Lord of Industrialization

A war is about to start, and it will be a big one. The entire Duchy of Wessen is once again in high gear.

The 1st and 3rd divisions are about to go out, and two of the three mobile forces are gone, making the military situation of the Duchy of Wessen suddenly worse.

This "bad" is what the Wessen Army Command thinks, but none of the neighbors around think so.

As soon as Frederick returned to Wessenburg, the neighbor's messenger immediately broke through the door, saying that he would not take advantage of this opportunity to have unreasonable thoughts, because those who had such thoughts and actions had already sweated on the railway construction site.

The office building of the headquarters was brightly lit for several consecutive nights. The troop mobilization, material allocation, and action plan were issued one by one from here, and then various feedbacks were received.

Frederick stayed in the sandbox room for three days, listening to Franz Jr. and Eugene on the military operations in the direction of Hammer City and the action plan to reinforce the Kingdom of Tarago.

A few days later, Army Commander Franz Jr., Chief of the General Staff Helmut, 1st Division Commander Heinz, 2nd Division Commander Bernd, 3rd Division Commander Eugene, Guard Cavalry Regiment Commander Jurgen and other high-ranking officers, as well as Sword Saint Richardnar, Dennis, Branimir and Dixon gathered in the conference room to hold a top meeting before the operation.

Frederick ordered:

1. Franz the Younger, with the headquarters, the 1st Division, the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, the 1st Magic Regiment and Richardnar, went to the Hammar front;

2. Eugene, with the 3rd Division, the 3rd Cavalry Regiment, the 2nd Magic Regiment, the Air Force Experimental Brigade, and Dennis and Dixon, went to the western defense line of the Kingdom of Tarago in the name of "Brother Germain's Order of St. Elizabeth" to assist in defending against pagans;

3. The 2nd Division and Branimir moved to the eastern state of Putz bordering the Bohemian region;

4. The 4th Division was formed, and Jurgen, the former commander of the Guards Cavalry Regiment, was appointed as the division commander. The officers were graduates of this year's military academy, and the soldiers were selected from the city defense army and the border defense army, and veterans who had retired within five years were recruited.

5. Establish the Internal Security Command to unify the management of the city defense army and the border defense army, and Stefan, the Minister of Logistics, will serve concurrently;

6. Formally establish the navy, appoint Alfred, the former first mate of the Flying Tulip, as the deputy commander to preside over daily work;

7. Appoint Gad, the former commander of the mage force, as the deputy commander of the air force to preside over daily work;

8. Master Psyche will be the general reserve and will not move.

Military orders were quickly issued layer by layer, and Psyche was qualified to read all the decrees of the Duchy of Wessen. After reading the last one, she took a brown glass bottle to find Frederick.

"You are using me to make a joke. Believe it or not, I will pour this bottle of wine into your nostrils."

Seeing her aggressive look, she looked like she would fight if she disagreed with him.

Frederick stopped writing the plan for the mining of iron ore in Grouse Forest and the plan for occupying the island with coal mines in the hometown of Gray Crow, and stood up to make tea and pour water for her, and then picked up the bottle to study.

"Iodine?" Considering the tasks he had arranged before, he quickly guessed what the brown liquid in the bottle was.

Psyche drank tea and said, "There are not many problems in extracting iodine from kelp. Alchemists used a method you don't know, using chlorine to replace iodine."

"There were some problems when doing disinfection experiments. We need to increase the concentration to more than 5% to start to achieve the expected effect."

Frederick sighed, "The microorganisms in this world are really tenacious. Fortunately, I am a soul. If I were a body, I would probably be killed by them."

He then asked the most concerned question: "Can it be mass-produced now?"

There are wars everywhere now, and there are many injured people in factories. There is also animal husbandry, and iodine tincture can be used in many places.

Psyche put down the teacup, shrugged and said, "There are not so many kelp and seaweed."

