novelraw #193 - Section 193
#193 - Section 193
Roger suddenly understood the hidden meaning in her gaze.
It was an apology and a peace offering, as if saying, 'If you don't mind, we can be friends in the future.'
We may have had misunderstandings in the past, but let's put aside those hostilities and work together to build this empire.
"Cheers, for the empire!"
Roger couldn't help but smile.
This little devil, so cautiously extending an olive branch, was actually quite adorable.
It turned out that the biggest gain tonight wasn't meeting so many talented young people, but thawing the relationship with this little devil, resolving an internal enemy for the Charles family.
That way, when needed, he could use a 'bitter meat' strategy to send her as an undercover agent to the gods' side...
Margaret suddenly felt a chill, her tail flicking restlessly, feeling as if she was about to be sold off.
Chapter 169: The Empire's Five-Year Plan
After the New Year's revelry, the Green Vine Empire also conducted a "government affairs disclosure" in the 'Long Live the Queen' newspaper, summarizing last year's achievements and providing instructions for the next five years' work targets.
The soaring grain output, the gradually revitalizing commerce, the sailing start of industrial manufacturing, and of course, the empire's military achievements, as well as newborn data, were all inspiring figures.
Even if there were doubts, last night's feast, and this unprecedentedly warm winter, were enough to make people feel the power behind these numbers in their hearts.
In the next five years, the empire's public promises were:
1. Guarantee increased grain production, enrich people's tables, and ensure extra nutritional supply for the empire's new generation;
2. Enhance industrial strength, apply magic to more aspects of life, and drive productivity through technological progress;
3. Maintain domestic stability, increase military strength, halt the pace of external expansion, but also ensure the safety of the people and unimpeded foreign trade;
4. Improve and strengthen the construction of the official ranks, expand grassroots management and autonomy, and guarantee the empire;
5. Carry out construction in education, healthcare, people's livelihood security, and other aspects, build sufficient schools and hospitals, and promote six-year compulsory education and adult night schools throughout the empire;
6. Enrich people's cultural and entertainment life, encourage free creation, and increase cultural output capacity.
The above are the six major guidelines, mainly to enhance domestic competitiveness, but also not to forget to carry out external cultural output, to ensure that the empire's influence can expand in the Eternal Night World.
Of course, after waking up from the ball, the core officials around the Eternal Night Empress conducted a more comprehensive summary and future outlook.
In the past year, the Eternal Night Empress comprehensively completed central centralization, completing the new integration of the Green Vine Kingdom's old land and the territories of seventeen countries. The newly divided provinces and counties have launched a large-scale integration and flow of the empire's vast territory and complex ethnic groups.
Accompanying the provinces was the promulgation of cultural plans. The languages and writing of the past countries were unified into Green Vine script, and all aspects of weights and measures, codes of conduct, and moral standards were also forced to converge.
Especially the enlightenment literacy textbooks for the younger generation, the cover was the Eternal Night Empress's carefully selected beautiful pictures, and the content inside was even more about her own great achievements, training all young people in the posture of human pride.
According to someone's ridicule, she was implementing fan circle governance to the end, starting with the Knights from childhood, striving to make the young people on this land sing the praises of Grandma Ao's glory.
But from another perspective, if their dreams can be realized, the work completed by the Eternal Night Empress's generation can also be regarded as the empire's red, the sun rising, a feat of great merit.
So allowing her to boast about herself, to let future young people know what a leader of great talent and vision looks like, is not wrong.
At least this textbook has a very correct outlook.
It does not deliberately cultivate loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, nor does it try to enslave the people with etiquette.
Instead, it objectively tells the story of the Green Vine Empire as the hope of the human race, striving to complete those undertakings, and how we bravely fought and worked hard to create a better life.
A better life requires the heartfelt recognition of the people of the empire, rather than relying on the empire's military force to forcibly guarantee it. This is the meaning of centralized leadership...
So from this textbook, the Empress is still very ambitious, hoping that her achievements can be spontaneously sung by the people as the Bible.
Maybe we need to have someone similar to the pioneer who first established merit?
Hopefully, Margaret will consciously take on this glorious responsibility in the future.
Overall, in the next five years, the empire will invest heavily in education and propaganda, build basic schools for the younger generation, and also provide night schools for adults to make up for their knowledge shortcomings, to quickly replenish the empire with a labor force with a certain level of knowledge and culture.
At the same time, it is also to increase the centripetal force of the vast people towards the empire. Coupled with the gradually improving quality of life, it is necessary to make the people understand where the better life comes from.
"Just ask for cultivation, don't ask for harvest" can be used as a personal motto, but for a country with complex composition and various historical legacy issues, it is definitely not an advisable policy.
It is necessary to do practical things, but also to constantly publicize its own superiority. In the case of the Seven Gods Church watching covetously, it must never actively give up the cultural propaganda position, repeating the mistakes once made by a certain country.
