Lord: Marry the villain's daughter at the beginning?

Thanks to the new population, many heavy tasks were gradually transferred to the lower levels, and in addition to land reclamation, there was finally enough manpower to support Linde's production plans.

It's not that Linde hadn't thought about giving up reclamation and directly building a large number of handicraft workshops to start a capitalist model. Although this idea would make money quickly, it was basically a pipe dream, unless Linde planned to continue to rely on the support of the Lars family.

And now, apart from anything else, the assembly line for making snowflake candy can be rolled out.

The advantages of the assembly line model over traditional manual workshops are self-evident. The most important thing is that there is basically no need to worry about leaks. Even if one or two staff members are bribed, it does not matter.

Of course, Lind did not expect that the formula and production method of snowflake candy could be kept secret for long in this world of alchemy. After all, this was only the first pot of gold, and it would be impossible to really make money from it in the future. What's more, sugar was an important strategic resource, and once it developed, it would definitely be supplied to the territory first.

Compared to sugar, Linde is now more concerned about the production of cement. After all, it is impossible to let more than a thousand people in the territory sleep in tents.

In this world, apart from the castles and palaces of the nobles, most people build houses with very primitive materials, basically made of wood, stone and some mud. Building a two-story house is a huge project. Not only is it slow to build, it also requires a large number of professional craftsmen.

Making cement using traditional methods is actually very simple, even simpler than making sugar.

In his previous life, Linde once saw an old man living downstairs fiddle with homemade cement at the door because his house was leaking.

But Linde actually wants industrial cement more.

The situation like in those time-travel novels where the protagonist easily makes industrial cement by relying on the memory of the past life and then immediately starts to vigorously develop infrastructure is actually not very realistic. After all, even if ordinary people know how to make industrial cement, it is difficult to achieve mass production in a short period of time due to the obstacles of high temperature, grinding, mixing and calcination.

Not to mention that industrial cement is not concrete, it is just the material for making concrete. If you want to achieve infrastructure miracles, it is impossible without concrete.

However, Linde's industrial cement is just an idea. In fact, traditional cement has become a dimensionality reduction attack in this era. It is ridiculously cost-effective. Because there is a River of Tears in the middle of the territory, it can even use local materials directly.

What's more, there are no buildings in the territory that need industrial cement. We can just start building with cement and stones. It is simple and efficient, and it can be said to be a seamless connection with the craftsmen who have experience in building houses.

Fortunately, the research and development of cement went smoothly and was not fundamentally different from the previous life, like boiling water.

This world is not a disordered world, but it also abides by basic laws, except that the variable of magic is added.

The biggest problem now is that the quality of the earth-made cement used for road construction is not very good. If Lena and her knights walk back and forth two times fully armed, the road made of earth-made cement may begin to collapse.

Of course, it's just that it can't hold on, it's not to the point of being unusable. Compared with the dirt road, it's already a dimensionality reduction attack. What's more, the fully armed Rena and the knights are already heavy cavalry. Even because they are professionals and the horses have the blood of Warcraft, the overall load capacity is much heavier than the heavy cavalry in Lind's previous life. The situation that requires the use of these knights and equipment is completely different from the ordinary situation, so it can be ignored for the time being.

Just like that, after all these more than one thousand refugees were naturalized, the cement factory by the River of Tears officially started operations.

The expressions of those old craftsmen were indeed very surprised when they saw the cement, but they were not amazed at how solid the cement was after it dried. Instead, they were surprised that the lord would use such a precious alchemical material to build houses and schools for the common people.

People cannot imagine things they have never seen. In the understanding of this group of old craftsmen, cement is a mysterious alchemical material in the lord's family. It is impossible to be made from clay and sand that can be found everywhere. Even if they have seen the cement production process with their own eyes, they will only think that the lord, the hidden alchemist, has cast some magic or secretly added some magical powder.

After seeing this group of craftsmen crawling on the ground, Lind couldn't help but sigh that compulsory education still has a long way to go.

Gunpowder was also studied along with cement.

