Of course, Gawain and Hetty's "beating the child" (in the de facto sense) is basically just a scare and scare, after all, now Rebecca is an adult, and she also has the title of a baroness, and it is not like to hang such a big girl on the beam of the house to beat or chase all over the house, and it is okay to teach a few words casually - of course, there is another reason, that is, Rebecca's head is really iron, and it basically doesn't work to beat her, and it hurts to beat her hand too much......

However, speaking of Rebecca's title, it must really be determined according to the inheritance law of the kingdom and the rules of the aristocratic system, after Gawain unveiled the coffin and ensured the title of duke, Rebecca, as the current sole heir of the family, should obtain the title of marquis according to the lower title, which means that this silly girl who runs around in the territory all day long and will smoke herself black with big fireballs from time to time should actually be a female marquis...... Who will believe this t?

It's just that Gawain made an agreement with Francis II that 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, and the titles of Cecil's descendants will not be promoted until the Cecil family regains enough aristocratic capital (including land, population, property and military strength), so Rebecca is still holding the title of a viscount......

But looking at this stupid roe deer living happily every day, I'm afraid she hasn't thought about such a complicated thing at all.

"After a few large labs at the Institute of Magic Technology are up and running, some mechanical projects that have been put on hold for the time being can be started," Gawain continued, after Hetty took off the fork from the ceiling with her plastic hand and tapped it on Rebecca's head in passing, "Now that the north-south highway between Kant and Cecil has been repaired, and it only takes a day for the carriage to travel between the two places, but more convenient transportation is needed to really connect the two lands - as I said, The control of the land depends largely on the degree of traffic. ”

Rebecca was covering her head and pretending to be in pain, trying to win sympathy, but when she heard Gawain mention the word "mechanical", she immediately forgot about it, and the girl's eyes lit up, and she looked at Gawain happily, "That's what you mentioned earlier, the magic energy vehicle?" ”

"Technically, we've been able to make ninety percent of that thing," Gawain nodded, "and all this time was just manpower." Once you've got the people together and you've started up the institute's large labs, the project begins. ”

The idea of creating a more advanced means of transportation that could match the current pace of Cecil's industry was an idea that Gawain had been brewing for a long time. Nowadays, Cecil's magic engine has developed to the second generation of rotor 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, but the rapid development of mechanical engineering and the territory as a whole has also put forward higher requirements for transportation - the factory needs more and more industrial raw materials, the territory control range is getting larger and larger, and all kinds of large and heavy machinery are also emerging, It is clear that traditional human-animal transportation has become a bottleneck that restricts the further development of the territory.

You can't keep using horse-drawn carts to pull ore to the steel mills, right? It is not a long-term solution for people to carry parts of construction machinery to the construction site on their shoulders.

It's just that although Gawain put forward this idea, there is a serious shortage of technicians in the territory, even if the magic in this world is very convenient and can greatly speed up the development and manufacturing speed, and the hard quantity of magic technicians is not so easy to make up, so after proposing this concept, it is just a concept - this project has not yet started.

Rebecca had always had a heart for it - the girl had a natural passion for mechanical things, especially when she knew that the automaton could also be equipped with a sixteen-pack of fireball launchers that would allow her to shoot fireballs at speeds of up to 100 kilometers per hour, and she was so excited that she almost got hit by her aunt again.

After getting Gawain's affirmative reply, Rebecca immediately became stupid, a person in there heheheheheI don't know how much brain has made up, Hetty glanced at this simple-minded girl helplessly, and felt that she should have no ability to think in a short time, so she directly moved on to the next topic, "There is one more thing, ancestor, today the new immigrants at the port have completed the registration, and the immigration management personnel have reported a situation......"

"Oh?" Gawain raised his eyebrows, "What's the situation?" ”

"There are more than a dozen apothecaries, herbalists and alchemists in this group of immigrants, coming from the north and northwest of the South," Hetty reported earnestly, "and they also mentioned that more 'peers' are leaving their homes, so there should be more people coming here in the future." ”

“…… Is the influence already starting to appear," Gao Wen listened quietly, with no surprise on his face, "The northern trade route is personally in charge of Padraik, and the northwest trade route is promoted by Viscount Andrew, and the progress is about the same as I expected." ”

"The month of recovery has arrived, and many mercenaries and adventurers who choose to recuperate during the winter months are preparing to start work, and they are usually the main customers of the pharmacist class - in the past winter, our caravans have sold alchemical potions into almost every mercenary union in the northern and western regions, so now the pharmacists and alchemists in these areas are going bankrupt in large numbers......" Heti said, sighing softly, "Now they are in addition to Cecil Collar, The only option left is to move to the northeast, or a little further east......"

