"I don't believe it. You... you must be lying to me." Carlos was full of panic. He fell heavily on the chair, lowered his head, pressed his forehead with both hands, and muttered to himself in a daze: "The fire must have an impact on the price of food, but it cannot be as exaggerated as you said. Mercardo... Yes, Mercardo's food price has only doubled. You are lying... You are lying!"

Viscount Monio stood there without moving, his calm eyes mixed with a little mercy: "You have been staying in the palace and the capital, and you should leave the city and go outside to see it. You seem to understand nothing. As long as the people below unite, you will become blind with open eyes, deaf with ears, and even an idiot with strong intelligence."

"How dare you insult me?" the king was furious.

"If you want to kill me, then take action now." Monio said without fear: "History will prove who is the most loyal to this country. I admit that I was defeated, but I still muster up the courage to come back. I am much nobler than those bastards who have been hiding by your Majesty, racking their brains to empty this country."

Carlos is not the kind of person who seems very stupid on the surface. If he doesn't even have the most basic judgment ability, he will not be able to rule Gorefoil for more than 20 years, and he will not be able to become the king recognized by most people.

After a brief vent, he gasped and looked up and down with his puzzled eyes: "You...you..."

The following words kept wandering between the king's throat. He was hesitating and thinking.

To be fair, Carlos did not believe in Viscount Monio, and he had been captured, which was the biggest stain on his body.

However, past experience tells Carlos that Viscount Monio is one of the best compared to other nobles, especially in terms of talent, which is more prominent and outstanding.

He had no reason to lie to me on the issue of Hakata County.

Could it be that those officials and nobles join forces to keep me in the dark?

Looking at the viscount standing opposite, Carlos asked in a depressed manner: "What advice do you have besides surrendering to the northern giant?"

This is to ask the Viscount to answer from the standpoint of the Kingdom of Gorefolio.

Monio thought for a long time and said carefully: "Call for help from the Holy See."

Viscount was not playing in the Infernal Affairs, and as a spore transplanter, he could not have committed any rebellious behavior.

This is part of the plan.

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Eastern Gabriel, the third secret area.

"Mid-di District" is the Holy See's name for a special area. It means a certain plot of land that was closely guarded by the Holy See and the Holy See's Army, which is equivalent to a military-controlled area in the civilized era.

Joseph was wearing a black robe with a long referee style. Accompanied by two technicians, he stood at the top of the simple tower, holding a monocular telescope and observing the test vehicle in the distance.

There are many weapons information about the civilized era in the underground ruins, among which Joseph is most interested and the most feasible, which is the tank.

As early as more than a hundred years ago, someone proposed the steam theory and secretly completed an experiment similar to Watt. Unfortunately, he was discovered by a secret spy in the Holy See and was captured in Gabriel forever. In the last few years of his life, this researcher who had not left his name in history built the first steam engine of this era.

It's very primitive and rough, but it's indeed an epoch-making machine.

Joseph sealed the machine, and after the inventor died, he handed over the relevant information and physical objects to other imprisoners of the same type to continue research and improvement.

Over the past sixty years, multiple experiments have shown that steam engines can fundamentally replace animal power and build a huge mechanical kingdom based on this. However, out of psychological fear of the destruction of the civilized era, Joseph rejected anything with the "advanced" prefix. This directly led to the inability to miniaturize the steam engine in subsequent research and could only exist in the form of paper data.

The rise of the northern giant made Joseph feel an unprecedented threat. As a last resort, he lifted a ban on sealing technology, including steam engines.

The process of converting heat energy into kinetic energy is not complicated, and a pot of boiled water can explain its principle. However, it is not so simple to transform theory into reality. Although Joseph has drawings in his hand and detailed structural drawings of the first generation of machinery, in the eyes of those blacksmiths and craftsmen who secretly summoned, this drawing is undoubtedly a blasphemy against the great lord.

"Oh my God, what did I see? This is a machine that can be moved by itself with coal... No, this is witchcraft, this must be damn, evil witchcraft!"

"How could the power of water push a heavy iron block? This must be a joke."

"This is heresy, this is disrespect to the Holy Lord. I want to report you to the Court!"

Joseph's heart was filled with endless thoughts of wanting to kill people, and his funny and helpless thinking occupied the entire brain space. He never expected that he had been secretly guiding and controlling the Holy See for so many years behind the scenes, but in the end he had dug a huge pit without realizing it. Now it's time to be forced to fill it.

Ignorance can form habits, especially for the people. When all advanced, novel, imaginative germination is strangled, or even uprooted from the depths of the soil of thinking, there is no longer the so-called "science".

This is not the blacksmith's fault. The Gospel of the Lord clearly stipulates that any metal product of strange shape may be used in witchcraft rituals. For example, hollow and twisted tubes, large pieces of smooth thin iron sheets, and cylindrical metal components (bearings) with various grooves, blacksmiths are not allowed to create such objects privately. Especially the first type, that is, hollow metal pipes, in addition to licensed arms factories and enterprises specializing in producing alcohol (condensing tubes), once private manufacturing is discovered by the private sector, the court will immediately intervene and investigate the specific use of the object.

As long as you enter the investigation process, it means death. Those priests in black do not care whether the metal tube is used to make guns or make wine. They will only take out the Gospels of the Lord and declare in public that "you are the demon's helper." The arrest site can convict with just one sentence. Of course, it is very simple to not die. As long as you honestly hand over all your property and give your young and beautiful wife voluntarily, you can save your life.

In Gabriel and the sphere of influence ruled by His Majesty the Pope, ordinary people worshipped the Holy Lord to the extreme. In order to guide and better use this inertial thinking, Joseph maximized the power of faith rule in the long years in the past and successfully brainwashed the people in the Holy See.

