Warlord: King of All Clans

Listening to Leo's speech, the participants all looked eager.

It is unimaginable in this era to increase production capacity tenfold, but Hewan has set a precedent, so the impossible has become possible.

In the first year, Hewan relied on several small rural iron furnaces to smelt iron, and the annual output of iron was less than ten tons, which was enough to make some iron farm tools. Weapons and armor had to be imported.

In the second year, the population increased, the workshop expanded, and large vertical furnaces were put into use, smelting hundreds of tons of iron a year. This not only met its own industrial and agricultural needs, but also allowed the company to mass-produce weapons and armor and sell them to the outside world.

This year, the blast furnace workshop was built, and with the kobolds also mastering the iron smelting technology, steel production increased several times in one go, reaching the level of the Northern Earldom.

The agricultural tools and weapons made in Hewan have been sold well throughout the entire Isenpol territory and have begun to flow abroad.

You have to know that each of the seven lords of the Northern Territory has a territory equivalent to a province. Although the population is small, it is still between several hundred thousand and one or two million.

The population and territory of Hewan are still only at the county level.

The only thing limiting Hewan Steel's production capacity now is fuel supply.

The forests near Riverbend and Rivermouth have been almost completely cut down and turned into farmland, and now all the timber is transported from the Gravelburg Lumberyard.

This is the lord's own industry. If it is a small private charcoal workshop, it can only purchase wood from Linhai Town, which is a hundred miles away.

The old saying goes that one cannot sell firewood within a hundred miles, and this is also true in this world. If it weren't for the unobstructed and daily maintained gravel roads and forest roads in the river bay, the small charcoal workshops in the private sector would have collapsed long ago.

With the current development trend, once the fuel problem is solved, Hewan's steel will be able to dominate the North within a few years and sell its own iron products to the three regions.

After talking about iron smelting, Leo reminded Valeri, "Steel production capacity is very important, and other things cannot be left behind. This year, the development of the United Knights has only reached half of the Hewan area. We must continue to work hard next year. The Hewan engineering team cannot be withdrawn for the time being, so you have to work hard for another year."

"The production process and equipment of the Lujiao cassava processing factory in Hekou Town are very primitive and need to be upgraded, otherwise they will not be able to keep up with the growing consumption."

"After the spring of next year, the three planned lime mines will also be mined, and a cement plant will be added in Linhai Town and Shashibao respectively. You will need to arrange manpower to do this."

"After the Buck Fortress Construction Team completes the work, they will not be able to return it to you. They will stay in Buck Fortress and transform it into the fifth town of the River Bend."

"As a checkpoint between two borders, its future tax revenue will be a major source of income for Hewan, and it must be given priority."

"Of course, the most important thing is the batch of machine tools I brought back from the imperial capital. Not only do we need to know how to use them, but we also need to understand them thoroughly and try to copy them."

Valery touched his bald head, nodded with a bitter face, but at the same time he felt relieved.

Leo has made so many requests, which also proves that he has always paid attention to the development details of River Bay and has not let it go.

He was a blacksmith apprentice of common origin, fortunately becoming the head craftsman. Arranging the operation of the craftsmen in Hewan was already the limit of his ability. Asking him to take the initiative to expand would be too much to ask.

Only with Leo at the helm did he dare to go for it.

Most of Hewan's craftsmen had left, and how to use the remaining craftsmen and apprentices to meet Hewan's needs had been the focus of his busy work during this period.

There are many workshops in Hewan, and craftsmen no longer do everything as before, but have begun to be classified into detailed categories.

Construction craftsmen could not be assigned to replace those in gun and artillery manufacturing, and those blacksmiths who were proficient in gun and artillery manufacturing did not have the spare energy to learn other skills.

As the business grew bigger and the requirements became higher, Valeri could no longer go wherever there was a shortage of people with a group of low-level craftsmen like he did before.

Now he can only spare no effort to recruit talents and train apprentices.

