...Alright. Electric heaters and fiberglass insulation for everyone. He expands the coal-fired power plant to compensate. The moneylender gets her money back with interest by the end of this.


By next winter he has more mines, especially coal and iron mines, the beginnings of a nuclear reactor, trade deals with distant lands for exotic metals not found in good quantity nearby, and an electric train network between a few nearby cities.

At one point he produces the exotic armor he promised Kaja when he first arrived, and brings it up to their compound to see if it holds a blessing better when it's freshly-forged.