Chapter 7.15 Tell the rules. Industry serves the public
At the end of the year. In the palace with strong incense.
The king met the mages like Bo Ming. This young man in power had a crown. After learning about the mages' plight, he used magic stones to appease them and at the same time proposed at the kingdom meeting that "Carret will be punished."
In a private meeting, the middle-aged king made the following evaluation of his nephew's performance:
Carret is a bit cynical, which is indeed a shortcoming, but overall he is shrewd and avoided the worst time of entering the imperial capital. He dealt with the conflicts in the imperial capital and used enough patience to drag out the conflicts between the various factions.
Exhausted.
only!
The king sighed: It's a pity that he is not his son, and he has not shown that he is on his side. So even though Karit is smart, this is a problem.
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One month later,
Carret's steam train arrived at the imperial capital once again.
This time, there were no knights to stop them, they just helped clear the way from a distance. The horse manure on the road was thrown out by the rotation of the tracks, and the rain and dew were evenly soaked. Carret sat on the steam car and looked through his plan.
Meeting the king is necessary, but not the most important. When the territory has been taken back, meeting him early is a useless compliment, and meeting him late is a useless reprimand, so don't worry about him. (The leader has already treated you.
His salary has been deducted, why the hell are you still being polite to him?)
Carret directly handed over a copy of his itinerary to the knights, which described his visit to the king the next afternoon.
Karet: The first step is to follow the procedure, which is to submit the weapons and equipment to the military department of the royal capital. At the same time, they will accept the batch of tanks that were left to them last time. Think about it, those tanks should also have malfunctioned.
The tank drove into the broad square in front of the magnificent Imperial Military Affairs Building, and a Russian-style tank phalanx marched.
The Imperial Arms Department seemed to have received the above opinion and expressed its gratitude to Carret for what he left behind last time.
But the earl with a bulging belly in front of the Military Affairs Building said to Carret with a smile: "Your Highness, the Military Affairs Department is currently waiting for His Majesty's orders."
The words seemed to remind Wei Keng.
Wei Keng's reaction to this was to pretend to be stupid, nodded and said: "Well, excuse me."
After leaving the armaments department, Carret recorded the words "rejected" in a small notebook with a black pen, and then drove the tank convoy away.
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After taking a leisurely sleep, Carret came to the knights of the kingdom again the next day.
After seeing Wei Keng, the Nord Knight Commander had an expression on his face that he couldn't laugh or cry. After this young man arrived in the imperial capital yesterday, it attracted the attention of the whole city. The king has been waiting for him. It's good for him, he really followed the instructions
After entering the city, the so-called plan came step by step.
Carrette didn't say anything, just looked at the trainee knights training on the playground in the distance, and handed the Nord knight captain an instruction for the use of the magic potion.
Carret walked to the training ground and asked the names of the training knights.
Then, he took out a metal box and distributed potions to the trainee knights who had reported their names.
Compared with the secrecy of most magician's potions, Wei Keng wrote the instructions and ingredients on it.
The raw materials are very simple, including rice, livestock liver (vitamin A), fruit juice extracted from fruits (vitamins), and of course compounds containing trace elements such as iron and zinc.
This potion is nutritionally balanced to assist the knights in their training. Of course, there are no poisons in the raw materials, and even the paladins in the field discovered during testing that they are a condensation of positive life energy.
After handing over these potions, Karet said goodbye to Nord.
Nord asked: "Your Highness, what's your next step?"
Carret: "The next step, um, rest, go to the palace in the afternoon to submit the application. If your Majesty is free, then I will see you today. If your Majesty is not free, then I will sleep at night."
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Karite still saw the king in the evening.
When the imperial concierge asked Carret to wait, Wei Keng almost left midway and went directly to the nearby blacksmith shop to go shopping. Later, the concierge grabbed Carret and did not let him leave, and accelerated the reporting process.
Otherwise, this young master of Karite will make the king wait for a day.
After meeting the king, Carret's explanation was: "The teacher told me that the most precious thing as an arcanist is time."
When the king heard this answer, he laughed.
Before the king made things difficult, Carret added: "The way to make time always effective is to keep your own rhythm."
Of course, there is no time to talk nonsense with this uncle.
Carret acted like a master and took out the blueprint of the potion that was previously sent to the knight training center, and introduced the basic function of the potion to the king, as well as the shipment volume.
