Of course, Gawain and Hetty's "beating of children" (in a practical sense) is basically just a scare. After all, Rebecca is now an adult and has the title of Baroness. It wouldn't be outrageous to hang a girl from the rafters and beat her or chase her all over the house. Just give her a few words of advice - of course there is another reason for this, that is, Rebecca's head is really strong and she basically beats her up. A meal is of no use, and the hand hurts after being beaten too much...
But when it comes to Rebecca's title, it must be determined according to the inheritance law of the kingdom and the rules of the aristocratic system. The coffin will be unveiled in Gawain After rising and securing the title of duke, Rebecca, as the current sole heir of the family, should obtain the title of marquis according to the lower title. In other words, this carefree person runs around the territory all day long and will smoke himself with fireballs from time to time. The silly girl with a dark face should actually be a Marquise... Who would believe this?
It’s just that Gawain and Francis II made an agreement. In order to prevent the royal family from being too wary of the Cecil family, Gawain Cecil’s dukedom is currently only a personal title. , until the Cecil family regains sufficient aristocratic capital (including land, population, property and military strength), the titles of Cecil's descendants will not be promoted, so Rebecca still holds the title of viscount...< /p>
But looking at how this silly roe deer lives happily every day, I'm afraid she has never considered such a complicated matter at all.
"After several large laboratories of the Institute of Magical Technology are operational, some mechanical projects that have been put on hold can be started." Wait until Hetty used her plastic hand to take off the fork on the ceiling. , and after tapping Rebecca on the head, Gawain continued, "Currently, the north-south highway between Kantland and Cecil has been repaired. It only takes one day for a carriage to travel between the two places, but a more convenient one is needed. Transportation can truly connect two lands - as I said, the control of land depends largely on the degree of transportation."
Rebecca is covering her head and pretending. She was trying to win sympathy, but when she heard Gawain mention the word "mechanical", she immediately forgot about it. The girl's eyes brightened and she looked at Gawain happily: "It's what you mentioned before, the magic power mobile "Vehicle?"
"Technically, we have been able to manufacture 90% of that thing," Gawain nodded, "The only thing that was missing was the manpower. The manpower was gathered and the institute's large laboratory was launched, and the project began. "
Create a more advanced transportation vehicle that can match the current pace of Cecil Territory's industry. This is high-end. An idea that Wen has been brewing for a long time. Nowadays, the magic engines of Cecil Territory have developed into the second generation rotary engines. 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 territory as a whole has also put forward higher requirements for transportation - the industry needed by factoriesThere are more and more raw materials, the scope of territory control is getting wider and wider, and various large and heavy machinery are emerging one after another. Traditional human and animal transportation has obviously become a bottleneck restricting the further development of the territory.
Can’t we keep using horse-drawn carriages to haul ore to the steel plant? Carrying parts of construction machinery to the construction site on people's shoulders is not a long-term solution.
It’s just that although Gawain proposed this idea, there is a serious shortage of technical personnel in the territory. Even though magic in this world is very convenient and can greatly speed up research and development and manufacturing, the number of magic technicians is insufficient. It’s not that easy to make up for, so after the concept was proposed, it was just a concept – the project has not started yet.
Rebecca has always been 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-unit When her fireball launcher allowed her to shoot fireballs while flying at a speed of hundreds of kilometers per hour, she was so excited that she almost got beaten by her aunt again.
After receiving Gawain’s affirmative reply, Rebecca immediately became silly and happy. She didn’t know how many things she had figured out by herself there. Hetty looked helplessly at this simple-minded person. The girl glanced at her and felt that she might not be able to think in a short period of time, so she moved directly to the next topic: "One more thing, ancestors, the new immigrants at the port completed registration today, and the immigration manager reported a situation... ..."
"Oh?" Gawain raised his eyebrows, "What happened?"
"There are more than a dozen pharmacists, herbalists and alchemists in this group of immigrants. divisions, coming from the north and northwest of the southern border," Hetty reported seriously. "In addition, they also mentioned that more 'comrades' are leaving their hometowns, so more people should come here in the future."
"...Have the effects begun to appear?" Gao Wen listened quietly, with no surprise on his face, "Padrick is personally in charge of the northern trade route, and Viscount Andrew is driving the northwest trade route. There is progress. It’s pretty much what I expected.”
“The Recovery Moon has arrived, and many mercenaries and adventurers who chose to recuperate in the winter are preparing to start work, and they are usually the main customers of pharmacists-- Throughout the past winter, our caravan has sold alchemical potions to 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..." He As Ti spoke, he sighed softly, "Now, apart from the Cecil Territory, their only other option is to move to the northeast, or move further to the east..."
