Xiao Chen said: "Since we have achieved all our goals, we should be able to leave here."
Zenovia said, "Please wait a moment, let me take back the terminal, it is a very important part of the Forge Tower."
He Jin asked, "Isn't that just a terminal used to look up information in the library?"
"No, you're wrong." Zenovia said, "Although the two models are the same, this terminal is actually the terminal that connects to the new learning room. It was moved out of the tower by Andrew, the last saint of the Forge Tower, for the dwarves to study with."
Xiao Chen asked: "In exchange for the help of the Dwarf Kingdom, you promise to teach them the knowledge of forging, right?"
Zenovia said, "Yes, it's not just knowledge about forging. After Andrew brought the Forging Tower to the Dwarf Kingdom, he reached an agreement with the dwarves. The dwarves would provide him with shelter, and he would share the Forging Tower's technology with the dwarves little by little, and eventually the dwarves would slowly build a number of factories."
"Factory? Not just forging technology?" Xiao Chen was a little surprised. At least from the current point of view, there was no sign of industry in the entire Dwarf Kingdom, and it was still in the state of a handicraft workshop.
The boss of each workshop is usually the head craftsman of the workshop, with at most a few apprentices. The large workshops belonging to the family may be slightly larger, but they are still composed of small workshops. Although the dwarves have many forging workshops in the Valley of Ten Thousand Hammers, and the items they provide are of relatively high quality, there are still no large-scale production factories, and there are no clear industrial standards and capital operations. The current industrial organization is also very rudimentary, nothing more than mining, smelting, and forging. It is still far from a real industry.
"The Dwarf King Moses at that time was a man of foresight. He had visited the territory of the Seven Towers and knew how the best magic power factory belonging to the Seven Towers operated. Therefore, he proposed the idea of letting the Dwarf Kingdom develop according to the magic of the Seven Towers.
Andrew agreed. However, he thought that if he directly imparted the most advanced knowledge to the dwarves, it would attract the attention of the Temple of Nature. If the Temple of Nature found out that the Forging Tower was hiding in the Dwarf Kingdom and decided to seize it, the Dwarf Kingdom would face a continuous stream of attacks. So he made an agreement with King Moses at the time to gradually impart knowledge of industrial manufacturing in batches over many years. Only those who reached the level of Grand Forger could come in to study each time, and the study time was limited, which was the rule set at the time. "
"Then why is it that after so many years, the Dwarf Kingdom is still like this?" Xiao Chen asked.
Zenovia said: "Back then, King Moses thought that it was impossible to run a factory if the craftsmen were controlled by the nobles, so he found a group of serfs, slaves and free children, gathered them in the palace and taught them by the craftsmen trained by us, and then built a large factory outside the Valley of Ten Thousand Hammers for these people to learn technology and practice. The situation at that time was really like when several alchemy towers merged into the Forging Tower, and then the first tower master carried out the innovation.
Andrew and the king agreed on a 100-year plan, planning to gradually promote this model over a 100-year period, so that the industrial level of the entire Dwarf Kingdom would reach 80% of the level of the Forge Tower. "
Xiao Chen said: "I'm afraid that King Moses's move will not be welcomed by the nobles in the country? This will directly affect the interests of the nobles. Will many people stand up against him?"
Zenovia said, "Of course some people will be dissatisfied, but don't forget that Andrew is a saint. Although he is not as good at fighting as those combat saints in the Temple of Nature, he is still a powerful saint. No matter how dissatisfied those nobles are, they dare not show it in front of him. Moreover, King Andrew is not stupid. He certainly knows that he will encounter resistance. He specially selected a guard from the young people from slaves and civilians. In order to show the difference from the previous customs, each member of this guard has four strands of beard. It is called the Four Directions Army. Andrew thinks that the Kingdom of Moses may want the Dwarf Kingdom to conquer the four directions."
Xiao Chen asked: "How long did this last?"
"Five years." Zenovia paused, as if recalling the scene at that time, but the little man standing on the crystal had no expression on his face. "Five years can change a lot of things. At that time, the first and second generation of workers had been trained, and the king's factory began to produce products with higher output and lower cost than the noble workshops. Although the quality could not be compared with the works of experienced craftsmen, the entire Dwarf Kingdom felt the potential of this method. More children studied in the academy founded by King Moses, and some young nobles even took the initiative to send their children to study with the commoners.
They didn't know about the existence of the Forging Tower, and only thought that the kingdom had received the blessing of the God of Forging in the God's Ruins, so there was so much new forging knowledge. They were also lucky to find a saint who had returned from studying in the human world. "
Other nobles have begun to change their minds and are trying to manage their workshops in a similar way to the king.
Everything seemed fine until the day Andrew died.”
"How did he die?" What Zenovia said did not surprise Xiao Chen. If everything went according to plan, after thousands of years, the Dwarf Kingdom would not be what it is now. Perhaps they would have already had a new clash with the Human Kingdom and the Temple of Nature on the continent.
"I don't know. Andrew told me about the previous events bit by bit when he came to the ruins world. But when he died, I didn't know what happened. I heard the rest of the story from the blacksmith who came to practice.
He may have been assassinated.
Just half a year before Andrew's death, the Dwarf Kingdom gave birth to a saint of its own, a warrior saint. I always felt that the nobles had been waiting for this day. Andrew had always been obsessed with construction and research, and his combat ability was average. Even a newly promoted warrior saint should be able to kill him easily.
Of course, no one knows what happened exactly. I only heard that he was killed in his own house. Later, the nobles of the kingdom claimed that Andrew died of illness, but this excuse could not fool anyone. They said this deliberately to warn the later generations that if they go against the hierarchy of the dwarves, they will only die. " (To be continued)