Leo glanced around and saw a young wizard sitting next to Morse. Seeing that he was unfamiliar, he asked casually, "Who are you?"

The young wizard quickly stood up and said respectfully, "I am the new low-level wizard, Weide. I am currently studying at the Riverbend Wizard Tower and working in the artillery workshop."

Mage Morse also introduced, "This is an exiled noble from the Earl of Gustav. He studied under the mechanical master Ingersoll and is proficient in mechanical manufacturing. He came to my Mage Tower to participate in research and has given me great help."

Leo was surprised and wondered, "Why didn't anyone tell me that a wizard had joined Riverbend?"

If he hadn't asked, he would have thought that he was just an apprentice of Master Morse, following around to gain some experience.

Master Morse and Valeri looked at each other and said nothing.

The whole Hewan knows that Rio attaches great importance to the introduction of talents, but now Hewan is no longer the small village it used to be, and Rio's status is also more noble than before.

A small low-level wizard came to the river bend, and the person in charge of receiving him directly handed him to Wizard Morse, and then he stayed there quietly without causing any waves.

Several people looked at Leo and thought to themselves, you don’t usually go to River Bend.

Moreover, the people around you all the time are either the Elf Queen, the Human Princess, the Daughter of Burke, or the Deputy Captain of the Rose Knights. Their taste is too high, which really makes people feel inferior.

It’s embarrassing to mention that a small low-level wizard came to Riverbend to settle down.

But Leo didn't think so. Human mages were no better than wilderness mages. They were not smarter after awakening and only knew to hide behind their companions and throw fireballs.

Behind every human legal system there is a complete school of inheritance, and each of them also has a wealth of knowledge in the fields of supernatural and science.

After all, legal transcendence is the most expensive. If you want to continue to advance on the path of transcendence, you must master enough knowledge to make money.

Every time Hewan introduces a human law system, it is likely to introduce a scientific school, and there is a chance to unlock the technology of an industry.

Although Master Morse is knowledgeable and talented, his main profession is pharmacy, which is the biopharmaceuticals of this world.

He also dabbled in the mechanical aspects of alchemy, but not in depth, so he was just an enthusiast.

Asking him to study steam engines and manufacture guns is equivalent to asking a biopharmaceutical expert to change his career to research military industry, which is really a waste of time and effort.

Master Morse actually had theoretical drawings of the steam engine and precision machine tools that Leo requested a long time ago, but due to the weakness in mechanical manufacturing, the actual products had never appeared.

I understand the principle, but I don’t have the skills!

Of course, Rio also wants to recruit a large number of high-end technical talents, but small places simply cannot retain talents.

Talented people passing through Isenpol would hardly stay there for long and would head north to the main city of Frovald.

Or go downstream to the economically developed Earldom of Odalov.

In the eyes of high-end talents, Isenbol is still the small border town that rose to prominence in the past due to its convenient water and land transportation, and there is nothing else remarkable about it.

Master Wade, who was sitting quietly in the corner, was the first high-end talent who came to Hewan on his own initiative. The previous master, Master Morse, could only come reluctantly due to the circumstances.

Leo could only temporarily care for the newly joined wizard Vader. "Master Vader, welcome to Riverbend. Have you solved the housing and salary issues? Are you married? Do you have any hobbies? Does your research project need financial support? Do you need research equipment?"

Mage Wade was immediately flattered and said quickly, "Mage Morse and Director Valeri have been arranged, and the salary is sufficient."

"That's good. If you have any requests, just tell me."

"Yes, my lord."

After comforting Master Wade, Leo suddenly thought of the goblin master Virgil who was abducted back from the imperial capital. "Where is Master Virgil? Why hasn't he been seen for a long time?"

Mage Morse smiled bitterly and said, "I have been staying on the top floor of the Mage Tower, occupying Ai'er. I haven't come out for a month."

"Al now calls him 100,000 Whys."