The Admiral of Hogwarts

Industrialization is not a simple matter. At least in a magical world with a small population but explosive individual production capabilities, it's difficult to foster a demand for industrialization.

This kind of thing can't be learned just by looking at it. Therefore, even if the elves can imitate the modern finance industry of the ordinary human world, they still can't handle the content related to industrialization and mass production.

The situation of the ship girls is the opposite. As their prototypes, those warships were all the highest embodiment of industrialization in their respective countries. Therefore, they have a certain love for industry in their bones.

So, after thoroughly understanding the technology of this geothermal furnace, the ship girls added a lot of industrialization features when manufacturing their own magic furnaces.

"That's why we are more efficient," said the Sovetsky Soyuz, tilting her head slightly with a proud expression. "Compared to the Renaissance-style workshops of the other side, we are much stronger here."

For a simple example, compared to the elves' reliance on manual experience, the production of this furnace is obviously much simpler. As long as you operate according to the rules and regulations, you don't need a master craftsman to watch over you.

Of course, because of magic, the ship girls' industrialized modern factories also have a defect: mass production can only produce products of medium to high quality. It is difficult to produce high-quality products like the elves.

But this defect is not irreparable. At least the Intrepid and her sisters can produce high-quality elf silver in small batches to meet everyone's high-end needs.

"These are some of the broom parts we produce." After visiting the core furnace, the Sovetsky Soyuz led Hugo and the others to a factory next door.

Unlike the previous smelting workshop, this is a mechanical processing workshop. Under the control of magic cores, a dozen magic construct-driven machines turn the newly produced metal ingots into parts.

"The powerful functions of our brooms are achieved by these structures made of elf silver or plated with elf silver." Walking to the end of the assembly line, the Sovetsky Soyuz picked up an alchemical part plated with elf silver and said.

"Moreover, as we use the geothermal furnace, we are gradually summarizing the relevant rules and trying to extend the technology of smelting elf silver to other magical metals."

"This experiment has consumed a lot of our profits, because many breakthroughs in materials science need to be based on repeated trial and error. Fortunately, we made a breakthrough three days ago."

As she spoke, the Sovetsky Soyuz led Hugo and the others along a passage to the outside, and soon came to the side of a large door. When the door opened, a slightly chaotic scene appeared in front of Hugo.

What appeared before him was a huge underground space. A large number of robots were expanding the base under the command of Sverdlov.

And if you extend your line of sight to the distance, you can see that this base is built in a series of natural underground spaces, a standard underground base.

"What's over there?" Hugo asked curiously, pointing to the darkness not far from the base where the lights couldn't reach. With the afterglow of a little light, Hugo found that there seemed to be a forest growing there.

"Mushrooms, mushrooms, and more mushrooms." The Sovetsky Soyuz snapped her fingers and directed a searchlight to sweep towards the shadow. As the bright light shone on the shadow, Hugo finally saw what the shadow was.

This is a jungle composed of various fungi and lichens, with countless mushrooms and lichens of different sizes and colors covering every part from the ground to the top of the cave.

In addition to these inanimate creatures, there are also some insects and even reptiles that have adapted to the local life and live in the mushroom jungle.

For example, Hugo's enhanced vision saw a python as thick as a human arm coiled around a stone pillar covered with lichen.

"This place has its own ecosystem. We only initially determined that there was no danger there, so we plan to investigate that forest after the next round of construction is over to see if there is anything useful."

"Very good." Hugo nodded with satisfaction, then pointed to the construction site and asked. "What is this construction site building?"

"We plan to build a factory for smelting and processing magical bronze." The Sovetsky Soyuz pointed to the construction site and said, "This magical bronze is also known as mountain copper or orichalcum, and is the first magical metal created by humans."

"Three days ago, we finally figured out the industrialized production method of magical bronze, so we plan to build a new workshop to realize the industrialized production of this magical metal."

"Compared with elf silver, magical bronze is not as versatile, and its data is much worse in many aspects. But the advantage is that the output is larger and the cost is lower, which is more conducive to the mass production of many items."

"That sounds good indeed." Hugo nodded.

At this moment, a space door opened in front of a warehouse not far away, and then Quincy walked out of the space door carrying a large bag. "Quincy—" Seeing Hugo, Quincy immediately raised her hand and greeted him.

"Ah, it's Quincy." Looking at Quincy, whose mouth was bulging as if she was eating something, Hugo walked up to greet her, then looked at the suitcase Quincy was pulling.

From the badge on the suitcase, it can be seen that this is a Ilvermorny student suitcase, which has been cast with a space expansion charm.

After all, the magic departments of various countries now have strict control over the space expansion charm. Unless you take a certain risk to manufacture similar magic props yourself, the only legal channel is to buy some second-hand suitcases that have been eliminated by various schools.

In order to avoid unnecessary attention from others, the ship girls naturally chose this path. And Quincy's current task is to use the purchased second-hand space equipment to transport some supplies.

"A new batch of broom handles has arrived." After Quincy called out 'Kun, kun, kun' to the Sovetsky Soyuz a few times, the Sovetsky Soyuz nodded subconsciously, and then said to Hugo.

"They will be repaired, polished, and assembled with metal parts here, and finally sent back to the United States for final assembly."

After listening to the Sovetsky Soyuz's explanation, Hugo realized that these ship girls had been following the path of international large-scale division of labor and production from the beginning, in order to achieve the highest production efficiency and the lowest cost.

"Wizards have their own special advantages in this regard." After waving his hand to signal Quincy to enter the base, the Sovetsky Soyuz explained to Hugo.

"For ordinary people, the biggest problem with international mass production is the time and cost required for transportation, but in this respect, wizards have unparalleled special advantages."

"Whether it is the International Floo Network, long-distance Apparition using islands, or containers with space expansion charms, they can all compress the transportation cost of various items to a very low level."

"And this method is also conducive to confidentiality." Enterprise continued. "You know, this production definitely can't rely on us alone, so we naturally have a lot of recruited wizard workers."

"Although we have the ability and means to ensure that these wizards will not leak our secrets, compared to our special abilities, it is most important to use a system to avoid that kind of leakage event from happening."