Because it was a very important project, Lind did not hand it over directly to Laurie or Lila, but managed it personally. The staff who made the gunpowder were basically the old people from Lind's territory, and their loyalty was needless to say.

Moreover, this is the only place in the territory where Lind asked Reina's knights to protect it. Although those knights look down on people, they are absolutely loyal to Reina's orders.

Lind did not hide his research on gunpowder from Lena. In fact, Lind would report everything about the territory to Lena every night, regardless of whether Lena was interested or not. Even Lena fell asleep after Lind uttered the first syllable. It was a matter of attitude.

Although Reina is not very reasonable, there must be spies of Grand Duke Lars around her. Even if it is just for show, Reina cannot be completely excluded from the management of the territory.

Originally Lind had prepared for the worst, which was that gunpowder, like steam, would not work in this world and would be interfered with by elemental forces. After all, gunpowder, unlike cement, would actually produce flames. If it was mixed with water elements like steam, everything would have to be started over again. However, the process went unexpectedly smoothly.

Even because the purchased materials were refined by alchemy, the purity was even higher. At the beginning of the research, Lind made something similar to firecrackers.

Even though the staff were already used to their lord's magical alchemical materials, they still looked at Lind with awe and fear after seeing what they had rubbed with their hands blow up a steel basin.

I don't know whether magic was added, but the lord did use these magic-free materials to create the same effect as magic.

No wonder the management regulations of this gunpowder field are stricter than those of all other places in the territory, even stricter than Lind’s tent. If you are not careful, you might get your arm blown off.

But Susan, who was watching from the side, was indeed yawning. Explosions of this magnitude were just loud but had little power. They could be used to scare people, but the actual effect might not be as good as a first-level magic scroll. As a fourth-level professional, Susan could easily take a bath in these explosions as long as she was fully armed.

Moreover, it is quite troublesome to use. Susan really doesn't understand what the point of Lind's research on this thing is.

It was normal to have such thoughts. Before Susan saw with her own eyes the mass production of explosives and their use in industrial mining, she could not imagine those scenes, even though Susan had seen magic that was even more exaggerated than those scenes.

How long does it take to train a wizard who can mine with magic? How much does it cost to rent one? A wizard needs to rest to replenish his magic power, but explosives don't.

Your magic power is running out, but my explosives are endless.

What's more, this is just a homemade gunpowder. As the saying goes: one saltpeter, two sulfur, three charcoals, add a little sugar and you get a big Ivan.

If granulation can be successfully achieved, Lind may even be able to bring the technological level of gunpowder to modern times in a short period of time.

The remaining problem is the musket.

Lind was not a musket enthusiast in his previous life. The only reason he knew so much about gunpowder was because the formula of gunpowder was as well-known as the notices at the crossroads, but muskets were different.

Moreover, in order to make guns close to modern ones, the first thing to be solved is the problem of smokeless gunpowder. Black gunpowder is the limit of Lind's understanding, and anything above that is Lind's blind spot in knowledge.

Thinking of this, Lind suddenly looked at Rena, who was dozing off while listening to his report as a lullaby. Could it be that like making water wheels everywhere, Rena could directly design a finished gun just because he provided her with an idea?

It's impossible, absolutely impossible. Guns are not simple machines like hydraulic forging hammers. Even if Reina has any ideas, it will probably take a long time to test them.

Forget it. Lind laughed at his own unreliable idea and decided to start studying firearms down to earth.

There are only two research directions: flintlock and percussion rifle.

In addition to the different ignition methods, the percussion rifle also has higher gunpowder requirements. You can study the flintlock rifle first, lay the foundation, and then slowly update the ignition device and gunpowder, and then update to the percussion rifle. After all, in history, the percussion rifle was improved based on the flintlock rifle, so it is definitely right to start research in this direction.

Of course, you can try to use customized alchemical materials to get it done in one step and directly make the bricks fly, but this method definitely cannot be mass-produced, so you can only make a prototype for Lind to play with.

But these are all later stories. The most important issue now is to get the gunpowder that can be put into production first.