Above the Pirate King

"Connie, how's the new officer exam going?" Arthur asked.

"It's over, and a new batch of officials have passed the exam!" Connie paused, and said, "However, our kingdom is full of jobs, and we have a backlog of officials!"

The official examination is the civil service examination of the Kingdom of St. Martin, which is held once a year. Although the posts in the kingdom are full now, Arthur still does not suspend the examination in preparation for the expansion of the kingdom in the future.

"Well, that's good, just this morning, our kingdom has captured Blood Harbor Town!" Arthur nodded and said.

"Really? That's great!" Connie didn't speak, and Giles next to him spoke first. With the new site, he can carry out crazy infrastructure again.

Arthur nodded and continued: "Bloodport Town needs a group of officials to manage it. Connie, you choose a group of experienced officials in the kingdom, and then choose a group of new officials to manage Bloodport Town together!"

"Okay, Your Majesty!" Connie said in a calm voice.

"Okay, go down and get ready first, someone will be sent there in a few days!" Arthur said, shaking his head.

Connie nodded, gave a noble salute gracefully, and then went down.

"Giles, come here!" Arthur waved and said.

"What's the matter, Your Majesty?" Giles came over with a little doubt.

"Look!" Arthur picked up the chart and the draft he calculated last night.

"This is... the distance and sea chart from St. Maarten Island to Blood Harbor Town?" Giles was a little puzzled.

"Yes!" Arthur nodded, then changed his voice and asked, "Giles, I remember that the Academy of Sciences under you should have developed a steam train!"

"Yes, Your Majesty, but it doesn't seem to be useful. Our country is not big, and at most one round-the-island train can satisfy everything!" Giles explained.

Arthur smiled slightly, pointed to Blood Harbor Town and St. Martin, and said, "Say, what if a train is built between here?"

"Your Majesty, I heard that someone on the Great Channel is building a sea train, but we don't have that technology! If necessary, we need a period of time to develop it!" Giles was a little confused.

"I know, I didn't say it was built at sea!" Arthur nodded and said.

"Where is Xiu?" Giles was a little puzzled.

Arthur pointed to the ground.

"Underground?" Giles said with a look of embarrassment on his face, "Your Majesty, the underground can't be built. If you want to build a track underground, you have to go to the bottom of the seabed, and then you can build it to Blood Harbor Town. But, then In the deep places, ordinary people can't dig at all!"

"Don't worry, I've been prepared!" Arthur walked to the side of the study, pointing to the hole digging machine, "This is a special hole digging machine, it can easily dig under the seabed, but there is one thing, that is It can’t get too hot, and if it gets too hot it can get out of control, so you need to be careful when using it for holes.”

"Good stuff!" Giles didn't ask where it came from, but his eyes lit up and he clapped his hands in applause.

If this thing is really as useful as what Arthur said, it is simply an artifact for digging holes!

He immediately thought of the multiple uses of this thing. It can be dug under the seabed, so digging a cave and tunnel is not a problem, right?So the mining road is also very easy, right?

Besides, if the town of Blood Harbor can be dug, why can't it be dug in the whole West Sea?

Thinking of this, Giles got a little excited!

"Also, this thing!" As Arthur said, he took out a wooden box, which contained oxygen grass. "The thing in it is called oxygen grass, which can purify the air underground and produce a lot of air. The reproduction speed is very fast, but there is one thing, it cannot see the sun!"

Giles took the oxygen grass carefully, this is also a good thing!

Not to mention anything else, let’s talk about mining. When mining, you have to dig deeper, so you need air. The underground air circulation is not smooth, and it is easy for people to suffocate to death due to lack of oxygen.

So most of the time mining will not dig too deep. With this thing, you can dig a little deeper, so that you can dig out a lot of resources.

"When it's time to dig the tunnel, you can plant it in the tunnel. If you don't have the confidence to take care of it, you can ask the Minister of Agriculture for help!" Arthur said.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Giles nodded and said again, "Your Majesty, there is one more problem that needs to be resolved."

"What's the problem?" Arthur frowned.

"Coal mine!" said Giles.

"Coal mine!?"

Suddenly, Arthur understood that the territory of St. Maarten was not large. There was only a small iron mine in the territory, but no coal mines. The current coal was purchased from the Kingdom of Felt every year.

It's okay now, but once the steam train is used, the demand for coal will rise rapidly, and the steam battleship also needs coal, and the kingdom's current coal inventory will not last long.

Therefore, obtaining coal mines is the first priority, and no matter how bad it is, we must buy more coal.

However, coal mines are an important material for the future development of the kingdom, how can it be done by buying them alone?

At that moment, Arthur made a decision in his mind.

Next target……

Kingdom of Felt! ! !

Chapter 11 Ghost Spider

On the endless sea.

A huge warship was sailing, with the shape of a seagull painted on the military flag, it was a navy warship.

At the very front of the warship stood a man wearing a helmet with a double-headed dragon pattern on his head, a cigarette in his mouth, and a navy uniform, with a ferocious face.

It was Rear Admiral Ghost Spider, the future Vice Admiral.

"How much longer!" Ghost Spider asked in a deep voice with a gloomy expression.

"There should be three hours' flight away from Blood Harbor Town!" The horse-faced adjutant with a saber on the side replied.