Chapter 588: Dawn Will Finally Come
The unilateral price reduction of the Avery Machinery Factory will inevitably cause a backlash from the Fog City Factory and the Presbyterian Church of the Far North Country. As for www.biquge.info way in which they would express their displeasure, Donner had no heart to guess.
When any new technology first appears, there is an opportunity to make huge profits, and magic engines and magic power-related machinery are no exception.
Donner himself did not care about these windfall profits, in contrast, he preferred to keep prices down so that the fruits of technological innovation could be quickly reflected in all aspects of social production.
The Fremont Empire had a total population of just over 17 million, the vast majority of whom were agricultural, and only by rapidly popularizing agricultural machinery and liberating these populations could it meet the needs of large-scale industrial production.
Take, for example, Wesley's bicycle factory.
After the emergence of the position of magic welder, the bicycle frame produced by steel pipe welding will replace the cast frame, which not only reduces the overall weight of the bicycle, but also saves costs.
However, this is not the most important thing.
With welding technology, supplemented by small magic energy engines, the production of magic energy motorcycles and even magic energy cars are already in place.
The only bottleneck is talent.
With the current level and number of workers in the Borg Bicycle Factory, it is still very difficult to produce bicycles, and more complex products can only stay on the drawings.
In the third year of the new calendar, the entire Avery Industrial Park was relocated from Fog City to the Aili Industrial Zone, and the Aili College of Engineering and Technology, which is taught by early graduates and technicians in the industrial area, is now able to provide about 1,300 graduates every year. But the vast majority of these students will be relegated to the rapidly expanding Avery Industrial Park. Wesley's bicycle factory doesn't have much talent.
The compulsory education schools that were planned to be spread throughout the country did not form a scale because of the resistance of the local aristocracy.
Wesley, Mino, and Paz, who had tasted the sweetness of technological innovation, opened schools near their factories to educate the children of the common people, but these measures were not enough to meet the exponential growth in the demand for talents in the short term.
However, with the increasing popularity of the Foggy Times and the Coennas Observer, Downer has gradually taken control of the direction of public opinion throughout the empire.
In the August issue of the 3rd year of the new calendar, the "Coennas Observer" published the admission list of the Truth School City in the 39 provinces of the empire.
The follow-up report published on the same page in September also included an illustration. In the painting, several sixteen or seventeen-year-old children receive a bottle of "Paicui's Blessing" from the Lord of William City at the gate of the City of Truth, which can double the total number of Divine Elements, and there is no other way to obtain it except to enter the city, the Mist Chemical College, or the Avery College of Engineering and Technology.
In addition to mentioning that all students who enter the school city can receive a bottle of "Paicui's Blessing", the article also details the newly cultivated potions plantation in the southern part of the province of Ovie, as well as the magic potion department of the Mist Chemical Engineering Academy, and even publishes a brief interview with Moen, the dean of the Mist Chemical Engineering College.
It can be expected that the total number of students participating in the unified examination of the Truth School City in the fourth year of the new calendar will increase explosively.
The Misty Times published a series of scholarly reports, which also followed Donner's wishes, and gradually shifted the public's enthusiasm for magic to naturalism and engineering.
In the series of articles titled "People Who Changed the World", there are Austin Calle, who discovered and demonstrated the concept of "virtuality", Bernslar, who discovered the laws of thermodynamics, and Dan Nicklau, who invented a series of automatic grapples.
Among them, Austin Calle and Burnslar received the 1st and 2nd Rand Awards from the City of Truth, respectively, and Dan Nicklau received the 8th Engineering and Technology Progress Award (i.e., Tom Award) from the Avery Institute of Engineering and Technology. Along with these awards, there is also a complete set of "Twin Divine Element" magic potions, which can increase the winner's mage level to level 3 at once.
These public opinion offensives alone were enough to direct the attention of hundreds of thousands of nobles in the empire in the right direction, but they did not necessarily have enough impact on the generally illiterate commoners.
Donner came to Coenas this time to solve this problem.
That night, after seeing off Chancellor Angela Merkel, he had dinner with Lucia, Layla, and Una until late at night, then changed into a hooded robe, hid his entire face under his hat, and rushed alone to the Church of Light on the banks of the Boer River.
The influence of the collapse of the Holy See of Light has not yet affected the Huls Continent for the time being. The cathedral next to the Imperial Arena still stands as it did yesterday.
However, tonight's cathedral is a little deserted than usual, and outside the gates, which have been closed early, only a few sand gulls flying from the Boer River are looking for the bread scraps left by the believers during the day.
Donner walked alone through the stone paths between the lawns, frightened gulls flapping their wings and escaping into the night. The air was filled with the smell of a church, which seemed to be the smell of plants and flowers mixed with moisture, but there were some subtle differences.
Donner walked to the church door as if no one was around, and in front of him, a huge wooden door creaked open, and Donner walked through the door into the church, and the wooden door closed behind him.
In the empty church, there was silence, and under the statue of the god of light, hundreds of candles burned quietly, reflecting the face of the god in cold and terrifying.
From St. Petersburg to Huls, the image of the god of light was also out of shape because of the long distance, and even Donner himself could not see any of the characteristics of his previous life from the statue in front of him - probably because the craftsmen of the Femon Empire had never seen the faces of the Orientals and could not grasp the subtle changes in them.
"Your Apostles......"
The voice of the Ninth Divine Son came from the darkness beside the idol, and immediately after, his figure also walked out of the darkness, followed by two faces that Donner had never seen before.
The three of them walked up to Donner, then slowly knelt down and threw themselves to the ground.
"Are there only three of you left?" asked Donner lightly.
"Lord Apostle......" The mournful tone of the Ninth Divine Son has already said it all.
"The night has come, but the dawn will break through the darkness...... Donner's expression was extremely calm, as if nothing in heaven and earth could affect his piety.
The three faces slowly lifted, each with tears in their eyes.
Knowing that the doctrine of the God of Light was extremely absurd, Donner had some unwarranted sympathy at this time.
The three remaining Divine Sons in front of them, after the fall of the Bright Sect, were like lost dogs, panicked and cowardly. Perhaps, only the voice from the apostles can give them solace and see a glimmer of dawn in the deepest darkness.
As for Donner, since the Jingwei has been completely sealed, he will certainly not be polite in the face of the remaining Illuminati forces.
"How many priests have received my call?"
As soon as the words fell, in the darkness on both sides of the statue of the god of light, figures walked out one after another.
Donner had already felt a large number of breaths as soon as he stepped into the church, but when all the priests appeared in front of him, Rao was mentally prepared and really startled.
In the vast hall of the Church of Light, more than 300 priests are neatly arranged, and the Holy Cross pattern embroidered on the chest shines softly and mysteriously in the dim candlelight.