"Glenn Collar is already our ally," Gawain said lightly, "Tomorrow, the first batch of 12,000 alchemy potions of all kinds will be delivered to Lady Penny Glenn's castle, and she will push them to the entire eastern region, and the caravan will also use Glenn Collar as a springboard to start supplying alchemy potions to the east." ”

Prior to this, there had been a group of Cecil potion merchants who had successfully opened the market in the east, and had relatively fixed sales points in several towns, but due to the inconvenient transportation and the lack of protection, the supply cost to the east has always been high, and the supply is also very problematic, but now with the full support of Ropenny Glen, Cecil's alchemical potions will be continuously sent to the territory of the Duke of Silas Loren.

“…… The Cecil Collar is probably the only option for those apothecaries," Hetty shook his head, "or rather, our factory is their only option. ”

"There will be more and more people coming after that," Gawain said in a flat tone, "people like pharmacists belong to the wealthier class of the common people, so they will be more tolerant of 'unemployment', and will not be like the mine laborers in Tanzanian Town, who quickly go bankrupt en masse as soon as the mining machinery is in place." The pharmacists and alchemists who have come to the territory at present should only be the poorer ones who have not had much savings, and they quickly went bankrupt after they could not receive orders in the spring, and those who still had savings or regular customers...... They will be forced here one after another after the alchemy potions become more popular. ”

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 about to use her tail to absorb the food, she listened to the conversation between Gawain and Hetty, at this time Yu Yu said, "In fact, the sooner the bankrupt at this time, the luckier they are, and they still have time to enter the factory to get a position - with the production efficiency of the factory, those later pharmacists may not even have the qualifications to enter the factory, after all, I heard that such a large reaction group can be controlled by only seven people, The output is almost equivalent to more than 8,000 pharmacists plus a ......"

As an outsider from a higher civilization, Tyr knows a lot about Cecil's territory - although the Kraken society is very different from human society, she has seen the rise and fall of many civilizations on land, and she can see something from experience.

"Industrialization is a beast, more appetite than Typhon's," Gawain said unhurriedly, "Typhon has made progress in the revolution, but it also needs to devour more resources and people to complete the final transformation, and the progress brought about by the magic industry led by Cecil is even faster than that of Typhon, what it wants to devour...... Of course, there will be more. Traditional handicrafts, small economies, traditional agriculture...... It's all its nourishment. ”

"Factories eat people," Hetty said softly suddenly, "you told me this a long time ago, but I didn't understand it at all...... Now I'm starting to understand that those factories ...... It turns out that there will be such a big ripple effect. ”

"Yes, factories can eat people, especially if they are not controlled, they will almost be fueled by human flesh and blood," Gawain said, bowing his head to cut the food on his plate, thinking of the phenomena in the transition from agriculture to industrialization, and the terrible consequences of uncontrolled "factory cannibalism", "so we had to set up chains and fences to control this giant beast from the beginning." Whether it is the development of a sound worker security system, or the resettlement of the demobilized population in advance, or the development of industry while preparing sufficient peripheral jobs that can accommodate the landless and unemployed, it is necessary to control this giant beast. ”

Amber looked at Gawain stunned for a moment, then blinked, "No wonder you made a lot of weird rules when you built those factories...... So you had everything you thought about what was going to happen after that? ”

"We have to think about it, otherwise the factory will in turn eat up all the fruits of our efforts so far," Gawain looked at her with a smile, "When people only have two choices, either they die of exhaustion in the factory or starve to death outside the factory, then everything we do is meaningless, and the world is still as bad as before." ”

Gawain's words reassured those present, but he knew that there were still some things that had not been said.

The "control measures" he formulated can indeed alleviate the contradictions that arise after the industry destroys the traditional handicraft industry and agricultural society, but the effect is only to alleviate it, especially in this world, the existence of magical power makes any technological breakthrough easy to produce extraordinarily powerful and direct effects, a large number of mechanical equipment from drawings to finished products The time required is very short, and the speed of industrial products from concept to mass production is also extremely fast, so the power of industrialization has also been amplified, so in this process, The pressure on the large number of handicraft workers 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 surfaced in Gawain's mind......

(I'm back!!

After coming back, I first recommend a book.,The final eternal "Under Deep Space", set sail in the universe, a science fiction story that explores the future of civilization, has been completed and is also the winner of the Galaxy Award for Best Online Literature, this kind of is not afraid of milk?! It's really worth watching.

Secondly, sigh - Crouching Cow is really fierce...... Quick thinking, three chapters a day or something...... Terrible. ）

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