Chapter 1,474 The Kingdom of Silk
It has been twelve years since Leonardo returned. In the end, a certain magician did not leave, and the news was regarded as a farce. But he also took advantage of the situation and escaped from everyone's attention, disappearing behind the stage of history.
However, the 'legacy' left by the great magician Guybrash Tripwood—repeatedly emphasizing that people are not dead yet—is still fermenting on the Lost Continent. Although many things have developed to the point where people have long forgotten who the original initiator was, and everyone only pays attention to the matter itself.
But there are exceptions to this situation. For example, this summer, in the Haider Empire that straddles the equator on the Lost Continent, the most important institution in the Kingdom of Silk, one of the vassal states, is the Mulberry Garden.
Silk products have been the exclusive industry of the Country of Silk for a long time. Even though mulberry trees and silkworms have been known for a long time. But the most important silkworm seeds have not been leaked out, and the Haider Empire is its backer. If other places want to steal this technology, they have to consider whether it is worth offending an empire.
If it were placed in an ancient time that traveled through many hometowns, other big and small countries would steal it. The country of origin may not know about this kind of thing in the first place. By the time the matter cannot be covered up, it will be too big to handle.
But in Lost World, even before the forum, the circulation of information was not that convenient. But with continent-level transnational organizations such as the Adventurer's Guild, the Mercenary Guild, and the Magician's Association, the lack of intelligence is not as severe as it was in someone's hometown in ancient times.
More importantly, Lost Land is a world with great personal power.
In the ancient times of someone's hometown, if you wanted to travel a long distance to a distant country to cause trouble, either a large army would set out and only one out of ten would return home, or a big country would be dragged to death by military expenses.
But in Lost Land, all it takes is a few strong men to destroy fixed facilities such as silkworm breeding grounds. Relatively speaking, assassinating a specific target is relatively difficult.
This kind of technology has no commercial value until it reaches scale; once it reaches scale, it becomes a very eye-catching target. Facing the special operations assault by strong men, there is almost no resistance.
Over time, other countries and nobles no longer considered the issue of producing their own silk. After all, no one can accept a large amount of investment only to have it completely destroyed before it can be recovered.
Even if you can rebuild, you still need to consider whether the cost of constant rebuilding is worth the investment. Compared with reconstruction, the cost of destruction is too low.
And this is different from the poison in a certain time traveler's hometown. Although no one does the loss-making business and some do the beheading business, the most important thing about drugs is that they are addictive. Once you get addicted to it, you will consume it until you die. This can be regarded as a long-term business with huge profits.
Although silk can be regarded as a hugely profitable industry, it is just a luxury product. It is not addictive and has many alternatives. So in reality, no one is willing to continue to rebuild the silk industry that is destined to be destroyed.
The arrogance and violence of the Haider Empire are the biggest reliance on the Kingdom of Silk to appear to be transcendent. Of course, behind the scenes, the protection fee that should be paid is not small. Otherwise, why should an empire protect its vassal states? Why not just annex it.
However, the monopoly that had been maintained for so long was still broken. In an unexpected way.
In the Gwana Empire, a kind of magic silk appeared in the holy city of Estali. This is a direction that the Kingdom of Silk has been trying to reach, but has never been able to make a breakthrough.
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Although the output of magic silk is not large, the clothes produced are also quite special, similar to the traditional clothing of a certain ethnic group in the Kingdom of Silk. But these sets of clothes are extremely powerful magical equipment, and can even be used directly as armor to protect the body from swords.
Even though the output of clothes made from magic silk was not large, the effect was so powerful that those who were lucky enough to use it showed it off, and people followed it, and things became so popular.
If the maker is an ordinary person, or a skilled craftsman, then there will be all kinds of overt and covert means. Even if you don't snare people, you should at least get a few works from them. No matter how small the output is, there are still ways to think of it.
But the reality is that with a former demon king sitting in charge, most people don't dare to make mistakes.
Another key magician was so powerful that he could confront the three Lords of Holy Light alone and eradicate the grand duchy of an empire. Those who want to engage in conspiracy should really consider whether they are worthy enough to be touched by others.
Of course, silk monopolies like the Kingdom of Silk and the Haider Empire cannot remain silent about someone's actions. That kind of gameplay of strong men raiding, they actually came several times, and then they all ended up with no return, and the opponent suffered no losses...
This was the reason why people from the Kingdom of Silk later visited, hoping to use national-level pressure to force the magician to surrender.
It was a series of accidents that the members of the Holy Sword Society joined their ranks and then took action. The strong men sent secretly in front were all so heartbroken that it made people feel sad. Who would want to fall out with that magician?
The result of still failing in the end was infuriating at the time. But after the southern incident in the Karlsruhe Empire, those anger turned into a fluke.
