Rand was urgently called back by his family after that meal, not because the Jimenez family knew about him, but because he lived in his lover's house and never went back, and now it was necessary to quell the workers' strike, whether it was out of concern for him and the need to tell him something.

As a result, Rand was reprimanded, but fortunately he was not asked to end his relationship with Lady Sarah, probably because of the shipwreck and Rand's wayward departure gave Jimenez a bit of a headache, and now the family only hopes that he can stay in Asturias honestly and gradually enter the family business, if there is something that can make him honest and not too excessive, then it is within the tolerance of the Jimenez family.

However, little Jimenez still warned him that there are some things that can be played with, and not to make them known to everyone, otherwise it will affect his future marriage.

Marriage, Rand didn't think about it for a while, he thought he was still young, and his relationship with Lady Sarah was a bit peculiar, but the main thing was that he needed a woman who could make him feel so peaceful, and that there might be sympathy and clumsy help for her misfortune.

After being reprimanded, Rand had to stay at home for a while and did not go back to Lady Sarah.

But it's not without its benefits to be back home, at least it's easier for Rand to know some news next.

For example, the attempted strike in St. Quentin resulted in the deaths of nearly 100 workers, the imprisonment of thousands, and the wounding of many more, all of which were seen as justice.

However, the attempted strike at St. Quentin was nothing compared to the repression in the county of Fatoriomae, and after quelling the attempted strike on the side of St. Quentin, the Kingdom of Asturias sent a regular army directly to attack the county of Fatoriome, which was occupied by the workers. and announced the mob entrenched there.

Two days later the army declared victory. The mob was eliminated. As for how many people died, no one knows, anyway, many of them are black workers from the different planes, and they don't even have the status of citizens of the kingdom.

The mob in Fatori won praise from the community, and the original mine owner did not survive after being abducted by the mob, but his nephew unexpectedly inherited the minerals that had been taken back by the army, and although he had to pay a distressing inheritance tax to the government and pay a large "sponsorship" for the government to help him take the family property, it was still very cost-effective. Because that mine can be mined for a long time.

So the new mine owner paid another sum of money to publish a letter of thanks in the kingdom's newspapers, and privately asked the government if he could send a battalion of troops to support him and maintain law and order, and he was really frightened.

Then the news of the Parliament's passage of the Treaty of the Rock Crystal and the Metal Community became a new hot spot, and the workers of Fartoriome were like a blister in a pond, at best a larger blister, and it ended without anyone caring anymore.

The Treaty of the Rock Crystal and Metal Community adopted by the parliament was in response to the disorder in the kingdom's production, and the idea of free trade that had previously been advocated also affected the field of production. Therefore, as long as it is profitable, it will invest blindly. As a result, there has been a chaotic situation in the rock crystal mining and smelting industries, and there has been vicious competition in repeated investment and production, which has not only competed with domestic enterprises of the same type, but also competed with companies in other countries.

These problems are not big problems when the kingdom's economy is good, just like there will be some sediment in the flowing water, but when there are signs of crisis in the kingdom, it has become the second point that Duke Solomon reminded Benjamin, a single enterprise is organized, and the more organized it is, the more powerful it is when it competes with other enterprises, but it is chaotic from the perspective of the whole social production, just like using eight horses to pull from eight different directions, the eight horses are very hard, but on the contrary, the car may not even move。

Although some of the sediment can be tolerated in the flowing water, there is too much muddy water, and it is time to treat it.

However, the significance of the Rock Crystal and Metals Community Treaty is not only for some disorderly production and competition, but also has more important significance.

Rock refers to the black rock industry, and in a broad sense, coal can also be included; crystal refers to the magic crystal, both of which are now the most important source industries for the kingdom and even for all countries; and metal is also an indispensable thing in social production and life, and the smelting of metal is now also greatly related to black rock and coal.

It can be said that these three types of related industries are indispensable and important industries in all countries at present, but in terms of development, Asturias should have the most black rock resources in various planes, and there are more magic crystals, because there are also rich magic crystal resources in the dark region, and only Asturias has successfully gained a foothold in the underground world, but the magic crystal can only be said to have an advantage, but it does not allow Titania to ask for himself, because although Titania failed to create a situation in the dark region, he also has a rich source of magic crystals like Asturias, but if it is used for metal smelting, black rock and coal are the most suitable。

Both black rock and coal can be used to smelt metal, but if black rock is used as fuel, in addition to the same effect as coal, only the steam furnace needs to be modified, and the magic released from the black rock can be used to smelt high-quality metal materials with the steam magic furnace.

To give a very simple example, some materials require high temperatures that cannot be achieved by burning with coal, but if you use black rock and use the fire gathering magic array on the steam magic furnace, you can increase the temperature of smelting to a satisfactory level, so as to obtain high-quality metal materials, this is the application of magic guide.

Another example is the current Arcane Skynet, through the dualistic conversion of matter and energy, the source force can be injected from the outside to actively provide source power for the Arcane Skynet, so that more people can become Arcanists, but coal can't do this, and the cost of using magic crystals is too high, only Black Rock is the most suitable source of power, so now although the source power charge of the Arcane Skynet is provided by rock crystals, black rock has always occupied the main proportion, and magic crystals only occupy a part of the proportion, and play an emergency backup role, that is, if the Arcane Skynet needs to provide a large amount of additional source power in a special period, the source power will exceed the limit in a short period of time, you need to adjust the ratio of magic crystals as supplements.

This is because when charging with both. Black Rock's magic is thin. And the magic crystal. In particular, the concentration of mana in the high-energy magic crystal is much higher, and a large amount of energy can be charged per unit of time, while the black rock is only suitable for long-term balanced replenishment.

