William smiled, gently held Shalumi's waist, and let her lean against him. otbnkotgt After a dozen people were missing, there was a lot of space on the sled.
Fortunately, there were still enough men left to control the remaining six sleds.
After bypassing the large pit created by the enemy and checking the ground conditions ahead, William's expedition continued forward.
Heading towards their destination, the dwarf village closest to the coastline.
After defeating the army of nearly two hundred men, William encountered no further obstacles.
Not a white bear or a timber wolf, a dragon or a vampire.
They easily followed the sleigh road made of ice and snow and arrived at the dwarf village.
Then he stopped at the entrance of the dwarf village.
After actually seeing the dwarf "village", William and his party were surprised.
The first feeling is "Is this really a village?"
The second feeling is "Dwarves can really mess around."
The third feeling is that these dwarves are unexpectedly rich.
He is indeed a big dog who exploits the whole world by relying on science and technology and gets something for nothing.
This village is more like a fortress than a village.
The dwarves do not know where they obtained the method of making cement.
At the same time, they used their amazing imagination to develop further architectural methods on top of this.
That is reinforced concrete.
The dwarves, who possess the most advanced knowledge of physics and mathematics in the world, have also made great achievements in chemistry, not surprisingly.
They easily solve the problem of cement cracking in low temperature environments.
Even on this basis, fast cement that can solidify quickly has been developed.
By mixing cement, sand and pebbles together, and then using a powerful steam engine to drive a concrete mixer, you can create extremely strong and durable concrete.
Adding steel bars between these concretes will naturally make the fortifications even stronger.
This is the dwarf village that William and his party saw.
It is surrounded by reinforced concrete that is more than three meters high and one meter wide.
It has a watchtower and a shooting platform.
On the platform was a dwarf wearing a leather robe, holding a large-caliber musket and a round grenade in his hand.
There were also six-pound cannons made by the dwarves, and a double-stacked twenty-four-barrel organ cannon.
Well, let’s call this village a fortress from now on.
The fort looks very strong, and it is.
In this very strong fortress, there are hundreds of dwarves, most of whom are warriors.
Although the dwarves surprisingly do not have a country, a complete social structure, and a government system.
But this does not mean that the dwarves are in disarray.
William even suspected that the race in the world that understood the meaning of unity best was the dwarves.
As the first stop for the dwarves to confront the outside world, this village is more like an outpost than a village.
With the strength of a village, there is no way to build such a strong fortress and use so many weapons.
Equipment is allocated here.
This is the result of the joint efforts of the dwarves, all the dwarves working together.
The dwarves living here do not need to engage in any productive activities.
Of course, there is still hunting as a pastime and to improve food.
But other than that, everything they need, all the necessities of life, are provided by other dwarves, or rather The dwarves all share the burden.
There is only one thing they have to do, and that is to guard the door, guarding this crucial checkpoint and door to the human world.
William believed that there must be many more similar fortresses.
In other words, on every road leading to the dwarf world, there is a "village" that may be large or small, but absolutely solid, absolutely fully armed, and absolutely stationed with a large number of dwarf warriors.
This more or less represents the dwarves' understanding and attitude towards the outside world.
Although these guys often receive benefits from the outside world, especially cooperation with humans, conducting various research and construction.
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But they have never truly trusted any race, including humans.
Their hearts are like this well-armed fortress, strong and difficult to break.
"What a group of stubborn guys."
William thought in his heart, and raised another question mark about the feasibility of his plan.
This group of dwarves guarding Retjord are not as easy to talk to as their kin walking outside.
In other words, the dwarves walking outside have more or less accommodated themselves to human society.
The dwarves living here have maintained their true nature.
Just like it is now.
"Who are you?
Don't come closer.
If you come closer, I'll shoot you."
After seeing William and his party from a distance, the dwarves immediately felt like they were facing a powerful enemy and aimed their organ cannon, six-pounder cannon and large-caliber muskets at William and his party.
"Really."
It feels quite bad to have someone take aim at you.
William couldn't help but frown.
But I immediately endured it again.
