Chapter 1474: The Land of Silk
It's been twelve years since Leonardo's return. In the end, a certain magician did not leave, and the news was dismissed as a farce. But he also took advantage of the situation to catch everyone's attention and hide behind the stage of history.
But the Grand Magician Gabrash? Tripwood's 'legacy' - to repeat the emphasis, people are not deadββ, they are still fermenting on the Lost Continent. Although many things have evolved to the point where people have long forgotten who started the original thing, everyone only focuses on the thing itself.
But there are exceptions to this. For example, this summer, in the Haider Empire that crosses the equator line on the Lost Continent, the most important institution in the Silk Country, as one of the vassal states, is the Mulberry Garden.
For a long time, silk products were the exclusive industry of the Silk Country. Even the fact that mulberry sericulture has been known for a long time. But the most important silkworm species have not flowed out, and with the Haider Empire as a backer, other places have to weigh whether it is worth offending an empire if they want to steal this technology.
If it is placed in an ancient period that travels through the hometowns of many people, other large and small countries will steal it. The country of origin may not know about this kind of thing in the first place, and by the time the matter cannot be covered up, it is already too big to be managed.
But in the maze, although before the forum, the circulation of information was also not so convenient. However, there are continental-level transnational organizations such as the Adventurer's Guild, the Mercenary Guild, and the Wizards' Guild, and the information blockage is not as serious as in someone's hometown in ancient times.
What's more, the Lost Land is a world of great personal power.
In the ancient times of someone's hometown, if you wanted to travel a long distance to a distant country to make trouble, either a large army would be pulled out, and there would be no one out of ten people who would eventually return to your hometown, or a good big country would be dragged to death by military expenses.
But in the lost land, only a few strong people need to be sent to easily destroy the fixed facilities such as the mulberry silkworm breeding land. On the other hand, it is more difficult to assassinate a specific target.
This kind of process is not commercially valuable if it is not large-scale; Once it becomes a scale, it is a very eye-catching target. In the face of the special operation of the assault of the strong, there is little resistance.
Over time, other countries and nobles no longer considered the issue of producing their own silk. After all, no one can accept that a large amount of investment will be smashed before it is recovered.
Even if it can be rebuilt, it is necessary to consider whether the cost of continuous rebuilding is worth the investment. The cost of destruction is simply too low compared to rebuilding.
And this is different from the poison that traveled through the homes of many people. Although no one does the loss-making business, and some people do the head-killing business, the most important thing about drugs is that they are addictive, and once they are stained, they are consumed to death. This is a long-term business that is profitable.
Although silk can also be regarded as a profiteering industry, it is only a luxury. There is neither addictive nor addictive, and there are many alternatives. So when it comes to reality, no one really wants to keep rebuilding the silk industry, which is destined to be destroyed.
The brutality and violence of the Haider Empire are the greatest reliance that the Silk Nation can seem to be beyond things. Of course, behind the scenes, the protection fee that should be paid will not be less. Otherwise, with the dignity of an empire, why should he protect the vassal states below? Why not just just annex it.
However, the monopoly situation that has been maintained for a long time has been broken. In an unexpected way.
In the territory of the Gwana Empire, a magical silk appeared in the holy city of Estali. This is the direction that the Silk Country has been trying, but has never been able to break through.
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Although the production of magical silk is small, the form of the clothes produced is quite special, similar to the traditional clothing of a certain ethnic group in the Silk Country. But these clothes are all extremely powerful magical equipment, and can even be used directly as armor and protective swords.
Even if the production of clothes made of magic silk is not large, the effect is too powerful, and those who are lucky enough to use it all show off to the outside world, and then people chase after it, and things are so hot.
If the maker is an ordinary person, or a skilled craftsman, then there are not all kinds of overt and covert means. If you don't snare people, you have to get at least a few works from the other party. No matter how small the output is, there is a way to think of it.
But the reality is that there is a former demon king in charge, and ordinary people don't dare to make a mistake.
Another key mage, born enough to be able to single-handedly confront the Lord of the Three Holy Lights and eradicate an empire's Grand Dukedom. People who want to engage in some intrigues really have to weigh whether their weight is enough for people to move their little fingers.
With a silk monopoly like the Silk Country and the Haider Empire, it is certainly impossible to remain silent about someone's actions. In that kind of strong raid gameplay, they actually came several times, and then they all went and had no return, and the other party had no loss......
This is why the people of the Silk Country visited later, hoping to use the pressure on the national level to force the magician to succumb.
The presence of members of the Holy Sword Society in their ranks, and after that, was a series of accidents. The strong people secretly sent out in front of him are all so distressed that who would want to turn against that magician?
In the end, the result of still returning home was infuriating at the time. But after the events in the south of the Karlsruhe Empire, that anger turned into a fluke.
Fortunately, the magician didn't go berserk, otherwise the Silk Country would definitely be gone, and the Haider Empire wouldn't be much better. Even if you don't care about the country behind you, you will definitely bear the brunt.
