The Lord of the Worlds of Civilization

Leaving aside the experiment, this day was the first official start of the steam train.

There were no ordinary passengers on this train. What was loaded in the carriage was a batch of supplies that were about to be sent to Gaoling City, and two infantry squads responsible for escorting the supplies.

To put it simply, it is for the public to see with their own eyes that there is no problem with this steam train.

After all, in addition to being used to transport soldiers to aid the border during wartime, it is certainly impossible to be idle all the time on weekdays. That would be a waste of resources, so the civilian use must also be carried out simultaneously.

There was no delay. After all the supplies that needed to be transported were moved into the carriage, the door was closed, and soon, with the sound of the whistle of "woo--", the steam engine started to run at high speed, driving the entire steam train to slow down. Move slowly.

The speed wasn't fast at first, but for people of this era, just seeing this 'black steel monster' move was enough to cause them to exclaim.

The onlookers, who were too excited and shocked, almost set off a wave of noise in the train station.

The steam train began to drive faster and faster, and gradually accelerated after completely leaving the train station.

Shovel after shovel of coal was quickly fed into the boiler, and the chimney on the locomotive began to spew billowing smoke.

This scene was so shocking that it was watched by countless people who couldn't squeeze into the train station at that time, so they ran to the outskirts of the city to watch.

At the same time, Xu Xiang, a reporter from the Clarion City newspaper who also failed to squeeze into the train station, took a picture of this scene outside the city by a blessing in disguise.

Unsurprisingly, this photo finally appeared on the headline of the current weekly newspaper, and ignited the heat from the 'steam train' at once!

In the next few days, since there was no war on the border, the steam train temporarily put into civilian use undoubtedly caused a wave of enthusiasm.

As soon as the ticket windows of Gaoling City and Bugle City opened, the train tickets for that day were sold out almost in a short period of time.

It is estimated that most of the people who bought tickets have nothing to do. They just want to take this so-called steam train to experience it, satisfy their curiosity, and increase their knowledge. Anyway, a train ticket of 50 yuan is not expensive.

This state lasted for about a week. After all the people who wanted to satisfy their curiosity had come and sat, the heat of the train station began to drop significantly.

Of course, this is limited to Gaoling City and Bugle City. The people in other cities are still screaming and discussing endlessly, always restless about what they can't get, and that's what they're talking about.

At the same time, after stabilizing, the heat starts to drop, which is also normal.

In the current era, steam trains will be used the most in the future. Apart from workers who go out to work and go home to visit relatives, there are only some businessmen who come out to discuss business.

However, Luo Ji was still satisfied with the situation. Things went smoothly. After receiving the latest report from the Western Territory, he seemed to be in a pretty good mood these two days.

And just one month after the steam train in the Western Territory was put into use, a middle-aged elf who looked not young came outside the city of Horn.

The name of this elf is Wei Lun. He is now 890 years old. Among the elves, he can be regarded as a middle-aged elf. He is in the west because of his work. An elf naturalist who is good at greening and improving the natural environment.

The desolation and barrenness of the western region is obvious to all. Those drunkards of the dwarves have no sense of protecting nature at all, which is why the western region is in such a mess.

And it was precisely to improve the environment in the western region that Luo Ji specially dispatched a team of elf naturalists here.

This time, Wei Lun came here, no doubt for the purpose of inspection, and only after confirming the situation first, can he continue with his follow-up work.

However, it is a coincidence that at this time, the steam train just passed by the distant railroad tracks quickly, and the billowing smoke from the chimney of the train made the steam train look like lying on the railroad tracks Wei Lun frowned unconsciously like a monster on the ground.

Naturally, Wei Lun knew about the existence of steam trains.

In the past few months, each issue of the newspaper has sold at least tens of millions of copies. Unless he is isolated from the world, it is impossible not to know.

However, the not-so-clear black-and-white photo in the newspaper is obviously different from seeing it with your own eyes.

At this moment, looking at the steam train speeding past billowing in thick smoke, Wei Lun's eyes flashed a hint of thought.

In the next few days, Wei Lun, who has always been very responsible, unexpectedly handed over the inspection work to several subordinates who accompanied him, while he ran to the train station and the train tracks outside the city for several days in a row, as if I want to confirm something.

