Wiping the sweat from his forehead, Calvin turned his head to look at the construction site in the distance, and without looking back, he complained to Gregory beside him: "It's too hot, and if it's so hot all summer and autumn, it may not be possible to finish this section of the railway until next year." ”

The exploitation of labor has almost become another tradition of the aristocracy, but it is the business of the old aristocracy, at least Calvin and Gregory will not be blind to such a thing.

More than half a year has passed, and since the end of last summer, they have begun to lay the railway connecting the capital 'Moro' and the northern city of 'Aviin', but due to the huge workload and the fact that others do not know how to operate it, at most they can only start construction in three places at the same time.

So until now, the railway has only been laid a little more than halfway.

If this continues, it may not be possible to complete the construction of this railway by the beginning of next spring - and this will have to be done if they will also work overtime in the winter to build it!

They had already given a package ticket to His Majesty and the old nobles who had invested in it, but it took so long to build a railway, how could they guarantee that they would continue to invest money on other railway lines?

Most of the people in the manufacturing and R&D departments were pulled into the construction of the railroad, and with the exception of a few technicians who had to stay in Moro to repair the steam engine and various machinery, including Calvin and Gregory, had to be personally involved.

Since they are employed by idle people, they need to be more cautious when supervising their work, and after the construction of a section of railway, it needs to be inspected three or four times in a row to confirm that the quality is passed before it can be approved.

But there are very few sections of the road that can be crossed in one go, and those who are used to stealing chickens and dogs will be lazy and slippery, especially the steel used to forge the railroad is particularly precious - those guys will secretly cut a section, put it in their pockets, hide it under the bed, and then take it back and sell it.

Calvin and Gregory couldn't help it, the old aristocrats didn't raise enough money for them to pay too much, so it was already good to be able to recruit some idle people in society.

It takes a lot of labor to build a railway, but the cost of materials and processing is even more, and they can't pay the labor wages out of those funds, otherwise the quality of the railway will not pass.

The steam locomotives they built can even be said to be 'unfinished', but they are very close to the 'finished product', and the requirements for railway quality are very high.

Rao so, they still received some reports that the quality of some steel was not up to par, and then they hurried to check, and found that it was really those puppies from the logistics department who had done something, so angry that they took the edict of Caesar XIII to cut off the heads of several people, and confiscated their property before filling the gap.

They were certainly not the only beneficiaries of this hand-to-hand buying and selling, but the people at the top, Calvin and Gregory, could not move, so they could only cut off some of the outstretched hands to make an example.

The construction of the Moro-Aviin line, which was originally planned to open in the fall, has only been completed until now, and it is questionable whether the rest will be completed by the end of this year.

And recently, after the news came from the Mendes continent, Calvin and Gregory found that some people began to obstruct the progress of railway construction, intentionally or unintentionally.

I knew with my toes that those nobles had noticed the Duchy of Sorrow!

Not only was not even a single line built, but the old nobles also noticed the existence of the Duchy of Sorrow, which had to make Calvin vomit bitterness.

As the weather gets hotter and hotter, workers can only work for half a day at most, and after half a day they have to rest.

"Damn it!"

Sitting under the sweltering shed, Calvin threw his pen aside and unbuttoned his shirt, but that was only a quick fix.

It's so hot, it's not as hot as last year, but it's not raining that much this year, compared to last year, when it rains almost every few days, and this year they've only seen six or seven rains in the past few months from spring to now, and they've seen it in different cities.

Sensing that the old nobles were secretly working on it, they also began to expedite the construction of the first half, so that Moro was connected to several cities in the first half, and the influence of the royal family expanded.

It would have been nice to have completed the construction of the Moro-Aviin line before the old aristocracy had completely 'broken' with them and stopped investing in the construction of the railway, but now that such a thing had happened, they could only shift their focus to the first half of the railway, at least it was almost completed.

As long as it is after the trial run, it will be officially opened, although it may be a bit rushed, but time is of the essence, and they have to race against time.

Not only the hot weather, but also a lot of bad news disturbed Calvin's mind and made it difficult for him to calm down.

Gregory, who was sitting next to him, could not remain calm at such times, he clutched the barrel of his pen, but could not write a letter for half a day.

There had been too much bad news for them lately, and it had been planned to connect Moro and Aviin by railroad first, so that the royal family could directly control the rear of the northern front, so that they would have enough power to influence the rest of the old nobles.

And a line can also bring them great benefits - they can use the idle carriages to do some business along the way, buy and sell along the way, and soon their wallets will be bulging, and then they will no longer have to pay attention to the old nobles, and they will be able to build the railroad themselves.

It's a pity that the heavens don't fulfill people's wishes.

The incident of the Duchy of Sorrow in the Mendes continent reached the ears of the nobles of the Ogordon Empire in a very short period of time, although they were not worried that those knights and long ears would be able to cross the sea and kill their territory, but they were curious about the Duchy that was not large, but had dozens of 'extraordinary knights'.

After I got curious, I couldn't help but check it, I didn't know if I didn't check it, and I was stunned when I checked it.

Because they suddenly discovered that the current political system of the Ogordon Empire was a bit similar to that of the Duchy of Sorrow, civil servants and new nobles...... No matter how you look at it, it looks like it!

Although they were well aware that the canonization of the 'new nobility' had been decided as early as the beginning of Caesar XIII's succession, it was not so much that the Ogordon Empire imitated the Duchy of Sorrowful Wind, but that the Principality of Sorrowful Wind imitated them......

But even so, we have to guard against it!

The Duchy of Sorrow seems to be heralding their future, and if they don't want to be like the nobles in the Principality of Sorrow, then they have to plan early.

The new nobles are all Caesar XIII's dogs, and as long as the new nobles want to do something, then they get in the way.

In this situation, it would be nice for Calvin and Grigory to remain calm.

Calvin angrily picked up a glass of water and poured it over his head, but even the water was lukewarm!

"Damn, since they've done that on the Mendes continent, why don't they come to us and make trouble?"

I don't know if it's sweaty or water-soaked Calvin muttered to himself: "Who doesn't know that those bullshit old nobles have elf slaves in their homes?"

From time to time, Calvin would mutter a few words that Gregory had become accustomed to, but that was not what he was thinking about now.

"I'm a little worried......"

Hearing Gregory suddenly speak, Calvin stopped his insults and turned his head to look.

The man he remembered was frowning, looking at the white paper on the table without saying a word.

Calvin waited for a while before Grigory spoke: "This year the weather is hot and dry, there is very little rainfall, and even in recent days the logistics team has complained that there is less water in the well......"

The head of the Imperial R&D Department, the rumored research maniac who lived among the nobles, stood up silently and looked at the construction site, the irritability on his face was gone, and only solemnity remained.

Gregory put down his pen and sighed wistfully: "The drought ......"

"It could be coming!"