Volume 7: Doing Business with the World Chapter 226: The Wolf King's Bewitching
Alman had long been devoted to Evelyn's magic application team and had been working hard there. After handing over a large group of spellcasters named "J" to Xiao Yun, he hurried to "work".
As for his disciple Adam...the young man is still in the training period.
Well, it’s not that Adam is a rebellious guy, but he is too smart and too young. He has not yet gotten over the illusion of “I am the world” and “I am the protagonist”, and he doesn’t know the principle of keeping his head down and doing his work... In other words, he lacks education.
"Mr. Sean."
At the former site of the industrial zone, Mr. Sean's laboratory, Xiao Yun led the descendants of "J" to choose positions. When these people saw Sean, no matter how old they were, they saluted him respectfully.
Sean, the "End of Illusion ", is just an old man with only a few years left to live (er...), but his reputation in the southern continent is unquestionable - he became famous at an early age, deciphered the ancient texts from the Giant Wasteland and published a book about it, has legendary combat power (after all, he is an illusionist), once assisted King Kronin, but later left due to differences in ideas, and is a legendary figure in the circle of spellcasters.
"Aldoni? Ah, Adrian!" Sean touched his chest in return and walked towards an old man with a white beard standing beside Aldoni with a smile. "It's been almost 20 years since we last met, Adrian, where is your teacher?"
Uh... it may seem a little strange for a young man to face a white-bearded old man as an elder, but it is quite normal in the world of spellcasters - spellcasters must have reached level three or above and have strong and abundant mental power to feed back into the body and "freeze its age"; to see whether a spellcaster is a super genius, you can tell by looking at how old his body is.
Adrian was just about to turn 100 years old. He had successfully reached the third level at the age of 60, so he was not a weakling. He just looked inconspicuous compared to geniuses like Alman and Aldoni...
As for Sean, he was a special case. There were quite a few third-level magicians in the human race, but few could reach the legendary level.
"The teacher passed away six years ago, Mr. Sean." Adrian looked sad.
"Huh? I remember she hasn't reached her life span yet?" Sean asked in surprise.
Adrian hesitated. Since there were no outsiders present, he said bitterly, "Since we parted at Elliot Palace, the teacher has been fascinated by the magic of ancient giants. He went to the western continent to build a magician tower and focus on research. As a result..."
"Why would she touch something so dangerous?" Sean frowned.
Adrian smiled bitterly and said nothing. The ancient giant magic had long been brought out by spellcasters who went to the Giant Wasteland for adventure, but this thing... was too dangerous and was a recognized forbidden area for spellcasters.
However, Sean could say what he could and could not say what he could not say about the blame, because he was his teacher after all.
"Your teacher has always been very competitive. Perhaps it was the 'Moon of Vengeance' that stimulated her... Well, why bother? Everyone has his own destiny. Among the spellcasters of our generation, Moon of Vengeance is the only fourth-level spellcaster. If there is no such opportunity, why force it?" Sean sighed.
Xiao Yun had an impression of the "Moon of Vengeance" that Sean mentioned. When he attended the Elf King's Frank Feast, Carlisle tried his best to ask this top-level warrior below the demigod to take care of him a little, and the gray-robed wizard did give Xiao Yun a look when they met...
The difference between the fourth level and the third level is not just in strength. For a short-lived species like humans, no matter how strong or awesome they are, their life span is an eternal pain. When the time is up, even the most awesome person will be nothing more than a handful of dirt.
To break through the limit of lifespan, the strong men of the human race must pursue the path to the pinnacle - whether they are warriors or spellcasters, if they don't cross the threshold of the fourth level, they can't even think about competing with the dwarves for longevity...
When the great magicians who have been strong all their lives come to the end of their lives, many of them face it calmly like Sean, but there are also many who cannot let it go like Adrian's teacher.
Xiao Yun was reluctant to see Sean die after only working for him for a few years... ahem, but there wasn't much he could do about it. He could only try to find someone to take over his job before Sean's life ran out.
For example, this group of wild revolutionaries with lofty ideals, even if we don’t keep them all, just picking a few of them will be enough to eat... cough cough cough!
After the spellcasters finished reminiscing about the past, Xiao Yun came forward to introduce the research content of "Sean's Laboratory" to Sean. It was mainly Xiao Yun who spoke and Sean who supplemented. Otherwise, the obviously "interesting" research content would have been made extremely boring by this old guy...
The pneumatic engine that Mr. Sean focused on researching had been successful. Since no oil had been found in his own land - the oil in this world is called "black oil", and there are mines in the Dwarf Kingdom of the Western Continent and the Dark Elf Dungeon, which is used as a combustion aid and also sold to the Alchemist Association as alchemical material, the price is... quite unattractive - under these circumstances, it was impossible to put the internal combustion engine into operation, so Mr. Sean's research direction turned to how to improve the combustion efficiency and thermal energy utilization rate of pneumatic engines.
