Amidst the cheers and exclamations of tens of thousands of citizens on both sides of the river, the new steel magic warship sounded its whistle. It slowly sailed across the river and entered full power sailing after passing the north bank gate.
The reports from controllers everywhere sounded in the bridge: "The basic layer of the magic network is in normal condition!" "The power spine is working normally!" "The mechanical cabin is working normally!" "Prepare to deploy the magic energy wings ——The engine output increases! "" Stabilize the posture, power unit - advance three! "
On both sides of the magic warship, wing-like devices composed of a large number of long and narrow metal plates and mechanical devices slowly unfolded. , the shining magic shield rose first, covering all possible weak points on the ship, and the dense runes and magic connections on the surface of the three pairs of "wings" complemented the shimmer of the shield. This wing-like structure is one of the most important structures on the magic warship—and possibly on all kinds of super-large magic vehicles in the future. It can provide additional supply of magic energy to the power spine, and can also divert a large amount of waste energy. Released to the outside of the magic mechanism in time, only by opening these wings can the magic warship operate at full power.
Amidst the roar of three sets of magic engines, the battleship gradually accelerated and began to sail in the direction of Tanzanian Town.
On the river bank, I don’t know who was the first to shout. Gradually, the shouts became louder:
“Have a safe trip!!” “Have a safe trip!!” “Sisi Long live me!"
Godwin Orlando stood on the high ground on the south bank and pressed the shooting button of the magic energy terminal. Then he lowered his head and wrote something down in his shorthand notebook. Feelings:
“…The water fortress made of steel lifted everyone’s spirits. People stood on the river bank regardless of their origins, cheered excitedly, and blessed the voyage-the lord once I have said that we need to create a sense of pride for Cecil people, and now this sense of pride has begun to be established - a powerful industrial creation, and an industrial creation created by 'us', enough to make every citizen proud... ”
The still slightly chilly spring breeze blew from the river, causing the old scholar from the royal capital to tighten his clothes. Then he raised his head and looked at the hazy north bank. His sight seemed to have crossed the river, the plains, and the mountains in the south, all the way to the north of the Holy Spirit Plains, to his hometown in Saint-Sunil...
When did this happen? Can a boat sail on the vast rivers of the Holy Spirit Plains?
A student noticed the old scholar's trance and couldn't help but ask: "Teacher? What's wrong with you?" "
...
The Pioneer will continue sailing, and its engine block and control mechanism will undergo practical inspections in the next few hours of voyage until it reaches the town of Tanzania ——In fact, it should be renamed Tanzania New City--then it will stop temporarily.
At that time, the technician will start to check the working condition of the engine and the condition of the power spine.status, Gao Wen and others will disembark at the port of Tanzania, and then take the magic vehicle back to Cecil City. Some sailors on standby in Tanzania New City will board the ship in rotation. After that, the Pioneer will continue to set sail. to complete its next nearly half-month tour.
——With the speed of this ship, a tour will certainly not take that long, but in order to demonstrate the effect, the ship will definitely not move at full speed, and it will also need to stop many times in the middle to perform necessary tasks. Mechanical inspection and adjustment.
Gawain left the front platform of the bridge, and in the rest area at the rear of the bridge, he called over Knight Byron.
"How do you feel about this ship?" he asked with a smile.
“It’s exciting, it’s very exciting,” Byron smiled brightly, “I have never been exposed to something so powerful in my life—the previous Aurora and Morning Star were far behind it. "
"Actually, I was worried at first. I was worried that you would not be happy if a knight like you, who fought on land, became the commander of the navy." Gawain was very adaptable to this mercenary background. The ruffian knight's down-to-earth way of speaking was also quite direct when he spoke to the other party. "I estimate that most traditional nobles would think this is a kind of downgrade and suppression - after all, no one pays attention to the battle on the water."