This way of admitting that he is ordinary but confident is just like the speech he gave to farmers and businessmen along the way.
Wei Keng: "As long as you practice your social skills, well, you won't have stage fright in front of these cold antiques."
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Wei Keng's medicine is extracted from grain.
Since matter retains quantum information, starch and starch are different. Otherwise, the food produced by the Food Creation Technique would not be disgusting even to civilians.
On average, the amount of various substances with high vitality information refined from one ton of grain is only about 7 to 23 kilograms.
For a knight, it is impossible for him to eat ten kilograms of food in one meal, so he can only eat meat. However, eating meat has an unbalanced growth in attributes, and it is easy for a strong muscular man to appear, who cannot be as agile as an elf ranger.
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In the past six months, Wei Keng has been thinking about how to increase the production of high value-added edible organic matter through the “gas-eating project”.
In the refining of this kind of grain-based raw material, Karite will never waste grain.
All links will be extracted repeatedly, and finally the residue will be sent to chicken farms and livestock farms for feeding. A new round of positive energy information accumulation in the life cycle will begin.
Wei Keng is very interested in "magic food is easily produced in the forest where elves live". To this end, through extensive research, he summarized a formula for the food chain to accumulate life quantum information: when each layer of the food chain loses energy during transformation, it will accumulate
Quantum information of life.
Industrialization means arranging processes through formulas as much as possible to maximize the conversion efficiency.
Feed food with slightly lower life information to poultry and livestock, and allow the livestock to maintain sufficient freedom in a free-range environment. The synthesis of organic matter in their bodies will gather enough life information.
In other words, after industrialization, the problem of low prices due to excessive food production will not arise in this world.
Even if we dig rivers to increase the arable area tenfold, consume a lot of chemical fertilizers, enclose jungles to raise sheep and wild boars, and enclose rivers to raise fish, no matter how much food we have, we can still consume it.
Oh, there is no need to explain the issue of industrialization to my uncle. Just tell him what the most significant changes will be at his level after the times change!
Karet did not give any further explanation, but the King learned a piece of information: this year, his Knight Academy apprentices will benefit from the batch of potions brought by his nephew. Therefore, he could not actually punish Karet.
It was rude to enter the royal capital this time.
In the high-dimensional surveillance space, Qin Xiaohan: "Finally, there is some self-consciousness from the gods."
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After coming out of the king's house, Karet slept for a day, and the next morning he visited the tallest arcane tower in the city, two mages belonging to the enchantment and transformation systems.
Mainly we discussed some issues regarding apprenticeship trials.
Carret avoided the prying eyes of the mage tower in the royal capital through heavy arcane protection, and at the same time, on behalf of his non-existent mentor, he welcomed the apprentices in the imperial capital to go to the north to do odd jobs.
Regarding this visit, I was also in a hurry. I conveyed information to many mages and it was over.
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This trip to the imperial capital ends here.
Carret returned with his own steam tanks. He was not going to leave any of them! After driving out of the city gate, the nobles who came reminded Carret if he had forgotten something.
Prince Karite, who was at the gate of the city, faced many well-meaning nobles, and asked in amazement, "Did you forget something? Is it nothing?"
After Carret left the city gate, these nobles understood in their hearts, but they could only curse: "Damn it, this fool is just like his father."
Caret knows what their cues are!
They followed the etiquette and refused to accept the tank that was originally given to the Imperial Ministry of Military Affairs. So after Carret finished his work, he calmly forgot about it.
Of course, what's more important is that when I came to the Imperial Capital this time, I didn't give any indication to the Duke of Golden Blade, the powerful faction in the Imperial Capital.
Although the two sides were political enemies in the previous generation, if the two nobles are not even willing to maintain the situation, then they will almost declare to the outside world that they are mortal enemies, which will give a huge reminder to those who take sides below.
As for why Wei Keng forgot.
Wei Keng: "First of all, I'm too lazy to waste energy on this. My planning process allows me to be generous, but it doesn't allow me to compromise on feudal interpersonal relationships. Once it's over, it's over. There are only limited opportunities. I'll wait for the next application. Could it be?
Are you still asking me to beg you again and again?
The reason why it was so troublesome to take the road to the Imperial Capital twice was to let the forces associated with the Northern Territory understand the order under the so-called public process.
