LOL: Summoner of Goddess Jana

Chapter 455 My factory is already hungry and thirsty
Demacia, Mythral City.

The city and the vast countryside surrounding it have long been the hereditary domain of the Crownguards.

It sits on the northern border of the Demacia Basin, on the highlands of the Freljord Icefield.

The towering northern mountains are like the Great Wall of Natural Climate, blocking the cold wind blowing from the northern ice sheet for Mihril City, allowing this border highland city, which is only separated from the polar ice sheet by a mountain, to have a relatively warm and humid climate. The fertile land, and the lush greenery all over the mountains and plains.

The torrential river flowing down from the mountains in the north connected Mihril City with many prosperous towns downstream, coastal ports, and even Demacia, forming the foundation of the city's prosperity.

The good management of the Mianwei family for hundreds of years has made Miyin City even more developed.

But this development, like this ancient agricultural kingdom, fell into a long stagnation after reaching its peak.

Generations of farmers have worked hard, generations of nobles have been hereditary, and generations of soldiers have gone out with the army, but the city is still the same city, and the land is still the same land, which is no different from what it was a hundred years ago.

Everything seems to have come to a standstill here.Nothing will change except the lord's name will change.

But now, with the return of the new lord Laxana Crownguard, Mithral City has suddenly ushered in a change.

And it's an earth-shaking change.

"Ahem." Lux rubbed her delicate nose, trying to adapt to the pungent alchemy waste gas in the air,
This smell is definitely a very destructive pollution to Miyin City, which has always had beautiful mountains and clear waters and good air.

But Lacus found it kind instead.

"We succeeded, Sona." Looking at the tall factory building in front of her with alchemy smoke, Lux couldn't help turning her head excitedly, and said to her comrade, best friend and assistant:

"The first alchemy fertilizer factory in Mithral City, and also the first alchemy fertilizer factory in Demacia, has been successfully put into operation!"

"In the future, even the poor and tenant farmers in Demacia will have the hope of having enough to eat every day!"

"Yeah." Sona rubbed her nose as well, and answered with airflow simulation vocal cords.

She still didn't forget to complain: "If only its taste could be better."

"If this continues, Mithral City will become the same as Zaun."

"I wish it could be Zaun." Lux grinned.

The alchemy factory in front of her, and the industrial park outside Mithril City, which had just been built with a large amount of construction, seemed to Lacus like a child raised by her.

Although these "children" were all moved from Zaan intact through the leader's second-line construction plan.
But these industrial assistance projects can take root in Mithral City, thousands of miles away, so quickly; Lacus has also put in a lot of effort in this process.

"Zuan's alchemy technology is so strong, there is no way."

"Compared with environmental issues, the issue of food is more important." Lax found the feeling of being a mother at a young age, and defended her "children" as soon as she opened her mouth.

"Also, these problems are temporary."

The alchemy barons who ruled Za'an in the past didn't care about the environment of Za'an or the lives of the people of Za'an.

However, Zizhu mainly allocates resources according to the market.People who master seed benzene don't care about the environment. Without the corresponding market demand, it is impossible to have any environmental protection industry, and there will be no scientific research team to study environmental protection technology.

This has led to the abnormal development of alchemy technology in the past 200 years. The technology points are desperately focusing on increasing production and efficiency, without considering the problem of pollution treatment at all.

"But it's different now." Lacus said confidently: "Chairman Levi has said that leaders must stick to the sustainable development path in the future."

"Scientists in Zaun are now working overtime to study technologies to deal with the three wastes and control pollution. I think this pollution problem will definitely be solved in the future."

"Yeah." Sona nodded secretly.

On the other hand, Lacus thought about the future of Miraz City and even Demacia as a whole: "With Zaun's assistance, we have successfully built a number of small steel factories, small cement factories, and small machinery factories. , small chemical fertilizer plants, small coal and iron mines, small thermal power and hydroelectric power plants”

"The next step is to fully activate the production capacity, produce as much as possible the agricultural tools and fertilizers that the majority of Demacia farmers need most at present, and promote the increase in food production in the Mythral City area, and even the entire Demacia."

"Hey." Sona interrupted her girlfriend's beautiful imagination: "Lax, don't forget, the production capacity of these factories is very limited."

"It's good if we can take care of the supply of farm tools and fertilizers in the Mitril City area, but how can we take care of the entire Demacia?"

"Well..." Lux quickly calmed down.

After her lofty ambitions have passed, she can also see clearly what the reality is.

The reality is that Demacia is far from being truly industrialized.

Although the political power in Demacia has been secretly controlled by the leader, the leader who lacks grassroots strength has not yet been able to fully intervene in the situation in Demacia.

The radical social transformation experience she and Sona had learned in Ionia could not be copied to Demacia.

The kingdom's land resources are still firmly in the hands of the feudal land aristocrats in a highly concentrated situation.

More than 95% of the population of Demacia is still firmly bound to the noble manors and the land of the small peasant economy as poor farmers, tenant farmers or even serfs.

Land resources are concentrated in the hands of the nobles, and human resources are concentrated in the hands of the nobles.

The nobles control most of the social and economic resources of the kingdom, but they are immersed in the stable income of land annexation and financial lending, and have no intention of moving forward at all.

Not to mention the Jana master, it is difficult to develop even the seed benzene master here.

Lux hasn't really done anything big yet.

She just took advantage of the Crownguard family's absolute control over Mithral City to engage in some "self-entertaining" industrial projects on her own land.

This is not a revolution, it can only be regarded as "establishing foreign affairs and saving the country through industry".

But it's not pointless either.

Because whether it is a year or two years, the leader will eventually come to Demacia in the future.

At that time, Mithral City, which is the first to move towards industrialization, can completely become the fire to accelerate the industrialization process of Demacia.

And what Lux has to do now is to water this "seedling" as much as possible to make it stronger.

"Sona." Thinking of this, Lux couldn't help but tentatively said to Sona: "How about you make another report for me and ask Zaun to support a few more factories?"

"Demacia has a huge demand for farm tools and fertilizers. With our current production capacity, what can we do?"

"Forget it." Sona curled her lips helplessly: "President Li Wei is about to annoy you."

"Zuan's ability is limited. Just supporting Ionia is enough. Now there is a sudden addition of Shurima Empire to help."

"Even if Zaun can produce so many machines and equipment, they can't produce so many engineers and industrial workers!"

Second-line construction, the focus of support is not only machinery and equipment, but also professionals.

Although Demacia has no shortage of people at all, it is seriously short of qualified industrial human resources.

For example, qualified workers in a machinery factory must at least be able to understand vernier calipers, understand mechanical drawings, and have certain technological knowledge, otherwise it will be difficult to achieve large-scale industrialization.

However, most Demacians don't even know words, and even daily information exchange is severely limited.

It will take a lot of time to train them into qualified modern industrial workers.

Therefore, the series of factories that Lux built in Mithral City are still fully operated by the technical experts and backbone workers supported by Zaun.

Without the hands-on guidance of these Zaun experts, these seemingly thriving factories could shut down in no time.

"There are only so many skilled workers in Zaun, and there are even fewer who can be allocated to participate in the second-tier construction plan. Now that Ionia and Shurima are asking for people, Luxel just wait."

The grassroots power of leaders has indeed been used to the limit, whether it is political cadres or technical personnel.

The second batch of aid that Lux was counting on will definitely not appear again in a short time.

"President Li Wei has approved it before. Let us first take some local measures according to the situation of Demacia and do what we can do well."

"For example," Sona recalled Li Wei's development suggestions: "Different from Shurima and Ionia, which are relatively backward in civilization, although Demacia is also a feudal agricultural country, the folk handicraft industry has already developed. a certain basis.”

"The five craftsmen of bamboo, wood, iron, clay, and stone, as well as handicraft industries such as local spinning, local weaving, garments, oil mills, mills, and paper mills, are all found in Miyin City."

"We can't build big factories now, so we should find a way to integrate these small handicraft industries first, and set up some handicraft cooperatives."

"Hmm." Lux was also lost in thought when she heard this.

She thought about it seriously.The means of production cannot be mentioned for the time being, so let's start with the means of management and operation.

The integrated handicraft cooperatives, coupled with the management of leaders and cadres, will definitely have higher production efficiency than before.

"As you mentioned before, the most needed fertilizers and farm tools in Demacia-" At this time, Sona said again: "They can't produce fertilizers."