The black smoke emitted from the front of the tractor when it is started is a reflection of the incomplete combustion of the pulverized coal filled into the boiler. The principle is the same as burning firewood. A strong firewood pile will not emit smoke, and smoke will only be emitted if it is not burning vigorously.
Incomplete combustion not only causes air pollution, but also the waste of coal powder as fuel - the latter is what Xiao Yun can't tolerate the most. Although we now have a large number of miners (gray dwarves & goblins), the mine owners don't have any surplus food~!
The automatic coal powder adding device mounted on the pneumatic motor needs to be reloaded with coal powder every half an hour. Who can stand such inefficiency!
With the concept of "a power supply device that ordinary people can use" as the framework and "benefiting the people and the people in the present and future generations" as the flesh and blood, after fooling the descendants of "J", several old men with boiling blood started to yell and wanted to work like slaves for Mr. Sean... Uh, they helped him and stayed with their own disciples...
Sean was satisfied and ordered this group of "youngsters" to do the hard labor, and Xiao Yun was satisfied and took the rest of the people to find Evelyn.
Evelyn herself was also somewhat famous—she was a forest elf, the next elder of the elven city, and one of the co-authors of two travel notes. After the meeting, she was greeted by the descendants of "J".
Evelyn's main research area is more "interesting" and meaningful than Mr. Sean's research area - magical materials!
Xiao Yun could easily come up with this magic application direction without even using his brain—
Magical materials science will definitely change the entire world and lay a solid foundation for the transformation of the entire world!
Every time a new material appears that has popular significance and allows certain daily necessities to enter thousands of households at a low, affordable price that is affordable to the general public, the name of the discoverer will be remembered by all races on the entire continent!
After dazzling the Condemned Ones present, Xiao Yun took out the Fire Department's new product: plastic film, and showed it to this group of wild revolutionaries.
Strictly speaking, the advent of battle tree latex plastic products should be attributed to Mr. Sean... but it is true that his research direction is magical materials science.
"This piece of plastic sheet may look ordinary, but it is a powerful tool that can greatly benefit farmers. In the extreme climate of our grassland, using this plastic sheet in early spring and late autumn can keep the land warm and extend the production period of crops by 50 days. Do you understand what 50 days of farming time means?"
“If this plastic sheeting was used in the Commonwealth with a better climate than our grasslands, farmers could even grow wheat twice a year!”
"After harvesting wheat in autumn, the land is plowed and cultivated again. The wheat seedlings survive the winter under the protection of plastic film, and grow vigorously in spring. In April and May, they can be harvested!" (The longitude and latitude of the Kingdom of Kronin are similar to those of Hebei and Liaoning in my country)
"One piece of land can be used as two pieces!"
After talking about the advantages and fooling these human revolutionaries until their hearts were swayed and their eyes were shining, Xiao Yun fluently talked about the difficulties in mass production of plastic products and teased the competitive spirit of these guys - the most important problems were concentrated on the scale of planting of combat trees, the difficulties during planting and harvesting (this thing is called killer vine among humans, and the combat trees that have not yet become spirits will instinctively attack it, which is quite unbearable), the loss problem in the production of combat tree latex, the cost of another raw material, shellac... and so on.
Every mature product manager must have the ability to confidently hand over cost issues to the development department to solve!
During the whole process, Evelin didn't say a word, staring at the teacher with dead eyes and silently blowing...
I have to say that the quality of these "J" descendants is really high. Whether they have ideals and aspirations, or they just want to pay tuition with labor, they are very cooperative and there is no phenomenon of throwing tantrums and refusing to work...
After helping Evelyn solve the assistant vacancies that emerged after the cat warriors switched to magicians, Xiao Yun, in high spirits, led the remaining Condemners to the next house.
Then, these spellcasters who were not favored by the first two families were taken to a large room filled with a strange smell.
"This is the chemical laboratory of our Fire Tribe. The one leading this project is the green dragon lord Balk who is a guest in our tribe." Xiao Yun looked at the condemned ones with subtle expressions, and wagged his tail with a smile.
The ones who looked down upon even such a high-end research project as the applied science of magic were the bearded von Aldoni and his disciples.
This guy is a bit of a hipster. He's not really interested in playing with machinery or materials.
"Why does it smell so bad here?" Aisha pinched her nose, indulging in her stupidity.
"No, no, no, the smell here is not bad. As long as we understand the projects and results carried out in this chemical laboratory, we will only feel physically and mentally happy when we smell these smells." Xiao Yun took down a few bottles from the shelf with a smile and showed them to Master Aldoni and his apprentice like presenting treasures.
