Xiao Chen said: "Then since we have achieved all our goals, we should be able to leave here." ”

Xenovia said, "Please wait a minute, let me reclaim that terminal, which is an important part of the Tower of Forges. ”

He Jin asked, "Isn't that just a terminal for querying materials in the library?"

"No, you're mistaken. "Although the two are of the same model, this terminal is actually a terminal connected to the new study room, which was brought out of the tower by Andrew, the last sage of the Tower of Forging, for the dwarves to study. ”

Xiao Chen asked, "In exchange for the help of the Dwarven Kingdom, you promised to teach them the knowledge of forging, right?"

"Yes, it's not just about blacksmithing. After Andrew brought the Forge Tower to the Dwarven Kingdom, he made an agreement with the dwarves that the dwarves would provide shelter, and he would share the technology of the Forge Tower with the dwarves little by little, and finally let the dwarves slowly build up a number of factories. ”

"Factory, not just forging technology?" Xiao Chen was a little strange, at least from the current point of view, there was no shadow of industry in the entire dwarf kingdom, and it was still in the state of a handicraft workshop.

The owner of each workshop, usually the head of the workshop craftsmen, brought a few apprentices with him at most. Or the large workshops belonging to the family will be slightly larger, but they are still composed of small workshops. Although the dwarves have many craft workshops in the Valley of Ten Thousand Hammers, the items provided are of high quality. However, there is still no large-scale production factory, let alone clear industrial standards and capital operation. The industrial institutions that have been formed now are also very rudimentary, and they are nothing more than the three steps of mining, smelting, and forging. It's still far from being truly industrial.

"The dwarven king Moses at the time was a very far-sighted man. He had visited the territory of the Seven Towers and knew how the best magic energy factories of the Seven Towers worked. Therefore, the idea of developing the dwarven kingdom according to the magic of the Seven Towers was proposed.

Andrew promised him. However, he thinks that if the most advanced knowledge is passed on directly to the dwarves. will attract the attention of the nature temple. If the Temple of Nature discovers that the Forge Tower is hiding in the Dwarven Kingdom and decides to grab it, the Dwarven Kingdom will be attacked continuously. So he made an agreement with King Moses at the time to gradually impart the knowledge of industrial manufacturing in batches over many years. Every time, only those who have reached the level of the Great Forge can come in and study, and there is a certain limit to the time of learning, which is the rule set at that time. ”

"Then why is it that after so many years, the dwarven kingdom is still the way it is now. Xiao Chen asked.

"King Moses thought that there was no way to build a factory if the craftsmen were in the hands of the nobles, so he found a way to find a group of serfs, slaves and freeman children, gathered them in the royal palace and taught them by the craftsmen trained from us, and then built a large factory outside the Valley of Ten Thousand Hammers, so that these people could learn techniques and operate practices. At that time, the situation was really like when several alchemy towers merged into the forging tower, and then the first tower master carried out innovations.

Andrew and the king agreed on a hundred-year plan, and planned to slowly promote this model in a hundred years, so that the industrial level of the entire dwarven kingdom would reach the level of eighty percent of the forging tower. ”

Xiao Chen said: "I'm afraid that King Moses's move will not be welcomed by the nobles in the country, right? This will directly affect the interests of the nobles, are there many people who rise up against him?"

"Of course there will be people who are dissatisfied, but don't forget that Andrew is a sage. Although he is not very good at fighting compared to those battle saints in the nature temple, he is still a powerful sage. No matter how dissatisfied those nobles were, they didn't dare to show it in front of him. Moreover, King Andrew was not stupid, he certainly knew that he would encounter resistance, and he specially selected a pro-guard army from among the young people from the slaves and commoners. As a sign of the departure from previous customs, each of the guards wore four wisps of beard. Known as the Quartet Army, Andrew felt that it was probably the meaning of the Kingdom of Moses that wanted the Dwarven Kingdom to conquer the Quartet. ”

Xiao Chen asked, "How long did this last?"

"Five years. Senovia paused, as if reminiscing about the scene, but there was no expression on the face of the little man standing on the crystal, "Five years can change a lot of things. The first and second generations of workers had already been trained, and the king's factories began to produce more and cheaper products than the aristocratic workshops. Although the quality cannot be compared with the works of experienced craftsmen, the whole dwarven kingdom has felt the potential of this method, and more children are studying in the academy run by King Moses, and even some minor nobles have taken the initiative to send their children to study with the commoners.

They didn't know about the existence of the Forge Tower, and they only thought that the kingdom had been blessed by the God of Forging in the ruins of the gods, so there was so much new forging knowledge. I was also lucky to find a sage who had 'returned from a study tour' in the human world. ”

Other aristocrats had already begun to change their minds and began to try to manage their workshops in a king-like manner.

Everything looked fine until the day Andrew died. ”

"How did he die?" Senovia's statement did not surprise Xiao Chen, if everything developed step by step, after thousands of years, then the dwarf kingdom would not be what it is now, maybe they would have had a new collision with the human kingdom and the natural temple on the continent.

"I don't know. Those things in the past were all told to me little by little when Andrew came to the world of ruins. But when he died, I didn't know what had happened. I heard the story from the forger who came to cultivate.

He may have died in an assassination.

Just half a year before Andrew's death, the Dwarven Kingdom gave birth to a Sage of its own, a warrior Sage. I've always felt that the great nobles have been waiting for this day. Andrew has always been obsessed with construction and research, and his combat effectiveness is very average, even if he is a new warrior-type sage, he should be able to kill him relatively easily.

Of course, no one knows exactly what happened, I only heard that he was killed in his own house. Later, the nobles of the kingdom claimed that Andrew had died of illness, but no one could fool this excuse. They deliberately said this to warn those who came after them that if they went against the dwarven hierarchy, there was only one way out. ”