Forming a central bank is also an important part of building a territory.

Let’s take the history of Blue Star as an example.

After the Industrial Revolution, why was Britain able to defeat its rival France and become the world's hegemon?

At that time, France had centralized power, a powerful army, a complete bureaucracy, and even a complete scientific education system. Why did it still fail?

the reason is simple.

Britain defeated France by relying on financial innovation.

Britain established a central bank, used the country's credit to guarantee debt issuance, used borrowed money to hire troops, and used French money to defeat France.

After defeating France, Britain used the war dividends to build the world's largest navy and established an empire on which the sun never sets.

The central bank and its credit are, in a sense, more important than the military!

So Sean is now starting to form a central bank and improve laws, all to prepare for future development.

...

After separating from Anduin, Sean took Windsor and [Shrinking Ray Engineer] Occam Sparks towards the Thorn Ridge in the north of the town.

Occam Sparks is a dwarf engineer. During this time, he was mainly responsible for the machinery manufacturing and construction teams.

Some time ago, he led the construction team to build a water-powered mill and papermaking workshop by the Morning Star River.

After the two workshops were completed, the construction team began to build two defensive bunkers at the top of Thorny Ridge, one on each side of the road.

However, the construction of the bunker has not been started for long, the foundation has just been completed, and the first floor of the main body of the bunker has not been completely built.

…

The reason for building two bunkers is that the former Hetan Town is located to the north of Thorny Ridge, which is uphill all the way. It can even be called "easy to attack but difficult to defend" in terms of terrain.

If the enemy wants to attack Hetan Town, they have to run directly down from Thorn Ridge. With the help of the accelerated war horses on the ramp, they can even jump over the wooden wall in the north of Hetan Town!

Therefore, Sean and Anduin set up two fortresses at the top of Thorn Ridge. In the future, they will cut down all the trees on the south side of River Beach Town and expand the town's boundaries to here.

The tops of the two bunkers standing on the Thorny Ridge have greatly enhanced the defense capabilities of Hetan Town, making Hetan Town much "easier to defend and harder to attack".

...

The bunker is built with giant stone bricks. Each stone brick is about 20 centimeters long and 10 centimeters high. According to the stone’s density of 2.6 tons/cubic meter, each stone brick weighs about 20 kilograms!

Seeing the mountains of stone bricks, Sean nodded with satisfaction:

"Occam, thank you for being able to bake so many stone bricks and move them to Thorn Ridge in such a short period of time!"

"It's not hard work, sir." Occam Sparks smiled and said:

"After the townspeople learned about the role of the two bunkers, they became very enthusiastic! Therefore, the firing of stone bricks is not only of high quality, but also of good effect... As for the problem of transporting stone bricks, we basically did not do it.

Thanks to Taran Zhu and Thunder God for their help!"

"Zhu Taran and Thunder God?"

Sean was very surprised. How did these two hostile guys get together?

"Our construction team is very grateful to these two people."

Occam went on to explain:

"At the beginning, Lord Anduin asked Taran Zhu to help us transport stone bricks. Zhu Taran flew several giant stone bricks towards Thorn Ridge alone, flying faster than us with our bare hands.

Several times faster! Everyone in the construction team was shocked!

Later, the God of Thunder passed by here, and there was a dispute between them. In order to compete with Zhu Taran in speed, he walked up the thorn ridge carrying a small mountain of rocks. His footprints are still left on the mountain road!

So we basically didn’t do anything, and the stone bricks reached the top of Thorny Ridge.”

After hearing Occam's words, Windsor, standing next to Sean, couldn't help but exclaimed:

"Oh, it turns out that the footprints on the mountain road were left by the God of Thunder. I thought some large beast passed by!"

.......

After finishing their chat, Sean carefully inspected the bunker that had just been built for a period of time.

Although the construction process was very rough in his eyes as an architectural designer, and even the placement of stone bricks was uneven. But considering the current background, Sean didn't say anything.

Occam Sparks introduced the details of the bunker's construction to Sean as he walked:

"The entire bunker is made of stone bricks. According to your construction drawings of "brick-concrete structure", we have reached a wall thickness of 40 centimeters.

We have specifically tested that it can block the arrows of high-level bronze-level archers with fighting spirit!"

After hearing this, Sean was surprised. He seemed to have underestimated the strong men in this world. Can a 40-centimeter-thick stone wall be destroyed with a bow and arrow?

So Sean asked Windsor:

"Wendsor, if you use a bow and arrow to shoot at the bunker, do you think you can destroy the bunker?"

Windsor touched the thick stone wall, nodded and said:

"Sir, if you use the bronze bow Bach Bronze Hammer gave us, you can easily penetrate it, but if you use ordinary bows and arrows, it will be difficult."

Sean: "..."

It seems that in future wars, more consideration should be given to the impact of high-level practitioners on the war.

Shooting a bow and arrow through a 40cm thick stone wall? It’s really outrageous!

…

But now is not the time to think about this. Sean winked at Occam Sparks and motioned for him to continue.

Occam Sparks understood what Sean meant and continued:

"The bunker is semi-enclosed, with shooting holes on the wall for musketeers to shoot;

The top of the bunker is equipped with a telescope, which allows the soldiers in the bunker to observe the enemy's situation.

As long as the enemy army doesn't have too many bronze-level warriors or above, I think with two bunkers and 20 soldiers standing guard, and the ready-made muskets, we can easily stop an army of about a hundred people!"

After hearing Occam's words, Sean's eyes lit up:

"Wait, the musket is ready now?"

Before Occam could speak, Windsor answered first:

"Of course, sir! I just returned to the castle and saw five new recruits of the Silver Hand who had been equipped with muskets."

Occam also added: "That's right, sir! A total of 11 muskets were made in the first batch, which we call Mini rifles; two artillery pieces were also made, but they are still kept in the Craftsmen's Association."

"Great!" Sean said happily:

"At least at this stage, muskets and artillery can greatly enhance the strength of our territory. Let's go to the Craftsmen Association now to have a look!"

After inspecting the two unfinished bunkers, Sean took everyone to the Craftsmen's Association.

...

...

Six p.m.

In the Golden Wolf King's Castle in Yonn City, 56 kilometers away from Sean, Khadgar looked helplessly at the dress he had just put on.

The black evening dress is also decorated with white, red and gold ribbons, which looks extremely luxurious.

Khadgar raised his arm, and the threads on his shirt almost fell apart.

Khadgar looked helplessly at the woman in front of him and said:
Chapter completed!