This is the idea that Zeng stood up and tried to pressure those people. They were on the front line.
However, this does not mean that the Silk Country and the Haider Empire are so peaceful, and it is impossible to give up the benefits that magic silk can bring. The easiest way to do this, other than to continue the clueless research, is to find someone next to the magician.
Threats and temptations are two powerful weapons that will remain unchanged for the ages. But you still have to be careful and knock on the side, so as not to wake up the two fierce beasts and bring disaster to yourself. With this delicate operation, the intelligence officers of the Haider Empire can be regarded as handy.
After continuous efforts, the people of the Heidel Empire finally found a breakthrough, and obtained a full set of silk reeling machines and jacquard machine designs, as well as the use ratio of silk threads of various moth species.
It's a pity that they only get two or three sets of templates for outsiders to use in the magic combination attached to the silk.
Not to mention the design of the Xuanwu robe and the four spirit suits that are comparable to the artifacts, even if it is the clothing design used by the people around the magician, the Haider Empire has not been able to get it.
And even if it is a basic foreign trade design, at this stage, they do not have the ability to change the design.
Someone didn't think about popularization in the first place, so they didn't think about fooling the operating system. Many design changes require direct changes to the underlying code, rather than simply selecting everything from a menu.
Therefore, in order to understand the production process of the whole set of magic silk, the p language that a certain magician once made public is a hurdle that cannot be bypassed.
The programming language on the magic side has actually attracted much attention in the past twelve years, and has even cultivated a group of talents. Plugins for forums, other widgets, are the work of these people.
But how can something that someone uses for himself be the same thing as something that is published? I don't know how many versions of the p language have been changed internally, but the public version has always been the most original.
Therefore, the secret factory established in the Mulberry Garden of the Silk Country can only make two or three types of magical silk at this stage. At best, the weaver girls of the Silk Country make a distinction between tall and short, fat and thin in tailoring, and cannot change the additional types of magic.
Compared with the manufacture of silk reeling machines and jacquard machines that no one understands the principle, another equally troublesome thing is the cultivation of silkworm seeds.
The silkworm seed that can be used to make silk thread is specific, and this silkworm seed is not a native species of the mysterious land, but was brought over by the predecessors of the Silk Country. I thought that as long as this silkworm seed was controlled, it would be impossible for the silk production process to flow out.
However, someone used the most invincible method of scientific experiments, the exhaustive method, to try to find a suitable moth species suitable for making silk from the original moth species in the mysterious land. And not only from the ordinary moth species, but also set his eyes on the magic moth.
And Lin integrated the production of silk thread into the idea of material science. Leaving a record of the characteristics of silk threads made under different moth species ratios. This is an idea that the weaver girls who eat the old book in the country of silk have never had.
All along, the silk of the Silk Country is not static. However, they will change the direction of weaving, embroidery and other post-processing processes, as well as the improvement of silk reeling and looms. For silkworm seeds, it is like a god, carefully cared for.
Therefore, someone rebelled and used the cocoons of other moth species to extract silk threads, but it made many old people in the country of silk want to kill people. It's a pity that I can't beat it. So everyone only stopped at the stage of mouth cannons.
Now I have taken someone's silk reeling and jacquard machine design, as well as the formula of moth seed silk thread. Looking at these things, would anyone be content to just find another moth species to replace them, or think that they can get the same effect with just silkworm moths?
In the stage of imitation, of course, all aspects must be exactly the same, in order to be considered an imitation. The main purpose is to confirm whether the relevant process is in place from the degree of completion between the imitation and the original product.
Unless there is a gap in technology, and it is difficult to improve and catch up. Otherwise, the kind of person who can't even finish exactly the same, and is full of confidence that he wants to improve, and claims that the blue is better than the blue, is either brainless or a liar.
Although the people of the Silk Country are a little conformist, they at least know how to do things in a down-to-earth manner. So the craftsmen in the kingdom stumbled to build the outrageously detailed jacquard machine, and at the same time, they also tried their best to collect specific moth species from all over the world and cultivate them.
Those ordinary moths are better to say, and there is no big problem in raising them as silkworm moths.
But those moths aren't that simple. Demonic insects with power are not a big trouble for adventurers.
Whenever you encounter it in the wild, the best way to do it is to solve it with a fire. But to capture it alive, there must not be too much damage, and the difficulty of increasing it is only several times.
After recovering these moth species, how to raise them is another big problem. In the information I have in hand, there is no such part of the parenting experience. Because the people who did it didn't think about this either.
Fortunately, most of the creatures with the prefix of the word 'demon' eat meat, and there are still people in the country of silk who have this common sense.
After solving the two major problems, we conducted another trial weaving and succeeded, and then there was a celebratory dinner.
However, the murder of the three brothers of the hero, as well as the pamphlets left behind, all kinds of contradictions, made the joy of the Silk Country fade a lot.