Byron spread his hands: "Let them say this to six naval guns. I don't believe that anyone has seen with their own eyes a ship more than one hundred meters long, made of steel, six heavy guns, and two layers of armor. After building the water fortress of the shield, I can still stand up and say that this thing is not useful-if it is true, I am willing to personally serve him wine and food, take a bath and change clothes, pay a sincere tribute, and then stuff it into the rail gun and launch it.”
Obviously, Byron, who was born as a mercenary, rarely thought about the question of "whether it is honorable or not to fight on a ship." What he valued was that the ship could fight, very well. This is Enough.
But then again, Byron can think so simply and directly, but Gawain cannot only consider the issue of "the battleship can fight".
He raised his head and looked at several control platforms not far away, as well as the "mechanical sergeants" busy between the platforms, and listened to the faint mechanical roar coming from the lower cabin. He heard the sound, but what he was thinking about was how much derivative value this ship could bring.
The Pioneer is just the beginning. It is a technological aggregate created by merging Cecil’s most cutting-edge magical technology with the Kraken technology. The value of this aggregate is It is not just about building a powerful warship, but also about every technical achievement gained in the process of building this warship itself.
The Pioneer can be said to be a "parameter overflow" for the current Cecil Principality.
As a river battleship, its various values far exceed the scope of a river battleship, and also exceed the current military needs of Cecil, from firepower to armor to power. It can be said that the Pioneer has integrated all advanced technologies regardless of cost on the basis of ensuring that it can carry out inland navigation.Stacked together, if it is a battleship that is built to a final production, this accumulation of technology can be described as a waste.
But this is exactly the point of building an "experimental ship". The process of building the Pioneer itself is equivalent to trying all currently feasible technologies, and these technologies will be degraded or After transformation, it can be used in other fields, especially in the civil field.
According to the plan, after the ship comes off the assembly line, the relevant technology accumulation will immediately enter the application and expansion stage.
First of all, mature power technology will be applied to the Aurora and Morning Star - the two semi-finished magic warships will not be dismantled as the cutting-edge ships roll off the production line. In line with the principle of making the best use of them, Gawain decided to complete their transformation and reconstruction, install them with engine sets and new outer armor, and then integrate them into Cecil's fleet.
Subsequently, all civilian ships currently under the Cecil Shipyard and Ship Management Department will also enter the transformation stage. Old-style cargo ships will be modified if they can be modified, and if they cannot be modified, they will be gradually scrapped and rebuilt. The magic warships have accumulated After downgrading, the power and control technology can be used to build large-capacity, high-speed civilian cargo ships, thereby greatly improving the material transportation capacity in the southern territory and alleviating the transportation pressure faced by various parts of the Principality during the period of large-scale construction.
At the same time, the Pioneer's highly integrated power spine, magic wing panels, and shipboard shield technology can also be used in roadbed bunkers, large vehicles, engineering facilities, and other types of warships.
He called Hetty and talked about his plans. After hearing that the transportation problem was expected to be alleviated, Hetty, who had been worrying about this for a long time, breathed a sigh of relief: "This way it will be easier." Great... If the power technology on the Pioneer is used on civilian ships, at least in areas covered by rivers, most of the transportation problems can be solved."
But then she frowned: "However, as a result, new mechanical ships will soon monopolize river transportation, and those traditional ship owners will quickly go bankrupt...most of them will not be able to afford a magical mechanical ship..."
Gawain looked at Hetty with some surprise.
"What's wrong?" Hetty didn't know what was going on. She touched her face and asked, "Is there something on my face?"
Butler Cecil was confused. She clearly remembered that she didn't wear smoky makeup today...could it be that she forgot to take off the makeup she put on yesterday to cheat a half-day vacation?
Gawain didn’t know what the eldest granddaughter was muttering in her heart. He just suddenly thought of the beginning, when Hetty heard about the "labor reward" system and "personnel management" The confusion after the concept.
At that time, Hetty had no understanding of civilian life at all. Although she had some honest and compassionate thoughts, she was still essentially a person who had never left the castle and the manor and only relied on fantasy to conceive of folk life. The suffering noble girl, at that time, she didn’t even know why the common people could only eat two meals a day, and she didn’t know why the common people had to pick up food scraps thrown out of the castle...
