Chapter 472: The Development of Typhon

For a long time, Daniel was not only the eyeliner that Gawain set in the Eternal Sleeper, but also the eyeliner that was set in the Typhon Empire.

Although this old mage lives in isolation, living in remote places in Typhon territory, far from the center of the empire for many years, he is still at least a Typhon, and as a mage, he must retain a bit of his power, and what he can provide The intelligence of neighboring countries is still very valuable to Gawain; on the other hand, Typhon is a fast-growing and changing country, and its remoteness is different from that of Ansu - even with information delays, Every inch of Typhon's territory will still be affected by the decree of Emperor Rosetta, and there will never be a situation where the entire southern border is almost disconnected from the hinterland of the kingdom like Ansu.

From Daniel, Gawain could learn a lot of things about Typhon, not necessarily in time, but at least more reliable than the stories made up by adventurers and bards.

Daniel is somewhat fortunate at this moment—fortunately that his female apprentice happened to go to town and brought a lot of news. He didn't dare to hide it at the moment, and told all the new news he knew: "... Rosetta Augustus was expanding his army, he had established a standing army system to replace the levy, now more than half of the army of the Typhon Empire is made up of this standing army, these soldiers will undergo professional train……"

Gawain nodded slightly while listening, and when he encountered something unclear, he would ask the old mage to stop and ask carefully.

Although he had inquired about a lot of things related to Typhon from Daniel, he still didn't know enough. The main reason was not that Daniel had concealed something before, but that the old mage himself did not know about things other than Typhon— —For him, everything about Typhon is natural common sense. If Gawain didn’t take the initiative to ask, he didn’t know the specific reporting direction, so the information provided would inevitably have gaps.

"...Emperor Rosetta recently ordered the establishment of additional schools, increased the number of teachers in the countryside, and required peasants to read and write in their spare time..."

Gawain immediately frowned and tapped the table lightly to stop the old mage: "What is the current literacy rate of Typhon civilians?"

Daniel replied respectfully: "About 40% of farmers can spell common words such as grains and farm implements, and can understand the grain harvest list, and 20% of farmers can read a simple notice or write a poor letter. This ratio It's been increasing."

"How long has literacy education been promoted?"

"Six years ago, the emperor issued an order to lift the ban on literacy for civilians, but at that time not many people took the initiative to learn to read. Until four years ago, the emperor ordered the establishment of schools and dispatched teachers, and the number of people who could read began to increase, but the civilians were really willing to read. To learn to read, or after the 'Land Contract Law' was promulgated - peasants can lease the land of the empire, and can declare and receive grain by themselves. In order to prevent being deceived and being cheated of money by scribes, more and more civilians have begun to take the initiative to recognize words. …”

Gao Wen's face was a little gloomy,

The old mage watched his expression change nervously, but in the end Gawain nodded: "Continue."

"Yes... Now there are more fire-burning acidification plants in various places. Since last year, similar acidification plants have been increasing in large numbers. Emperor Rosetta may plan to set up such..."

Gawain interrupted Daniel again: "Stop—what is the burning rock acidification workshop? Does burning rock refer to the white sedimentary rock mined offshore?"

Gawain has heard the term "burning stone". As far as he knows, this kind of thing is a special product in the coastal area, and it is especially abundant in the Typhon Empire. This kind of gray-white loose ore can be ignited, so it is called "burning stone". ”, but it has extremely poor combustion efficiency and emits a lot of irritating gas, so it is not a qualified heating and lighting material at all. Could it be that... the Typhon people have found a way to use burning stone? !

"Yes, burning stone is the kind of white stone you said," Daniel didn't know what Gawain was thinking, but he still reported seriously, "burning stone acidification was the chief alchemist of the Typhon Royal Mage Association a few years ago. It was found that after crushing the burning stone and mixing it with acid hydrolyzed stone, placing it in an airtight container and heating it at a high temperature will produce a dark brown powder and a large number of translucent crystals. The crystals are called 'grey crystals', which are slightly Valuable magic material, and those dark brown powders are called 'Abundance Dust'...and can be used to boost crops."

Gawain tapped the table subconsciously while listening to Daniel's explanation. At this moment, his tapping on the table suddenly stopped.

"Promoting crop growth?"

"Yes, watering farmland after dissolving and diluting it with a large amount of water, the effect is much stronger than that of plant ash or human and animal dung, and the burning stone is very, very cheap, and it is not complicated to process. It's just that the 'dust of abundance' comes into contact with the moisture in the air. After that, it will degenerate soon, and it is very troublesome to transport, so Emperor Rosetta ordered the construction of burning stone acidification workshops in various places, and transported burning stone to various grain producing areas for local processing..."

Speaking of this, Daniel added: "In addition, in order to transport the burning stone, Typhon is widening the road a lot..."

Gao Wen's heart was startled, but he didn't show it. He just continued to ask in a deep voice, "What is the specific operation of the workshop?"

