As she spoke, Ariel's gaze shifted to Priest next to her, and she continued to say with a smile—

"Also, it's a matter of light."

"The God of Light has given us half of the light, and the other half of the light needs to be obtained at our expense. You ask me, what did I pay for? ”

"I can tell you that I have paid almost a thousand gold and have a great deal of labor. I don't mean to disparage the brave adventurers who fought the Deviltooth Whale, but I do say that if we can get a safer way to get more lasting light, I believe that even the God of Light should be understandable, right? ”

Ariel tried to make her words as gentle as she could, and followed the words of the archmage and high priest.

But unfortunately, as soon as she blurted out these words, Majik immediately showed a mocking expression and said-

"To put it nicely, to hire those who are unemployed as workers? How many workers can your factory accommodate? Hundred? Thousand? Or ten thousand? You know, the carriage-related industry is a livelihood for more than 100,000 people in the country! Can you just say, 'You can hire them as workers?' ”

Still smiling, Ariel said very politely: "I will try to hire as many as possible, and besides, it is not only the workers who make the strange car, but also the sales channel, the maintenance of the strange car, and many other jobs......

"Hmph, Baroness Garcia, I think you really don't understand the seriousness of the matter."

Majik snorted heavily through his nose and spoke—

"Among these unemployed people, they have been doing the same job for a lifetime, maybe even several lifetimes."

"Their grandfather, their father, to his generation, and even his sons, grandsons, all rely on the same kind of work to support their families. Some of these jobs have even become their family's signatures! ”

"It's like a saddle, everyone knows that the Saddle of the Caton family is the best! Their family has been making saddles since 300 years ago, and they have done it until now, and they will want to do it in the future. The saddles of the Caton family are undoubtedly the best saddles in the world! ”

"You're talking lightly, and after abolishing their jobs, give them another job? Let's not talk about whether you can give them the job, but why do they put aside the traditional, best craft, and instead come to learn your new job that you don't know if it's useful? ”

"Besides, the current head of the Caton family is fifty-two years old, do you want to let a fifty-two-year-old person learn something new? Haven't you ever thought about what to do if the old gentleman can't learn? ”

To be honest, Ariel suddenly felt that she might be about to lose.

These were questions she hadn't considered before...... It's really not considered!

Before this, the only thing she could think of was the immense power that the Demon Dragon Car could unleash! She instinctively thought that this tremendous power could destroy everything like an unstoppable flood, and then re-establish a new system!

But now that I think about it, it will be destroyed by this flood...... I'm afraid it's not just the old system, but also the civilians who depend on it to survive......

"This ...... These questions can be considered slowly...... Everything will develop slowly...... Do everything...... There's always something to pay......"

After a long time, Ariel's voice finally appeared a little unconfident, and her unconfidence was quickly caught by the magician, and said viciously: "Hmph, slowly develop? Say these things to those who have lost their jobs because of your whims. Look at the unemployed who have no money to buy bread to eat, no clothes to wear, and even no shelter to be willing to be the 'price' you call it! ”

When Majik was getting more and more excited, Priest on the side regained his smile again, stretched out his hand to stop the Grand Elder of the Magic Association, and said slowly: "Ariel...... How old am I to you, so calling your name shouldn't be too much, right? ”

"I know you might be tempted to bring our empire into a new era. But now it has been proven that there are many traditional things that cannot be easily changed. Once it changes, it triggers something earth-shattering. Since the war with the demons, the people of the Golden Continent have lived like this for thousands of years. Although there are occasional conflicts between each other, they are generally in a very good environment. ”

"Change, you can, but not too drastically. Everything has to be done slowly, little by little. It's better not to mention something like you that suddenly leads to a large number of people losing their jobs and a large number of industries going bankrupt. And your elemental machine, that's the name, right? Now it seems that the Elemental Machine can really be called a demonic creation, it may not directly kill us, but it may indeed borrow some kind of demonic power, which will make His Highness's country full of holes, and may even attract some of the most terrible things! ”

"So, that elemental machine, let's stop using it."

Ariel understands that these two people are one singing red face and the other singing white face, and in other words, it is to make herself give up the element machine and the strange car!

But...... But......!

Why...... Instead, Ariel thinks that what they said makes so much sense now?

They were right, if the strange car was really taken out, the impact on the carriage industry would be devastating. If the pocket fire is carried forward, it will also be subversive for the ordinary torch and oil lamp industry.

Yes, there will be pains in the process of reform.

But now, who can guarantee that the pains of such reform will lead to a better new world?

What if, at that time, the people employed in the entire process of producing and selling strange cars really can't fill the number of people who have lost their jobs because of the replacement of horse-drawn carriages?

What if a lot of material shipments are generated, but there isn't really that much business?

What will they do if families who have relied on whaling for their livelihoods for generations suddenly tell them that they don't need whale oil anymore and that their income will be cut off completely?

So......

Is reform really necessary?

Maintain the current state of affairs...... Is it really not?

Now in the entire Golden Continent, I am afraid that only the product of the elemental machine has appeared in the Blue Bay Empire, and if the other empires do not have it, is there no need to be so eager to destroy everything in the past?

And more importantly......

Now, he has been promoted from a servant to a nobleman.

From today onwards, he will also have a vested interest in this traditional system.

In this case, can you really promote the element machine?

…… It is necessary.

So far, what are you hesitating about? Is there any illusion that these people symbolize the traditional conservative forces at this point? Even if they make sense, it is from the perspective of protecting their interests.

Didn't the teacher say that? In order to protect their interests, the nobles did not mind that everyone lived in caves. As long as the nobleman's own cave is the best of all caves.

"Jin Guo, what do you think?"

While Ariel was thinking, the fierce wave finally opened his mouth and looked at Duke Jinguo.

The duke's face was also embarrassed now, and after thinking for a while, he said: "Back to Your Highness, the power of the strange car is indeed very novel, but there is no novelty enough to allow our country to bear such a heavy loss. At best, it is only able to carry more goods, and we already have a large number of coachmen and horse-drawn carriages, and we can carry so much goods. In my opinion, there is really no need. And then there's the pocket fire...... I also think that as a novelty gadget, it should be good to stay with His Highness and play with it. ”

Seeing that Duke Jinguo was now also on the side of the Association and the Holy See, Meng Lang finally nodded and sighed. Immediately, he opened his mouth—

"Your Highness, may I say a few words?"

At that moment, a voice suddenly interjected.

Fierce Wave's mouth hadn't fully opened yet, and Jinguo, Majik, and Priest on the side hadn't even thought of where the voice was coming from.

However, Ariel saw it for real.

The voice came from the man who had been sitting on the small couch since just now...... From the mouth of her teacher, Connor Conservative.

Fierce Wave looked at this school teacher, looking a little bored. But out of respect for Lao Teng Shu, he still nodded and said, "What do you think?" Let's talk about it. ”

Connor nodded, smiling and rising from the couch. He turned his head slightly, glanced at Ariel over there out of the corner of his eye, and said slowly-

"I fully agree with what the two Your Excellencies have just said, the Great Elder and the High Priest, and there is no doubt that if strange cars and pocket fires are really allowed to flow into ordinary citizens, it will inevitably lead to a large wave of unemployment, and will also cause a large number of shocks to existing industries. It's going to be a very scary thing. ”

Ariel frowned, looking at her teacher, not knowing what he was trying to say.

"As a teacher of economics, although I don't have any specific data, I can judge from the general economic common sense that the inferences just now are not alarmist. Therefore, Baroness Garcia's request to put the strange car and pocket fire directly into production is really unnecessary. But! ”