Chapter 292, The Rat Man’s Industrial Planning
In the end, the flag that fled in embarrassment after completing the sacrifice seemed to exist as a contract.
Well, maybe it’s not Qizi. Qizi should still be the reckless and aggressive Rat Zhan.
But the name of the flag also left its name in this history.
The last few sentences of a long paragraph.
The temple guards have recently been engraving a set of consecutive stone tablets to record everything about the gods, and also record the history of the rat people in disguise. They have done this in unexpected detail.
Even the figure of the Spear Rat appeared on the stone slab.
Perhaps it comes from the rigor of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
The flag lost a little space, looking like it was holding a spear high by the river.
Of course, Qi would not let what he had finally achieved through so much hard work fade into obscurity.
He tied up several Big Claw priests and leaders from various rat caravans. These poor guys accompanied Qi as they ran wildly through Lianyan Province, waiting silently in the mud.
They are witnesses and propagandists.
This is a bold move, but in fact it is not a big problem. The big-clawed priests in these caravans are backed by rat lords, and they seem to be aloof, but in fact, these guys It's still the big claw priest, just a useful tool.
The flag did not touch the goods in these rat caravans.
Under this premise, these big-clawed priests really have no ability to resist when facing Qi, the rat warlord, even if Qi became the rat warlord for such a short time.
How to prove it and how to publicize it may be a problem for other intelligent creatures in other places, but in this deformed country, it is not complicated and difficult for the rat people.
Only in the name of God.
Whether it is the Ratman Priest or the Big Claw Priest, these guys are chasing other things crazily and no longer pay attention to the belief in gods, but they still retain the awe of the great gods.
Okay, it seems a little awkward, but it is not surprising. In other words, they may have always been so pious, but their excessive pragmatism, utilitarianism, and desire are too hot, distorting their Pious.
Offering sacrifices to the gods to accumulate merit is piety, so does hoarding a large number of blood mushrooms representing merit in your hands not mean piety?
The rat priests have always been pious, and they do not dare to tell lies in the name of the gods.
This group of cunning and greedy guys are to some extent the best witnesses, as long as these things involve gods.
After Qi crossed the defense lines in embarrassment and arrived at the metal fortress at the junction of the two continents, his deeds were recognized by the temple guards. It may be that he finally became more valuable. .
Qi was received by the guy deep in the temple.
The temple guards are becoming more and more dissatisfied with the Rat War. This guy's radicalization indirectly led to the fall of the Golden Province. Mountain Dew City, that majestic city, was recaptured by these guys again. The human army has already Heading towards this steel fortress.
This made the guards of the temple particularly anxious. Under this background, the guards of the temple did not mind supporting a rat warlord who did not belong to the rat war. This was a choice.
In the corner of the sacred temple with swaying flames, a guy was tapping the left side with his sharp claws while looking at the flag.
“Of course, we are willing to help you.”
The words paused at this moment.
Qi fell into silence, but after just a moment of thinking, Qi quickly made a choice.
Qi's goal has always been so clear and upward.
He completely fell in love with the temple guards. In exchange, the temple guards were naturally willing to endorse Qi's achievements.
And this is just the beginning of a series of exchanges.
Adventure, busyness, this difficult journey, Qi finally reaped the rewards.
That simple pattern engraved on the stone slab is a small paragraph of words about him engraved at the end of a long period of history.
Not a bad start.
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Everything is done by pressing the accelerator key.
Big events are constantly happening, and the rat war running wildly in the human empire is like a catfish, stirring up this unsettled pool.
The destruction of villages and towns is not a major event worthy of attention at all. The fall of the city and even the death of another great nobleman are all eye-catching.
After the bold guy Shu Zhan broke through the blockade, he didn't stay away at all. Instead, he lurked in the darkness. He really seized the opportunity. A big noble who was in a hurry to return to his territory was ambushed by him.
The great nobleman was killed on the spot and hung high on a dead, rotten and smelly tree.