After Daniel answered, he continued to ask a series of questions: "How many literate peasants would choose to work in the workshops? How many merchants have Typhon participated in the construction of those workshops in the past two years? How many nobles have participated in the workshops? Construction? Did Rosetta? Augustus encourage the nobles to do business after reorganizing the system? How were the roads of Typhon built? What are the specifications? How many people can one liter of fine land support now? One liter of ordinary land How many people can you feed? How many people does Typhon have?"

Gawain asked one question after another. As Daniel tried his best to answer, fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead—he didn’t know the specific meaning behind these questions, but he could vaguely realize the secret connection between these questions. , but he couldn't answer all the questions.

Although he did retain some connections in the capital, he was just a mage who was addicted to research. If Gawain asked him about Typhon's current magical achievements, he would certainly answer it fluently, but he had to ask him to answer the fields' yield, labor The size of the workshop and even the population issue...

If he can answer one-third of the things, he is already knowledgeable.

Gawain's face has become extremely gloomy unconsciously. Although Daniel doesn't know the true mind of this "foreign wanderer", he can also feel a strong pressure entering his mind along his nerve cord. After answering all the questions that could be answered, the old mage closed his mouth tremblingly, waiting for a new order.

Gawain ignored Daniel's reaction, he was now thinking about Typhon's development process.

From the beginning, he knew that Typhon was a more developed country than Anzu, and he also knew that Emperor Rosetta Augustus was implementing a series of effective New Deals, and with the growth of productivity, Typhon's society must A series of earth-shaking changes will be ushered in.

But Typhon's development still exceeded his expectations.

The Typhons did not find a way to industrialize the production of alchemy potions, but they found some cheap alternatives. The burning rock acid chemical workshop will greatly increase the food production of Typhon and release a large number of agricultural population; the professionalization of Rosetta the Great The army has gradually formed, and sufficient food supply can allow it to maintain a larger army scale, and these professional soldiers will be more fully trained; due to the liberation of the labor force, the newly born petrochemical acidification factory will have sufficient workers, and the territory of Typhon There will also be enough labor in the process of building the road...

And more importantly, Rosetta Augustus realized that literate commoners could produce greater value - from the time, the Typhon Emperor started almost immediately after the discovery of the acidification of the burning stone The advancement of education shows that the talented emperor has at least two things in mind in a very short period of time:

First, although the acidification reaction of burning stone is a product of alchemy, it does not require magical power, which means that a large number of civilians without magical talent can also engage in production work, and the rich dust they produce will be enough in a short time. The country's food production has been greatly increased.

Second, literate civilians are better at manipulating the reactor than illiterate civilians.

Gawain took a deep breath.

None of these things happened recently, but started a few years ago. However, due to the lag of information dissemination and the limitation of productivity, the construction of the burning rock acid chemical workshop has only begun in the frontier land of Typhon, while Ansu… …

Ansu knew nothing of all this.

Seeing that Gao Wen didn't speak for a long time, Daniel finally couldn't help breaking the silence: "My lord, do you need me to collect the demographic changes of Typhon in recent years? I can contact an old friend I met in the imperial capital..."

Gawain just woke up from his thoughts. He glanced at Daniel, and the many chaotic thoughts in his heart were quickly sorted out and gradually became clear.

The development of Typhon is an established fact, and for such a huge empire, the pace of development that has already begun is difficult to be disturbed and stagnant by external forces, not to mention the current situation, the Principality of Cecil has no chance to go. hinder the development of Typhon.

Amber once said a sentence: when the opponent is too strong, a poisoned dagger is better than any sword.

Although there was a sentence behind Amber, "However, oiling the soles of the feet is better than a dagger", but Gawain thought that only the first half of the sentence was enough.

"Don't worry about anything else, you take the magic web information I gave you to respond to the recruitment of Rosetta Augustus," Gawain looked at the old mage in front of him, and said very seriously, "Remember , don't take things out for the first time - first look at what stage their research has reached, see what they have on hand, and then throw out your research results little by little, and when necessary, you can give some research credit to Your apprentice. You have to gain a firm foothold in Typhon's Mages Society as you were promoted in the Order of the Eternal Sleepers, being careful not to expose yourself."

Daniel bowed his head deeply: "Yes, my lord, I will not disappoint you!"

"Yeah. After entering the mages of Emperor Rosetta, you should have more opportunities to contact their technical information. You must report to me in time, and I will have new orders for you at any time," Gao Wen pointed. Nodding, then the conversation changed, "But this will increase the risk of your exposure - your Eternal Sleeper characteristics are too obvious, although few people know the existence of the spiritual network, but your frequent access to the network itself is abnormal. Phenomenon."

"My lord, what do you mean..."

"It's time for you to increase your manpower," Gawain said unhurriedly, "I asked you to study non-implantable nerve cords and more efficient brain wave amplification devices, do you have any ideas?"