Chapter 209 Is it too late?
Horn proposed that "all men are born equal and all men are born free", which is not the later "freedom and equality".
Reflected on the practical level, these two points only abolish the third-class agricultural system and the transcendent status of the nobility in rural areas, and advocate that "getting something for nothing" be regarded as the new original sin.
As the saying goes, one step ahead is a genius, three steps ahead is a madman.
This political idea, which seemed extremely primitive and crude in Horn's era, is already quite advanced in this era.
As soon as he walked out of the small town's prayer center, Horn felt the heat on the back of his head. He looked up, but his eyes were narrowed by the glare of the sun.
I found that after five or six days of rain, the sun finally came out in Daze Township.
From behind the mountains and clouds, the warm sun pierces the thick clouds, emitting a faint light from the cracks.
However, in the gray chill of winter, this light also seems a bit turbid.
Under the eaves of the wooden roof, water droplets slid down regularly and fell on Horn's shoulders.
He stretched out his hand to catch the water droplets and the sunlight. They were both warm and cold at the same time in his palm.
"What should we do next?"
"Um." Duvallon took out the paper from his pocket, "Originally, we were going to discuss the order with Monsignor Armand. But we ended it early, so we still have an hour of free time.”
“Free time.” Horn looked at the Mechanical Palace on the hillside in the distance, “Finally, there was some sunshine. , let’s take a stroll nearby.”
Walking on the withered yellow and green grass, Horn walked briskly ahead.
He had been riding a horse around before, and it was raining. He had never taken a leisurely look at the scenery of the island, only the blurred scenery that kept moving backwards.
When the matter of the Order of the Holy Father is resolved, the army will have to officially start training. By then, Horn will probably have to run between military camps in the town and will not have so much free time.
Even when Horn is taking a walk now, it is not a real leisure time. He is still thinking about the Salvation Army in his mind.
Among the six major problems raised at the beginning, after filling the gap in the water pump, the food problem was solved.
The second problem is the quilt, but the quilt is really difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without straw. The only way Horn can think of is to send more people to hunt for wild beast pelts.
Anyway, they have the Holy Gun. As long as they have the Holy Gun and the breastplate, they may not have the confidence to fight against monsters, but they not only have the confidence to escape, but they also have a lot of confidence.
Horn ordered the supply of uniforms to the regiment soldiers first, and those who did not have enough winter clothing had to stay at home.
Although there are not enough quilts, there is definitely enough peat. Even the current output of the peat workshop can meet the winter warmth needs of more than 20,000 people.
For this group of people who must stay at home, Horn is not prepared to leave them idle. At worst, they may do some assembly work at home.
In addition, Horn plans to set up a primary school class and a literacy class in each block to use this winter to make up for the culture and synchronize knowledge with primary school students.
This involves the third issue at the beginning, the housing issue.
These Insula apartments are free to stay in, there are no public stalls, and the property management is taken care of by itself. However, if you want to house deserters and fugitives, you will have to sit in the entire building.
Although Witte pushed back on the construction schedule, Horn believed that as long as the star-cast gears were applied to the crane, the construction speed of the town would surely reach a higher level.
Shilov has been drawing the design drawings of the crane in the past few days, and the prototype can be built for testing in as soon as two days.
Thinking of this, Horn's footsteps turned around and walked to a mound. Under the mound, there was a row of brand new mud brick houses emitting black smoke.
This is Horn's temporary mortar workshop area. In the work shed outside the mud-brick house, workers wearing jackets and short cloaks sat on small horses, hunched over and busy in water tanks.
Wearing leather gloves and holding knives, they painstakingly dissected the slime, then took out the useful parts, and finally extracted the slime juice.
The slime juice will be transported to the mortar workshop behind them, and refined into barrels of mortar powder by the Holy Alchemists.
Several carts were parked on the side of the road, their wheels stuck in the mud. There were mortar barrels on the carts, which were covered with lids and covered with a layer of canvas.
The workers were swearing, one was pulling in front, and the other two were pushing behind. It took a lot of effort to push the cart out.
This is not because Horn is stingy and unwilling to use a carriage, but because he has more than enough war horses, but obviously not enough draft horses.
Horn came to Qiumu Island and swept away the horses of Duke Kush of Joan of Arc and the horses of the knights, taking into his possession 240 horses.
War horses are actually not suitable for pulling carts, and the efficiency and cost are even worse than having people pull them.
Every time like this, Horn thinks about how nice it would be to have a clockwork motorcycle. It doesn’t have to be too long, and the short one is also very cute.
The distance from the industrial area to the town is less than two miles, and using a small mining cart with a clockwork engine to pull it all the way is no better than pulling it manually.
It is a pity that the most important method of making star-cast gears is missing. There are less than 60 star-cast gears that Horn can use.
And I don’t know why, when the vampire from the Scales Monastery, Shilov’s grandmother, made the star-cast gears, the smallest ones were more than 1 meter in diameter.
For some smaller machines, this kind of gear cannot be used as a power source at all.
"Forget it, let's talk about it then. Let's go back and ask the Ruoan Party to pay more attention." Horn stretched and continued to move forward.
Today, there are three main alchemical industries on Qiumu Island. The first is peat, the second is mortar, and the third is orichalcum.
Currently, Orichalcum is a long-standing problem, and it is also the issue most directly related to the New Army.
The main reason is that too much refined iron is consumed, and 14 pounds of refined iron is actually needed.
Although Paslik said that mana can be used to make up for the waste of refined iron, the old boy has not calculated the specific formula until now.
Horn went to see him this morning, and he was still making nonsense of Hongwen's insistent words: "This is not my problem, it's a matter of time" and "It is inevitable to have regrets in life."
Compared to Paslik's procrastination, the "Galal Drill Code", which is also about the training of the new army, has been mostly completed.
Although Hakuto and Jeshka were so quarreling about the most effective moves that they almost broke up in the middle and jungle, they still managed to draw this full map operation manual after stumbling.
The registrars and scribes for the census were recruited yesterday. The training should be completed today, so the census can be conducted tomorrow.
On the way to the census, we have to further organize ten households and one hundred households. It just so happens that the construction of Sula Apartment has been completed, and one hundred households can almost be accommodated.
Horn counted on his fingers and concluded that what has not yet been carried out is marching training. The required prerequisites are: completing the population survey, completing housing resettlement, completing the compilation of drill codes, completing the improvement of clockwork guns, and completing the mountain Improvements in copper manufacturing methods.
Horn has basically completed the prerequisites for these prerequisites, and they are the only ones left.
Organizing and training the new army is not as easy and quick as Horn imagined. It is almost December, and the recruitment of new soldiers has not even started yet.
Horn stopped and looked in the direction of Fort Joan of Arc, as if his eyes could penetrate the mountains.
Is it too late?
(End of this chapter)