Chapter 405： : Productivity and a crooked technology tree

Even Zong Shen has a lot of money now.

But it will not ignore the increase in capital brought about by business expansion.

Zong Shen's goal is very clear. He wants the territory to urbanize as quickly as possible.

This can be seen from the fact that he instructed Mariel and Howie to make forward-looking plans for the territory.

His plan for the territory is not like Chen Rui's, honestly entering the village level.

Zong Shen has higher development requirements for himself and his territory.

For this reason, he even made the territory skip the village level and planned directly according to the standards of the state city level.

Bangcheng is already a standard city.

The difference between it and the giant city is more in scale and volume.

At this stage, as long as Zong Shen can take the lead in letting his territory reach the state city level.

Both population circulation and productivity levels can be greatly improved.

The state level is considered a large platform for territorial development.

According to the development trajectory of ordinary lords, it takes seven or eight years or even more than ten years of hard work to develop into a state city.

This development time has been increased by more than ten times compared with the aboriginal people.

For those aborigines, ten years is not too long.

Normally, it will take at least a hundred years for the development of a state city to take shape.

Only two or three generations of construction and development can build a state city.

And during this period, we can't experience any changes.

In contrast, the speed of development of the lords is absolutely shocking.

Ten years is not worth mentioning in this world of swords and magic.

Some longevity species simply sleep for more than ten years during their growth period.

But for Zong Shen, ten years is still too long.

His goal is to develop the territory into a state city in six months to one year.

It has a dominating population of more than 100,000 and fighters of more than 5,000 of all ranks.

In order to achieve this goal, he must not only draw population and resources from surrounding villages and Bangcheng.

Even ready to start with the giant city of the aborigines.

At the same time, it will develop and operate in neighboring states.

Wait until Zong Shen has his own aerial riding beast.

With the previous group or even multiple groups of [100-kilometer teleport], you can go back and forth quickly.

Use different state cities as nodes to purchase industries and place teleportation arrays.

Further accelerate the exchange and integration with the indigenous people.

If you want to develop as quickly as possible, you must obtain more resources and population within a unit time.

Zong Shen knew this very well in his heart.

His goal is very firm.

That's why he will not give up any opportunity to increase his strength.

The same applies to the requirements for territorial material reserves.

What he wants to build is a city, not just a settlement.

A state city that can accommodate a population of 100,000 or even hundreds of thousands is not like the current territory.

The resource consumption required for simple construction is an astronomical figure.

Not to mention there are many problems involved.

During this period, Zong Shen had to carry out a territorial reform.

First give all soldiers and farmers the status of free people.

Soldiers pay military salaries on a monthly and grade basis.

Farmers allocate land and basic production materials so that they can operate on their own.

In the early days, the territories would take the lead in purchasing those crops and providing pay-for-work jobs.

After completing the reform of the territory, the productivity of the territory can be rapidly increased.

What Zong Shen had to do was simple, he wanted to revitalize the pool of water in his territory.

The productivity of the indigenous people in this world is actually not high.

This is not because of conditions.

In fact, in this continent's civilized history that has gone on for thousands of years and tens of thousands of years.

Throughout the rise of the human kingdom.

The problem of polarization is particularly serious. It even splits all the civilizations of this continent into two different worlds. Under the magnificent shadow of the top of the superstructure, most ordinary people still lead a hard life like the Middle Ages.

The current human kingdoms in the continent are in such a state.

The wealth and materials of those with vested interests have overflowed.

But the productivity level of the lower level is also not high.

In fact, this is entirely a situation deliberately promoted by the rulers.

Such a vast territory has a population of hundreds of billions.

According to the ruling structure of the pyramid.

Even if the lower class is always in a state of low productivity, it is enough to support the upper class.

After all, the quantitative ratio between the two is almost thousands of times different.

On average, almost every nobleman and wealthy businessman is supported by thousands of civilians.

