Chapter 799 [0787] Halter

When Shyvana returned to the capital of Demacia and wanted to tell Lux what happened in Ixtal, she was unexpectedly disappointed.

The new emperor, who was supposed to stay in the capital, was in Fosbyro at this time - Lux ran to the North!

This was not because she was not used to staying in the capital, but because the snowballing speed of capital in the North had completely exceeded Lux's expectations, and she had to step on the brakes quickly.

In fact, Lux had anticipated the possible results of military-to-civilian conversion after the military industry was rolled out.

Long before the establishment of New Demacia, she had discussed this issue with Kalja. After the trip to Vaz'an, Lux was fully aware of the negative impact of large-scale industrial production.

When the desire to grab profits becomes a huge mouth of the abyss that swallows everything, even human nature will be distorted. In Kalja's words, "This thing is much greedier than Tam."

However, even though she was mentally prepared, she couldn't help but feel a little frightened when the military-to-civilian industry in the North began to develop at an astonishing speed and showed its political inclinations.

It is hard to imagine that when Demacia had just been unified, New Demacia had just been established, and southern Demacia was still dominated by agriculture, many factories in the North were already trying to influence Demacia's national strategy through money, leveraging industry associations and relevant clerks.

Specifically, many people in the North hoped to use redemption or contracting to establish large-scale state-owned farms in the vast plains south of Demacia.

It's true that the land was divided.

But you might as well not grow the divided land yourself, but give it to the state-owned farms for unified cultivation and management. Farming doesn't require so many people. Wouldn't it be great if you all came to the factories in the North to work as extra workers?

According to them, doing so would improve the efficiency of food production on the one hand, while incubating Demacia's still somewhat weak agricultural machinery processing field; on the other hand, it would also liberate a large number of people who depend on the land.

Farming?

What's the future of that? Let's all go to the factory!

Considering the living standards, the workers in the north are indeed better than the farmers in the south, so this idea seems to have no problem and is a completely feasible development direction.

But Lux is very clear that if this is really done, the result will definitely not be what it "seems".

First of all, the southern farmers' support for New Demacia almost entirely comes from the land they have just been allocated. If this is done now, even if the most moderate way of contracting the farmland in the hands of farmers to form a farm is adopted, it will inevitably cause large-scale dissatisfaction.

Unlike the north, the south of Demacia, especially the Demacia Plain, has a long agricultural tradition.

The Demacians living here have been farming for generations, and they have accumulated their savings from farming, built armor for the most talented children, bought war horses, and then sent them to the barracks to fight for a noble birth with swords and guns.

This is the most typical Demacia-style class transition path.

The rapid fall of Jarvan IV and the collapse of the rule in the southern region were indeed mainly due to military failures, but the later spread of the message was also closely related to the blocking of this channel.

Tradition is not something that can be changed simply.

Lux can achieve reforms in the North through relatively radical means. The subjective reason is that she has a group of law enforcers who are willing to devote themselves to construction, and the objective factor is that Fosbyro and the North are the poorest places in Demacia, and the locals do not live well, so once there are results, everyone is more willing to follow Lux.

If the policy promotion efforts of the North are rashly extended directly to the South, the result will inevitably lead to large-scale resistance-when the clerks cannot go deep into various parts of the South, the result can only be that the government orders are not implemented and other grassroots forces take the opportunity to expand.

Did those who proposed this idea really not think of this?

It is possible.

But it is also possible that even if they thought of it, they didn’t really care that much.

In fact, after the establishment of New Demacia, the people of the North who had completely turned over had a sense of pride in their hearts.

Even though Lux repeatedly ordered to ban the new nobles and to promote the unity of Demacia, in reality, many people in the North still had the mentality of "following the dragon's merit" and looked down on the South from the bottom of their hearts.

Unity?

What is there to unite a group of farmers? Their ideas are outdated!

Moreover, the previous battles have proved that they are not the opponents of the people of the North at all, so even if doing so may cause some trouble in the South... what does it matter?

Even darker, many clerks in the South began to add fuel to the flames. After all, if state-owned farms were really established, the power in the hands of the clerks in the South would be greatly increased. At that time, they could completely transport the farmers in the South to the North as a "resource" and become the controller of this resource.

After hearing this voice, Lux became alert almost immediately.

Lux, who had witnessed the split between Piltover and Zaun, instantly realized that this was a very dangerous signal.

Because the essence of this plan was to systematically exploit the farmers in southern Demacia.

Lux himself fully understands the need for more labor in the northern factories.

He also sincerely believes that Demacia should not have the current agricultural population, and that southern Demacia needs an economic reform.

However, this economic reform should not be carried out in this way.

In fact, compared to the north, many areas in the south are also very suitable for establishing large-scale magic industrial production.

Compared with absorbing a large number of laborers and using the southern region as a labor export area, Lux prefers to split some northern industries and move the industries suitable for the south to the south.

For industries such as fur, shipbuilding, mining, and metallurgy, the north is closer to the raw material production area. If the environment is suitable and the cost is controllable, it is naturally better to produce in the north.

But there are also many industries that are more suitable in the south.

In the fields of agricultural product processing, oil processing, commodity textiles, civil engineering, etc., some northern factories and industries can be split and started again in the south.

This is the way to think from the perspective of Demacia as a whole.

In Lux's opinion, although the situation in Freljord is a bit bad now and the threat of the void is gradually emerging, overall, the external environment of Demacia is very relaxed.

