The morning sun rises from the sky, and a faint light floats around the fields. The crisp sound of wooden blades clashing sounded outside the king's tent. The sound was clear and audible. This was a morning training that lasted for a full three-quarters of an hour and didn't end until daylight broke out.
The captain of the guard, Ekart, looked calm and sweating a little. Shulot was naked from the waist up and dripping with sweat. Under Naxiu's service, he wiped his body with hot water and exhaled a long and comfortable breath.
"Phew!...Haha! Continuous training every day is the key to strong warriors maintaining their will and body!"
Shulot patted his muscular chest and said with a smile. Then, he stretched out his big hand and pinched Na Xiu's cheek affectionately.
"Ah? Your Highness... Your Highness..."
"Call Master! Naxiu, my little fox, are you feeling better?"
"Ah! Your Highness...Master...is feeling better..."
Naxiu's ears turned red, her head lowered, and she hesitated nervously. Such a twitchy and uneasy posture, appearing on her always majestic body, is very tempting in contrast.
"Huh? I feel a little hot. Isn't it a fever?"
Shulot reached out and touched Naxiu's fair neck, and then touched the woman's red ears. Naxiu suddenly froze in place, like a puppet, at the mercy of her master. The master thought for a while, then hugged the maid's head and pressed it against his forehead. As a result, the heat became more obvious.
"Eh? It's very hot! ...Forget it, life in the military camp is always hard. Naxiu, you'd better stop serving me. Go to Tree Snake City and have a good rest for a few days."
"Ah! Master, I'm fine...I just..."
Naxiu's red lips parted slightly, but she hesitated nervously. There was a warm flame in her heart, which was lit by His Highness himself. She could feel His Highness's true feelings, which were far beyond the attitude of the nobles towards their servants, and completely different from the indifference of the priests and elders.
In His Highness's eyes, she seemed not to be a selfless shadow slave, not a plaything to please her master, but a truly complete woman. These beautiful feelings were the first she had felt since she was born. And all of this, in the past few years, gave her courage bit by bit and brought her gradually budding self. Slowly, she struggled with her identity as a shadow slave, and developed a desire, an instinctive desire as a woman.
However, these feelings and desires are like seeds, firmly bound in the strict soil by the dogma that they have been trained and instilled in the temple since childhood. However, last summer, when the divine body of the high priest suddenly appeared in front of her, amidst the incredible shock and confusion, and after grieving for His Highness... she finally broke free from the shackles in her heart, longing to be like this. It sprouts and grows like a seed, which can no longer be suppressed.
Because the high priest who controlled the Holy City like a mountain has left. And her fate will no longer be determined by the ruthless mountains, but will be in the hands of His Highness, who is as deep and warm as the sea... no, the master.
"Your Highness...I just..."
"You just have a little cold. You need to rest!"
Shulot shook his head and gently stroked Na Xiu's smooth cheek. Looking at the little fox who stubbornly opened his mouth, he stretched out a finger and pressed down on the other person's mouth. Then, his expression became serious and he ordered.
"Naxiu, I order you to go to the Tree Snake City and have a good rest. Remember, drink two cups of healing grass tea every day and rest peacefully! ... As for the guards in the tent, leave them to Ekart for the time being. Waiting for you Okay, come back and take over."
Na Xiu opened her eyes wide and stared at Shulot's serious face. For some reason, her eyes gradually became foggy, and her legs became a little weak. After a moment, she suddenly stuck out her tongue, took Shulot's finger into her mouth, and gently licked and bit it twice like a kitten.
"hiss!"
Feeling the moisture and softness on his fingertips, Shulot was suddenly excited, and a fire rose in his heart. He immediately withdrew his finger and the sheep said angrily.
"Nash!"
"Owner..."
Naxiu licked her lips and lowered her head. She exposed her snow-white and red neck and responded obediently, just like a silver fox left in the hands of a hunter.
"I...all listen to you!"
After the gentle and short interlude, Shulot once again sat in the big tent and read the letters from the directors of the various departments in the Institute of Divine Inspiration.
The first was a report from Director of Military Industry Ku Xinji. In the warehouse of the royal capital, a batch of crossbows, axes, and leather and bronze armor had been accumulated in the past two months, which could equip two thousand-man battalions.
