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

Emerson touched his two-faced beard, and analyzed himself: "Mary is now the queen of the Holy Guard, and the strategic position and military strength of the Holy Guard are of great help to Muxicheng, Your Majesty You should be clear. Once you and Queen Mary are married, this will find a very powerful ally for our country, and at the same time, it will make up for the shortcomings of Twilight in the reserve force and weaponry..."

"The only thing that worries me a little is Queen Mary's fertility. During her several years as Queen of the Silver Rings, she had no children, and many people questioned her infertility. In fact, even if the rumors are true, this is a problem. It’s also easy to solve, as long as your Majesty finds a mistress in the future, gives birth to an heir and then adopts it to Queen Mary..."

Todd's face darkened as he listened, and he couldn't help interrupting the other person. He shook his head and said, "My Prime Minister, are you thinking too much? I never thought of marrying Mary as a queen."

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

Todd sighed: "As for how to integrate the power of the Holy Acropolis into the kingdom, I already have a general plan in my mind, but the time to implement it is not yet ripe."

"Plan?" Emerson widened his eyes. "Can you tell me one or two first?"

"It's not the time yet. I can only say that this plan is related to our ongoing religious reform." Todd looked at Emerson who was looking inquiring, and said with a wry smile: "So, let's take care of things first. Done, as for the marriage, let’s let it go first."

Emerson gave Todd a dubious look: "If your Majesty insists on it, then I will put the proposal of marriage on hold for the time being. Regarding the meeting of the Reformation you mentioned, I will call the participants now."

Seeing Emerson walked out of the room in a hurry and hurriedly arranged a meeting, Todd stood up with a smile and rang the summoning bell on the table.

He gestured to Huggins who came in by pushing the door, and Todd motioned for him to follow him.

"Your Majesty, where are we going?"

"Come with me on the street."

Sitting in an inconspicuous carriage, Todd lifted the curtains of the driving window, first glanced at the guards who were riding on both sides of the carriage, and then looked at the endless bustling Twilight City in his eyes.

Walking along the wide and flat 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 moved farther and farther, Huggins drove the horse closer to the window and whispered: "Your Majesty, go further and it will be the workshop area."

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

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

Seeing that the king is coming, Old Aiden first rubbed his eyes in disbelief, and then yelled happily, "Your Majesty!"

Todd first smiled and looked at the people in the room, but when he saw that the left eye on Old Aiden's face had burn marks and had completely lost his eyesight, he frowned and asked, "Your eyes? "

Old Aiden touched his blind left eye and said in shame: "When experimenting with a new gun, 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, how big is it to be blind with one eye?! Don't I have one more thing I can only use! Compared to this, let's take a look. I just built a musket recently."

From the wooden box in the back of the workshop, Old Aiden took out a tinder firing gun that could not be polished and painted in the future.

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 does this gun perform?"

Old Aiden smiled tightly on his face and coughed twice: "The effective range is about 25 meters. Within this distance, you can penetrate most of the scales and chain mail."

Todd, who only stayed in books and chats, nodded and said, "Very good."

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

Todd was dumbfounded: "So much difference?!"

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

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

The seized firearm was obtained by Aisha from an officer of the Abbasid Empire more than three years ago~lightnovelpub.net~ Since it is a standard weapon of the military, it should be a mature firearm model. . Counting the trial period, improvement period and service period, the history of this gun in the Abbasid Empire, from prototype design to today, may be more than ten years.

A musket from ten years ago is far superior to the weapons imitations made by Twilight. From this, Todd has already seen Twilight’s backwardness in gunpowder weapons, and the technological gap between the northern parish and the southern empire. How huge.

Todd scratched the back of his head with a headache, and shouted in his heart, "This is unscientific."

According to the general plot development, the traverser should have the supreme technological advantage, and then relying on the leading cannons and muskets of the times, a wave of technological flow is pushed to complete the harvesting of the indigenous people...It is your turn, how do you always feel There is a rhythm to be compared.

Todd returned the musket in his hand to Old Aiden and asked, "From your point of view, how long will it take to capture the musket?"

The old craftsman hesitated for a while, seeming to be afraid of the king's blame, and tremblingly gave an answer: "If the study at Muxi University goes well, it will probably take another year."

Todd was dizzy for a while.

One year? !

If it will take another year to make this musket, the enemy might be at the door of the house.

Todd now regrets the major he studied at the beginning. If he studies a major in materials, machinery, or energy and power, he might have already developed a steam tank... But the biochemical major is really in terms of climbing the military science and technology tree. It's too bad.

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

After saying this, Todd, worried about the future military power of Twilight City, called to Huggins and set off on his way home to the palace.