Chapter 42: The First Brokerage Cycle

The first economic cycle

The pedestrians around didn't know Matthew's identity, but they just thought that this teenager was a bit of a teenager.

Matthew stood on the street, his spiritual power spreading like ripples. The conversations of the people around him were continuously recorded and analyzed by him!

Ma was depicting the life of an ordinary District 1 resident! He needed to judge how the power of magic could transform the lives of ordinary people in one of the most developed areas of Vantasti!

If a product wants to have vitality, it must be accurate to the customer's pain points and provide endogenous value!

The most essential rhythm of people's life is contained in the process of daily communication with people, talking about interesting things in life with friends, chatting about work troubles, discussing prices and exchanging information with businesses.

Matthew stood from morning to noon! Gathering conversations with thousands of people and obtaining a great deal of information about the First District.

This is first-hand research.

By the time Matthew had recorded all the information and analyzed it, he was already a native of District 1!

Matthew's strange and familiar direction is recognizable and walks towards a huge factory building!

This is the largest building materials trading center in the entire Great Eastern District, and it is a place where various building materials are traded between various residential areas!

For a regional lord with more than 90% desertification, it would be incompetent not to think about using these free raw materials on the ground!

Entering this huge factory, Matthew was amazed by the scene in front of him!

It's an exhibition hall of architecture and aesthetics, and it doesn't look like a place to sell stuff at all!

The whole factory is divided into independent booths, and there is a booth for each commodity!

However, here, all the building materials samples are not simply piled up, but carefully used and displayed directly in the form of finished buildings!

In Matthew's opinion, it's more like a big gathering of architects, and everyone brings their works to the exhibition!

Among the raw materials for building materials, the most common are stone and wood!

All kinds of stones of different colors and textures are polished neatly, and they are carved with intricate carvings!

This is in line with Vantati's aesthetic!

Different stone suppliers have used their products to build chic houses for exhibition!

There are more suppliers of wood, and the wood of various varieties and textures is carefully polished to the desired shape.

Here Matthew patiently collects all kinds of information, inquiring about the sources, prices, and transportation methods of various building materials.

Matthew is also consulting on common building techniques in the wizarding world, learning from each other's strengths and enriching his database!

Each world has its own unique situation, and the wizarding world, as a world focused on studying the power of the laws of nature, has taken a different path in terms of changing matter!

This also leads directly to a polarizing phenomenon!

It is difficult for ordinary people to enjoy the power of magic, and they do not have the ability and knowledge to change matter!

In the field of building materials and construction, Matthew found that most of the building materials are directly taken from nature!

All materials are taken from natural materials, and natural stone is polished into large blocks of masonry and tiles. The trees were harvested and made into beams, posts, and slabs. Even the glass is taken from natural glass deposits, which is amazing!

All products are simply mined and polished, without any traces of industrialization!

The power of wizards is embodied in this field, which lies in the creation of natural mineral deposits, directly producing materials!

If a sorcerer's apprentice who practices the laws of the earth needs a special kind of stone, even if there is no precedent in nature, he can create it himself by changing the power of the law!

And this is also unimaginable by the power of science!

The power of science can't do such a miraculous effect, even glass can naturally generate mineral deposits! But industrialization also has many benefits that wizard power does not have!

The first is the cost reduction!

For ordinary people, mining ore with simple tools is a very inefficient activity, and it is very time-consuming and labor-intensive to break down a huge stone mine and polish it into neat bricks!

That's why the buildings Matthew saw were relatively low, and there were very few high-rise buildings!

That's also because the cost of building materials is too high!

Matthew weighed the price index of building materials and food materials, and found that in Vantasti, the cheapest bluestone brick is 20% more expensive than the same volume of beef tenderloin!

This is unbelievable in the eyes of people in the industrial age!

Matthew also learned that in some areas where the law of earth is cultivated, the lord can directly change the sky and the earth by changing the law and injecting energy, and generate skyscrapers with more than 100 floors, even the glass can be directly generated as a whole!

After knowing this information, Matthew had a basic plan!

Based on industrialization, the processing of raw materials can directly burn sand and clay into bricks, without the need to continuously consume the power of magic! Ordinary people can run this industry independently!

The cost of the products produced is very low, only the fixed cost input when investing in the construction of the factory, the cost of raw materials, operating costs and personnel wages in the later stage can be ignored in the case of District 57!

This kind of extremely low-cost building materials can completely monopolize the market segment of low-end building materials, and all these low-end materials will be wiped out!

Matthew slowly completes the strategic plan in his mind!

"In the early stage of development, it can be mainly used in four categories, masonry, glass, cement, and asphalt!"

"With the material conditions of the wizarding world, these basic industries can be reproduced!"

"The people of District 57 are all excellent construction workers, and they can take advantage of this trait to form a construction company within District 57 and mobilize most of the young and middle-aged manpower!"

"In the early stage, we will focus on the infrastructure construction within District 57 and rebuild the economic closed loop in the region!"

"As a manager, I injected capital and started to repair roads, build schools, hospitals, libraries and other public welfare facilities!

"I also want to provide them with a place to spend and open a trading company! I will take supermarkets and shopping malls as my main business and absorb purchasing power, but the current barter method is too low-level!"

"I can also set up a bank, I only need basic personal cash business in the early stage, absorb the people's deposits, and the only loan subject can only be my own factories and enterprises, so that the funds will be circulated! All I need to do is inject capital in the early stage!"

"The land in the whole area is mine, and when the time comes, I can also develop commercial housing and sell it to my employees in the form of low-interest loans! I also have to do a good job of urban planning! Layout in advance!"

"In this way, everyone is tied together, the production of labor is liberated, and there can be higher production efficiency!"

"Later, you can export this basic building material!"

"This will upset the existing economic balance! Cutting off people's financial means is like killing parents! I don't know how much resistance it will arouse!"