Chapter 188, the twisted technology tree of the rat people, the bad sores on the grassland
The war between the rat people and the wolf orcs has entered a new stage.
The wolf orcs have temporarily left, heading deeper into the grassland, but this does not mean the end of this war.
The gains of the Rat Man were not as rich as expected, at least not as rich as Rat Zhan expected, but the Wolf Orcs were already far away.
There was an illusion of a punch hitting the cotton, which made Shu Zhan particularly annoyed, but there was nothing more that could be done.
He really hated the vast grassland in front of him.
The scarlet pit where the rat war is entrenched has become a new starting point for the rat people to set foot on the vast grassland in front of them. More and more rat people are arriving from the rear, and then use this as a starting point to spread. Deep into this vast grassland.
The wolf orcs did not completely abandon this area of grassland. Many wolf knight teams were left behind, serving as scouts and still harassing the rear of the rat people until a trade route was completely destroyed. forming.
Fortresses and outposts were built one after another.
This is just one of them. At the same time, a real underground tunnel has entered the excavation stage and will be connected from Prairie City to the scarlet pit where Rat War is now entrenched.
It was a truly grand undertaking, built by the Skaven Lords.
In order to embrace all kinds of mineral deposits on this vast grassland, the resources have brought covetousness and greed. The rat lords may not be very clear about the role of each mineral. The value of the mineral veins, but they are convinced of the guidance of the great gods.
Long ago, when the great gods were active and issued oracles from time to time, there was an oracle that is still carried out by the Skaven, and is still regarded as enlightenment by the Skaven priests.
Hoard ores, hoard all kinds of ores.
Not only because of the gods, but also because of profit, the rat industrial zone in the barren mountains is no longer limited to smelting iron ore.
There are rumors that a ratman councilor who is approaching his twilight years seems to have brought up the idea of casting a statue of a god. It will be a huge statue, and not only that, this statue of a great god will use a newly discovered method. Metal casting.
Another useless stone is discovered in the flames with real power.
A bright yellow metal will be used to cast statues of gods.
At this time, there were several ore veins storing the new metal on this grassland, and the rat lords who were keenly aware of the opportunity began to make preparations in advance.
If this bright yellow metal statue of a god can be recognized by the Ratman Council.
There is no doubt that this new metal will soon become the most popular thing in the Skaven Kingdom.
Anything related to the gods will be sought after by the rat people to the greatest extent, and can also bring the greatest profits.
After successfully promoting the wolf-orc leather to become popular in the rat-man kingdom, these rat-man lords reaped a wave of dividends and naturally wanted to bet again, especially when the wolf-orc people were temporarily far away. As time goes by, the amount of leather purchased by caravans dwindles.
If they can hold those mineral veins in their hands, the blood mushrooms will surge towards them.
Very smoothly, the Rat Lords successfully obtained the occupied mineral veins from Rat Zhan, even though Rat Zhan paid a price that he thought was extremely high.
In the pretentious distress of the rat lords, these mineral veins were easily taken into their arms. At the end of the transaction, Rat Zhan grinned and cunningly announced that those coal veins were not included in the transaction.
None of the rat lords had any objections to this change. After the deal was concluded, they left in a hurry, leaving Rat Zhan with his mouth gradually stiffening.
Obviously, these rat priests were hiding something from him, but he was not aware of it at all.
Rat War began to inquire about the news.
He felt that he had been taken advantage of by the rat lords.
After the ownership of the mineral vein was settled, the planning of this underground tunnel was put on the agenda.
Obviously, they needed a smooth passage. In order to transport resources smoothly, they united all the rat lords who took office on this grassland, and the construction of this underground tunnel officially began.
They are not the first guys in the Skaven Kingdom to build such straight underground tunnels.
After a rat priest submitted the idea of an underground tunnel to the rat council, the first dedicated underground tunnel in the underground rat city was dug out. The giant rat was in this straight underground tunnel. After the speed that was several times faster was witnessed.
This thing started to spread from the Underground Rat City.
It can bring a lot of convenience. Relying on these special underground tunnels, you can reach any place in the Ratman Kingdom faster, exchange resources more conveniently, and mobilize personnel faster, but these are not the most important.
The most important thing is that the underground rat city’s control over other rat cities will be greatly strengthened.
Areas that were previously inaccessible, areas that seemed too far away in the past, may once again be brought under the control of the Underground Rat City.
This underground tunnel on the grassland that runs through all cities was built by the temple guards and the rat lords.
Zhu Zhan knew nothing about this, and his information was as scarce as ever, which was also related to the fact that he was now entrenched deep in the vast grassland.
Soon, a straight underground tunnel will spread from the Underground Rat City and connect to the first city built by Rat Zhan on this grassland, Prairie City.
The underground tunnel connecting every city on the grassland will be built by the rat lords. The two underground tunnels will be connected in Prairie City.
The impact this will have is still unknown.
But the cause of all this was really just an idea put forward by an ordinary ratman priest.
The rat people are still so bloody and cruel, but their technology has advanced rapidly. This phenomenon is not normal, but it is reasonable.
In a normal civilization, the progress of technology and civilization will probably be in a state of mutual advancement, and civilization exists as the soil of technology.
But the civilization of the rat people is obviously not normal, and the progress of science and technology also brings some commonalities.
Stone carvings, murals and recent leather carvings are to record one's own achievements. As for the subsequent uses, that is a follow-up derivation. The initial use is to record one's own achievements to the gods for the rat priests. Sacrifice offered and merit gained.
It stands to reason that writing should have been derived from the Rat Kingdom a long time ago. The soil for the emergence of writing has long been mature, but so far, the communication between the Rats is still the handover between the Rats and Rats. in progress. The same is true for the smelting of metals. For war, to collect more sacrifices, and to offer war and victory to the gods, other aspects are slow and rigid.
