in the test site came in, took a screwdriver and a screwdriver to remove the armor from the bull.

This set of lobster shell-like diamond armor does not have any runes loaded, but relying solely on the "kinetic energy dispersion" (tough skin) talent that comes with the bull, it has reached the point where the current upper limit of individual firearms cannot be pierced. . This made it difficult for Master Wei to imagine how tough those high-ranking knights must be.

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After Wei Keng and the engineers checked the effect of the first group of Musketeers, they clapped their hands and motioned for the second group to enter the field for testing.

The piercing damage of the musket is just like this, so what about the magic damage?

A whole contingent of young students appeared on stage in their blue and white school uniforms. They all wear a badge on their chest and energy emitters on their arms.

In this energy emitter, there are a total of two evocation spells, one tremor electric shock, one frost ray, how powerful~

The former can electrocute a toad at once, or stop a person's heartbeat for a second or two, while the latter is equivalent to pouring a cup of dry ice directly on your body.

These are all zero-level arcane methods. In terms of real lethality, they are not even comparable to the damage of a dagger stab. ——That is to say, junior mages are not as good as assassins.

However, in the process of spell superposition, quantitative changes can produce qualitative changes. One electric shock can make your heart stop for a second or two, which is not a big deal, but ten electric shocks can make people incontinent and lose the ability to fight. One frost ray, ordinary people can pass it with patience, but ten will make people's body temperature drop and become unresponsive.

Compared with the embarrassing situation where piercing attacks can be blocked by armor, magic energy will not dissipate quickly like kinetic energy, but will continue to reverberate in heavy armor and flesh and blood because of the quantum phenomenon here, constantly destroying cells and organ tissues activity, causing 100% damage.

Of course, if there are equipment such as rune wristbands to export the spell damage and radiate it out like a heat sink, then the spell damage can also be reduced.

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As the marching song plays

Apprentice mages lined up and raised their hands towards the target, and the lightning and frost began to be released, and the ice and lightning dissipated within fifty meters away.

After Wei Keng finished recording all the way, he asked them to withdraw too.

Beam armament, tested. These young students have trained for a year, and they can barely operate a ring of magic equipment.

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In the past few months, Carret has also carried out the popularization of elementary arcane methods in various factories. When providing meditation methods, it also provides a batch of standard weights and measures equipment.

These devices provide scalar references for these students when they perceive the energy gap.

In the books of natural science, it is also recorded what kind of phenomenon will occur when the scalar value is reached. In the end, the badges on the chests of each of them recorded the scales they had marked on various physical quantities with their mental power in class.

In this way, the energy ray equipment on the arm can be operated.

This ray equipment, the internal energy storage battery, various wires, and the lens exciter are the simplest arcane equipment. Of course, the level is only magic level.

But even so, all energy radiation equipment requires mental power to control, otherwise there will be a wrong path and it will explode directly in the hand.

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Moreover, this kind of equipment cannot be exchanged by everyone like the earth.

After giving it to an apprentice, it is a personal item like a mask, toothbrush, and towel.

Masks and toothbrushes are because the skin, saliva and mucous membranes are in close contact, and the exchange is likely to be unhygienic. And the spirit, in this world, is more private than the oral mucosa.

Arcane items are items that control the energy of the mind. After any arcane item is used, there will be a personal spiritual residue.

Of course, most people have no problem, just like a good brother who knows the root and the bottom drinks a bottle of water. However, it cannot be ruled out that some people's mental residues have negative effects, which happen to be harmful to others.

More importantly, each of these arcane apprentices has a different understanding of scalars. During the exchange process, the arcane supplies will cause the energy circuit to form a large number of small bumps caused by conflicts, and the accumulation is unstable.

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In the process of popularizing the Austrian method in the factory compound, the data obtained by Wei Keng showed.

Allowing students to increase their intelligence by one or two points is similar to the resource consumption of allowing some middle-aged adults born in rural areas to increase their strength by one or two points.

In other words, with the support of industrial productivity, it is also possible to develop an arcane army.

However, Master Wei did the math! The Austrian army, these knowledge seekers are definitely not looking for enough food every day, or having entertainment. They need a salary of at least fifteen silver coins per month, and even bringing them equipment, the total cost is more than three times that of the Musketeers!

Knowledge is expensive, and the Mages army is naturally expensive.

No, the system gave Wei Keng a popular science again.

Qin Xiaohan: "In history, there are many precedents of Arcane Masters establishing kingdoms. They have made many attempts to form spellcasting troops. Without exception, in order to save costs and increase training speed, they all adopted the method of 'implanting blood' .As for what has no lower limit, it is 'body modification'."

Interface 1: A large number of arcane equipment such as medical cabins appeared. A syringe is inserted into the recipient's blood vessel.

Implanting blood vessels is to purify the blood vessels of some high-level magical beasts that can naturally cast spells, and implant them into the human body so that the human body can cast spells along with the energy of the blood vessels. In this way, the process of learning the arcane method can be saved. Anyway, most of these implanters are to stabilize their social status and not to pursue a higher path.

Interface 2: The medical equipment is much simpler, with a lot of bloody human surgery.

Body modification is cheaper than blood injection. There is no need for the blood of high-level monsters, or even purification, and the spell-casting organs of low-level monsters are directly implanted into the human body.

For example, on the interface, the spell-casting organ of the low-level creature Xieyan is linked to humans. Such an army position is often a slave.

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Finally, Qin Xiaohan reminded Wei Keng not to have too high psychological expectations for the "Arcanian Army". You are the god of industry, not magic.