Immediately after a month passed, an unexpected situation happened. On the southern border, the railway and railway station project that was being constructed was met with strong protests from a large number of elves. The entire project was abruptly interrupted. People from the team arrived one after another, but they failed to stop the situation.

In this way, an urgent report was sent all the way to Mirror City as quickly as possible.

Looking at the report in his hand, Luo Ji, who was sitting in the political hall, suddenly had a cloudy expression on his face.

Luo Ji obviously didn't expect this kind of thing to happen.

A group of elven naturalists headed by Wei Lun jointly launched a protest. They believed that the thick smoke from the steam train would obviously pollute the natural environment of their elven forest, so they protested against the project in the southern border.

At the same time, this approach quickly gained the support of a large number of elves, and then there was the current situation.

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Chapter 1114, winking

Putting down the report in his hand, Luo Ji couldn't help rubbing the space between his brows vigorously.

His eyes swept over the left and right sides beside him, Wang Kai and Serilia happened to be on duty today.

"Serilia."

After hearing her name being called, Serilia, who was standing on one side and wearing a black military uniform, immediately asked respectfully...

"What's your majesty's order?"

"Look at this."

While speaking, Luo Ji handed over the document directly.

Cerelia's loyalty to him reached more than [-] points, so he was obviously trustworthy, so Luo Ji didn't have too many worries about this kind of thing.

Serilia, who received the document report, looked at it seriously.

When she looked at it for about halfway, a subtle wrinkle appeared between her brows.

"Serilia, as an elf, what do you think about this matter? I want to hear your thoughts."

Out of loyalty to Luo Ji, Serilia couldn't lie at this time. After a few seconds of silence, she finally spoke out all the thoughts in her heart...

"Reporting to Your Majesty, according to the problem mentioned by the elf naturalist Mr. Willon in this report, if the steam train is running, the thick smoke that spews out will indeed obviously affect the air quality of the elf forest and the entire nature. environment, then the elves probably won’t accept it.”

"Is that so?"

After receiving this answer, Luo Ji obviously felt a headache.

He was really negligent about this matter, and at the same time, he didn't expect the elves' reaction to be so violent.

It has been said before that the way of survival of the elves is to coexist with nature. Without deforestation, they allow proper felling of trees to obtain wood, and at the same time accept hunting.

However, the impact level of the steam train, a large vehicle, on the natural environment is obviously beyond their acceptable range, which led to this wave of rebound.

It was entirely conceivable that if Luo Ji wanted to forcibly carry out the railway project, it would definitely cause dissatisfaction among the elves, and it might even lead to a decline in the livability of the entire elves province.

But this project is extremely important, and it is obviously impossible to just shelve it.

At the same time, it is not just this project, the subsequent industrial age will bring similar impacts.

It is no exaggeration to say that in the entire industrial age, a large amount of exhaust gas and industrial pollution are huge. If you want to avoid this, unless you enter the electrical age.

But this is easy to say, how can it be so easy to do?

In any case, time is precious, and the current project must continue, so Luo Ji gave the order again rather simply...

"Don't worry about the elf province, and give priority to laying railways on the other sides."

With the issuance of this order, the construction of the elf province was officially suspended, and the protesting elf people had nothing to do, and life was temporarily stable.

However, this issue really made Luo Ji worry.

Of course, from a good point of view, even if there is no steam train on the side of the elves, they still have giant eagle knights, and even fairy dragons are there. The support efficiency of these flying units is faster than that of steam trains. It is true that there is no need to worry.

But it can't go on like this forever, you have to figure out a way.

This thing is really a headache...

Compared with this period of time, Luo Ji and Gao Wen, who had a headache because of the things in the Elven Province, lived a very comfortable life.

No, Luo Ji was sent another new gadget that he fiddled with, a pendulum clock.

Clocks are precision gadgets, and they couldn't be made when the technology was not enough.

However, the development of his Myriad Realms civilization has advanced by leaps and bounds in the past few years, coupled with the technical power of goblin technology, it is not difficult.

Compared with the cameras that didn't sell well before, the sales of pendulum clocks are pretty good. After all, this is a practical object, and the price ranges from high to low, so it is loved by many people.

At the same time, on the other side, the Ordnance Research Department, due to technological breakthroughs, they have also come up with new results quite quickly this year.

Holding the new-style rifle in his hand, Luo Ji's depressed mood during this period of time suddenly eased a lot.

The biggest breakthrough of this new type of rifle lies in two points.