Now I am asking for help from others, so I am asking whether dwarves are very powerful.
Yes, dwarves are very powerful.
So since dwarves are so powerful, it’s not a big deal for me to soften my attitude a little here: Anyway, it wasn't William himself who really showed up.
He was sitting on the sled in the back and in the middle.
On the sled at the front, it was a Cheka agent who was negotiating with the dwarves.
As an agent, you must be agile and logical.
The skill of communicating with others and gaining favor is also a must.
If not, how can we use tricks to obtain information?
As the leader William brought out for action, this Cheka agent was naturally even more powerful.
He was born with a simple and honest face, and people couldn't help but believe him subconsciously just by looking at him.
His face was silent, and his words were also very pleasant. .
Even the dwarves, who usually don't like to interact with people and are as cold as the weather in Ratjod, relaxed somewhat after seeing this guy.
"Don't shoot, dwarf friends, we are businessmen from Russia and we have no ill intentions."
"A businessman from Russia?"
The dwarves on the parapet looked at each other, then muttered and discussed.
Then asked: "What did you bring?"
Hearing these guys say this, William and his party were somewhat relieved.
It seems that the dwarves are not incapable of communication.
The local products of Ratjord are not rich.
Although according to legend, there are massive minerals hidden deep underground in Retjord, whether it is traditional gold, silver, copper, iron and tin, or sulfur, saltpeter, and the most important coal mines in the industrial era.
In addition, with the advancement of the chemical industry, various non-ferrous metals are occasionally produced.
They are given various fantastic names by the dwarves, and then sold on a large scale.
When the dwarves do this kind of thing, it is also difficult for them to do so.
No psychological burden at all but.
But this era does not mean that everything comes with minerals.
Although in terms of economy, it is the general trend for industry to gradually catch up and even catch up with agriculture.
But if a country has no agriculture and only industry, then this country cannot be called a qualified country.
Just like the dwarves who live in Reitjord, although they have what is known as the most suitable resources in the world for the development of heavy industry, most daily necessities still need to be imported in large quantities.
Grains, meats, seasonings, spices.
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Of course, there is also the most important salt.
There is no well salt and there is no pool salt.
The Sampolodsk Sea is said to be the sea with the lowest salt content in the world.
The cost of making salt is extremely high.
What’s more, the sun-dried salt method was not invented in this era, and all salt was boiled.
Leaving aside the iron pot for boiling salt, the dwarves living in the industrial age have enough iron to squander it.
However, the firewood required for boiling salt is very hard for dwarves to come by.
This is not to say that it is hard to come by, but compared to boiling it.
Salt and firewood have more important tasks in Ratjord, which is to keep warm.
After knowing this, William felt a little emotional.
At the same time, I was thinking, why don't the dwarves use briquettes?
They obviously have the largest coal reserves in the world.
Moreover, the dwarves mine mines very quickly, and with the assistance of mechanical power, the dwarves' coal output is very high.
The quality is also very good.
It can be compared with the world-famous Welsh white coal in William's previous life, which is the highest grade anthracite coal.
So why don't these guys use stoves and briquettes?
Well, maybe they can go a step further and use heating or even floor heating, which are murderous things.
All in all, William didn't know what these dwarves were thinking.
Or while they have extremely strong scientific abilities, they are not very good at life matters.
Just like the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
When he thought about it, William understood. then clothes Although it is said that the dwarves of this era knew how to tan leather, and their skills were superb.
In addition, no matter what kind of fur in the Reitjord area, it is quite thick and warm.
However, it is impossible for a person to wear only one layer of leather for a year.
Cloth, cotton, wool, woolen.
People living in the tropics cannot imagine how enthusiastic people living in the cold zone are for textiles.
In the end, it is luxury goods.
Although the dwarves advocate a hard and simple life style.
But so what, human beings themselves also advocate a hard and simple life style.
Even human Protestantism specifically advocates hard work and plain living.
However, this cannot stop those businessmen, factory owners and capitalists from believing in Protestantism while living a life of debauchery and extravagance160420oshow7: