As Diao Si dealt with Hei Yu and Ou Yun while deploying his development plan, time passed more fully and faster. Almost a month has passed in the blink of an eye. At this time, major plantations and factories that produce tools have begun to be put into use.
In the past few days, there have been many problems, but the results have been extremely gratifying. Not only did Diao Si build large tracts of planting areas and factories, the most important thing is that he has gained great support from the people. People from all walks of life worshiped him like a god.
However, those members of the major families who were originally indifferent began to feel uneasy again, and repeatedly blocked Diao Si from allowing the soldiers to participate in labor. It wasn't until Diao Si incited the soldiers to cause trouble that they finally compromised.
The new planting areas have gradually been able to meet the needs of these foreigners-dominated production forces, and the living areas for foreigners have also gradually improved. These people became increasingly civilized under a set of regulations directly linked to their living conditions.
After the first batch of new production tools were put into use, the pace of development became even more fierce, but a new problem immediately ushered in. After receiving the news, a large number of new outsiders flooded into the Imperial Palace. This will lead to the contradiction between overcrowding in the imperial city and lack of people in other big cities.
Therefore, Diao Si will immediately start developing railways to connect the traffic in various major cities, and then set up factories and production bases according to the resources of each major city. This will reduce the pressure on the imperial city and better promote the economy. develop.
But the development of railway metal is an important issue. Although the bottom of the railway can be made of sleepers or concrete, there is enough metal in the two rails alone.
There are a lot of very good metals in the imperial city, but they are usually reserved for making armor or weapons. If Diao Si wants to build the first railway to the iron mine as soon as possible, he must borrow these metals from them.
First of all, he thought about Ouma. Originally, at Ouma's request, those people were willing to give up the metal first, but after knowing that the metal was used to make railways for Diao Si, they all objected.
In this way, Diao Si only got the royal family's batch of metal, so he first used it to make a more powerful steam engine, and then continued to think of ways to get metal. He thought about exchanging grain and other materials with them, but this did not have much effect, because Diao Si did not save much grain in order to satisfy the farmers and workers.
So on the one hand, he sent people to the location of the metal mine and used traditional wooden trucks to transport it. On the other hand, he continued to think of ways to persuade people from major families.
Originally, because of Hao Qi's relationship, Diao Si had already laid some foundation with the Haowu family, but he had some conflicts with Duke Haozhan over the establishment of a warrior academy, and the relationship became a bit tense again.
This is also to achieve the goal of fairness, Diao Si wants to establish some civilian academies, including magic academies and warrior academies, to provide free learning for everyone, and select those who are capable to become warriors and magic users.
This is his next plan, but before that he must build a school and find teachers. As the number one warrior family in the Blazing Empire, the Haowu family was certainly within the scope of Diao Si's consideration. Coupled with Hao Qi's relationship, Diao Si tried to persuade Hao Zhan, hoping that he could provide some material and human support. .
But the old guy Hao Zhan was a stubborn guy. She objected to Diao Si spending manpower and material resources on those civilians and refused to provide any help, so conflicts arose.
Transportation is the prerequisite for development. Without transportation first, it will be difficult for Diao Si to develop other cities. In this way, the imperial city will become more and more crowded and there will be more and more contradictions.
Maybe this is what the royal family and other major families want. They can't allow Diao Si to get better and better, otherwise when they see his contribution to the Blazing Empire, they should take the initiative to help.
But despite the increasing difficulties, Diao Si remained calm and collected. He had already anticipated that various problems would arise and was never afraid of any challenges.
But these people's obstacles to him were not limited to that, because in the past two days, people from the Master Association also secretly visited Diao Si several times. So he planned to go there during his lunch break and try to ask them for help.
Following those mages, they took a sneaky detour before returning to the altar of the underground base camp of the Mages Association. They asked Diao Si to pray for a while, and then began to point out the various mistakes he had made during this period.
In fact, Diao Si is very busy now and has no time to pray with them. Today he obeyed them like that because he asked for something.
"By the way, two seniors, now the Blazing Empire is encountering problems in its development. I would like to ask you two, is there any way to obtain more metals for making armors and weapons?"
Diao Si politely asked Ou Feng and Zhan Xi, and Zhan Xi responded: "I have heard that you want to build a metal road, but do you know? A road built with such huge sums of money is simply useless. Worthless… "
He made a conversation based on his understanding, but it was all nonsense. The railway was not just a matter of paving the original dirt and stone road with metal. But Diao Si didn't want to explain too much to Zhan Xi. She wouldn't understand it easily. Such innovative things must be made and shown to them to be convincing.
"I just want to know if there is any way to get such metal. We can study other issues later." Diao Si responded a little impatiently.
Unexpectedly, after hearing what he said, Ou Feng over there said to him unhappily: "We don't want to study such a problem with you. We called you here today to ask you to terminate the plan of the Mage Academy!"
"The plan to terminate the Mage Academy? Why is this? I also want you to participate in it and help them grow up faster." Diao Siwei asked confused.
"That's impossible! Do you think it's easy to become a magician? Why does the empire spend so much manpower and material resources cultivating people who are not royalty or nobles? It's better to invest more resources in cultivating its own people!"
Diao Si understood Ou Feng's words. This was the same as Hao Zhan's opposition to Diao Si's establishment of a warrior academy for civilians. They both believed that the empire should only train their people and should not waste resources on civilians.
"And those low-level civilians are uneducated and do not have the fine traditions of the royal family and nobles. If they really master magic, they will definitely only add chaos to the empire!"
The old guy Zhan Xi also spoke at this time. She originally wanted to express her opinion and Diao Si had no objection, but she insulted those civilians like this and Diao Si felt uncomfortable because he had been a civilian on earth for too many years. There is already a class mentality.
"The fine tradition of the royal family and the nobility? Is it considered a good moral character to destroy someone's entire family?" Diao Si's words were not loud, but they could not escape the ears of these two old guys who were good at hearing.
"What did you say!" Ou Feng looked shocked. Maybe she had remembered Heiyu's Black Moon family and their cruel experience.
"No, I just heard about it. They told me about a mage family called the Black Moon Family, which was later destroyed for unknown reasons..." Diao Si continued, staring closely at the faces of Ou Feng and Zhan Xi. .
They all looked frightened and anxious, and it seemed that they had really done something wrong. Although Diao Si didn't have a good impression of Hei Yu, looking at the whole thing, he sympathized with her. It should even be said that her current crazy revenge was caused by these people.
"Yes, the Black Moon family was massacred in the past because they were learning dark magic to control people's hearts and opposed Emperor Oso... But later we also arranged funeral arrangements for them and buried all of them in the Zhenzhi Ancient Temple. Next to me." Zhan Xi said forcefully, trying to find an excuse for this past crime.
After hearing this, Diao Si said again: "Are you talking about the dark mage's grave that is overgrown with weeds? Is this considered to have arranged their funeral arrangements? I feel ashamed just listening to it."
Perhaps after hearing what Diao Si said, Ou Feng sighed and said, "It seems that we still have to find time to go there to pay homage. After all, the Black Moon family was once the strongest mage family in the empire."
Hearing what she said, Diao Si suddenly thought of something. He could provide Hei Yu with a chance for revenge so that she wouldn't always rush him to do things. This would at least win her some trust.
So Diao Si immediately said: "That's it. You'd better go there at night so as not to attract other people's attention. ... Also, remember to call me when the time comes. I also want to pay homage to those undead souls." ." (To be continued)