Chapter 407 Productivity and a Crooked Technology Tree 【Seeking Monthly Pass】

Even Zong Shen is now rich.

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

Zong Shen's goal is very clear, he wants to make the territory into urbanization as soon as possible.

This can be seen from the fact that he instructs Mariel and Howie to forward-plan the territory.

His planning for the territory is not like Chen Rui's, he honestly entered the village level first.

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

For this reason, he even let the territory skip the village level and planned it directly according to the city-level standards.

Bangcheng is already a standard city.

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

At the current stage, as long as Zong Shen can take the lead in letting the territory enter the state city level.

Both population circulation and productivity levels can be greatly improved.

The city level is regarded as a large threshold and a large platform for the development of the territory.

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 more than ten times higher than that of the aborigines.

For those Aboriginal people, ten years is not too long.

Normally, it takes at least a hundred years for a state city to develop into shape.

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

And there can be no mishaps during this period.

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

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

When some longevity species are in the growth stage, they may simply sleep for a period of more than ten years.

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 a year.

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

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

Even ready to attack the giant city of the aborigines.

At the same time, it will develop and operate in the surrounding state city.

Wait until Zong Shen has his own airborne beast.

With the previous group or even multiple groups of [100-kilometer-level teleportation arrays], you can quickly travel back and forth.

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

Further accelerate the communication and integration with the indigenous peoples.

If you want to develop as soon as possible, you must obtain more resources and population in unit time.

Zong Shen understood this very well.

His goal is very firm.

Therefore, he will not give up any opportunity to increase his strength.

Including the requirements for territorial material reserves.

He was building a city, not just a settlement.

A 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 mere construction is astronomical.

Not to mention that there are a lot of problems involved.

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

First give all soldiers and farmers the status of freemen.

Soldiers are paid monthly and in grades.

Farmers distribute the land and basic productive materials and let them run their own business.

In the early days, the territory was the lead to buy those crops, and provide jobs on a pay-for-work basis.

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

What Zong Shen has to do is very simple, he wants to revitalize this pool of water in the territory.

The productivity of the world's indigenous people is actually not high.

This is not because of constraints.

In fact, in the civilization history of this continent, which lasts for thousands of years and tens of thousands of years.

Take a look at the rise of the human kingdom.

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

The major human kingdoms in the continent are all in this state.

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

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

In fact, this is entirely a situation that the rulers deliberately facilitated.

Such a vast territory with hundreds of billions of people.

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 those upper classes of interests.

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

On average, every noble and wealthy businessman is almost supported by thousands of commoners.

Therefore, their wealth can be quickly pooled and accumulated more and more.

Productivity levels and those military forces are dangerous goods that need to be strictly controlled.

Once there is a substantial surge, it will inevitably lead to class unrest.

Greatly weakens the authority of the ruler.

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

A low level of productivity is required to maintain a low level of desire.

Only by controlling the desires of the bottom dwellers within a certain threshold can the kingdom be solid.

But for Zong Shen, he has the loyalty of the lord system, so he doesn't have to worry about it.

He does not need "stable", only "fast", "strong" and "rich".

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

Fully mobilize all the enthusiasm of every citizen.

There is a lot of room for reform.

At the same time, the magical energy technology, rune skills, and various extraordinary powers beyond the earth can also be used in this world.

It's just that in this world, the products of all kinds of magic energy and magic guides are not affordable to the people.

Take the most basic [primary magic energy core] as an example.

In terms of dinars, it would be worth a year or two of work by an ordinary aborigines.

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

Civilians don't have to think about it.

The cheapest people in this world are probably civilians.

So the technology tree in this continent is actually crooked.

Magic energy and rune technology are like castles in the air. Advanced is advanced, but it is destined to be unpopular.

Therefore, Zong Shen already had an idea in his mind.

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

Those "sophisticated" things can be ignored for the time being.

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

When it comes to the improvement of productivity, it has to say steam engines and internal combustion engines.

The properties and functions of these things are similar to [Magic Energy Core].

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

In addition, there are gunpowder, large-scale farming technology.

These are all places worth studying by Zong Shen.

