Chapter 233 Chapter 715 Talking About the Rules. Industry Serves the Public
Chapter 233 Chapter 7.15 tells the rules. Industry serves the public
At the end of the year. In a palace rich in incense.
The king met the mages like Bo Ming. The crown prince who was in power in his prime. After learning what happened to the mages, 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:
Carrette is a bit cynical, which is indeed a shortcoming, but overall he is shrewd - avoiding the worst time to enter the imperial capital. Dealing with the conflicts in the imperial capital, he used enough patience to drag out the conflicts between the various factions until they were exhausted.
only!
The king sighed: It's a pity that he is not his son, and he didn't show that he was on his side. So even though Carrette is smart, this is the problem.
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One month later,
Carret's steam train arrived at the Imperial Capital once again.
This time, there was no knight to stop him, he just helped clear the way from a distance. The horse manure on the road was thrown away by the rotation of the tracks, and the rain and dew were evenly stained. 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, it is useless to praise him for taking one step early, and it is useless to reprimand him for taking one step too late, so don't worry about him. (The boss has already deducted all your salary, why the hell are you still being polite to him?)
Carret directly handed over a copy of his itinerary to the knights, which described going to see the king the next afternoon.
Karet: The first step is to follow the procedure, which is to submit the weapons to the military department in the royal capital. At the same time, they accepted the batch of tanks left to them last time. Thinking about it, those tanks should also have malfunctioned.
Driving the tank into the broad square in front of the magnificent Imperial Military Affairs Building, a Russian-style tank phalanx marched.
The Imperial Arms Department seemed to have received the advice from above and expressed its gratitude to Carret for what he left behind last time.
But in front of the Military Affairs Building - the Earl with a bulging belly smiled at Carret and said: "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 was to pretend to be stupid, nodded and said, "Well, excuse me."
After leaving the armament 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, Karit came to the knights of the kingdom again the next day.
After seeing Wei Keng, the Nord Knight Commander had a dumbfounded expression on his face. ——After this young man arrived in the imperial capital yesterday, he attracted the attention of the whole city. The king had been waiting for him. Fortunately for him, he really followed the so-called plan after entering the city 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.
Carrette walked to the training ground and asked the name of the training knight.
Then, he took out a metal box and distributed potions to the trainee knights who had reported their names.
Compared to most magicians' potions, which are kept secret, Wei Keng wrote instructions and ingredients on them.
The raw materials are very simple, including rice, livestock liver (vitamin A), fruit juice extracted from fruits (vitamin C), and of course compounds containing trace elements such as iron and zinc.
This potion is to assist the knights in nutritionally balancing their training. Of course, there are no poisons in the raw materials, and even the paladins at the site found during testing that they were the condensation of positive life energy.
After handing over these potions, Karet said goodbye to Nord.
Nord asked: "Your Highness, what's your next step?"
Karit: "The next step, um, rest, go to the palace in the afternoon to submit the application. If your Majesty is free, then see you today. If your Majesty is not free, then I will sleep at night."
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Karet still saw the king in the evening.
When the imperial concierge asked Carrette to wait, Wei Keng almost left midway and went directly to the blacksmith shop next to him for shopping. Later, the concierge grabbed Carret and kept him from leaving, 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 smiled.
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 took out the blueprint of the potion that was previously sent to the knight training center like a master, 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.
Because matter retains quantum information, starch and starch are different. ——Otherwise, the food produced by the Food Creation Technique would not be disgusting even to the common people.
On average, the amount of various substances with high vitality information refined from one ton of grain is only about 7 kilograms 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 will not balance the growth of attributes, and it is easy to have a muscular man with high strength, but not as sensitive as an elf ranger.
Wei Keng has been thinking about the "Eating Air Project" in the past six months - how to increase the output of high-value-added edible organic matter.
In the refining of this kind of grain as raw material, Carret will never waste grain.
All links will be extracted repeatedly, and the dregs will be sent to chicken farms and livestock farms for feeding. Accumulate positive energy information for a new round of life cycle.
Wei Keng is very interested in "the forest where elves are located is easy to produce magic food". For this reason, through a lot of research, a formula for accumulating life quantum information in the food chain was summarized: each layer of the food chain will accumulate life quantum information when it loses energy during the conversion.
Industrialization is to arrange the process through formulas as much as possible to maximize the efficiency of this conversion.
Food with slightly lower life information is given to poultry and livestock, and livestock are allowed to maintain sufficient freedom in a free-range environment, so that the synthesis of organic matter in their bodies will gather sufficient life information.
In other words, after industrialization, the problem of excessive food production leading to low prices will not occur in this world.
Even if the canal is dug to increase the arable area tenfold, a large amount of fertilizer is consumed, the jungle is fenced to graze sheep and wild boars, and the river is fenced to raise fish, no matter how much food there is, it can be consumed.
