Chapter 160: The Route To everyone's surprise, according to the analysis of the Northwest Legion Military Department, since the orcs were able to create a cheap and powerful monster like the beast dragon, they would not be able to give up the invasion of the human kingdom so easily, but until June, the reconnaissance team under the War Martial Arts Research Institute composed of blackbirds and one-man airships still did not find that the orcs had the intention of gathering troops to fight again.
From the high-resolution reconnaissance photos, it can be seen that the orcs are still scattered to the grassland as usual after planting the spring crops as usual, and the famine that should have occurred last winter has not appeared, and the rule in the orc kingdom is still strong, and there does not seem to have been any riots.
Of course, humans don't know that the six million orcs who lack food have been transformed into more powerful creatures by the beast gods, and only a few orcs know the terrifying truth of this matter.
By the rare peace, the speed of construction of the railway in the northwest wasteland was very fast, according to the calculation, before the first winter snow of the year, the railway could be opened to traffic, and during the construction of the railway, an unexpected person solved the problem of the difficult operation of the snow-stricken railway, Jerome, who had been busy repairing the beast-blood fortress that had been destroyed again and again, came up with a very simple but useful plan when the alchemists sent by the Supreme Council to build the railway were at a loss for how to prevent the snow disaster, According to Jerome's idea, as long as a magic net line is buried under the rails of the railway, and then the magic net line is used to charge the steel that is not very demon-averse, then the rails will naturally produce a lot of heat to melt the snow, as long as the roadbed of the railway is not washed away by the snow, then this plan can be completely implemented.
And this can also be done with the help of the convenient transportation of the railway to protect the magic network line from being damaged by the orcs, if it was before, I am afraid that no one would think that the orcs would have the leisure to dig the underground magic network lines that cannot eat and drink, but now that the orcs can create a monster like the beast dragon, then the beast god who has an understanding of magic knowledge will definitely not let the magic net of the beast blood fortress continue to work normally, and for the human side, even if it is just in case, the Northwest Legion will not be stingy with that little bit of money and magic materials.
Just as the Northwest Army was in full swing to build the railway, a new means of transportation began to appear in the peaceful human kingdom, and in June, the first generation of civilian airships produced by the Schott Shipyard and named the Sparrow type by Zhao Yannian officially completed its maiden voyage.
Zhao Yannian's father-in-law, Buniel Short, has been doing more and more prosperous business in the past few years, and the Short Chamber of Commerce has made a lot of money by trafficking the production of Rodnik Collar to all over the world, and as the father of Erica Short, the controller of Rodnik's actual affairs, even a big businessman has to give Bunier some face, which makes Bunier, who is already very good at being a person, use the light of his daughter to mix in the business circle.
Of course, although Bunier will be in the business circle, but never go deeper, his actions have always had a clear purpose, all actions are to make money and make more money and serve, in this kind of single-minded efforts to drill into the eyes of money, it only took a few years for Bunier to take over from his daughter The SCHOTT Chamber of Commerce has developed into a top Chamber of Commerce in the human kingdom, although the history of the SCHOTT Chamber of Commerce is still too short to lack sufficient foundation, But this did not affect Bunier's position among the merchants.
You must know that the business world of the whole kingdom is now circulating the story of how to use a capable daughter to earn a capable son-in-law, and then how to use a capable daughter to earn a piece of land power, although the people who spread these news are mocking and disdainful, but no merchant denies that the most successful deal Bunier has ever made in his life is to marry his daughter to a future earl, an honorary member of the Supreme Council and the inventor and producer of new weapons for the Kingdom Legion.
With enough status, of course, Bunier will not miss the opportunity to auction the airship manufacturing license of the Supreme Council, although with Zhao Yannian's relationship, it is completely okay to give the SCHOTT Chamber of Commerce a special license, but Bunier resolutely refused.
"Since it is the law you proposed in the Supreme Council, then we, as your family, cannot disobey it."
When old Bunier's words got word out, they were praised by all the noble merchants, and even His Majesty Edward said yes when he found out.
It seems that it is precisely for this reason that on the day of the auction, after the first bid of the old Bunier, all the wealthy merchants present chose to give up, and Bunier got the right to manufacture the airship at the reserve price of 10,000 gold coins.
