I became a witch, but I started the industrial revolution

Anna, who was wearing a lace maid outfit, couldn't help laughing when she saw this scene. She quickly turned her head away and stopped looking, her shoulders shaking.

Koi ran into the study and laid on the thighs of the laughing Mitia, leaving a red mark on her white dress: "Sister! Save me."

Barely holding back her smile, she stroked his round head and said, "It's no use calling you sister. I worked so hard to make one for my mother as a birthday present."

"She was reluctant to use it, and you ruined it. Tsk tsk, a beating is the least of your punishment."

Hearing this, Koi, who was lying on his stomach and acting like a spoiled child, trembled. He looked up at his sister in disbelief: "Is there only that one? I'm done for..."

Although he is still young, he can understand that having only one means it is very precious.

"Yes, I just tried to make it before to see if it would work. I don't have any materials in stock, and now the season has passed. I can only make it for my mother next year. So, you know."

Upon hearing this, Koi's big eyes were immediately filled with tears, and he looked at Medea eagerly: "Sister, I won't dare to do it again next time, please help me. I don't want to be beaten."

Medea shook her head. "Tears are useless to me. You are such a waste. I think it would be a good idea to teach you a lesson."

In the past, Medea would definitely have stopped them, as children are naturally curious and it is normal for them to do wrong things, but that is not possible now.

A child of five or six years old is already able to remember things and can distinguish right from wrong. If left alone after this age, he will become more and more spoiled.

"knock knock"

"Midya, is Koi in there?"

"exist!"

Alyssa opened the door slightly, and a gentle voice came in: “Koi. Come out quickly, don’t disturb your sister’s work. Don’t be afraid, I will only break one of your legs, it won’t hurt.”

"what?!"

Chapter 15 The Machine Gun Comes into Being

"Is it tasty?"

Alyssa gently picked up a piece of green vegetable and put it into her little son's mouth

"Burp! It's delicious, mom!"

Koi, who was lying on the bed, replied in a hoarse voice, and obediently opened his mouth waiting for his mother to continue feeding him.

This scene of loving mother and filial son would have been very heartwarming if we didn't look at Koy's swollen butt and eyes that were as swollen as walnuts.

"That's right, that's good. Don't make mom angry in the future, okay?"

"Koi knows! From now on, if there is something delicious, I will give it to my mother, my sister, Anna, and Betty first, and then I will eat it myself..."

Alyssa happily kissed her son on the head and said, "So good! Koi will be a big boy now, you have to protect your mother and sisters, okay?"

Anna came in with a tray and put a hot towel on Koi's butt.

"Ah!!! I know, I know! Mom, I love you!!!"

"..."

“Is the quality of the connecting rod still not up to standard?”

Mitia looked at the broken steel connecting rod in his hand with a serious expression on his face. This was the most important part inside their new Maxim machine gun.

The spring plus the crank connecting rod utilize the recoil force generated by the firing of the bullet to complete a series of mechanical movements such as extracting and ejecting the shell, and loading the next bullet into the chamber. This continuous set of work is the mechanical principle of the machine gun's continuous firing.

Unexpectedly, they were not stuck in the difficulty of spring manufacturing, but in the poor performance of the connecting rod material...

"Yes, Lord Medea. In addition, the production of copper bullets has not been increased. It will take time to debug the steam locomotive."

Medea was speechless.

The information given to her by the system was all available to her in her previous life, but she had no choice since the material formulas that met the standards in her previous life did not meet the standards this time.

After all, there are some subtle differences in the rules between the two worlds. The magic crystal powder charge is extremely powerful, but its requirements for materials are also quite stringent.

When it triggers an explosion, it releases two energies of different natures. The first wave is an explosion of chaos elements, and the second wave is the explosion shock wave.

This requires that the material itself must be able to withstand both magical damage and the power of a secondary explosion, and be successfully squeezed into a small space and converted into kinetic energy.

The materials they have now are fine for making single-shot rifles, but the fatigue resistance of the materials cannot keep up with the continuous and high-frequency shooting of machine guns.

The Maxim machine gun's toggle-type structure relies entirely on the toggle spring to reset the baffle for unloading and loading. The high-intensity impact causes the baffle to not close tightly, twist and leak. The pressure will increase as it is unloaded, and the rear toggle connecting rod will naturally be broken.

Mitia thought for a moment and asked, "If we manufacture it this way without considering replacing new materials, how long can a machine gun last?"

The dwarf craftsman answered subconsciously, "Ten minutes or so. At most, the elbow joint will break in about ten minutes. Then we will have to take it apart and replace it with a new one."

Mitia said decisively: "Let's do it! Adjust the manufacturing process of the metal shell as soon as possible, we don't have enough time."

Ten minutes is enough. At worst, we can make a few more and use them as disposable heavy weapons. It's better to have something than nothing, right?

On the way back to the manor, Medea also stopped by to see the children he had taken in before.

After five years, they have all grown into teenagers, and their mental outlook is completely different from when they first took refuge in Media.

Seeing them studying hard, Mitia showed a satisfied smile on her face. If she brought technology, then these children were the seeds of science.

They are the driving force that allows science to continue to develop.

A short-haired girl turned her head and looked out the window as if she sensed something. When she saw that it was Medea, a bright smile suddenly broke out on her pretty face with a cold expression.