The most important thing in the industrial age is public order, and queue-jumping is the least allowed behavior. People with feudal ideas also like to jump in line. They put their own importance and priority above the system. If you want to do it, then you have to
Queuing up, the king’s arrangements also have to go through the procedures with me.”
Perhaps Mr. Wei just wants to go all the way. At the age of sixteen or seventeen, he is a rebellious age and has a fighting personality.
Wei Keng: "As a common citizen, I am a good person. But those who control public instruments do not even dare to offend obviously backward groups. How can public instruments be maintained constant?"
Those who are superior to others and jump in line must be withdrawn.
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Four hours after Carret left,
In the winter vacation residence of Count Carlo, Lord Golden Blade was sitting in his office working.
The location of Count Carlo's residence was very good. The copper pipes were filled with underground water heated by waste heat from the magic tower a few kilometers away, making the whole room warm. This made the Duke feel very comfortable, so he moved the office location
I chose here.
The Duke of Golden Blade read through Karet's various actions after arriving in the imperial capital.
Overall, the context of His Royal Highness is very clear. One piece of paper can record everything, so clean that no conspiracy can be seen. Each link is very concise and short, and no transactions can be seen.
There were several boxes placed next to him.
The "potion" sent by Karet, the visual sculpture of the magic rune, and some price documents for both were exactly the same as the conversations Wei Keng had with the local nobles during his journey south.
The Duke of Golden Blade pulled out the glass lid of a potion and took out the pills. The pills wrapped in tin foil popped out like metal balls.
After the evil identification was correct, he bit into pieces the beeswax layer of the pill. The liquid, like oily mucus, entered down the throat. The taste was sweet but not strong, with the mellowness of wine, but not choking, and it warmed the abdomen after entering it.
It penetrates into the stomach wall, and then penetrates into the skin naturally, just like the holy healing magic turns into liquid and flows in the body.
As a sky knight, he tasted it and decided it was a good thing.
According to the information, the price of such a pill produced in the Northern Arcane Territory is 1.2 ten silver coins. This is a good product for the trainee knight to stimulate his blood during the month. And taking one pill on the eve of the battle can also maintain enough
Energy. Judging from its positive energy attributes, it is much better than those negative energy potions that stimulate the madness effect.
Duke Golden Blade has asked the pharmacist to measure such a medicine.
The refining method was also figured out. After all, Wei Keng, as a conscientious businessman, adheres to the standards of the food industry and puts all the raw materials on the list.
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The pharmacist claimed: This is the most basic positive energy medicine that can be refined.
And just when the Duke's knight said with a smile that Carret didn't pay attention to protecting the secret recipe, the pharmacist could try to refine it with the same secret recipe,
The pharmacist looked at the price on the package and reminded: "At least one gold coin!" This made the knights who were watching the excitement anxious and asked why?
The master pharmacist said: "A gold coin is still the price of raw materials, not counting the pharmacist's labor."
Because: this is the most basic magic potion! It is not an ordinary healing potion. The price of any magic potion is calculated in gold coins.
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The advantage of industrialized pharmaceuticals is by no means ingredients and secret recipes.
Instead, we have unique technologies in all processes to increase production and control costs.
Mr. Wei did not innovate any special medicines. Instead, he only conducted theoretical research and calculations on the most common basic medicines.
After the refining process of ordinary workshop-level pharmacists, because the production cannot control the sterility standards, the waste materials are contaminated by bacteria, so they cannot be reused, so the cost is included.
In industrial production, the waste of raw materials should be reused as much as possible.
More importantly, Wei Keng applies sociology to industrial production and tries to simplify the impact of non-technical links in all links.
For example, the procurement of grain required for medicine is not specially guaranteed and selected by craftsmen, but raw materials that meet the standards are directly selected from new grains every year. Those sellers do not know that what they are selling is possible magic raw materials. And the sales link is directly made by
Qualified people are free to shop and consume, not in specialty stores.
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This is a summary of the lessons learned in modern times about the complexity and industrialization of urgently needed consumer goods.
For example: marriage and love have complex meanings for ordinary people, so profit-making groups are like vampires, greatly increasing the chain of this link.
For example, clothes, from wool to design, to endorsement, unnecessary personnel are involved in every step. In the end, the price of the finished product is increased to ten or twenty times.