Their wealth can be gathered quickly and accumulated more and more.

The level of productivity and those military forces are dangerous goods that need to be strictly controlled.

Once there is a large-scale skyrocketing, it will surely cause class turmoil.

Greatly weaken the authority of the ruler.

This is a situation that all kings and emperors will not allow.

Only a low level of productivity can maintain a low level of desire.

Only by controlling the desires of the low-level residents within a certain threshold can the kingdom be stabilized.

But for Zong Shen, with the loyalty of the lord system, he doesn't need to worry about it.

He does not need to be "stable", but only needs to be "fast", "strong", and "rich".

With reference to the development experience in the earth, he must revitalize the entire territory as soon as possible.

Fully mobilize all the enthusiasm of every leader.

There are many areas that can be reformed.

At the same time, this world's magic technology, rune skills, and various extraordinary powers beyond the earth can also be used.

It's just that in this world, the products of all kinds of magic energies and wizards are not close to the people.

Take the most basic [Elementary Mana Core].

In dinar, it is worth the work of an ordinary aborigine for one or two years.

These magic products and rune products are often used in the military or to improve the quality of life of those nobles.

The civilians don't need to think about it.

The cheapest in the world is probably the civilians.

So the science and technology trees in this continent are actually crooked.

Mana and rune technology are like castles in the air. Advanced is advanced, but it is destined to not be popular.

So Zong Shen had an idea in his mind.

He can try to replicate the technological route of the earth in this world.

Those "high-precision" things may not be considered for the time being.

But he can study some things that can quickly increase productivity.

When it comes to productivity improvement, we have to talk about steam engines and internal combustion engines.

The nature and function of these things are similar to [Magic Core].

But steam engines and internal combustion engines do not rely on the power of magic.

In addition, there are gunpowder and large-scale farming techniques.

Zong Shen is worth studying.

But before that, Zong Shen must know as much as possible about the properties of this world.

Look for something that has the same physical properties as the earth.

Only in this way can we reproduce the products of the earth.

In this continent, many things on the earth actually have similar existence.

But it is still a commonplace question, these things often have the influence of magic.

Just like gunpowder, the early gunpowder on the earth only needed to mix sulfur, charcoal, and saltpeter in proportion to produce energy.

There is also something similar to gunpowder in this continent.

Known as "magic gunpowder."

They used a lot of sulfur, carbon powder and mithril, supplemented by various magic materials and magical support.

The dwarves and goblins are good at making magic gunpowder.

The dwarves use powerful rune forging technology to create a rune musket that can withstand the impact of magical gunpowder explosions.

Through the impact force of the explosion of magical gunpowder, the enchanted metal projectiles with "breaking armor" and "penetrating" were shot out.

These projectiles often have the speed and power far better than bows and arrows.

It can penetrate three layers of standard light armor and a layer of thick metal armor at one time.

Almost as powerful as the arrows of Tier 4 crossbowmen.

The fly in the ointment is that the rate of fire of the Rune Fire Wall is far inferior to the bow and arrow.

Even the general hand crossbow is inferior.

At that time, the dwarf musketeers often formed a musket formation in three teams.

Each squad took turns shooting, and the rest of the squads were loaded and prepared.

Ensure that the firepower will not be interrupted.

Except for the issue of rate of fire and cost, the rune musket has almost nothing wrong with it.

An ordinary dwarf can become a Rune Musketeer after a little training.

The goblins, on the other hand, took a completely different route from the dwarves.

Those goblin engineers and alchemists also studied magic gunpowder.

And obsessed with its explosive properties.

Take this as the main research direction.

Eventually created the famous "goblin bomb" on the mainland.

There are also all kinds of fancy explosives.

Before Zong Shen got a batch from Boswell.

Such as the liquid [explosive sweetheart].

There are also various types of [Goblin Bomb], [Acid Bomb] with corrosion damage and the most common [Mining Detonator].

According to the power, they are divided into different models.