Today, she has been able to immediately consider what to do if the ship owners go bankrupt - although this is largely due to the nature of the work of the Government Affairs Department, it also illustrates the change in her way of thinking.
“We will not sit back and watch a large number of ship owners go bankrupt. Since we want to promote the technology on warships to the civilian field, we must let it be truly and thoroughly promoted to the civilian sector, so that it can serve people instead of harming others. Everyone is bankrupt," Gawain laughed, "I have three preliminary plans..."
He thought for a while, and then said one by one: "The first is to open the sale and lease of mechanical ships. Channels, when the time is ripe, can even assist powerful private capital to establish small shipyards, and reduce the cost of magical mechanical ships to a level acceptable to the private sector as soon as possible, so that some large ship owners or wealthy businessmen can afford to purchase and lease ships. Just like the commercial use of magic vehicles;
"Secondly, for some ship owners, the Government Affairs Department provides money to subsidize them to renovate old cargo ships, or let them trade in old cargo ships to buy new ships. They are really not financially strong enough. You can borrow interest-free loans to buy them new ships - don't worry about this cost. As long as the new cargo ships run on the river, the economic benefits they can bring far exceed that small amount of subsidies.
“Finally, smaller ship owners can jointly set up a transportation company and raise funds to buy ships, or they can transfer jobs and enter the terminal freight system, each with subsidies. Now that new cities are being built everywhere, there will always be job gaps. Yes, as long as the resettlement work is done well, there is always a way out.
“As for the control during the specific implementation of these plans...that depends on you. "
Looking at Hetty taking notes seriously, Gawain breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
The plan is good, but after the actual implementation, there will definitely be many problems. The problem is, industrialization is a good thing, but the impact of the transformation from agriculture to industry is always unavoidable - just like the original alchemy potion bankrupted a large number of alchemists, last year's magic carriage also caused panic among carriage shops, and now The mechanical ships... will definitely have an impact on the ship owners who relied on the old river cargo ships.
In the past, more than 90% of the land in the South was controlled by other lords, and a large number of alchemists and pharmacists went bankrupt. Gawain can ignore it, or even be happy to see it happen, because it will weaken and shake other territories, but now the entire southern territory is under the rule of the Cecil family, and everyone is a citizen of Cecil. He has to consider issues
He can only rely on his own knowledge and experience to make these impacts as smooth as possible
For the civilian use of new technologies. While Hua Er was thinking about it, there was another person on the bridge who was also deep in thought.
Next to the control seat, Rebecca was looking at the flashing symbols on the platform in some trance. Wenhe pulled the silver-white lever, and Tier beside her was carefully coiling herself on the ground. Miss Siren carefully stuffed the tip of her tail into the "snake ball" while she couldn't help but look up.She glanced at Rebecca: "Hey, what are you thinking about?"
Rebecca woke up from her thoughts. She looked at Tier who was playing with his tail, with a look of frustration on her face: "You My magic ship has been built, and my magic train explodes twice a day..."
——Since using the Origin Laboratory, I no longer have to worry about cost issues and explosion hazards. The number of explosions in the girl's experiments has increased significantly.
Tiel tilted his head and said casually: "What do you have to be upset about? I have hundreds of people here who have been studying this ship since last year, and the results were achieved earlier than you. Isn’t it normal?”
“Although it is true...” Rebecca still looked very frustrated, “But if the train problem is not solved, the mines over the White Sand Hills will not be able to be transported back. ..."
Tyr thought for a while, then shrank back into the ball he knitted with his tail: "Then I can't help - we sea monsters are not good at creating energy. As a means of transportation on land, the engine unit plan of the magic battleship will definitely not be used on your train."
Rebecca looked helplessly at Tyr, who had completely turned into a snake ball. At a glance, the Marquise of the Cecil family became more depressed than ever...