By asking the well-informed Balushawa, Link knew that the continent of Faren was still in the stage of transition from agriculture to urbanization, and that nine-tenths of the people in the continent lived in the countryside.

Moreover, there are various forms of land ownership in the Faren Continent, such as Deep Water City and the Silver Moon Federation, which are dominated by homesteaders and small farmers, and ancient kingdoms such as the Cormir Kingdom and the Tesser Kingdom are dominated by nobles owning land and tenant farmers actually cultivating the land, while remote countries such as the Ser Empire, the Ense Empire, and the Karinsian Empire use a large number of slaves in large farms, constituting a de facto serfdom system, while the Am Empire and the Sambia Kingdom, which are highly developed in commerce, have appeared that the land users lease the land to the big merchants, and the big businessmen will intensively cultivate the land on a large scale and in a planned manner, which is already the germ of capitalist agriculture。

On the other hand, in the history of Europe on the earth, during the Middle Ages, Europe was a manor economy, almost everything needed by the manor was self-sufficient, there was very little foreign exchange, the land was occupied by the lords, and the people were serfs.

With the Renaissance, the ideas of the Enlightenment began to sprout, the trade routes began to recover, the free cities began to rise, the overwhelmed serfs fled to the free cities, due to the abundance of manpower and the recovery of trade routes, the demand for goods in various places surged, the handicraft workshops in the free cities began to develop, the merchants and handicraft owners of the free cities were the first bourgeoisie, the handicraft workshops of large-scale collaborative production crushed the handicraft workshops of the lords, cheap goods bankrupted the manor economy, and the lords reluctantly turned the serfs into tenants who made contracts。

Further development of handicraft workshops required more manpower, bankrupt manor people also needed to make a living in the cities, expanded cities needed more agricultural and sideline products to support, feudal lords with heavy losses needed a lot of money to invest in the cities, all factors required the rise of land sales, the need to produce more agricultural and sideline products with less manpower, the lords began to sell or lease land to large merchants, the big merchants began to build water conservancy, dig ditches, and replace the rough production methods of the Middle Ages with intensive pastures and large agricultural products, and capitalist agriculture appeared。

The emergence of capitalist agriculture has liberated the vast number of labor forces in the countryside, which has led to the rapid development of urban handicraft workshops, the acceleration of urbanization, and the rise of the citizen class with wage income, which has greatly expanded the development of the domestic market.

The handicraft workshop has developed to a certain extent, although there are various guild restrictions in the city, but due to the overall demand of the industry and the strong demand of the market, the handicraft workshop will rise from the development of experience and technology to the development of science and technology, and finally develop into a large machinery factory, to achieve the industrial revolution, and the industrial revolution needs a large number of educated people, national education began to appear, and a highly organized country in modern times will appear.

Link believes that it is basically impossible to realize the industrial revolution in the continent of Faerun, the first step of agricultural capitalism cannot be completed, and without sufficient manpower and wealthy handicraftsmen, Faeron's handicraft industry can only develop at the level of handicraft workshops, which is now the most advanced trading city Deep Water City, and only a few small handicraft workshops have been developed under the constraints of various guilds, and most of the handicrafts are still the primitive form of masters and apprentices.

The reason why the guild restricts the development of the industry is due to the narrowness of the market, what new technology is developed by a certain craftsman, others may be hungry, just like in ancient China, every time a manpower-saving machine and equipment is invented, it will be banned by the authorities, that is, it is afraid of affecting the livelihood of the common people, so whether it is the medieval guild of the earth, or the current city guild of Feilun, they are resisting innovation and competition, and this situation will not change until the market expands and the entire industry develops further.

In medieval Europe, before the opening of new shipping routes, the big merchants could only develop capitalist agriculture in addition to the development of urban handicraft workshops, and on the continent of Faerun, the first choice of powerful merchants was magic trade, and also due to magical reasons, the exchange between the continent of Faren and other continents was much earlier than that of Europe at the same time, in Europe, it was the rise of cities, the development of the domestic market and capitalist agriculture to a certain extent, the development of various industries, and the development of the navigation industry to open up new routes, while the continent of Faren did not go through this stage to start overseas trade, and the best capital was concentrated in overseas trade and magic trade。

And now all kinds of monsters are rampant in the Feilun Continent, a small amount of cash crops are planted with high output, and merchants can tolerate it, but in the vast areas that are not suitable for planting cash crops, the development of traditional agriculture has high input, and the return is small and slow, and the merchants with strength and access are unwilling to operate, and small businessmen are unable to develop large ranches and large farms, and now they appear in the large ranches and farms of the Amm Empire and the Sambia Kingdom, and a large number of private soldiers of the Chamber of Commerce are stationed, which is more like a dock fort during the Northern and Southern Dynasties of China, and is not built for profit.

And the most critical step in the development of the manual workshop to the mechanical factory is to reform and develop from the past experience and technology to the reform of science and technology, and it is many scientists and inventors who have completed this step on the earth, and in the current Faeron continent, it can only be the mage class who can carry out this step, but the current mage class only cares about their own research, and does not care about the development of ordinary civilians, Einstein on the earth once said that the reason why ancient China did not complete the industrial revolution was the lack of a formal logic system and an experimental system to find out the causal relationship through experiments。

The same is true of the current Faerun, if there is no formal logic system and experimental system of the mage class, relying only on a group of merchants and a group of craftsmen who can't even recognize words, even if there is no restriction of guilds, they can only develop empirical technology, improve some production methods through experience, and can't say why, and cannot develop science and technology that understands the principles.

The more Link thought about it, the more he felt that the current Feren was not right, the once glorious Nessrell and many ancient civilizations were not like this, and civilians also enjoyed the superiority of magical civilization, but now in the Feron Continent, the mage class is completely out of touch with the ordinary people, and after the elites among ordinary people become mages, they will also revel in their own research, and completely ignore the production and life of ordinary people, as far as the temperament of algorithmists is concerned, but since the demise of Nesserel for thousands of years, there is not even a freak who studies how to change the production and life of ordinary people, it is too strange。

"It's like having an invisible hand. Link muttered to himself