Putting down the report in his hand, Luo Ji couldn't help but rub his eyebrows vigorously.

His eyes scanned the left and right sides beside him. The people on duty today happened to be Wang Kai and Cerelia.

"Cerelia."

After hearing her name being called, Cerelia, who was standing on one side and wearing a black military uniform, immediately asked respectfully...

"What are your orders, Your Majesty?"

"Look at this."

As he spoke, Luo Ji handed over the document.

Cerelia's loyalty to him reached over ninety points, so she was obviously trustworthy, so Luo Ji didn't have too many worries about this kind of thing.

Cerelia took the document report and read it carefully.

About halfway through watching it, a subtle wrinkle clearly appeared between her eyebrows.

"Cerelia, as an elf, what do you think about this matter? I want to hear your thoughts."

Out of loyalty to Luo Ji, Cerelia couldn't lie at this time. After pondering for two seconds, she finally said everything she was thinking...

"Reporting to your Majesty, according to the issues mentioned by the elf naturalist Mr. Wei Lun in this report, if the steam train is running, the smoke emitted will indeed significantly affect the air quality of the elf forest and the entire nature.

environment, then the elves may not accept it."

"Is that really the case?"

After receiving this answer, Luo Ji obviously felt a headache.

This matter was really due to his negligence, and he did not expect that the elves would react so violently.

As mentioned before, the way of survival of the elves is to coexist with nature. Without indiscriminate logging, they allow appropriate felling of trees to obtain wood, and at the same time, they also accept hunting.

However, the impact of large-scale vehicles such as steam trains on the natural environment was clearly beyond their acceptable range, which led to this wave of backlash.

It is completely conceivable that if Luo Ji wants to forcefully carry out the railway project next, it will inevitably cause dissatisfaction among the elven people, and may even lead to a decrease in the livability of the entire elven province.

But this project is extremely important, and obviously it cannot be shelved like this.

At the same time, it is not just this one project, the industrial era that will follow will have similar impacts.

It is no exaggeration to say that throughout the industrial era, a large amount of waste gas emissions and industrial pollution were huge. If you want to avoid this, you can't avoid it unless you enter the electrical age.

But this is easy to say, but how can it be so easy to do?

In any case, time is precious, and the current project must continue. In this way, Luo Ji quite simply gave the order again...

"Ignore the Elf Province side for now, and give priority to laying railways on the other sides."

With the issuance of this order, the projects in the Elf Province were officially stopped. The protesting Elf people had nothing to cause trouble, and their lives were temporarily stable.

But this issue still worried Luo Ji.

Of course, if you think about it from a good perspective, even if there is no steam train on the elven side, they still have giant eagle knights and even elven dragons. The support efficiency of these flying units is faster than that of the steam train.

There is really no need to worry.

But we can't go on like this forever, we always have to find a way.

This matter is indeed a headache...

Compared with this period of time, when Luo Ji was having a headache due to matters in the Elf Province, Gawain was living a very comfortable life.

No, Luo Ji was given another new gadget that he had tinkered with, a pendulum clock.

Clocks are sophisticated things that could not be made in the past when the technology was not strong enough.

However, in the past few years, the development of his civilization of all realms has been rapid, coupled with the technical strength of goblin technology, it is not difficult to do so.

Compared with the cameras that were not selling well before, the sales of pendulum clocks are pretty good. After all, this is a practical object, and the price ranges from high to low, and it is loved by many people.

At the same time, on the other side, the Ordnance Research Department, due to technological breakthroughs, this year they also came up with new results quite neatly.

Holding the new rifle in his hand, Luo Ji's depressed mood suddenly eased a lot.

The biggest breakthrough of this new rifle lies in two points.

The first point is that the loading method of bullets has been improved to "back-loading". This change can be said to have greatly improved the loading efficiency, and in disguise, increased the attack frequency of riflemen.

The second point is the increase in firing range. After thousands of shooting tests, the firing range of this new rifle has basically stabilized at between 280 meters and 300 meters.

Putting aside the cost issue that has always worried Luo Ji, as long as the armies of the civilizations of all worlds are equipped with such breech-loading rifles on a large scale, the human archer army can basically be eliminated.

Of course, the elven archers still have a clear advantage.

After all, they possess the powerful weapon 'magic arrows'.

It has a super long range and penetrating power, just like a sniper rifle.

It has a range of lethality. When an arrow is shot, it can directly show explosive destructive power the moment it hits the target.

As well as lightning arrows with special effects, according to Luo Ji's expectation, lightning arrows may have a devastating effect on large technological weapons...

As the level of the unit items increases and branch items are gradually unlocked, the combat effectiveness of the Elf Archer unit continues to increase.

Coupled with magic arrows with different effects and attributes, they can cope with different situations.

It can only be said that it is a civilization with a magical color. Even if the technology is backward, the blessing brought by the power of magic alone is enough for them to compete with those technological civilizations.

Let's get back to the topic now. In the shooting range of the Ordnance Research Department, the sound of new rifles was constantly echoing. During this period, Luo Ji could not help but have a good time.

Kotetsu, who was accompanying him as a bodyguard this time, lightly bumped into Cerelia who was standing aside, and then winked at Cerelia.

In this regard, Cerelia naturally knew what this reckless man meant, and then, she just listened to her speaking without saltiness...

"If anyone dares to fight me with that thing, I can shoot him down before he puts a bullet in the barrel."

This sentence came out of Cerelia's mouth with an inexplicable convincing power.

Luo Ji, who also heard this, smiled and said nothing more. After all, he was also good at archery, so he knew that what Cerelia said was true.

Even if it is improved into a breech-loading rifle, the attack efficiency is still slightly inferior.

However, the advantage of firearms has always been that they are easy to use, but bows and arrows require skills. Bows and arrows are undoubtedly powerful weapons in the hands of Burigude and Cerelia, but ordinary human soldiers The strength often does not reach that level.

Therefore, as military equipment, "easy to use" is very important, and firearms clearly surpass bows and arrows in terms of "easy to use."

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