"Your Majesty, in the last three months, three similar workshop concentrations have been built in the Fourth Outer City. Regina told Edward at a cabinet meeting.

"Now that the businessmen are investing very strongly, if this continues, the fourth outer city may soon be insufficient, and we must consider expanding the scope of the industrial zone. ”

After Solomon successfully built the first workshop concentration area, and rationally used and shared the cost of steam power and the source power generated, those workshops experienced a blowout increase in production.

This greatly supported the ongoing foreign war in Asturias, made the final war of Farusion go more smoothly, ended the final campaign half a month early, and is currently in negotiations with the Kingdom of Titania.

It would be a meeting of the two great powers, but neither Edward nor the other members of the Cabinet, nor the Dukes, who still wielded considerable power and influence, were convinced that they would not lose out in the negotiations.

The things on the negotiating table must first be supported by the strength behind them, and what cannot be obtained on the battlefield, don't even want to get it at the negotiating table.

Asturias successfully achieved a two-front battle this time, and both were quite successful, especially the sudden increase in the strength of the Farusi Gongon, so that Titania had already realized that Asturias must have broken through the lowering of the teleportation threshold.

It is undeniable that the overall national strength of Titania is still superior to Asturias, but with the advantage of teleportation, Asturias can definitely send more soldiers to fight in Farusion.

The two countries have one thing in common, they both have a bad relationship with the Church of Light, and they are also dissatisfied with the Church of Light's interference in the worldly power of the kingdom. Therefore, there is no need for the two countries to have a big battle in Farousi. It is better to carry out a reasonable separation of dirt.

"Is there a problem?" Edward frowned. These days, from the time Solomon began to build his first workshop concentration, all he had heard so far was good news, and it was going to be a good trend in the future.

The workshop concentration area built on the basis of steam power has greatly improved the production efficiency of workshops in many industries such as food processing, textile, and foundry in the region, and has also been successful in using the magic of separation to form a stable source of transmission.

After the successful construction of the third workshop concentration area, the magic power separated by a large number of black rocks has been able to form a stable source force for the teleportation light gate.

After hesitating for a while, Regina replied respectfully: "Your Majesty, it's a little problem. This model if you want to promote. More land concentrations, and more black rocks, may be needed to support similar workshop concentrations in the territory. ”

Edward nodded, not speaking, he knew the difficulty.

To establish a concentration of workshops, it is necessary to carry out land consolidation.

In Asturias, and in other countries, although the lords had the right to occupy and administer the lands in their fiefdoms, the lands were leased to others, except for the lands directly managed by the lords. The lords collected taxes from the tenants through guò to achieve ownership and jurisdiction over the land, in addition to some wasteland.

So it is possible that a large area of land was divided into a number of small plots and rented to different people. And those peasants have relied on these lands for generations, and even the lands of the knights under the command of some lords are not all close together.

In order to establish such a concentration of workshops, it is necessary to have a large area of land that can be used in close proximity.

The royal city of Asturias had not been expanded until the fourth outer city, because if it were to be expanded, it would have to confiscate the land that had been leased for farming, or forcibly repossess it by force, or replace it.

This was also the area near Santa Quentin, where the royal power was at its peak, so the tenants of the land were forcibly relocated, and the land was forcibly reclaimed in the name of the supreme royal family of Asturias, and then provided it to Solomon to build a concentration of workshops.

But if it is to be carried out, it must be quite troublesome.

However, Edward definitely has the determination to carry it out.

Because the land can be leased to merchants who build workshops, and the workshops are showing good momentum, this means that the rent will not only be recovered, but will be a long-term sale.

Most importantly, merchants were willing to continue paying their taxes.

This alone made Edward definitely willing to support it.

After two wars, despite the victory, the treasury of Asturias, including Edward's, was almost empty.

The merchants were willing to pay taxes, and Edward had to use this east wind to shake the nobles who didn't know what to do.

However, this aspect is also quite smooth, and it can be regarded as one of the dividends of the war.

The unruly dukes suffered a lot in the early stage of the war, and were suppressed by the more powerful Titania, and if it wasn't for the success of Black Rock's use, it might end in exit.

Even if there is a Klausa who is called a young genius and praised as being able to stand side by side with Solomon, it is just a fig leaf pulled out by the dukes.

After the end of the war, Edward took advantage of Yugudral's victory, and helped Farusion reverse his disadvantage, and most importantly, everyone saw that Asturias needed to unite, otherwise it would be no good to blindly follow the Dukes, and on the contrary, the royal party also had a way to lower the threshold of teleportation.

