Alien Knights

Todd looked at Emerson in surprise: "Marriage? How did you come up with this idea?!"

Emerson rubbed his mustache and analyzed himself: "Mary is now the queen of the Holy Acropolis, and the strategic position and military strength of the Holy Acropolis will be of great help to Muxi City. Your Majesty, you should be very clear. Once you marry Queen Mary, this will find an extremely powerful ally for our country. At the same time, it will also make up for the shortcomings of Muxi City in terms of reserve forces and weapons and equipment..."

"The only thing that worries me is Queen Mary's fertility. During the years she was Queen of the Silver Ring, she had no heirs. Many people questioned her infertility. Actually, even if the rumors are true, this problem can be resolved. As long as His Majesty finds a mistress in the future, she will give birth to an heir and adopt Queen Mary..."

Todd's face was getting darker and darker, and he couldn't help interrupting the other party, shaking his head and said: "My Prime Minister, are you thinking too much? I never had the idea of ​​marrying Mary as queen."

Emerson was stunned: "Your Majesty, you intervened in the succession of the Holy Acropolis and pushed Mary to the throne of the Queen. Aren't you worried about how to control this power?"

Todd sighed: "I already have a rough plan in my mind about how to integrate the power of the Holy Acropolis into the kingdom, but it's not yet ripe to execute it now."

"Plan?" Emerson opened his eyes wide: "Can you tell me a thing or two first?"

"Now is not the time. I can only say that this plan is related to our ongoing religious reform." Todd looked at Emerson who was inquiring, and said with a wry smile: "So, let's finish what we are doing first. As for the marriage, let's put it aside first."

Emerson glanced at Todd suspiciously: "If Your Majesty insists, then I will temporarily put aside the marriage proposal. Regarding the meeting of the Reformation you mentioned, I will call the participants now."

Seeing Emerson rushing out of the room and rushing to arrange a meeting, Todd stood up with a smile and rang the summons bell on the table.

He gestured to Huggins who pushed the door in, and Todd signaled him to follow him.

"Your Majesty, where are we going?"

"Walk with me down the street."

Sitting in an unremarkable carriage, Todd lifted the curtain of the window, first glanced at the guard knights on horseback on both sides of the carriage, and then looked at the endlessly prosperous Muxi City in his eyes.

Walking along the wide and smooth avenue from the palace, Todd has seen the crowded central square, the majestic cathedral, the bustling commercial street, and the orderly city hall.

As the carriage went further and further away, Huggins drove his horse close to the window and whispered, "Your Majesty, if you go further, you will be in the workshop area."

Todd nodded and lowered the curtains: "Go to Aiden Kom's workshop."

When Todd walked into Aiden's workshop, the old craftsman was directing the apprentices to beat a wrought iron pipe together.

Upon discovering the king's arrival, old Aiden rubbed his eyes in disbelief, then shouted happily: "Your Majesty is coming!"

Todd first looked at the people in the room with a smile, but when he saw the left eye of old Aiden's face, with burn marks, and had completely lost his vision, he frowned and asked, "Your eye?"

Old Aiden touched his blind left eye, and said rather ashamedly: "During experimenting with a new musket, due to the material of the gun body and the amount of gunpowder, the barrel exploded..."

Seeing Todd's concerned expression, old Aiden laughed indifferently: "Your Majesty, what a big deal it is to be blind in one eye?! Don't I still have one that can be used? Compared with this, take a look, I just built a musket recently."

From the wooden box at the back of the workshop, old Aiden took out a sparkling pistol that had not yet been polished and painted.

As soon as Todd took the musket, he immediately felt the weight of the weapon in his hand. He repeatedly looked at the musket in his hand, and asked with interest: "How is the performance of this gun?"

The smile on Old Aiden's face tightened, and he coughed twice: "The effective range is about 25 meters. Within this distance, most scale armor and chain mail can be penetrated."

For guns, Todd, who only stayed in books and chatting, nodded and said, "Very good."

The expression on Old Aiden's face was even uglier. He whispered, "Your Majesty, the musket you sent has an effective range of forty meters."

Todd was dumbfounded: "It's so much worse?!"

"And this is not the most troublesome problem. The firearm you sent is better than the firearm we made in terms of service life and parts production." Old Aiden looked a little discouraged: "I also asked scholars from Muxi University to help. They said that it was a problem with the manufacturing process and material quality. Now we are working together to improve the firearm..."

Todd played with the musket in his hand, but his thoughts spread out.

The captured musket was obtained by Aisha from an officer of the Abbasid Empire more than three years ago. Since it is the standard weapon of the army, it should be a mature firearm model. Counting the test period, improvement period and service period, the history of this musket in the Abbasid Empire, from the prototype design to today, may have exceeded ten years.

A musket ten years ago is far superior to the imitation weapons of Muxi City. From this, Todd has seen the backwardness of Muxi City in terms of gunpowder weapons, as well as the huge gap in technology between the northern parish and the southern empire.

Todd scratched the back of his head with a headache, and shouted in his heart, "This is not scientific."

According to the general development of the plot, the traverser should have a supreme technological advantage, and then rely on the leading cannons and muskets of the times to push a wave of technological flow and complete the harvest of the natives... It's my turn, why do I always feel that there is a rhythm to be compared.

Todd returned the musket in his hand to old Aiden, and asked, "According to your opinion, how long would it take to achieve the process of capturing the musket?"

The old craftsman hesitated for a while, as if afraid of the king's blame, he gave an answer tremblingly: "If the research at Muxi University goes well, it will take about a year."

Todd was dizzy for a while.

a year? !

If it takes another year to make this musket, the enemy may have hit the doorstep.

Todd now regrets the major he studied at the beginning. If he majored in materials, machinery, or energy and power, he might have made a steam tank by now... But majors in biochemistry are really at a disadvantage when it comes to climbing the military technology tree.

"I will give Terrence a warrant to give priority to the research of gunpowder weapons."

After saying this, Todd, who was worried about the future military power of Muxi City, called Huggins and set foot on the way back to the palace.