Re:Zero - Starting a Different World Industry

"This thing is called a light bulb, and this is called glass..."

Leon took out a light bulb and explained to everyone.

"A light bulb can emit light? What is the principle of this thing? How much does the glass cost?"

everyone asked.

"The working principle of a light bulb is to generate light through the electric effect of electricity."

Leon explained carefully.

Everyone was a little confused after hearing this.

"Electricity? Is it lightning?"

"Isn't this still powered by magic?"

everyone said.

Leon was about to explain, but suddenly changed his mind.

"Yes, it can be driven by magic crystals."

Lyon doesn't want to expose the coal mine incident too early.

At least until you don't have enough strength.

Everyone sighed when they heard it.

But Leon spoke again.

"But the light bulb only costs 1 gold coin each, which is several times cheaper than the magic lamp, and it consumes only half the energy of the magic lamp."

Hearing this, everyone exploded.

Finally, after much competition, the orcs won the agency of the light bulb.

So Lyon began the final highlight.

Glass!

This world still uses colored glass.

The emergence of glass can be said to be a dimensionality reduction attack.

"One square meter of glass only costs 1 silver coin!"

Hearing this, everyone became excited again, and the humans and dwarves were almost on the verge of fighting.

They didn't get the sugar and light bulbs, so they were determined to get the glass.

Finally, under pressure from humans, the dwarves had to compromise and gave the agency of glass to humans.

This made the people in the Chamber of Commerce very excited.

"Haha, with glass, here comes the chance to make a fortune!"

"How can one become rich with only one silver coin?"

"What a joke! Aren't we the ones who decide the price?"

……

Soon the banquet was over.

Irina stared at Leon with hooked eyes, making Leon feel a little uncomfortable.

The orc representative, a minotaur, was also very grateful to Leon.

After seeing everyone off, Leon called the dwarf representative.

Took him to his office.

"Your Excellency the Duke? What are you doing?"

The dwarf representative was a little confused.

Leon spoke.

"I know you hate the Chamber of Commerce and hate them for taking away your opportunities, but I have an opportunity that is more suitable for you."

"What? Your Excellency the Duke!"

The dwarf representative looked grateful.

"arms!"

Leon said quietly.

He then took out his revolver, aimed at a wooden stake outside the window and fired a shot.

"boom!"

The dwarf representative was startled, but was stunned the next second.

Because there was a hole in the wooden stake!

And the dwarf didn't feel any magic from Leon!

Leon slowly put away the revolver.

The dwarf representative felt a little embarrassed. He wanted to do it but was too embarrassed to say it.

"boom!"

The next second, the door was kicked open and several soldiers rushed in.

The air suddenly became quiet.

A few people blinked.

You look at me and I look at you.

"excuse me!"

The soldier immediately apologized and withdrew.

They thought something happened to Leon, so they rushed up without thinking.

Lyon didn't blame them.

Then he continued talking to the dwarf.

"Did you notice just now? My soldiers also have this kind of weapons, and they are more powerful!"

Hearing Leon's words, the dwarf's hands couldn't help but tremble.

The dwarves must seize this opportunity! They must!

Then he looked at Leon and said excitedly.

"Your Excellency the Duke, please cooperate with us! The dwarves will be your most loyal partners!"

Leon didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He was so enthusiastic that he almost got eaten up.

Then Leon handed the weapon blueprint to the dwarf.

This is not the manufacturing drawing of Kar98k.

It was the crudest M1888 rifle, and Lyon also deliberately reduced the amount of gunpowder in the round-head bullet, which was already weak in power.

It is called the foreign trade version.

This made the dwarf representative very happy.

Seeing this, Leon also spoke.

"What does the so-called Year of God's Punishment mean?"

The dwarf representative immediately became serious after hearing this.

"The Year of God's Punishment is a special natural disaster that will appear after a period of time in the Sin Territory. In the Year of God's Punishment, there will be very severe snowstorms and a beast tide."

Leon asked thoughtfully after hearing this.

"So how did you solve it before?"

"Before? In previous years, we all went south to hide in the southern part of the Sin Territory. However, going south is a pleasure for the rich, but for the poor..."

The dwarf said this and then stopped talking.

Leon gradually became serious and asked.

“How long until the first snow?”

"About 2 months..."

The dwarf representative thought about it and spoke out.

Leon sighed.

"understood……"

Then the dwarf representative was sent away.

After everyone left, Leon sat alone in the study.

Without turning on the lights, I just sat in the dark.

After a long time, Leon stood up.

"When an enemy comes, we will fight him. When a flood comes, we will block it with earth. Isn't it just a heavy snow? Isn't it just a beast tide? If I can't overcome it, then what strength do I have to talk about going home?"

Then Leon turned on the light, pulled out a piece of paper and wrote a few big words.

Fall defense construction.

Then he started writing quickly.

The night passed by unnoticed.

The next day, Leon was woken up by Ryan in a daze.

"Sir? Sir? Several major forces have sent money."

Leon opened his eyes.

The blinding sunlight shone into the room.

"Ryan? What time is it?"

After Leon finished speaking, he quickly went to wash up.

"It's almost noon..."

Ryan whispered.

Soon Leon arrived in the hall.

Looking at several large boxes in the hall.

Lyon can finally show its strength.

Look at Leon coming.

The people in charge of the escort spoke up.

"My Lord, this is half of the gold coins. The other half will be delivered to you once the goods arrive."

Leon nodded, and the guard left upon seeing this.

Leon opened one of the boxes and saw that it was full of shining gold coins.

According to the agreement, there are a total of 10 gold coins here!

Perhaps 10 is a lot for Leon, but the Holy Empire’s tax revenue last year reached 8000 million gold coins.

The actual tax revenue of the Sin Territory is about 50 gold coins.

As for what's missing, Lyon will make them spit it out sooner or later.

After closing the box, Leon looked at his plan.

Just completing the winter defense plan will cost more than 8 gold coins.

Leon is going to do some field research today to see how many people in Sin City are homeless.

Lyon has planned to rebuild the city walls and produce Pak40 anti-tank guns.

This is to deal with those monsters that are too powerful.

The monsters moved very quickly, and poor Leon was unable to provide fire coverage.

We can only rely on anti-tank guns with extremely high initial velocity to kill high-speed moving monsters.

But Lyon is on the safe side.

Still planning to build a SFH18 howitzer.

Used to fight against powerful monsters.

After all, Leon suffers from a fear of insufficient firepower.

With such a howitzer, Lyon finally felt a little more at ease.

These days, Lyon has also assembled a bullet production line, and the weapons production line is about to be completed.

But Lyon still asked Ryan to keep an eye out for talents in this area.

After all, you can't hold up the banner by yourself.

Lyon also began manufacturing internal combustion engines.

But the process was a bit difficult, so Lyon started with the steam engine.

Just make do with it for now!