Uproar, but what else can be done besides uproar.
After gaining a foothold in Fierce City, the noble coalition continued to march, and then they were stuck by the metal fortress.
The elemental annihilation cannon was resisted by the shaking skeleton bell, and without the path of artillery fire, it was really difficult for people to think about trying to capture such a metal fortress. .
What kind of fortress is this? The background color of the fortress is dim black and gray, with mottled and convex connection traces mottled by batches of molten iron during the pouring process, like the concave and convex fish scales on the shell of the fortress. Spreading, forming such a peculiar shape.
Even in the ongoing stage of the war, outside the fortress, the enemy is watching everything.
The renovation of this fortress has not stopped.
The uneven areas were polished without any effort, following a strange principle, which is not to polish them flat, but to make these uneven areas more beautiful.
Well, this is something difficult to understand, but as religious lunatics, there is really no big problem for the temple guards to do this kind of thing.
During this time, the temple guards faced many problems.
The fall of the Golden Province has brought about many problems. The noble coalition in front of them is just one of the many problems. Which one is not the most difficult problem?
One by one, the rat farmers who had purchased the land fled back to the fortress in embarrassment, and they gathered in front of the temple.
These guys purchased land from the temple guards, but at this time the land was snatched back by humans again. This matter can be easily handled. After all, the rat farmer, the rat farmer, said it nicely. At first, they are called rat farmers. To put it mildly, they are untouchables. Have you ever seen a rat priest reasoning with these untouchables?
But the temple guards cannot do this.
The system they finally built is still so immature, so the issuance of land certificates began. This is a land certificate with a limited time limit. It is also the first collateral to appear in the Rat Empire. A collateral for land. . In fact, before this, buying and selling also existed. The trading of resources and land was just the result of high-sounding discussions between the big shots. This method did not work for the rat people and untouchables.
Now, it is the temple guard who acts as a guarantor to give such a certificate.
How can I put it this way, if the temple guards are used as the guarantor, it can indeed restrain most of the rat priests and rat warlords. Ordinary rat men can protect their own things with such certificates.
But it seems to be of little use, because these guys don't pay much attention to the land that is not worth much blood mushrooms at this time.
Such a certificate was given to ensure the ownership of the land. As long as the Golden Province was recaptured by the rat people again, these lands would still belong to the rat farmers who had no plans anymore, and the matter was settled like this.
As a superior party, it is very rare for the temple guards to be willing to make a promise to them. Otherwise, what else can they do? Do they still need extravagant compensation?
The aristocratic coalition is firmly stuck by this fortress and cannot move forward at all. This fortress is so desperate that the current aristocratic coalition cannot shake it.
This node is firmly in the hands of the rat people, and the matter of driving the rat people out of the main continent is destined to be impossible.
Instead, it dragged itself into a deadlock. The noble coalition forces could not leave. After leaving, they would leave this place to the rat people again. Soon the invasion would start again, but if they did not leave, they would not be able to attack. Take any step forward and be stuck here.
But simply, the great nobles in the noble coalition are not responsible for the logistics.
A steady stream of supplies was coming to Lianyan Province through the big river. Qi's sudden attack burned most of the supplies on the dock, but they were quickly replenished again.
Leaving these great nobles and their armies here to resist the Ratmen is something that would benefit the imperial royal family.
There is just one problem. If the prince can really stop the rat war, after the noble coalition is firmly stuck here, the only flag still erected in the human empire is That prince belongs to one person.
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Sheng Qi finally waited for support, but unexpectedly, the support that came here might not belong to the Western Expeditionary Force in his hands.
In other words, the Western Expeditionary Force did not entirely belong to him, after the failure of the land march.
More power and attention are put on this endless river, on this piece of bitter salty water.
The rat people began to march towards the ocean.
And coincidentally, not only has Sheng Qi wandered into the human empire and landed, but the Great Claw Priest in the Western Expeditionary Force also has a technology line that has begun to take shape, a technology line about the ocean.
