Chapter 797 [0785] Northern Processing Industry
"You are still as sharp as ever." Looking at Jilan with a confident face, Kalya shook his head gently, "But you guessed wrong this time - it was really just an example."
After a pause, Kalya added.
"Compared to the void, the astral realm is often a better and more typical example."
"Maybe it's true, but it's definitely not all true." Jilan completely ignored Kalya's explanation and continued to talk to himself, "Based on my understanding of you, I'm afraid a plan related to the astral realm is already brewing or even ready. Has anyone told you that many of your behaviors are similar to those of demons?"
Kalya was stunned by Jilan's words, and then he couldn't help showing an expression of disbelief.
"Are you saying I'm like a demon?"
"In some ways," Jilan corrected, "It's not such a bad thing, but to be honest, I think you could be more honest."
"Stop it." Kalya waved his hand, "I'm really just giving an example. There aren't many examples I can give about space theory..."
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No matter what Jilan said, Kalya insisted that he was really just "giving an example" and had no special plans for the astral world.
In the end, Jilan could only shake his head helplessly and said, "You always have a plan."
Apart from this small, not-so-interlude episode, Kalya's special teaching can be said to be very smooth.
Space magic is very profound and difficult to understand.
But if the main goal is to create a seal and just simply learn the basic theory and application, then everything will be simple.
Although the participants had no foundation in space magic, they all had a good foundation in magic. Even the original axiomatic elementalists who cast spells in a very formulaic way had to have their own unique insights into magic theory at the level of the great elementalists. Those who could become great elementalists had amazing learning abilities.
Even though the magic theory foundation of these great elementalists was actually very weak, their learning ability allowed them to draw inferences from one example and their learning progress was very fast.
In Karya's teaching with the astral realm as an example, one theorem after another about space magic was explained and applied. On this basis, the application of the sealing barrier for space isolation gradually entered the practical stage.
When the great elementalists and Ekassia mages who participated in the study were finally able to try to create a space isolation barrier, Karya quickly opened another class and began to analyze the space shielding theory with them.
Combined with the various records of the Ixtal Forbidden Zone, they analyzed and studied this special space shielding barrier left by Nezuk.
This was destined to be a difficult task.
Even if it was just simple learning without any expansion, it would take a long time.
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When Karya taught her about space magic, Shyvana was an auditor at first and listened with great interest.
However, as the teaching content became more in-depth, Shyvana began to visibly fall behind.
Although Karya told her that it was not a shameful thing, after all, space magic talent was rare, and Shyvana's own theoretical foundation was too weak, it still made her quite frustrated.
Learning slowly and not understanding at all are not the same concept.
In this case, Karya simply decided to give her a vacation - anyway, the teaching here plus the subsequent seal would probably take several months, so let Shyvana go back to Demacia, send a letter to Lux, and relax at the same time.
Shyvana readily accepted this. She couldn't stay here any longer, and Karya's communication with Demacia had been interrupted for a long time. Ixtal was relatively closed, and he didn't know what happened outside the rainforest. At this time, it was perfect for Shyvana to go to Demacia and pass on the news.
In this way, Shyvana left Ixtal with Kalya's letter and flew towards Demacia.
This was a long but not difficult journey.
Shyvana first went north until she arrived at Kumangla. After crossing the Valoran Strait, she flew west along the coast and soon arrived at White Cliff City and entered Demacia.
Interestingly, although Shyvana did not spend most of her time in Demacia in the past thirty years of her life, in her opinion, Demacia is the place she is most familiar with and most at ease.
After entering Demacia, it seemed that the wind became warmer.
Compared with when she left, Demacia has not changed much - due to the incident in the Howling Abyss of Freljord, Lux cautiously slowed down the process of internal reform. In addition to the complete economic transformation in large cities such as the Great Capital and Tobysia, she finally redistributed the land in the vast rural areas and did not have time to deepen the reform.
Of course, even if it was "only" a redistribution of land, it was enough to win the unanimous welcome of the vast majority of farmers in Demacia.
Although the manpower was increasingly scarce as one went south, and the land distribution in many places was not as thorough as in the north, and was not completely organized by the law enforcers and clerks, for the farmers who got the land, this was enough to make them enthusiastically join the new order of Demacia.
Even though they still had doubts about mages, and even though they had not yet realized the advanced nature of magic in production due to incomplete economic reforms, they still happily accepted everything when the mages were brainwashed into becoming new nobles.
Lux herself was somewhat amused and confused about this situation.
The aristocracy of mages was something she had always tried to avoid. Although the power of magic was strong, if it was not properly utilized and guided in many ways, this power could also become a further obstacle for Demacia. If it were not for the increasing intelligence in the north proving that the threat of the void was brewing, she would definitely not have relaxed the pace of rural economic reform in the south of the Demacia Plain so easily.
But what she never expected was that, unlike the situation in Xiongdu, the aristocracy of mages did not cause any trouble in the south of the Demacia Plain - the magicians and clerks obviously looked down on the country bumpkins in the south.
Lux really never expected this situation.
Although the differences between the north and south of Demacia have reached a very alarming level due to the past ten years of operation, the traditional agriculture in the south and the prototype of the magic industry in the north are indeed a world apart... But the situation that the magicians and clerks completely look down on the south and regard the Demacia Plain, which was once regarded as a fertile land, as a pure granary still surprised Lux.
However, after changing his mindset, Lux quickly understood the reason.
Compared with the prototype of magic industrialization in the north, the traditional agricultural planting industry in the south does seem to be a bit... unattractive in terms of economy.