In this seemingly holy land, the devil will never find a safe hiding place.

A certain man fart when eating, and happened to be seen and heard by the neighbor at the door, and immediately reported it to the court using this as an excuse. The reason is simple: normal people will never fart when eating, and this must be a code agreed with the devil of hell. As for what kind of evil activities they want to engage in, only the Holy Lord knows.

A guy full of evil desire fell in love with a young girl, but was molested to her but failed. Instead, she was beaten by her boyfriend. So he held a grudge and ran to the referee to report that she was a witch. The reason was also simple: today is the day of qipai, and this demon disguised as a girl passed by the church, did not bow to the sacred crucifix, nor did he draw sacred symbols on his chest.

The reasons and excuses for these reports are ridiculous, but the priest in the court believed that this was evidence of affair with the devil. So the man who farted was arrested and sent to prison. The family spent money desperately to save him until he paid enough money to fill the priest's wallet. The poor man finally left the prison and returned home. He was hit hard, and the once wealthy family became poor because of this. His wife could not stand it and ran away with other men. His father was angry to death. His mother hanged herself in despair... The final outcome of the man farted was to go to the madhouse. He was stimulated to lose his mind. No matter who he saw, he would smile foolishly, puff up his cheeks anytime and anywhere, and make a "bobo" sound in his mouth.

As a whistleblower, the neighbor was rewarded with ten gold pounds.

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The young girl was arrested in the court for more than a month. It was the most terrifying place in the world, especially for young and beautiful women. She became a body product for dozens of priests, and the cruel reality ripped apart the last dignity in her heart. In order to survive, she was willing to do anything. When the priests in black had enough fun and were tired of playing, she finally released her. The white dove, which had once been full of hope for life and the future, had long disappeared and turned into a crow full of hair-lossed scars all over her body. She gave up on herself and chose the bar girl industry, greeting her once beloved boyfriend with a slutty smile: "Ten pennies, this is my offer."

This is a very terrifying world, and it is also a world ruled by cruel precepts and the Gospel of the Lord. Because the devil has pervasive infiltration of the human world, we need to be vigilant and discover abnormal movements from around us. In this land full of believers, the Lord is the real emperor. As His spokesperson, the Pope can decide everything by just moving his mouth.

Joseph is the spokesperson for the Pope.

If there was no damn war... No, it should be said that if it weren't for the damn Somsen's random command, which led to the defeat of the Kingdom coalition in the north, things would not have become what they are now.

Unlike illusory slogans and fantasies, reality is touchable. Without a powerful army and advanced weapons, the northern giants would soon break through the border and enter the Holy See.

Joseph urgently needed to enhance the military, scientific and technological power of the Holy See. However, he had no choice but to find out the people he needed in this land covered by the holy rice.

Many priests in the Holy See's Research Department can be regarded as scientists. However, they have specialties in their professions, and those people have no problems in theoretical research. For example, the "No. 6" that was successfully manufactured before is the experimental results of the Biological Research Department. However, the key to determining the outcome of the war is not the emergence of one or two super weapons, but the mass production of some powerful weapons.

When Joseph was in the underground ruins, he read many war books in the civilization era. He was deeply aware of the outcome of World War II, especially the turning point of the Soviet-German War, the Battle of Moscow and the Battle of Stalingrad, which was regarded as a classic by Joseph. He did not think that the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki changed the course of history. After all, nuclear bombs of that era were precious, and even if they destroyed two cities, they had no essential impact on the war itself. The key to determining the outcome of the war was the army.

Joseph believed that the key to the victory or defeat of the war between the Holy See and the Northern Giants lies in the steam engine, which is equivalent to the competition between the Tiger tank and the T34. Quantity is the key. Although the former has excellent performance, it is too small to withstand the latter, which is flooded like a tide.

Leonardo da Vinci once left a sketch structure of the "special chariot". It was a disc-shaped, rotatable mechanical giant. It was surrounded by ring-shaped musket shot holes, divided into two upper and lower layers. The power layer is below, and a weapon platform is above. The entire machinery can accommodate thirty to fifty soldiers and is suitable for use in plains. The thick armor is enough to block the giant's shells. Neither their large-caliber muskets nor sharp battle axes can hurt them. It is the key weapon to determine the outcome of the war.

The civilization era left a lot of legacy, but Joseph could not use it, nor could he make them practical. The reason why he racked his brains and finally found the ancient design drawings of Da Vinci was completely out of helpless choices. Oil refining is not as simple as saying it. It takes a long time for internal combustion engines to be developed successfully to be practical. In contrast, the steam engine is much simpler and easy to operate. More importantly, it can be mass-produced once the experiment is successful.

The experiment car in the distance is far less flexible than Joseph imagined. It should be round, to be precise, a thick disc. The lower power part of the three-meter-high lower layer is wrapped in thick steel armor, and the flat upper layer has ten shooting holes. This war machine, called "The Wrath of the Holy Lord", looks extremely heavy. There are two very thick chimneys on the top, constantly spitting thick black smoke. Even when standing far away, you can still hear the "hug-hugging" mechanical roar, as if an old man suffering from bronchial asthma was crawling hard.

The speed is too slow. It is estimated that it can travel up to ten kilometers per hour, and the premise must be that the terrain is flat and there are no large ups and downs.

But no matter what, in terms of combat performance, it is barely acceptable. Several rounds of infantry volleys were organized before. The bullets fired by the conflrors could not penetrate the outer armor of the "Wrath of the Holy Lord". The soldiers stayed inside were safe and no one was injured.

Joseph's face showed a little smile and was soon replaced by a deep gloom.

This is indeed an advantage, but in comparison, there are too many disadvantages.

The coal carrying capacity is not large and can only last for more than three hours on the battlefield.
Chapter completed!