What's wrong with building a steel torrent in a dungeon?

But at this time, Fran had another more important thing to do.

Prepare for the sale of steam engines after the spring.

Selling steam engines will raise the productivity of the entire main plane to a new level. This idea has been in Fran's mind for a long time, but the main reason why it has not been implemented is because of the output of steam engines.

Due to reasons of manufacturing precision, steam engines have never been able to be mass-produced, and the production and processing of some key components still have to rely on the experience of skilled workers.

This problem was not so prominent before, mainly because Fran had formed a powerful talent siphoning phenomenon in the Holy Roll Empire and surrounding countries, and had accumulated a strong team of workers, and this team was constantly expanding.

Relying on manpower, the output of steam engines can barely keep up with the pace of Fulan Industrial expansion.

However, Fran knew very well that this method was not reliable. Sooner or later, the output of steam engines would not be able to keep up and would eventually restrict the development of the industry.

The college must improve in all aspects in order to create machines that can produce machines.

But the rise of Orila City was ultimately too short.

Technology, especially the production process, cannot be achieved overnight. It needs to be explored slowly, accumulated slowly, and built up bit by bit. Even with the technological indicator of Fulan, which can eliminate major mistakes, this is still an unavoidable hurdle.

There is no need for trial and error, no need to try the wrong forks in the road, they still have to walk on the right path step by step.

This matter cannot be rushed.

I just don't know if the gods will give her this time.

Originally, Fran had planned to rely on manpower to build steam engines for a long time, but the undead plague gave her an opportunity.

This opportunity is the invisible guardian of the Holy Roll Empire, the last fig leaf of the Roll people, and the most mysterious force of mankind - Rainbow City.

Chapter 285: Cooperation between Two Cities

With Rainbow City's pride and principles (plus the feud with Fran), they would never unite with the demon minions of Aurora City.

Just kidding, it’s already pretty good that we don’t wipe you out.

However, when the undead disaster reached its most desperate moment, Margaret's entire army was annihilated, the undead army numbered millions, and the Northern Alliance and the Chinese Alliance stood by and watched. Rainbow City discovered that the demise of the Holy Roel Empire seemed to be a foregone conclusion.

They wanted to support him, but the key point was that there was no lord in the entire Holy Roel Empire who was willing to fight against the undead. The nobles were either preparing to pack up their belongings and run away, or writing letters of surrender to Arthas.

In desperation, they could only find the only army still resisting, the city of Orila.

Finally, Rainbow City put aside the previous grievances and sent the fire mage Lina to support

Originally, after the undead disaster was over, Rainbow City would once again enter a secluded state and not ask about the internal affairs of the Holy Roll Empire. As long as Fran did not make big news (such as destroying the Holy Roll Empire), they would turn a blind eye.

However, as the war ended, after Lina and other magicians returned to Rainbow City, they praised the city of Orila and Fran's heroic resistance. Some injured magicians who came to the rear even exaggerated the scenes of Orila City and Bieson Port, making Fran feel embarrassed.

No matter how much empty stuff there is, the great material development of Orila City is an indisputable fact.

The magicians of Rainbow City suddenly discovered that ten thousand of the nobles of the Holy Roll Empire were not as reliable as the fallen nun of Aurora City. If you want to make the Holy Roll Empire bigger and stronger, you can never count on the insect nobles of the Holy Roll Empire.

This gave Rainbow City a very good impression of Fran.

This goodwill laid the foundation for future cooperation between the two parties.

Fran exchanged letters with Lina many times. With her eloquent tongue and deft persuasion skills, she finally convinced Lina to connect her with the top management of Rainbow City and start cooperation.

You have to know that Rainbow City has always been an isolated and extraordinary image in the Holy Roll Empire. Unless the Holy Roll Empire is facing a catastrophe, these magicians will never step out of Rainbow City. Even if the Holy Roll Empire begs them three times and nine times, they will never be tempted.

But this time, Fran actually convinced these magicians to agree to cooperate.

Of course, the power of money cannot be ignored.

In fact, magicians need a lot of materials and money for their research, and Fran owns Bieson Port, so she can buy all the materials, which means that Rainbow City and Aurora City complement each other. In addition, Fran's request is not to let magicians fight for her, but just to assist in research.

Where is research not research?

Finally, the cooperation was reached.

In fact, what Fran cares about is not the magician's fighting ability at all.

With the advent of artillery and muskets, the magician's combat power is no longer enough. When artillery first came out, Margaret used it to attack Helsinki, the capital of Duke Bieson, and directly blasted through the magic circle carefully arranged by the ice wizard Yerona.

You know, this is an ice magician who is famous for his defense skills, and the artillery at that time was very primitive.

As a result of this increase in power, magicians now play an even smaller role on the battlefield.

What Fran values ​​is the talent of magicians.

Fire magicians can precisely control the temperature of flames, and can even create ultra-high-temperature flame knives that cannot be made in workshops, allowing them to cut into nearly perfect shapes.

Ice magicians can cool rapidly and precisely control the temperature.

In Fran's opinion, this is simply the Holy Roll version of high-precision processing equipment.

