In the low voice of the people, Caesar watched with satisfaction as the first armored ship in the North slid into the sea.


    To tell the truth, it was not easy for the ship to come. Caesar himself knew nothing about seagoing ships, and the barren North lacked shipbuilding technology, and few skilled shipbuilders. Fortunately, the Empire spread the reward of the Black Dragon Emperor to all parts of the mainland through the public opinion control department, attracting many talents.


    Different from today''s mainstream sea sailing solid wood ships wrapped with iron sheets, the reinforced skeleton is used inside the ship for the first time. It is one level ahead of today''s mainstream ships in terms of design scheme and material level, and the overall strength is several times higher than that of wooden warships.


    Corvette villen, a master who came all the way from the trading city-state, won the official attention and respect as soon as he arrived at the west coast, and the shipbuilder did not know how to adapt. After spending some time understanding the driving mode and working principle of the steam furnace, he quickly modified the drawings he had long conceived to design warships that met the requirements of the northern empire.


    When all technical problems were overcome, Corvette''s Shipyard immediately received strong support from the Empire. This huge and incomparable machine was asked for. As a result, the armored ship required by Emperor Caesar was available in only one year.


    "But now, this thing is still a semi-finished product." Caesar knew it when he stared at the sea beast, which was bigger than himself and exuded the beauty of steel.


    In order to speed up the construction speed, the armored ship is not equipped with power modules and weapon systems. However, at the beginning of the design, Corvette has considered this problem and reserved card slots and interfaces for installing steam furnace, transmission structure and open wheel in the hull. Next, it can be spliced only by welding on these metal parts, which is not difficult to install.


    This design idea is good. Caesar decided to keep it to facilitate the mass production of the assembly line factory.


    As early as the feasibility study of manufacturing armored ships was completed, the Empire invested a lot of manpower and material resources in the control area of the west coast and began to build large assembly line factories.


    That is the real as like as two peas. The product of mould and machine tool is born. Without changing the requirements, the factory can basically produce the same parts of the ship as the ship produces, so that there will be some deviation when installing the power system and the weapon module.


    With technical support, reliable modules and huge labor force, the only factor restricting the production of armored ships is steel production. However, with the massive exploitation of ore veins and trade imports in the north, the steel provided is fully sufficient to support the needs of the Empire.


    In other words, Beidi can manufacture more than three armored ships in a year. If the Black Dragon Emperor is willing to expand the scale of the shipyard, this number will become more.


    You should know that this is not an ordinary merchant ship or sailboat, but a huge military armored ship. In naval warfare, such armored ships are generally used as flagship, surrounded by a group of small warships of a certain scale.


    This means that if the manufacturing speed of steam furnace and the training of black wing crew can keep up, the empire can have vast maritime power within five years, so that the whole west coast is full of its own warships, and so is the epic fleet of annihilation.


    This is the charm of the combination of industry and magic.


    Now that the armored ship has been successfully launched into the sea, the next work is to install the power components, and the weapon assembly needs to be slightly moved back, because the originally expected black fire guns have been banned, and the weapon workshop is developing new guns - this is why Caesar was able to give up 100 25 pound black guns and give them all to the spirit forest.


    "Your Majesty, I don''t understand."


    Hogg stood at the feet of the black dragon, raised his head and asked, "this will become our best weapon. Why should we leak it out in advance." the Jackal scanned the crowd with scarlet eyes: "there are humans from other places who may become our enemies."


    "To publicize national strength."


    "Well?"


    "I just want them to see the Empire growing stronger."


    Caesar smiled: "Before I ruled here, there should have been no such thing in Beidi. With the gradual improvement of living standards and the emergence of non-existent things, their recognition of the Empire will be higher and higher - the improvement of this mentality is all-round, from resistance to skepticism, to firmness, piety and worship, and finally, they will even think that the empire is Omnipotent. "


    "I still don''t understand that you are not a God and can''t take faith from it. What''s the significance of doing so?" Hogg''s voice was still confused.


    "I can''t get faith, but that doesn''t mean faith doesn''t work for me."


    The black dragon whispered: "if everyone in this empire is willing to die for it, what''s the difference between the black wing Empire and the kingdom of God? I have something to do with the gods here..."


    He stopped halfway and smiled at the Jackal. "You can probably understand it. Exposing armored ships is a means of publicity."


    After the new ship went to sea, it was inspected for two weeks. After confirming that there was no problem, the official immediately invited Corvette Veron to the king''s court and held a grand medal ceremony under the observation of the people.


    According to the official announcement, based on the outstanding contribution of the shipbuilder Corvette Veron to the Empire, his majesty decided to grant him the title of earl. Although the title of black wing aristocracy can not be inherited since the establishment of the Empire, the Empire retains the right of its descendants to inherit the fief of count corvette.


    The storm caused by this incident had a greater impact than the advent of armored ships, because after all, only some people of ships and warships remained concerned, and the granted nobility was the glory that all imperial leaders wanted, and the title granted by his Majesty was not low this time.


    A count, you should know that since the establishment of the black wing Empire, the royal court has not granted anyone the title of nobility. People have begun to doubt whether the Empire will ban the aristocracy. However, at this time, a new Baron stepped on the imperial stage.


    More dramatically, it was a shipbuilder who was granted the seal!


    Although Corvette has a wide reputation in the industry and is respected as a "master" by insiders, in fact, according to the current values of Aladia, he is still just a craftsman. His status is far from that of an unattainable magician, or even a slightly capable adventurer.


    However, the title that all the casters who went to the Empire dreamed of was obtained by such a craftsman.


    Some sharp people have smelled the attitude of the empire from this event and see what the king court really values and encourages.


    At the same time, the award of the Lord also caused dissatisfaction among some spell casters serving the Empire, but that was all. The spell casters soon lost their voice and had nothing to continue.