Chapter 347 Giant Beast

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Of course, Gawain and Hetty's "beating the child" (in the real sense) is basically just to scare and frighten, after all, now that Rebecca is an adult, and she has the title of baroness, and then hang such a big girl in the Beating or chasing on the beams and running around the house is no good, just teach a few words - of course, there is another reason, that is, Rebecca's head is really iron, and basically a beating is also It doesn't matter if you hit too much, it hurts your hands...

However, when it comes to Rebecca's title, it must really be determined in accordance with the kingdom's inheritance law and the rules of the nobility system. After Gawain lifted the coffin and secured the title of duke, Rebecca, as the current sole heir of the family, should follow the lower order. The first-level title is awarded the title of Marquis, which means that this silly girl who runs around the territory all day long and uses a big fireball to blacken her face from time to time should actually be a Marquis... Who will believe this?

It’s just that Gawain made an agreement with Francis II. In order to prevent the royal family from being too wary of the Cecil family, Gawain’s title of Duke Cecil is currently only used as a personal title, and it was regained by the Cecil family. Before sufficient aristocratic capital (including land, population, property, and military strength), the titles of descendants of Cecil will not be promoted, so Rebecca is still holding the title of a viscount...

But seeing how this silly roe deer lived happily every day, I'm afraid she never thought about such a complicated thing at all.

"After the several large laboratories of the Institute of Magical Technology are operational, some temporarily shelved mechanical projects can be started," waited until Hetty took off the fork from the ceiling with his evocative hand, and stopped at Rebecca by the way. After knocking on his head, Gawain continued, "At present, the north-south avenue between Kant and Cecil has been repaired, and it only takes one day for the carriage to travel between the two places, but more convenient transportation is needed to really connect the two pieces. The land is tied together - as I said, the control of the land is very much dependent on the degree of traffic."

Rebecca was covering her head and pretending to be in pain in an attempt to gain sympathy, but when she heard Gawain mention the word "machine", she immediately forgot about it, the girl's eyes brightened, and she looked at Gawain happily, "It's you. As I mentioned before, the magic motor vehicle?"

"Technically, we've been able to manufacture 90 percent of that thing," Gawain nodded. "The only thing that has been lacking all the time is the manpower. When you get the manpower together, you start the large-scale research institute. Lab, the project begins."

To create a more advanced means of transportation that can match the current pace of Cecil's industry, this is the idea that Gawain has been brewing for a long time. Now the magic engine of Cecil Land has developed into the second-generation rotary engine. In mines, factories, buildings and other places, large and small magic engines and the steel machinery they drive have become the biggest driving force for the development of the territory. However, the rapid development of mechanical engineering and the whole territory has also put forward higher requirements for transportation - the factory needs more and more industrial raw materials, the control scope of the territory is getting larger and larger, and various large and heavy machinery are emerging one after another.

The traditional human and animal transport has obviously become a bottleneck restricting the further development of the territory.

You can't always use a carriage to pull ore to the steel factory, right? It is not a long-term solution for people to carry parts of construction machinery to the construction site on their shoulders.

It's just that although Gawain proposed this idea, there is a serious shortage of technicians in the territory. Even if the magic in this world is very convenient and can greatly speed up the research and development and manufacturing speed, the rigid number of magic technicians is not so easy to make up. So after coming up with this concept, it's just a concept - the project hasn't started yet.

Rebecca has always been very interested in it - this girl has a natural enthusiasm for mechanical things, especially when she knows that this automatic machine can also be equipped with a sixteen-pack fireball launcher, which can make When she was shooting fireballs while flying at a speed of hundreds of kilometers per hour, she was so excited that she was almost hit by her aunt again.

After getting Gawain's affirmative answer, Rebecca immediately became silly. He didn't know how many things he had made up alone there. Hetty glanced at this innocent girl helplessly, and felt that for a short time Nei, she should have no ability to think, so she moved directly to the next topic "There is one more thing, ancestors, the new immigrants in the port have completed the registration today, and the immigration management personnel reported a situation..."

"Oh?" Gao Wen raised his eyebrows, "What's the situation?"

"There are more than a dozen pharmacists, herbalists and alchemists in this group of immigrants, from the north and northwest of the South," Hetty reported earnestly, "and they also mentioned that more 'comrades' are leaving their homes. , so there should be more people coming here in the future.”

"...Is the influence already starting to appear?" Gawain listened quietly, with no surprise on his face, "Patrick is 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 come, and many mercenaries and adventurers who choose to recuperate in the winter are preparing to start work, and they are usually the main customers of the pharmacist profession-in the past winter, our caravan has put Alchemy 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 said, sighing softly, "Now they Apart from Cecil's territory, the only remaining option is the northeast, or a little further to the east..."

