Xia Duo admitted that what Laiton said made sense, but the other party was not a mage after all, and he did not know the secrets of magic items as clearly as a real expert.
Just talk about cost.
Taking the Tower of Time's first-generation communication instrument as an example, the cost including labor is less than 200 gold coins. In a typical Nese territory like Savile Territory, the annual income of an average craftsman is about this.
Five times.
It will be higher for merchants and lower for farmers, but as long as you bite the bullet and spend a few hundred gold coins to buy a magic item, you can still do it.
In the Daxia Territory, an annual income of 300 gold coins is already the minimum income guaranteed by law. It will basically not be lower than this, it will only be higher.
Xia Duo had long planned to use the territory as the first input market for cheap magic items from the Tower of Time. For this reason, he deliberately created an economic system with high income and high consumption in the territory.
On the one hand, it is to make the territorial residents accustomed to consumption in units of gold coins, and on the other hand, it is to allow magic items to be perfectly integrated into the territorial economic system.
Instead of becoming an alternative existence that only the caster group can afford, like in other territories.
Only by shipping more products can we give full play to the mass production advantages of the Tower of Time, and use the market to test products, thereby forming a positive cycle, promoting relevant experience, and rapid iterative updates of technology.
Of course, relying solely on the territory's internal market is not enough. It may be enough to verify the product, but if you want the capital flow to return to normal, you also need a sizable external market.
For this reason, Shado chose to cooperate with the Brightwater Chamber of Commerce to sell the magic items mass-produced by the Tower of Time to all parts of Netheril and even the elven world.
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In addition to reducing the production costs of magic items through mass production, Xia Duo also uses transfer payments to increase the income of the people.
For example, subsidizing agriculture and other industries and transferring wealth directly to formal citizens;
Another example is the development subsidy. Every official citizen can receive a substantial gold coin subsidy or salary when the land is granted. This is not available for other open territories. The specific amount is related to the number of meritorious services during the development period.
Having children counts, and you can get more land!
There is also the territorial infrastructure construction led by the Government Affairs Department. The wages of the recruited citizens are far higher than those in other territories. In other words, other territories do not give any money at all. Those citizens serve the lord for free for a fixed few months every year.
In addition, unlike other territories where there are almost only a few management personnel, such as tax officials, clerks, etc., each ministry in Daxia Territory maintains a large number of civil servants, and the management of the territory is almost meticulous, unlike other territories that are as extensive.
Not to mention, armed forces such as the army and security guards also have income that far exceeds that of other territories.
Basically, Xia Duo's high-income policy has covered all people in the territory.
This includes even children who are still in school. As long as they study hard and get good rankings in the weekly, monthly and annual exams of the Tower of Time, those whose families are still in the development stage will have their merits recorded, and those who are already formal citizens will receive money directly.
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So far, Xia Duo has not heard of a single case of Tower of Time apprentices not learning well. Each one is working hard for themselves or their family.
You must know that the Tower of Time currently has a large number of apprentices, nearly two thousand!
If it were said that before Xia Duo traveled through time, it was a school with two thousand people, and everyone in it was a good student who worked hard to make progress, he would not believe it to death, but now, the facts are before his eyes.
Of course, he also knew that the current environment in Netheril was such that the spread of knowledge was so limited. Everyone knew how valuable knowledge was, especially magic knowledge.
As long as the people at the bottom see a little hope, they will not try their best to work hard.
When magic education in the territory is popularized to a certain extent, situations similar to those in Xia Duo's hometown will inevitably occur, because the society at that time is no longer in a state where "only those who know magic can have dignity."
As long as non-mage professions can gain social recognition and safety guarantees, not everyone will work hard to become a mage, or there may be too many directions for their efforts, and focusing on one direction will inevitably make people slack off.
But in general, the more choices the citizens have, the more prosperous the civilization will be.
As for the progress of magic, Chateau believes that the driving force of one genius is far more effective than a hundred mediocre people. Of course, this is on the premise of ensuring a certain number of basic researchers.
Without a certain base of researchers and relying solely on individual geniuses, it would be difficult to promote the progress of magic and civilization.
That's why Xia Duocai worked hard to popularize magic education in order to obtain a sufficient base of researchers and to select better magic talents.
And this, together with the popularization of magic items and even the process of civilianization of magic, are actually complementary to each other. Without either one, you will end up with a cripple.
Therefore, no matter how many difficulties lie ahead, Xia Duo must persist in promoting the civilian use of magic and the popularization of education.
As for the risks mentioned by Laitun, there is nothing in this world that is completely risk-free! Even if you drink water, some people will choke to death!
As long as the risks are relatively controllable and the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, that's ok.
Referring to Xia Duo's hometown, it was an electric society. Ordinary people were related to electricity almost all the time. However, as Xia Duo learned, people on earth did not have the talent to control thunder and lightning, and they would still die if they touched the electric door.
However, engineers have set up various insurance measures for electrical appliances and electrical facilities. Although hidden dangers cannot be completely eliminated, as long as the operation is standardized, the probability of accidents is very small.
The same goes for magic items. As long as the scenarios used by ordinary people are taken into consideration at the beginning of the design, and then continued to be optimized based on user feedback, you can finally get a civilian product with a high safety factor.
As for the misuse of magic items, Xia Duo is not too worried about this.
At this stage, the Great Xia Territory has not yet developed to the point where there are many types of magic items. The civilian magic items that the Territory has taken the lead in promoting are all practical tools.
For example, Xia Duo is more optimistic about the magic stove, magic washing machine, magic fan, magic cultivator, magic harvester, etc.
For the residents, these may be new at first, and they may need to be tried a few times, but once they are used more and are available in every household, they will no longer be a treasure that they keep around every day.
It's like buying an induction cooker on earth. Even when the induction cooker was just emerging, normal people couldn't keep it on all the time. They only used it when necessary.
You may look at it a few times at first, but after using it for a long time, you won't feel anything at all.
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Of course, Xia Duo did not use his own knowledge and experience to suppress Laiton's concerns. He still asked him to come to the territorial meeting to discuss with the chief officials of each department.
We haven't had a glimpse of this matter yet, at least we have to wait until Jie Yin has results that can be put into practical use. Before that, the more we discuss, the more problems we will find.
After all, experience on earth may not necessarily be suitable here.