Chapter 482: The future industrial center of the Redeemer Kingdom
It rained heavily for three consecutive days, and even the sewage in the sewers overflowed from the fir boards.
On the slippery and muddy streets, every day when you open the door, you can see groups of slimes crawling around on the stone bricks and rolling happily.
But soon, specialized craftsmen will arrive with temporary laborers, arrest all these slimes, peel and cramp them and make them into one of the raw materials for mortar.
It was not until the fourth day that the rain gradually became less intense. The mist-like rain lightly hugged the long embankment, and a layer of transparent raindrops seemed to grow on the blue-gray stones.
Wearing an oilcloth cloak and holding an oil-paper umbrella that was better than nothing, Horn stood on the top of the embankment, looking at the lake water crashing against the long embankment like waves.
Although he was holding an umbrella, his body and face were covered with wet rainwater, and his black hair was stuck to the corners of his mouth.
Due to the special climate of Qianhe River Valley, the rain here does not fall straight like in the south of the Yangtze River, but blows diagonally or even flies horizontally.
Horn originally thought that the locals preferred to wear cloaks instead of holding umbrellas because they could not make umbrellas.
But when he opened the umbrella and found that the rain had stopped, and did not open the umbrella, he found that it was raining. After opening the umbrella and being blown by the flying rain, he discovered that the clown was actually himself.
Angrily handing the umbrella in his hand to Armand aside, Horn put on his hood, stepped on the slippery floor tiles, and continued to move forward.
Five days have passed since Horn returned from the underground palace. At present, the news about the underground palace is only circulated in a small and medium-sized circle among high-level officials.
As for the murals in the underground palace, Horn asked someone to roughly trace them, and Shilov is still deciphering the two books.
These two materials will be used as internal reference materials for The Salvation Army and can only be viewed by people with certain permissions.
The incident caused by the demon hunter ends here.
The only puzzling thing is that the person who secretly took action has not shown up yet. They have checked several times but have not come up with reliable results.
But Horn didn't care. There was no defense before, but now the security force on Qiumu Island has increased two or three times.
If that person really comes with bad intentions, Horn will keep him/her without food.
During the heavy rain that followed, many of Horn's daily activities had to stop.
The two or three days of rain were his real time to rest, until today Armand brought news that the day scheduled to open the floodgates and release the water had finally arrived.
"What time does the gate open?" Holding his hands behind his back, Horn looked at the turbid blue-black lake water in front of him. Aquatic plants, gravel and sludge were tumbling under the water, and there were many fish bones and branches tumbling in it.
"About an hour later, we are doing the final inspection." Armand stood about two feet behind Horn.
Horn turned around and faced the originally dry river.
After several days of heavy rain, the sludge in the river became thicker and moister.
In this thick and wet mud, hundreds of people were running back and forth barefoot, with yellow and black mud spots on their trousers and cheeks.
Horn sometimes even saw a few pieces of mud floating on some people's arms. After a closer look, he discovered that it was river mud stuck to the hair on the arms.
According to the water conservancy talents recruited by Horn (many of them were prisoners and even knights), the criterion for judging whether a river worker is working hard is to look at the calf.
Because any river worker who works hard will have no hair left on his calf due to the mud.
But they are also amazed that compared to their service workers, these paid workers are actually much more efficient.
Some people even calculated carefully and found that the higher the salary, the harder the workers work and the higher the efficiency.
When the efficiency is high, the total time to complete the project will be low, and then the money spent will be less, and the total salary spent will be less.
So the more the salary, the less the salary.
But to be honest, Horne believed that their reasoning process was to derive from nothing to nothing, because they did not count the two things that really had an effect - clockwork machinery and collective consciousness.
Not to mention clockwork machinery, this primitive collective consciousness passed down from the Gulag period has made the difficulty of labor management in the Redeemer Kingdom drop by several levels.
Speaking of this, Horn couldn't help but think of the craftsman exam a few days ago.
