Seeing that the summer is about to end, the border town is about to usher in the last and hottest month of summer, and Roland does not want to leave the castle.

In addition to making gunpowder, the rest of the nitrates he had purchased from Margrie was used to lower room temperature—and now in almost every room there was a bucket of nitrite, and there was a kettle in the bucket.This can not only play the effect of heat absorption and cooling, but also drink ice water to quench thirst.Only in this way, he will not just sit in the office every day, he is already full of sweat.

In addition to Anna, the other witches were also stopped by him to work, in addition to the daily necessary practice and study, they basically gathered in the hall of the first floor, either chatting or each other than the kunte card, a happy look.And Anna... it wasn’t that Roland didn’t want her to rest, it was that she wasn’t afraid of heat at all.The red ingots can be held directly in their hands, and the hot summer heat is nothing to her.Even if she stood by the steel stove busy in the afternoon, she would not shed a drop of sweat.

In order to reward the hard-working and serious Anna, Roland has recently deliberately made some ice cream to reward her, such as the classic delicious ice cream of the future - mixed with egg yolk, cream, milk and sugar water, and then cooled by nitrite.Anna is very fond of this cold and soft and sweet snacks, every small bite of ice cream, lake blue eyes bent into a seam will make him feel pleasing.

In addition, looking at the monthly summary tables sent by the city hall is also a great pleasure.

The population has doubled again so far, to nearly 18,000.Coupled with the long song fortress will "turn over" a group of serfs every month, the next year to break through the 20,000 mark is not a problem.Without counting the number of villages and towns in the territory, this scale is almost comparable to the large cities of Chishui City, Jinshui City and Wangdu.

It is a little regret that the population has grown a lot, but the quality has not improved much.The education is still more than a thousand indigenous people in small towns, and it will likely take about a year to graduate smoothly – although Karl’s previous private colleges have created a group of first-graders, but the number of fewer than 100 people is still insignificant relative to the total population.

Perhaps we should first educate the refugees in the east, rather than waiting for enough dormitory communities to do this step, Roland thought, after all, education early only benefits, there is no harm.

The development of factories in the small town is also very good.

After more than half a year of construction, the industrial park now has three factories in operation: two steam engine production plants and a bullet processing plant.The number of workers in Factory No. 1 has expanded from more than a dozen blacksmiths when it was founded to more than 100 people, and the follow-up is basically Aboriginal people - this is what he hopes to see, and a group of apprentices gradually grow into craftsmen, and then drive the next batch of apprentices.

The workers of Factory No. 2 belong to the String Moon Bay caravan, and in just one month they have roughly mastered the use of each machine tool, although the yield is relatively bad, but compared to the blacksmiths of Factory No. 1, the first month of these craftsmen is obviously better.It was only before the contract expired that the steam engines they produced were owned by Roland.At present, the two factories can produce about eight to ten steam engines a month, which is also the main income of the border town.

As for the bullet factory, it was handed over to the First Army directly after completion, not only the entrance has sentries, patrols are arranged around, and even the production work is the responsibility of the soldiers.After a week of trial runs, mass production of a new generation of fixed-load bullets has begun.

Roland designed the assembly line can not achieve full mechanical production, whether it is the bottom fire, gunpowder or the warhead, need to be loaded and compacted.The main processing tool is two mechanical stamping machines, one can be cut by Anna into the shape of a shell, and one is used to stamp the bottom of the fire cup.

As long as the soldiers put the mercury powder evenly between the two thin pieces of paper, stick the paper pieces, sandwich it into the bottom fire cup, and finally stuff the bottom fire cup into the ring grooves at the end of the shell, even if it is a great success.As for the process of loading black gunpowder and compacted warheads, it is exactly the same as the previous re-installation exercise.

The factory was small, only about forty, and could produce more than five hundred rounds of ammunition almost every day.Roland intended to turn the more than 40 people into full-time processors to maintain the normal operation of the bullet factory.

Roland then plans to fill in the soap factory and perfumery - the former is an extremely important part of the military industry, and the latter may be able to open up a new channel of commerce for the town.As for the bicycle factory, you can also drag it back, as long as it is put into production before the Kingdom Avenue is repaired.

"Your Highness," said the Nightinge, pushing the door open, "and here's Maisie and the lightning."

The two men drilled over the side of the nightingue and ran to the table to exploit their heads, “Are you looking for us?”

"Tomorrow is summer," Roland, drawing from the drawer, turning the long-written reply to Maisie, "and when you return to the fjord, remember to turn me over to Tilly."

“Ah . . .”She paused for a moment, blinked a few eyes before taking the envelope, carefully tucked into the close bag, "No problem!"

Seeing the appearance of the other party's sudden understanding, I am afraid I no longer remember that I have to go back to report every month, Roland resisted the bottom of the smile, it seems that the charm of the town is really big.

"I have forgotten that tomorrow is a new month," said the lightning, holding his forehead, "isn't that a long time not to meet?"

"Last time it was Mr. Tiley's cleaning plan that delayed time, and this time I will come back as soon as possible," Maisie shook the long white hair that was about to drag to the ground, "that eagle nest will have to wait until I return to explore...

"I know," said the little girl, "and so it is.

"You also have a task," Roland spread out a drawing of the southern area of the town, "this is a map you have made, do you remember the location of a shoal in the direction of the mountains and the sea?"

"Remember," said the lightning, "it's probably in this place."

"Very well, you'll take Maisie once to fly, and then put two flags at the junction of the shoal and the mountains, and mark them on the map," he said, looking at Maisie, "if Tiley agrees to send the witch, you'll lead the sailboat to this shoal, and I'll greet you at the top of the hill."

“Send the witch?”The lightning asked curiously, “Is there a new sister coming to the border town?”

"I don't know yet," said Roland, smiling slightly, "it depends on Tiley's answer... but I think she'll agree."(Unfinished.