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

At night, in the gray-collared governor's mansion, Reina was lying on the bed, gently stroking the brand new melt-cut sword.

It is called the Governor's Mansion, but in fact it is just a slightly larger mansion. It is a house that was originally built a long time ago and was slightly modified. After all, even if Lind still wanted to live in a tent, the Lars family and his men would not allow it.

The molten sword in Lena's hand is different from the disposable sword that Lowry and the others are about to get. It is a real magic blade.

Rather than being a product of industrialization, it is more like a crystallization in a laboratory.

The smooth shape of the single-edged sword and the black sword body that gleams with a cold light, even if you remove the runes on the hilt and the sword body, you can tell that this is a good sword that can cut through iron like mud.

After pulling the trigger on the hilt, the runes on the sword began to emit a faint fluorescence, but were quickly obscured by the flash of light emitted by the heat.

Unlike mass-produced fused swords, the blade of this sword is not the bright red color as in forging after being activated, but dark red. This is due to the composite refined iron nature of the sword body. Not only is the temperature sufficient, but it will not cause damage to the blade or body of the sword.

"Like it?"

After asking this question, Lind wanted to try it himself. However, although this sword was more powerful, it was also heavier and ordinary people could not use it.

"Well, I didn't expect you to actually do it, brother."

These were just idealized products that Lena considered in her early designs. Unexpectedly, Lind actually realized this idealized product.

Of course, it is not fully realized, and the weight is much heavier than expected.

And the implementation process is also fraught with difficulties.

Not to mention how long it would take to experiment with this composite material, the energy supply issue had troubled Lixia for a long time.

After all, the molten sword is not a ray gun, and it is much more difficult to supply energy continuously than to shoot once and run away.

Fortunately, the transmission and supply of magic power are also the main topics of territory research now. When there is a breakthrough in the topic, the energy supply problem will be solved naturally.

The same amount of space of primary colored sand can store much more magic power than magic stone, and it naturally has the potential to be made into a magic battery. However, because the isolation effect is too strong, it is difficult to continuously inject magic power into the primary colored sand. It is generally used as a toy for spellcasters to exercise in their daily life, or as a backup force at critical moments.

The original color sand itself also needs to be re-melted at high temperature before it can be carved into rune arrays. This is why the original color sand has not been able to replace magic stones as the main means of energy storage.

But at least re-smelting is not a problem now. The steel production capacity of gray and white-collar workers has long been in excess, and they have even begun to consider exporting. It is not difficult to use part of the production capacity to melt primary color sand.

The remaining difficulty lies mainly in how to store magic power in the primary color sand.

What Lind wants is not the kind of rich and willful high-level professionals who use the primary color sand as a toy for training and occasionally inject some magic power into it, but to produce primary color sand magic batteries in batches and in large quantities.

Finally, under tremendous pressure, Lind spent a large sum of money to build a magic focusing array. Although it has not been built yet, judging from the primary color sand magic battery used in this molten sword, this idea is feasible.

With the energy supply equipment, the research pressure of the power mechanism will be much less. You only need to consider which magic to use as the highest initial power efficiency. The chainsaw sword is constantly changing the magic used as the initial power to conduct experiments, and the rest is just a continuous burning of money.

Listening to Linde complaining about how much money the research progress was burning, Lena took out a bunch of keys from her bosom and stuffed them into Linde's hands.

"Brother, this is my little stash of money. If you really can't help, you can use it first."

Whether it is expanding the army or researching production, these all require money. In addition, Lind has also lowered the taxes in the new territory to the lowest level, so Lena has long realized that the territory is now somewhat in deficit.

"No need. There is no problem in maintaining the basic operation of the territory. As long as industrialization is started, all the efforts now will be worth it."

Linde was not lying. All the resources of Winter Castle were now allocated by Linde. The property of that group of nobles could still be used for a long time, and there was still some profit to be made from squeezing the remaining nobles. Although the taxes were lower, they had actually just returned to normal levels.

In addition, due to the rule of the Champagne nobles, business in the western part of the North was relatively prosperous. And because production was quickly restored, commercial tax revenue was even higher than before after the change to unified taxation.

Linde pushed the key back into Lena's hand and talked about future plans after industrialization.

Although Reina didn't seem to understand, she kept nodding. Just as Reina had said before, she would believe whatever Linde said. Reina was probably the only one in the entire territory who truly believed that Linde was not a descendant of the old empire.

Realizing that he was gradually going beyond the scope of the topic, Linde looked at Rena who was already lying on the bed and remembered that he was here to report to Rena on the situation of the territory today.

Although Grand Duke Lars is dead, Linde no longer needs to pretend to chat with Lena about the details of the territory, but this has become a habit. If he doesn't do this, Linde will feel uneasy and Lena will not be able to sleep every day.

However, this was the first time that Linde reported in Lena's room. Before, he always reported in the lord's tent, and Lena fell asleep while chatting.

Bringing the topic back to the topic, Lind began to talk about the main problem in the territory now, that is, military reform. By the way, he talked about the current production situation in the territory. It won’t be long before cement roads will be able to connect most areas in the western part of the northern border. At that time, the transportation efficiency will be much higher, and the materials ordered by the Sparkling Gold Merchant Alliance will be able to reach the gray-collar workers faster.

After talking about today's work, Linde found that Lena was still not asleep.

Perhaps because they were not in the leaky tent but in the room, Lind felt that he could smell the soapberry scent on Lena's body even by the bed.

"Brother, I think I know what the problem with the army is."

Just when Lind was curious about what suggestions Rena would have, he found himself meeting Rena's eyes without realizing it.

Lena took Lind's hand and said, "Don't leave, okay?"

......

Lena was a bad sleeper and several times during the night she would cling to Linde while sleeping, so that the two of them discussed several times at night the issue of how the magic focusing array could transmit magic to the primary color sand.

When it was time to get up in the morning, Rena, who was still in a daze, hooked her legs around Linde unconsciously, like a kitten who was afraid of being abandoned and insecure, so that both Linde and Rena got up very late, which was unusual.

Looking at Rena who was sleeping soundly beside him and smiling foolishly, Linde found it really hard to associate her with the affectionate Rena from last night, but they could no longer be brothers from now on.

When Reina finally got up and was putting her hair up in a very unfamiliar way in front of the dressing table that she had hardly used, Linde told the maid waiting outside the door, "Turn my room into a study and don't continue decorating it."

As for the issue of military system, Lind issued a statement according to Rena's proposal last night, establishing Rena's position as the supreme leader of the army. Although it was only a nominal position, the real power was still in Lind's hands.

Of course, the key to this statement lies in the subtle change in the way Rena is addressed, which serves as an official stamp of approval that Linde and Rena are no longer in a Schrodinger relationship.

Later, Lind and Lena invited some knights from the Lars family army to hold a military meeting. After Lena appeared, the pressure to implement military reforms suddenly decreased a lot.

Originally, Linde wanted to at least hold a formal wedding, but was desperately stopped by Reina. The wedding of a great noble was long and complicated, especially with Reina's current status. The etiquette steps might be more than Reina's original etiquette score. Just listening to those bald elders talking about the process made Reina feel that her head was going to go bald. Those bald elders even dug out the records of the governor's wedding in the old empire from somewhere and planned to add those in.

So despite Reina's strong objection, everything went on as usual.

There was no wedding of the century, no special statement, and no one even felt strange about Rena's hairstyle. It seemed as if it should be that way.