Chapter 529: Selling the Technology System to the High Elves
More than 10,000 years ago, the Eternal Realm exploded. Kalimdor was blown to pieces.
Unable to accept Malfurion's willingness to be a savage, and unwilling to give up the conveniences of civilization, Darsmaris and other elves could not accept Malfurion's willingness to be savages, so they went to the other side of the world to start a new place, Quel'Salas.
In other words, their magic also comes from Sargeras.
Of course, there are their own research and development results here, but the foundation is still in Sargeras.
This means that from a technical point of view, Azeroth's magic system is easily integrated with the Burning Legion's technical system.
Later, Sargeras took Madison and used his body to do bad things, but also made extensive use of magical techniques, including the construction of the Dark Gate and the Karazan Magic Tower.
The space gate technology that connects the planets, Karazan has space folding technology inside, and there are also a large number of magic books.
Lothar and the others didn't come back empty-handed after they overturned Medivan, even if it was to close the dark door, they had to study the relevant technology, right?
Why was Khadgar able to close the Dark Gate from the world of Draenor?
That thing wasn't as simple as a power outage and no image, otherwise Neozu wouldn't have torn the whole of Draenor apart by opening the space door and escaping.
Therefore, in today's Dalaran, there is indeed a technology that even the High Elves covet.
The Kentreto mage Kel'thugad, who studied forbidden spells, had something to do with it.
Later, Dalaran was able to become a floating city fortress, and he could also carry out spatial transfer, and he ran to the Crystal Song Forest and then to the Broken Islands at once, which was also related to this.
After the advent of Akmund, the original historical line, when destroying Dalaran, said: "...... This is also the source of the saying that you have used your stolen knowledge and wisdom to blindly build your own kingdom......".
The elves of Quel'Thalas are also unprofitable, and Kael'thas Sunstrider went to Dalaran for this knowledge.
In the Second Human-Beast War, as a member of the Alliance, they also obtained some technology from the Burning Legion from the warlocks and mages of the orcs. And these crude techniques have become a good introduction, and they are eager to get more.
Most of the techniques mastered by humans are not worth mentioning in the eyes of the elves of Quel'Thalas.
However, some of the techniques mastered by the Kenrito mages were exceptions.
For example, human mages instilled the so-called essence of power into one person in a concentrated manner, giving birth to powerful guardians.
This technique is commendable even to the elves.
High-end technology represents great power. It always earns respect.
The elves gave Dalaran a fair amount of respect, and one of the seats in the Kenrito Council was Quel'Thalas's, and Kael'thas was now seated.
They had thought that there was no way that humans would have a technology in any other realm than magic that they could respect. As a result, Kane appeared and came up with the technology and results that made them look at it differently.
The magical civilization represented by Quel'Salas is not bad in the field of fully automated equipment, but it is only good, not good enough.
Kane proved this with facts. The high-end equipment produced in the Kingdom of Stormgard has greater exclusive capabilities, higher versatility, and lower maintenance costs.
Kane sells his products with a description of the design concept.
Roughly speaking, the tools we produce are not for exhibition, not for aesthetics, but purely for practicality, and we must do as much as possible to help this purpose, and we must cut as much as possible anything that hinders this purpose.
Thereupon......
Kane's first marketing to the elves was mining equipment.
The elves said that they looked really bad and were ugly.
Well, that's right, with the discerning aesthetic of the elves, those machines are indeed stupid and stupid.
But you can't stand the good quality and low price, high cost performance.
Tests have proved that using this set of mining equipment produced by the Stormgard royal family, the efficiency is increased by 70%, the cost is reduced by 40%, and the purchase cost of the equipment is 180% cheaper, which means that the same mining system, the elves want to make the same set they used in the past, and the cost is close to three times that of the series of equipment promoted by Kane.
This is in the modern world of the origin of the crazy pursuit of profits, Kane's mining machinery peers have long lost all their money, either changing careers or jumping off the building.
But in this world, people's sense of competition is not in place, and various protection policies are also strong, and the elves still stubbornly think that their equipment is high-end products, and what Kane sells is the stall goods that take the route of small profits and quick turnover.
Of course, the elves are not stupid, and they know very well what kind of impact it will have on the industry and other families engaged in the mineral development industry once other elf peers adopt these devices.
In addition, they are well aware of why Kane is so confident about selling these devices.
The elves are not prosperous, and the feuding Amani trolls occupy the southeast of the Ghost Lands, which always keeps the elves in their throats.
People can give birth and raise, and they are also very good at fighting, and they exchange their lives for lives, and it is always the elves who lose.
So, the elves need all the technology that can free up labor.
Well, now, the annual output of steel can be dozens or a hundred times that of the past, and it is nothing more than buying a few more sets.
Then create a large number of steel puppet soldiers and send them to the battlefield as cannon fodder.
Everyone will play meat pâté and smash gopher to see who has changed whom. This is the most direct embodiment of production capacity.
This also involves another business that Kane is selling. The Golem Legion.
During Garrosh Hellroar's tenure as the Grand Chieftain, the Former Historical Line Tribe relied on goblin technology to play with the Iron Tribe, giving the beings of Azeroth a glimpse of the power of iron and fire.
Kane was naturally confident that he could do better than the goblins.
His big plan is to wait until the Shattered Islands (7.0) is opened, and his own dimensional warships and the ships of the Burning Legion will fight each other, instead of letting the likes of Dalaran and the Black Wind Fortress specialize in the front.