So he should plan the overall situation from the perspective of the entire Demacia. He does not need to let the northern industry run at full capacity, but let the magic industry flourish throughout Demacia.

Although the effect of doing so in the short term may not be as good as the model of "the initial formation of the environment in the north + the abundant labor force in the south", from a long-term perspective, it can allow Demacia as a whole to get rid of the old economic order and fully enter the magic industry system.

State-owned farms will indeed promote the development of agricultural machinery in Demacia.

But in addition to this, if the southern labor force is withdrawn on a large scale, the southern plains that occupy most of Demacia will hardly provide any formed market in other aspects.

The labor force is withdrawn to work in the north, and the remaining elderly and children cannot support much of a consumer market.

Agricultural production with state-owned farms as the main form will not bring much good infrastructure to the south.

If some factories in the North are split up and moved to the South, then perhaps the farmers in the South will not understand or know what the benefits are at first, but as time goes by, the relevant infrastructure construction will gradually be rolled out, and the old economic system in the South will also collapse.

Moreover, compared to hastily contracting the land that the farmers in the South have just obtained, it is obviously better to actively attract them to embrace the new economic model through industrial pilot projects.

Carrots and sticks, maybe the sticks have a better direct effect, but carrots will not break the horse, but will make it fat and strong!

If there is any harm in doing this, it is probably only that some industries in the North will be split up - the relevant practitioners in the North will definitely not be happy to see this.

In fact, they should also know that if another "New Fucheng" is built near Xiongdu Bay, the cost of many imported processing industries there will be much lower, and the North will lose many advantages at that time.

Lux also needs to consider this point.

Just as she cannot completely ignore the ideas and traditions of the farmers in the South, she cannot ignore the demands of the people in the North.

Therefore, Lux's solution to the industrial split and competition in the south is very simple.

Don't worry, let's go step by step.

Let's do a pilot project in Xiongdu first.

You can look down on the south, but you can't look down on Xiongdu, right?

First move the textile industry, which is most sensitive to sea transportation distance, to Xiongdu, and issue Xiongdu household registration to relevant practitioners. Will you come?

As long as you come, will the expansion of Xiongdu Port and the prosperity of Xiongdu trade be put on the agenda soon?

And can the oil, pigment, and clothing industries that are closely related to the textile industry also develop in Xiongdu?

When the expansion of Xiongdu Port is completed and the trade routes of Xiongdu are gradually formed, the Law Guard Research Group should have some results in the agricultural product processing industry in the south, right?

Do these results also need a chance to land?

The water transport conditions of the Tobysia River are much better than the canals in the north. Once the southerners' acceptance of magic increases and the number of magic industrial projects suitable for the south increases, the capital that previously only hoped that the south would provide manpower will probably be happy to open new factories in the south, right?

After spending so much time with Karya and being taught by Karya for so long, Lux is no longer the impulsive girl she used to be.

After discovering the contradictions and differences between the north and the south, she quickly found a relatively gentle and persuasive path.

According to this path, the magic industry will take root in the south of Demacia within 10 to 20 years. After 30 to 50 years, even if there is no policy, agricultural production on the Demacia Plain will inevitably move towards scale.

During this period, the social and economic environment in the south will undergo earth-shaking changes. Such changes will completely clear the backward traditional system of old Demacia, bring a new direction to the Demacians, and completely change the face of this country.

Compared with drawing blood directly from the south, although this method is slower and the initial effect may not be good enough, but if it continues slowly, the result will definitely be better than the former.

For Lux, the rise and fall of the Shurima Empire that Karya witnessed was obviously a lesson of sufficient weight. Karya had to raise the Sun Disc due to internal and external troubles, and this necessity eventually led to the entire Shurima Empire's high dependence on the Sun Disc, so that the Sun Disc became the energy lifeline of the entire empire.

The Shurima Empire prospered because of the rise of the Sun Disc, and declined because of the fall of the Sun Disc. After the collapse of the Sun Disc, the many glories that were once built on the energy of the Sun Disc completely became rootless water and disappeared. Only a few things that did not rely on the Sun Disc still told the glory of the empire in the past.

In comparison, Lux is undoubtedly lucky.

After defeating the intervention of the Protoss, the internal and external environment of Demacia is now extremely stable, so she must consolidate the foundation as much as possible, avoid laying mines, pave the way for future development, and eliminate all factors that may cause problems in the bud.

Therefore, as the differences between the north and the south became increasingly clear, Lux did not choose to absorb manpower from the south, but instead began to develop industry in the south to consolidate the magic industry foundation of Demacia.

Therefore, she chose to personally inspect the North, reasoning with reason and moving people with emotion. While splitting up some of the North's industries and mobilizing North workers to go south, she also carried out internal rectification again to combat the signs of confrontation between the North and the South within Demacia.

In addition, although there has been no news from Kalya, Lux is also concerned about the situation of the army. This inspection in the north also has military purposes. Although New Demacia has been established, it is not yet time to put the weapons in the warehouse and let the horses go to the south. The strings of the North Walkers must still be tightened!

With these three important goals in mind, Lux chose to temporarily leave the capital and return to Fosbyro again after several years to give a spring speech in the North - Lux believes that the vast majority of North people will eventually stand on her side.

Because of the above reasons, when Shyvana returned to Demacia from Ixtal, she did not see Lux, but only saw Sona who stayed there.

Those who do not plan for eternity are not worthy of planning for this life.