Oh, there is no need to explain the problem of industrialization to his uncle, just tell him what the most significant change will be at his level after the change of the times!
Carret did not explain further, 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. So he could not substantially punish Carret for his rudeness in entering the capital this time.
In the high-dimensional monitoring space, Qin Xiaohan: "Finally, there is some self-awareness of the gods."
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After leaving the king, Carret slept for a day, and the next morning he visited the highest one in the city's arcane tower, two mages belonging to the enchantment department and the transformation department.
Mainly discussed some issues about the apprentice trial.
Carret avoided the spying of the Royal Capital Mage Tower in the heavy arcane protection, and at the same time, on behalf of his non-existent mentor, welcomed the apprentices of the Imperial Capital to go to the north to do odd jobs.
Regarding this visit, it was also hurried. After delivering information to many mages, it ended.
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This trip to the Imperial Capital ended here.
Carret returned with his steam tank. Not even one was going to stay! When the nobles who came after leaving the city gate reminded Carret if he had forgotten something,
Prince Carret at the city gate faced many kind-hearted nobles and asked in surprise: "Did you forget something? Nothing?"
After Carret left the city gate, these nobles understood in their hearts, but could only curse: "Damn, this fool is the same as his father."
Carret knew what their hint was!
The tanks originally given to the Imperial Military Affairs Department were not accepted according to etiquette, so after Carret finished his work, he calmly forgot about it.
Of course, more importantly, this time when he came to the imperial capital, he did not give any expression to the Duke of Jinren, the real power in the imperial capital.
Although the two sides were political enemies in the previous generation, if the two nobles were unwilling to maintain the scene, it would almost be announced to the outside world that they were mortal enemies, which would give a huge hint to the people standing in the following team.
As for why Wei Keng forgot,
Wei Keng: "First of all, I am too lazy to waste energy on this. My planning process allows me to be generous, but it does not allow me to compromise with feudal interpersonal relationships. If it's over, it's over. There are only limited opportunities. I will apply next time. Do you want me to ask again and again?
The reason why I took the road to the imperial capital twice. It's so troublesome. It's to let the forces related to the northern territory understand the so-called order under the public process.
The most important thing in the industrial age is the public order. Queue-jumping is the most unacceptable behavior. And people with feudal ideas are also the most fond of queue-jumping. They put their own importance and priority above the system. Since you want to come, you have to queue up. The king's arrangement also has to go through procedures for me."
Maybe Master Wei just wants to stick to the end. At the age of sixteen or seventeen, it is a rebellious age and a character that fights against heaven and earth.
Wei Keng: "As a commoner, I am a good person. But those who control public tools dare not even offend the obviously backward groups. How can public tools remain constant?"
For those superior queue-jumping spirits, we must withdraw them.
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Four hours after Carret left,
In the winter vacation residence of Count Carret, Lord Duke of Golden Blade was working in his office.
The location of Count Carret's residence was very good. The copper pipes were filled with groundwater heated by the waste heat of the magic tower a few kilometers away, making the whole room warm. This made Lord Duke feel very comfortable, so he chose this place as his office.
Duke of Golden Blade read through Carret's various actions after arriving in the imperial capital.
In general, the context of this prince is very clear. A piece of paper can record everything, and there is no conspiracy at all. Each link is very concise and short, and no transaction can be seen.
There are several boxes placed next to him.
The "potion" sent by Carret, as well as the visualization sculpture of the magic rune, and some price documents of the two are exactly the same as the conversations between Wei Keng and the local nobles during his journey south.
Duke Jinren pulled out the glass lid of a potion and took out the pill. The pill wrapped in tinfoil popped out like a metal ball.
After the evil identification, he bit the beeswax layer of the pill. The liquid, like oily mucus, entered the throat cavity. The taste is sweet but not choking, with the mellowness of wine, but not choking. After entering the abdomen, it is warm, penetrates the stomach wall, and then naturally penetrates into the skin, just like the holy healing technique turned into liquid and flowed in the body.
As a sky knight, he tasted it and determined that it was a good thing.
According to the intelligence, the price of producing such a pill in the northern arcane territory is 1.2 silver coins per ten. This is a good product for the trainee knight to stimulate the blood during the month. And taking one pill on the eve of the battle can also maintain enough energy. Judging from its positive energy properties, it is much better than those negative energy potions that stimulate the frenzy effect.
The Duke of Golden Blade has asked the pharmacist to measure such potions.
The refining method has also been 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, which can be refined.
Just as the Duke's knight said with a smile that Carret did not pay attention to the secret recipe, the pharmacist could try to use the same secret recipe to refine it,
The pharmacist looked at the price on the package and prompted: "At least one gold coin per!" This made the knights who were watching the excitement anxious and asked why?
