MTL - Heroes of Silver Moon-Chapter 665 : Arthur

"The matter of high explosives is still a lot of trouble for the teacher." In early April, Simon, who had settled the arms order, came to the arsenal on the outskirts of the capital to visit the teacher Clifford.

Nowadays, the smoothbore artillery used by the new legion can no longer meet the needs of the war, so Simon decided to get the howitzer out as soon as possible.

But there is a very embarrassing problem at present, that is, he does not know how to prepare stable high explosives.

In the previous life, Blue Star had strict control over high explosives, especially stable explosives, and ordinary people could not learn related knowledge at all.

Unfortunately, Simon falls into this category of ordinary people.

Unstable high explosives, like nitroglycerin, and its upgraded version, diatomaceous earth nitrate, he knew how to prepare.

But these two unstable explosives are really not suitable for filling shells.

Therefore, we can only turn to Clifford for help. After all, he is too busy to study by himself.

Holding the two types of explosives that Simon handed over, Clifford nodded expressionlessly. Alchemists are no strangers to this kind of thing that can blow people to pieces.

However, both power and stability are required, which is more troublesome...

After explaining about the high explosives, Simon turned and walked into the void, reappeared in the southern border, and found Deborah who was still in charge of the new town.

The relocated people north of the Yelin River had opened up the roads between the north and the south in February, and officially moved to the new town built in advance.

With a large number of barbarian laborers, Deborah not only built living facilities for these people, but also reclaimed farmland for spring plowing according to Simon's request.

Although the newly reclaimed farmland is not fertile enough, and the harvest will basically fail in the coming year, it is better than no grain at all.

The recent Silvermoon Kingdom has gone through the most difficult period. As long as it continues to develop step by step, there will be absolutely no starvation to death.

This time Simon came to Deborah to ask him to lead the barbarians to build a legion and reclaim a farm directly under the royal family.

There is food in hand, and there is no panic in the heart. As long as the food and the army are not in chaos, the Silver Moon Kingdom will not be in chaos.

After explaining her intentions, Deborah was a little embarrassed: "We don't have that many people."

Cultivating farmland is not simply digging a few ditches, spreading grain seeds in, and then waiting for the harvest. It needs people to take care of it all year round.

The most important thing is that sowing and harvesting require a lot of labor, and he can't find so many free hands.

"Don't worry, since I dare to say it, I have absolute certainty." Simon shrugged indifferently, and then took out a tractor and a harvester from the space ring.

These two kinds of agricultural machines were already being researched by him during the period of the new law, but the war broke out suddenly, so the research process was put on hold.

Simon is well aware of the importance of liberating the labor force in the farming era, so no matter how busy he is, he will spare a certain amount of time to continue research, and this is why he has two prototypes.

On Blue Star, due to energy issues, power machines are divided into steam engines and internal combustion engines. Among them, steam engines are huge in size, so small and medium-sized machines such as cars can only use internal combustion engines.

But there are magic crystals in this world, and the energy problem is quite convenient, and Simon is too lazy to design an internal combustion engine.

Moreover, the internal combustion engine needs a complete set of oil industry. He doesn't know how to make stuff, even if he can't make it in the Silver Moon Kingdom in a short time, he still uses the magic steam engine to deal with it.

"This is?" Deborah looked suspiciously at these two unique alchemy machines...Why does Simon always do weird things?

"Watch me show you a demonstration!" Simon took the lead on the tractor, turned the button in front of him, the magic circuit was activated instantly, and the flame circle began to heat the water tank.

Woo! Accompanied by the screeching of the steam, the tractor started slowly, and the plow wheel at the rear of the vehicle was also inserted into the ground and rotated. After a while, an acre of land was plowed, and Deborah was dumbfounded.

If it was replaced by traditional manual plowing, at least this mu of land would have to be cultivated by a young man who worked all day.

It takes only a few minutes to use this machine now, right?

Deborah fell into deep thought. In the past, a family could cultivate 30 to 40 acres of land. If they could use these machines...

Of course, there are very few people who can own so much land, basically only the squires.

However, it is obviously impossible to mass-produce this kind of machine... Deborah was relieved to see the tractor start to smoke, and Simon rushed to repair it.

This is a normal phenomenon! How can good things be mass-produced?

Only the rarer it is, the more precious it is, and the easier it is to control it. Good things should be in the hands of nobles, which is a matter of course.

The king is the biggest nobleman, and this kind of machine is rare, so it is only natural that the royal family should give priority to it!

"Well...not a big problem!"

After repairing the machine, Simon came to Deborah's side in embarrassment: "I will send a royal alchemist to be stationed here all year round. If you need repairs, just find him."

It's normal for this kind of first-generation tractor and harvester to have problems. He doesn't have time to improve and upgrade it now, so let's make do with it.

"The other kind of machine is a harvester, which is used to harvest grain. I won't demonstrate it because it won't be used for the time being. I will build 20 of each machine for you to use. The farm is tentatively set at 500,000 mu, anyway. Just look at the arrangement yourself." Simon waved his hand and said.

If you have to do everything yourself, what do you need your subordinates to do? He didn't want to be exhausted like Prime Minister Zhuge, grasp the general direction, and leave the rest to his subordinates.

"Even if the problem of sowing and harvesting can be solved, what about maintenance?" Deborah asked with a frown.

It is okay to let the barbarian army do the rough work, but it is difficult for them to maintain this kind of delicate work, and humans must do it themselves.

"Maintenance issues...you organize some militias~www.novelbuddy.com~ to set up a field army. Recently, there are more bandits in the southern border. You let them look at the fields while suppressing the bandits. How to do it is up to you. According to the arrangement, anyway, we have to catch up with this year's winter wheat planting."

Simon is determined to be a capitalist and insists on squeezing everyone's value.

There is no way, according to the current situation of the Silver Moon Kingdom, he can't do it if he doesn't want to. If he doesn't create additional labor value, the royal family will go bankrupt in minutes.

The corner of Deborah's mouth twitched, and she nodded silently... Well, he still has to solve it by himself.

The purpose of being a militiaman is to make it easy. You can get money and take care of your family. How can you be so busy that you can’t go home every day?

After two months of busy work, when the big farm started to get on the right track, Simon returned to the capital again. He was said to run all over the kingdom all day long, but he was not wronged at all.

As soon as he returned to the capital, he received the good news that Irina gave birth, just as Alice said, it was a boy.

Irina couldn't wait to rush to the bedroom. Irina, who was full of exhaustion, was happily holding the child. After seeing Simon, she smiled even happier: "My lord, let's give your eldest son a name!"

With a male heir, Simon, the king with a foreign surname, can be regarded as completely secure on the throne.

Simon suppressed his excitement, took a deep breath, walked over and hugged the queen first, and then slowly picked up the child, feeling a sense of blood connection.

"Arthur, I will call him Arthur, I hope you can bravely guard this kingdom like the King of Knights!" Simon said ecstatically.

After having this child, the barrier between him and the world completely disappeared...