Out of the cage

In 3574 of the Fengfu calendar, the storm and precipitation are still the amount of the old season.

For Ritterland, the times are calling. —— Wearing wear-resistant industrial clothing, and a few sets of work clothes that are easy to wash in agricultural work, as well as green and white school uniforms for children aged six to ten, and blue and white school uniforms for children aged ten to fifteen, the people of the generals Work has a new look.

Even the simplest industrial cooperation can often assist the total productivity of society by hundreds or even thousands of times.

Because of the improvement of productivity, it is not how many people can use the machine. It is industrial organization and resource deployment capabilities that allow things that could not be done in the past to be done.

In the past, the river course of Rhettland was only 170 kilometers. The nourishment of the two sides is limited to a range of one or two kilometers.

According to traditional thinking, no matter how advanced the technology of a few people is, the land is limited.

However, after completing the industrial mobilization and upstream exploration, three rivers were re-led, and high-level water bridges and canals were built near all the rivers, so that the irrigation of water sources can extend to five kilometers or even six kilometers on both sides of the river. Produce several times the arable land!

The reason why such large-scale water conservancy projects could not be completed in the past: feudal lords had limited management and control capabilities, and those who could not control more than 50% of the income in their cronies group of dozens of people would do less in order to prevent power from getting out of control. don't do it.

However, in a modern organization with strong management capabilities, even if the economy of the central capital accounts for only 5% of the total economy, because of the mastery of key nodes, it can also regulate all economies, and it is also possible to carry out "this kind of self-interest is very small, Even lose money" infrastructure construction.

Because even if the center loses money in the short term, it can control the return of all external earnings.

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Now Carret is leading the water revolution in his own territory.

During the moistening process of water in the soil within a range of thousands of kilometers, the soil particles soften, and insects and earthworms begin to recover. Even the apprentices of the Austrian method can feel that "this water element is warm, and vitality is being bred."

Carret, who borrowed money to survive, squandered all his reserves. ——As for the beneficiaries in the future, well, it seems that the biggest beneficiaries are the free people and small and medium lords in various villages.

Half of the arable land in those non-core areas is the territory of Lords and even knights. Agricultural producing area centered on some springs and creeks.

With the excavation of the steam engine, the big canal directly guides the water of the big river, and the increase in agricultural production in this area is unlimited.

How should I put it, in the past, crops could only be grown once a year by storms, but now they can be planted in rotation! In the past, the fertility of the ground was unsustainable, but now chemical fertilizers can be used.

The output is distributed to the middle and lower levels, but the control power has quietly increased.

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The perspective turns to the imperial capital,

Sitting in his seat, the king acquiesced to the fact that his elder brother colluded with the evil forces and was wiped out.

And the aftermath of such a result is beyond his control - even if the royal family is performing taboo spells, they will be punished. That is to say, the territory must be cut off and the title of the heirs should be lowered.

So, remove the right to inherit the title?

That is to call back his nephew. Make arrangements again.

And what is the arrangement? Each of the major forces in the empire has its own plan.

According to the normal state of the empire, offspring who cannot inherit the throne are often sent to the Knights. Earn titles through military exploits.

When the temple has the upper hand, it will also absorb nobles as sacrifices.

However, the current situation of the empire is rather special, that is: the collateral heir of 'Carret' is, to some extent, one of the most senior male heirs in the royal succession.

Before the emperor gave birth to a direct descendant male, and Carret himself did not claim to give up the right of inheritance, he was one of the whirlpools in the struggle for the throne.

There are many great nobles in the current empire who want to stick to tradition.

These great nobles are not morally loyal to "Carret" (Wei Keng), but they need a royal heir in their hands to have a say in the struggle with the Duke of Golden Blade, a relative.

If the emperor's daughters can come up with enough chips, they will undoubtedly re-adjust the chips.

So, Carret (Master Wei): "Do I need to link up with the nobles of the imperial capital now? I'm not good at behind-the-scenes politics, but in terms of strengthening the grassroots, I still have the attitude of a middleman."

The aristocrats of the Northern Territory not only have a few more lands producing agricultural products this year, but also have more or less loan IOUs from Mr. Carrett. Ninety percent of these IOU repayment models are reserved for seeds and fertilizers. ——This is something that the imperial capital has never thought of!

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Feng Fu calendar October 3574.

The first major aqueduct was completed.

During the construction of the canal, it was very clever. First, let the automatic magic puppet drill a hole below, then pour water in, activate the mud technique, and the soil will automatically collapse, and then let the steam cart push the soft soil out of the tunnel. .

A steam engine can push three hundred earthworks in one afternoon. Judging from the advancement rate of about 10,000 earthworks per kilometer. Fifty steam engines, four months are enough to complete hundreds of kilometers of irrigation canals.

In the construction of this large canal, Wei Keng used a large number of old rivers, streams, and roads in the process of surveying and mapping to widen it.

And in order to ensure that the channel with a width of only five meters has enough water during each irrigation period, a large number of natural lakes have been adjusted and dams have been built to allow water to enter the lake first and accumulate.

During the dry season, the water from the lake is released.

