Idle game leads to another world.

Chapter 258 Combat Preparation
The 648th year of the Demon King Calendar.

Mid-July, morning.

More than three months have passed since Princess Viola led her army to the Leon territory. In just one quarter, the entire territory has undergone earth-shaking changes.

The territory, which had been somewhat lifeless under the rule of Count Leon, has regained its vitality.

However, there were no major military moves, and the army loyal to Viola had only been conducting daily training.

As usual, Viola returned to her office after finishing her prayers.

Viola wasn't the only one in the office. In addition to Zora and several guards who were good at internal affairs, there was also a white-haired man.

Compared to the royal guards who wore armor even at work, this white-haired girl, wearing a gorgeous long skirt, looked more like a lady at a ball.

She was Greta Orr-Fran, the daughter of Count Fran.

In name, he wanted his daughter to go to a safe place, but in reality, she was sent to Viola as a hostage.

Since each Demon Kingdom is essentially made up of aristocratic territories, in order to prevent powerful nobles from rebelling, children of nobles must live in the capital from the age of six and will not return to their territories until they reach adulthood at the age of 15.

Greta is already 15 years old, but the situation is different now. Count Fran sent his daughter to Viola, probably as a token of his loyalty, to show that he is determined to follow Her Royal Highness the Princess.

You know, Count Fran currently has only one child, Greta. As the only heir, her importance is self-evident.

"Your Highness, here is the list of grain production for this quarter."

Viola glanced at the report handed over by Greta. The increase in grain production was not much different from the data of previous years, which was expected.

However, the experimental field outside the city gate has already had its first harvest. Thanks to the druid's careful care, the yield from the less than two acres of land is extremely astonishing.

Many farmers are already asking around where to find potato seeds, and it will be a natural thing for them to be promoted. I believe that by the next quarter, grain production will increase significantly.

Moreover, as windmills were built one after another, processing grain became much more convenient than before.

It happened to be the wheat harvest season, so Viola made the drawings given by Li Chengxi into a real object and rented it to farmers for free, a wooden machine called a wheat windmill.

Originally, after the wheat was harvested, it was necessary to manually screen out the straw, shriveled grains and other debris that were mixed in. With the ancient windmill, the above debris would basically be cleared away with just a turn of the hand crank.

The wheat grains are then dried and thrown into the windmill, and a steady supply of flour is available.

This saves a lot of manpower, allowing the saved human resources to do other things.

"The collection of oil is also going smoothly. The water pump invented by Miss Oldie can extract about fifty barrels of oil every day. The territory has completely gotten rid of the problem of insufficient oil, but it is still slightly insufficient as a strategic material reserve."

The water pump used to extract oil is actually a type of steam engine, which relies on atmospheric pressure to drive the piston. However, the design is still very immature, and it can only be used to this extent at present, and cannot achieve something as exaggerated as forming an oil production chain.

This speed is already acceptable. Viola and her colleagues extract oil mainly for direct burning and do not have any oil processing capabilities.

"The problem of fur and cotton has also been solved, and there is enough time to make enough warm clothing before winter."

Viola renovated the dock of Leon Territory these days, and it can barely accommodate medium-sized merchant ships. The merchant ships from Qihang City also brought a large amount of supplies that Leon Territory urgently needed.

This includes cotton.

As for the fur, we have it all thanks to the white dragon.

The White Dragon has a group of winter wolves under his command, and usually uses them as food reserves. Fortunately, dragons are creatures that sleep most of the time, and a full meal can sustain them for a long time, otherwise the monsters in the snowy area would have been eaten by them. Living in the shadow, the winter wolves dare not disobey the White Dragon's orders. They keep the fur of the prey they hunt, and when they have accumulated enough, the White Dragon will personally deliver it to the Leon territory.

The quality of these furs is not very good. After all, a winter wolf will not care whether the fur is intact when it takes a bite. But several pieces can be put together to make a leather jacket. As long as it can keep you warm, you don’t have to worry about whether it looks good or not.

Viola also successfully contacted the lord who was still resisting through the connection between the port and the city of Sailing. Now a large number of letters are sent to the territory of Leon by water almost every day, hoping that Princess Viola can come out to take charge of the situation.

It’s true that Viola won’t stay in Leon’s territory for long, but now is not the time to counterattack.

Her current military actions are merely to keep a close eye on the movements of the Four-Nation Coalition and to send a large number of scouts to and from the Leon Territory and the Half Moon Fort on the south side of the World Spine Mountains.

This operation made it difficult for the Four-Nation Alliance to deal with it. It looked like a big move, but it was just an appearance. Viola did not take any military action.

"In addition, the construction of His Majesty's temple is progressing smoothly, and the craftsmen hope that Your Highness will be able to preside over the ceremony when the time comes."

After saying this, Greta closed her notebook, tidied her restless white bangs with her hands, and waited for Viola's order.

Currently, the only religious facilities in the Leon territory are the chapel in the castle and the holy emblems and statues in the square.

It is really unacceptable that there is not even a temple.

So when the busy farming season was over, Viola immediately mobilized people to build the temple.

According to Viola's idea, they had to build a temple that was not much smaller than the castle. However, after rigorous calculations, she found that the high manpower and material resources required to build such a temple would seriously affect the counterattack plan. Moreover, there were no architects in the Leon territory who knew how to design temples. Taking too big a step would only lead to disaster.

So Viola thought about it again and again, and finally agreed with the opinion of her knights to reduce the size of the temple to one tenth of the original plan.

After all, the conditions are not there now, so we really can't force it.

The construction speed was so fast, on the one hand, because the number of believers of the Demon King among the civilians in the territory increased sharply, and when they heard that the temple was being built, they all came to lend a hand.

On the other hand, the size of this temple is indeed not big enough, so it can only be said to barely meet the needs.

That was all Greta had to report. Viola looked up from the papers and said in a friendly tone:
"You can relax a little. I never took you as a hostage."

As the heir to the earldom, Greta has received an elite education since childhood and has some knowledge of internal affairs and military affairs. She can help Viola, who is short of officials, to handle government affairs.

And Greta did a good job indeed, whether it was praying or government affairs, every aspect was impeccable.

But although this person has a sweet appearance, she seems like she never smiles. Every time I see her, she has a serious face.

"No, Your Highness, there is no room for sloppiness in work. If you have no other instructions, I will go to inspect the factory's production progress as scheduled."

Viola sighed:
"Okay, feel free to report to me if you have any questions."

Greta bowed her head, then opened the office door and walked out.

Greta must have some resentment in her heart as she was sent here as a hostage.

But Viola didn't have time to think about whether Greta was unhappy about this. She turned around and looked at the map hanging on the wall, which was densely marked with lines in different colors.

She stared at the map and murmured:

"There are still three months left..."

(End of this chapter)