Empires Start with Lords

One of the reasons why Ross wanted to build a steam engine was to increase productivity.

However, if you want to increase productivity, a steam engine is far from enough, and the price of a blueprint for a steam engine was bought for half a million gold coins in the system store.

Ross can't come up with so much spare money for the time being, and the scale of the refining industry needs to be increased just with blueprints.

A lot of materials are needed to make a steam engine, such as wrought iron, low carbon steel, medium carbon and above.

Of these materials, Ross's factory couldn't produce even a single one.

In addition to the main wrought iron and other steels, bronze, brass and glass are also required.

And also need a group of senior craftsmen.

It seems extremely laborious, but Ross still puts the production of steam engines in the first short-term goal.

Because, this is not only to increase productivity, but if it can be put into mass production, it will directly open the curtain of an industrial empire.

It is conceivable that other lords greeted the enemy with their own sails or war horses, and Ross could directly command hundreds of steam cars to crash into them.

However, Ross has not yet figured out how to accomplish these things.

Ross slowly got up and opened the gate of the castle. He walked to a medium-sized factory that could accommodate a lot of people, and called all the employees. Half of the more than 3,000 employees were women.

In Ross's territory, there were occasionally a few businessmen or private factory owners who did not allow female employees to take up their jobs, and they were all dismissed by Ross without exception.

"Anyone who can find and extract these materials will be rewarded with fifty gold coins."

Ross spent 500 gold coins from the system to hang the picture book on the wall. The appearance of brass and wrought iron was real on it. The employees standing below were amazed at the beauty of the painting on the picture book.

There has never been a systematic color painting in this world, at most a few oil paintings will be bought by the nobles.

"The thing on this is called brass? What a strange name."

"Yeah, why do I feel like I've seen it before?"

For the reward of fifty gold coins, countless employees working in the refinery began to try hard to recall whether they had seen these items.

In this world, a refinery is still a special kind of factory, most of which are used to prepare powerful gunpowder from it.

And the reason why Ross runs such a refinery is more because he wants to make something that can be used as cement.

So from the beginning, Ross told the factory manager in detail his thoughts. If he could make cement, he would be rewarded with a special villa.

In the city of Ross, it is not difficult to buy a house, as long as a normal person can buy it with five to ten years of savings.

However, high-end villas are at least dozens of times the price of civilian two-story houses.

It takes tens of thousands of gold coins to buy a building.

Therefore, the factory manager worked very hard for Ross, and Ross received hundreds of reports from various departments almost every day, and there was always one written by the refinery manager.

This refinery is equivalent to a research institute in Ross.

Rely on the refinery to get useful materials, and then build more powerful weapons.

Although there is something similar to cement in the imperial capital, the effect is far less than that of cement, and the price is very high.

It is said that one cubic meter was sold for a high price of 500 gold coins, and only people who have made great achievements in the imperial capital can afford it.

Even building a government building would cost thousands of cubic meters.

Ross did not plan to import this material from the imperial capital, so he pinned all his hopes on the refinery.

afternoon.

Ross received a notice from Mander, "In ten days, East Ayr Province will launch a competitive event, which is the most popular 'horse fight' in the west of Aklan. One hundred thousand people."

Mander looked at Ross and said happily: "But the two dukes of East Ayr Province both refused the right to hold this event in their own city, so the businessman of the horse-fighting event came to me and asked if you were interested. consider…"

When Ross heard this, he nodded slightly.

This morning, when he was not in the territory, he left all these affairs to his collaborator Mander to take care of.

The reason why Mander is so happy is that hosting this event will bring unprecedented exposure and a series of benefits to Green Forest.

The economy of Greenwoods may be pulled up a notch in an instant.

And Mander, who is Ross's partner, will also get a lot of benefits, and this benefit is sustainable.

"By the way, why are the two dukes unwilling to hold such an event?"

Ross thought for a while and felt that he still needed to be more cautious.

"Hundreds of thousands of foreign population... I am afraid that only a duke-level territory can withstand such a scale, and it will not collapse."

Ross said that even if there are many foreign caravans, there are only a few thousand people stranded in Green Forest.

If he wanted to hold such an event in the Green Forest, Ross would be willing, but unfortunately the city of Green Forest is still too small.

Although there are buildings such as the Romanesque Colosseum that can accommodate tens of thousands of people to watch, UU Reading www. uukanshu.com is still unable to withstand such a large population.

Ross thought about it and said, "Isn't there a big wasteland between Green Forest, Eye of Hope, and Hand of Hope? Why don't you just discuss with them and play here."

Ross's words are not without reason. Horse fighting competitions are in great need of venues, and these uninhabited open spaces are the most suitable.

If it can bring some livelihood to this piece of land that cannot be farmed and is far from the city, it is also an excellent thing.

Now the eldest prince is keeping a close eye on Ross's every move, and Ross holding such a close-to-the-people event can also bring him the favor of the people.

In this way, the first prince will have to weigh more when he starts to attack him.

"Good idea! In this way, you don't have to free up a lot of space for these people, on the contrary, you can help them restore life, killing two birds with one stone..."

Mander sighed.

Ross patted him on the shoulder: "I think, I will ask you to accompany me to the imperial capital in a while."

Just as Mander was about to nod his head, he was taken aback the next moment: "Go to the imperial capital, you are crazy, do you want to die?!"

"Do not!"

Ross shook his head: "Go to the imperial capital to meet the king, presumably the king still doesn't know about the first prince colluding with Marquis Raisel."

"The eldest prince colluded with a marquis. This is nothing more than a normal thing. Let it pass. If you insist on going to the imperial capital, you are courting death..."

Mander said worriedly.

"But he still doesn't know that the eldest prince also colluded with tens of thousands of orcs. Did you forget, the last time the orcs attacked the city in a big way."

Ross continued: "If the king knows about this, I am afraid that the throne of the eldest prince will be unstable."