Just a few days after Elsa Camilla set off, the rewards for the task of exterminating the bandits came down one after another, and the bonus alone was 6 million silver coins, including 5 million for the bandits, and 500,000 each from the Second Princess's Mansion and the Shu County Taishou Mansion to rescue the captured people. Then it was seized in the cottage, all kinds of gold and silver coins equivalent to about 120,000 silver coins, as well as a large number of grain, cloth, iron and other materials, because the total price is not high, the statistics are difficult, temporarily do not intervene in the calculation, all the materials are supplemented into the material warehouse of Babia City nearby.

In addition, it was the large number of people that were captured, and Qin Shouzhuo placed them in Babia City, which just alleviated the problem of labor shortage in the city. Not only were the rescued people left, but the families of the captured air thieves, all of whom Qin Shouzhuo could get his hands on were also placed in Babia City, as well as those captured young people, who were scattered and incorporated into various resident groups as prisoners, as long as they worked in Babia for more than 5 years and did not make any more mistakes, they could be transferred from residential surveillance to exit restrictions, and after 10 years, they could obtain household registration in Babia City and become an ordinary resident.

This policy is incredibly generous in this era, and the baron of Barbia is simply in the water of his brain by not demoting the captives to slaves, not to mention the civilians he rescued. In the face of the strange gazes of others, Qin Shouzhuo issued the first administrative order after returning to Babia City. Thanks to this, the population of Babia City has exceeded 100,000 people in one fell swoop, which is quite a good achievement as a new new city, and as a new industrial city, it only means one thing, and that is that all the jobs in the city are in a state of extreme shortage of manpower.

You don't see any steel plant above designated size with a population of less than 100,000 people in one plant? You don't see Foxconn, a sweatshop where 200,000 workers in one plant are ordinary and don't bring their families. A mere 100,000 people would have dared to claim the title of an industrial city, with a series of production lines ranging from mining and steelmaking to metalworking, and the city would never have been able to function without a large number of magicians and samurai in it. Fortunately, there are a large number of low-level magicians, and a series of positions that require a lot of labor, such as civil engineering construction, have been supported, otherwise the city will definitely not be able to be built.

Because of this, Babia City has the highest density of magicians and warriors in almost the entire continent, with only 100,000 people living in the city, and more than 20,000 people with the title of magician or samurai, which is nothing short of a miracle - although most of them are mages with little future below the upper mage level. Qin Shouzhuo was not enough, and carried out night schools widely in the city, inviting all magicians from all academic backgrounds to work part-time teachers, and encouraging everyone to live and learn.

Although it was certainly impossible for these workers, who were the main force of labor, to take a few steps on the road of magic, Qin Shouzhuo did not expect to be able to cultivate any archmages, mainly to train fast-growing workers for various positions in the city. The cost of working hours to maintain a city is extremely terrifying, the daily consumption of food, vegetables, meat, etc. is incalculable, people need to transport, sell, all kinds of daily necessities are casually hundreds of tons, human beings can not only work forever, but also need to rest, relax, so there is also the spontaneous formation of the entertainment industry, service industry, plus urban health, public security, administrative management, where do not need people.

Then there is the urban pillar industry, although it is not primary, but it is still incomplete coal and steel industrial complex, which is the bulk of the manpower, and how many people are not satisfied with the bottomless pit. Although a few thousand people were brought back, most of them were old, weak, women and children, and there were not many young and strong, and the steel mill and iron mine were very dissatisfied, but the other auxiliary departments were relieved. In order to ensure the normal operation of the factory, the proportion of industrial population is very large, and the auxiliary department has long been overloaded, thanks to Sophia's administrative ability, it is barely supported.

Previously, in order to maintain the normal operation of Babia Steel City, Qin Shouzhuo almost ordered forced labor, but thanks to Sophia's timely discovery and arguments, Qin Shouzhuo dispelled this unrealistic idea. After Sophia took full control of the city of Babia, the administrative structure was greatly optimized, and many things that could be suspended were suspended, and those that could not were also lowered in standards and manpower consumption. For example, in urban sanitation, a worker was originally required to be responsible for a section of 300~500 meters of street, requiring that there should be no more than 10 white garbage on the street, but now a person is responsible for 1000 meters, or even 1500~2000 meters, as long as there is no garbage accumulation.

As a result, although the urban environment is inevitably much worse, it saves manpower and barely maintains the production of steel plants and the operation of the city. However, the contradiction of fewer people living more has not been resolved, and this time Qin Shouzhuo brought back thousands of old and weak women and children, but it could not fundamentally solve the contradiction.

