When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

Chapter 952: The Holy Maternity Guardianship Bureau and the Lightning Furnace

"Yeah, I haven't seen you for a year." Catherine looked Horn up and down. "You haven't grown taller, but your hat is much taller."

"Haha, my height will never grow." Horn laughed, "your age, however, is like the wheel of history rolling forward."

"Aren't you almost thirty? I was born in 1415, so I'm much older than you, right?"

"It's from the year 1415 of the Imperial Calendar. It's too open..."

Looking at Horn and Catherine communicating in a friendly manner with smiles on their faces, little Pierre couldn't help but tug at Armand's sleeve.

"Ok?"

"Lady Catherine and Lord Shengsun, this is..." Little Pierre whispered, not being able to believe what he heard.

"They are always like this. It's nothing. They are just flirting." Armand replied with a smile. "That joke about the hat was brewed by Lady Catherine all night."

The whispers here were quickly discovered by Horn. He left Catherine, who was already a little exasperated, and came to these people.

“Are you the responsible persons for the various local branches of the Holy Father Worship Society?”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Little Pierre stood at attention nervously, his voice becoming a little louder.

Armand introduced them to Horn: "These two are Guillaume Pierre Sr. and Guillaume Pierre Jnr. Both father and son are our leaders in White Port.

This is Meyer Fat, the head of the White Sands branch of the Holy Fathers…"

Horn went forward and shook hands with them one by one. Only after he had received everyone did he have the opportunity to be alone with Catherine.

Armand took a group of people to the mansion where they lived, but Horn and Catherine got off the carriage halfway and wandered around the outskirts of the Holy See.

To be precise, it is the industrial area outside the Holy Court.

But now there are no more peat alchemy dishes that were all over the ground before.

At this time, the peat industry had already moved to the outer shores of Nanze Lake.

If you stand on the shore of Qiumu Island and look west, you can see rows of alchemical reactors more than two meters high across the lake.

The alchemy tower with a red metallic luster continuously spews out milky white steam and flows out black coal blocks.

The miscellaneous coal is sent to be mixed with yellow mud to make honeycomb coal.

If the quality is good, it needs to be further distilled.

This is a new technology brought by the Black Snake Bay secret party. The distilled coal can not only burn more vigorously, but also burn longer.

This high calorific value distilled coal is often transported to pharmaceutical workshops and iron smelting workshops to heat medicine tanks and speed up the metallurgical pharmaceutical process.

As a result, the industries around the Holy Court were transformed into large iron smelting and pharmaceutical workshops with three or four floors, covering three or four acres of land.

The distilled peat with a metallic luster was being pushed by a cart on wooden tracks towards the workshop.

Next to the workshop filled with the stench of medicine and the sound of whistles, walking on the stone floor stained black by coal dust, Catherine took Horn's arm familiarly.

Amid the gurgling sounds of machinery operating and medicine vats boiling in the workshop, Catherine was the first to speak: "By the way, has the lightning furnace been designed?"

"Almost." Holding Catherine's hand, Horn stroked her fingers. "The sketch has been drawn. It is expected to be mass-produced within two to three years."

The principle of the lightning furnace is understood, and all that remains is the design and construction.

The shell is made of mithril alloy, the igniter is made of plasma bomb, and the energy source is made of lunar mercury crystal.

In theory, as long as there are enough lunar mercury crystals, molten iron can flow out like a blast furnace or even an electric furnace.

However, the problem that has prevented the Lightning Furnace from functioning is that the lunar mercury evaporates too quickly.

Lightning is supposed to be slow-release and long-lasting, but the lunar mercury was consumed in one second, causing the experimental furnace to explode frequently.

"How was it built?" Catherine became curious. A year ago, Shilov was still worried about this matter, but it suddenly got better today?

Horn couldn't help but smile, thinking of something: "Fate plays tricks on us. The Holy Society of Theology and Technology has been researching and experimenting with the slow-release technology of lunar mercury crystals.

Finally, they obtained a pink crystal from Xianshidian, which is a rare natural alchemical product.

By grinding it into powder and mixing it with lunar mercury, the lunar mercury can be slowly released, and the speed of slow release can even be determined by the ratio. "

"Then why do you say fate plays tricks on people?"

"Because we actually have this stuff right outside our house." Horn picked up a fingernail-sized piece of cave pink crystal from the ground. "The cave forest is full of this kind of crystals."

Catherine was speechless: "Why didn't they try it at the beginning?" "It's dark under the lamp." Horn shook his head, "With this bargaining chip, you should have no problem dealing with the Iron and Steel Guild in North Mound County, right?"

"So that's why you called me here."

"Who said that? I called you here because of my personal wish. I missed you."

"Oh?"

"I would like to meet with my chief of the Holy Maternity Guardianship to determine the production for the next four years."

The faint look of smug joy on Catherine's face suddenly darkened.

The so-called Holy Matrimonial Guardianship refers to the property of the Holy Father belonging to the Holy Union, which will be under the guardianship of Catherine.

In early 1450, after completing the liquidation and reorganization of internal forces and restoring the post-war order, Horn began to reorganize the Magdi Chamber of Commerce.

The original Magdi Chamber of Commerce was constantly dismantled, sold, and redeemed. At the same time, it was also being reborn and merged.

A large number of emerging companies were born on the corpse of the Magdi Chamber of Commerce.

But Horn did not dismantle all of it, but retained part of the monopoly.

The six institutions, namely the Order of the Peat Masters, the First River Transport Team, the Second Land Transport Team, the General Military Industry Office, the Hospital, and the Monastery of the Holy Place, monopolized energy, transportation, military industry, medical care, and housing and urban construction respectively.

All workshops and chambers of commerce in this field must be merged into one organization.

And, of course, there is the near monopoly of the two-tier market for food in terms of grace and favor.

Catherine personally handled the entire process.

She was too familiar with the Magdi Chamber of Commerce, and it would be too easy for her to dismember it.

It took only one year for the entire Megedi Chamber of Commerce to become what it is today.

Some entered the official jurisdiction of the Holy League, while others entered the civilian population and lost their shackles.

Horn's reward to Catherine was the director of the Holy Maternity Guardianship Bureau.

It is called guardianship, but in fact it is just overall coordination.

It is said that all key industries have been monopolized, but there is still one industry that has not been monopolized yet.

That is North Mound County, where the old nobles and the old dwarves joined together to form a mining and iron consortium.

People from the Steel Guild will also come, and this time they are here to negotiate this matter.

Catherine wanted to find an angle to ridicule Horn again, but when she saw Horn's hard-to-conceal smile, she gritted her teeth and hugged Horn: "How dare you play tricks on me?"

"I did miss you."

The two of them hugged each other with their chins leaning against each other, neither of them speaking.

After holding her quietly for a while, Catherine said calmly, "I went to see the daughter that Rufair gave birth to first. She was like a doll, with blue eyes and a rosy face."

"uh-huh."

"Do you think that the witch and you can still have children under the current circumstances?"

"..."

Horn said nothing. To be honest, he wasn't sure.

But at least, he could save the life of one child, the first one.

With angel blood, just like Carrie did back then.

If it is confirmed that the first child will still be stillborn, then use Angel Blood to save it.

But don’t have any more children later.

Because, an angel's blood and sweat only has one.

At this time, Horn even hoped that the Holy See City would send more angels.

Catherine tacitly skipped the topic: "So are all four saints here? Am I the last one?"

"No, there's Carrie." Thinking of Carrie after she untied her knot, Horn couldn't help but feel a headache, "And there's Carrie——"