Therefore, in the smelting and casting of metals, the influence of rock crystals is absolutely existent, and it seriously affects its yield and quality.

So the path pointed out by Solomon for Benjamin, Benjamin really began to implement it after careful consideration, in addition to wanting to curb disorderly production in rock crystals and metals, etc., another reason is the external effect.

This is because the Community Treaty proposes that the nations unite to conclude the treaty. The creation of a supra-border body to coordinate the mining and production of rock crystals and metals in member countries will be jointly authorized by all countries, and have the power to control, investment, prices, and raw material distribution in the rock crystals and metals of all countries, and can even determine the birth, development and closure of large enterprises in the industry in member countries.

The Rock Crystals and Metals Community Committee will have seven to nine members, and it is expected that each country will be able to nominate two members to be represented.

This Community Treaty does not have many benefits for Asturias in terms of manufacturing, that is, it can reduce vicious competition, because in all three areas, Asturias is in a leading or advantageous position, and to some extent, it is a concession. Because once the community is formed. The internal market of the industry was formed, and the impact on Titania was not great. But it was tempting for Aurora, as he had far fewer colonies on the Plane than in Asturias and Titania, which meant that he was hungry for the source of Black Rock and Shards. Once the community is formed, they can buy Black Rock and Magic Crystal from Asturias and Titania, and they can justifiably fight for a share of the community committee, and with the expanded source, it will break through a bottleneck for the development of Aurora.

This is also one of the reasons why Asturias is sure to reach a community treaty, which originally applied to the Saxons as well, but the Saxon situation is more special, it has always been suppressed by the Church of Light, and its attractiveness may be greatly reduced, speaking of which, the strength of the Saxons in the four countries has fallen to the lowest, and its development in the past few decades has been seriously affected by the Church of Light is inseparable, such as the expansion of the Arcane Skynet, even Aurora has actively joined, but the Saxons have only some enlightened local lords or consuls on the border secretly accepted。

If it can be reached, it symbolizes that the situation of everyone eating meat together and beware of each other for many years has been improved, and if it can continue to move forward in the follow-up direction proposed by Solomon, it can reduce the defense at home, reduce the dilemma of confrontation and containment in the heteroplane, and jointly develop greater interests in the heteroplane.

Everyone grabs a piece of the cake, it is better to make the cake bigger, and then coordinate the distribution of benefits internally.

That's right, this is starting with the current Rock Crystal and Metals Community Treaty, and then the larger plan to eventually establish a blue economic, political, and military community.

Therefore, although the current Rock Crystal and Metal Community Treaty seems to be of greater significance to Aurora and Saxon, which can effectively solve their rock crystal and metal sources, but from a diplomatic point of view, it is also beneficial to Asturias and Titania, which can reduce military expenditure and military deployment in the domestic defense, and instead use it for foreign development, which can also get more benefits.

As for the more ambitious Teal Community, the attitude of the nations is not so clear, and the elder Mr. Jimenez has analyzed it in detail in the presence of Rand, probably with the attitude of educating his grandson.

He believes that the Titania will have a distrustful attitude towards the Teal Community, but it will support the current starting point of the Rock Crystal and Metal Community Treaty, because this is a gesture of peace and common to the outside world, and although there may be distrust of the Teal Community, distrust refers to the disbelief that the community will really be formed. This is not surprising, because in addition to the four countries on the Azure Continent, there is also an alliance organization similar to a small country like the city-state alliance, which is composed of some independent commercial cities under the threat of commercial needs and big powers, and the orc royal court of the Tianhuo Plateau in the north is also a problem, and the Western Beast Alliance is relatively easy to solve, because the orcs of the Western Beast Alliance are more and more like the subjects of Aurora, although their military strength is unique, but their dependence on Aurora in other aspects is quite strong, and it is not surprising if they are incorporated into Aurora like the Eastern Beast Alliance in the future。

And even among the four countries, there are different degrees of totalitarian influence, even Asturias still has a royal family, although the influence of the royal family is getting weaker and weaker, but in Titania and Aurora, the royal power is still very strong, and it will become an obstacle to the Teal community, and only the parliamentary democracy that both countries have begun to gain the upper hand can promote the further realization of this idea.

If a true Teal community is possible, then Titania may want to compete for leadership in it, whether it is still dominated by the royal family or has formed a situation where the royal family and parliament are divided like Asturias.

But it should not be a means of war, because from the Rock Crystal and Metal Community Treaty to the more ambitious idea of a Teal Community, it is based on the fact that the countries do not want to lose both, and instead achieve "peace" in other forms.

Although they won the war against the elves, it also reminded them that if there was a war like that between the nations, the cost would be too great, and it would be okay to smash other people's nests, and it would be unnecessary to smash their own beds.

Therefore, in the future, if there is a competition for leadership within the Teal Community, it can only compete for who can have economic and political influence, or who can become the economic leader, and who will have the greatest right to speak.

This is what old Jimenez said to Rand, when he spoke, Rand could feel his hidden ambition, if there is such an opportunity, then it may be another time for Jimenez to cross the line and become one of the real famous families. The current wealth of the Jimenez family can be called a wealthy family without shame, but to be regarded as a famous family, it still needs some heritage and connotation, and it is also necessary to add some weighty, famous, and historical marks in addition to money, such as if Mr. Jimenez can become one of the members of the Rock Crystal and Metal Community Committee.

"I just don't know if the Duke is willing to support me. Jimenez said with exclamation and uncertainty. (To be continued.) )