I became a witch, but I started the industrial revolution

From the original 5 silver coins per share, it began to soar rapidly at the rate of three jumps a day to 20, 50, 100, and 200.

John added fuel to the fire at this time and began to settle the nobles' annuity bonds in advance. As long as the nobles wanted to sell the company's stocks now, they would be bought out by citizens as soon as they were put on the market.

Seeing such a hot scene, the nobles who were originally preparing to sell and withdraw became a little hesitant. The current situation is that if they sell, they can immediately exchange it for a large sum of cash, but if they don’t sell, there will be greater returns waiting for them in the future.

Even in this moment of hesitation, the stock price rose by 5% again. Everyone seemed to be able to hear the clinking sound of silver coins echoing in their ears. Almost no one could resist such temptation.

If you delay for one day, the money can at least double. Who can resist such temptation?

Even some nobles who wanted to sell their stocks were dissuaded or even refused by other family members. Everyone was overwhelmed by the overwhelming rush.

But what many people didn't notice was that because people were bidding for stocks, the large amount of silver coins they held were also collected in the United Bank represented by John.

He was printing money in multiples behind the scenes at the same time. At this time, the printing press of the United Bank was working day and night without any idle time.

The bank itself held a large number of Wokingmacher United Company shares, and used the stocks that were rising infinitely as the basis for issuing additional currency, but no one noticed that there was anything wrong.

If you have money, you have to spend it. Under the auspices of Wokingmehe, these silver coins were used to buy out almost all the stocks of machinery and equipment from the Alliance merchants. At the same time, orders were placed to import and purchase a large number of machinery and equipment produced by the Alliance.

Wokingmehe used silver coins to purchase supplies, and merchants from the Seris Alliance also used the Vatican's banknotes to go on a shopping spree, taking away everything they could.

In less than half a year, the share price of Wokingmacher United Company, which had originally fallen from 5 silver coins per share, doubled to more than 8000 silver coins per share. A large number of people from the Holy See waved their money to buy the goods they wanted or didn't want in the neighboring countries.

There was no problem at the beginning, because according to the previous paper currency policy, all countries that had business dealings with the Vatican held a lot of Vatican banknotes. Your face value increased, and my foreign exchange also increased. No one thought there was anything wrong.

But soon, they found that the large amount of Vatican currency they controlled could not be used to buy anything within the Vatican, and everything that could be bought had already been bought.

Seris only accepts the Vatican's currency for settlement when trading directly with the Vatican. Transactions with other countries are still mainly based on silver coins, supplemented by alliance coins as the currency for both parties.

As the largest importer and exporter of raw materials, industrial products and equipment, energy and chemicals, the Seris Alliance does not support other countries using the Vatican's currency, which is equivalent to a natural loss of more than 60% of its circulation channels.

As a result, they could only begin to restrict the trading and circulation of the Vatican's currency, and instead adopt a silver coin trade policy with the Vatican.

When such requirements began to appear in the settlement policies of all countries adjacent to the Holy See, some people began to realize the crisis involved and began to discuss with the United Bank the idea of ​​exchanging paper money for silver coins.

John agreed to all of them. That night, John had a fierce battle with his beautiful wife and stabbed her in the neck with a dagger, killing her cleanly and neatly.

Before she died, she stared at John, her eyes full of confusion and puzzlement.

The total time they had spent together was more than five years. The long period of living together day and night had subtly reduced her vigilance to the lowest level. Until the moment of her death, she did not understand why this happened.

"Feel sorry..."

After closing the other person's eyes, John calmed down his strange emotions, quickly put on the clothes of a manor servant, opened the door and walked out quickly.

Two teammates dressed as servants were already waiting for him outside. John looked at them and nodded silently, and the three of them quickly ran towards the stable.

The manor stables are located at the very edge of the entire manor, close to the ordinary streets outside.

The two were intelligence officers sent by the Seris Alliance. They were responsible for the daily cleaning of the stables, caring for and feeding the horses, and digging a temporary escape passage.

Through the tunnel, the three of them were transferred to an ordinary house more than 4 meters away from the manor, and got on a simple four-wheeled freight carriage and slowly drove away from the manor.

Not far from the city gate, John got out of the car, put on the Farhad family emblem, and drove towards the city gate in a swagger. Seeing this, the stationed guards hurriedly opened the city gate and waited for them to pass.

The agent driving the carriage smiled and threw a bag of silver coins to the other party, then drove out of the city amid the other party's numerous thanks. From beginning to end, no guard thought of checking the vehicle.

This was not the first time they drove out of the city in the middle of the night, and the carriage was indeed the property of the Farhad family. The previous few times they had carried ordinary supplies out of the city in the middle of the night, and they were severely punished after being stopped.

When the guards found that they could not find anything except some strange structure under the car after checking it, and they could get benefits by not checking it, everything became logical.

Only when they were thousands of meters away from the royal city did John feel completely relieved. He laughed and hugged his colleague across from him: "Great, comrade, I can finally go home."

The other party patted him comfortingly and said, "Thank you for your hard work, but don't be happy yet. The road ahead is not easy. Let's try to go faster."

As he spoke, he knocked on the wooden board in front of him to stop the carriage, then he took out a space ring from his arms and threw out various equipment. The people outside did the same.

The bottom of the carriage is raised using a small hydraulic jack, and the four wheels are quickly removed. At the same time, all the internal clips are removed in a specific way to reduce the weight, and the outer wooden chassis is removed to reveal the inner aluminum alloy frame.

The drive shaft, wheel hub, and wide inflatable rubber tires were reinstalled with aluminum alloy accessories. The agent inside took out a small magic engine from the space ring and sorted out all the reserved slots at the rear of the car.

In less than thirty minutes, a strange-looking horse-drawn carriage was assembled by the two of them.

An agent fiddled with the magic engine for a while, poured some magic powder into it, and activated a micro crystal and threw it into the engine.

After a faint explosion, the engine started to work with a hum, and the three of them began to speed across the land in the convertible.

The vehicle is very simple, without even pedals or a gear lever, let alone a gearbox. Apart from being able to run and simply control the direction, it has no other functions.

But they don't care about this. This thing is just a disposable means of transportation. The power matrix of the small magic engine has a range of nearly 300 kilometers and can be thrown away after use.

The distance of 300 kilometers is just enough for them to reach the riverside waters in Orstad State, where there are pick-up personnel waiting for them.

Chapter 209 U1 Submarine

[Arrived above the designated location, descending in altitude. ]

In the dark night sky at an altitude of 1000m, a 25m-class multi-purpose airship equipped with an anti-magic detection array began to slowly descend in altitude, and the bottom of the airship was covered with a high-power infrared searchlight matrix.

As ballast water was continuously injected, the airship silently descended to a distance of 300m from the ground and stopped, taking in the view of the military camp on the Vatican River below.

A Vatican soldier at the bridgehead was scanning the dark water, unaware that a head had slowly emerged from the water beneath the wooden bridge where he was standing, staring at him with his hands slightly raised in an aggressive manner.

"Bang!" A slight gunshot

As the soldier turned to leave, a bullet came from nowhere and hit him right between the eyebrows. The soldier's whole body stiffened and he fell backwards under the force, and was caught by the hands above the water.

After gently placing the other person under the bridge, the man slowly climbed onto the wooden bridge, untied the long plastic box from his back, opened it on the ground, took out the bolt-action rifle wrapped in a waterproof bag, and began to quickly assemble the accessories.

A small assault boat carrying two people slid to the wooden bridge with the faint hum of the engine, and a team of three people wearing anti-detection robes began to advance steadily.

The sniper blew up the camp's searchlight with two consecutive shots, causing a commotion among the soldiers in the camp.

Through the searchlight of the airship's active infrared light, the bolt-action rifle equipped with an infrared night vision sight can clearly see several soldiers in the camp checking the searchlight equipment.

'Bang bang bang...'

Heavy gunshots and cries for help echoed in the vicinity. Under the attack of snipers from the front and rear, a team of ten Vatican soldiers were easily wiped out without any room for resistance.

Seeing that the area had been cleared, the sniper picked up the intercom and said, "The area is safe. Waiting for the target to reunite and evacuate."

'Received. The target is 20 kilometers away.'

"learn!"

This was the third outpost they had cleared along the way. These outposts functioned like coast guards to prevent merchant ships from being hijacked by small pirates.

Given the width of the Orstad River, it is difficult for large ships to enter here, so the Holy See did not pay too much attention to the location of the river.

Without making the rendezvous team wait too long, John and his two companions drove the car smoothly to the rendezvous location. They patted the car that had driven them all the way. John took the crystals handed over by the others and set up a simple fire magic circle to cremate the car.

The melting point of aluminum alloy is only 660°, which will quickly burn it to ashes.

In the firelight, the three of them boarded the speedboat, started the engine, and rode the waves on the water, while the troops who were to pick them up took the landed airship to the secret base established by the alliance on the main continent.

The few people only had time to say hello to each other before they parted ways.

Medea established an airship network on the main continent through airships, and used the powerful self-sustaining capacity of the airships as aerial supply platforms to regularly supply each team network with various necessary military supplies.

Small airships are usually docked near large airships and are dispatched for use when they have a mission.

In normal times, these third-level special forces are scattered across the main continent and live as ordinary people. They will only be activated when a mission requires them.

As John and the other two boarded the speedboat, the second leg of the mission was completed and the final start-up signal was sent out.

Near the corner of the river a hundred kilometers away from the port of Orstad, a large number of bubbles began to emerge from the water surface. A mast slowly rose underwater, and the dark bridge was exposed on the water surface.

U-class submarine, codenamed U-02

Crew: 25, length: 45, draft: 3.8 meters, displacement above water: 280 tons, displacement below water: 340 tons

2 500 horsepower Magic engines, 2-axis propulsion, speed 15 knots on the surface, 6.9 knots underwater, water endurance 10 knots, 1000 nautical miles.

The underwater endurance is 5 nautical miles at 650 knots and the maximum diving depth is 150 meters.

If there is still debate about whether the magic engine is suitable for other weapon categories, then the improvement of the magic engine for things like submarines is absolutely huge.

Pollution-free and low energy consumption have a huge impact on the flight range. Although it also needs oxygen to do work, the saved fuel space is more than enough to fill oxygen.

Although the river channel of Olstad is getting narrower and narrower, because it is close to the ocean, its basic depth before turning into the narrow river channel is about 250-300m, which is just enough to accommodate the diving of U-boats.

As the speedboat moved forward, it entered the radio signal range, and John and others soon saw the strange-looking ship with a bizarre shape parked on the water.

When John and his men climbed up to the deck line, the captain shook John's hand and said with a smile, "Congratulations on completing the mission! Commander John."

John also had a smile on his face, he felt very relaxed now.

"Okay, let's go down first. This is not the place to talk."

As he spoke, he guided several people to climb up the ladder along the pipe into the submarine. Because the research and development of the 533 heavy torpedo had not made much progress and the submarine did not have suitable self-defense weapons underwater for the time being, there was still ample space.

At present, the alliance's positioning of submarines is still in the special operations application, used for underwater diving and the like. A professional submarine force has not yet been divided, but it is already on the agenda.

After all, water ripple detection is still in its initial stages, and the alliance has not mapped many water ripple areas, so it can only cooperate with the first terrain matching radar for mutual comparison.

Fortunately, with the use of the magic shield, if it occasionally touches some debris, there is still a chance to adjust it back, so it won’t be as tragic as in the previous life.

As the top hatch closed and the engine started, the submarine's top ballast tanks began to drain water and exhaust gas.

[Venting completed, bridge hatch closed. Airlock begins to close]

[Closed. Pressurized and sealed. Sealed. Captain, commissioning completed.]

"Roger that. Open the vent valve."

[Opening of the vent valve is complete. Water begins to fill the bottom, the periscope does not tilt left or right, and begins to dive 3°, with a depth of 100m.]

[Received, start diving, 1°.....2°......]

As the crew reported, the submarine began to move forward and dive into the water, leaving behind several water ripples composed of air bubbles on the water surface that slowly disappeared.

【The vent valve is closed.】

"Received. Air valve closed. Radio communications on the entire ship connected. Crystal powder injection pipeline is flowing normally."

The submarine passed beneath the port of Orstad unnoticed, perfectly avoiding all inspections.

The reason why so much trouble was taken was that even the special forces weapons used bolt-action rifles, and the sniper rifles were modified versions using 7.92 ordinary bullets, just to take John away while also doing their best to reduce the presence of the alliance.

In order to eliminate the Vatican's suspicion of the Alliance, the Alliance has nearly 100 million Vatican banknotes on its books, which will be waste paper in the future.

It is common sense that such a heavy loss could not be caused by the mastermind behind the scenes.

Of course, the losses were only superficial. The profits gained by the alliance from privately looting silver over the years were also astronomical.

The share John would get alone would be enough for his family to spend for dozens of lifetimes.