Fortunately, the magician didn't go crazy, otherwise the Kingdom of Silk would definitely be gone, and the Haider Empire wouldn't be in a good mood. Even if you don't care about the country behind you, you will definitely bear the brunt.
This was the thought shared by those who had stood up and tried to exert pressure. They were on the front line at that time.
However, this does not mean that the Kingdom of Silk and the Haider Empire will just settle down, let alone give up the benefits that magic silk can bring. Besides continuing the clueless research, the easiest way is to find someone next to the magician.
Threats and inducements are two eternal weapons. But you still have to be careful and make subtle moves to avoid awakening the two ferocious beasts and bringing disaster to yourself. The intelligence personnel of the Haider Empire were very skilled at this delicate operation.
After continuous efforts, the people of the Haider Empire finally found a breakthrough and obtained a complete set of reeling and jacquard machine designs, as well as the usage ratio of various magic moth types of silk threads.
It's a pity that with the magic combination attached to the silk, they only got two or three sets of templates for outsiders to use.
Not to mention the designs of Xuanwu robes and four spirit costumes that are comparable to artifacts, even the costume designs used by the people around the magician, the Haider Empire was unable to obtain them.
And even if it is a basic foreign trade design, at this stage, they do not have the ability to change the design.
Someone never thought about the issue of popularization, so he never thought about making the operating system stupid. Many design changes require direct changes to the underlying code, rather than simply using menus to select everything.
Therefore, in order to understand the entire process of making magic silk, the p language that a certain magician once made public is a hurdle that cannot be bypassed.
The programming language on the magic side has actually received much attention in the past twelve years, and has even cultivated a number of talents. Forum plug-ins and other gadgets are all the work of these people.
But how can something that someone uses for themselves be the same thing as something that is published. I don’t know how many versions of the p language have been revised internally, but the public version has always been the original version.
Therefore, the secret factory established in the mulberry garden of the Kingdom of Silk can currently only produce two or three types of magic silk. The weaver girls in the Kingdom of Silk can only make differences in height, shortness, fatness and thinness in the tailoring, but cannot change the type of magic added.
Compared with making reeling machines and jacquard machines that no one understands the principles of, another equally troublesome thing is the cultivation of silkworm seeds.
There is a specific type of silkworm that can be used to make silk threads, and this type of silkworm is not native to Midi. It was brought over by the predecessors of the Kingdom of Silk. I thought that as long as this silkworm species was well controlled, the silk production technology would not be leaked out.
However, someone used the most unfavorable method of scientific experiments - the exhaustive method, trying to find the moth species suitable for making silk from the original moth species in Midi. And not only looking for ordinary moth species, but also focusing on magic moths.
And Lin integrated the ideas of material science into the production of silk threads. A record of the characteristics of silk threads produced with different moth species ratios was left behind. This is an idea that those weaver girls in the Kingdom of Silk who are resting on their laurels have never had.
All along, the silk of the Kingdom of Silk has not remained static. But they focused their change on post-processing techniques such as weaving and embroidery, as well as improvements in silk reeling and looms. For silkworms, they respect them like gods and take care of them with great care.
Therefore, someone's treasonous practice of using cocoons of other moth species to extract silk threads made many old people in the Kingdom of Silk want to kill people. It's a pity that I can't beat it. So everyone just stopped talking.
Now I have someone’s design for reeling and jacquard machines, as well as the recipe for moth seed thread. Looking at these things, would anyone be content to just find other moth species as a substitute, or think that they can get the same effect by using only silk moths?
In the imitation stage, of course, all aspects must be exactly the same to be considered imitation. The main purpose is to confirm whether the relevant craftsmanship is in place based on the degree of completion between the imitation and the original product.
Unless there is a technical gap and it is difficult to improve and catch up. Otherwise, those who confidently say that they need to improve even though they are not exactly the same, and claim that they are better than others, are either mentally retarded or liars.
Although the people of the Kingdom of Silk are a little stuck in rules, at least they know how to do things down to earth. So while the craftsmen in the country were stumbling to build that incredibly delicate jacquard machine, they were also trying their best to collect specific moth species from various places and cultivate them.
It's okay to say that those ordinary moths are not a big problem if they are all treated as silkworm moths.
But those magic moths are not that simple. Demonic insects containing powerful powers are a minor trouble for adventurers.
Whenever you encounter something in the wild, the best way is to use a fire to deal with it. But to capture it alive, it must not be too damaged, and the difficulty will be increased by more than several times.
After catching these magic moth species, how to raise them is another big problem. There is no such part of the parenting experience in the information available. Because the people who started it didn't think about this issue.
Fortunately, most of the creatures with the prefix "Demon" are meat-eaters. People in the Kingdom of Silk still have this common sense.
After solving two major problems and conducting another trial weaving successfully, there was a celebratory dinner.
However, the murder of the three hero brothers, the pamphlet left behind, and various contradictions have dampened the celebration mood of the Country of Silk.