Chapter 239: Flowing Water
At the beginning of the rainy season, the first rainstorm in the Northland lasted for three days, and then the rain gradually weakened and became a gloomy drizzle.
The black dragon lay in the open space of the front hall of the royal court, looking at the sea of flowers swaying in the wind nearby, and the hazy and misty royal capital below, enjoying this tranquility.
Farther away, the mountains and forests are obscured by mist, looming as if they were lost.
During this time, Caesar had been pondering a plan to make money, and the nest of black wings was currently relatively rich and self-sufficient, but the Northland countries were extremely poor. When the time comes, if he wants to integrate and prepare for the establishment of the Black Wing Empire, this item will hold him back, poverty and backwardness are twins, there is no money, how can the Black Wing Empire develop.
Caesar thought that as a visitor from another world, it would be easy for him to come up with some ideas from his previous life to make money, but when he actually put it into practice, he found that the actual situation was far from the case.
The rain was swept up by the wind and slapped on the glass one after another, rippling in waves.
Yes, he wanted to sell molten glass, but glass already existed in this world.
Eladia is a world with wonderful magic at its core, backward and advanced, and many things here are even better than Caesar imagined.
For example, there is no reinforced concrete in this world, but you can use magic to support tall buildings on the ground; There are no steam engines or internal combustion engines, but they rely on magical cores to power giant war golems; There are no bullet trains or airliners, but if the upper echelons need it, teleportation spells are available in a flash......
Due to the presence of magic, this is a world where the tech tree is distorted, but no less brilliant.
Even, in the distant empire where the sun never sets, even such a great creation as the Hanging City exists, which is something that Caesar's original cognition could not understand, and if only this glorious achievement is discussed, in a sense, its glory is even ahead of the world in which Caesar lived in his previous life.
But on the other hand, Eladia's polarization is so great that it has even split a continent into two different worlds, and under the shadow of the majesty of the top of magic, most ordinary people still live a life of medieval misery, whether it is the North or the sun never sets, they are still under the rule of slavery.
At the same time, even in an empire with such a glorious superstructure, the level of productivity was also not high, which was in fact a situation that the rulers had intended to promote.
The level of productivity and the power of magic are dangerous goods that need to be strictly controlled, and once there is a large leap and bound, it will inevitably cause political turmoil and greatly weaken the authority of the rulers, which the Führer, the Great and other rulers will never allow.
So, it's not that Caesar really can't make good things that are better than the times and can make money, it's just that most of the things that seem to be better than the times actually have their substitutes in Eladia, although they are niche, they still exist.
If he doesn't want to do useless work, he must calm down, concentrate on studying the market, and then attack accurately, instead of making a "new" thing with a slap on the head, only to find that it is not popular, and it is a waste of energy.
There was no progress on this matter so far, and Caesar thought for a while, and decided to change his mind, climb out of the Rhine court, and go to other parts of the royal capital.
The former royal capital of the Rhine has now been completely reduced to a monster paradise and has become the settlement of the Blackwing Clan, and the humans who originally inhabited this place have either actively or passively moved away from the royal capital, leaving only a few necessary personnel, and still living under the protection of the Blackwing Clan.
After all, there is a huge difference between humans and monsters, and after the nest of Black Wings entered the Rhine royal court, if these residents were still allowed to stay here, not only would these humans not be able to stand it, but Caesar himself would not be at ease.
After all, the Black Dragon Lord moves a lot when he goes out, and the feeling of being noticed all the time is okay at first, but it gets really annoying after a long time.
He arrives at a workshop that has just recently begun to make elegiac cards.
There were nearly 500 people in this workshop, and only a small number of them were human painters, most of whom were wild boar people from the Blackwing Clan, and the scene was strange.
For the first batch of finished products, Caesar was still quite attentive and chose to hand it over to the strict and paranoid boar people to make it.
It seems that the card is not big, but it is not easy to actually manufacture it, first of all, the prepared thick paper is processed and polished to make it a high-quality, delicate feel of the card paper, and then it is hollowed out half by hand to fill the label of the standard card and expansion package, and then it is necessary to print the anti-counterfeiting glyphs, images, and finally transfer to the painter to color, sealing processing.
This is still the production process of the ordinary version of the elegy card, and due to the existence of the mass energy crystal and the requirements of the Black Dragon Lord, the collector's edition is more complex and elegant.
It wasn't until the cards were released that Caesar realized that he was unwarranted for fear of piracy, at least in the time when the elegy cards were first released.
The reason is simple: pirate traders simply cannot produce such quantities as the Rhine court.
After all, this world of printing is far from being formed, and if you only use artists to do the task of drawing each card......
Words, as an important medium for information storage, are far less important than imagined in Eladia, where words are only a communication tool for the middle and upper classes, just the middle and upper classes.
So, in Eladia, books are important, but they are scarce, as evidenced by Caesar's lack of access to knowledge.
Most slaves and freedmen had little access to books in their lifetimes, and when only the middle and upper aristocratic classes used them, some scribes who made a living from them were enough to meet their needs.
And without urgent need, even if there is already a material basis such as paper and ink, and even if it has been developed for thousands of years, the crucial technology of "printing" still has not yet appeared.
Although the Spellcaster Gate can also achieve the effect of "printing" by using spells, in the final analysis, the problem is back to square one, which can only meet the needs of the upper class, and cannot be popularized in Eladia.
On Caesar's side, he had already studied the mold-making technology when the Goblin Workshop mass-produced armor, so the engraving printing was difficult to defeat the nest of the Black Wing, and as long as he proposed an idea, Hogg already knew how to work and directly presented the finished product.
Wait a minute!
Caesar was stunned for a moment, watching the busy work of the human painter and the boar man, mass production, stencil technology......
That's right, since he has already built an assembly line workshop, why doesn't he simply expand it and form a real large-scale factory?
Whether it is weapons and armor, or sewing clothes from the fur produced in the Northland, or making tools and daily necessities, they can be produced in the form of assembly line factories and then traded and exported to other countries.
Before that, armor casters needed to be proficient in every step of material selection, drawing, casting, and forging to create a pair of armor, and the same is true for other similar professions such as tailors, carpenters, etc., people's way of thinking has long been rigid, accustomed to such a set of all-round processes, and even many things are "tailor-made".
As long as the scale is large enough, it is self-evident what kind of impact the assembly line factory will bring to these industries.
At the time of its early appearance, uncertain products such as labor tools and necessities of life may be rejected by other countries, but the huge amount of weapons, armor and other military supplies is something that any country can rush to.
All Caesar had to do was to prohibit the Northland from trafficking in human beings, bring them closer to the Black Wing Factory as labor, and then invest in the early stage to import metals and raw ores.
At the same time, the weapon armor made in this way is precisely the lowest scale product, neither a legendary weapon nor a spell enchantment, which can only meet the most basic low-level war needs, which is good, because Caesar will not be injured by the products he exports, and such a weapon cannot even pose too high a threat to the Blackwing Clan.
Do it!
He had already figured it out, even if he couldn't create an epoch-making new product, it didn't matter, just the vision and ideas brought from the other world was an incomparably valuable wealth for him, and if he was able to meet the initial investment, he could build an assembly line factory in the Northland on a large scale and export it in the name of "Black Wing Manufacturing".
In the years to come, the northern terrain would become the world's factory, surpassing the central commercial city-states to become the second largest economy after the empire on which the sun never sets.
Further up, when he is truly wealthy and has the ability to attract high-end talents and complete his technical reserves, Caesar can begin to study the power of magic to accomplish what he wants.
At least in his opinion, there is still a lot of way to go for the current magic guide technology.