The Lord Who Wants to Be Emperor

The three of them sat drinking together and kept testing each other. Those secrets that were not important, or that had been confirmed to have been leaked, were freely revealed.

Everyone knows it well, but for outsiders it is completely different.

The representatives of the Kingdom of Cleveland looked at the chattering Aslan and the twin stars of the Shifang Alliance, unanimously showing solemn expressions.

Alonso reported the news to Patrick for the first time.

After boarding the ship, Alonso kept staring at Aslan, with a simple purpose, which was to find evidence of Aslan's collusion with the Shifang Alliance.

After all, Aslan relied on the Maxim Chamber of Commerce to rise up. I heard that Maxim Chamber of Commerce still had tens of millions of deposits in him, and the Kyoto Chamber of Commerce also owed him tens of millions of gold coins.

Thinking of this, Alonso was entangled. The two loans alone surpassed the wealth that the Sara family had accumulated for hundreds of years.

He couldn't understand how Aslan really relied on it. It took just a few years to earn the wealth that the Sarah family had accumulated for hundreds of years.

After Patrick heard the news, he was silent for a while, and finally let people pass the news to several others, especially the Royal Academy of Magic.

After Yitzhak heard the news, he threw him aside.

"Just the Sara family has a lot of things."

Aslan also maintains a close relationship with the Maxim Chamber of Commerce, which Yitzhak has known for a long time, and many of the royal products are sold to the Maxim Chamber of Commerce from Aslan.

This is why after the Maxim Empire blocked the economy of the Kingdom of Cleveland, the royal family can still live so well.

There are no permanent enemies, only permanent benefits.

The Maxim empire is not monolithic either. This is known from the fact that the Yamato family still maintains close trade relations with Aslan.

Early the next morning, Aslan rubbed his temples. He drank a little last night and was not in good spirits.

But the companion who should have vomited a piece of it, but his complexion improved a lot, his complexion was not as ugly as it was yesterday, which greatly surprised the magicians of the coastal countries.

Yitzhak came to Aslan early in the morning.

The two of them sat together for breakfast. Breakfast was fish soup and white bread. The white and golden fish soup was filled with a lot of spices.

"Have you tested out any information?" Yitzhak asked faintly after taking a sip of the soup.

Aslan rolled his eyes directly, and said angrily: "Do you think they are all the same as the idiot Alonso of the Sara family? Just drink a few cups and say everything."

Yitzhak nodded and continued to ask: "What is going on with the revolver?"

Aslan recalled the small talk last night, and said with some uncertainty: "I heard that the revolver was designed by the Emperor Maxim, even gunpowder."

Yitzhak nodded, sorted out his thoughts, and said: "Four I of the Maxim Empire was a famous inventor on the mainland 30 years ago. He invented many things, especially the magical steam engine more than ten years ago. It was just a sample machine, and then I never got any new news about the steam engine."

Aslan's eyes widened suddenly, with an incredible expression on his face.

Steam engine!

Someone invented the steam engine.

"What is that steam engine? Why have I never heard of it?" Aslan asked curiously.

"A steam engine is a reciprocating power machine that converts the energy of steam into mechanical work. Simply put, a steam engine needs a boiler that boils water to produce high-pressure steam. This boiler can use wood, coal, oil or natural gas or even combustible garbage as a heat source. Steam expansion pushes the piston to do work."

When Yitzhak said this answer, he was not sure and added: "This is the introduction I later read in the library, because afterwards Fur did not continue the research in this area, and no magister was involved in this area. Research, so I don’t know much about it either."

Aslan's face couldn't help but became serious. Before, it was uncertain whether the Maxim empire had any travellers, but now it is basically certain. At the same time, he was frightened by the hidden strength of the Maxim empire.

He would not think that the Maxim Empire did not continue to develop steam engines later, but it was better to hide them. Just like Merlot, the factories that have been equipped with magic motors have all implemented military control, and even the workers have to undergo political review. , The family has direct relatives in the unified army or civil servants.

The purpose is simple is to keep the technological advantage from being discovered.

"It seems that after going to the magical capital, I must go to study the research works of this King Forr I." Aslan sighed.

Yitzhak nodded and said, "Indeed, Fore I created a lot of new technologies for the mainland, and maybe it can bring you new inspiration."

Aslan nodded in cooperation, and then took out the coal and steel fry method.

"This is a new steelmaking technology that I have just improved recently, but it has greatly increased the output of steel."

"It's just that this technology has a big demand for coal." Aslan took out a piece of black coal.

"This thing!" After seeing this thing, Yitzhak couldn't help showing a surprised expression.

"The Maxim Chamber of Commerce has always been buying such things on a large scale." Yitzhak said in surprise, "Does the Maxim Empire also mastered this kind of steel speculation?"

Aslan nodded condensedly.

The steel speculation method is just a test he took out. The real key lies in the existence of coal.

The Maxim Empire has always had a tradition of large-scale purchase of coal, which means that the other party has already fully rolled out the steam engine, but the control is better, and outsiders have not yet known.

The Maksim Empire may have completed the transformation of the first industrial revolution, but it has always been concealed. The only thing that needs to be considered is that the prototype of the steam engine has been produced, but why the mainland has not promoted it for a long time.

Not only was the Maxim Empire deliberately hidden, he still didn't believe that no one except the Maxim Empire family also developed steam engines.

"Didn't the Royal Academy of Magic try to produce a steam engine?" Aslan asked curiously.

Yitzhak shook his head and said regretfully.

"Why not, but the steam engine produced is not as expected. The demand for steam energy is too high, and the power is not as advanced as expected, and the magister responsible for developing the steam engine was accidentally blown to death because of an experiment."

Aslan seemed to have discovered a huge conspiracy, and at the same time he was terrified of the energy of the Maxim Empire.

It was actually possible to make a magician accidentally die in a magic experiment.

If all this is true, then the strength of the Maxim Empire now far exceeds the limit that Aslan can recognize.