Therefore, including the great nobles, they all obediently succumbed, and now it is the heyday of royal power after the founding emperor.

Edward took back control of the kingdom's six legions and forced the nobles to agree to pay taxes for a long time.

Their bottom line was to pay taxes to the kingdom, not to the crown, on the basis that the taxes paid by the nobles should not be squandered only by Edward, and since they were in the name of unity, they should be the common property of the royal family and all the nobles, and could only go into the treasury, and spend in the name of the whole kingdom, not into the inner treasury of the royal family.

Therefore, the payment of taxes, tax increases, tax reductions, or changes in the laws of the kingdom must be proposed and considered by the Parliament, which has the additional power to veto and dispose of them.

Edward's response to this was to adopt Solomon's other idea. It's to put sand in the council.

He agreed to the demands of the nobles. But the Israeli parliament should be expanded. Under the pretext of including the heroes and outstanding contributors among the commoners, the council was divided into two chambers, the upper council was composed of the great nobles from the families of earls and above, and the lower council was composed of the minor nobles and the new merchant class.

However, for new merchants to enter the council, Edward temporarily set a threshold of paying a certain amount of taxes.

In this way, the vast power of Asturias was concentrated in Edward and the royal family, including the military.

Of course, the Duke's faction suffered greatly from this setback. and handed over control of the kingdom's apparent military power, but it does not mean that they have no military power in their hands. First of all, each big city in the kingdom has local legions, and the control of the royal family is much weaker in these local legions.

Because in the final analysis, any legion has to eat, and Edward was able to take back the six legions because of the prestige of the victory in the war, which discouraged and caused a rift in the legions that followed the Duke's faction to defeat in Farucion, so he regained his allegiance to the royal family. At the same time, there is also a premise that cannot be ignored, that is, the royal family can afford to support the six legions by relying on large loans.

Part of the reason for the weakening of royal power in the past is because. The Dukes can support the supply of some of the royal regiments, while the royal family can no longer support the supply of all the legions.

This is also why Edward now strongly supports Solomon in the construction of these workshop concentration areas, because there can be additional taxes, so that he can continue to control the six legions in his hands, and will not be secretly pulled over by the dukes.

However, the local legions stationed in major cities, although they are called legions, are far from the actual combat strength, but with the current financial resources of the Asturian royal family, it is impossible to control it so seamlessly, especially in the local legions where the three major dukes' sources are located, how much will still be supplied by the dukes, and it will still be reduced to the strength they control.

In addition to this, the dukes also had some private armies. However, after the nobles agreed to pay taxes to the kingdom, the dukes were unlikely to have the power of the former kingdom within a state, and they would have to increase their income beyond their traditional income if they were to maintain the size of their private army.

Edward was temporarily satisfied with this. Internally, the kingdom's overt force has been reverted to the royal family, and externally, there have been two victories in the dimensional wars.

may not be as impressive as the Founding Emperor's achievements and prestige on the surface, but if you look at it from a practical point of view, he has even done something that the Founding Emperor did not do.

Of course, what will happen in the future will depend on his continued competition with unwilling forces inside and outside.

This is also the reason why he now attaches great importance to Solomon, and Solomon has played a non-negligible role in the above changes. Although many of the keys are not directly created by him, they are all related to him.

"Black Rock. Edward groaned, fingers tapping on the back of the throne.

This model of workshop concentration in Santa Quentin is not a big problem to implement and can be used reasonably, but there are problems outside of San Quentin, one is the lack of investment like San Quentin, the workshop owners not only have to undertake the transformation of the steam facilities in their own workshops, but also have to undertake the sharing of the part of the facilities used to separate and transmit the magic power.

If you don't build this part, you will waste the magic in the black rock, and in Solomon's words, the utilization rate will not be maximized.

Moreover, in St. Quentin, the detached mana support replaces the consumption of the teleportation hall, which is not the case in other cities.

It's not impossible to form an initial perfect cycle like Saint-Quentin in other cities, but the yield of Black Rock is always a big problem.

So far, much of the kingdom's black rock has come from the primordial plane that Solomon had previously possessed, which was thought to be the worst.

If this model is to be pursued in a big way, Asturias will have to open up a large number of new sources of black rock.

Only by opening up new sources of black rock can we support the kingdom's exhibition and explore more heterotopes, and conversely, only by exploring more heterotopes can we get more blackrocks.

This strange causal relationship, like a giant beast that has just woken up, opens its bloody mouth in ignorance. (To be continued!)

PS: This is one hundred and twenty-one, and the previous chapters were mistaken.

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