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Most of the troops in the Far East are deployed in the west, and it is still too late to prepare for the Eastern Expedition of the Yashan Empire, so how can they have the spare strength to go to the southern desert to clear out the sand bandits? What's more, the sand bandits are not as simple as rogues, most of them have the support of the psionic royal families in the desert, and even have an ambiguous relationship with the Canaanites, and they are too widely implicated in their use of force.

Roland and Yodel had discussed this thorny issue for the time being, and left it until the international situation improved in the future.

Looking out the window at the blue sky and white clouds, Roland emptied his brain, recuperated his spirit a little, and continued to think about another dimension of the industrial framework - basic industrial resources.

On the earth, four vital basic resources emerged during the first and second industrial revolutions, among which coal and oil belong to the energy category, which are the power sources of the first and second industrial revolutions, respectively; Steel and rubber were the most important basic materials of the two industrial revolutions. Of course, this division is not precise, and coal and petroleum also have material properties, such as coal chemical and petrochemical related products.

So in a fantasy world like Vares, what are the basic resources of industry?

Roland picked up his pen and wrote down his thoughts on scratch paper.

First of all, the most important resource is, of course, the magic crystal.

In Varess, the status of the magic crystal is equivalent to coal + oil + nuclear fuel on the earth, it is so important, it is so critical! Of course, this is not to say that there is no coal and oil in Vares. In fact, the Far East is extremely rich in high-grade coal deposits, a large number of open-pit coal mining is very convenient, every household relies on burning coal for heating in winter, and residents of the Far Northeast are accustomed to using natural asphalt as a building binder when building houses, which indicates that there are oil deposits in the local area. It's just that compared to the magic crystals, which have a high energy density to the point of metamorphosis and almost do not produce exhaust gases and residues after full combustion, these two fossil energy sources are too weak. The steam engine driven by magic crystal has a simple and light structure, and its power is 100 times greater than that of a coal-fired or oil-fired steam engine of the same amount, and its competitiveness is not in the same order of magnitude at all.

The Far East is vast and rich in various energy and mineral reserves, but there is a lack of magic crystal deposits, and whenever he thinks about this, Roland can't help but sigh secretly.

There is no doubt that Magic Crystal is the number one choice for industrial energy. The current need for magic crystal ore in the Far East is mainly imported, and the import channel Roland has stated many times in cabinet meetings, and there is no need to repeat it in the report.

Then it's the turn of another crucial basic resource – steel. The two industrial revolutions and even the two world wars on Earth can be collectively referred to as the "Iron Age". From civilian building materials to military weapons, steel is everywhere, and steel rules the world! So much so that in the 20th century, steel production was still a key measure of a country's industrial capacity.

Human society on the earth has experienced many "energy revolutions", but the real sense of the "material revolution", I am afraid that from the Stone Age to the "steel revolution", and then deduce, the invention and application of "chemical fiber" can also be regarded as a material revolution, but its significance is not as significant as steel, what will be the new materials that can completely replace steel on the earth in the future? Roland, a traveler, has no way of knowing the current technological progress in his hometown, but he knows one thing - in the foreseeable future, the world of Vares, steel's position as the "king of industrial materials" will become stronger and more unshakable!

When it comes to steel, Roland can breathe a sigh of relief. The Far East is rich in high-grade iron ore, and he doesn't know it, but Beowulf, Lord of Kitland, and Bratu, Lord of Icewind Dale, can make a convincing argument. The two major steel bases in the Far East are located in Kitland and Icewind Valley, and pig iron and crude steel from these two bases are continuously imported into the Karon Industrial Zone, providing sufficient raw materials for nearly 100 local factories producing iron wire, steel nails, pots and pans and other civilian goods and military equipment.

After steel, it was the turn of rubber. Roland drew a big question mark on the scratch paper, and the two sword eyebrows couldn't help but lock tightly.

Now that railway construction in the Far East is on track under the guidance of Transport Minister Matwi Wittgenstein, Roland will not need to spend all day watching the construction site, and his focus will then shift to road construction.

With the current road construction technology in the Far East, it is unlikely that a smooth and beautiful highway will be built on the earth, and a level of machine farming road will be considered a good road in this era.

Roland didn't know anything about road construction, but he could have taken a different approach and put a lot of thought into the vehicles that were running on the road. If horse-drawn carriages can run around roads in worse condition and the bumps are not too drastic, road transport will also become more efficient.

In order to solve this problem, it is necessary to start with technological innovation in tires.

The tires of the Far East are all made of wood or iron, and it is obviously not very comfortable to travel in a horse-drawn carriage equipped with wooden or iron wheels on bumpy roads. Even more serious than the sin was the fact that the wheels and axles of the carriage were often damaged during long journeys, and it was quite difficult to repair the carriage that broke down on the way. High-end carriages can be enchanted to absorb shocks and reduce axle pressure, but the enchantment process is expensive and not suitable for the common people. Every time he thinks about this problem, Roland misses the pneumatic rubber tires on earth.

Synthetic vulcanized rubber involves a very complex chemical process, and Roland, a liberal arts student, can't do anything about it, so is there natural rubber in the world of Vares?

Roland asked Jack, Kafta, Valentina, Matveil, and the learned archmages of Beacon Hill about this question, but the answer was never optimistic.

If there are rubber trees in Vares, they tend to grow in tropical and subtropical regions, such as Grabelen in the New World, and in the Far East, where at higher latitudes, rubber trees are neither present nor successfully transplanted.

How can we break through the rubber shortage and equip vehicles in the Far East with pneumatic tires? Roland pondered for a long time and had no gain, so he simply decided to go out for a walk, and by the way, he visited the most famous alchemist in the Far East, and asked his old man about this difficult problem about material craftsmanship.

With this in mind, Roland picked up the brand-new "magic intercom" on his desk. Seeing the stamped trademark on the intercom - the sideways head of Master Andre - the big bald head full of sexuality, Roland couldn't help but laugh.

In the four years since he traveled to the world of Vares, Roland has changed several generations of communication magicians. At first, it was the "communication stone" of the constant 4-ring "short message technique", and he complained that it was a "magic BB machine", and the function was still at the level of texting. Later, it was upgraded to a "high-level communication stone" in Baiou Harbor, and finally had a call function, but there were still many restrictions, such as the content of continuous calls could not exceed 25 words, which he complained about as a "magic walkie-talkie". Now that it has been replaced by a "magic guide intercom device", it is finally a shotgun change, and it has a little bit of "big brother" momentum, which can not only send letters without word limits, but also talk for a long time.