Mountain and Forest Kingdom

"Prophet, this steam car is running too slow, the ox cart is faster than it!"

"It's okay, it will get faster slowly. Just like our ship, if it is upgraded from generation to generation, it will become stronger and faster."

The craftsmen of Ironforge join Lawrence to watch the steam train's first run.

Heidi invented the steam engine very early and later continued to improve it with the help of Lawrence.

During the use of the Snow Mountain Castle factory, a newer generation of steam engines soon appeared.

Especially the application on ships and trucks has actually been studied for two or three years.

Lawrence looked at the iron truck that was moving steadily forward. The cost of building this iron truck was very high, almost as much as the metal production of other countries in a year.

The annual steel production in the Ice Land has reached 40,000 tons, including Ironforge and the mining area, as well as several other newly built steel plants.

Ironforge is mainly responsible for research, development and improvement of technology, and the place for large-scale iron and steelmaking has been transferred to the Dam City under Feiyu Port, which has richer water resources.

In recent years, it has also begun to move towards the already stable Gran Province, which is rich in coal resources and has a large number of idle people to use.

Kellyon, who has studied under Lawrence for many years, has been sent there to engage in production. With the continuous updating of steam engine power, steel production will continue to increase in the future.

The strong steel manufacturing capabilities are mainly used in agricultural tools and weapons. The weapons have also changed from basic swords to iron cannons, and steel plates that can defend against artillery.

A new generation of steamships has been built, and Lawrence is currently giving the shipyard a holiday to prepare for research on the eighth generation of ships.

The first-generation ship, the barque, was equipped with sailing technology.

The second-generation ship Rees, the true first-generation warship, was designed as a turtle shell structure suitable for landing on shoals, with houses and other residential and observation buildings added, and it was also fully equipped for robbery, ramming, boarding and seizing the ship. Be strengthened.

The third-generation ship Oak is equipped with a rudder, iron planks, refined sails, anchors and oar power rooms, fully arming a warship in the traditional sense.

The fourth generation ship Revenge, the first gun ship.

The fifth-generation ship represents the Cement. Although it was a failed and useless cement ship, it provided a lot of experience in building super-large warships and laid the foundation for the era of heavy iron ships and boiler ships.

The sixth-generation Skyline is a cruise ship in peacetime and a large clipper used by Lawrence and envoys from various countries.

The Seventh Generation Steamship, the first steam-powered ship, was also a warship equipped with iron armor and artillery guns.

The eighth-generation ship will be an evolved version of the Steamship. Lawrence needs larger cargo ships to transport coal, metals and large amounts of livestock and crops.

Because I don’t want to name it with a person’s name, I plan to just casually name it Farmer.

Over the years, the main ships have been upgraded and renovated, and a lot of shipbuilding experience has been accumulated. This experience has not only brought progress to the shipbuilding industry in the Ice Land, but also attracted many outside craftsmen to come to learn and exchange.

There is no complacent atmosphere in the Land of Ice. Whether it is a ship or a steam vehicle, Lawrence has set the tone for continuous updating and upgrading.

It is not what technicians should do to be content with the status quo. The craftsmen who grew up with Lawrence all know the character of the prophet and know that the steam train in front of them will continue to grow and make progress!

Lawrence personally led the craftsmen to ride behind the train on Dom sheep and bird-lizard beasts, and watched the train climb up the hillside with seven iron boxes.

While climbing the hill, the speed of the train obviously dropped a lot, but it still successfully crossed the not-so-steep hill.

After crossing the hillside, the train began to go downhill.

It is a straight track from Ironforge to the iron ore area, and the train is extremely fast on this section!

When going downhill, Dom Sheep couldn't catch up with the train, and soon he couldn't even see the shadow of the train.

When everyone arrived at the iron ore area after half an hour, the workers here were loading ore farming tools into the truck.

Everyone set out early for Pumexiu Town. Soon the steam train behind them made a roaring roar and passed by everyone.

The first steam train arrived at the town of Pumexiu earlier than the people riding Dom Sheep, and would also head towards the further port of Dom.

Lawrence quickly returned to the manor with his people, and held a banquet in the manor to reward the craftsmen of Ironforge.

Most people's rewards are not generous, only a few chickens and twenty pounds of eggs.

