In this world, most of the time, civilians can see opportunities coming, but opportunities always come with risks.
At this time, rich and powerful people can invest and follow up with confidence, because they don't have to worry that they will be ruined after investing, that they will not be able to survive, and that they will have no food, shelter, or clothing.
But civilians can't. They invest the same resources as rich and powerful people, which means one thing.
Go bankrupt.
Once this opportunity fails, everything is lost.
In the face of countless opportunities, no matter how cautious you are, as long as your foundation is not strong enough, no one will speed up your development and no one will have as many development opportunities.
Moreover, most people stay at the first step.
Go bankrupt.
This is why small costs can never beat big costs.
Big costs allow unlimited trial and error, but for you, one time is enough to make you unstoppable.
Opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared, but too many people are not even qualified to prepare.
And Alsace is such a person who is not qualified to prepare.
His power is too weak. It seems that the prince of the first empire of mankind will not be short of money and manpower in the future, but——
He is not the king now.
He doesn't have Li Ke's ability to speak out on the territory.
He has Terenas above him, and he cannot be like Li Ke who insists on using all the funds to build his own industrial base.
Moreover, Lordaeron is too big and has too many nobles. These nobles will never support him in building a factory like Li Ke.
Just with these three points, he will definitely not be able to build a terrible industrial base like Li Ke.
Alsace didn't need to know that this deep hole Li Ke had dug for him, or in other words, was the last chance Li Ke gave him.
He just looked at the data Li Ke gave him, and then handed it to Kel'Thuzad.
Because he doesn’t understand these things, and he doesn’t think he needs to understand them. The education he has received and the series of growth he has experienced tell him that he only needs to know how to manage people.
Don't worry about anything else, just give it a try.
He only needs to know that these machines can produce a variety of materials that can make his people live a happy life, as well as the cost of these tools and the manpower required.
Other professional matters should be left to professionals.
This is not arrogance, but...
There is no doubt that he is taking a step closer to the abyss because of the only people who can remind him.
They don't understand the cost, nor what technology and magic Li Ke's machine is based on. They only know that Li Ke's machine seems to be very easy to use and can save a lot of manpower.
That's all.
"Kel'Thuzad, help me see if these things are real. If they are real, then hurry up and build them so that our people can use these things."
Arthas looked at Kel'Thuzad very seriously, and Kel'Thuzad was stunned for a moment after seeing the drawing drawn by Li Ke.
The various mechanical transmission parts drawn above are actually very simple. After taking a few glances, as a great magician, he figured out the principles and logic of these things, because the logic of these things is very similar to magic.
, he even did a little calculation, and several intelligent models appeared in his mind, so that these machines can continuously change parameters under the action of an arcane core, and the users only need to verbally give orders to the arcane core...
That’s it.
but.
What surprised him was not the principles of these machines, the principles of his golems and undead were much more complicated than this, but the precision.
There are six types of screws on the machine painted by Li Ke, and each of these six types of screws requires more than a dozen. Moreover, the accuracy of these screws and the accuracy of some accessories determines the operating efficiency of these machines.
And if he made it by hand, there would be no problem. After grinding for a week or two, he could even improve the accuracy marked by Li Ke. But if he read correctly, these things were mass-produced.
Although one machine can match their current three spinning wheels, what can I say? It's not that he looks down on the blacksmiths in Lordaeron, but that they really can't build these machines in batches.
They can't even produce a box of qualified screws quickly!
This is not because the blacksmiths of Lordaeron are not skilled enough, but because these are simply two tracks!
It is absolutely impossible for Li Ke to have tens of thousands of skilled blacksmiths who can create screws with exactly the same parameters. In other words, Li Ke has machines that can mass-produce high-precision screws!
But how is this done?
This is Kel'Thuzad's knowledge blind spot.
He could quickly understand the principles contained in Li Ke's drawings because of his background as an arcane mage, but it would be difficult for him to imagine a screw-making machine out of thin air.
Of course, he would never fail to figure it out. He would go back and read the book, and even said that if he thought about it for half or two hours based on Li Ke's drawings, the title of Kel'Thuzad's Archmage would make him cry.
However, at this moment, he really couldn't think of it for a moment.
But he was keenly aware of one thing.
"Your Highness, these machines require a lot of raw materials, but I'm afraid we don't have enough money to even manufacture these machines, because these parts must either be customized in Dalaran or purchased from Li Ke..."
He looked at Alsace and expressed his worries.
But Alsace shook his head directly.
"Don't ask Li Ke to buy it! We'll make it ourselves!"
He was not angry, but saw the crisis behind it.
"If Li Ke uses this to blackmail us in the future, our situation will be very bad, so our own parts factory is necessary!"
Ah this...
Kel'Thuzad knew that Arthas's idea was correct, but how to put it.
He glanced at Presto, thought about his mission, and sighed helplessly.
Alsace had a good idea, but it required a lot of energy from him.
"But this will be very expensive, Your Highness. And we also need a lot of iron ore, and these iron ores are in... You know, if you buy iron ore from the nobles, the price will not be very low.
Your Highness, our costs still cannot be reduced."
Arthas felt like he was suffocating. Why was it that every time he wanted to do something, a noble always stood in the way?
why!?
Is there any way to make them listen to you!?
Alsace gradually developed a strong desire for others to obey him unconditionally.
