Steel, Guns, and the Industrial Party that Traveled to Another World

The King of the Kingdom of Ordo, Rodney XVI, has had a lot of troubles recently.

The first trouble is that the granary in the capital was burned down by the rebel spies. The remaining grain is not enough to quell the rebellion, and the daily supply of 100,000 residents in the capital has become a problem.

The government immediately sent officials to the royal territory to mobilize grain, and the situation he found almost made his majesty faint again - the actual grain in most local warehouses did not match the accounts. Rodney XVI was furious. After a thorough investigation, he found that part of the reason was that the officials in charge of management resold it privately, and part of the reason was that local officials boasted and concealed the truth in order to seek credit and reward.

His majesty was furious and sent law enforcement officers to take the officials who committed crimes back to the capital one by one and summoned the people for public trial.

After the judge announced the crime, the executioner pushed the criminals into the angry crowd, "It's these worms that made you starve now!"

The fate of these criminals can be imagined. The trial started at 8 o'clock in the morning, and it took less than an hour to announce the crime. Then it was the "execution time" for the common people to do it. It lasted for 3 hours. At noon, people were exhausted and dispersed. When the executioner went to collect the bodies, the bodies of the prisoners were no longer human. He cut off the heads of the prisoners and hung them on the city gate. As for whether any of them were scapegoats, who knows?

According to the suggestions of many military generals, the royal government should immediately implement a food rationing system, collect all the stored grain in civilian families, and then regularly distribute the necessary rations according to the population of each household, and the rest of the food should be fully supplied to the army going south.

However, this suggestion was strongly opposed by the administrative ministers, and their reasons were very sufficient: given the ethics of local officials, if there was not much grain collected by then, the people would starve to death first. Moreover, the civilians did not know what loyalty and honor were. They only cared about whether they had food to eat tomorrow. Knowing that they would starve to death, they would definitely rebel.

After weighing the pros and cons, His Majesty the King did not adopt the military's suggestion in the end.

In order to save food, a strict alcohol prohibition order was issued to all territories directly under the royal family: except for a few wine workshops that were issued licenses, all other workshops were to stop brewing; nobles were not allowed to buy more than half a liter of wine per day, and civilians were not allowed to buy more than one liter of wine per week, and they had to buy it at designated places; public drinking was prohibited, and alcoholic beverages were prohibited at banquets, and they could only drink quietly at home. Those who violated the above decree would be stripped of their titles and severely punished, and civilians would be sentenced to death.

In order to prevent merchants from taking the opportunity to drive up the prices of grain and food, the royal government set a price ceiling, and soldiers were stationed in front of every store engaged in grain and food in the royal capital to supervise sales. Even so, the residents had to spend many times more than usual to buy food.

As the food collected from the local areas gradually gathered in the capital, the high-level officials finally breathed a sigh of relief, but it was impossible to send troops south immediately, so the royal army was temporarily disbanded, and the foreign lords returned to their homes and looked for their mothers, waiting for the opportunity to gather again next year, of course, this depends on this year's harvest.

The second worry is the running away of the little daughter. Because there is no power to crush Giles' rebellion for the time being, Rodney XVI has to consider carefully about the fence-sitters in various places.

The Duke of Veblen, the strongest fence-sitter, has not yet made a statement on Giles' rebellion, but has sent envoys to request a marriage with the royal family. This meaning is already very clear. After repeated consideration, His Majesty the King decided to marry his little daughter, Irene Rodney, to him. The Veblen family has many vassals and the location of the territory is also crucial. He must not be allowed to turn to Giles.

The eldest daughter Catherine is so outstanding that Rodney XVI is reluctant to give such a treasure to others. The king has no sons, and according to tradition, he can only pass the throne to his younger brother Prince O'Casey, but Prince O'Casey is a well-known playboy who spends his days drinking and partying, and likes to hang out with bards and actors. No one thinks he can be a qualified monarch.

His Majesty has decided that after a hundred years, it is better to pass the throne to his eldest daughter instead of his useless brother. In normal times, he also trains Catherine as the crown prince of a country.

So he can only sacrifice his youngest daughter Irene. Irene was not interested in politics at all. Although as a royal princess, she had learned everything she should learn, including poetry, songs, literature and dance, she also had other wide-ranging interests, such as studying various ancient texts and scrolls, learning alchemy from alchemists, or collecting specimens of various plants, raising some strange animals, etc. These hobbies made her more like a scholar. However, it was precisely because of her "wide range" of interests that, except for naming a few uncommon plants, Her Royal Highness had not made any great achievements.

If you don't stand from the perspective of a father, but only from the perspective of a king, the little princess Irene is indeed a good tool for marriage, but... she ran away from home.

When Rodney XVI explained his decision to his little daughter, the princess looked normal. After calmly asking her father why he made this decision, she quietly returned to her room.

The king was also surprised that his youngest daughter had such a high level of awareness as a child of the royal family, and he felt endless guilt in his heart. Then the next day, he learned that his daughter had disappeared. He immediately sent people to search everywhere. Although he was anxious about delaying the marriage with the Veblen family, he was more worried about his daughter's safety as a father.

The third worry was that the eldest daughter Catherine had a very deep relationship with her younger sister. After learning that her younger sister was going to be used as a tool for marriage, she was in a cold war with him, and the address changed from "father" to the stiff and cold "Your Majesty".

"It's a troubled time!" The king felt powerless.

...

"The army going to Stranglethorn Vale has been selected, and this time Viscount Klein will command the reinforcement."

Catherine announced this at the military meeting, and the generals present had no objection. Viscount Klein stood up and accepted the order, and then everyone began to discuss the recent headache of military rations.

Although the large-scale anti-rebellion army was unable to move south, the army to reinforce Duke Dodge had to be sent there, and the Thorn Pass had to be defended first. If the Thorn Pass was lost, the northern hinterland of the kingdom would be wide open to the Giles rebels.

After discussing the supply of military rations and some other details, the meeting ended and the generals went back to their tasks.

Only Ophelia stayed. After everyone dispersed, she walked to the princess and whispered, "Her Highness Irene has settled down in a place called Lake Town in the northwest of Arda."

Catherine nodded. With her familiarity with her sister, the people she sent found the whereabouts of the little princess before the king, but she did not forcibly bring her sister back, but secretly sent more people to protect her, and set tracking obstacles for the people sent by the king.

Catherine was very angry about her father's decision to use her sister as a tool for marriage, but after many attempts, she still could not change the will of the king of a country, so she could only resist in this way.

She asked Ophelia: "Who is the lord there?"

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Ophelia said: "The lord is Count Paul Graman of the Graman family."

"Arda? Graman?" Catherine seemed to have some impression, but couldn't remember.

Ophelia continued: "The news came back that Count Graman had recently wiped out the pirates who invaded the territory and launched an operation called "Strike Hard" to deal with the ruffians in the territory. Now the public security there is very good. Her Highness Irene should not have any safety problems living there for the time being."

Catherine's worries were slightly relieved, and then she remembered that this Graman was the family that sent envoys to the military camp to ask for the imperial edict when she was in the Highlands a few months ago? At that time, she temporarily exempted him from his duty to serve the king because of the difficulties in the other party's territory. She also heard a little about the pirate problem in the Northwest Bay. It seems that this little country lord is really capable.

Catherine still couldn't be completely relieved: "You still can't let your guard down. Have your people keep a close eye on it and report back immediately by pigeon if anything happens. Also, don't tell anyone about this."

"Yes, Princess!"

"Thank you for your hard work, Ophelia."