Sunlight shines through the windows.

On the large desk was a map with a simple overview of Asturias, marked with red pens for important cities and resources, such as the royal capital of San Quentin, the city of freedom, which was originally remote but had gradually become the center of the western kingdom due to its trade with the orcs and a certain financial base, and some areas were new cities, which were often expected to become new industrial areas because of the discovery of high-quality metal mines or other rich resources nearby.

But until now, the only industrial area that the kingdom has formed has been centered around Saint-Quentin.

This is the fifth year since the glorious revolution of Asturias overthrew the unpopular Queen Magritte, and the new queen ascended the throne and introduced a constitutional monarchy.

With the Queen's wisdom, the cabinet's efforts, and the Parliament's ability to take care of the bigger picture, despite the quarrels, Asturias not only recovered, but also grew stronger.

The triangular area of Sant Quentin and the two nearby cities is known as the Golden Triangle, which has the densest concentration of workshops in the kingdom and has several semi-automated production lines, which can produce goods at a speed far exceeding that of artisanal workshops.

These semi-automated production lines are all imitations of the principle of the musket production line built by Solomon, that is, the prototype drawings are mainly produced by mechanical design, and when the existing mechanical level cannot provide the required precision dù or mechanical device, a magic array or other magic device is added to replace it and produce the corresponding effect.

However, the process of magic guidance is far less than that of Solomon's original musket production line, because Solomon was striving for full automation regardless of cost, and pursued efficiency and output. In order to provide enough muskets for their new legions in a short period of time.

In recent years, the semi-automatic production lines that have been imitated have been built by merchants in the kingdom or by wealthy nobles. For example, there are many processes and machines in the textile industry. Labor intensity, if automation can be realized, in order to ensure product quality, improve production efficiency is a major improvement.

However, if we want to achieve full automation like the production line before Solomon, we can only increase the process of magic guidance when the mechanization process cannot be satisfied, which can achieve the goal, but it will bring high costs.

The source power of the magic array and the magic pattern engraving will incur a higher cost than a purely mechanical solution, such as in the source force. If a purely mechanical solution only requires coal to generate steam power, and if a critical part has to be solved by magic conduction, then black rock must be burned in the steam blast furnace.

The price of black rock is as cheap as cabbage compared to magic crystals, which also provide magic energy, but it is high compared to coal, because in a special energy-absorbing blast furnace, it can not only provide heat energy to convert into mechanical energy when burning, but also provide magic energy as the source force for the activation and maintenance of the magic array.

And now, four years later, with the development of Asturias, Black Rock is more important for a growing industry.

So, for cost reasons. Those semi-automated production lines do not want to be automated with higher ranges, but after taking into account the cost. Otherwise, even if we pay enough to build a Solomon-style fully automated production line, the cost of daily maintenance will make its profit lower than that of the current one.

Moreover, even Solomon's enviable fully automatic production line has changed its own structure from magic to mechanization under the premise of seeking full automation.

This is also because of the cost, the efficiency of the production line is sufficient, under the premise of the same efficiency, mechanization can use lower cost coal to provide source power, so as to increase profits.

Therefore, the dwarf people's machinery still shows tenacious vitality even in the era of the development of magic guidance, because people realize that if the magic guidance has the characteristics of high-end, forward-looking and guidance, then the mechanical direction has the advantages of low cost and relatively convenient maintenance.

Together, they contribute to the development of civilization in Asturias.

Four years later, the merchants swept away the decline that had existed before the Glorious Revolution.

The establishment of the central bank proved to be a wise move that lasted for several years, effectively regulating the operation of the kingdom's capital, and enabling the kingdom's financial industry to develop healthily after a difficult period.

Of course, the development blueprint drawn up by the cabinet headed by Solomon is not without a few obstacles.

The most obvious and well-known obstacle is the resource barrier.

After a few years of restoration of the kingdom, the colonies of the heterogeneous plane have been transfused with blood, and the demonic beasts of Yugudral have been wiped out by the aborigines and outsiders who have been entrenched there in a few years, and order has gradually been restored.

But to develop faster, no one has too much resources and wealth, and after the kingdom spent time licking its wounds, it quietly began to prepare for expansion.

But in addition to this, there is another obstacle, and that is traffic, which is why Solomon has this map in front of him.

