Chapter 798 [0786] Active Economy

Calculating the time, it has only been a year since Lux entered the capital.

For the vast southern region of Demacia, this year has only given them a more direct and clear impression of the new emperor.

Although a large amount of land that once belonged to the nobles was distributed to the civilians, which made the people quite agree with the new emperor, but other than that, the lives of the southern farmers did not seem to be much different from the past.

Except for working harder, their lives did not seem to have changed much.

However, in contrast, the magic industry in the north, which was gradually taking shape, was rapidly transforming as military orders decreased.

The production capacity that suddenly exploded due to military industry soon poured into the civilian industry after finding a new market.

The first to open up sales was the textile industry.

After the sail factory transformed into a textile factory and made a lot of money, many related factories in the north began to learn to transform.

Those who make sails, woolen cloth, and military uniforms all began to lean towards civilian fiber textiles.

Among them, the use of sail net technology to incorporate magic production into the normal production process, like the sail factory, combined with the high organizational advantages of the North, crushing the original handicraft textile industry, is only the most basic means.

The more advanced ones are the silk textile industry and the woolen industry.

As we all know, there have always been two main production areas for silk textiles in Runeland: Ionia and Nashramae. Both Ionian silk and Nashramae silk are "fist products" in international trade and are very important luxury goods.

Although both Ionia and Nashramae sell raw silk, and the price of raw silk is not too expensive compared to silk, but because the raw silk textile industry has always been very dependent on skilled workers, the silk woven and cut ready-made clothes elsewhere are often inferior to the products of Ionia and Nashramae in terms of appearance and quality.

Therefore, except for the above two places, silk products elsewhere can often only be regarded as miscellaneous brands, belonging to others in the silk market, and have no market recognition at all.

However, when a large number of factories in the North responsible for military orders began to seek transformation, the silk industry was soon targeted.

The one who targeted this industry was the Guardian Textile Factory in Xinfu City. The main work of this textile factory in the past was to provide various clothing, shoes and hats for the Guardians.

Does the Guardian Textile Factory have silk processing technology and skilled silk workers?

No.

However, after the previous sail factory successfully transformed into a cotton textile factory, the Guardian Textile Factory soon realized that the greatest competitiveness of the North was not in the original technology track, but in the special technology that was not available in the old production model after magic was applied to production.

The sail factory used the sail net technology used to strengthen the sails in cotton textiles, relying on the help of mages to manufacture sail nets to improve the quality of cotton cloth, and lowered the price through the mature industrial environment in the North, directly crushing a number of cotton textile factories.

Then why can't we also use our own advantages?

What are the advantages of the Guardian Textile Factory?

It must be magic pattern jacquard!

You know, the robes of the Guardians... they all need to be enchanted!

In handicraft production, enchantment is usually done after the garment is finished. The enchanter either embroiders with special silk threads or draws with dyeing pigments, leaving channels on the surface of the garment for the flow of magic power to achieve the purpose of enchantment.

However, in Xinfu City, with the implementation of the northern integration strategy, the Guardian Textile Factory has well incorporated this work directly into the silk weaving process.

In order to improve the enchantment efficiency of the robe, a Guardian technical team studied in the textile factory for more than five months, and finally developed a solution to pre-treat the magic pattern in the process of silk weaving by jacquard.

The silk obtained by this jacquard weaving method, as long as it is cut in the prescribed way, the finished product will have an enchantment effect directly, and there is no need for the enchanter to slowly process it manually afterwards.

Although the enchantment quality of the robe obtained in this way is slightly inferior to that of manual enchantment, the price of the enchanted robe has dropped significantly, and the enchanter is only needed when designing the jacquard, and the production efficiency is even more crushing.

In the past, this technology was only used in the production of Archon-related clothing, and the Archon Textile Factory's customers were only Archons and Northern Walkers, and others did not have much demand for this.

However, as ideas were opened up, the silk jacquard enchanted textile technology soon had a new market.

Shurimans!

As we all know, the climate in Shurima is very hot. Even in the coastal cities of northern Shurima, the climate is mainly dry and hot, and the summer is even more unbearable.

In the past, this place has always been a major consumer of silk in Runeland. People with wealthy families would send silk robes to enchanters for enchantment to achieve the effect of micro-air conditioning, making them cool and comfortable after wearing.

Now, when the Archon Textile Factory set its sights on this market, they quickly relied on the silk jacquard enchanted textile technology to experimentally produce a batch of Shurima-style enchanted robes.

Although these robes are certainly not as close-fitting as the Shurima custom-made ones, and the enchanted patterns are not as harmonious as the Shurima custom-made ones, compared with the handmade products of the Shurimans, their prices are cheap!

In North Shurima, except for raw silk producing areas like Nashrame, the cool silk robes from other places, no matter how cheap they are, are priced at more than two gold hexes - and they have to be second-hand goods. After all, asking an enchanter to enchant a robe requires him to patiently spend a long time embroidering on a robe slowly.

In the entire embroidery process, if any step goes wrong, the overall enchanting effect will be greatly reduced.

Therefore, things like enchanted robes are pure luxuries in Northern Shurima. It is already a big deal for ordinary people to have plain woven silk robes. More Shurimans often wear solid-color cotton robes. !

However, the jacquard enchanted cool robes produced in the North have directly set the price straight to the bone.

Yes, you can say that it is a bit ugly, the weaving level is not as good as that of local craftsmen, and the tailoring is far less suitable than the customized version.

But it's cheap!

The price of the northern style cool robe is as low as one gold hex. This bone-breaking price directly and fundamentally increases the number of consumers!