At this time, the empire's propaganda department is firmly in the hands of the Empress. All existences that are inclined to the gods have been removed from the team. There is no situation where the above deviates from the rhythm and sings praises of the brighter moon outside every day.
A lie repeated a thousand times becomes the truth. The sweat shed by the people of the empire to build a beautiful and prosperous world cannot attribute the credit to the gods.
After stabilizing people's livelihood, education, and propaganda, the next step is to promote technological development and achieve industrial upgrading.
This work has been practiced well in the past year. After changing the idea that magicians serve for combat, and that alchemical products mostly directly increase combat power, the ideological wave brought by the New Arcane Movement has changed the thinking of most magicians.
From the perspective of industrial foundation, the Green Vine Empire is poor and white, but in terms of technology accumulation, it is the standard of enjoying the shade under a big tree.
For the past tens of thousands of years, this world has been playing the ruling game of nobles. The political system and production relations have stagnated and have not changed much, but the tentacles of magicians exploring forward have not stopped.
It's just that their thoughts are more applied to direct combat, at most arming non-casters, letting warriors resist damage for themselves, without scaling, standardizing, expanding production, and expanding the entire country to provide magical creations as a backing, to play scaled group army battles.
But the New Arcane Movement brought by Roger liberated their restrictions in this regard. Once they saw the direction of advancement, the magical civilization accumulated over the past tens of thousands of years could instantly bloom with extremely brilliant light.
In the early stage of industrial technology development, it is actually the transformation of manufacturing methods, and does not require much high production precision.
Use mechanical power to replace manpower to complete repetitive labor faster and better.
For the earth, there are actually two core difficulties in the initial stage: energy and materials.
Waterwheel drive, burning wood, burning coal, internal combustion engine, electricity, nuclear industry, the total output of industrial production continues to expand, far exceeding the upper limit of carbon-based life, which can complete the great cause of rushing out of the earth, which can actually be said to be the progress of energy.
First break the upper limit of muscle output, and then talk about control, industrial civilization can hang agricultural civilization.
The industrial development of the Eternal Night World cannot develop, and a large factor is because the upper limit of muscle output is relatively high, and the advantages of industry can only be reflected in the very late stage...
A ten-thousand-ton hydraulic press is also a hammer of a legendary berserker, even not as good as the entire giant dragon coming over to dance. In the eyes of the mages, what are you playing?
After all, the products they make do not need to be mass-produced, but only satisfy a small number of elite professionals.
Industrial manufacturing must produce things like million-ton hydraulic presses to let the mages see, oh, human power is sometimes exhausted.
But after liberating the mind, problems such as energy and output upper limit have long been solved for magical civilization.
There is a mineral called "magic crystal" in this world, which was originally just an auxiliary product for magicians to replenish magical energy.
But because the replenishment rate is limited, it cannot be applied in combat, so it has become a small prop similar to incense when meditating, with few sales and limited application scenarios.
With the effort of mining and processing magic crystal equipment, magicians directly hire a strong fighting force to complete the work. Why waste that effort?
So this thing has been in a state of not much development, which is why Roger has not seen things like magic crystal cannons.
Because alchemical equipment is too expensive, and the Seven Gods act as a stirrer, this world has never had a magical empire civilization. Magicians fight alone, and the demand for developing magic crystal energy almost does not exist.
From the perspective of the earth, magic crystal mines have indicators that are countless times better than fossil energy: efficient, clean, and pollution-free, and the energy density generally reaches five to seven times that of coal.
Higher quality magic crystals can reach twenty times.
What is even more outrageous is that magic crystals also have the characteristic of repeated charging. Do not throw away the completely released blank magic crystals. After being buried in the soil for decades, they will automatically be filled again.
On the other hand, materials are about what the industrial equipment can be made into.
Just talking about steel, the car shell and the aircraft shell need different things, and the car engine and the aircraft engine need different things.
Behind every upgrade of the cannon's firepower is the core of material progress.
In this regard, the magic world is an existence of cheating level.
Adamantine, mithril, magic beast blood, alien plane materials, these things are fused with various metals, you can be hard if you want to be hard, you can be superconducting if you want to be superconducting, you can have ductility if you want to have ductility, and you can also make ultra-light hard steel needed for aviation.
Even blowing glass can easily make things with light transmittance and hardness that surpass Corning Gorilla Glass.
This is why the Mystic Law Society can easily copy many technological products on the earth in a short time.
Materials and functions are not a problem, even more superior. Basically, if you have ideas and drawings, you can tinker with it like building Lego.
So building Gundams in this world is not a question of whether it can be done, but whether it is needed.
After deeply understanding the technology and resource background that this world has, Roger can only feel that the gods are really a harmful thing. Obviously there are such excellent conditions, but this world has not developed industry, and has not completed the explosion of productivity. It is really incredible.
