Of course, Gao Wen and Hetty's "beat the kid" (in factual sense) is basically just a scare. After all, Rebecca is now an adult and has the title of Viscount. It's not a good idea to hang such a big girl on the beam of the house or chase her and run around the room. Just teach a few lessons - of course there is another reason, that is, Rebecca's head is really iron, and basically it's useless to beat her. If you hit too much, your hands will hurt...

However, when it comes to Rebecca's title, it is determined according to the inheritance law of the kingdom and the rules of the aristocratic system. After Gao Wen lifted the coffin and secured the title of duke, Rebecca, as the only heir of the family, should be awarded the title of marquis according to the lower level of title. In other words, this silly girl who runs around the territory all day long and uses big fireballs to smear himself in the face of blackness should actually be a marquis... Who would believe this if you tell me?

However, when Gao Wen and Francis II made an agreement, in order to prevent the royal family from being too alert to the Cecil family, Gao Wen Cecil's duke was currently only a personal title. Before the Cecil family regained enough aristocratic capital (including land, population, property and military strength), the title of Cecil's descendants was not promoted, so Rebecca is still holding the title of viscount...

But seeing this silly roe deer living happily every day, I'm afraid she has never considered such a complicated thing at all.

"After several large laboratories at the Magic Technology Institute were running, some temporarily shelved mechanical projects could be started," Gao Wen continued after Hetty took off the fork on the ceiling with his plastic hand and knocked on Rebecca's head. "At present, the North and South Avenue between Kantel and Cecil has been repaired. It only takes one day for the carriage to travel between the two places, but it still requires a more convenient means of transportation to truly connect the two lands - as I said, land control depends to a large extent on the level of traffic."

Rebecca was covering her head and pretending to be very painful to seek sympathy, but when she heard Gao Wen mention the word "mechanical", she immediately forgot about it. The girl's eyes lit up and she looked at Gao Wen happily: "Is it what you mentioned before, a magic motor vehicle?"

"Technically, we can already make 90% of that thing," Gao Wen nodded. "The only thing that has been missing is manpower. When you put all the manpower and start the large laboratory of the institute, the project will begin."

Making a more advanced transportation tool that can match the current pace of Cecilling's industrial pace is Gao Wen's long-established idea. Now Cecilling's magic engine has developed to the second generation of rotor engines. In mines, factories, buildings and other places, large and small magic engines and the steel machinery they drive have become the biggest driving force for the development of the territory. However, the rapid development of mechanical engineering and the overall rapid development of the territory have also put forward higher requirements for transportation - factories need more and more industrial raw materials, the territory's control range is getting larger and larger, and various large and heavy machinery are emerging one after another. The traditional transportation of human and animal power has obviously become a bottleneck that restricts the further development of the territory.

You can't always use a carriage to pull ore to the steel factory? It's not a long-term solution to carry parts of construction machinery to the construction site.

However, although Gao Wen proposed this idea, there was a serious shortage of technicians in the territory. Even if the magic of this world is very convenient and can greatly accelerate the R&D and manufacturing speed, the hard quantity of magic technicians is not so easy to make up for. Therefore, after proposing this concept, it was just a concept - this project has not been launched yet.

Rebecca has always been very concerned about it - this girl has a natural enthusiasm for mechanical things, especially when she knew that a sixteen-in-one fireball launcher could be installed on this automatic machine, which could allow her to fire the fireball while running at a speed of hundreds of kilometers per hour. She was so excited that she was almost beaten by her aunt again.

After receiving Gao Wen's affirmative answer, Rebecca immediately became silly and was alone there. Hehehe didn't know how much he had made up for. Heti glanced at the simple-minded girl helplessly, feeling that she probably had no ability to think in a short period of time, so she directly moved to the next topic: "There is another thing, ancestors, the new immigrants at the port have completed the registration today, and the immigration managers reported a situation..."

"Oh?" Gao Wen raised his eyebrows, "What's going on?"

"There are more than a dozen pharmacists, herbalists and alchemists among this group of immigrants, from the northern and northwest directions of the southern border," Hetty reported seriously. "In addition, they mentioned that more 'co-people' are leaving their hometowns, so more people should come here in the future."

"...Is the impact already begun to appear?" Gao Wen listened quietly, with no surprise on his face. "Padric is personally responsible for the North Trade Road, and Viscount Andrew is promoting the Northwest Trade Road, and the progress is similar to what I expected."

"The month of recovery has arrived, and many mercenaries and adventurers who choose to recuperate in the winter are preparing to start construction, and they were often the main customers of the pharmacist profession. In the whole winter just passed, our caravan has sold alchemy potions to almost every mercenary union in the north and west, so now the pharmacists and alchemists in these areas are going bankrupt in large quantities..." Hetty said, sighing softly, "Now, their only option except Cecil's leader is to migrate to the northeast, or a little further away to the east..."

