The road to national restoration that began at the end of the century

Zelen: "But I heard you say before that the corpse swallowed by the black smoke of necromancy magic, together with the equipment on the corpse, will be refined into various undead soldiers. For example, someone wearing heavy armor After a warrior is killed in battle, his body will be interfered with by the power of necromantic magic, and the flesh and blood will be refined into pure energy, which will drive the skeleton warrior to stand up again with only a skeleton left. "

Vivian: "That's right. I told you this in class back then, but you also know that our country's science and technology have developed by leaps and bounds, and the number of our shamans is small. Therefore, as early as your grandfather In that era, we shamans did not have much development, and most of the time they appeared in the army as medical soldiers. "

Zelen: "Well..."

Vivian: "However, you have a good idea. Obtaining guns and ammunition by killing enemies is of great significance to our country's military logistics. However, Zelen, do you still want to learn magic? Your mother back then I think you don’t have the talent and I won’t let you learn this. Do you want to change your mind now?”

Zelen: "Uh."

Zelen himself felt embarrassed when he talked about this.

He was tested once when he was born, and the shamans responsible for the test concluded unequivocally that he did not have the ability to learn and successfully use magic.

Until he was 10 years old, his mother still refused to give up and took him for testing again. She still had no magical talent.

So Zelen shook his head. Even if he continued to learn now, he probably wouldn't be able to compete with Miao Jie, who had been gifted since childhood. After all, in the Krurod Empire, people with magic qualifications account for one to one in 50,000 of the country's population. Moreover, compared to men, women are more likely to be individuals with magical qualifications, and when given the opportunity, they attend shaman academies that are basically only for girls since childhood.

Yes, you heard and read it right, when given the opportunity.

As everyone has guessed, the Krorod Empire has a lot of historical remnants, and the problem of male superiority and female inferiority is more obvious than in other countries. Whether they are from wealthy families or poor people, if it were not for the strict legal inspection of women out of school during the Pa-O Republic, Zelen himself would not dare to imagine how many female people would lose the opportunity to receive education, and then wait until the appropriate age. Find a husband and marry directly.

no way.

Even Zelen's grandfather thought so, and felt that a woman's duty was to listen to her father, husband, or even son, and spend her life peacefully, without doing any miscellaneous things that wasted time.

He even publicly stated that the legal marriage age for women should continue to be lowered from 16 to 14.

However, now, as the republican ideals from the outside world have spread to the society of the Japanese and Mai people, Zelen has realized that his grandfather's ideas cannot continue, and he got married at the age of 14...

Zelen himself didn't feel that way when he looked at Paula and others of the same age.

Therefore, as His Majesty the Emperor, he should focus on how to combine magic and technology.

Vivian: "Actually, you think so... Well, if this is not a war period when foreign enemies invade, but a peace period like your grandfather's early accession to the throne, I think it is valuable for research. But compared to these, you still have more Think about how to complete the course here."

Zelen: "Yes."

Although Zelen heard Teacher Vivian's verbal rejection, Zelen still saw a smile with praise on Teacher Vivian's face.

It's possible here!

In short, following this line of thought, Zelen, under the intentional guidance of Teacher Vivian, used various unwanted junk from the arsenal to assemble a wristband with a crystal slot, and then came to the research institute to let him know. A bunch of researchers doing a favor.

Researcher: "Your Majesty, what you are talking about...well...is a bit like a resource recycling station sorting out different raw materials for industrial production...but you want to turn the enemy's corpses and their equipment into guns and ammunition. , is this possible? But I think your wristband can be equipped with a freely extending blade."

Zelen: "Huh?"

Researcher: "After all... Your Majesty, your question... maybe no one in the world will raise it."

Obviously, Zelen's fantastic idea did not have an effective way to implement it.

Therefore, Zelen had to continue to think of ways to perfect his invention. Until April 25, 999 in the Bingyang calendar, a group of strange caravans from the Crurod Empire came to visit Sugui City. Sell ​​their goods in the square.

Mike: "Your Majesty, they are from another continent in the east, the southern country of Neoland, the Negan Empire's caravan. They specialize in selling mortars and pistols to us, as well as some medicines and mechanical parts."

Zelen: "The Negan Empire? These guys with pointy ears are the rumored dark elves?"

Mike: "Yes. They are exactly the targets of those underground black market profiteers."

Hearing the suddenly lowered voice behind Mike, Zelen, who came here specifically to see who the foreign business group members were, what they looked like, and what kind of products they were selling, immediately understood how many problems there were here.

Zelen: "Are you trying to lure a wolf into the house?"

Mike: "Like us, they also face attacks from black-haired kobolds and some humans with white eyes. Therefore, they hope to enhance our cooperation with them through trade."

He said that, but Zelen shook his head.

Although these guys with white or brown skin, and all of them beautiful men and women, seemed to be very serious, and they really set up stalls to sell their products to the soldiers and civilians in the city; but Zelen was always wary of them.

Even if the Congress, out of the desire to have one more friend and one less enemy, agreed to the establishment of a foreign trade store in Sugui City by these tall, pointed-eared humanoid intelligent race creatures.

Zelen: "But...Mr. Bai, apart from other things, do you have the nerve to watch them sell mortars to our soldiers?"

Mike: "This is a big thing with a caliber of 120 mm. The power of one shot is very powerful. Moreover, our arsenal is limited in number and the supply of raw materials is insufficient. Foreign trade of weapons and equipment to the soldiers is definitely unavoidable." "

Zelen: “The question is, what does our country use to buy their products?”

Mike: "Spice."

Zelen: "Uh."

Mr. Bai was right. One of the most indispensable resources in the Crurod Empire was various spice crops including pepper.

And compared to synthetic spices through chemical methods, the spices provided by natural spice crops are always more pure and of high quality. Therefore, after the Japanese and Mai people escaped from slavery and found a suitable island to settle down, spices became an important profit-making commodity for the Crurod Empire.

This is why today's Japanese and Mai people have mastered the production of guns and weapons, and can still gain a foothold in today's island groups, without being re-captured by the slave-owning forces who are hunting them down.

Mike: "Actually, if possible, I would also like to use other things for trade. However, our country still has nearly two-thirds of its territory that has not been recovered, and even the original fleet is gone, with only one remaining. With the current situation of a large number of transport ships and a small number of warships that can be called small gunboats, who will continue to look at us with the same eyes as before? "

Regarding Mr. Bai's words, Zelen understood that as His Majesty the Emperor, he needed to make the country strong again. Therefore, he had new thoughts about the wristband on his left arm.

The Krurod Empire needs a recycling technology that can turn everything left behind by the enemy into resources that can be used by its own side. So, can these Negan Empire caravans from across the ocean help him?

Or...are they also enemies who want the Crurod Empire to decline or even perish?

have no idea.

Now he can only take one step at a time, especially when the powerful naval fleet of the past has long become scrap metal, and two-thirds of the territory and the people on it have fallen into the hands of the enemy.