Any earth engineer who comes here to set up a factory, with magic crystal mines and various materials, will laugh in his dreams, okay?
To a certain extent, the individual power of the gods has created a wrong demonstration, so the entire magical civilization has gone astray. Magicians have always been moving forward on the road of strengthening themselves, creating a situation of sitting on a treasure mountain without knowing it.
Although regrettable, it is always a good thing to have such an energy cheat and a material cheat.
Even if Roger is a stinky up master, he can blindly direct the empire's magicians to carry out industrialized expansion of production.
When they discovered that using hand-made high-precision industrial mother machines, using industrial mother machines to make mechanical machine tools, and using mechanical machine tools to make five-axis CNC machine tools can mass-produce alchemical props, the magicians realized!
The highest precision production line they have made so far is the fireball scroll transcription production line, which can produce 30,000 fireball scrolls a day.
This is the output that all the magicians of the entire Mystic Law Society could not copy by hand in the past, but now it only needs one production line!
Even if this production line is very expensive, it is worth the money!
Your Majesty no longer has to worry about us not having enough scrolls!
Of course, producing scrolls instead of shells is very strange in Roger's view, but he doesn't want to stifle the enthusiasm of the magicians.
Interest is the biggest motivation for technology research and development. When they are having fun, Roger only needs to assemble the scraps of this production line and sell it to Sophie's Amuti Chamber of Commerce.
The Amuti Chamber of Commerce uses these defective production lines to produce flame burst magic arrows, and the daily output of each line is three million.
They are sold to the Elf Empire through goblins, and those pointed ears smashed the price to ten gold coins per arrow, and they thought they had made a lot of money.
My Lord will no longer worry about not having enough special magic arrows
But I don't know that the empire will soon start dumping magic arrows with various special effects such as rockets, frost, lightning, and acid...
Anyway, it's just changing the etching pattern of the production line. This kind of precision is just a younger brother compared to transcribing magic scrolls.
Mages fly as they please, we won't lose!
In the past year, the New Arcane Movement has spread out, and the empire's industry is in such a stage of blooming flowers and countless strange products.
Using technological ideas to develop the accumulation of magic civilization for ten thousand years is really picking up money in the ground. Magicians can come up with new inventions and new props with a little brain.
Dean Hall gave a thumbs up to this point. He really wanted to prove that the New Arcane Movement was not good at first!
But in the new five years, the empire did not say that it prohibits magicians from letting themselves go, but it has also established more specific development directions for this industrial upgrading:
Continuous research and development in agriculture, pesticides, fertilizers, production-type magic puppets, large-scale water conservancy projects...
The output of the steel industry is rising, the textile industry is starting, and the standardization of chemistry and chemical industry...
High investment in medicine and medical equipment, the innovation of the education industry, the improvement of living conditions, and the transformation of the overall living environment of the city...
The continuous creation of fearless space, the mass production of arcane equipment, the creation of a rail transit network, and the upgrading of the communication system...
Of course, there are also various military projects that the people of the empire like the most, mass-producing weapons and armor, a major upgrade of the imperial army, and verifying combat effectiveness through proxy wars...
Equally important, the military industry will become the empire's primary source of foreign exchange. By exporting even the 'leftovers' of the empire's genuine weaponry, we can gain excess profits to support the empire's technological research and industrial upgrades!
Margaret, in this environment, discussed matters with absolutely no ladylike demeanor, patting her chest to guarantee that neighboring countries would have sufficient war intensity to cultivate enough major buyers...
After all the discussions, the empire finalized over two hundred essential projects in the new five-year plan, designated as 'Project 233'.
The requirement for the Arcane Council is that you must prioritize completing the nation's 'Project 233' before you are allowed to continue your whimsical tinkering; otherwise, funding will be suspended!
Besides interest, gold coins are the second driving force to stimulate mages' research motivation.
Of course, there's also the honor, status, and influence of successful research, which are the pies promised by the Empress. You'll have everything you deserve.
Mages are the empire's valuable technical talent; we won't abuse them easily.
Even with 996 overtime research, we'll provide healers to ensure their health... ahem.
Anyway, labor protection will definitely be in place. There will absolutely not be a large-scale elimination of mages at age 35. The Arcane Council will proactively improve the magical level of mages after they become professionals, ensuring they can keep up with the times.
After the meeting.
Only the Eternal Night Empress remained in the hall, calling Roger to a halt. She said with utter helplessness, "Therefore, I am increasingly curious about what that real plan you forgot was."
"I'm curious myself," Roger responded with a smile. "I've remembered one unlocking condition on my end."
"Oh? What is it?"
"Real-time online users in the Fearless Space exceeding 100 million."
"That shouldn't be difficult."
The Eternal Night Empress tapped her fingers lightly on the back of the throne. "After all, we still have overseas markets."
Chapter 170: There are four people in this group, three of whom are undercover.