"The battle with the Totonak people has broken out, it's time to replenish a batch of equipment..."
Shulot thought for a while and ordered this batch of armaments to be transported to the front line of the Eastern Expedition as a reserve for the army. When a large army goes out to fight, the more intense the battle, the faster the equipment will be damaged and consumed. Although the craftsmen accompanying the army can repair some parts, the remaining gaps must be filled with new equipment, among which the replacement of lost arrows and armor is the most urgent. Therefore, with the current military production capacity of the Mexica Alliance and the Kingdom of the Lake, there is only one Bronze Armor Legion that can be maintained.
Next, there is a document from Kundili, the director of crossbows, which talks about the new bamboo-wood composite bow. The crossbow bureau’s bamboo and wood composite bow technology has finally made a breakthrough. A new batch of thousands of compound bows is being manufactured and may not be completed for another year.
The kingdom's new bamboo bow is different from the traditional Chinese bamboo bow where the upper and lower bow arms fit together. It is based on using a whole long bow as a bow body, using bone glue on the back of the bow, and carefully pasting bamboo boards to further increase the shooting power and improve efficiency. Then, stack three layers of bamboo pieces at the tip of the bow to form a recurve to increase the initial velocity of the arrow.
The advancement of crossbow technology cannot be accomplished overnight. Just making a compound bow takes years and months, let alone improving the technology. This kind of compound bow is the simplest to improve, but it requires very high strength. It is difficult for a real warrior to use it on the battlefield.
"Compared with the bow-making technology accumulated for thousands of years in Eurasia, it is still a new gunpowder weapon, which is more suitable for the various departments in the Americas to catch up!"
Xiuluo Te gradually gained some understanding. He lowered his head and quickly passed over the information from other departments.
The Department of Industry and Mining has hired thousands of mining slaves, further expanded its scale, and its production capacity is increasing. Some iron tools were also used in the mines. But compared with bronze tools, the new iron tools have not yet shown their advantages.
The Gongzhi Division produced better quality purple pottery, and began to try to add bone meal to the pottery according to the divine inspiration. The Construction Department expanded its scale and tried Shenqi's large-scale continuous-fire brick kiln, and adopted simple brick-making tools.
The Printing Bureau used softer metals to experiment with flexible printing type, currently choosing lead and tin. Of course, this kind of exploration of movable type printing is just a reserve of technology inspired by the gods. Now, the most important task of the Printing Bureau is to print scriptures and albums of the main deities on wooden plates day and night, and transport them to counties in the north and south, and even to village festivals.
After many years of silence, Lozano, the director of the Bureau of Special Trade Goods and the leader of the masons, finally made new achievements. Unfortunately, even after nearly ten years of research, he failed to produce transparent glass. However, he ordered a high-temperature-resistant iron pipe from the ironware produced in the Black Rock Mountain Iron Mine. Then, following His Highness's instructions many years ago, he put one end of the iron pipe into the molten glass and played with glass blowing.
"Um?..."
Shulot raised his eyebrows, looked at the glass bottle that came with the letter, and said nothing. The cost of making the glazed vial is negligible, but the pattern of the sun hummingbird on it took a lot of effort. And the biggest advantage of such gorgeous utensils compared with practical pottery is...
"Yes, it can be sold very expensively! Then it's called...the Jewelry in the Lake!"
Shulot nodded slightly and identified another hugely profitable product monopolized by the kingdom. Then, he finally reached out and opened a letter from the director of the Bronze and Cannon Casting Bureau and the foundry master Tiripi. But after reading for a moment, the king's expression suddenly changed, revealing unbelievable ecstasy!
"Dear Your Majesty! According to the divine revelation you left behind, we spent more than a year trial-producing a bronze mortar specially used for siege. It has a very special shape, short and fat, and has a very high caliber. It is wide and can launch heavy stone bullets weighing 30 kilograms!..."
"This is an indestructible artifact given by the Lord God! We have tested it more than a dozen times, and it is so powerful that it can even break a stone wall!... God bless Your Majesty! From now on, there will be no castles or fortresses in the world that can Block your steps!"
"It's just...for the last test firing, we replaced it with a new type of granulated gunpowder, added a full fifteen kilograms, and fired a densely packed 30 kilograms of stone bullets...and then...the cannon exploded!... .”
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