Although their raw silk processing technology is far inferior to that of the Ionians who have a long history of silk production, they can directly "enchant" silk garments through magic pattern jacquard, directly integrate silk reeling and tailoring, and use high-end The magic pattern jacquard silk crushes ordinary unenchanted robes, directly achieving the purpose of expanding the market and dislocating competition.

A new product with one gold hex and a second-hand product with two gold hex have completely different audiences. In the past, many people who could only afford ordinary plain woven silk robes now only need to grit their teeth. , you can buy a cool robe for three to five times the price of a plain woven robe...

So why not buy it?

Even if it's not close-fitting or pretty enough, it's cool!

One of the most important features of silk jacquard enchantment technology, which was first used in the production of military uniforms, is reliability!

As a result, the cool robes produced in the north, called "Northern Clothes" by the locals, were quickly recognized by the Shuriman people and began to enter the Shuriman market on a large scale.

Since Forsbarrow itself does not produce silk, raw silk is completely dependent on imports. Therefore, with the emergence of Beiyi, the scale of raw silk trade has also begun to increase. Large-scale raw silk exports have even squeezed the local textile industry, forcing The local silk fabric manufacturing industry and enchantment industry began to develop towards high-end development.

But the problem is... in terms of high-end products, silk fabrics are also being targeted by the North.

Eyeing them was the Forsbarrow Special Enchantment Factory, which was also facing the pressure of "converting military into civilian".

Most of the workers in this factory are skilled workers, and their main job is to perform special enchantments on the equipment of the Regulators and Northern Walkers.

Different from the Royal Textile Factory, during the Northern Integration Strategy, they were mainly responsible for high-end enchanting work, such as the mask of the Dragon Bird Knight. They needed professional enchanting work, which they were responsible for.

After the successful transformation of the Master Textile Factory, the Special Enchantment Factory also started thinking about it.

When it comes to mass production and affordable products, they are indeed not good at it.

But when it comes to high-end enchantments... their advantages can be said to be huge!

Relying on a group of skilled enchanting workers in the factory, coupled with the rich variety of commodity resources brought by the northern trade, this imaginative enchanting factory has specially launched a kind of magic for the Shuriman people. A product that makes people feel crazy.

Chilly robe.

Cold, as the name suggests, means cooler than cool.

So what’s with the cold robe?

It's very simple. It probably relies on the Zhenbing processing technology that Xinfucheng has explored during the coin minting process, and uses Zhenbing pigments to enchant the robes.

Perfect ice enchantment, absolutely cold!

Due to the characteristics of Zhenbing, cold robes do not need lightweight silk as a carrier. The special enchantment factory directly chose the relatively mature woolen industry in the north to use wool to make the robes that Shuriman people like, and then used it mixed with The dye of Zhenbing powder is used for enchantment printing.

After the North's Zhenbing gold coins were issued, the processing of Zhenbing waste has become a very important task. Enchanting with pigments made from Zhenbing and blue ocher powder is the specialty of the special enchantment factory.

Now apply it to woolen robes, changing the enchantment content from protection, windproof, etc., to cooling, which is even easier.

When Beiyi gradually opened up the market in Shurima, the special enchantment factory took advantage of this trend and launched its own cold robe. Once it was unveiled, it quickly shocked the jaws of the Shurima people.

To be honest, even during the Shurima Empire, no one had done this - who the hell would use Zhenbing to enchant?

If it were not for the Zhenbing pigment, the cooling effect of the cold robes would soon disappear, but because of the Zhenbing, these robes would be able to maintain low temperatures for at least fifty years!

Although due to the characteristics of woolen products, these robes cannot be as loose as the local Shuriman robes, and the style is also very different from Shuriman tradition, and many relatively conservative Shuriman people cannot accept it.

But similarly, in the eyes of other Shuriman people, these slim-fitting robes are very "cool"!

Don’t forget, Shurima is now in an era where conservatism and innovation meet.

The glory of the Shurima Empire in the past has not completely dissipated. There are still people waiting for the return of the emperor. The orthodoxy of the Shurima Empire is still the strongest claim in this land.

But the Battle of Nashrameh not long ago also proved that the now divided Shurima is no longer the glorious empire. Today's Shurima needs to change and rise again.

In this case, the Shurimans' acceptance of foreign things has been significantly improved compared to before. This is reflected in their daily lives. The "rebellious" clothing such as the cold robe has been recognized by many young Shurimans. They believe that now is the time for Shurima to change. If it does not change, Shurima may really fall behind Runeland.

There are more than one or two military-to-civilian projects such as silk weaving and woolen weaving in the North.

After the establishment of New Demacia and the North's integration strategy became the Demacia integration strategy, many factories that used to expand their production scale by relying on military orders are now in urgent need of a new market to satisfy their appetite and digest their production capacity.

After the success, they quickly looked at other places in Runeland along the Northland trade network like arteries. Based on the various civilian products that are in urgent need in various places, relying on the unique production model of magic and production in the Northland, and the relatively mature industrial system, they began to try to overtake in various corners from various novel and brain-opening angles.

In these overtakings, the industrial model in many places in Runeland is suffering from huge competitive pressure. Although the military-to-civilian conversion in the Northland has objectively expanded the market scale, it is also squeezing the production space of many other people. Industrialized production, especially magic industrialized production, is terrible compared to traditional handicraft production.

However, what is more exaggerated than this is that as the factories began to make profits, a new trend began to brew.

After the successful conversion to civilian use, these factories soon became dissatisfied with the current production conditions and instinctively began to seek a broader market and cheaper raw materials!

A sleeping monster finally opened its eyes slightly.