MC's career as foreign lord

“Now, you should finally tell us, what method can quickly take us back there?” Shia said.

She looked at Zhou Ren with a pair of beautiful, large eyes, and beside her was an almost identical pair of large eyes, looking at him in the same way.

Zhou Ren shook his head helplessly, “Alright, alright, don’t give me that look, just watch my actions!”

He took out two sets of rails from his backpack, including both powered rails and regular rails. To save redstone, he didn't make redstone torches or redstone activation circuits, but instead used a switch for activation.

Anyway, the effects of both are similar. It's just that the switch looks a bit inelegant, but when it comes to saving resources, these are minor issues.

Lei Qiu seemed to have consumed a lot of energy. Who knows what it did when it ran over there. Anyway, after eating, it started lying down and continuing to sleep.

Since he was idle anyway, Zhou Ren placed the particularly powerful sword he had just obtained directly underneath Lei Qiu as a cushion, to see if the little guy could gain another layer of enchantment while sleeping this time.

Last time Lei Qiu woke up, it awakened the ability to transform. Who knows how long it will sleep this time, and what new abilities it will gain after waking up?

This lightning elemental has actually gone astray. At least in the information Zhou Ren found, the lightning elementals in this world don't have so many fancy abilities.

But it is unexpectedly likable, as if… it has evolved with the help of special power. Zhou Ren is also very curious about what this little thing will become if it continues to change like this?

This matter drew his attention away, but it was quickly pulled back by the two elves, one big and one small. They looked at Zhou Ren with great curiosity, wondering what kind of surprise this usually magical guy would bring them.

As expected, he didn't disappoint them. Zhou Ren simply placed the rails one by one. After about 100 meters, he did a speed test.

The powered rails were naturally placed interspersed with the ordinary rails. He made large sections of acceleration rails in the front, middle, and back areas, and then placed the switch there. After turning on the switch, you could even hear the buzzing of redstone.

In the journey of nearly 100 rails, there were a full 50 powered rails, placed in 4 areas, and all set to the on state. He put on a minecart, sat in it, and tried it out.

And the method of stopping was very simple. He directly placed a stone at the destination, simple, convenient, and fast, which could forcibly stop the minecart without hurting the person standing on it.

“Wuhu!” Zhou Ren cheered, and in the somewhat astonished gazes of the two elves, he sped all the way into the distance, quickly stopped in the distance, and then reversed back.

After all, this rail didn't set a direction, and it could travel left and right, and both had acceleration, so it wouldn't be slow. Compared to the one or two-minute walk, sitting in a minecart was really just a blink of an eye.

“I want to play too!” Liya said happily. Zhou Ren put her on the minecart and gently pushed her from behind, “Let’s go!”

“This is a brand new method, a completely different method from magic, a bit like the operating method of magical machinery that the Netherese people once considered!” Shia said.

The elf princess wasn't really uneducated, but rather habitually inferred from one instance. For top powerhouses, this kind of thing was naturally useless. After all, whether it was teleportation or various teleportation gates, or even planar gates, they could quickly traverse space.

But these things ultimately come at a price. After all, in this society that advocates equivalent exchange, things without a price simply do not exist.

And what Zhou Ren created seemed to have a very good market, because among the powerhouses below the legendary level, they still had to rely on various vehicles or expensive magical tools to travel.

And once this kind of rail becomes popular, maybe even ordinary people will have the opportunity to enjoy the joy of long-distance travel.

Zhou Ren was a little surprised after hearing her idea, “I didn’t expect you to be able to think of such a use. The elves will definitely have a very wise and intelligent queen!”

“Stop it, your thing can only carry one person at a time, won’t it still become a plaything for the nobles in the end?” Shia said, frowning as she watched the two, one big and one small, having a lot of fun on the rails.

Zhou Ren smiled and smoothed her brow, “Mine is just a joke. If you really make it, of course, you will install a huge vehicle on this rail, driven by magic or various power sources, that can carry hundreds or thousands of people at a time!”

“If there are 1,000 people riding, even if each person only spends two copper coins each time, that's 40 gold coins for a round trip. And once your entire elven kingdom installs this kind of vehicle, I think it shouldn't take long to get your money back, right?”

His eyes were deep, “Moreover, as a race, your biggest idea should never just be to get your money back, because for a country or a race, money is always secondary. What you need to see is its practical value and strategic intention!”

“When rolling vehicles travel across the land of your elven race, when you can deploy all your troops or personnel to the entire kingdom without relying on any power, perhaps you will be qualified to stand at a condescending angle and look at other races, right?”

Zhou Ren said, and this is also the purpose of war. Once your war costs can be reduced to a certain level, you will find that many people are unwilling to fight with you. This is the peace that is exchanged for war.

The conversation between the two seemed to be tilting towards a strange angle. Shia stopped the conversation, “It’s really a good idea, but the time is far from ripe for us to realize it!”

Then the little elf in the distance had already whizzed past and plunged into his arms, “Big brother, will we have to take this thing to the other side of the river every day in the future?”

Zhou Ren nodded with a smile, “Yes, but Liya has to pave this road herself!”

“Okay, okay, okay!” The little girl clapped her hands desperately, seemingly very surprised that she could really encounter such a thing, “I want to make a very, very, very long road, and then pick up my aunt too!”

