Of course, Gawain and Hetty's "beating the child" (in the actual sense) was basically just a scare. After all, Rebecca is now an adult and has the title of Vitesse. It's not unreasonable to hit or chase on the beams or run around the room, just a few lessons are enough-of course there is another reason, that is, Rebecca's head is really hard, basically it doesn't matter if she is beaten. Use it, it hurts if you hit too much...
But when it comes to Rebecca's title, it must be determined according to the kingdom's succession law and the rules of the aristocratic system. After Gao Wen uncovered the coffin and secured the title of duke, Rebecca, as the current sole heir of the family, should follow the low The first-level title was awarded the title of Marquis, which means that this silly girl who runs around in the territory carelessly all day long and smokes her face black with big fireballs from time to time should actually be a Marquis... Who will believe this tm
It’s just that Gawain and Francis II made an agreement at the beginning. In order to prevent the royal family from becoming too wary of the Cecil family, Gawain? Before obtaining enough noble capital (including land, population, property, and military strength), the title of Cecil's descendants will not be promoted, so Rebecca still bears the title of Viscount...
But looking at the way this silly roe deer lives happily every day, I'm afraid she has never considered such a complicated matter at all.
"After the several large-scale laboratories of the Institute of Magic Technology are up and running, some mechanical projects that have been temporarily shelved can be started." After knocking on the head, Gao Wen continued, "At present, the North-South Road between Kantland and Cecil has been repaired, and it only takes one day for a carriage to go back and forth between the two places, but more convenient means of transportation are needed to truly connect the two places The land is connected — like I said, the control of the land depends a lot on the level of traffic."
Rebecca was covering her head and pretending to be in pain in an attempt to gain sympathy, but when she heard Gao Wen mention the word "machine", she immediately forgot about it. The girl's eyes brightened, and she looked at Gao Wen happily: "It's just What you mentioned earlier, the mana motorized vehicle?"
"Technically, we have been able to manufacture 90% of that thing," Gao Wen nodded. "The only thing that has been lacking is manpower. Wait until you gather the manpower and start the large-scale research institute. laboratory, the project begins."
To manufacture a more advanced means of transportation that can match the pace of the current Cecil Land industry is an idea that Gawain has been brewing for a long time. Now the magic energy engine of Cecil Territory has been developed into the second generation of rotor engine. In mines, factories, buildings and other places, large and small magic energy engines and the steel machinery driven by them have become the biggest driving force for the development of the territory. However, the rapid development of mechanical engineering and the territory as a whole has also put forward higher requirements for transportation - factories need more and more industrial raw materials, the scope of control of the territory is getting larger and larger, and various large and heavy machinery are emerging in endlessly. Traditional manpower Animal transportation has obviously become a bottleneck restricting the further development of the territory.
You can't always use a horse-drawn cart to pull ore to the steel factory, can you? It is not a long-term solution to carry the parts of construction machinery to the construction site by pulling people on their shoulders.
It's just that although Gao Wen proposed this idea, there is a serious shortage of technical personnel in the territory. Even if the magic in this world is very convenient and can greatly speed up the research and development and production speed, the rigid number of magicians is not so easy to make up for. So after the concept was proposed, it was just a concept—the project has not yet started.
Rebecca has always been very interested in it—this girl has a natural passion for mechanical things, especially since she knows that a sixteen-barrel fireball launcher can be installed on this automatic machine, which will allow her While running at a speed of hundreds of kilometers per hour while firing fireballs, she was so excited that she was almost beaten by her aunt again.
After getting Gawain's affirmative answer, Rebecca immediately became silly and happy. She didn't know how many things she had made up by herself. She probably lost her ability to think, so she moved directly to the next topic: "There is one more thing, ancestor, the new immigrants at the port have completed their registration today, and the immigration management staff reported a situation..."
"Oh?" Gao Wen raised his eyebrows, "What's going on?"
"There are more than a dozen pharmacists, herbalists, and alchemists in this batch of immigrants, from the northern and northwest directions of the southern border," Hetty reported earnestly, "In addition, they also mentioned that more 'peers' are leaving their homes. , so more people should come here in the future.”
"... Has the impact already started to appear?" Gao Wen listened quietly, with no surprise on his face, "Padrik is personally in charge of the northern trade route, and Viscount Andrew is driving the northwest trade route. The progress is in line with my expectations. almost."
"The month of recovery has arrived, and many mercenaries and adventurers who choose to recuperate in winter are preparing to start work, and they are usually the main customers of pharmacist occupations—in the entire winter that has just passed, our caravans have sent alchemists Potions have been sold into almost every mercenary union in the northern and western regions, so now the pharmacists and alchemists in these regions are going bankrupt in large numbers..." Hetty sighed softly as she spoke, "Now they except Sebastian Outside of the Territory of Syr, the only remaining option is to move to the northeast, or move further to the east... "
"Glenland is already our ally," Gao Wen said lightly, "Tomorrow, the first batch of 12,000 alchemy potions of various types will be sent to the castle of Countess Ropeni Glenn, and she Pushed to the entire eastern region, the caravan will also use Glenland as a springboard to start providing alchemy potions to the eastern region."
Prior to this, a group of Cecil pharmacy merchants had successfully opened up the market in the Eastern Territory, and had relatively fixed sales points in several towns. The supply remains high, and the supply is also a problem, but now with the full support of Ropeni Grant, Cecil's alchemy potions will be continuously sent to Duke Silas Loren's territory.
"...The Cecil collar is probably the only choice for those pharmacists," Hetty shook his head, "or in other words, our factory is their only choice."
"There will be more and more people coming later," Gao Wen stated the facts in a flat tone, "People like pharmacists belong to a relatively wealthy class among the common people, so they will be more tolerant of 'unemployment' Be stronger, unlike the mine laborers in Tanzania Town, they will not go bankrupt as soon as the mining machinery is in place. The pharmacists and alchemists who have come to the territory should be the kind that are usually relatively poor and have little savings. , They quickly went bankrupt after they couldn't receive orders in the early spring, and those who still have savings or regular customers... will be forced to come here one after another after alchemy potions become more popular."
Till poked the food in front of her with the tip of her tail. It seemed that she had finally given up on the idea of eating, and was about to use her tail to absorb the food. She was listening to the conversation between Gawain and Hetty. At this time, Youyou He said: "Actually, the sooner the bankrupt at this time, the luckier they are. They still have time to enter the factory to seek a job. With the production efficiency of the factory, those later pharmacists may not even be qualified to enter the factory. After all, I I heard that such a large reaction group can be controlled by only seven people, and the output is almost equivalent to more than 8,000 pharmacists plus one... "
As an outsider from a higher civilization, Tire understands many things in Cecil Territory-although the Kraken society is very different from human society, she has witnessed many things on land no matter what. The rise and fall of Ji Wenming can be seen from experience.
"Industrialization is a behemoth with a stronger appetite than that of Typhon," Gao Wen said unhurriedly, "Typhon has made progress in the transformation, but it also needs to devour more resources and population to survive." After completing the final transformation, the progress brought about by Cecil's magical industry is faster than that of Typhon, and it will devour more things...of course there will be more. Traditional handicrafts, small economies, traditional agriculture...all of it nourishment."
"Factories can eat people," Hetty said suddenly and softly, "You told me this sentence a long time ago, but I didn't understand what it meant at the time... Now I'm beginning to understand, those factories... would produce such Big chain reaction."
"Yes, the factory can eat people, especially when it is out of control, it will almost use human flesh and blood as fuel," Gao Wen said, lowering his head to cut the food on his dinner plate, thinking However, various phenomena in the process of society's transition from agriculturalization to industrialization, and the dire consequences of uncontrolled "factory cannibalism" will emerge, "so we have to set up to control this giant from the very beginning." The chains and fences of the beast. Whether it is to formulate a comprehensive worker security system, or to resettle the displaced population in advance, or to prepare sufficient peripheral jobs that can accommodate the landless and unemployed while developing industries, it is all about controlling this A necessary measure for a behemoth."
Amber stared at Gao Wen blankly for a while, then blinked: "No wonder you made a lot of weird regulations when you built those factories... So you thought about what will happen later alright?"
"We must think about it, otherwise the factory will eat up all the achievements we have made so far." Gao Wen smiled and glanced at her, "When people have only two choices, either die in the factory or die in the factory. When we starve to death outside, then everything we do means nothing, and the world is just as bad as ever."
Gao Wen's words reassured the people present, but he knew that there were still some things he hadn't said.
The "control measures" he formulated can indeed alleviate the various contradictions that arise after the industry destroys traditional handicrafts and agricultural society, but the effect is only to alleviate, especially in this world, the existence of magical power makes any technological breakthrough very easy It produces extremely powerful and direct effects. The time required for a large number of mechanical equipment to go from drawing to finished product is very short, and the speed of industrial products from concept to mass production is also extremely fast, so the power of industrialization is also magnified accordingly. Therefore, in In this process, the pressure brought by a large number of handicraft populations who went bankrupt due to the collapse of the old social order may not be so easy to relieve.
So how should these excess pressure be relieved and transferred
A series of lists silently emerged in Gao Wen's mind...
(I'm back!!!
After I came back, I would recommend a book first, the ultimate and eternal "Under the Deep Space", a sci-fi story about setting sail in the universe and exploring the way forward for civilization. Bundle? ! Really worth seeing.
Secondly, I would like to sigh-the Immortal Crouching Bull is really fierce... quick thinking, three chapters a day or something... scary. )