Chapter 302 North and South

The Black and Brown Marquis arrived in the North.

This is quite a long journey.

If you travel by land, it will take more than two months, and this is because the road is often repaired.

Maybe once Rand's port is completely built, we can take a boat from Crescent Moon Port to the White Kingdom.

If we then head from the White Country to the North, the time spent will probably be reduced by half.

The dark-brown Marquis smiled on his gloomy face. It could be predicted that Crescent Moon Harbor would be a prosperous port. Unfortunately, he would definitely not be able to see it.

The permafrost environment in the north is much colder than that in the Frostmoon Kingdom.

Even with cotton lining, the armor still felt cold and even stuck to the skin.

After meeting with the commander-in-chief of the northern defense line, the Black and Brown Marquis rested for a night and then set off.

Now there is a mission that requires an experienced noble military commander to lead the operation.

It is not appropriate to call the Northern Frontier a line of defense.

This is a complex defense system composed of countless forts and fragmentary city walls.

Used to defend against orcs.

In the early morning, when the sun was just rising, the Black and Brown Marquis personally led the cavalry troops into the orc camp.

After destroying the siege equipment and slaughtering many people, they left.

"Bastards~" The black and brown Marquis laughed heartily. Only at this time could he forget the complicated affairs of the territory, the complex domestic politics, and the difficult family problems.

Back to his youth! When he was young, he came to the North and exchanged orcs' heads for glorious military exploits.

And now, he's here again.

The horses' hooves stepped on the frozen soil, raising gray dust.

Lance, sword, armor, all were stained with gurgling blood.

With the arrival of the militarily adept commander, Lord Black and Brown, the pressure on the North was reduced somewhat, and many of the orcs' plans were thwarted.

But overall, it is still difficult to stop the large-scale invasion of orcs.

The overall strength of the orcs is not as good as that of the Northern Alliance, otherwise they would not have been driven to the barren frozen land and could only occasionally go south to try to plunder.

But this time the orcs came out in full force, and also gained some power from Purgatory.

Become fearless, violent, and greatly increase in strength.

This is very troublesome for humans. If it weren't for the defense line built over the years, the Frostmoon Kingdom might have to suffer from the orc disaster by now.

Now most member states of the Northern Alliance have begun mobilizing for war, and large numbers of troops have been mobilized.

All I can say is that it is fortunate that the Southern Kingdom is now suffering from severe disasters caused by the Cult of the God of Struggle and the Undead, otherwise it would have been attacked from both sides.

Of course, the Northern Alliance is also short-sighted, believing that even if the defense line is breached, the orcs will not be able to attack their country.

This is the case with the Principality of Cuiying and the Kingdom of Zither. They are located in relatively remote areas of the Northern Alliance and only symbolically provided a small amount of supplies and soldiers for the defense line.

Generally speaking, even if the defense line was completely breached and the orcs marched straight in, it would be almost impossible for them to choose these two countries as targets of invasion.

After all, they are remote and very poor.

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During the time when the Black and Brown Marquis went north to resist the enemy, Rand was working hard to advance the construction of the territory.

In short, it is to pave the road with bricks and stones and then test the performance of the carriage.

Bricks have existed in this world for a long time, and the technical content of bricks is not high.

Many noble territories also have some brick buildings.

It seems unremarkable.

But Rand still believed that bricks were a groundbreaking invention.

Thatched huts and wooden houses cannot be built into a city because such a cluster of buildings can be easily destroyed by a fire.

Therefore, most of the towns in this world are made up of stone houses and brick and stone houses.

However, unless the building materials are carefully selected, such as high-quality marble, the buildings made of stone are neither warm nor soundproof, and are very easy to damage.

Moreover, stones were difficult to cut in that era, so it was actually very difficult to build stone houses.

But bricks are different. Bricks are mainly made of clay and their shape can be set before firing. After firing, they have many good architectural properties. For example, red bricks have good thermal insulation and sound insulation effects.

Green bricks are more wear-resistant and stronger.

The cost of firing bricks in this world is not low, the main reason being the waste of heat. It takes more than 900 degrees to fire red bricks, and over 1,000 degrees to fire green bricks.

Traditional earthen kilns for firing bricks are inefficient and very wasteful.

The technological breakthrough made by the hidden forces was to make some design changes to the traditional earthen kilns.

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If an earthen kiln is considered one door, then Rand has twenty brick kilns.

In short, it is a "wheel kiln".

The rotary kiln is a continuous production brick kiln.

During the production process of the rotary kiln, the flue gas produced can preheat the brick embryos in front. When a 20-door rotary kiln is in production, about 4 doors are burning, 7 doors are preheating, 5 doors are cooling, and the remaining 4 doors are producing bricks.

The flame will move between the kiln doors, thus achieving continuous production and making full use of waste heat.

This can significantly save energy consumption and greatly improve efficiency.

The cost will be reduced to a very low level.

Only at this level will brick and stone pavement be feasible. Otherwise, using the efficiency and cost of earthen kilns to build brick and stone pavement would be ridiculous and too expensive.

Once Rand has paved all the roads in his territory with bricks, he can also sell the bricks to the surrounding areas.

Even after the port is completed, Rand can make a lot of money from selling bricks.

This is dumping!

It would be funny if pirates robbed a merchant ship and found a ship full of bricks.

"How do you feel?" Rand asked the aunt of the Duke of Thorn, who was sitting in the carriage.

The other powerful men of the kingdom have already gone back. There seems to be a suitor of Aunt Grand Duke Thorn among the powerful men of the kingdom, but he is now married and has children.

Ellie smiled when she knew about this, which made the still single Duke Thorn's aunt and the former suitor a little depressed.

Duke Thorn's aunt is still here, saying that she needs to take care of her grandniece and supervise the construction of the port.

After all, the Thorn Family’s investment in the port is second only to that of the royal family.

Duke Thorn's aunt also invested a lot of her "personal property".

"It's quite stable." Duke Thorn's aunt Pin commented, "And it's easy to turn."

During this period, Duke Thorn's aunt repeatedly overturned her assessment of the speed of port construction.

I had originally thought that even with a huge investment, and even if a sea giant spent three days on construction in the early stages, it would still take five or eight years to build the port and shipyard to a usable level.

She did not believe what Landra boasted when he invested that it would be completed in about two years. She felt that this two years would take a long time.

Until she saw Rand paving the road here, and then experienced the stability and cargo capacity of the four-wheeled carriage.

Now she somewhat believed it.

Now she regrets that she didn't invest enough.

(End of this chapter)