Chapter 213 Iron Heart 7

"Why? Earl?"

Bernus's expression seemed to be a child who was buying toys but was relentlessly rejected by the parents.

He thought that Paul would praise and fully support him to start a study in this field. He did not expect the other party to praise and praise, but finally poured him cold water.

"This matter is more complicated, I can't say clearly."

Paul was embarrassed, he didn't know how to explain to Bernus, and he didn't know if his thoughts were correct.

"First of all, although the principle of using steam as the power is very simple, I tried to derive it. There are still many technical details that need to be solved.

Bernus said with a firm face: "You are right, but I have made full psychological preparations to face these difficulties."

"But I can't wait. The R & D mission of the mechanical factory will be very heavy next year. I have many ideas that need you to realize it, but you can not be tripped by a steam engine that can be done by the month. It may not be appropriate at this time at this time ... "

Bernus is very strange, "What do you mean? Windmills and waterwheels are limited by the weather and geography, but if the steam engine is created, factories like ironmaking plants can bloom everywhere."

Paul shook his head, "What is the use of building so many ironmaking plants?"

"It's too useful? If you have more ironmins, your territory can produce more iron."

"What is the use of so many iron?"

"This ... this ..."

Bernus feels very ridiculous. Does the count do not know what a lot of iron means? But because of the identity of the other party, he was not good at saying.

"You can use or sell it yourself to others, create weapons and agricultural tools, don't all you use iron?"

"That's right, but if the ironmaking factory we visited is completed according to the plan, its output meets the needs of Alda and Bayerdin, which is more than enough, and it can also sell it a lot to other territories. . The reason why I upgrade the ironmaking technology is because the agriculture in the territory and the development of other industries need to consume more iron than before, and the rebellion in the south can make us fish, but whether it is our territory or around the surrounding one In other territories, the demand for iron every year has an upper limit, and the rebellion in the south will be completed sooner or later. Because there was no profit, I had to close the ironmaking plant. After a tossing, I only retained a few factories that could meet the balance of supply and demand, but the process in the middle invested countless labor and financial costs. "

Bernus dumb, "This ..."

"You see, before so much demand, why invest too much resources to develop the steam engine? The existing water conservancy conditions of Alda and Bayerdin are enough for us to build several ironmaking plants."

"But if we combine the steam and the harvester, we can still be used for agriculture!"

"It is still the same reason as ironmaking. It produces too much food, but without so many people to eat, the food will be reduced. It is really a good thing for people in the city to be rich and cheap. Those who produce food in the countryside are not good. "

"Lord Graman, this world will never lack hungry people."

"So what? Do they have the money to buy? Do I have to pay a lot of good intentions to send the food to those who have nothing?"

"..."

"Okay, Lord Graman, you make sense."

Bernus seemed to be persuaded.

In fact, there is another concern for Paul. In his plan, in his plan, the key step will be based on the development of the industry. The key step is to turn more than half of the population into an industrial population. If there are too advanced things, A machine can replace dozens of people to work, but it will affect the conversion speed of the industrial population. Now it is easy to cultivate a group of workers with eight positives. Could it be that they will go back to plant land.

Paul remembered that there was a previous textbook that Britain broke out of the large -scale "destroying machine" movement after the industrial revolution. The reason was that the efficiency of the machine was too high to cause a large number of workers to unemployment.

Although the number of machines and factories can be controlled by not exceeding the current social needs, this will inevitably lead to the lack of "industrialization" of the structure of the entire society, and the population is still mainly agricultural.

And a few factories that seriously depend on machines have become the key node of Paul's strength. Once these nodes were destroyed for some reason, he could not immediately recover, and could only degenerate into the level of the little leader when he just woke up.

Therefore, he would rather maintain some "backward" productive forces. He must first maintain the "industrial population" and use the growth of the society's demand for industrial products to gradually convert the agricultural population. The remaining part can continue industrial production.

It is also based on the same reason. He subconsciously rejected the use of the mysterious power of this world. After seeing the performance of the Wizard of the Secret French Conference, Paul did not think about whether he could use the mysterious power of magic to develop industry. But after the female consultant talked several times, he gave up the idea.

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First, magic is so mysterious that even the wizards themselves can't figure it out, and the spells he learned from Ladi didn't help him.

Secondly, Paul doesn't want to rely too much on the wizard group. Not to mention that the church's attitude towards wizards may cause trouble for himself. Even if the identity of wizards is legalized one day, and they have a way to promote the productivity explosion of this world, then the monopoly of wizards on advanced productivity such as magic will inevitably form a terrible class.

According to the female consultant, magic requires extremely high talent and may even be related to bloodline. Unlike science and technology, even the dumbest people can master it as long as they work hard.

Moreover, with the relatively small number of wizards, they will also become a "critical node" where a single move will affect the whole body and an accident will cause the collapse of the entire industrial system.

From the starting point, you have to choose the right path. Once the route is wrong, the cost of changing it will be high, especially after the formation of interest groups.

He still hopes that this society can be as fair as possible.

Therefore, Paul set the tone of his attitude towards magic: at the current stage, he should take precautions, and when he has the ability to make further contact with it, he can study and utilize it, but never rely on it. Only when the need is urgent and there are no conventional alternatives, should he resort to the power of magic.