The first point is that the loading method of the bullets has been improved to the "rear loading type". This change can be said to have greatly improved the loading efficiency and increased the attack frequency of the riflemen in a disguised form.

The second point is the increase in range. After thousands of shooting tests, the range of this new rifle has basically stabilized between 280 meters and 300 meters.

Leaving aside the cost issue that has been worrying Luo Ji all this time, as long as the troops of the Myriad Worlds Civilization are equipped with such breech-loading rifles on a large scale, then the Human Race's archer troops can basically be eliminated.

Of course, the elf archers still have a clear advantage.

After all, they have the powerful weapon of 'Magic Arrow'.

With ultra-long range and penetrating power, it is like a sniper rifle.

With range-type lethality, a bursting arrow that can immediately show explosive destructive power when it hits the target.

As well as the lightning bolt with special effects, according to Luo Ji's prediction, the lightning bolt may have the same effect as the sky against the large-scale weapons of the technology department...

With the improvement of the level of the unit item and the gradual unlocking of branch items, the combat effectiveness of the elf archer continues to increase.

Coupled with magic arrows with different effects and attributes, they can deal with different situations.

It can only be said that it is a civilization with a magical color. Even if the technology is backward, the blessing brought by the magic power alone is enough for them to rival those technological civilizations.

Now let’s get back to the topic, in the shooting range of the Ordnance Research Department, the sound of the gunshots of the new rifles was constantly echoing. During this period, Luo Ji naturally couldn’t help going up there to have a good time.

Hu Che, who was accompanying him as an escort this time, lightly bumped into Cerelia who was standing aside, and then winked at Cerelia for a while.

In this regard, Serilia naturally knew what this reckless man meant, and then, she only heard her say indifferently...

"If anyone dares to fight me with that thing, I can sieve him out of range before he puts a bullet in the barrel."

These words came out of Cerelia's mouth with an inexplicable force of conviction.

And Luo Ji, who also heard this, also smiled, and didn't say anything more. After all, he is also good at archery, so he knew that what Cerelia said was true.

Even if it is improved to a breech-loading rifle, the attack efficiency is still a little bit lower.

However, the advantage of firearms has always been easy to use, but bows and arrows require technology. Bows and arrows are undoubtedly powerful weapons in the hands of Brigud and Cerelia, but ordinary human soldiers The strength is often not up to that level.

Therefore, as the equipment of the army, 'easy to use' is very important, and firearms obviously surpass bows and arrows in terms of 'easy to use'.

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Chapter 1115, Brand New Arms

The new type of rear-loading rifle soon appeared on the production list of the ordnance factory.

At the same time, the continuous breakthroughs and successes in the field of ordnance research led Luo Ji to take advantage of the opportunity to take out the design drawings of the special weapon of the dwarf civilization, the 'Eight-barreled Flame Dragon Cannon'.

There is no doubt that this is the next big project of the Ordnance Research Department.

Although the eight-barreled Flame Dragon Cannon hadn't been manufactured yet, Luo Ji had basically decided in his heart that this was definitely a trump card of the trump card!

He ordered one thing after another quickly, not thinking about the troubles in the elf province, and the efficient development speed made Luo Ji feel happy recently.

Afterwards, with the completion of the production of the first batch of breech-loading rifles, when considering which unit to equip the first batch of breech-loading rifles with, Luo Ji, who was extremely troubled, suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and a new idea came to his mind. idea.

"By the way, it seems that a document was sent up earlier..."

After flipping through for a while, Luo Ji, who found the document, raised his mouth slightly.

"Have it!"

----split line----

On the outskirts of the woodland outside Mingjing City, surrounded by a group of guards, Luo Ji stood there leisurely, with a relaxed and comfortable appearance, as if he was out for an outing.

However, compared to the relaxed and relaxed Luo Ji, the demeanor of the guards was much more serious.

At this moment, an angry roar came from the forest in the distance!

"coming."

Hearing this voice, Luo Ji showed a playful look on his face.

Then, I saw a huge beast rushing out of the woodland!

Luo Ji unhurriedly raised the binoculars and looked into the distance.

The size of that ferocious beast is extremely huge, even compared with an elephant, it is not inferior.

But from the shape point of view, it is similar to a bear, but the whole body is covered with khaki horny scales, and each of them is as sharp as spikes.