But before that, Zong Shen had to understand the properties of this world as much as possible.

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

In this way, the products of the earth can be reproduced.

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

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

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

There is also something similar to gunpowder in this continent.

It's called "magic powder".

They use a lot of sulfur, a little carbon powder and mithril, supplemented by various magical materials and magic support, and they are made.

Dwarves and goblins alike are good at making fel powder.

The dwarves used the powerful rune forging technology to create a rune musket that could withstand the blast of magic powder.

Through the impact of the explosion of magic powder, the metal projectiles enchanted with "pierce armor" and "penetration" are shot out.

These projectiles tend to be far faster and more powerful than bows and arrows.

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

It is almost comparable to the arrow power of a fourth-order bowman.

The fly in the ointment is that the rate of fire of the Rune Musket is far less than that of the bow and arrow.

Not even a normal hand crossbow.

The dwarf musketeers at that time often formed a musket formation in three teams.

Each squad takes turns shooting, and the rest of the squads reload and prepare.

Make sure the fire is not interrupted.

Aside from the rate of fire and cost, the Rune Gun has few problems.

An ordinary dwarf can become a rune musketeer with a little training.

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

Those goblin engineers and alchemists also delved into fel powder.

And obsessed with its explosive properties.

This is the main research direction.

Eventually, the famous "Goblin Bomb" was created.

And all kinds of fancy explosives.

Zong Shen got a batch from Boswell before.

Such as the liquid [Grumpy Sweetheart].

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

They are divided into different models according to their power.

These bombs came in great use when Zong Shen dealt with the spider web monsters.

These explosives, ignoring both the enemy and the friend, can often cause a large amount of damage to the group of enemies.

As for another thing that Zong Shen has come into contact with, it is the so-called [Magic Cannon].

It's pure magic.

It compresses the magic energy and releases an energy body that can explode, which is used to kill the enemy.

All in all, after the further development of the territory, 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 only the dwarf uncles who have mastered advanced blacksmithing skills and some rune forging skills.

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 handicraft workshops in the giant city usually have such talents.

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

After these batches of warm quilts were put up for sale, one of his concerns was resolved.

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

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

If this batch of quilts are all 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 came back to his senses and put away the thoughts and plans in his head.

After turning around, he froze in place.

As his body turned, snowflakes fell on his fur coat.

In just ten minutes, more than ten centimeters of snow had accumulated on the ground outside the [market].

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

Zong Shen looked around, the territory was completely white.

The whole land seemed to be covered with a white gauze.

This is the power of nature.

The snow outside is still falling down.

This level of snowfall can be called a blizzard on Earth.

The snow did not increase, and the temperature experienced a sudden drop at the beginning of the snowfall.

Now it has gradually stabilized.

Visibility is very bad in this weather.

And with this amount of snowfall, it doesn't even take a day for a large-scale snowpack to appear.

By then, it would be impossible to move.

Zong Shen is fully armored, with [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 made him not feel cold at all.

And he also wore a battle helmet, which blocked most of the snowflakes and cold winds.

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

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

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

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

It made his face wet.

Zong Shen reached out and wiped his face, the cold touch lifted his spirits.

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

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

Stepping on the soft snow, he 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.

Shake off the snowflakes attached to the rabbit fur boots and calves.

This is how he entered the living room on the first floor.

He slammed the beautifully decorated door behind him.

Keep the wind and snow out.

Luna has completed Zong Shen's previous instructions, sitting in the hall, dozing off with her arms around the black panther.

It is much warmer inside the building than outside.

In this cold winter, once you are in a warm and dry environment, it is easy to make people sleepy.

Zong Shen looked at Luna, who closed his eyes and let out a slight breathing sound, with a gentle smile on his face.

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

Just a few steps away, the black panther opened his eyes lazily and stared at Zong Shen.

Luna's elf long ears also trembled slightly, and she opened her somewhat hazy eyes.

As the night queen hunter, although it has been transformed into a hero-level talent.

But the corresponding alertness and talent did not go away.

"grown ups…"

"you are back."

Luna quickly regained consciousness.

Called softly.

There is a burglar at 3am.