"Granling is already our ally," Gawain said indifferently, "Tomorrow, the first batch of 12,000 alchemy potions of various types will be delivered to Lady Ropeney Grant's castle, and she will push To the entire eastern region, the caravan will also use the Glen collar as a springboard to start supplying alchemy potions to the eastern region."

Before that, a group of Cecil pharmacy merchants had successfully opened up the market in the Eastern Border, and had relatively fixed sales points in several towns. However, due to the inconvenience of transportation, the long distance and lack of protection, the cost of supply to the Eastern Border has always been The supply is still at a high level, but now with the full support of Ropeney Glenn, Cecil's alchemy potions will continue to be delivered to Duke Silas Loren's domain.

"...Then Cecil Territory is probably the only choice for those pharmacists," Hetty shook his head. "Or, our factory is their only choice."

"There will be more and more people coming," Gawain stated in a flat tone. "People like pharmacists belong to a wealthier class among the common people, so they will be more tolerant of 'unemployment'. Stronger, they will not go bankrupt as soon as the mining machinery is in place like the mine workers in Tanzania Town. The pharmacists and alchemists who have come to the territory should only be poor in ordinary times and have little savings. , they went bankrupt quickly after receiving no orders in the spring, and those who still have savings or regular customers ... will be forced here one after another after the alchemy potion becomes more popular."

Tyr poked the food in front of her with the tip of her tail. It seemed that she had finally given up the idea of ​​eating, and was ready to use her own tail to absorb the food. She was listening to the conversation between Gawain and Heidi. He said, "Actually, the sooner the bankrupt people are, the luckier they are. They still have time to enter the factory to get a job - with the production efficiency of the factory, those later pharmacists may not even have the qualifications to enter the factory. I heard that such a large reaction group can be controlled with only seven people, and the output is almost equivalent to more than 8,000 pharmacists plus one..."

As an outsider from a higher civilization, Tyre understands many things about Cecil Land - although the Kraken society is very different from the human society, she has also witnessed the land The rise and fall of many Ji civilizations can be seen from experience.

"Industrialization is a giant beast, with more appetite than Typhon's giant beast," Gawain said calmly, "Typhon has made progress in the transformation, but it also needs to devour more resources and population. After completing the final transformation, the progress brought by the magic industry led by Cecil is more rapid than that of Typhon, and what it has to swallow... Of course, it will also be more. Traditional handicrafts, small economies, traditional agriculture... all of them its nourishment."

"Factory can eat people," Hetty said suddenly and softly, "you told me that a long time ago, but I didn't understand it at the time... Now I'm starting to understand that those factories... turned out to be Such a big chain reaction."

"Yes, factories can eat people, especially if they are not under control, they will almost use human flesh as fuel," Gawain said as he lowered his head and cut the food on his plate, thinking in his mind. Then there are various phenomena in the process of social transformation from agriculturalization to industrialization, and the terrible consequences of uncontrolled "factory cannibalism". "That's why we have to control this giant from the beginning The chains and fences of the beasts. Whether it is to formulate a sound worker security system, to arrange the resettlement of the relocated population in advance, or to prepare sufficient surrounding jobs that can accommodate the landless and unemployed people while developing the industry, it is all to control this situation. The necessary measures for the giant beast."

Amber stared at Gawain for a while, then blinked, "No wonder you made a lot of weird rules when you built those factories... So you thought about everything that was going to happen at that time. All right?"

"You have to think carefully, otherwise the factory will eat up all the fruits of our efforts to develop so far," Gao Wen glanced at her with a smile, "When people have only two choices, either they die in the factory, or they die in the factory. When we starve to death, everything we do is meaningless, and the world is as bad as ever."

Gawain's words reassured the people present, but he knew that there were still some things he didn't say.

The "control measures" he formulated can indeed alleviate the various contradictions arising from the destruction of traditional handicrafts and agricultural society by industry, but the effect is only to alleviate, especially in this world, the existence of magic 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 drawings to finished products 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. Therefore, in In this process, the pressure brought by a large number of handicraft populations who have gone bankrupt due to the collapse of the old social order may not be so easy to relieve.

So how should these excess pressures be relieved and transferred?

A series of lists appeared silently in Gao Wen's mind...

(I'm back!!!

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Secondly, I sighed - the real man of Wo Niu is really fierce... his thinking is quick, three chapters a day or something... scary. )

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