When Yalei faced the terrible plague in the lower interface, his friends were not idle, especially Amber.

After making his fortune with the golden apples given by Figres, Amber's business grew bigger and bigger, and seeing that he had already dominated the Thracian catering industry, he set his sights on new industries.

As a cross-industry giant, Amber thought that his calendula consortium would be invincible and shine in real estate, metallurgy, timber, fertilizer and other industries, but as a result, the entire eastern part of the empire hit walls everywhere, and could not regain the glory of Thrace.

The reason is simple, as a great empire that has lasted for thousands of years, the various forces within Rossevia have been intertwined, and a large number of old vested interests have been formed, simply put, the class has solidified to an astonishing extent.

For a long period of 1,300 years, if it is a federal state with loose central power, it will always be born and extinguished, and the process of metabolism will be completed.

However, Rosevia is a centralized empire, and because of the king selection ceremony, there are few faint kings. In a certain way, this is not a bad thing, but being decent means being conservative, and being conservative means being inclined to compromise. As a result, many things, including national policies, cannot be thoroughly implemented.

At the national level, one or two generations may not be nothing, but the disadvantages of one or two generations are terrifying. Unlike the highly competitive industry of the catering industry, the real estate, mining, metallurgy, timber industry, etc., are too easy to monopolize, and have long been carved up by the special power class, so how can there be a share of newcomers.

The privileges here do not refer to emperors and knights, nor to mages. Not even a goblin. Rather, Amber's counterpart, the merchant.

The reason is simple. In addition to the blue-blooded family, in addition to the first-mover advantage of the descendants of knights, the www.biquge.info of the Biqu Pavilion is not much higher than that of civilians, and the same is true for mages. The inheritability of the transcendent, and the heritability of personal property, creates a strange phenomenon.

The knightly and mage classes were keen to marry merchants and thus form a community of interests, and Rosevia was a country where politics and business were not separated. It is very easy for a businessman to obtain political status...... In this way, relying on the social consensus on the sanctity of personal property, coupled with the complementary interests of the mage and knight classes, the most stable privilege class, the golden power and noble clan, was born.

There is a proverb among the Franks in the north that there are two things in Rosevia that are more stable than gold - the emperor and the great merchants.

The Iberian kingdom dominated by the mage did not take this less to arrange the Roussevian people - nine hundred years ago, Rosevia only had knights and nobles, and nine hundred years later, Rosevia had only the golden power.

And now, although Amber also relies on wealth to become the upper class, after all, his qualifications are too shallow, and he is far from some big conglomerates and big chamber of commerce families, and he is a nouveau riche in comparison.

How could the old Jin Quan and noble clan look down on him, plus there are more wolves and less meat. Of course, the claws stretched out to the calendula consortium were slapped back.

After much triing, Amber gave up some of his naïve ideas. decided to find another way, since the traditional industry can't get those gold power antiques, then do your own set!

That's right, he still has a trump card, which is the steam locomotive that he got from the second-lane dealer Yalei!

It's a pity that I hit a wall again......

New things are destined to be questioned, and the appearance of steam locomotives actually touches the interests of the entire mage class. No mana drive, no rune spells, and you can move on your own!

What is this? Ordinary people can make it, and ordinary people can use it!

When this technology matures, how many of us will have to lose their jobs?

Moreover, it is a heresy to not use magic stones as an energy source, but to rely on blackened carbon to provide kinetic energy!

What is this? This is a trick!

Boycott! Boycott!

All in all, it's not that the mages don't really dislike steam locomotives, they just don't want to see the emergence of new energy sources that ordinary people can control.

Neither Yalei nor Bishop Ike, the inventor of the steam engine, thought that a small steam engine would cause an uproar in the political arena.

In the House of Commons, the Mage Councillors made generous statements that steam locomotives were useless, and that they could build a flying castle if there were enough magic stones.

Moreover, the exhaust gas discharged from the broken machine qì contained toxins, and I felt strong discomfort as an adult, not to mention the goblins and children. By the way, once this technology is promoted, it will also severely destroy the surface environment, and the speed is slow, which is simply harmful and not beneficial!

As a result, under the reasonable and well-founded impetus of the entire magic stone interest group, the House of Commons forcibly passed a law that listed the steam engine as a dangerous and prohibited item and was not allowed to be produced.

It's a pity that some new things are destined to flourish since they were born, and they can't be held back unless they can kill all those who know it!

Take, for example, a business that Amber is talking about now.

"Look, Mr. Amber. ”

A middle-aged mage with a scruffy beard who didn't seem to care about his appearance stepped forward, spread out the dirty drawings in his hand, spread them on Amber's expensive desk, swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said nervously:

"Our research has found that in a high enough pressure environment, the condensation rate of magic stones increases many times, do you know what this means? Think about it, what a stake!"

"As far as I know, the results of this research have long been discovered, and this theory has long been put into practice because it is not enough to make ends meet. Amber waved his hand casually, piercing the other party's old bottom again and again.

"That's right...... the middle-aged mage blushed, and hurriedly added: "But it's different now, we can use a steam engine instead of magic stone consumption, carry out pressurization operations, and then ......"

At this point, he paused deliberately, and in a tone full of seduction, he said something that no businessman could refuse:

"Cheap, mass-produced, low-quality magic stones. ”

"Do you have a chance?" Amber raised his eyelids unmoved.

"Yes, I have a testing machine. The middle-aged mage licked his chapped lips.

"But the steam engine is now a forbidden item. ”

"That's why I asked you to cooperate. ”

The mage slowly approached Amber, his eyes shining with desire, and he smiled and said:

"Such a great masterpiece is listed as contraband by a bunch of stupid and greedy vested interests, and you, as the owner, must not be reconciled to this. ”

"We're all going to go to jail for that. A smile appeared on Amber's chubby face.

"Yes, we're going to be billionaires too. The other party nodded understandingly.

In a country where business and government are integrated, money can be channeled quickly, and as long as you have gold in your hand, even if you are in prison, you can live a life of superiority.

"It's a pleasure to work with, I'm Amber Dirit. ”

"I'm Soren Hals and it's a pleasure to work with. ”

In the luxuriously equipped office, the two hands that represent money and wisdom are held together, because interests are held together.

At this moment, Sauron smiled with satisfaction, as if success was just around the corner, but Amber knew that such a big benefit could not be grasped by just two people.

He also needed another hand that was strong, determined, and trusted in each other as a symbol of strength. These three hands together can be the lever to pry this cake. (To be continued......)