Most people showed envy and appreciation for the advantage that Bunier had taken, but for Zhao Yannian, his father-in-law came to his lord's mansion to eat and drink the day before he said that sentence in public, and then discussed this matter with him in the study for a long time, and he didn't plan to say it.
The SCHOTT Chamber of Commerce as the first chamber of commerce to obtain the right to manufacture airships does not have any preferential treatment, but he does not need any preferential treatment, where is the son-in-law of the inventor of the airship, the airship factory of the SCHOTT Chamber of Commerce was built at a speed that amazed everyone, from the manufacture of materials to the standardization of various processes and quality supervision measures, all the techniques were taught by Zhao Yannian through the alchemists under his hands, although Zhao Yannian did not give SCHOTT Shipyard a distinctive design, But the excellent quality is enough for the SCHOTT Chamber of Commerce to get a huge piece of the pie in the competition in the airship market of the future.
After the successful test flight of the Sparrow, this 15-meter-long all-wooden structure pod airship began to replace Shelley's Experiment to become the new darling of Rodnik's commercial transportation, although the load of the Sparrow is only ten tons, much smaller than the Experiment, but the number of Sparrows is incomparable to the Experimental Airship, after the official start of production, the Schott Shipyard began to build the airship at a rate of ten per month, in the second month of formal production, the Sparrow transportation volume has exceeded Shelley's airship.
Although it was a bit of a loss to be replaced by those wooden ships, for Shelley, it meant that he would no longer have to transport things like canned fruit and sewing machines every day and night, and he could stuff his airship with aerial bombs at will, even if there was no target, and every time he looked at those round iron guys in the warehouse, Shelley felt an inexplicable sense of satisfaction.
With the return of the Experiment, the Sparrows' escort mission in the route was entrusted to the Aviation Administration, which was established by the noble lords of various places.
With the establishment and production of aircraft factories in various places, there have been many earl-level territories that have begun to follow the example of the great nobles to establish a small air force for their own territory, of course, the air force with no combat objectives Before the establishment of the Aviation Administration, these aircraft were used as lords looking for stimulation and patrolling the territory to transmit information, and with the establishment of the Aviation Administration, these idle pilots began to have a proper job.
The opening and maintenance of the waterway is not easy, although most of the flying monsters in this world live in the mountains, and there are almost no flying monsters nesting in the middle of the continent where humans live, but there are many species of flying monsters that are migratory, and birds migrate with the season, which leads to the migration of flying monsters with higher intelligence, and with few natural predators, they have a great deal of arbitrariness in their actions.
In order to ensure the safety of these opened up waterways, the Aviation Administration will spray a special agent on both sides of the channel, this low-cost agent will simulate the taste and pressure of the dragons, although it is not very strong but it can just simulate the feeling of the dragons flying here recently, this level of deterrence is enough for the vast majority of flying monsters to choose to detour, and this medicine will not be blown away by the wind, As long as pilots regularly supplement the channel, the channel will always exist.
With the stabilization of the old waterway, the opening of new waterways has become a matter of concern for businessmen, although it has just arrived in July, and the airship built by the major chambers of commerce has just completed its test flight, the SCHOTT Chamber of Commerce has already opened up a new route with the help of the Experiment, which passes through the northern territory and then goes to the ice tundra from the sky above the dwarven kingdom.
For businessmen who know the goods, the Northland, where ice and snow do not melt all year round, can be said to be a natural treasure trove, a large number of ice-type demonic beasts, as well as various ice-attribute gems and metals are all things that ice-based professionals crave, and for barbarians, as long as you can take out a barrel of spirits or a small piece of fire-type magic crystals that will heat up, then they will give you ten times or even a hundred times the reward.
Although the ice tundra is a treasure, the road to the ice tundra can be said to be a road of death, and after passing through the junction of the dwarven kingdom and the elven forest, there are still nearly a thousand kilometers to reach the place where the barbarians live.
Most of the gold diggers who did not have enough strength would be buried under the claws of the beasts or buried by a sudden snowstorm on the way, so the road to the ice tundra has always been called a death passage among the gold diggers.
But now all this is not a problem, and merchants can travel thousands of miles a day in the warm cabin of the airship in thin clothes while sipping hot tea.
Then they would only have to make a fortune by dropping off and loading goods in the barbarian camps, which was unthinkable before, and the wealth generated by these new routes seemed to stimulate everyone who longed for the sky.