The steam engines they made were very efficient and not prone to damage. Today, the main warships of the Aurora City Navy are all powered by steam engines made by magicians.

However, except for the steam engines in some important areas, Fran did not ask the magicians to work overtime day and night to manufacture steam engines for her.

She knew very well that the demand for high-precision steam engines in Orila City was also very great. Relying on the small number of magicians to produce them would simply be a drop in the bucket. Even if the number of magicians increased tenfold, it would still not be enough.

What she wanted was for the magicians to assist the scholars at the research institute in their research.

In the process of practicing magic, magicians need to rely on their mental strength to meditate and absorb magical elements. This trains them to have a strong sense of the environment and control over various magics, which can increase the speed of scholars' research.

Through this collaboration, scholars have made great progress in both basic and applied fields, especially in the field of alloys.

With the help of magicians, scholars can test the various properties of an alloy in a very short time and judge the quality of new materials. This greatly speeds up the research speed of scholars, and the materials department, which was originally stagnant, has suddenly ushered in a blowout of results.

Materials are the "building blocks" of the mechanical design department. The more types of building blocks there are, the more finished products they can produce. Otherwise, no matter how good a designer is, without the corresponding materials to support him, he will be nothing but a clever woman without rice, and his works will be castles in the air.

These are all the help that the magician provides to the city of Aurora.

The city of Aurora also brought significant changes to Rainbow City.

During the cooperation process, the magicians were surprised to find that there was such a complete knowledge system behind the city of Aurora.

Various mathematics and physics textbooks, from shallow to deep, from simple to difficult, are classified and progressive. The sense of precision is even more artistic than art.

This knowledge system deeply shocked the magicians. They only then realized that the magic system that Rainbow City had cultivated for so long was actually in such a mess, as if it was a dangerous building with an unstable foundation, but they kept adding bricks and tiles to it.

Sooner or later, this dilapidated building will collapse. By then, no matter how exquisite the decorations on it are, they will all turn into ruins.

Although the magicians were proud, they were obviously more pragmatic than the illusory theology. Not long after, several magicians came to Aurora City in person to ask for advice on how to change this situation.

But this did not bother Fran. It was with her help that the chaotic mathematical system of the gray dwarves was clarified. Although Fran did not understand magic, the principle was the same.

Fran seized this opportunity. She ordered knowledgeable scholars to collect materials, sort out the current situation, and then compiled an article titled "Preliminary Proposals for the Improvement of the Magic System."

It lists the problems in the magic system very clearly and methodically, and puts forward suggestions for improvement.

Thanks to this article, Fran was invited to give a speech in Rainbow City.

A demon lord, a fallen nun who knows nothing about magic, actually went to Rainbow City to give a speech? The topic of the speech was also related to magic.

If this had happened in the past, they would rather believe that all the dark elves were in pure love.

The title of Fran's speech in Rainbow City was "The Struggle of Magicians". She first praised the great achievements of magicians in the Holy Roel Empire, then pointed out the problems, and finally imagined the future to make magic great again. The magicians present were so moved that they stood up and applauded spontaneously.

Of course, Fran did not reveal the relationship between Merlin, Su Hailun and the demons.

Before finding out the truth of these things, Fran decided to keep silent to avoid unnecessary trouble.

Afterwards, the leaders of Rainbow City listened carefully to Fran's advice and began to sort out the principles and theorems of magic circles one by one, removing invalid and erroneous cognitions, compiling the underlying rules, etc. At the same time, they opened public knowledge and taught some basic magic knowledge so that magicians who were just getting started would not have to figure it out on their own.

In this way, the two sides forged a deep friendship, and Rainbow City once again opened its doors to facilitate the development of magicians from various disciplines to Aurora City to assist in research and development.

Of course, friendship is friendship, but Rainbow City has still set its own bottom line for cooperation. The magicians will never get involved in any war affairs, will not serve Fran's army, and will not get involved in any struggle for power.

Ok.

Although you didn't go to the battlefield in person, the results of your research and development are enough to be worth a legion.

As for fighting for power? Vienna is mine, and Margaret is my good sister! Who else should I fight for power with?

Fran agreed readily, and praised the magician's independent and benevolent character (foolish people are easily deceived). In this dark world, there is still such a group of people who stick to the moral bottom line (upright), who are simply the treasure of the world (my good helper).

This cooperation lasted for just over a year, but the mass production problem of the steam engine that had been bothering the R&D department of Orila City was solved naturally. Even the steam engine technology after mass production was much better than before.

This gave the master craftsmen who made the steam engines a great sense of crisis. They were afraid that if they didn't work hard, they would be completely replaced by machines in the future. So they began to search for knowledge and spontaneously understand and study the latest technological developments.

In the following period, the iteration speed of various new products reached a new level, and various technologies also ushered in a blowout.

Of course, because technology is iterating so fast, there is also a worry that is not a big deal, that is, there are a large number of machines that are still usable, but the technology is obviously outdated. Using these machines for production will obviously hinder the overall industrial progress, but it is not cost-effective to throw them away.

