Chapter 209 Is it too late?

Horne's idea of ​​"all men are born equal, all men are born free" was not the "freedom and equality" that came later.

When these two points are reflected in the practical level, they simply mean abolishing the three-class peasant system in rural areas and the transcendent status of the nobility, and advocating that "unearned income" should be regarded as the new original sin.

As the saying goes, being one step ahead is a genius, being three steps ahead is a madman.

This political proposition, which seemed extremely primitive and crude in Horn's time, was already quite advanced in this era.

As soon as Horn walked out of the town's prayer house, he felt a heat on the back of his head. He looked up, but squinted because of the glare of the sunlight.

I found that after five or six days of rain, the sun finally came out in Daze Township.

From behind the mountains and clouds, the warm sun pierced through the thick clouds, emitting a faint light from the cracks.

However, in the gray chill of winter, this light also appears a bit turbid.

Under the eaves of the wooden roof, water drops slid down regularly and landed on Horn's shoulders.

He reached out and caught the water drops and the sunlight; both of them together in his palm felt both warm and cold.

"What should we do next?"

"Um." Duvalon took out a paper from his pocket. "Originally, I was going to discuss the affairs of the order with Monsignor Armand, but we finished early, so we still have an hour to spare."

"We have some free time." Horn looked at the Mechanical Palace on the hillside in the distance. "The sun is finally out. Let's go for a walk around."

Walking on the grass that was alternating between withered yellow and emerald green, Horn strolled briskly ahead.

Previously, he had been riding around on horseback and it was raining, so he had never had the chance to leisurely admire the scenery of the island. All he could see was a blurry scene moving backwards.

Once the matter of the Holy Father Order is resolved, the army will have to be formally trained. By then, Horn will probably have to run back and forth between the town and the military camp, and will not have much free time.

Even when Horn was taking a walk now, it was not real leisure time. He was still thinking about the Savior Army.

Among the six major issues raised at the beginning, the food problem was solved after the gap in water pumps was filled.

The second problem was bedding, but it was difficult to make clothing without the right ingredients. The only solution Horn could think of was to send more people to hunt for wild animal furs.

Anyway, they have the holy gun. With the holy gun and breastplate, they may not have the confidence to fight monsters, but they not only have the confidence to escape, but it is very strong.

Horn had ordered that bedding and clothing be provided first to the soldiers of the Chapter, and those who did not have enough winter clothing had no choice but to stay at home.

Although there are not enough bedding, there is definitely enough peat. Even the current output of the peat workshop is enough to meet the winter warmth needs of more than 20,000 people.

Horn does not intend to let those people who have to stay at home sit idle. At most they can do some assembly work at home.

In addition, Horn plans to set up an elementary school class and a literacy class in every block, using this winter to make up for the cultural deficiencies and synchronize knowledge with elementary school students.

This brings us to the third issue, which is housing.

These Insula apartments are free to stay in, have no common areas, and are self-managed. However, if deserters or fugitives are sheltered, the entire building will be held accountable.

Although Witt pushed back on the construction schedule, Horn believed that as long as Starcast gears were used on the cranes, the construction speed of the town would be able to be taken to a higher level.

Shilov has been drawing the design of the crane in recent days, and she can build a prototype for testing in as little as two days.

Thinking of this, Horn turned and walked to a mound. Under the mound was a row of brand new mud brick houses emitting black smoke.

This is the temporary mortar workshop area set up by Horn. In the shed outside the mud brick house, workers wearing padded jackets and short capes sit on small stools, hunched over and busy in the water tank.

Wearing leather gloves and holding a knife, they painstakingly dissected the slime, then took out the useful parts and finally extracted the slime juice.

The slime juice will be transported to the mortar workshop behind them and refined into barrels of mortar powder by the Holy Alchemists.

Several carts were parked on the side of the road, their wheels stuck in the mud. On the carts were mortar barrels with lids on them and a layer of canvas spread on the outside.

The laborers were cursing as one was pulling from the front and two were pushing from the back. It took a lot of effort to push the cart out.

It's not that Horn was stingy and didn't want to use the carriage, but that he had more than enough war horses but clearly not enough draft horses.

Horn came to Autumn Island and swept away all the horses of the Duke of Kush in Jeanne d'Arc and the horses of the knights, collecting 240 war horses.

War horses are actually not suitable for pulling carts, and their efficiency and cost-effectiveness are even lower than having people pull them.

Whenever this happened, Horn thought how nice it would be to have a clockwork locomotive. It didn't have to be too long, a short one would be cute too.

The distance from the industrial zone to the town is less than two miles. It is much better to use a small mining cart connected to a clockwork locomotive to pull it all the way there than to use manpower.

It’s a pity that the most important method of manufacturing star-cast gears is missing, and there are less than sixty star-cast gears for Horn to use.

And for some reason, when the vampire of the Sicheng Hermitage, who was Shilov's mother, was making star-cast gears, the smallest one had a diameter of more than 1 meter.

For some smaller machines, this type of gear cannot be used as a power source at all.

"Forget it, let's talk about it later. I'll ask Juan's party to pay more attention to it." Horn stretched and continued to move forward.

There are three main alchemical industries on Autumn Dusk Island today: peat, mortar, and mountain copper.

At present, mountain copper is a long-standing problem, and it is also the problem most directly related to the new army.

The main reason is that too much refined iron is consumed, actually 14 pounds of refined iron is needed.

Although Pasrick said that mana could be used to make up for the waste of refined iron, the old man has not yet calculated the specific formula.

Horn went to see him this morning, and he was still talking nonsense to Hong Wen, saying "It's not my problem, it's a problem of time" and "There are regrets in life."

Compared to Pasrick's procrastination, the "Gallar Manual", which is also about the training of the new army, has been completed for the most part.

Even though Hakuto and Jeshka were arguing so hard over the most effective moves that they were almost at odds with each other, they still managed to draw this complete manual with some difficulty.

The registrars and scribes for the census were recruited yesterday and their training should be completed today, so the census can be carried out tomorrow.

During the population survey, we had to further group the households into tens and hundreds. As the Sura Apartment had been completed, it was almost enough to accommodate one hundred households.

Horn counted on his fingers and summed up. What has not been carried out yet is the marching training. The prerequisites required are: completion of population survey, completion of housing resettlement, completion of compilation of drill manuals, completion of improvement of clockwork guns, and completion of improvement of mountain copper manufacturing method.

Horn has basically completed the prerequisites for these prerequisites, and only these are left.

Training a new army was not as easy and quick as Horn had imagined. It was almost December and even the recruitment of new soldiers had not yet begun.

Horn stopped and looked in the direction of Chateau Joan of Arc, as if his eyes could penetrate the mountains.

Can you make it?

(End of this chapter)