The Qiu Mu Island Craftsman Examination is divided into two parts, the first one is the written examination.
However, because there are many old and rough craftsmen, many people turn in blank papers, but it doesn’t matter, because everyone is equally bad, which means they are all okay.
The second session is the most important practical exam. Those who saw wood saw the wood, those who weaved did weaving, and those who printed and dyed printed and dyed on site. Depending on the working hours of the finished product, the time for each type is different.
The dyeing and printing worker exam can last three to five days, while the sawyer exam ends in half a day.
For example, the clothing craftsman exam requires Horne to design and make a piece of cold-proof clothing to be worn between underwear and a coat based on existing materials within a specified time according to Horn's needs.
Unexpectedly, one of the two craftsmen attacked by Aigalang, named Aslay, was actually a good all-round tailor.
The improved gauze he designed was successfully selected as the first, which not only met Horn's requirements but also conformed to the characteristics of the existing materials.
From the appearance, his design is very similar to the woolen vest from the Victorian era that Horn remembered, which shows that Aslay is basically on the right path.
Horn naturally has a reason for setting up the craftsman examination of Qiu Mu Island in this way.
The first product Aslay designed would be Horn's first order for his workshop.
500 pieces of woolen vests, prepayment from the Papal Palace, delivery before winter.
These woolen vests will not be custom-made according to the original tailor shop, but will be made according to the model and size.
This batch of vests and other clothing will be put into various shops and grocery stores under the name of the Papal Palace in advance, and the price is lower than tailor-made.
If the sales are good, Horn will continue to place additional orders. If the sales are not good, then Aslay will have to find orders by himself.
One of Horn's development goals for Qiumu Island is to focus on the development of the textile and clothing industry.
Under the current level of civilization, the only thing that has large gaps in food, clothing, housing and transportation in various parts of the empire, and the only thing that can develop and make profits is the textile industry.
The history of his hometown proves that both the Netherlands and England relied on the textile light industry.
The former caught up with the dividends of the Reformation, the latter caught up with the dividends of the steam engine and took the Netherlands as a dividend itself.
Qiu Mu Island or Daze Township is full of clockwork machinery and alchemy bonuses.
The former can get rid of water power and animal power and produce a large number of standard textile industrial products stably and quickly.
The latter brought a variety of strange alchemical products, including slime gel, mortar, orichalcum and various alchemical potions.
Take slime gel as an example. As a dye fixative, it has a strong adsorption force on cloth and can firmly fix the dye on the fiber.
The printing and dyeing effect of using slime gel as an auxiliary material can even make the world view of an experienced dyer collapse.
If this was a world of high magic, these old dyers might have their heads shot because they couldn't accept the new knowledge.
The most outrageous thing about Qiumu Island is that these two bonuses are basically tied to it.
Due to the political environment, many wizards within the Papal State prefer to live in Daze Township rather than outside cities.
Because the residents of this place are the most pious, the folk customs are relatively open and there are a large number of natural priests, they will not suffer too much discrimination.
As for the clockwork machinery, since the Star Forge Gear needs to be recharged every 15 to 20 days, the Star Forge Gear cannot be too far away from the Ethereal Spire.
Otherwise, it is very likely that there will be no time to recharge, resulting in low efficiency.
This means that many powerful clockwork machines cannot leave the scope of Qiumu Island and can only build workshops on Qiumu Island.
Horn plans to place the center of his rule on Qiumu Island not only because this is the old pious base, but also because of practical factors.
If Horn were asked to guess a future industrial center of the Papal State, he could guarantee that it would be the island in the lake in front of him.
"Speaking of which, we just calculated the distribution of star-cast gears a few days ago. Do you want to hear it?" Armand suddenly said after listening to Horn's words.
“Why didn’t you say something like this earlier?” Horn looked at the confused Armand and suddenly remembered that he had ordered that non-urgent matters should not disturb him.
He coughed before saying: "Then just tell me."
(End of Chapter)