“Ah, speaking of this, where did that grumpy dragon go?” Zhou Ren asked, realizing that the silver dragon, who was usually inseparable from the two, had suddenly disappeared.

“Anna was called back by her grandfather, maybe because of your matter?” Shia said, “Corellon has notified many gods of the good alignment, maybe the Dragon God is also among them?”

Zhou Ren suddenly felt a little worried for that irritable little silver dragon. If all dragons had such explosive tempers, wouldn't she get a beating from her grandfather when she returned?

Tsk, good job!

He thought to himself.

Although he said he wanted the little elves to build a road to that flower field themselves, the overall planning was naturally still done by Zhou Ren himself.

Fortunately, in his previous life, he had learned a wide variety of things, from various urban designs and road planning to history and humanities, from internet economics to communication psychology and all kinds of human social knowledge. He was a jack-of-all-trades, not proficient in anything, but with a little understanding of everything.

This kind of professional knowledge, after coming to this world, has instead become a special advantage. After all, this is a brand-new society, and whether it is a new social psychology, or more superior natural knowledge or planning, can be fully utilized.

This is precisely the experimental field he had dreamed of, and he also holds such power.

Whether it was the previous conversation with the gods, the so-called money project, or the seed of technological industry he is now planting in the heart of the future queen of the elves, it all felt more like an experiment to Zhou Ren.

However, such experiments are also for himself. He has to plan the road well, so that next time he goes to do something, he won't have to walk around everywhere himself, which would be a bit inappropriate.

So, Zhou Ren ran back and made a map, which clearly showed the location of his various houses and farmland, and even thoughtfully marked the aerial farmland.

The map was made from 8 pieces of paper and a compass. He doesn't lack paper, now that sugarcane has truly become dispensable, what he lacks is minerals.

And the compass only requires 4 iron ingots and a redstone, which can be obtained by placing them in a cross shape on the workbench, so the acquisition method is also very simple.

It's just that he hasn't traveled far, so he hasn't made a compass before. This time, he can make a few as spares.

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Last time, the three of them mined a lot of good things, and at this time, the 50 skeletons under their feet were still working very diligently.

Minerals like iron are not lacking in themselves, and now they are even more accumulated.

A large number of minerals are being burned in the cave below, and rows of coal have been released and placed one by one into the rows of furnaces.

The mining speed of 50 skeletons is already incredible. Jim can mine 60,000 blocks in one day and one night, and with the help of endless iron pickaxes, the amount obtained by these 50 skeletons will probably become even more terrifying.

He suddenly felt that making gold coins in the future would not be particularly difficult. After all, with so many people helping him gather experience, he might even just need to stand next to the experience wall in the future and continuously synthesize coins.

Zhou Ren shook his head violently, surrounded the compass with eight pieces of paper, and then took out a map.

"Let's start designing from here, we'll build a station here!" Zhou Ren said.

The location he chose was the road center of the entire village, the large open space between his house and the farmland.

This is a place where he had already created a passable road. Building a train station for a railway here, and then placing the railway in the sky, can seamlessly separate it from the road.

Moreover, this is not the most important thing. He himself was planning an above-ground passage route and an underground passage route. They will converge at the station and then set off again.

The underground passage route can be temporarily prohibited as a secret route, while the above-ground route will lead to all areas in all directions.

This also solves the problem he himself brought about, concerning the utilization rate of the ground and the ease of car crashes.

If he had only initially envisioned laying the rails on the ground, it would also bring a very serious problem, that is, the rails would greatly hinder their usual actions during the movement process.

Of course, there will be no problem now. All public transportation will be completely replaced to the sky to solve it. As long as the passages in the sky are built perfectly, presumably no one will care about the trains that may roar overhead.

Moreover, due to the existence of transport minecarts, one person can also carry a large amount of supplies to various stations at the same time. He also made a simple adjustment system, and then directly pulled a rail to his home. In this way, things that are not easy to load and unload at the train station can also be directly transported into the house for placement.

Since the automatic lever will bounce back after a certain period of time, this will not affect the use of the next minecart, truly achieving environmental protection, energy saving, and no defects.

So, he simply drew a line on the map, connecting the tree farm, the farm, his home, the farmland by the river, and the flower field across the river, as well as a certain pasture that had been enlarged, and the underground mine hidden in the mountains.

All these areas are connected by these lovely kinetic rails, so next time you can just take a car to get there!

"Liya, you can build a line to that side!" Zhou Ren said, and in order to prevent any accidents from happening when the two of them were repairing the rails in the air, he also very thoughtfully handed them two pairs of rubber shoes.

He naturally couldn't accompany these two girls to continue repairing the rails. After all, there were still many things to be busy with. In addition to the rails to the house, he would briefly repair it, but the bigger task was still to make the monster spawning tower next to it.

Although it has never been mentioned, and due to the illumination of various torches on the ground, there are no special monsters spawning in the entire area, he knows that this matter can never be relaxed.

He had encountered monsters spawning in various corners, and he had also encountered monsters that suddenly swooped down from the sky.

Speaking of which, since he goes to bed on time every day, he hasn't encountered phantoms. This special undead creature will spawn after he hasn't slept for three days, but he doesn't have the need to kill phantoms now.

Returning to the side of the big pool, the water was still gurgling, but he found that he seemed to no longer need this big pool.

Zhou Ren was a little speechless, plans can't keep up with changes!