Medea: "......"

Her icy face was at least 70% similar to Medea's usual face. She even suspected that she was not adopting a sister, but giving birth to a biological daughter.

"Betty!"

The bell rang, and the girl who walked out of the classroom looked straight at Medea, until she waved and immediately rushed over: "Sister!"

Medea caught her and lifted her gently. The skinny little girl with yellow hair now had weight.

She raised her hand and touched it. There were still calluses on it, but that was caused by long-term practice with guns and swords. This made her feel very accomplished.

"Come on, your godmother asked me to take you back for dinner."

"it is good."

Royal Palace of Ovinia

Ovinia III put down the letter in his hand and rubbed his brows: "Are you sure that Marquis Hendak said this? Can't spare the troops?!"

The messenger sent by Hendak bent down and lowered his head, without answering, but his gesture made his point very clear.

"Good! Very good!"

Ovinia III laughed in anger. None of these border lords took his words seriously, including Medea and Hendak!

His father left him with a big problem.

But he really didn't dare to do anything to Hendak, not to mention the fact that Hendak was an old family, and used one territory to help Ovinia block the troops of the two kingdoms.

To be honest, it is impossible to allocate manpower to help him suppress the rebellion.

However, even though he understood it, he was still extremely disgusted with this lord who only followed orders and not announcements.

"Your Majesty, our Silvias family will always be loyal to you and are willing to obey all orders from your Majesty."

Fortunately, another envoy came out to speak. The envoy from the Lord of Silvias looked at him respectfully with a smile on his face, which calmed down Ovinia III's anger a little.

In fact, Silvias did not want to get involved in this matter, but their location happened to be behind Astar's territory. After the other party changed their tactics, they became a bridgehead on the border. Who could withstand this?

In the past, with Astar at the forefront, they did not devote much energy to city defense affairs, but only relied on the power of the river to vigorously develop the industrial and commercial sectors.

In terms of military strength, they can at best serve as a transit station to provide some food supplies to other lords, and any more will not be enough.

Therefore, they would not be able to sleep well until Astar was taken back, for fear that Astar would do something shameless and lend the territory to Palia.

This is actually the real reason why Medea dared to challenge her. At most, a few inland earls sent troops to fight her.

As a border leader, her combat effectiveness was stronger than those inland soldiers even before industrialization, and now she has nothing to be afraid of.

Until she is able to threaten the capital of Ovinia, all the border lords will not pay too much attention to her.

However, she did not want to make enemies on three sides. While appeasing the Hendak family, she also secretly contacted her former arch-enemies Mirwaiz and Lord Cambellus.

After dinner, Medea began to write letters to the two lords. Anna, who was standing by, was still a little confused after reading it, and asked Medea softly:

"Miss, will the Palia really promise us not to send troops? And can their promise be trusted?"

Medea smiled slightly: "Humans are complex creatures. They may withstand the test today, but they may rebel tomorrow."

"In the past, they were enemies on the battlefield, but tomorrow, they may become political allies. So there is nothing that cannot be trusted, as long as the benefits of cooperation outweigh betrayal."

In fact, the three parties have already established a certain basis for cooperation among the private sector over the years, and it is feasible for them to form a short-term alliance with each other privately.

She herself would not withdraw too many soldiers from Uruk. She would only withdraw a group of them as mobile forces just in case. She was not afraid that they would take advantage of the situation to rob.

Chapter 16 Fair! just!

After the king finalized the specific rules for sending troops

All the major territories of the kingdom began to synchronously publicize the news of the rebellion in the border territory of Astar to build up momentum before the war.

The kingdom is about to organize a large army to quell the rebellion and rescue the civilians deceived by the Astaire family.

At the same time, it was announced that the Astaire family was deprived of their marquisate and their legal rule over the territory was abolished. The church also sentenced the Astaire family as heretics in the name of the goddess of magic.

He asked the believers in his territory to launch an uprising and overthrow the dark rule of the pagans...

It starts with a standard three-hit combo, a three-hit combo from military to political to religious qualities, which strikes at the prestige of the Astar family on multiple levels and at the same time gives the kingdom's army a sense of justice.

The Astar Territory has remained silent on this matter, although even if they speak out, other territories will not let them know.

As soon as the churches in various towns under Astaire started to mobilize the common people, they were immediately shut down by the territory army and asked to go back for tea.

Naturally, some people obstructed the movement during this period, but with the army's appeasement, the resistance of most people who believed in the goddess was not fierce.

In recent years, Media has regularly sent troops to reclaim wasteland for the people and harvest food in an effort to change the stereotype of ordinary civilians that the military is the boss.

Moreover, the soldiers she is recruiting now are all children from ordinary families. There are no nobles and their private soldiers. They are all born into the lower class, and the relationship between the military and the people is very harmonious.

This is the benefit brought by benevolent governance. The more oppressive and desperate the environment is, the more extreme and fanatical the beliefs will be. On the contrary, relatively stable and peaceful areas where there is no shortage of food and clothing are less likely to be influenced by this.

Medea did not passively take the beating, she immediately raised her own banner:

"Equality! Justice!"

Brand new territory law, propaganda posters are posted all over the streets and alleys of the territory: