From Baron to Lord

“Mission Updated!”

“Main Quest: The Iron Country!”

“The Iron Country: Spread the iron rails of the Iron Horse throughout every earldom of the Duchy, leaving the tracks of the Iron Horse in every earldom!”

“Quest Reward: Experience Points * 500000, Title: Iron Country.”

“Iron Country: After equipping the title, the Duchy's metallurgical industry production increases by ten percent, and the construction speed of steel buildings increases by twenty percent.”

Chapter 367: The Thin Oliver, The Power of Industry!

The new mission is about the iron rails of the Iron Horse, which poses no pressure for Allen.

This was something he had already decided.

According to his and Boltzmann's plan, the entire Allen Duchy needs at least seven railway lines to ensure that every earldom is covered by rails.

Allen plans to connect the main cities of each earldom first. As for the other small towns, Allen feels that carriages are sufficient for the time being.

Railways, together with commercial roads, will form a brand new transportation system.

Currently, building railways is not difficult. Allen can start multiple railway lines at the same time, and it can be completed in just a year or two.

However, a year or two is enough time for Allen to do many things. He is currently wondering if he can shorten the time.

In the sky, Jackson has already adapted to the feeling of being a dragon knight in the sky.

Jackson didn't indulge too much.

Although he was excited and thrilled, and couldn't wait to stay on the dragon's back forever.

He still remembered Allen's request of him.

He must always act in a low-key manner and hide by Allen's side.

Although this is a no-man's land, there will be risks as long as he appears as an 893 dragon knight.

Jackson understood this very well, so he immediately separated from the Steel Dragon after only adapting to it.

He came to Allen's side.

Allen agreed with this.

He first put the Steel Dragon into the dragon nest.

This adult dragon in the dragon nest also has a stimulating effect on those young dragons.

But Allen doesn't intend to keep it locked in the dragon nest all the time.

After all, Tasmiz is already an adult, and it's not good to keep it locked up. Moreover, Allen still needs it to generate iron ore for him outside. “Let's go back first.”

After Allen thought about it, he took Jackson and Saffi back to the capital of the Allen Duchy.

As for Tasmiz, he threw it back into the original underground space.

After dealing with Jackson's problem, Allen began to focus his main energy on industry.

Whether it is light industry or heavy industry, these are issues that Allen needs to focus on.

And to understand the current industrial problems, the Minister of Industry, Oliver, must be called back.

Fortunately, the industry in various places has now entered the right track.

The commoners have become accustomed to or have accepted this (cfbh) suddenly appearing profession.

So there is no need for Oliver to run around all day long.

This originally slightly obese bald minister has lost nearly twenty pounds in the past few months, and the whole person looks much slimmer.

“Oliver, long time no see, you've lost a lot of weight.”

Allen said with a smile.

“Yes, Duke, after losing weight, I feel much better.”

Oliver is very satisfied with his current body.

“Tell me about our industry?”

Allen interlaced his fingers, his slender fingers supporting his chin and bridge of his nose.

Oliver nodded and began to narrate his work progress.

Soon Allen grasped the current industrial situation.

“Oh, the output of the current metallurgical plant has not yet reached its peak?”

Allen raised his eyebrows slightly.

“Yes, with the workers' skilled operation and the stable source of iron ore, the output of the metallurgical plant has increased a lot.”

“However, I heard that we are going to start building other railways in multiple stages. I think, even if the output of the metallurgical plant has increased now, it may not be able to support the simultaneous start of several railways, Duke.”

Oliver said to Allen.

Allen also had his own ideas about this, he waved his hand: “Don't worry, Oliver, I will expand the scale of the metallurgical plant recently, and the output will increase a lot by then.”

“Is that so? Then there is no problem. Your railway and Iron Horse plan is too perfect. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed it was true. There is actually an Iron Horse that doesn't need horses or magic beasts to pull it, and it can pull thousands of people at once, and it's so fast.”

After hearing Allen's words, Oliver immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Now the only worry in his heart has disappeared, leaving only endless emotion and admiration.

The appearance of the Iron Horse has shocked the entire Allen Duchy, and even the nobles of other surrounding duchies have expressed curiosity.

The appearance of this steel behemoth undoubtedly opened the prelude to an era.

“Hehe, Oliver, what do you think industry is? This is one of the representatives of industry, the railway. The reason I asked you to come here is to give you other things to do.”

Allen didn't care about Oliver's praise.

“Duke, please give your orders!”

Oliver said with his head down.

“Oliver, the metallurgical plant no longer needs your constant attention. Now we need to start developing the next industrial project.”

Allen is preparing to start developing light industry and the textile industry today.

Clothing, food, housing, and transportation will always be the rigid needs of mankind.

The textile industry is a lucrative industry that can continuously profit the Allen Duchy.

“What?!”

Oliver's eyes widened. He never expected that Allen would call him to tell him that another industrial project was about to begin.

If Oliver didn't understand the meaning of industry before, then even if he was the most foolish person, he would understand the importance of industry now.

And Oliver thought that metallurgy was all of industry.

But he was wrong.

“The second industrial project, is there any other project in industry?!”

Oliver was shocked.

Allen smiled: “Don't be so shocked, Oliver, your shock is because you have too little knowledge.”

“This time the project is light industry, which is also one of the traditional industries, the textile industry. Oliver, do you know how our clothes and those fabrics come from?”

Allen said to Oliver.

“It is handmade by some women, which is very troublesome and cumbersome.”

Oliver said seriously.

“Yes, it's very troublesome and inefficient.”

Allen nodded, he continued: “If we can use the same time, use the time it takes others to make a piece of clothing, or say, use the time they use to make a piece of linen to make a hundred pieces, a thousand pieces of linen, what do you say, is this industry profitable? Is it important?”

“A hundred times, a thousand times the efficiency?!”

Oliver took a breath of cold air. At this moment, his mind seemed to be directly blown open.

The textile industry, the traditional hand-made textile industry, is not profitable, because it consumes too much time and energy. Maybe it can maintain family life, but it is too difficult to make money.

But if, as Allen said, the efficiency can be increased by a hundred or a thousand times in the same amount of time.

This is terrifying.

Then this industry will be transformed into a huge profit industry.

Is this the power of industry?!

Oliver was once again shocked by industry.

Chapter 368 World Resource Distribution, Branch Task Refresh

The advantage of light industry is that it is not very dangerous.

The most important thing in the textile industry is the textile factory. Compared with the metallurgical plant, the textile factory is obviously safer.

When Allen was talking to Oliver about the textile industry, Oliver was actually thinking in his mind about where he would recruit people if the textile industry could be successful, and where he would choose to start the factory.

“Although the textile industry is easier than the metallurgical plant, there are also some problems.”

Allen first told Oliver about the situation, advantages, and benefits of the textile industry.

But this does not mean that after having a textile factory and manpower, you can get enough products.

“We don’t have a production area for raw materials. Whether it’s linen or other fabrics, we only have wool.”

Allen said calmly.

“Yes, Duke, the Allen Duchy ~ does not have flax plants.”

Oliver nodded. He used to be the Minister of Finance, so he knew the situation in the Duchy very well.

The land of the Allen Duchy is not suitable for flax plants, and the former Shack Duchy of Allen Duchy has not cultivated this plant. For them, to start the textile industry, the problem of raw materials needs to be solved first.

What's more, Allen doesn't just want linen, he wants to make real silk.

Linen is for the civilian market, after all, the civilians can only afford to wear such clothes.

Silk is for the noble market.

As a time-traveler, Allen is also a noble, and he deeply feels that the clothing materials of the nobles in this world are not as good as silk.

But silk needs to raise some silk-spinning silkworms.