There are several reasons why the Golden Triangle where St. Quentin is located can develop rapidly, not only with the help of the earlier financial industry, but also with the help of the early financial industry, and the industrial area with a good foundation of handicraft industry at the beginning, and slowly developing towards mechanization and magic, and there are enough resources around it to support early development, such as metal mines, forests, etc., and there is another place that has no advantage is that the existing mainland roads in the kingdom are connected to St. Quentin and are easy to transport.

But if we continue, we will definitely encounter a bottleneck, in addition to more resources, how to transport raw materials to the industrial zone for processing, even if it is possible to allocate resources from the heterotopic plane to provide Saint-Quentin, but the land near this area of Saint-Quentin is limited after all, and it is impossible to develop the industrial zone indefinitely.

The nobles of the royal capital also needed living areas, so in Solomon's blueprint design, the kingdom would continue to develop in the future, except for St. Quentin, and other places should also build industries according to different characteristics.

For example, like the Free City, Solomon and Franklin talked about it, the orcs are now transforming the breeding industry, and the wool and animal meat are all traded goods, and the Free City has an advantage in this regard that cannot be matched elsewhere, because it has the best relationship with the Rhine and Wolf, and it can develop the food industry and become a textile center in the future.

But whatever the development, the traffic problem must be solved.

Solomon began to write down his thoughts with a quill, looking at the map on his desk from time to time, and then continued to write.

His plan is one center, multiple fundamental points.

One center, with Santa Quentin as the center, will be the connecting center for most of the kingdom's colonial planes, while other places must have a council if they want to establish a connection to the heteroplane.

This is to reduce duplication of investment and the security of the kingdom, especially when opening up new xenoplanes, it is necessary to have a reliable military force at the place where the xenoplanes are connected, in case the xenoplanes reverse attack the kingdom.

But if there are too many connections, the more military troops will be needed, and it will inevitably be duplicated, which means that more budget is needed militarily, which is completely unnecessary.

Therefore, in theory, unless specifically approved by the Parliament, all other connections to the colonial plane must be relocated to St. Quentin.

This is also part of the plane control law that Solomon intends to propose.

Then there are the construction of teleportation points within the Plane in places like Free City, Mistrley County of Bourbon, etc., which is the content of many of the basic points mentioned above.

These waypoints generally do not have a direct connection to the colonial plane, but they do have a connection to Santa Quentin and the base points of the siblings, but they can only be used to teleport within the native plane.

In this way, a kingdom-level transportation network has been formed, with St. Quentin as the center to connect the colonial plane and the kingdom, and the material input from the colonial plane can be transmitted from St. Quentin to the base point area, and the processed products of the same base point area can also be radiated to all colonial planes through St. Quentin.

Only those concession planes that have been specifically approved by the kingdom council can maintain additional connections for a certain period of time, and are exempt from paying taxes, and can instead collect certain customs duties from other merchants, in order to encourage powerful families or merchant organizations in the kingdom to develop new planes.

The secondary transportation network is centered on St. Quentin and various basic point cities, developing more in-depth transportation, and building continental highways or railroad carts from the center of each region to the radiation area to form a fixed transportation route.

As for the real railway, the miniaturization of steam power needed to be solved first, and Solomon proposed this to the dwarves, and the dwarves and some of the excellent mechanics of the Terran race also studied the steam locomotive with great interest, but debated the power.

A purely coal-powered steam train is relatively easy to make, but not too fast and will be quite rudimentary, while a magic train with magic and alchemy will be expensive to guide, but the pleasures of adjusting the temperature of the carriage can be achieved, and more importantly, more power will be obtained and the speed will be faster.

Railways still need time, and even if a crosser comes up with a concept to shorten the time, it is a troublesome matter, and a series of surveys are required to find the best route for the construction of the railway.

Fortunately, Solomon's blueprint originally only required a short train, and his transportation blueprint was directly composed of teleportation points on the first-level network, rather than a long track with vertical and horizontal lines like the flower map before the crossing.

Think about it this way, write it, and when Solomon also felt a little tired, there was a knock on the door at the right time to remind him.

"Duke Solomon, it's dinner time, and Her Majesty the Queen is already waiting for you. "Perth Palace's new vice-chancellor.

Solomon got up, put away the simple map on the table, and closed his notebook, which would take a few more days to sort out into a formal note, which would then be discussed by the cabinet and approved by the queen before being submitted to the parliament for a vote. (To be continued......)