The pharmacist said: "One gold coin is still the price of the raw materials, not counting the pharmacist's labor."
Because: This is the most basic magic potion! Not an ordinary healing medicine. All magic is calculated in gold coins.
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The advantage of industrialized pharmaceutical manufacturing is not the ingredients and secret recipes.
Instead, there are unique technologies in all processes to increase production and control costs.
Master Wei did not innovate any special potions. He only conducted theoretical research and calculations on the most common basic potions.
After the refining process, ordinary workshop-level potion masters cannot reuse the waste materials due to bacterial contamination due to the inability to control the sterility standards in production, so they are also included in the cost.
In industrialized production, the waste materials of raw materials are reused as much as possible.
More importantly, Wei Keng applied sociology to industrialized production and simplified the impact of non-technical links in all links as much as possible.
For example, the procurement of grain required for potions is not guaranteed and screened by craftsmen, but directly selects raw materials that meet the standards from the new grain every year. Those sellers do not know that what they sell is possible magic raw materials. The sales link is directly purchased and consumed by qualified people, not by specialty stores.
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This is a summary of the lessons learned from the "complexity and industrialization of rigid consumer goods" in the ancient times.
For example: marriage and love have complicated meanings for ordinary people, so the profit-making groups, like vampires, greatly increase the chain of this link.
For example, clothes, from cotton wool to design, and then to brand endorsements, every link is adding unnecessary personnel participation. In the end, the price of the finished product was hyped up ten or twenty times.
Clothes are just the most common ones. Food, entertainment, accessories, and housing are all complicated. The relevant profit-making groups call it love economy and marriage economy! In the short term, the governors saw beautiful economic data, but in fact, it increased the cost of living for everyone. Then the side effects of low birth rate and high divorce rate were attributed to industrialization and high education level of women.
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Wei Keng's concept of industrialization: in the production of rigid materials, reduce costs and reduce the profit of social business in these links.
This is imitating the spirit of "vitamin C" in the early days of the founding of the East in the ancient times! This cheap little pill in the 21st century was monopolized by imperialism with technology at that time.
At that time, the humanistic country that was praised by Yilin Reader Magazine took this opportunity to carefully harvest the whole world. Weak countries must use precious foreign exchange to buy vitamin C. If they don't, a large number of young people will suffer from diseases.
Finally, as a representative of developing countries, they independently conquered the vitamin C production line, and then updated the technology, raising the output by dozens of times, supplying 80% of the world's vitamin tablets. ——But they didn't make any money. Because they had no money for publicity, few people knew about their reputation. They were not as dazzling as the Nobel Prize, nor were they as talked about as the story of Mother Teresa.
But this is the spirit of Eastern industry, and industry serves the public.
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Wei Keng: Industry takes social integration as the first priority, and the profit target must be limited to the asset-rich class.
1.1 silver coins for ten pieces, that is, after deducting the R&D cost, the price of various production costs is now increased by 15% and sold.
1.2 silver coins for ten pieces, is to facilitate the expansion of industrial raw material production areas, that is, to enable the production of water channels and fertilizer and pesticide machines to go abroad, and to give potential partners a friendly price.
In the future, if you don't buy fertilizers, steam engines, or even Carret's bonds. The Northern Territory cannot possibly provide these areas with items at this price.
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The perspective returns to the capital.
Duke Jinren, after declining 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 it: the 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 duchy will gain further autonomy within the empire, or they want to advance further in their own ducal hierarchy.
This is something that will inevitably happen under the feudal system. The old people are loyal to their ranks, while the young and middle-aged people will do whatever it takes to jump up the ranks.
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In the past, unless the king was strong, energetic, and experienced, there would be no problems. Otherwise, strong ministers and weak monarchs will 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, Carrette filled the tank's pressure valve and started racing!
This kind of drag racing activity has a complete set of road planning.
Sufficient fuel and consumable parts were stored in various road stations, and planes were allowed to clear the way ahead in advance to remind relevant business groups to make way for them.
Motorized cross-country vehicles at 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 clouds 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. But the motivation to set a record outweighed everything else.
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. There are also quails in the grass who are so frightened that their heads burrow into the soil but their buttocks are exposed and they are trembling.
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 singing! ——The reputation points recorded by the system are soaring.
Standing on the tank, Karet watched the trees and slopes in front of him getting closer and closer, and then threw them behind him from the side. He took a deep breath and opened the observation perspective of the etheric world.
The vehicle beneath my feet now seemed legendary, a reflection in the ether.
legend! That will last forever in the spreading of information. In the future, when these cars are dismantled, they will also exist in the etheric world. And as people in the future race to a certain speed, there is a chance that they will see this fast car for the first time in the industrial era.