Wei Keng: "The precipitation in this world is so orderly that we don't even need a weather forecast. We only need a timetable for storing and releasing water."

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When the rolling canal moistens the earth along an area of ​​more than one hundred kilometers. Each water bridge sends the water in the water tower to the pond on the high ground three kilometers away from the canal. Turn the racecourse into a good field that can grow wheat.

The free people in the area looked forward to seeing the rushing water pouring into the farmland, and knelt down one after another, sighing God's praise.

At this time, the gods will naturally not be less lively, sending down miracles to recover the power of faith.

Ms. Sprouts lowered her divine power, causing the seeds on both sides of the canal to sprout. And this also stabilized the belief that was originally here.

Even the weakest god is still a legend, an existence that demigods look up to.

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Leaning on the steam engine, Wei Keng's face was still covered with mud, and he looked like a rural boy who had finished planting rice seedlings.

Looking up at the drizzle.

In perception, the quantum field is pregnant with all the information of life development, and this information is injected into the soil seeds, which immediately makes the plants in the soil regenerate.

And this kind of quantum information field reverberates in thousands of square kilometers near the canal. This kind of ground-breaking power is beyond the reach of any current arcane system.

It's not just Ms. Sprout in this harvest of faith.

Ms. Xinya who is willing to perform miracles and their priests are really honest. They are willing to use real power and magic to respond to the worship of human believers.

And some powerful god priests seem to want to empty their hands and white wolves again.

For example, in the temple of the God of Justice, the priests knelt under the light of the god and listened to the gospel.

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When the canal was completed, the wind and cloud fluctuations on the throne of the imperial capital also came to the north.

The news that "the king doesn't recognize the new lord" made Lord Rhett's panic spread.

Compared with the former lord sent by the previous imperial capital, Carret's performance on the territory is the stark opposite. It can make miracles happen, and the merchants in the territory, the small and medium-sized nobles, and the free people all have hope.

But now? Can this good lord, whom the Northern Territory has not encountered for hundreds of years, inherit the territory?

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But Wei Keng was not impressed by the news.

Master Wei said in a Beijing opera accent, "One skill is arcane, the other hand is farming! I want to earn money standing up~~ also."

In the north of Fresh Song City, an oriental building that looks like a temple of heaven is located here. Below the building, the heat from the earth veins passes through the water medium, continuously driving countless small heat and cold switches to continuously gather the magic power.

The sky above the entire Temple of Heaven is a cloud that spreads in a swirl shape.

This is an arcane sacred place where arcanists build mental power models. Wei Keng is mentally building his first seven-ring spell model.

In the arcane structure, most mages are already sixty years old when they build the seven-ring spell. After the completion of the construction, life will undergo a qualitative change. Since the life information is linked to the deep soul structure, the carbon-based body will not decay for hundreds of years. .

However, Wei Keng is fifteen years old now.

This is because there is a godhead behind him who provides computing power, and with the system planning, Wei Keng's arcane research can often find a straight path.

The first seven-ring spell selected by Wei Keng is the mind barrier, the protection system, which makes a creature immune to the influence of spiritual, emotional and scrying spells.

Born in a family of magicians, Wei Keng is extremely vigilant about spells that affect the mind.

Wei Keng is not taking the path of a battle mage who relies on spell slots, but a grand arcanist who "pursues essence" in this plane.

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Arcanists are different from warlocks, warlocks are mediums that rely on blood. Arcanists rely on knowledge.

In other words, the spells of a warlock are instinctively handy. Arcanists, on the other hand, have to be able to reproduce the same type of power on a large scale through knowledge.

On the battlefield, warlocks don't need any medium for casting spells, relying on the power of their blood to blast out their spells.

Arcanists need structures such as spell-casting materials to release large-scale magic. But—from another point of view, as long as the energy and financial resources are sufficient, there is no limit to the number of spell items an arcanist can have.

The arcane tower can convert energy into an arcane formula outlined by the spiritual power of an arcanist without limit.

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In the Austrian Law School two kilometers outside the Temple of Heaven, apprentices of the Austrian Law are also practicing the technique of rubbing fireballs.

In the school, an eternally burning fireball quietly shines on the podium. The suspended fireball has no fuel source, but it is constantly emitting heat.

The underground students, on the other hand, clumsily used sulfur and nitric acid as guides for casting spells, simulating the release of flames.

This is the holy land of Austrian law!

A kilogram of coal in the outside world may be less than 7000 kcal, and the excess energy is swallowed up by the quantum field. Here, the abundant energy bred in the quantum field only needs to be ignited with a few materials, so that the spiritual field can keenly grasp this energy. At the beginning of the “fire seed” unfolding, the enthalpy provided by the quantum field in the Holy Land will be able to expand along the fire seed.

With a whoosh, a student picked out a match, and a sparkling fireball popped out, extremely bright.

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At the same time, in the center of the Temple of Heaven

A crystal clear, optical labyrinth, like the optical model of a quantum computer, gradually took shape above Wei Keng.

Rows of light paths and flowing water radiate from the center to the surroundings, and then converge in the center.

Like, no, just an optical chip. The chip swished and shrank into Wei Keng's eyebrows.