"This is nitroglycerin, a byproduct obtained during our chemical experiments. It looks like a yellow oil in water, but it is actually a very dangerous chemical. We use it for mining and blasting. Although it is dangerous, it is very useful and can save a lot of manpower." (Evelyn's blasting is too wasteful)
"This liquid will explode when it collides or vibrates violently. If a bucket of it is thrown at a dragon, it can also be injured. So you must be very careful when using it."
Aldoni & his disciples: "..."
Aldoni was very suspicious that the other party was bragging, but when he thought that this strange "chemical laboratory" was run by a green dragon lord, he became skeptical.
"This is the second-generation insecticide we developed. The first-generation insecticide requires too many snake vine petals. The flower production in the snake vine protection area we are protecting cannot keep up with the consumption, so we developed the second-generation insecticide."
"Take the snake vine flower extract, soap dissolved in hot water, and the machine lubricant bought from the forest elves, boil and stir, then add 500 times the amount of water and spray it on the crops. This will effectively kill most of the insect eggs, aphids, etc. that have not been frozen to death."
"Wait, you asked a green dragon lord to research insect-killing potions for you?!" Aisha's eyes widened and he made another foolish attack.
Xiao Yun looked at Aldoni, Aldoni looked at the eldest disciple, and the eldest disciple silently stepped forward and dragged the stupid junior away.
Although the descendants of "J" took the wrong direction of the revolution, they are not the kind of pampered spellcasters. They understand the suffering of the people very well... They know very well what the pesticide that can kill pests means for food production.
"The difficulty of the second-generation insecticide is still the cost issue. Only the Dwarven Kingdom has the technology and raw materials (petroleum) to produce mechanical lubricants. Even if we publish the formula, most agricultural practitioners still cannot afford it. In the past two years, we have been trying to find raw materials that can replace the Dwarven mechanical lubricants, but so far, there has been no breakthrough in this regard."
Xiao Yun stared at Aldoni. Although he didn't say it directly, what he wanted to express was enough to make this literary scholar look painful.
Seeing that the other party was refusing to bend, Xiao Yun did not force him. He picked up the third bottle and used a more powerful move: "This is a herbicide for wheat and rice fields."
"..." Aldoni instantly had a premonition that he might not be able to walk out of this door...
Xiao Yun smiled calmly.
"We call it copper sulfate solution (Bordeaux mixture). We buy the lowest quality copper ore from the dark elves, process it with sulfuric acid, and get copper sulfate. We add the same proportion of slaked lime... which is the material our tribe uses to pave roads. We then add water to it. It can effectively remove weeds in wheat and rice fields without harming wheat and rice. When used in conjunction with snake vine insecticide, it can effectively increase wheat and rice yields by about 10%."
Aldoni's body trembled, goose bumps appeared all over his body, and his beard stood up.
His disciples opened their eyes wide in disbelief.
Wheat is the staple food of this world. Almost all races grow wheat to a greater or lesser extent. It is no exaggeration to say that the wheat output directly determines the population ceiling of most races.
"Are these things so powerful? Mr. Ayun?" One of the disciples couldn't help but speak, his eyes almost glued to the bottle of light blue liquid in Xiao Yun's hand.
Xiao Yun smiled slightly. "Last year, our tribe did not have the conditions to use pesticides and herbicides on a large scale, and our wheat yield averaged 400 to 450 kilograms per mu. This year, we have enough sulfuric acid to make copper sulfate herbicides, and we have also purchased enough machine lubricants. The wheat harvested last month had an average yield of 500 kilograms per mu."
Aldoni's jaw dropped without caring about his image.
All of his disciples heard the sound of their worldviews being shattered.
"I have previously investigated the wheat yield per mu in Bolton County and Valentine. Generally speaking, it fluctuates around 200 kilograms. In the Tauren tribe, their average yield per mu is 400 to 450 kilograms." Xiao Yun said with a smile, "We are not like the Tauren tribe, where almost all tribes have druids. The reason we can have a yield comparable to that of the Tauren is because we have put a lot of effort into fertilizers in our farmland."
The Tauren were not hated by the Magic Goddess like the Snow Wolf Tribe, although they didn't need to throw fireballs when fighting...
"However, it is difficult to increase yields by just working hard on planting. If enough fertilizer is given, the wheat seedlings will grow well, but the weeds will grow even better. Although we tried our best to remove the weeds, the results were always limited due to limited manpower."
"The difference between intelligent species and instinctive creatures is that we intelligent species know how to use tools. When existing production tools reach a bottleneck, we, with our flexible minds, will naturally find ways to create more tools."
