The Lord Of Blood Hill Chapter 470: When Technology Falls Short, Magic Steps In!

During the spring plowing season, Henwell wears a simple shirt and swings a hoe vigorously, working the fields beside the Blood Hill estate.

Nearby, lissa stands in plain clothes, waiting patiently for Henwell to finish the spring plowing ritual.

Henwell, after all, is an Iron Knight; when he works the land, he’s like a bulldozer. The few acres are quickly tilled and ready.

Covered in dirt, Henwell accepts the tea lissa hands him and drains it in one gulp.

Looking over the neatly tended fields, he says to lissa, “These are the latest improved seeds developed by the Agricultural Institute. We expect yields to increase by about ten percent. Don’t underestimate that ten percent, it can feed a lot of people!”

lissa smiles. “Great! When harvest ti cos, all the grain should be stored in the estate’s warehouse. I want to taste the crops personally grown by the lord of Blood Hill to see if they’re any better.”

It’s been over half a year since Henwell’s grand wedding.

The cooperative agreents made during the wedding have gradually been put into effect.

The population recovery project has completed preliminary preparations in various regions.

After the New Year, more than 20,000 mid- to lower-level agricultural technicians and over 50,000 supervising engineers have entered noble territories.

Spring plowing has begun in demonstration areas one after another.

This not only spreads Peace Haven’s agricultural expertise but also signals the rapid expansion of its influence.

Coupled with a new wave of major infrastructure projects within Peace Haven, production across the region is running at full speed.

The huge demand for raw materials like steel and construction supplies has made local material suppliers very profitable.

The arrival of massive trading caravans further boosts Peace Haven’s internal comrce.

Besides the service industry, the carriage factories are the busiest of all.

Henwell has already placed orders for over ten thousand various Grand Carriage models for the demonstration zones.

In the coming years, the Grand Carriage series will have a steady stream of orders.

The large-scale, systematic production will drive rapid technological iteration for these carriages.

At the sa ti, Peace Haven’s base of skilled chanical workers will grow significantly.

Though carriages seem simple, parts like wheels, bearings, axles, shock absorbers, springs, and steering chanisms all require technical expertise.

Many places have begun copying Peace Haven’s Grand Carriage designs.

But one thing remains hard to match: production scale.

While clever and skilled artisans can produce higher-quality carriages by disassembling and reverse-engineering, the long production cycles and high costs discourage nobles from competing.

Peace Haven’s increasingly standardized production improves part strength, refines machining precision, reduces tolerances, and advances craftsmanship, establishing total dominance from top to bottom.

This also drives upgrades in slting and forging factories’ processes.

Although Henwell implents a governnt-controlled planned economy, there’s still fierce competition inside.

Dozens of forging factories compete to source the best slted tal materials from ten different slting plants.

Various factories, including the carriage factories, pick the best craftsmanship from those forging plants.

Custors buying the final products have higher standards, so factories must constantly refine their processes and improve their technical skills.

Henwell offers Peace Haven’s industrial workers very good treatnt, compared to other regions, this place is practically a paradise.

The profitability of every factory directly affects each worker’s inco, with year-end bonuses tied to sales performance.

This model isn’t perfect, of course, but for a small, high-quality, rapidly growing place like Peace Haven, it’s the best approach right now.

You can’t beco a giant in one bite; even a star destroyer starts with screws.

After finalizing this year’s production plan, Henwell heads to the Technical Research Institute to check on the progress of their cutting-edge “black tech.”

The Institute has two most heavily guarded sections: the chanical Departnt and the Potion Departnt.

Henwell has invested heavily in magical identification devices for these areas. Every staff mber entering or leaving must carry a card with a unique magical signature.

The guards stationed here are Henwell’s most trusted n, carefully selected from the Iron Guard camp.

Henwell first visits the Potion Departnt, headed by Phoebe Crow.

Phoebe is a doctor in his forties from the Lumir Principality, once a student of a renowned physician in Holy Lake City.

However, his thods are sowhat extre, causing many to shun him.

He was later held accountable for secretly dissecting corpses and attempting organ transplant surgeries.

The surgeries failed, and the patients died on the operating table.

If not for his teacher’s protection, he might not have survived the scandal.

Eventually, he was demoted to slavery, but by a twist of fate, he arrived in Peace Haven.

By then, Henwell had been lord for just over a year and was already building a dical system.

Phoebe was surprised to find Peace Haven had a remarkably bold surgical frawork and began honing his skills there.

Under Henwell’s guidance, they established a sterile operating room, and Phoebe personally assisted Henwell in completing the first visceral surgery.

How do you create a surgical room under this tech system?

Simple, use magic!

Combinations of Runestones create a sterile, fully illuminated environnt.

With Henwell’s suggestions, Phoebe almost single-handedly built Peace Haven’s current dical system.

By the ti Henwell accompanied Arius for the marriage alliance, Phoebe was already head of Peace Haven’s first hospital.

He later oversaw the establishnt of the General dical Academy and the Battlefield dical Academy.

During the war, Henwell transferred him to lead the Potion Departnt at the Technical Research Institute.

Over the years, thousands, if not tens of thousands, have died due to Phoebe’s radical experints.

But because of his dical innovations, tens of thousands have survived.

The dical potion field is a trade that saves lives while also taking them.

To Henwell, this departnt is a treasure far more valuable than any Glory Knight.

Phoebe is very satisfied with Henwell and deeply grateful for the opportunity to explore the mysteries of the human body.

His only small complaint is that Henwell neither studies dicine himself nor allows knights to join advanced dical training.

Phoebe believes knights, with their steady and swift hands, would make excellent lead surgeons.

Henwell understands this but cannot agree for now.

Perhaps in the future, he will add surgical training to the knights’ curriculum.