Infrastructure Throne

The winter rain had just stopped, and the sun had penetrated through the dissipated mist, and the City Lord's Mansion, which was bathed in the morning light, was gradually waking up.

Early in the morning, Shen Qingze sat at the long nanmu dining table, with a bowl of meat porridge, a baked potato cake sprinkled with pepper, and a glass of milk in front of him.

He picked up the cup and blew on the hot air. While having breakfast, he listened to Jin Da's report on the progress of various projects.

A few days ago, Jin Da bought a large number of sheep from the shepherd orcs in exchange for salt, potatoes and some daily irons, and transported them back to the city by water, and the sheep farm immediately became busy.

That piece of natural pasture is enough to supply the rations of the sheep. In the future, the scale of the sheep breeding will be expanded, and supplemented with green fodder such as beets and hay, it is more than enough to support the sheep.

The mutton and goat milk produced by the sheep farm are used for local consumption, and the wool is sent to the textile factory to be woven into sweaters and blankets, and sold on the market in winter. The supply is in short supply almost every day.

Since the water-turning spinning wheel came into being, the price of linen and linen clothes in the market has dropped to the lowest point in history. The poor who cannot afford woolen clothes can buy a few more cheap linen clothes and survive the winter.

On the contrary, traders from neighboring cities expressed their protest. They wanted to make a fortune in the cold Abyss City by transporting the cloth from the neighboring town, but unexpectedly, all of them were unsalable due to the unbelievable local prices, and none of them could be sold. .

What made them feel even more strange was that the nobles who used to reach out for a fortune in everything were quiet as chickens this time, watching the huge profits go into the pockets of the textile factory.

The textile mills quickly responded to the protests of the merchants from other places. They sold the backlog of cloth in the factory to these merchants at a preferential wholesale price, and asked them to act as distributors and take them to other cities for sale.

The textile factory can make money, save the transportation costs and risks on the road, and most importantly, it can also rely on the channels of these foreign businessmen to make a name for the cloth in Yuanliu City, killing three birds with one stone.

Speaking of this, Jin Da couldn't help laughing a few times: "My lord, do you think the small towns around us will envy our textile factories in the future? Those spinning hemp workshops are afraid that they will hate us to death, and maybe they will imitate us. spinning wheel."

Shen Qingze put down his cup, scooped up a small spoonful of rice porridge, shook his head and said, "From next year, cotton and mulberry trees will be planted on a large scale in the suburban fields, and by that time, we will switch to weaving cotton and silk, and we can't afford linen." How soon will it be replaced."

"As long as we always walk ahead of others, we are not afraid of being imitated."

Shen Qingze put down the spoon and asked, "How is Sierra doing in the alchemy laboratory?"

Jin Da scratched his head: "It's not clear, he seems to be locked up in the laboratory with a few apprentices, and people around him heard big movements inside, and they don't know what happened."

The system is not a nanny-style encyclopedia. Most of the blueprints given are the most basic. The rest of the technology tree needs to be explored and improved by the players themselves.

Since the paper mill has not yet produced results, the opening of the school can only be postponed.

Shen Qingze read through a few textbooks on basic subjects, and sure enough, he only has an elementary school education level. If he wants to go further into basic physics, chemistry, and biology in junior high school, he may have to upgrade the main city to the third level, and spend a lot of gold coins on it. , upgrade the school.

At least at this stage, the periodic table is hopeless.

Thinking of this, Shen Qingze raised his eyebrows: "Go get ready, we're going to the alchemy room today."

"I'll go with you too."

A lazy voice suddenly came from behind, Shen Qingze turned around, it was indeed Yan Zui.

He was wearing a black fox fur coat today, with a fluffy gray woolen sweater inside, and a snow-white rabbit fur scarf wrapped around his neck.

At the gate of the City Lord's Mansion, Jin Da led two horses, one red and one black.

Yan Zui turned over and stepped on the back of the fiery horse, his handsome face was stiffened by the cold wind, the exposed skin was as white as frost and snow, he could only shrink his neck and look pitifully at Shen Qingze.

Shen Qingze suppressed a little smile: "The City Lord is so afraid of the cold, why do you still have to follow?"

Yan Zui said slowly: "As the lord of the city, I have an obligation to understand your work progress."

Shen Qingze made a gesture of letting go, turned around to lead his horse, suddenly his waist tightened, and he didn't need to lower his head to know that the whip was rolled over again.

He turned back helplessly: "What orders does the Lord City Master have?"

Yan Zui blinked her curled eyelashes, and said with an upright delicacy, "I'm cold."

Shen Qingze: "..."

The mysterious favorability of the new stage... is simply overwhelming.

Shen Qingze was completely defeated by the other party's enthusiastic gaze, so she had no choice but to silently climb onto the back of the raging fire.

Yan Zui seemed to be nestled in his own high-backed chair, leaning on his chest as a matter of course, with fur on his body, Shen Qingze embraced him, as if hugging a large plush doll.

Not to mention, it's quite warm.

"Drive." Shen Qingze took the reins from the other party, no longer thinking about anything else, the fire carried the two of them trot forward, and after a while, they threw Jin Da and Fan Mizhou behind them by a large distance .

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The alchemy laboratory is located in a wasteland near the smelter on the outskirts of the city. If something goes wrong in the dangerous experiment, it will not cause too much loss.

When they arrived, Sera came out to greet her after hearing the news. Her clothes were disheveled, her hair was disheveled, her eye bags were black and blue as if she had been beaten, and she exuded a strange smell mixed with soot and sulfur, as if she had been living for several days and nights. It's like it hasn't been washed.

Instead, she stared at Shen Qingze's eyes, which were astonishingly bright.

After the completion of the alchemy laboratory, Shen Qingze ordered someone to make a copy of the primary school natural science textbook, added some basic physical and chemical knowledge at the back, and handed it to Sierra.

After that, Sierra shut herself in the lab until now.

"Master Priest!" Sho Jin forgot to even salute, rushed up and grabbed Shen Qingze's sleeve.

"Who wrote your book? It's unbelievable! Especially the appendix at the end, it says that everything in the world is conserved, but sometimes it becomes a form that we can't see. Is this true? "

"Even the air we breathe contains many gases of different composition...I've tried it! Some can make a candle burn, and some can make a candle go out! It's amazing!"

Sera, who opened the door to the new world, spoke in confusion and was extremely excited. With eyes thirsty for knowledge, she almost put her nose on Shen Qingze's face.

"My lord! This book is obviously not finished, what about the follow-up? Where did you hide the follow-up?"

I also want to know what's next...

Shen Qingze said with an inscrutable expression on his face: "Well, knowledge is developed step by step. After you have studied this part thoroughly, I will show you the following content."

Sera did not suspect him, and looked at Shen Qingze with fanatical admiration: "Sir, according to the idea you provided, I extracted the potassium nitrate you mentioned from saltpeter, and they are as white as snow."

"I only used a small amount, mixed with charcoal and sulfur, just a little spark, it can burn violently, put them in a small clay pot, and it really exploded!"

"It's just that the current power is not too great. At most, it can only kill rabbits."

Shen Qingze pursed her lips, but did not speak.

In this era of cold weapons, no matter how sharp the steel weapons he smelted were, the gap with iron weapons could not be widened too far, but with gunpowder, everything would be different.

Right now, it is just a small step, but it is the most important step from scratch.

At least, Shen Qingze would never use gunpowder to set off fireworks.

Yan Zui coughed unintentionally, crossed his arms, put his right foot on the heel, and slapped the ground unhurriedly with his black military boots.

Sera was terrified by the castellan's gloomy eyes, and quickly let go, retreated a foot away, and then greeted the two of them into the room with a sneer.