These bombs came in handy when Zong Shen dealt with the spider web monster group.

These explosives that ignore the enemy and ourselves can often cause a lot of damage to that kind of group of enemies.

As for the other thing that Zong Shen had touched, it was the so-called [Magic Cannon].

It is a pure magic product.

By compressing magic energy, it releases an energy body that can explode, which is used to kill the enemy.

All in all, after the territories are further developed, Zong Shen still has a lot to reform.

The same is true in the field of scientific research.

At present, the talents related to the territory are the only dwarf uncles who have mastered advanced blacksmithing techniques and some rune forging techniques.

He needs to collect some talents who are proficient in magic technology, rune technology, alchemy technology, and engineering.

These talents are often only found in giant cities.

Those magic workshops and various craft workshops in the giant city usually have such talents.

Zong Shen stood in the [market] thinking for a while.

After this batch of warm quilts went on sale, it could be regarded as a solution to one of his concerns.

According to his estimation, this batch of quilts should be sold out within two days at the latest.

That is what he predicted before, within the first day of the second phase.

If this batch of clothing is sold out, the various resources obtained will be able to fully meet the construction needs of the territory for a long time in the future.

Zong Shen recovered, put away the thoughts and plans in his head.

After turning around, he was stunned.

As his body turned, the "簌簌" fur coat fell down.

In just ten minutes, the ground outside [Market] has accumulated more than ten centimeters of snow.

Under the blowing of the north wind, even a layer of snow accumulated on the corners of the building.

Zong Shen looked around, and the territory was white.

The whole land is like a white tulle.

This is the mighty power of nature.

The snow outside is still falling.

This level of snowfall can be called a blizzard on the earth.

The snow has not increased, and the temperature has experienced a sharp drop at the beginning of the snowfall.

Now it has gradually stabilized.

In this weather, the visibility is very bad.

Moreover, with this amount of snowfall, large-scale snow accumulation will occur in less than a day.

At that time, it will simply be difficult to move.

Zong Shen wears armour all over his body and wears [Rabbit Fur Boots] and [Rabbit Fur Leggings] on his feet.

She was wearing the [exquisite bearskin coat (blue)] that Mariel brought from home.

Coupled with his strong physique, this makes him not feel cold at all.

And he also wore a battle helmet, which cut off most of the snow and cold wind.

He simply took off his battle helmet and exposed it to the wind and snow.

In less than a minute, his head and face were covered with snowflakes.

Especially those hairs on the lips and eyebrows are covered with a layer.

Because of the body temperature on the face, it can quickly melt snowflakes.

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Zong Shen stretched out his hand and wiped his face, the cold touch refreshed him.

This also gave him a clearer understanding of the first stage of Winter.

Then Zong Shen stepped away from the [market] and walked into the lord's courtyard.

Walking on the soft snow, returned to the lord's small building.

Looking back, a series of obvious footprints were left along the way.

Zong Shen stood on the steps outside the small building and stepped a few times.

The snowflakes attached to the rabbit fur boots and calves were shaken off.

Only then entered the living room on the first floor.

The beautifully decorated door was closed easily.

Shut out the wind and snow.

Luna had already fulfilled Zong Shen's previous instructions, sitting in the hall, napping with her arms around the panther.

It's much warmer in the small building than outside.

In this kind of winter, once in a warm and dry environment, it is easy to make people feel sleepy.

Zong Shen looked at Luna who closed her eyes and breathed slightly, and a gentle smile appeared on her face.

He couldn't help slowing down his steps and movements, and tiptoed towards Luna.

Not a few steps away, Black Panther opened his eyes lazily and stared at Zong Shen.

Luna's elven ears quivered slightly, opening her dim eyes.

As the Huntress of the Dark Night, although she has transformed into a hero-level talent.

But the corresponding alertness and talent have not disappeared.

"grown ups…"

"you are back."

Luna quickly regained consciousness.

Called softly.