How easy was it for mages to lay down tracks?
They used magic to make the tracks float, then laid them along the road.
All they had to do was let ordinary people handle the assembly.
Jesu Commissioner jurisdiction.
One hundred thousand armed police and fifty thousand regular troops were ready.
They were called armed police, but in reality, they were soldiers.
They were simply paid at a lower rate than regular soldiers.
They were surrendered troops from the Kingdom of Ivreya, making them ideal for use as security forces.
The weapons they carried were still those of the Kingdom of Ivreya's army.
Some had magic flintlock muskets, while many more carried cold weapons.
Ten Bronze Cannons.
Before the large-scale infrastructure projects, the Principality of Olexian's industrial output wasn't enough to give even its own army a gun apiece.
They'd only had enough guns for everyone during the war with the Kingdom of Ivreya because they'd mobilized fewer than three hundred thousand troops.
Now that their territory had expanded, Olesian had reestablished border forces along several frontiers, which meant it needed an enormous number of weapons to rearm them.
And that was without even mentioning these third-rate troops, who were meant to fill the front lines.
Naturally, they'd have to make do with old weapons.
But now, the Jesu armed police could finally look forward to some new equipment.
After the large-scale infrastructure projects, steel production had multiplied several times over.
Alongside a mysterious steelmaking method, a more advanced yet widely accessible process using open-hearth furnaces and converters had also spread.
Steel mills were gradually being built on a large scale and put into operation.
The laying of vast quantities of railway tracks and the construction of machinery both required steel.
As steel mills were being built in earnest, a