These are all grassroots craftsmen. The rewards for the several responsible persons and core craftsmen are much richer, including thirty pounds of wine and ten pounds of fat.

Because it was very late, Lawrence also ate and prayed with the nuns.

Sister Ian quickly reported to Lawrence that the Shepherdess and Lana wanted to learn knowledge, and also talked about her refusal to accept money.

"You are right, Ian." Lawrence affirmed Ian's approach, "Knowledge is valuable, but the nuns in the convent are all sisters in the same family. We must treat sisters with tolerance and equality."

"From now on, you can take an hour or two hours after meals to give them tutoring lessons, and you can do it twenty-five days a month. After all, they need to rest sometimes."

"As a imparter of knowledge, I will give you fifty copper coins every month until they learn enough."

Lawrence did not give random rewards. Over the years, whether it was the treatment of soldiers or the rewards of nobles, Lawrence had always maintained restraint, carefully studied, analyzed and inspected, and never disrupted the system indiscriminately.

If a problem can be solved with money, you won’t make any random promises.

"Yes! Merciful prophet!" Ian prefers to be praised by the prophet than money.

Lawrence had no intention of continuing to talk to Ian, so he quickly asked her to leave, and then went to sleep.

Lying alone in bed, Lawrence began to think about all the troubles he was encountering.

After spending a lot of time in the manor and monastery these days, some problems gradually surfaced, making Lawrence worried.

It's not the train's problem, it's not the wizard's problem, it's the nun's problem.

Lawrence found that the proportion of beauties here in the manor was very small these days! !

Beautiful women have always been a minority resource, and the proportion of beautiful women in the monastery has been declining over the years.

In the past, I would go out for robberies and only bring back the pretty ones.

Over the years, connections have been added to it, and many people have spent money and donated money to come in. In addition, some barbarian orphans came in because of their fathers' merits, resulting in the proportion of beautiful women in the monastery falling to less than one third.

Lawrence was more worried about the quality of beauties in the monastery than the corruption of dynastic warriors and meritorious nobles.

After all, as long as the promotion system for the military and meritorious nobles is there, there will be no problem, and they can be managed by themselves.

But the issue of beauty quality is already a very thorny issue.

As a prophet, Lawrence himself could not discriminate against those nuns who were not good-looking, nor could he refuse to allow other people's daughters to enter the convent and become nuns loyal to the prophet because they were not good-looking.

The monastery also has a retirement property. The shepherdess was not the first woman to enter the monastery for retirement, nor was she the last.

In the future, more and more old women will come to take care of themselves.

Lawrence understood why ancient emperors were unhappy.

It seems like you can choose at will, but in fact you have no choice.

The most terrible thing is that this problem will definitely become more and more serious. In the future, all crooked people will have to enter the monastery. The nature of the monastery will soon change from a monastery dominated by young women to a closed monastery dominated by old nuns.

In the past, the monastery was a progressive and beautiful group of nuns. Within a few years, it would become a closed and conservative group.

This changing trend is a general trend and a very normal behavior of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages.

Lawrence thought about it for several hours, but finally gave up on the change.

If you only choose beauties without considering anything else, then the issue of loyalty will become a big problem, and it will definitely become even more unbearable.

"Anyway, today's women are enough. In the future, wisdom, loyalty and talent will be the main ones. Beauty is just an additional bonus."

Lawrence thought quickly and abandoned the changes to the monastery, but also made a new one.

"A talent class can be set up in the Saint's College to recruit young women who excel in dance, folk arts, cooking and housekeeping."

"In this way, those who are lustful will be lustful, those who are talented will be talented, and those who are strong will be strong. They will be separated from each other and will not affect each other."

Lawrence fell asleep quickly and comfortably, but was woken up the next day by the barking of dogs in the manor.

It was daytime outside, and Lawrence began another day of work.

First it was fitness, then I went to Ironforge to inspect the steam train returning at night, then checked the running condition of the train and asked the driver for his opinion.

After roughly handling various matters, it was almost noon. Lawrence was about to take the rail car back to Oak City when he saw Yu Bao riding a dog over to say hello.

Yu Bao was riding on the back of the dog and raised his right hand to greet Lawrence, while his left hand was holding the big dog to prevent it from falling.