The rat people have long since learned to use wheels, and they have also learned to use metal, but until now, the rat caravans on this vast grassland are still using the most primitive wooden wheels, and the shadows of metal wheels are still there. Didn't show up.
If it weren’t for Du Yuan’s gift of the Cold Soul Giant Bell, the rat priests began to use metal to create various giant bells as decorations, as a symbol of status, and by the way, the use of metal was driven in other directions. By extension, it is estimated that until now, the metal smelted from the Barren Mountains and the Furnace City has only two uses at most.
Craft weapons and craft more complex weapons.
But on the other hand, the progress of the rat people's technology is extremely rapid. The metal smelting level of the rat people has caught up with the wild boar people from scratch in a very short period of time. Now the metal smelting level produced by the barren mountains is The exquisite armor is far harder and lighter than the original plate armor of the wild boar knights.
The same is true for large war equipment.
The rat trebuchet siege crossbows in the Western Expeditionary Force under Sheng Qi have become more and more complex and sophisticated. Of course, when they disintegrate, they will also bring about a grander scene.
It comes from the promotion of the huge group of priests in the Ratman Empire.
As long as religion does not involve heresy trials, then in most cases, priests will be the primary productive force of science and technology, but will the Rats judge heretics?
Yes, any other race is a heresy, so why can the rat people's technology climb so fast?
Because countless rat priests are frantically sharpening the blades in the hands of the rat kingdom, so that they can be sharper and stronger when killing heretics. That blade is the technology of the rat kingdom.
Looking at it this way, it seems that the extremely twisted technology tree of the Skaven Kingdom makes sense.
And there are really many priests under Du Yuan, very many, very, very many.
For the rat people, the more priests there are, the faster the technology climbs. The faster the technology climbs, the more distorted the technology tree becomes.
The number of rat priests in the rat empire is still increasing.
It can be predicted that the technology tree of the Skaven will probably become more and more distorted.
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Mouzhan discovered a blind spot. After that transaction, Mouzhan was suspicious and sent people to investigate what happened recently. After some investigation, he really learned something.
A problem was found.
A very serious problem was discovered!
It was so serious that Shu Zhan roared angrily from the bottom of his heart.
"You despicable food-stealing rats!"
He discovered that the corpses of the wolf-orcs that the rat caravans collected from him with ten blood mushrooms actually changed hands and turned into at least two hundred blood mushrooms. Exquisite leather can only be purchased at a high price, and demand exceeds supply!
At this moment, Rat Zhan really felt a heartache, and the anger that followed. Next time the caravan in the hands of the rat lords wanted to fight Rat again. The war trade will not be that easy anymore, and Shu Zhan feels that he has been taken advantage of.
Rat War has indeed found out some information, and the information found is indeed important, but it does not seem to be that important.
With Prairie City as the starting point, the underground tunnel that will penetrate the grassland has entered the construction stage. Due to the excessive looseness of the grassland soil, the Big Claw priests did not choose to dig underground there.
Instead, a trench was dug in advance, and neat stone slabs were laid in it to form a tunnel structure that also served as a load-bearing structure.
Countless slave rats are surging on this vast grassland under the command of the Big Claw Priest. The ability of these senior priests who took over as rat lords to mobilize resources is better than that of the previous ones on this grassland. Contractors, these rat people of all colors gathered together and gradually became co-investors, I don’t know how much higher they are.
A large number of slave rats were mobilized to join in the construction of the tunnel, amidst the sharp roars and whippings of the Big Claw Priest.
This tunnel is spreading deep into the grassland at an extremely fast speed.
Brings a problem, a serious problem.
The towering mountains that separate the grasslands from the wetlands serve as stone mining sites for the rat people. Whether it is the construction of this long tunnel or the construction of the rat cities on the grasslands, all the materials are mined from this towering mountain range. Come.
Mined by slave rats who cling to the mountains like ants.
The work of the rat people brings great losses. The Big Claw priests are not willing to equip these slave rats with too sophisticated tools, but whether it is the construction of the rat city or the construction of this stretching tunnel, All that is needed is the neat stone slabs.
Often out of twenty stones that are mined, only one will be qualified. The rat people don't care about this yield rate, they are just sending out more slave rats.
The damage done by the rat people to this towering mountain range is real, although the short time the rat people dug into this towering mountain range is not worth mentioning at all.
But those abandoned and randomly thrown stones are a huge problem.
The places where rat people mine stone are often built along rivers, because relying on rivers can more easily transport stone down the mountains.
The places where stone materials are discarded are often close to rivers. Stone materials are mined near rivers, so naturally the garbage is discarded nearby.
As for the excavated stones blocking the river?
If it is blocked, I will just find another river to open. The Rat Man's solution to the problem is very simple and crude, and it also creates a simple and crude disaster for the Four Seasons Ranch under the towering mountains.
The Four Seasons Ranch relies on the nurturing of the rivers formed by the melted snow on the towering mountains to be called the Four Seasons Ranch.
But the simple and crude mining of the rat people is blocking most of the rivers in the mountains.
And a possibility is slowly emerging.
If the rat people continue to build cities on this vast grassland, if the rat people continue to exploit this towering mountain range, will one day this towering mountain range that separates the grassland wetland, this eternal Will the towering mountains that existed in ancient times be completely lost in history due to the greedy demands of the rat people?
I don’t know.
The Four Seasons Ranch is gradually moving towards desertification, with Prairie City as the starting point.
The land is stained with red, the air is gradually drying, the grass no longer grows, and all living things are extinct. Only the rat people wander and gather here.
And this area is still spreading, as if a stubborn disease has arisen in this vast and vast grassland, a disgusting, twisted and expanding bad sore has grown.
(End of this chapter)