"Glenling is already our ally," Gawain said lightly. "Tomorrow, the first batch of 12,000 alchemy potions of various types will be delivered to the castle of Countess Ropenny Glenland, and will be administered by her. Extending to the entire eastern region, caravans will also use Glenland as a springboard to start supplying alchemical potions to the eastern region.”
Before this, it has already been done.A group of Cecil Pharmacy merchants have successfully opened up the market in the Eastern Territory and have relatively fixed sales points in several towns. However, due to the inconvenience of transportation and the lack of protection over long distances, the cost of supply to the Eastern Territory has always remained high. The quantity is also a problem, but now with the full support of Ropenny Grant, Cecil's alchemy potions will be continuously sent to Duke Silas Loren's territory.
"...Then Cecil Territory is probably the only choice for those pharmacists," Hetty shook his head, "In other words, our factory is their only choice."
"More and more people will come later," Gawain stated the facts in a calm tone. "People like pharmacists belong to the wealthier class among the common people, so they are more tolerant of 'unemployment' It will also be stronger, and will not be like the mining workers in Tanzanian Town who quickly went bankrupt after the mining machinery was put in place. The pharmacists and alchemists currently coming to the territory should be relatively poor and have little savings. For that type, they will quickly go bankrupt after failing to receive orders in the spring, while those who still have savings or regular customers... will be forced here one after another after alchemy potions become more popular."
< p>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 preparing to use her tail to absorb the food. She listened to the conversation between Gawain and Hetty. Shi Youyou said: "In fact, the sooner people go bankrupt at this time, the luckier they will be. They still have time to enter the factory to find a position. With the production efficiency of the factory, those later pharmacists may not even be qualified to enter the factory. , after all, I heard that such a large reaction team 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 more advanced civilization, Ti I understand many things about Cecil’s leadership very clearly - although the Kraken society is very different from human society, she has witnessed the rise and fall of many civilizations on land, and she can tell from experience. Saw something.
“Industrialization is a giant beast, with a more voracious appetite than Typhon’s giant beast,” Gawain said unhurriedly. “Typhon has made progress in the change, but it also needs to be devoured. More resources and population are needed to complete the final transformation. The progress brought by Cecil's magic industry is more rapid than that of Typhon. Of course, it will devour more traditional handicraft industries and small economies. The body, traditional agriculture...are all its nutrients."
"Factories can eat people," Hedy said suddenly softly, "You told me this a long time ago, but at the time I I don’t understand what it means at all... Now I begin to understand that those factories... can have such a big chain reaction."
"Yes, factories can eat people, especially when they are not. Under controlled circumstances, it will almost use human flesh and blood as fuel," Gawain said, lowering his head to cut the food on his plate, and thinking about the transformation of society from agriculture to industrialization.Various phenomena, as well as the terrible consequences that uncontrolled "factory cannibalism" will bring, "that's why we have to set up chains and fences to control this giant beast from the beginning. Whether it is formulating complete worker protection System, or preparing the resettlement of the unemployed population in advance, or preparing sufficient surrounding jobs that can accommodate the landless and unemployed people while developing industry, are all necessary measures to control this beast. ”
< p> Amber looked at Gawain blankly for a while, then blinked: "No wonder you made a lot of weird rules when you were building those factories... It turns out that you knew what was going to happen next. Have you thought about everything?""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 only have When the two choices are either to die of exhaustion in the factory or to die of hunger outside the factory, then everything we do will be meaningless, and the world will still be as bad as before."
Gawain. His words reassured the people present, but he knew that there were still some things he had not said.
The "control measures" he formulated can indeed alleviate the various contradictions that arise after industry destroys traditional handicrafts and agricultural society, but their effect is only to alleviate, especially in this world, the existence of magical power makes anyone A technological breakthrough can easily produce extremely powerful and direct effects. It takes a very short time for a large number of mechanical equipment to go from drawings to finished products, and industrial products go from concept to mass production very quickly, so the power of industrialization also follows. Therefore, in this process, the pressure brought by the large number of handicrafts people who went 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 silently emerged in Gawain's mind...
(I'm back!!!)
The first thing I recommend when I come back is a book that will last forever. "Under Deep Space", a science fiction story about setting sail in the universe and exploring the future of civilization, has been completed and is the winner of the Galaxy Award for Best Online Literature. Isn't this really worth reading? < /p>
Secondly, let me sigh - Master Wo Niu is really fierce... his thinking is quick, three chapters a day... scary)