Chapter 744 Horn's meeting at North Mund County
The murmur of the Duke of Wingchas was transformed into the June Naoan River water, diluted in the clear river berth.
The river seems to know everything, but nothing has changed.
The Thousand River Valley and the Gravel Origin officially entered a state of war.
With the fortress and high-speed marching, as well as a very efficient military system, the army of Thousand River Valley achieved remarkable results in the gravel field.
After the Battle of Rust River, more than 20,000 troops in Thousand River Valley were divided into two groups.
Andre's Iron Fist Regiment marched northeast along the Rust River, and Meliati carried the Thousand River Valley Knights to march north along the Naoan River.
The intersection of both sides is gathered in the salt flats.
After that, many battles broke out, including Moriyati's straightforward inside breakthrough tactics, and Andre's classic outside siege tactics.
Even in mid-June, Andre had hit 60 kilometers away from the salt flat.
It’s a pity that the subsequent army did not keep up in time and missed the excellent fighter.
After entering July, because it was too deep, Moriati stopped marching and turned around to clean up the original occupied area.
Because the front line is intertwined, you have me and I have you, Horn is not sure about the actual land occupation comparison between the two sides.
In general, the Thousand River Valley Army still has the advantage.
In the public opinion field of the empire, not to mention the Lea Kingdom, which had originally opposed Meliati, even the Imperial Parliament and many flange scholars had labeled Meliati as an invader.
The opposite is true in Thousand River Valley.
The pride brought by expanding territory, the massive expansion of wool trade, and the market prosperity brought by military orders have pushed Meliati's position higher and higher.
The major newspapers even blew Meliati into the "second Alexandrus Great".
Even Pravda had to take the boomerang in the face, admitting that Meliati's military operations did bring many benefits.
Without the middlemen making a difference, the price of wool is almost half-cut, and Moriya added a tariff, which then raised the price to 70% or 80% of the original price.
The reduced cost was generously swung by Horn, and turned into a ready-to-wear that impacted the Lea market.
The migrant workers on the edge of urban and rural areas have found a livelihood.
Some of the monks and chekas sent by Horn will specialize in bringing refugee workers to smuggle cloth and sugar.
With these smuggling gangs as the core, a large number of refugee workers have converted to the Holy Dao faction.
Hone didn't know whether this was a good thing or a bad thing.
Because the news came from the windmill that when the refugees entered the Father's worship, they would swear eternal piety to Horn's portrait.
If both parties want to make any vow, they must also swear in front of the Holy Grandson.
Not mentioning Lea and Flan's refugee uprising soldiers, they are all great-grandsons, and they often ask Horn to take over.
In the Kingdom of Lea, there were basically no major moves except for condemning Meliati and extorting Horn every day.
Horn is basically sure that King Jiji has no intention or ability to deal with Thousand River Valley yet.
Then he had no reason to oppose Meliati's actions.
It was Cheka that recently reported some unfavorable information, saying that Hotam County was rumored that Meliati was a witch.
Horn wasn't sure if it was Meliati's preparation for the future to remove the mask, or if it was simply a secret leak.
He didn't care. With the blessing of war bonds and victory, these rumors did not cause much response.
The rumors like "two civil officials are rivals during the day and husbands at night" need to be cured.
"Let it go." Sitting in the office of the Holy See Building, Horn threw Chika's information aside.
Rene stepped forward slowly, sorted out the messy information, and inserted it into the locked filing cabinet. "Have the itinerary been arranged?" Horn stretched and leaned against the seat after reviewing the last document. "The car and the boat are ready." "Okay, then I'll set out tomorrow morning." Horn stood up and came to the gear-shaped round glass window.
Since the Lea Kingdom cannot attack in a short period of time, he will put his originally planned trip to North Munde County on the agenda.
He had two purposes for this trip.
The first one is to condolences to Meliati. He had to make a political gesture to express his recognition of the decision to authoritarian public.
Otherwise, the two civil servants broke up a small gap, and to the people below, it would be an abyss.
The two had a very stalemate in the battle of the gravel turtle, and there were vague rumors of the autocratic lord breaking with the Patriarch in various places.
So Moriyati took the lead in releasing goodwill and introduced monks from the Holy Dao Sect to the gravel field to help Moriyati stabilize the rear.
The specific measure is to form a escort army with the Holy Way to help Meliati maintain the food route and eliminate the robbers.
I even help Meliati attack the small monastery and church.
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Anyway, she has basically broken up with the church, so she is not afraid of this crime.
It was just to exploit the castle of their most cruel local nobles, but it could not allow the apologists to do whatever they wanted.
These centrist nobles were the targets that Moriyati wanted to win over.
Horn did not hope that at this time, the political alliance between the two sides would be damaged - at least it would have to wait until after the war.
For some reason, looking at his reflection on the glass, he felt a sense of shaking his body and pretending that the carriage was moving forward.
The second purpose is to visit the mine owners in North Munde County.
At present, the lightning furnace has not made any progress, and he has an urgent need for mountain copper and steel.
Since the new technology has not been developed yet, continuing to carve needles on old technology has become the only choice.
Wet iron smelting has already reached its limit, but Horn's arrival still brought the latest breakthrough.
That is peat and clockwork engine.
The former brings a rich source of heat, while the latter brings a relatively reliable automaton.
In this case, use a hydraulic forging hammer instead of human thugs, and use a conveyor and agitator instead of porters and mixers.
Clockwork pumps can dig deeper mines, concrete can support heavier tunnels, and rail mine trucks can transport ore faster.
As for the spare manpower, after complete retraining, we can continue to expand the smelting workshop and even the smelting plant.
If the process and manpower problems are solved, then only the material problems are left.
Okay, so where should we get the raw materials?
In May, the first batch of smelting potions produced in Black Snake Bay were sent to Black Snake Bay.
At the same time, Kasha County and Xia Ruifu County are vigorously clearing the abandoned fields. The Saint Scythe Monastery has signed contracts with farmers in many places to purchase the raw materials for the planting of the medicines.
The material foundation is basically complete, and the only difficulty facing Horn is the Steel Guild, which refuses to expand.
After all, for dwarves, once they are expanded according to this model, it means that their technology needs to be trained to operators.
The technology is disclosed, and the original dwarf process system is about to disintegrate.
The negotiations between the two sides talked about July from May to July, but have not been finalized.
Horne is going to have a fight with these stubborn dwarves and mine owners this time.
(This chapter ends)