Chapter 232 232. Intelligence
"Should I laugh at your stupidity or thank you for your great merits?"
Cameron, the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Dongqi, looked up at the starry sky and whispered to himself.
After resolving the food crisis, the kingdom's political situation will be more stable, thus unleashing greater potential and the population will grow accordingly.
Under these circumstances, the population will double every fifteen years.
For a country, besides food, the most important thing is steel technology. A rare type of coal that can melt steel, coke, appeared in the Principality of Sheen.
Intelligence personnel have already obtained a small amount of samples from the caravan.
Cameron carefully opened the silk cloth and took a small piece of coal. He placed it in his palm and felt a dry and transparent feeling.
In the afternoon, all the mining experts in the capital came to the conference room of the Prime Minister's Office.
"Show me this kind of mineral. Anyone who can provide specific clues will be rewarded with the mining rights of the mine." Cameron said loudly while sitting in the main seat.
The coal fragments on the cloth were passed down in order from near to far.
Everyone was frowning in thought, and the scene was so quiet that only the sound of breathing could be heard.
One of the wrinkled old ladies said, "This is probably not a natural mineral. It's highly unlikely that a natural mineral would be so dry even if it is buried deep underground."
"Yes, Lord Gula is right." A bearded dwarf agreed.
"It looks like the coal has been processed to remove water. We can ask a spellcaster to try to remove the water from the coal." Someone suggested.
Cameron nodded slightly, clapped his hands, and the attendants withdrew.
After a moment, a senior spellcaster slowly walked into the hall.
"Master Pu'er, thank you for your help."
"no problem."
The caster's voice was hoarse, and she placed her skinny, chicken-claw-like palm on a piece of prepared fine coal.
This piece of black coal continuously emitted a large amount of moisture and soon became as dry as coke, or even drier.
Everyone present carefully compared the two.
"It seems, still a little different." The dwarf whispered.
"Indeed, it shouldn't be that simple. Someone must have tried to remove water from coal in the past, but iron cannot be melted by the dehydrated coal." Gula's voice gradually became lower.
"You can try it first." Cameron sighed softly.
Now he can only hope that the people of the kingdom's intelligence organization can bring more clues.
The increasingly prosperous Donggang City.
More and more new vehicles are driving on the wide roads.
The first round of town transformation has been basically completed.
The mud buildings have completely disappeared, replaced by beautiful red brick houses. Only a few wooden houses remain, presenting a unique urban style.
A newly opened shop located on the road near the sea.
This is a clothing store that attracts customers by claiming that its products are purely handmade.
On the glass cabinet at the door, various gorgeous clothes are displayed in order. Whenever someone passes by, their eyes will stop involuntarily.
The clothes in this store are very good, but too expensive. After all, they are handmade products, not cookie-cutter assembly line products, so the labor cost cannot be suppressed.
The material costs also use a variety of rare high-end fabrics and dyes, so the pricing is naturally close to luxury goods.
As the factory assembly line model prevails, more and more tailors are out of work. Only the top fashion designers who can grasp the fashion trends can survive.
Baosha, with her unique sense of color matching and fashion, became a contracted tailor for Fulin Castle and the lord's personal clothing designer.
After receiving a generous reward, she bought her own shop near the sea and named it Guiren Pavilion.
However, people do not know her other identity.
A member of the intelligence department of the Kingdom of Dongqi.
Her three-story building is often visited by people. This is normal, after all, it is a shop that accepts all kinds of clothing customization.
The woman, dressed as a salt worker, walked into the shop with her head down.
"Is the boss here?"
"The boss went to the second floor to rest."
The clerk who was talking was a girl in her early teens with orange hair and a few freckles on her face. She cherished her hard-earned job and showed a warm smile to everyone.
"I'll go up to her."
The salt worker greeted him and walked up the side stairs.
The girl was not curious. Every day, all kinds of people came to the boss to order custom clothes. All she had to do was to guard the first floor and show the interested customers the boss's works.
About a quarter of an hour later, the salt worker hurried downstairs and left.
Upstairs, Baosha looked at the paper in her hand with a heavy face. On it was written the complete process of drying salt.
This is more important to the kingdom than a mountain of gold!
"This is the second technology. With this, the people of the kingdom will no longer lack salt. With salt, people will have the strength to work."
Baosha muttered to herself as she skillfully sewed the note into her clothes and let out a long sigh.
She knew that this was just the outermost technique.
There are no confidentiality measures in place in East Point City.
Only by living here can you know how advanced the technology here is. It is far ahead of other countries in the East Continent.
While the countries in the East Continent were still worrying about food and clothing, Fulin Castle had already completely solved key livelihood issues such as food and salt.
A large number of outsiders can be seen entering the city every day.
Baosha stood quietly by the window, and there was a noisy sound coming from the road below her feet.
The travelers followed the caravan, carrying their packages and bowing. The team was like a long snake, with at least more than a hundred people.
I heard that Donggang City is making a big move again.
After last year's glass-covered houses and greenhouses, this year it is popular to pave roads with steel.
Starting from the port, the first phase is expected to lay steel tracks to Hunter Town. About 20,000 people are engaged in this work.
"What a waste! If these high-quality steels were forged into weapons, they could arm hundreds of thousands of people."
This is what Baosha thought when she saw the railway tracks for the first time. She could not accept a countship, which was even richer than a kingdom.
Even the most foolish noble in the kingdom would not think of laying such a track.
This indirectly shows that the resources controlled by Fulin Castle are far beyond their capabilities.
What is this track used for? Various questions kept popping up in her mind.
Compared to these confusing things, the new weapons of the Fulinbao soldiers can be said to be a hot topic of concern to all parties.
Firearms have been on the scene for over a year now.
At first, everyone was skeptical about the actual combat capability of this weapon. However, after hunting again and again, the performance of this weapon was thoroughly confirmed.
(End of this chapter)
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