Lord: Taken away from inheritance at the beginning.

Swamp Town, which was once the territory of Baron Rayson Sean, began to transform after it came into the hands of Ronin.

With a dense population, a newly built long street, and a bustling market, after several years of development, Swamp Town has completely lost its original appearance as a small town that relied solely on black buffalo for survival.

The development of the swamps, the construction of new water conservancy projects, the mining of coal, and the railway construction project that started at the beginning of the year not only brought a huge population to the people of Wubei Territory, but also attracted people from surrounding cities such as Muma City and Green Territory to come and work.

The gathering of people has naturally driven the development of business, and even the catering industry has taken shape.

During this period, the people of Swamp Town benefited greatly. They earned more money than they had ever dared to imagine. Most of them no longer had to worry about food and clothing, and they dared to buy some private property such as hoes, pigs and sheep.

In fact, not only Swamp Town, but also Shanlin Town, Sanfang Town, and Black Soil Town have their own industries, which also bring good employment and wealth to the local residents.

It is also because of this that Roning, who has not appeared in public in front of his subjects for a long time, has been able to gain such a high reputation.

After all, the people in the territory can live the life they have today thanks to the lord.

At this time, in the woods thirty miles away from the coal base, a newly laid track went straight through the woods and led to the distance. It was equipped with rails, sleepers, gravel roadbed, etc.

Further away, Carlos's huge figure overwhelmed a large area of ​​trees. He was controlling the ultra-high temperature flame to weld the rails.

With its current mental strength and magic power, it can operate and weld multiple rails at the same time, which is quite efficient.

In fact, when steam locomotives first appeared, there was no welding technology. The rails at that time used riveting technology, which was slightly inferior to Carlos-style welding.

"Duke, we officially started laying the railway in April. Now, more than four months have passed, and the total length of the railway is about thirty miles."

Simon, the chief mechanical engineer, was holding a blueprint and explaining the situation to Roning. "We are roughly here now, and it's still a few miles away from Black Soil Town."

Roning took the route map. This was the route that Simon and his recruited assistants spent two months surveying. It went directly from the coal base in Swamp Town to the vicinity of Wubei Port, passing through Black Soil Town along the way.

At the beginning, at Luo Ning's suggestion, the route deviated slightly to the west and formed an arc.

This was done so that a station could be built near Heitu Town and Sanfang Town in the future to facilitate the transportation of grain, ceramics and fabrics to these two places.

"It's a bit slow!" said Luo Ning.

Simon was as if he was facing a formidable enemy. "Duke, our speed is not slow! After all, we are starting from scratch and have no reference. It is very good that we can build these 30 miles in more than four months!"

Luo Ning pretended not to hear it and said, "The entire route is over a hundred miles long. Can the speed of laying the route be increased?"

He put down the blueprint and looked at Simon: "Blanche will give birth soon. Many nobles will come to congratulate me, and I will take this opportunity to show them your achievements. I believe that someone will be interested in this big guy in the future, and the railway will go beyond Wubei Territory."

Roning couldn't guarantee whether other nobles would build railways, but at least there would be a railway leading to the large iron mine in Wushan City.

It took a year to lay the more than 100-li railway in Wubei. How long would it take to lay the hundreds of miles from Wubei to Wushan City?

That's why Roning said the speed was a bit slow.

"During these four months, the workers have gradually become familiar with the operation process, and they have mastered many details through my hammering. I have also trained several foremen, and the paving speed should be able to be improved in the future."

Simon obviously had no dealings with the boss, so he spoke very honestly.

"Okay, then let's speed up and try to complete the rest of the road before next year's spring plowing!" Luo Ning said.

Simon felt the pressure. "It's hard to operate in the winter with heavy snow. I don't mind, but these workers..."

"Then increase the salary investment and provide them with working conditions."

Luo Ning said: "The snow is not a problem. We just need to let Carlos melt it. The speed of infrastructure construction needs to be increased."

"But Duke, there is one thing I must tell you in advance. We only have one Carlos. He can help with the welding of the railway in Wubei Territory, but he won't be able to handle the hundreds of miles of railway lines behind."

This sentence made Roning frown.

After a long pause, he said, "We have also designed a riveting method, so we will use it for now. In addition, we should slow down the speed of the steam train and control the load to reduce the vibration and impact caused by the train's running."

"I'll go back to Bellora and Sophia to see if they can design a portable magic welding gun suitable for ordinary people to use."

You can't build a big fat man in one bite. Without welding technology, connecting the rails is indeed a problem.

Although Luo Ning knew that thermite reaction could create extremely high temperatures to achieve the purpose of welding, he did not yet have the ability to make aluminum powder.

As for gas welding, electric welding, etc., the reasons are similar.

Therefore, he could only turn his attention to magical power.

Until a solution is found, we can only use riveting to get by.

As the two were talking, the ground was shaking, and clanging sounds came from afar through the woods.

Luo Ning couldn't help but look over, and saw a steam locomotive pulling two carriages and a locomotive at the rear approaching slowly.

beep~

The sound of the whistle made Roning feel as if he had returned to Earth. This scene brought him a huge shock and also gave him a sense of accomplishment.

laugh!

Steam was spraying, and the speed of the train was slowly decreasing. It stopped not far from Dironin and Simon. A young man jumped down from the train, rubbing his hands with an excited look on his face.

He was clearly proud and excited to be driving this big thing.

The young man's name was Seton. He was smart and intelligent, and he learned new knowledge very quickly, so he was chosen by Simon.

Born as a freeman, Sidon came from Wushan City, hoping to make a name for himself here. Now he has made a very good start.

Trains are something that even nobles have never touched, and he actually became a driver. I'm afraid many people will be envious and jealous when they know about this.

Therefore, Seton cherishes his current job very much and wipes the wheels several times himself after get off work.

"Your Excellency the Duke, Chief Engineer Simon!"

Sidon trotted over, bowed, and then reported: "This is my third test run. I didn't encounter any problems from the coal base to here!"

"Well done Sidon!"

While praising him, Simon said to Roning, "We will increase the load and the number of carriages and run a few more trips. We can absolutely guarantee that there will be no problems!"

Luo Ning laughed, "Thank you for your hard work!"

He wanted to show the "important weapon" of Wubei Territory to the nobles from all over the place, so naturally he had to make sure it was foolproof.

If something fails or goes wrong on the spot, it would be quite embarrassing.

Time passed quickly, and it was September 20th in a blink of an eye. Blanche had already gone into labor, a few days later than her due date.

Because of this, many nobles and retainers have arrived in Swamp Town, waiting for the birth of new life.