"Grandling is already our ally," Gao Wen said lightly. "Tomorrow, the first batch of 12,000 alchemical potions of various types will be delivered to Viscount Roppenni Grand's castle and will be pushed to the entire eastern region by her. The caravan will also use Grandling as a springboard to start providing alchemical potions to the East."

Before this, a group of Cecil pharmacy merchants had successfully opened up the market in the East and had relatively fixed sales points in several towns. However, due to inconvenient transportation, the supply cost to the East and the supply volume was always high, and the supply volume was also a problem. However, with the full support of Roppenni Glen, Cecil's alchemy potions would be continuously sent to the territory of Duke Selas Loren.

"...then Cecil's leadership is probably the only choice for those pharmacists," Hetty shook his head, "or rather, our factory is their only choice."

"There will be more and more people coming later," Gao Wen stated the facts in a plain tone. "People like pharmacists belong to the wealthier class among the civilians, so they will be more tolerant of 'unemployment'. They will not go bankrupt quickly like mine workers in Tanzan Town, after the mining machinery is in place. The pharmacists and alchemists who come to the territory should be just the type of poorer and have little savings. They will go bankrupt quickly after they cannot receive orders in the spring, and those who still have savings or fixed customers will be forced here one after another after the alchemy potions become more popular."

Tyre poked the food in front of her with her tail tip. It seemed that she had finally given up on the idea of ​​eating and instead used her tail to absorb the food. She listened to the conversation between Gao Wen and Hetty, and at this time she said: "In fact, the sooner the bankruptcy is, the luckier the people are. They still have time to enter the factory to find a position. With the production efficiency of the factory, those later pharmacists may not even have the qualifications to enter the factory. After all, I heard that such a large reaction group can only control it for seven people, and the output is almost equivalent to more than 8,000 pharmacists plus one..."

As an outsider from a higher civilization, Tyre understood a lot of things that Cecil led - although the Siren society is very different from human society, she has witnessed the rise and fall of many seasons of civilizations on land no matter what she said, and she can see some things from experience.

"Industrialization is a giant beast, and its appetite is stronger than that of Tifeng," said Gao Wen slowly. "Tifeng has made progress in the transformation, but it also needs to swallow more resources and population to complete the final transformation. The progress brought by the magic industry of Cecil's leadership is more rapid than Tifeng, and of course there will be more things it wants to swallow... traditional handicrafts, small economies, traditional agriculture... are all its nutrients."

"Factory can eat people," Hetty suddenly said softly, "You said this to me a long time ago, but I didn't understand what it meant at the time... Now I'm starting to understand, those factories... will have such a big chain reaction."

"Yes, factories can eat people, especially when they are uncontrolled, they will almost use human flesh and blood as fuel," Gao Wen said, while lowering his head to cut the food on his plate. Various phenomena in the transformation from agricultural to industrialization emerged in his mind, as well as the terrible consequences of the uncontrolled "factory eat people" that would bring. "So we must set up chains and fences to control this beast from the beginning. Whether it is to formulate a complete worker security system, to resettle the demobilized population in advance, or to prepare sufficient jobs that can accommodate landless and unemployed people while developing industries, they are all necessary measures to control this beast."

Amber looked at Gao Wen blankly for a while, blinking: "No wonder you made a lot of strange regulations when you built those factories... It turned out that you had thought about everything that would happen later at that time?"

"It must be thought about it, otherwise the factory will in turn eat up all the achievements we have worked hard to this day," Gao Wen looked at her with a smile. "When people have only two choices, either to be exhausted in the factory or starve outside the factory, everything we do is meaningless, and the world is still as bad as before."

Gao Wen's words calmed down, but he knew that there were still some things that were not said.

The "control measures" he formulated can indeed alleviate the various contradictions arising from the destruction of traditional handicrafts and agricultural society after the industry destroyed traditional handicrafts and agricultural society, but their effect is only to alleviate. Especially in this world, the existence of magic power makes any technological breakthrough easily have an extremely powerful and direct effect. The time required for a large number of mechanical equipment to go from drawings to finished products is very short, and the speed of industrial products from concepts to mass production is also extremely fast, so the power of industrialization has also been amplified. Therefore, in this process, the pressure brought by the large number of handicraft populations who have gone bankrupt due to the collapse of the old social order may not be so easy to relieve.

So how should these excess pressure be alleviated and transferred?

A series of lists appeared silently in Gao Wen's mind...

(I'm back!!!

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