Since it is not feasible to increase the total productivity by increasing the number of workers, it is necessary to increase the overall productivity by increasing the efficiency of individual workers through mechanization and automation. In this place where the level of civilization is not much more advanced than that of the Middle Ages, the difficulty of large-scale industrialization is much higher than the captivity of population, Qin Shouzhuo naturally set his sights on the achievements of the native civilization of this world, that is, magic.

Magic, to be precise, is an alternative industrial technology that combines enchantment and potions. The beginning of human industrialization was nothing more than the discovery of a more powerful, more reliable, and readily available universal power, first the steam engine, then the internal combustion engine, and then the electric motor. When he first made the self-propelled magic cannon, Qin Shouzhuo had already bypassed the first two stages of the world's general power and directly transitioned to the electric motor.

The magic power is obtained through the traditional magic crystal burning furnace, and then converted into electricity through the magic disk made of special magic array and special metal, which directly drives the electric motor, which is efficient, 0 emission, and powerful, almost perfect. The only problem is that the degree of automation is close to none, someone must operate on the side, and the least requirement is that the magician can operate directly, at least have enough knowledge of magic mechanics and know how to force the shutdown.

The large number of machines based on this power system has an almost unlimited demand for operators, those who have sufficient knowledge of magic mechanics or simply low-level magicians, which is why Qin Shouzhuo will sacrifice the magic weapon of "Workers' Night School".

It is said that after the workers' night school achieved initial results, Qin Shouzhuo also wanted to recruit soldiers inside, but was dispelled by a collective petition from the top leaders of various departments.

With the expansion of the city, the most important thing is that the business of the Food for the Sky Chamber of Commerce is getting wider and wider, and the demand for factory output is also increasing. Different from other traditional industries, Qin Shouchou's factory is purely based on technology to win, the substitutability is close to "0", out of stock areas, the demand will always exist, only the liver fire is more and more vigorous over and over again to urge the goods, but can not find a substitute.

Savvy businessmen quickly opted for the pay-first-pick model to ensure that they could get the goods at least within the expected time, and then it was quickly discovered that orders were also valuable, especially in the near future. Thus, in the only luxury hotel in Babia City, a chamber of commerce specializing in speculating orders was born. Qin Shouzhuo, who learned all this, was indeed a little confused.

No matter how much this newly emerged futures trading was in full swing, Qin Shouzhuo was receiving a group of visitors from the imperial capital at this time, none other than representatives of the Imperial Imperial University, the Royal Society of Pharmacists, and the Imperial Ministry of Finance. Since the magic potion factory was put into operation, the materials on the market have been greatly enriched, the magic recovery potion is no longer hard to find, and the magicians of the empire are no longer stingy with the consumption of magic power, and the output of related industries has increased greatly.

One of the most representative is that the price of ordinary trauma treatment at each medical station has dropped by 1/3, while the price of magic scrolls has dropped by 25%. Just the supply of a magic potion at a low price has made the whole society change so much, the magic potion is really good in the present and in the future, and the Royal Apothecary Society is honored. Although the person who made the non-stop production of magic recovery potions had an awkward position in the Apothecary Society, it was the potions that played a direct role after all, so the Royal Apothecary learned to straighten his waist a lot.

In this regard, the Enchantment Research Society and the Magic Mechanics Research Society could only pinch their noses and say, "Hmph, without my support, you can make a fart potion." Whenever they heard such a statement, the pharmacists would hold their heads up and respond, "You are jealous." "Under the influence of such a high-profile pharmacist society, the number of pharmacist professional electives has recently increased by 78%, and the number of people who have passed the examination and obtained the lowest level of pharmacist professional qualification certificate has increased by 55% compared with previous years.

It stands to reason that such a thriving scene, the officials should be very happy, but the development of things is always chained, and there is also a crisis hidden behind the prosperity. Due to the skyrocketing number of junior pharmacists, the demand for various herbs has also skyrocketed, and the filling hopper of the Mana Recovery Potion production line, which seems to be forever filled, the market price of the API related to the Mana Recovery Potion has increased by 70% in July. Even the APIs related to primary treatment drugs, because there is a possibility that mass production plants can be built at any time, many large chambers of commerce have joined forces to hoard Juqi, and the price has increased by 30%.

As the largest exporter of magical herbs on the mainland, the Lawrence Empire may not only be short of exports this year, but will also have to import APIs from neighboring producing countries. Several countries, which are the traditional market of Lawrence's magical herbs, have sent several diplomatic notes because they have not received medicine this year, and they think that the Lawrence Empire is obstructing it.