After much thought, it was best to sell them. Just like when selling firearms, you should first use obsolete products to make a lot of money, so that those who want to copy or steal the technology will bleed, and then sell mass-produced products to remind them that the wool of Orila City is not so easy to get.

Fran believes that Orila City will once again bring a small industrial shock to the whole world. Not only will it sell steam engines, but also various industrial products that they have never heard of.

As for the stage for creating a shocking performance, the Northern Alliance and the Chinese Alliance have already set it up.

Chapter 286 It’s the breeding season again

In the morning, when the residents of Vienna got up early to go to work as usual, they heard a few clear bird calls. The residents looked up in surprise and found a green bird flying high in the sky.

Spring harbinger?

Spring is coming so soon??

In the memory of every Viennese resident, winter is a long and painful time. Everyone always counts on their fingers how many days are left before the end of winter, and at the same time feels lucky that they have survived another trial.

But this winter seems to pass by extra fast.

There was no sense of suffering at all. The children were even reluctant to leave.

Soon, the warm spring wind blew to the continent of Calradia. The snow melted, and green buds grew out of the ground. Colorful colors replaced the monotonous white and gray earth, and it became restless.

It was as if there was a magnetic voice reciting the narration, saying that spring had arrived, all things were reviving, and it was the mating season for animals.

But putting aside the question of whether they are animals or not, in spring, the most anxious and restless creatures are definitely humans.

The Northern Alliance and the Chinese Alliance, which had been dormant for an entire winter due to the cold, began to stir again.

New Vienna.

The Duke of Normandy walked into the military headquarters with a grim face. As soon as he opened the door, he saw an elf and a dwarf sitting on the main seats.

These two people are none other than the elf Alfonso and the dwarf Odyssey, the stewards of the Northern Alliance and the Chinese Alliance.

Two foreigners were sitting at the main seat of the military headquarters. This was an absolute shame for any force, but the Duke of Normandy was not angry at all. Instead, his originally angry expression changed in an instant and was covered with flattery.

"Why are you two here? You didn't even say hello to me. I'm sorry for not entertaining you well. I'm sorry for not entertaining you well."

"Stop talking nonsense. We are not looking for you to entertain us." Alfonso angrily took out a file and said, "Three months! I gave you three whole months, and gave you so much food and military pay, and what happened in the end..."

The dossier was smashed to the ground by the elf. The Duke of Normandy immediately stepped forward and bent down to pick it up.

"It took three months to recruit more than a thousand soldiers, and they are all old, weak, sick and disabled." Alfonso narrowed his eyes, his eyes full of danger: "Do you think we in the Northern Alliance are easy to deceive?"

"Ah, this..." The Duke of Normandy wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "Lord Alfonso, please calm down. This is really difficult."

"Hmph! I have been in the northern countries for four years and in Baishajie for two years. I am not that kind of elven noble who never leaves the house. You'd better make a decent excuse, otherwise..." Alfonso stood up, slowly took off his gloves and put them aside, then said: "We can lift you up, and we can also bring you down.

"This... is indeed a hidden story." The Duke of Normandy said, "Originally, we wanted to take advantage of the cold winter to strike while the fire is hot... to do good deeds and recruit more disaster victims to prevent them from starving to death. But this year is a little special, the disaster victims have food in their hands."

As he spoke, the Duke of Normandy described Fran's actions with exaggeration.

"This Fran actually has such means." Alfonso said, "In order to prevent us from recruiting soldiers, she went to great lengths and spent so much money on disaster relief."

"I don't think they spent much money." At this time, Ode said, "Flan has a very close relationship with the Orc Empire and has imported a lot of cheap food from the Orc Empire. With the amount of food in Fran, it should be no problem to feed the victims of half of the Holy Roel Empire."

Alfonso glanced at Odysseus and said, "But even so, we shouldn't have recruited only a thousand people! We paid a lot of money to the soldiers! Did you embezzle all of it?"

"It's unfair, Master Elf." The Duke of Normandy said quickly, "How dare we do such a thing." (Only greedy part of it)

"I don't think you would dare to do that." Alfonso said, "Then what is going on?"

"The reason is still Fran." The Duke of Normandy said, "After the spring, Fran's factory has also been recruiting laborers. Her intentions are very sinister. She actually used such despicable means as high salaries and high treatment to recruit a large number of laborers."

"Is this true?" Alfonso glanced at Odyssey next to him.

When it comes to production and construction, elves are not as good as dwarves

Odysseus did not comment, and then said: "We are only responsible for logistics, and the recruitment of soldiers is the responsibility of you elves."

The implication is, stop making so many excuses, can you elves really do it? If not, give the power of conscription to us dwarves as well.

Having hit a snag with the dwarf, Alfonso's face immediately turned ugly.

He said, "Listen! I will increase the food and salary of each soldier by another 30%. This treatment is already better than most countries in my Northern Alliance. If you still can't recruit people, then I think you should stop being the Minister of Military Affairs."

After saying this, he did not allow the Duke of Normandy to make any arguments and simply stood up and left the military headquarters.

After the elves and dwarves left, the Duke of Normandy's flattering expression changed again, and he became a majestic grand duke. He said, "Call out Grima, who is in charge of recruiting soldiers."