All the concepts that can be thought of, the arcanists in this world have thought of it, and for the ultimate combat efficiency, these extreme arcanists are desperate. There is no way for a middle-of-the-road person with a moral bottom line to compare with them in this respect.

Therefore, Wei Keng paced.

All visible roads have been walked by people in this world, and there are not many roads left for themselves.

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Young Carret ponders his goals.

In the north, in the main city of Reiter, the task of destroying evil is being carried out.

When a high-ranking team from the imperial capital visits His Excellency the Duke, they are naturally unwelcome. And the black-armored knight standing guard for the duke mercilessly blocked the high-ranking team.

This black-armored knight couldn't see any face, just like a construction object, but the cold light in his eyes could make people sure that he was a human being.

So I could only show the emperor's order and enter by force.

However, after entering, although an obvious evil aura can be detected, the source of the evil cannot be determined.

The Duke's face was pale and he looked overly indulgent. He stood in his guard and looked at the high-ranking team.

Facing the knight commander's righteous reprimand, the Duke's eyes flickered but he resolutely refused to let them control him: "This is persecution! It is the ruler of the imperial capital who hunted down the defeated royal family!"

Faced with such accusations, the Knight Commander was obviously in a dilemma. It is indeed a little unconvincing to catch up with the territory of the loser in the battle for the throne.

In this rigid confrontation,

The accompanying Arcanist Rob broke the stalemate. No one knew what his familiar did. Anyway, there was a magic riot in the Duke's backyard.

Black smoke seeped out from the building like water, accompanied by the scream of the banshee.

Judging from the evil and chaotic atmosphere, this is a visitor from the abyss.

Carret's father signed a contract with the succubus. As for the reason for signing the contract, it was not to become a powerful mystic, but purely for enjoyment. Succubus are the most depraved and dangerous creatures.

As a magician, the Duke obviously fell in love with this succubus, and he showed great anger when faced with the disturbance of the unexpected guest.

(The master-servant relationship between the sorcerer and the suzerain may be ambiguous, but most of them are just wishful thinking of mortals. The suzerain is just better using the feelings of mortals to serve themselves.)

Torn skin,

And after obtaining such clear evidence, the knight commander took a deep breath, and righteously took back the duke's title on behalf of the royal family, and then started the crusade.

And Rob, the mage, listened to the roar of the devil language coming from the dark smoke, with a mysterious smile on the corner of his mouth.

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On the banks of the upstream river where Xiange Town is located.

On the endless farmland on both sides of the strait, Wei Keng watched three steam tractors plowing the farmland deeply. ——This is dwarven technology, the core components are three cylinders, and the magic runes on them can store high-pressure steam for a long time.

This is definitely a black technology. The high-pressure steam maintains a stable supercritical state in the adiabatic cylinder. This is much more powerful than the steam engine on the earth.

And this mechanical structure is also simpler than an internal combustion engine. The deflagration reaction of the internal combustion engine is much higher than that of steam, and the intensity of element penetration is stronger. If you want to make qualified cylinders and gas pipelines, the standard is higher, and of course the price is more expensive. Therefore, internal combustion technology is still in the limbo of the dwarf technology system.

After the white iron machine plow cut through the land, the soil was turned out of the machine plow like a surging spring.

The farmers on the side watched in awe as this giant steel beast was plowing the land obediently under the control of the urban pilot.

As for the tax officer on the side, he was busy flattering the young heir to the territory!

During the process of agricultural mechanization, Wei Keng was worried about the resistance of land acquisition at first, but later found that he was thinking too much!

There is no land sale in this world, only the nobles own the land ownership. And the biggest landlord in the entire Ritter Territory is his own family.

Master Carret directly covered the tax that his father would collect this year, and then the best land in the two river areas was contracted by Master Carret.

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This cultivated land is not only mechanized, but also needs to be equipped with an irrigation system. After surveying and mapping the terrain of the area through the magic eye, Wei Keng plans to erect three diversion canals. The diversion canal is like a concrete bridge that is three meters above the farmland, pouring water into the land farther away from the river bed.

The water in the diversion canal is pumped by a large water truck into a ten-meter-high water tower, and then released.

To reproduce such infrastructure in various places, it is necessary to mobilize enough social forces. The existing tax system's crude collection model for rural households is definitely not enough.

Wei Keng glanced at the honest-looking tax officials, and cursed inwardly: "Don't think I don't know, you can charge twice the amount of tax set here."

In the history of Chinese dynasties, the "road" of tax collectors to make money was broad and profound.

For example: when the price of grain is low, they will directly collect copper coins, and when the price of grain is high, they will directly collect rations. In this price difference conversion, you can fill your pockets.

Agricultural countries collect food tax from farmers, or poll tax, which is the most likely place to get muddy water. At the same time, it directly exerts pressure on the bottom layer, resulting in extremely high governance costs.

However, these are institutional issues.

Master Wei Keng began to think about how to arrange these "experienced tax teams" reasonably and make them regular.

Wei Keng naturally thought of it: "I have to collect stamp duty."

Stamp duty is a tax for legal proof of commodity flow, and it is a proof for bulk commodities before they enter the regular market. The ruling party can receive taxes as long as it masters the market warehousing, transportation, sales and other links.

For merchants, small commodities are difficult to supervise, and they have the possibility of tax evasion, but bulk commodities have to be transported and put into storage, so they cannot escape. If you enter the market without paying taxes, the probability of being checked is almost 100%.

When Wei Keng was thinking about the way of supplying public construction funds in the process of industrial development, a sudden sense of strangeness haunted him.

Wei Keng immediately stood up from his seat and opened the calculation system of the system.