Kane felt that it would be a shame if he had his own Azeroth by then, and still ended up being taken the initiative by the Burning Legion like the original historical line, grabbed and beaten, and then mourned the victory of the army.
To advance the industry, the market is indispensable, and enough orders can make the industrial workers skilled and perfect, and make up for and improve the details of the product industry.
Therefore, he spared no effort in sales, and did not hesitate to take the cheap route in order to cultivate the market.
At least it's still cheap now, and when the technology is upgraded in the future, you can't afford to play the trick of losing money and making money.
The elves of Quel'Thalas are not short of money, but because of their extremely long lifespan and slow pace of life. From a human perspective, it's too much drag to make a decision.
The same is true when it comes to implementation.
It has been more than 3 years since the equipment and related technology were sold to them, and it was only recently put into actual production.
There is still a desire for revenge that stimulates them, otherwise it will drag on even longer.
Many of the elves' relatives and friends had died fighting the Amani trolls, so it was much more efficient for them to think that they could defeat them in the same way that the Amani trolls had done in the past.
Facts speak louder than words, and the elves are impressed by the technology from the kingdom of Stormgard. They admit that the technology is not high-end, but it is very practical. Especially since it doesn't require a waste of magic.
The elves have emphasized more than once that the most valuable aspect of these technologies is that they have very little dependence on magic.
That's right, that's one of Kane's selling points.
The elves are not stupid either, they know that they are too dependent on magical powers. Moreover, the explosion of the Well of Eternity can be said to be a lesson from the past, and their Sunwell is extremely similar to it, and they are the only treasures that cannot be replicated.
If something goes wrong with the sunwell, the elves will be wiped out.
And to defuse this threat, it is necessary to walk on multiple legs, one of which is throttling.
In order to get these techniques promoted by Kane, the elves rarely and generously took out some of their treasured knowledge, especially soul healing and spiritual power cultivation, which was also specially pointed out by Kane.
The elves didn't care about this, and in their opinion, the short life span of human beings doomed them to not be able to achieve high achievements in this area even if they had good enough technology, and they were sure about it.
So the transaction was smooth and pleasant for both parties. The elves felt that they were very profitable, and the three acids and two bases were great, which was of great help to their alchemy. The Steam Engine is also good with Cement, and they have been used on a large scale on the front lines of the confrontation with the Amani Trolls, and the buffs have been significant.
Because of this, the elves treat Prince Thorbain as a guest of honor. Kane came over this time, and greeted them all the way, Anastarian personally greeted him outside the main hall of the palace of Silvermoon City, and among the human race, only the leader of Dalaran, Archmage Antonidas, had received such a courtesy.
Although Kane didn't care about this kind of flashiness, he still paid more attention to the attitude after this flashiness, and the reception specifications in front of him at least showed that he still had some weight in the hearts of the elves.
After a normal meeting, he offered to visit the elves' workshop.
Naturally, the elves gladly agreed. This is the inventor of a series of technologies that the elves want to prove that they have gotten better at getting their hands on them.
The workshop is indeed great, the exterior is palace-like, gorgeous and unusual, and the interior gives him the feeling of a magical version of the Advanced Research Institute and an experimental automatic factory, clean, neat, highly ordered, and highly automated.
He successively visited the ore screening workshop, smelting workshop, steel rolling workshop, component manufacturing plant, assembly plant and so on.
He found that these war puppets were still inevitably glorified by the elves.
But in any case, the overall manufacturing efficiency and cost of these puppets were still controlled, and mass production was achieved.
"It's still not enough. At the end, when he discussed with the relevant experts, he mercilessly pointed out the shortcomings of the elves.
"I don't have enough guts, and I look stingy when I'm restrained. The focus of this system is on throughput. Value-added, continuous value-added, 10,000 pieces of equipment in excavation, 1,000 pieces of equipment in production, assembly line operation. We're going to have the effect that when Amani Trolls smash a hundred golems, we've produced 10,000 and send them to ......."
Kane's mouth cannon was invincible, and the elven technicians were dumbfounded.
Anastarian asked, "Can it be done?"
The head of the elf technician calculated and nodded: "According to His Royal Highness the Prince's method, at least in theory, it is completely possible, and it can even be done better." ”
"Then what are you waiting for, why spend so much effort on the beauty since it was smashed for the Amani troll?"
The technicians were submissive, especially after Kane gave guidance on the mechanical structure and personally tested it, and the elves had to admit that although the puppet looked a little ugly, it was indeed more difficult to smash it.
Kane also gave his own opinion on puppet control and how to apply it. This is his job, and in terms of experience, he is not afraid of anyone.
The elves also praised once again that the cunning and ferocious humans still have some talent in combat, which can be described as full of bad water. Control is also really crucial, and if it is used by the opponent, it is too bad.
Kane also gave advice on how to control the Golem battle group.
He said: "This is not a denigration or a curse, but the prudence and rigor that should be required of a higher civilization, where a certain person is completely in the hands of a great deal of power, and if this person is conquered, it will cost the whole group an unimaginably high price." ”
The guide at that time was Lotherma Theron, who was known for his resourcefulness, and was able to take the lead when the blood elf population was extremely miserable, so he naturally had his extraordinary ability, and he said, "Prince Garin, did you know something from the Light?"