Outworld: Rise of an Industrial Empire

In the path of the wheat field, two people led two horses to the shade of a tree on a high ground, and a pure girl dressed in gorgeous clothes looked at the farmland and village below, her eyes were full of joy:

"What a beautiful view!"

It will be more beautiful before the autumn harvest!" The

tall young man who led the white horse, dressed in a cowboy costume, sat in the shade of a tree and took out a kettle to drink.

The girl walked up to the young man and sat down, staring blankly at the village where smoke rose in front of her.

"I used to fantasize about how I would govern my city-state if I could one day regain power.... But I didn't think that I would personally visit every village..... "

The two of them are Li Xin, the city lord of Lingfeng City, and Li Zhen, who controls Lingfeng City behind his back.

Li Zhen looked at her and said with a hint of apology:

"Hey... I'm sorry you can't do what you want.

Li Xin looked at him and shook her head, then turned her head to look at the village in front of her and said

, "No, it's better now than being controlled by my uncle... Maybe even better than I personally govern..... And now the commoners are grateful to me! I'm very happy!

" Hearing this, Li Zhen smiled:

"It's great that you won't hate me!" "

Seriously, this month I have experienced many firsts in my life, the first time I went to the fields to smell the fragrance of rice, the first time I went to the countryside to eat... The villagers are very enthusiastic, and it is the first time to see the life of the peasants.....

" As she said that, she looked at Li Zhen beside her again, and said softly:

"Thank you... It's hard for you to accompany me...."

Looking at the village in front of her, Li Xin fell into deep thought, and after a while, she turned her head to look at Li

Zhen and asked, "By the way, I've always had a doubt, are you really all magicians

?" "What do you think?"

Li Zhen looked at her and smiled.

"I think... How could Su Xincheng afford to invite so many magicians... But the weapons you use... It's a magic weapon, isn't it?"

"It's called a musket... Mortals can use it too!"

Li Zhen took out the pistol on his waist and said, hearing this, Li Xin looked at the gun in his hand with some surprise.

"Mortals.... Can you also use a magic weapon?"

"Come!" Li Zhen stood up, pulled Li Xin away from the shady

tree, and then handed the pistol to Li Xin, pointed to the trunk of the tree and said, "

You can try!"

Li Xin took the gun, held the gun with both hands under Li Zhen's guidance, and then aimed it at the tree, putting his finger on the trigger.

"Finger press it..."

As Li Xin gently pulled his finger, the hammer quickly fell, hitting the fire cap violently.

There was a loud bang, and fire and smoke came out of the muzzle.

"Bang"

the trunk was hit by something, splashed debris, and a hole appeared in the trunk.

The two horses were startled by this movement, and they stepped in a panic, raising their voices to the sky and crying in shock.

Li Xin's hands trembled uncontrollably, and she looked at this scene in shock.

"It's... Is this what I did?"

Li Zhen smiled, took back the pistol, and then took out a paper-wrapped gunpowder and a projectile from the medicine bag on his waist.

"Look!"

Li Zhen bit the tail of the paper-wrapped gunpowder bullet, poured the gunpowder inside into the muzzle, and then stuffed the projectile into the muzzle, pulled out the whole strip, and poked the projectile down, so that the projectile was tightly attached to the bottom of the gun.

Then he took out a ramming cap and put it on the flaming nozzle at the back. Then he raised his gun, pulled the trigger on the trunk, and there was another loud bang, accompanied by fire and smoke, as well as debris splashed from the trunk.

Li Zhen handed the pistol to Li Xin again, then took out a paper-wrapped gunpowder and a projectile and handed them to Li Xin.

"Operate according to the method I just did..."Li

Xin took the pistol and ammunition handed by Li Zhen in a daze, was stunned for a moment, and then looked at Li Zhen with an ignorant expression and shook his head, Li Zhen was amused by her expression, and once again taught her to fill gunpowder and projectiles.

After Li Xin finished filling, Li Zhen took out a fire cap and handed it to her, and then taught her to put it on the fire mouth.

"Try again!"

Li Xin pulled the trigger again, and a loud bang sounded again, Li Xin swallowed her saliva, and her hands trembled uncontrollably.

Li Zhen walked under the trunk of the tree and waved his hand at Li Xin, who walked slowly and found that there were three deep small caves on the trunk.

"Oh my God

! It's so powerful!" "It's very powerful! But it's just like a bow and arrow, it's just an ordinary weapon, and mortals can naturally use it!"

Hearing this, Li Xin looked at Li Zhen with wide eyes, and then looked at the gun in her hand, and soon realized that the key to this thing was the black powder that had just been poured in.

"What was that thing that just poured in?"

"Hehe, I won't tell you!" Li

Zhen turned his head and smiled, and covered the medicine bag on his waist as he spoke.

Seeing this, Li Xin pouted and said,

"Forget it.... If you don't say it, you won't say it..."

At this moment, several heavily armored knights came on horseback, and the knight led by him asked Li Zhen with a nervous face

, "Sir, is something wrong?"

Then he looked around, and then looked at Li Xin holding a pistol in his hand, as if he understood something, the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, and he replied by himself without waiting for Li Zhen to speak:

"Ahem.... It's okay, let's go—"

He turned his horse's head and waved at the cavalry that came with him.

At that moment, another man on a horse galloped in.

The man was lightly armed, carrying no equipment other than the pistol at his waist, and the horses were not equipped at all.

Everyone looked at him suspiciously, he quickly came to Li Zhen, handed a letter to

Li Zhen and said, "Captain Li, your appointment..."

Li Zhen took the envelope and saw the signature of the staff on the cover at a glance.

Li Zhen opened the envelope and looked at it, and after a moment, he sighed and looked at Li Xin.

Seeing this, Li Xin hurriedly asked

, "What's wrong?" "

It's time for me to go, now that Lingfeng City is on the right track, it's time for me to leave... We have a plan for the next step. Adjutant Sun will take my place. As he

spoke, Li Zhen pointed to the knight who had just led the team.

Hearing this, Li Xin was stunned for a moment, then lowered her head and pursed her lips to speak, but in the end she didn't speak.

Adjutant Sun left with the people around him very interestingly, leaving the two of them alone time.

For more than a month, Li Zhen has been taking Li Xin to complete the tasks assigned by Su Zheng, and the two have had a lot of contact.

When Li Zhen conveyed Su Zheng's requirements to Li Xin, he also maintained a soft attitude at all times, and he also respected Li Xin very much.

A seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl who is in love for the first time will naturally have a little throbbing at this young man who has a chivalrous demeanor and helped avenge the murder of his father.

After more than a month of getting along, the two gradually became familiar with each other, and the two would also talk about things outside of work.

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For Li Xin, Su Zheng is deliberately cultivating, and now there are too few henchmen who can be used, and for people like Wu Chengwei of Meilin City, who are on the verge of rebellion, they can only be appointed and not reused.

In the future, if he encounters people who are very capable themselves, even if he is an enemy of Su Zheng for a period of time, Su Zheng is willing to appoint them.

But no matter what, we can't easily give some power to others, and we must need people to restrain them, including ideological constraints.

This is similar to the position of political commissar. What such a person needs is loyalty, and it doesn't matter if he has the ability or not.

In fact, it is enough to have Chris and Lei Ming, two loyal and capable brains, and leave the rest to the system, which only needs to ensure that the bureaucrats will not be corrupt and will not be deceived and concealed, and the entire state apparatus can continue to operate.