Warlord: King of All Clans

Fraser confidently announced his research results, "As long as we continue to increase the size of the boiler and the temperature, the steam engine will be able to fly higher!"

Leo slapped her on the back of her head. "What's the point of flying higher? Just because you saw a pressure cooker explode, you want to send people into space?"

As a participant in the invention of the "steam engine", Freya also agreed with Feisa's point of view. She hugged Feisa to protect her and bared her teeth at Leo, "Just tell me how high it flies!"

Protected by Freya, Feisa became fearless and began to consider letting Freya ride on her steam engine to conduct flight experiments.

Wizard Morse standing by did not have such an outrageous train of thought. He watched the iron plate of the steam engine fall heavily and create a deep hole on the ground, and then he felt relieved.

He explained to Leo, "The principle of a steam engine is very simple. As long as you have a high-strength boiler and cylinder to ensure its airtightness, and equip it with a separate condenser, insulation layer, piston, planetary gear, parallel motion connecting rod mechanism, centrifugal governor, throttle valve, and pressure gauge, you can meet your requirements."

Leo was confused after hearing this. "Can a river bend make what you said?"

His drawings only described the principle of a steam engine driving a machine to do work through the expansion of steam, along with a few simple energy conversion devices he could think of.

For more specific details, Morse needs to study it himself.

Apparently, Master Morse already had a basic idea, but due to a weak foundation, he was unable to put it into practice.

He already had a foundation in alchemy, and with the guidance of the system master Al, he had a wealth of theoretical knowledge.

As expected, Mage Morse shook his head. "These alchemical devices are not complicated, but they require the alchemist's skills to be superb. If I make them myself, I can make a qualified component in a week, but the craftsmen in River Bay... Excuse me, there is not a single craftsman in River Bay who can be called a master."

"Well, a steam engine probably requires about seventy components, seventy percent of which cannot be made by mortal craftsmen..."

With the industrial foundation of this era, ordinary craftsmen are simply unable to master the production of precision parts. Only those alchemists who have been promoted to extraordinary levels and use magic to operate the alchemy table can produce metal components with millimeter accuracy.

In developed big cities, clocks and alchemical puppets all have complex and sophisticated components, but their manufacturing process is not done by mortals, but in the hands of extraordinary people.

Not to mention the industrial base of River Bay. If it weren't for the arrival of Master Morse, Leo wouldn't even dare to think about it.

But Master Morse encouraged: "Fisa has at least taken the first step. The prototype of the high-strength boiler has already appeared."

This boiler is obviously strong enough to be able to blow a thick iron plate to a height of dozens of meters.

Although Fraser did not invent the steam engine, she invented the pressure cooker!

The pressure cooker is the starting point of the steam engine.

With a pressure cooker, there will be a boiler, and with a boiler, there will be a cylinder.

Then the pressure gauge, throttle valve, piston, gears, etc. will appear one by one.

After seeing Fraser's pressure cooker explosion experiment, Leo's dream of industrial revolution was shattered, but he was not too depressed. After all, this was in line with his expectations.

In the impoverished Hewan, having a pressure cooker technology at that time was very good, which at least represented a leap in Hewan's metallurgical technology.

The steam engine is still too far away. Even if Morse does nothing and stays in the Mage Tower to make a steam engine by hand, it will not be of much help to River Bay.

What Leo wants is mass production and popularization!

As the iron plate fell to the ground, Norin's griffin also made an emergency landing. Norin, who looked a little embarrassed, calmed the frightened griffin before jumping off the mount and looking at Leo angrily.

The people in the North are really outrageous. They finally stop fighting and just play with explosions at home.

If you have even one second of comfort, I will give you the whole life.

And the way this guy looked at her was not as eager as the way he looked at the griffin.

Leo looked at the griffin several times, but this thing was more ferocious than the dragon-scale horse, so he didn't dare to go up and tease it. He could only stand far away and greeted with a smile: "Knight Norin, hello!"

"Not good!" Norin replied with resentment, then bowed and saluted, "This is a letter from Her Royal Highness the Princess."

Although he had personal emotions, he still had to show proper courtesy when facing the princess's adoptive father.

After she bowed, she took out the treasured letter from under her breastplate.

Leo took it and liked Noreen's arrival even more. This was much more polite than the slap she gave him last time.

"Come on, come on, let's go back to the big house. I'll treat you to a drink."

Several Rose sisters who followed Leo also greeted Noreen.

The four Rose Knights assigned by Olivia unknowingly became Leo's personal guards, while the Wind Knights were assigned to the army and settlements.

These Rose Knights have been trained as royal guards since they were young. They are used to being bodyguards and are not used to doing anything else.

Except for two with stronger abilities who became Olivia's right-hand men, the other eight became Leo and Olivia's personal guards. In addition to daily guarding, they were also responsible for clearing the way, passing messages, recording and other tasks.

Because they themselves have a high level of cultural literacy, and they have fast and light cavalry like unicorns, they can quickly travel to settlements in the river bend and even further away.

It was very useful in the days when there were no telephones or flying messengers.

This time, Norin brought another box of books, one thousand gold coins, and several packets of seeds.

Among these seeds, some are cereal seeds, some are bean seeds, and some are root vegetables and fruits.

Leo picked up a potato. "What is this?"

“This is a potato,” Noreen introduced.

"Well, I thought it was called something else..."

"These are seeds from the South Territory that Her Royal Highness collected. Potatoes are a crop from the Free State of the Archipelago. They have only become popular in the South Territory in recent years. The other seeds are also traditional high-yield crops from the South Territory."

Leo happily put away the seeds, as he had told the little mouse in the letter.

Using the royal authority, the little mouse got him the best seeds in the south.

As for whether it can continue to grow and produce high yields in the north, we will only know after planting it.

But Leo was not very worried, because he had the divine beast Freya in his hand. If these seeds did not grow well, he would pinch Freya's cheeks and cry poor.

Believe that the other party can come up with a solution!

"Very good. How's the little mouse? Did you eat well?"

Speaking of Her Royal Highness the Princess, Noreen smiled. "Yes, after learning that you... you are still alive, Her Royal Highness the Princess was very happy and very positive. She has grown an inch taller and gained twelve pounds. Well, she has started to practice swordplay now."