For a while, it seemed that as long as you invest your strength, you can achieve immediate results.
All this is natural and logical.
Just how to put it, these guys, these guys who believe in the spirit of ore, they still succeeded in distorting the technology tree of the entire Skaven Empire regarding the ocean.
Bath Warships, bigger bathhouse warships, bigger bathhouse warships, bathhouse warships loaded with weapons, bathtub battleships loaded with more weapons, bathtub battleships loaded with more weapons.
This is really a situation that is difficult to describe.
One by one, the bathtub battleships were quickly launching into the sea.
Deep in the rolling hills, in the coastal area, towering furnaces and simple structures made of metal appeared here, and ports built by priests with big claws.
The ratmen's port is very strange.
It is piled up with a large number of metal pillars, pipes, gears, and various iron chains, large groups of slave rats, and, yes, the most important and most critical thing, metal Big clocks, every Ratman industrial area is indispensable with big clocks, this is necessary, this is inevitable.
The big bell is ringing regularly, the sound of the shaking of the iron chain is as clear as the sound of the big-clawed priest whipping the slave rat, the gears are turning creaking, this Ratman's dock, those complicated The metal pipes are moved and connected while being pulled. The hot blast furnace pours out hot molten iron, flows into the pipes, and finally flows into a platform supported by metal columns.
The casting process of the Rat Man has reached a very mature level.
It won’t take long, in an hourglass sky, a bathtub warship will be formed in this ugly and complex dock. This kind of production capacity is not the limit, in fact, it will be accompanied by the expansion of the dock and more slaves. The production capacity of the Rat Claw Priest will soon expand at an extremely exaggerated speed.
The Skaven Council made a decision, perhaps a big plan, the Skaven version of a naval power.
Well, at least for now, the rat people don't pay special attention to this endless brackish river. They are just looking for a new road because of the stalemate in the land war.
This situation may change with the exploration of the ocean. The vast ocean has enough benefits to change the minds of the rat people, especially when the territory of the rat empire is once again reaching its limit. .
The special tunnels that run through each city are becoming increasingly inadequate.
Even if the most tireless giant rat wants to run all the way back to the barren mountains from the steel fortress on the edge of the rat empire, it will be a long and arduous journey.
As the capital of the Skaven Empire, the Barren Mountains are too remote.
The rat people do not have an urgent need for a new way to connect all parts of the empire. There is no urgent need for this now, but it will be a matter of time.
Perhaps this vast brackish river can solve this problem that will be put on the table sooner or later.
A round warship fell from this strange high platform on the pier and hit the sea hard. It vibrated violently and stirred up huge waves. Iron chains and aerial platforms spread down from the high platform, and people climbed up and gathered on them. With a large number of slave rats.
At this moment, these guys are avoiding those huge waves in a panic.
A bathtub battleship, no, it should be said that the production of circular battleships has reached its final moment. The waves subsided, the circular battleship no longer swayed on the sea, and the slaves climbed on the iron chains and entangled themselves on the platform. The rats swarmed and they had many things to do.
For the repair and polishing of the circular battleship hull, the installation of gears, power structures, and finally war equipment.
After completing this series of processes, this circular battleship will be officially completed.
Then fill in enough biodynamic modules, load enough rat warriors, and sail to the sea under the command of those unreliable big-claw priests.
This is the reinforcement that Sheng Qi is waiting for.
A ship full of Skaven warriors, like crowded sardine cans floating on the ocean, or the kind with the mouth of the can open, a Skaven fleet.
The expression is very complicated.
Sheng Qi didn't know what kind of expression he was going to make at this time, and he didn't know whether this scene was a good thing for him or a nightmare that had not yet ended.
The Ocean Pioneer of the Skaven, Lucky Man, Commander-in-Chief of the Western Expeditionary Force, Sheng Qi, he showed a complex and painful emotion at this moment.
(End of this chapter)