Clothes are just the most common. Food, entertainment, accessories, and housing are all complicated. The relevant rentier groups euphemistically call them love economy and marriage economy! In the short term, managers see beautiful economic data, but in fact
It increases the cost of living for everyone. Then the side effects of low birthrate and high divorce rate are attributed to industrialization and the high level of education of women.
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Wei Keng's concept of industrialization: reduce costs in the production of rigidly needed materials and reduce the profit-making of social businesses and private parties in these links.
This is to imitate the spirit of "maintainment" in the early days of the founding of the East in modern times! This cheap little pill in the 21st century was monopolized by imperialism through technology at that time.
At that time, the humanistic countries that were praised by Yilin Reader magazine used this to carefully harvest the world. Weak countries had to use precious foreign exchange to buy vitamins. If they did not buy, there would be a large number of young people suffering from the disease.
Finally, as a representative of developing countries, he independently conquered the vitamin production line, then updated the technology, increased the output dozens of times, and supplied 80% of the world's vitamin pills. However, he did not make any money because he had no money for publicity.
, even its fame is rarely known. It is not as dazzling as the Nobel Prize, and it is not as talked about as the story of Mother Teresa.
But this is the spirit of Eastern industry, industry serves the public.
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Wei Keng: Industry puts social integration first, and profit targets must be limited to the wealthy class.
1.1 Ten silver coins are sold at a 15% mark-up on various production costs after deducting research and development costs.
The price of ten silver coins, 1.2 coins, is to facilitate the expansion of industrial raw material production areas, that is, to allow the production of water canals and fertilizer and pesticide machines to go out, and to provide potential partners with affordable prices.
In the future, if we don’t buy fertilizers, steam engines, or even Caret’s bonds, it’s impossible for the Northern Territory to provide these areas with items at this price.
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The perspective returns to the royal capital.
The Duke of Golden Blade, after rejecting today’s lunch,
He took the time to read all the information that Carret had done in the past two days, silently recited the old king's name, and said slowly: "An Luoxi, your grandson is a good heir."
Various factions in the imperial capital may not believe that this Duke is still a loyal minister of the royal family at heart.
This powerful duke made the nobles of all sizes in the royal capital automatically draw closer to him.
And his sons and daughters also hope that the principality will gain further autonomy within the empire, or they want to advance further in their own ducal rank.
This is something that will inevitably happen under the feudal system. The old people are loyal to the hierarchy, and the young and middle-aged people will do anything to jump up the hierarchy.
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In the past, unless the king was strong, energetic, and experienced, there would be no problems. Otherwise, a strong minister and a weak king would always make it difficult for the country to adapt.
As a knight of the old king, the Duke of Golden Blade wanted to choose such a successor for the empire.
The contradiction is that this excellent minister has too high standards for the king, and the current king seems incompetent and has insufficient authority.
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On the way back, Carret filled the tank's pressure valve and started racing!
This kind of drag racing activity has a complete set of road planning.
At various road stations, sufficient fuel and consumable parts were stored in advance, and planes were allowed to clear the way ahead in advance, prompting relevant business groups to make way for them.
Motorized cross-country vehicles with a speed of forty kilometers per hour were not fast in the post-industrial era, but in the contemporary era, these mechanical behemoths, each weighing several tons, formed a roaring formation, raising large amounts of smoke and dust on the dirt road, making the passers-by
The business group was trembling, but looked at the express convoy with great curiosity.
From morning to afternoon, every mechanic's buttocks were numb. However, the enthusiasm to set a record overshadowed everything.
The straight-line distance of 500 kilometers from north to south must be completed in five days. Thinking about this makes me excited.
The loud noise of the vehicles caused the sluggish caravans on the road and the farmers in the fields on both sides to lie down and watch. The quails in the grass were so frightened that their heads dug into the soil and their buttocks were exposed and trembled.
The lightning-fast speed gives apprentices in the Northern Territory the pleasure of being at the forefront of the times.
This return is also a song! The reputation points recorded by the system are soaring.
Standing on the tank, Carret looked at the trees in front of him. The soil slopes were getting closer and closer, and then they were thrown behind him from the side. He took a deep breath and opened the ethereal observation perspective.
The vehicle underfoot now seems to have become a legend, forming a reflection in the ethereal world.
Legend! It will last forever in the spreading of information. In the future, when these cars are disassembled, they will also exist in the etheric world. And as people race in the future to a certain speed, there is a chance to see this first fast car in the industrial era.