"Wow~ wow~"

Lawrence walked over and looked at Yu Bao's posture.

"Yu Bao, your feet have no place to exert force. I have been idle recently and have nothing to do. I will help you make a pedal so that you can ride the big dog better."

After hearing this, Yubao happily thanked him, "Aw~aw~"

Lawrence smiled and said, "You're welcome. I made an agreement with the driver. In the future, when you want to go to the sea, you can take a steam train there. You can leave in the morning and come back in the afternoon."

When Yu Bao heard that he could go to the beach, he quickly nodded happily and agreed.

Now that there are steam cars, it only takes two hours to get from the manor to Dumu Port. The round trip takes more than five hours, because you need to climb mountains on the way back, so the speed is much slower.

During this period, we have to unload and load goods at several places, and it takes a day to go back and forth.

When there are steam trains to attract passengers in the future, the time will be shortened, but it will not be too fast anyway.

Lawrence thinks that Yubao is a sea creature and needs to go to the beach to swim regularly and cannot always stay in the mountains.

In addition, the width of the river is not as wide as that of the sea, and there are more obstacles and other troublesome things, causing the speed of fish to be generally slower than that of ocean fish.

Fish babies often swim in such small rivers, which is also a big problem for their physical development.

The sea is Yubao’s home ground.

Lawrence felt that Lana should not have been placed in the mountain monastery, but Lana's character was not suitable for the harbor monastery, and she did not want to go to the Ice Harbor monastery or the Flying Fish Harbor monastery.

The place that is most suitable for Lana is not suitable for Yubao.

The same is true in life. Sometimes this kind of problem also exists between family members. Everyone has their own choices.

Lawrence couldn't bear Yubao to stay in the mountains with Lana for the rest of his life, but he didn't want to separate Yubao and Lana.

"It just so happens that I don't have anything else to do right now. I'll come over next week and take you in the car to take a look. You study hard with Lana these days. In five days, I'll come over and take you to the beach to see the fishery and have fun for a day. Come back and bring back some sea vegetables and fish.”

"The kelp on the beach is about to mature, and the fresh one is more delicious."

When the fish baby heard that Lawrence was going to take it out to play, it was even more happy, "Howl~howl~"

Usually Yubao refuses to be separated from Lana, but if Lawrence takes him out to play, Yubao has no problem with it.

Apart from Lana, the one Yubao is closest to is Lawrence.

In terms of obedience, Yubao has always felt that the prophet's words are more worthy of being trusted than Lana's. The prophet knows what is right better than Lana herself.

"Then it's agreed. I'll go back first. Don't work too long. Go back and take a bath in the bathhouse. Don't get too hot."

"Woo~" Yubao was obedient and went home to take a bath. The bath here is a good place for Yubao to take a nap and cool off during his usual lunch break.

The emergence of steam cars not only improved the transportation time of goods in Durm Harbor and Ironforge, but also increased the importance of blacksmiths and merchants to steam cars and rails.

The emergence of steamships also heralded the end of the era of sailing battleships.

Many warriors and sailors are aware of the pace of development in the Ice Lands.

It used to take one or two years to build an Oak, and now it also takes a year, but there are already more than one shipyards in the entire land of ice.

Now hundreds of large boats can be launched every year and are sold overseas. Various orders are scheduled for more than ten years.

After Lawrence built the first-generation steamship, it was not only the shipbuilding craftsmen of Dumu Port who needed to improve, but the craftsmen of the Covenant outside also knew that this was a progressive technology that must be learned!

A new trend has emerged, and nobles inside and outside the Covenant blindly believe in the guidance of the prophet.

From the great nobles to the small businessmen, everyone began to understand these latest technologies that could bring wealth.

For Lawrence, the steam technology can be left to others to continue to study and explore. He can do what he should do. Now he only needs to continue to develop in pig farming and cotton cultivation.

Some of the cotton seeds obtained last spring have been cultivated. After ripening by elves and some wizards, three hundred acres of cotton fields have been planted this year.

The first baby boom in the Ice Land will probably happen in three years. By then, a large number of young people will have given birth to the first Ice People, and the amount of clothing and fabric needed will have doubled.

Three years were enough for Lawrence to increase steam looms and cotton production. (End of chapter)