1 kg of dried kelp generally contains 2 to 3 grams of iodine, and 5% iodine tincture contains 5 grams of iodine in 1 liter. The 500 ml bottle of iodine tincture in front of Frederick requires 1 kg of dried kelp, which has 6 to 8 pieces, which is a big bag.

To meet such a large market, you need a mountain of kelp.

There are only mountains in the Principality of Wessen, but no sea for growing kelp.

Frederick narrowed his eyes slightly and asked Psyche with a smile: "You are behind the United Fruit Company, right?"

The climate environment in the southern coast of the Inland Sea is quite suitable for growing kelp and producing potatoes for alcohol, which can be used as an important production base for iodine.

Psyche gathered her long brown hair by her ears with her hands, and looked at the ceiling with her equally brown eyes, deliberately saying nonchalantly: "Oh, I don't have time to take care of this."

If this matter only involves ordinary businessmen, it's fine, but this time Frederick's fiancée and his regular lovers are involved, so don't express your opinion easily before you know what he thinks about this matter.

Frederick picked up the teacup and said, "I found the purple mushrooms you've been looking for in the north this time. They are delicious and can be stewed in soup. I also want to say that I'm going to give them to thank you for teaching her how to do big business."

Psyche felt that he was trying to trick her, so she didn't answer. Instead, she continued what the north said and asked, "I saved a child when I went to the north before and gave her to a friend of mine to raise. I wonder if you have met her."

Frederick put down the teacup, calmed down, sighed deeply, and then roughly told the story of the gray crow.

"Absorbing the vitality of fresh blood to maintain youth?!" Psyche's face showed a rare expression of extreme surprise, "This is not the magic of this world!"

"My mother left me with this kind of magic in my memory."

"In the last world I went to, my apprentice's father also used a spell with this effect."

"The energy systems of those two worlds are similar in terms of souls. In essence, they both absorb the soul energy of others through blood as a medium to strengthen their own souls, but they are very different from the energy system of this world."

"Someone in this world has tried this before, but they all failed without exception."

"I guess she is more likely to be bluffing."

Frederick looked as if he had suddenly realized something. He guessed in his heart that Psyche's words might be right, or she might be afraid that he would go astray in the future in pursuit of immortality. As for how, only she knew.

He didn't dwell on it anymore. Now he lived day by day and earned money day by day, enjoying life to the fullest, so as not to die young like a colleague in his previous life who won the lottery one foot and died young due to an accident the next.

Frederick asked about the other two studies: "How are the glucose and photography going?"

Psyche asked him: "Neither of them has good news, which one do you want to hear first?"

Frederick said: "Hear the worst news first."

Psyche slowly took a sip of tea to whet his appetite, but when he didn't respond, she said: "The celluloid originally planned to make film failed. There is no camphor here, so it has to be imported from Taohuashi, and the cost is ridiculously high."

"The film made by Slime can't be folded properly, and the negatives can only be cards."

"The problem is that we can't make qualified fixers now, and it will take some time."

Frederick nodded and said: "This matter is not simple, and our standards are high. It is normal to encounter difficulties."

"How is the glucose?"

Psyche said: "Anyway, we have obtained some products by hydrolyzing starch by acidification. There should be a lot of glucose in it. Whether there are other impurities cannot be detected at present. "

"Anyway, the piglets were injected for ten consecutive days without feeding. The piglets did not die, but they looked a little uncomfortable."

"No problem was found when feeding the piglets. No abnormality was found."

After she finished speaking, she drank some tea and continued to talk about several recent key projects: "The biggest achievement recently is the preliminary establishment of a pH measurement system using a variety of plant reagents. Before that, no piglets injected with glucose solution could survive for five days."

"The electrolytic aluminum project has been successful in the laboratory, but there are no large-scale bauxite mines in your sphere of influence. You have to go to the southern continent to dig. I have seen it there before."

"A group of guys almost got the Weissenburg city government to agree to let them use chlorine to kill rats in the sewers. I scolded them before, and you can scold them again. It's tiring."