In the past ten years of operation, the northern border of Demacia has already had a complete textile, leather, construction, shipbuilding, and metallurgical industry system. After the establishment of New Demacia, the runestone manufacturing industry has also been put on the agenda.
These industries rely on the northern trade system, absorbing theories and harvesting gold coins from all over the Rune Land like water, allowing a large number of northerners to leave agricultural production and enter the city.
Today, many cities in the North have already shown a trend of becoming industrial cities. Even many small cities that look inconspicuous may be important processing centers for a certain industry. The docks along the canal flow in a large amount of raw materials and outflow a large amount of finished products every day.
In this case, the overall profit margin of the North is very high.
Although the use of magic in the production process is not unique in Runeland now, it is also a very rare situation. In terms of production efficiency, even if it is just a prototype of magic industrialization with magic as the basic tool, it can completely crush traditional manual production.
Even Lux herself did not realize at the beginning that when New Demacia was established and the military industrial engine began to gradually shut down, various factories in the North that used to be popular because of military orders had begun to use the North trade network to dump goods in order to consume their amazing production capacity!
In fact, if Shyvana was more careful, she would find that Demacia textiles had appeared in many cities along the Valoran Strait.
This is a very exaggerated situation, because it means that after Demacia imports raw materials, processes them, and then transports them to the local area through the Northern Trade, the price still has a huge price advantage compared to the local textile products.
Behind this exaggerated phenomenon is the embryonic form of the Northern Magic Industry, which ruthlessly crushes the original economic system.
After the implementation of the Northern Integration Strategy, Demacia's shipbuilding industry began to take off, and a large number of ships were launched like dumplings. However, as the water advantage was fully established, the navy's orders soon disappeared. The well-staffed Northern shipyards quickly focused their energy on civilian ships, directly hitting the price of ships to the bone.
The direct impact of the reduction in ship prices is the reduction in sea transportation prices.
As the second largest trading port in Runeland (the largest port is the New Port of Vazuan, without a doubt), New Port has a large number of merchants traveling here. When New Port offers cheap shipbuilding services, merchants who want to expand the size of their fleet will naturally consider gritting their teeth and buying a few more ships to expand the scale of trade.
As a result, the shipping costs of the sea trade routes where the North trade is located have shown a significant downward trend, and the prices have also begun to rise.
The reduction in sea freight prices has directly made it possible to import raw materials and export finished products.
With the military industry showing a clear shrinking trend, the factories in the North have independently developed the raw material import and processing industry.
It is interesting to say that since the beginning of the North trade, the raw material import and processing industry has already taken shape - Fosbyro bought cheap fur from Freljord, used magic means to efficiently process it in the fur processing factory, and then sold it to various regions of Runeland by sea.
In this process, Fosbyro, in addition to the role of a middleman, is also an important processor in the fur industry. Even under the unremitting promotion of Lux and Sona, the special brand of North Fur was born. Any fur products that want to obtain this certification must come from a qualified fur processing factory.
From the beginning, Kalya knew that Fosbyro was not Vazouan. No matter how good New Port was, its geographical location could not compare to the key to the Valoran Strait, so relying solely on trade was far from enough.
With the "enlightenment" of the fur processing industry, when the shipping price began to drop sharply, a large factory responsible for weaving sails, after finding out that the price of sails was a bit too low and the profit itself was really insufficient, held an internal meeting after learning about the price of cotton cloth along the Valoran Strait from a large number of sea merchants.
This was a large meeting witnessed by clerks, and all managers and technical backbones were present. After comparing the data in detail and confirming the technical capabilities, this textile factory that used to specialize in the production of sails officially decided to transform.
The sails are too rolled, let's spin cotton cloth!
It is undoubtedly a very accidental thing that a sail factory decided to transform into cotton cloth weaving-because in the entire North, there are many factories that specialize in cloth processing in the North's integration strategy. Although these factories are very professional, they just didn't expect to focus on textiles themselves and put their products and sales on shipping trade.
These more professional factories are still eyeing the "vast market in Demacia". After the establishment of New Demacia, they are thinking about selling clothes from the North to the South!
It was this sail factory, which had found that weaving sails was not profitable due to the serious price involution in the shipbuilding industry, that opened up its mind and started to engage in pure import and export processing.
In this way, relying on the relationship in the shipyard, they contacted many sea merchants and established a cooperation plan with them, specializing in importing cotton raw materials from Shurima, and then selling the processed cotton cloth to the coast of the Valoran Strait.
Although the sea merchants' first reaction after hearing about this cooperation plan was "Are you kidding me? The transportation cost is so high, it will be a loss every minute", but due to the good business reputation of the North, they, as transporters, finally signed a trade order with the guarantee of the clerk.
In this way, this "ordinary" sail factory improved the machines used to produce large sails in the past and officially used them for cotton cloth processing.
What people never expected was that the cotton cloth processed by these sail factories, although it had gone through a round trip of raw materials and products by sea, was still lower than the local cotton cloth when it arrived at the cities along the Valoran Strait!
Karya's small class · Magic application in the sail manufacturing industry:
In the sail factory in the north, when weaving large sails, they would hire a wizard to weave a "sail net" with elemental magic first, and then carry out modular weaving on this basis, which is extremely efficient and has an amazing yield rate.
After the sail factory was converted into a textile factory, this aspect was also used in cotton cloth processing. Although the cotton cloth with cotton net is a bit rough, the price can be said to be quite cheap.