After explaining what had happened to Geeta, Owen left the noisy machine room.On the way back to the castle, Owen stopped by the city hall to find Clive and ask him to issue a new recruitment order in the square, recruiting a group of mercenaries to prepare for the mass production of new bullets.The faster the reload efficiency of the musket and the shorter the interval between shots, the more firepower it will output.Correspondingly, the speed at which bullets are consumed is also rushing upward.Therefore, it is necessary to start producing and stockpiling ammunition as early as possible in order to have the confidence to deal with external threats.Whether it's the undead monsters in the north, or Duke Eddie, who is unhappy with Owen in the Eastrise Fortress, or other potential threats, you need to be prepared in advance.Clive's efficiency is not to be said, and the manpower is quickly enough.Owen divided the hired helpers into two groups and organized them to carry out the production work.A group of helpers are responsible for making nitrocellulose gauze.The work is located in the backyard of the makeshift laboratory, and they operate in strict accordance with Owen's requirements, and the time is also controlled by an hourglass to ensure that the quality of the nitrocellulose gauze produced can pass the test.The required chemical solutions were obtained directly from the high-security laboratories, prepared by Owen and a few loyal and reliable guards.This was done to keep it secret and to prevent the helper from knowing what solution was used in the nitrocellulose process.In the laboratory, Owen doesn't need to know what he's doing, he just needs to keep in mind the preparation process and precautions of various solutions, and then the important task of preparing solutions can be temporarily handed over to them.Of course, in order to avoid misoperation of the guards, Owen would often run to the laboratory to check.If there are talents who have mastered chemical knowledge, Owen does not need to be so troublesome, and can rest assured and boldly hand it over to them to prepare.However, the school has only recently set up a basic science course, and the instructors only teach some simple scientific knowledge.It seems that it will take a lot of time to cultivate the corresponding talents.To be honest, it took a lot of time for Owen to just teach the science to the teacher, and it was really difficult to get them to accept the new knowledge.The only thing to be thankful for is that Teresa is quite intelligent, and not only quickly digests and absorbs the new knowledge of Owen's teaching, but also draws inferences.This was so bad that Owen had the urge to make her Minister of Education.The other teachers are almost all rote memorization, and it is not clear whether they can teach these scientific knowledge well to their students, so they can only let time test.The dried nitrocellulose gauze is immediately removed by the other guards and transported to a larger brick house.In addition, materials such as black powder, shells and warheads were also shipped one after another.Another group of mercenaries was in charge of manually assembling bullets here.Each assembled bullet is carefully inspected, and if it is confirmed, it is neatly arranged, packed into wooden boxes, and finally transported to a carefully guarded warehouse for storage.At present, there is not much acid that can be obtained from strong acid slimes per day, which greatly limits the current production of bullets, and only about 100 can be assembled per day on average.In this regard, Owen is not very anxious.First, because the new muskets have not been equipped in large quantities in the musket units, the old muskets have been replaced.The second reason is that the strong acid slime will divide and reproduce by itself, and with the expansion of the breeding scale, the supply of acid will gradually increase.Thanks to Owen's efforts, the mass production of the new bullet is steadily advancing.During this period, two friends came to the border town to visit Owen.Thinking that he hadn't seen them for years, Owen gladly granted the request for a meeting, and asked the guards to lead the two in.After a while, Owen met the two friends in the reception room, a man and a woman.Both of them are dressed in aristocratic costumes, and their identities are nobles of Dongsheng Fortress.The handsome man with broken yellow hair is named Kuros Yum, the son of Count Yum, and the Yum family is one of the four great families of the Eastrise Fortress.The female is sweet-looking, with curly yellow hair, and her name is Hinia Yum, and she and Kuros are twin siblings.Owen met the two at the Academy of Magic in the Eastrise Fortress.During their studies, the three formed a good friendship."
Haha, Owen, I haven't seen you in three years."
Kuros greeted him directly and heartily.Sinia on the side nodded a little stiffly and greeted, "Gui'an, Owen Eisen." ”The reason why he didn't see him for three years was because Owen didn't get the opportunity to study at the High School of Magic, so he had to return to Frontier Town.The two siblings were both qualified to study and lived in the royal capital for three years.In the blink of an eye, both of them had returned from graduating from the High School of Magic."
Kuros, Sinia, long time no see, feel free to sit down."
Smiling and nodding, Owen raised his hand and gestured to the two empty seats opposite.As soon as the two of them sat down, Kuros couldn't help but speak, "Owen, what's going on in your border town?"
I met the lizardmen on the way, and I thought the enemy was about to use their attack magic, but luckily the patrols stopped me, and then I realized that you had allowed them into the town. ”What happened?!
Owen was embarrassed.As winter comes to an end, the frontier towns will gradually engage in frequent exchanges and trade with the outside world.In addition to the locals who remained, outsiders would surely be surprised by the presence of the lizardmen.In fact, some of the civilians who fled last year have already returned.They saw lizardmen in the streets, and thought that the border town had been overrun by the subhuman race.After explanations from the locals, those who returned had to accept the presence of the lizardmen, but remained vigilant, and no basic mutual trust was established.Even if the Sunken Sand tribes eventually return to their original habitats, the Frontier Towns will continue to keep in touch with them and conduct trade.At that time, there will still be lizardmen in the town.In order to prevent something like this from happening again, Owen felt the need for Clive to send someone at the docks to spread the word that the lizardfolk in the town were friendly and would not harm humans."
Those lizardmen have pledged their allegiance to me, and they are now my subjects."
Owen said."
Your people?!"
Kuros couldn't help but widen his eyes, and said in great surprise: "It's the first time I've heard of such a thing as a subhuman race as a leader.You're so bold, Owen. ”"It's okay."
Owen spread his hands, "You've seen it with your own eyes, and the lizardmen and the original inhabitants live in harmony in the town.It turns out that the Church's preaching of peaceful coexistence between different races is indeed possible. ”