"But farm tools, hoes, sickles, shovels, plows and other things can be made in blacksmith shops."

"Now our steel plant has been put into operation, and the steel output has been increased by a thousand times. Even if the production consumption of that small machinery plant and the need for infrastructure construction are removed, there is still a lot of production capacity left."

Steel is the foundation of industry and can be used everywhere.Therefore, the steel plant assisted by Zaan has reserved a large excess capacity for the future industrial development of Debon.

"Although these high-quality steels are hard currency in Demacia, they can make money by selling them directly."

Sona thought about it seriously, and then made a suggestion:
"I think we can first gather the blacksmiths in Silver City to set up a large-scale handmade farm tool factory to help us digest excess steel production capacity and provide Demacia farmers with more cheap and high-quality iron farm tools. "

"That's the way that will best benefit the most people."

After hearing this, Lux frowned slightly: "This proposal is not bad."

"But the problem is that there are not so many blacksmiths in Mithral City."

The blacksmiths in Miraz were prepared for the agricultural society of the past.There are dozens of blacksmiths in a city, which is almost enough.

Now you let these dozens of people digest the excess capacity of a modern steel factory by manual production?
"I can only say that it can have a little effect," Lux muttered.

The output of dozens of people is also the output. If you can build a pair of cheap iron farm tools that farmers can afford, you will make an extra contribution.

"No, Lux." Sona reminded her, "We don't just have dozens of blacksmiths."

"Did you forget? There are hundreds of Freljord people who have gone over the mountains to join us these days."

"There are at least 100 people who are qualified blacksmiths, and they are technical talents that can be used by us!"

"Oh?" Lux's eyes lit up.

"You mean those furnace owners?"

Because of the artisan inheritance passed down by Ornn, although the civilization of the Freljord is backward, the metallurgical casting technology is surprisingly superb.

So almost every relatively weak mortal from the Freljord is a qualified blacksmith.

Yes, almost everyone is.

Because unlike the Iceborn, who are naturally not afraid of the wind and snow, ordinary people in the Freljord are born without the ability to make a living independently. They can only be attached to those powerful warriors as followers, or even slaves.

And metallurgy casting is one of the living skills that they must master in order to survive. It can make the strong feel that they are useful, so they are willing to leave "an extra mouth to eat".

Moreover, a furnace tribe in the ice field cannot be like the human villages in the south, where there are only a few full-time blacksmiths from generation to generation.

Because people on the ice sheet will die at any time, and the tribe will be wiped out at any time.

Ordinary people must ensure that they are separated from the tribe alone, and they also have the skills to make a living that can be seen by others, so that they can hardly survive one tough winter after another.

If there are only a few people in a tribe who can forge iron, it may not be long before this skill will be lost on the ice sheet.

Therefore, almost every mortal who cannot become a powerful warrior must sharpen various livelihood skills including metallurgy and forging, gathering, hunting, farming, nomadic and so on.

Each of them is a qualified blacksmith and can play the role of a handicraft server for the strong in the tribe at any time.

"Wonderful!" Lux praised Sona's suggestion.

Originally, she simply settled the Icelanders who were attached to them, but she didn't expect that there were a very high proportion of "technical talents" among them.

The mines and steel mills built with the help of leaders have provided Mihril City with a large amount of cheap and high-quality steel.

Now there is a lack of a large number of blacksmiths to cast these steels into high-quality and cheap iron farm tools.

And this kind of iron farm tool, which is made of solid materials and so cheap that it is outrageous, is a blow to Demacian farmers who have never seen the power of industrial production in the past, and who want to use an iron pot as a family heirloom.

Looking at the vast countryside of Demacia, everyone's demand for this cheap and durable iron farm tool is almost unlimited.

So no matter how many Freljord furnace owners come and how high the production capacity of farm tools is, Demacia's market can absorb it.

The raw material management is sufficient, the market management is sufficient, and the equipment site requirements are not high.

That's just a matter of talent.

"However." Lux suddenly felt a little embarrassed again: "The Freljord is so big, and those ice tribes generally lead a hunting life with no fixed place."

"Where should we go to recruit so many people?"

"I can't, wait here for them to deliver it to your door, right?"

(End of this chapter)