Xiao Yun raised the small bottle of blue liquid in his hand and said loudly: "We tried every possible way to obtain sulfuric acid from pyrite, and then used sulfuric acid to obtain copper sulfate. We used insecticides and herbicides to increase the yield of wheat fields by 50 kilograms per acre."
"Mr. Aldoni, if our technical and production conditions are sufficient to allow us to sell this herbicide to farmers of the human race at a price that ordinary farmers can afford, or if we are able to establish pesticide production lines in some safer areas of the human race, then who would the farmers, who are regarded as two-legged livestock by the nobles, be more willing to support?"
Aldoni's heart trembled, and a thought flashed through his mind quickly, but the process was too short and the speed was too fast, so he himself did not catch the fleeting idea.
Xiao Yun didn't expect this guy to understand everything immediately. He didn't teach Alman so easily. He said, "The cat magicians and snake warriors from our grassland tribe went to the Bolton Territory in Kronin in the first half of this year to assist Countess Philip in combating the population black market and pornography industry in Bolton Territory. We orcs have the habit of keeping diaries, so even though I didn't go to the scene in person, I also saw some of the problems of Bolton Territory from their diaries."
"The nobles, town officials, manor owners, and farm owners of the human race always accuse the farmers, hired farmhands, and serfs in their territories of being stupid and lazy. Before this, we naturally believed it because the wheat and rice yields of the human race were so terribly low."
After a pause, Xiao Yun's expression became serious and frightening: "But when our tribesmen really came into contact with those human farmers, we found that the human farmers were not unwilling to work hard, but they simply did not have the foundation to work hard."
"The farmer actually used a wooden hoe. How can a wooden hoe be used to hoe the muddy land? Muddy land and sandy land are two different things."
"Many farmers cannot afford iron hoes, but those nobles can afford to raise family armies, equip those warriors with armor and weapons, and even cover their mounts with thick armor."
"The farmers borrowed the lord's cattle and farm tools to cultivate the land. The price was that these farmers had to work for the local lord for at least 100 days a year for free, and the lord refused to provide even three meals during this period."
"At least 50% of the harvest from the farmer's field must be paid to the lord, and the remaining part is only enough to fill the family's stomach, or even not enough."
“How can a farmer be diligent if he doesn’t have good tools and doesn’t have enough food to eat?”
Xiao Yun just described it in a straightforward tone, but the six human spellcasters were so embarrassed that they couldn't even raise their heads...
None of them were nobles or lords who directly or indirectly exploited the farmers, but as humans they still felt very bad when an alien so bluntly exposed the essence of the plight of the human farmers in front of them... Even the funny Aisha couldn't escape at this time, his face was as wrinkled as a bitter gourd.
Aldoni, the young scholar, was so embarrassed that he wanted to burrow into the soil. He was not the kind of young scholar who didn't know the difference between grains. When Xiao Yun mentioned the wheat yield per mu of the grassland tribe, he couldn't help but subconsciously think that "human farmers are lazy and stupid, and not as hardworking as the orcs." Therefore, the damage caused to him by the bomb thrown by Xiao Yun was particularly severe...
Such strong medicine is necessary for these six guys who are not sufficiently "aware" and who are afraid of heavy tasks.
Taking off the water bottle hanging from his waist and drinking a sip of water, Xiao Yun gave the spellcasters some more time to worry. Then he put away his cold face, put on a smile, and changed the subject 180 degrees: "So - when I learned about 'J's' lofty ideals from Mr. Alman, I believed that 'J's ideals would definitely come true and his career would definitely be successful."
Aldoni & his disciples: "..."
——Can you change the subject a little slower? !
We can't keep up!!
Xiao Yun ignored the distorted faces of these guys and smiled: "The population structure of Valentine is that the nobles and the groups that depend on the nobles, such as merchants and the middle class, only account for about 10% of the total population of Valentine. We don't have the opportunity to investigate the ratio of nobles to civilians in other regions, but I think it won't be much different."
"For thousands of years, the royal families and nobles of human society have changed a lot, but the attitude towards the common people, who make up 90% of the human race, has not changed much. Even if there are some quite benevolent nobles or kings who have implemented good policies, when the successor takes over power, it is often difficult to inherit such good policies. They either cancel them or weaken their influence, which is always difficult to last."
"That is to say... the lives of the common people, who make up 90% of the human race, can't get any worse. To win their support, gain their followers, and rally their hearts and minds, all we have to do is do a little better than the current nobles."
After a pause to give the shocked guys time to understand, Xiao Yun bewitched them: "When 90% of the human race in your country are determined to support and follow you, will anyone have the right to contemptuously call you the descendants of 'J' who should have the glory as 'Condemned'? Will your ideals still be supported, passed on, and maintained by only a few of you?"
Author's words:
This is almost a common problem among vested interests, and it is almost inevitable. For example, in our country, there have been continuous anti-intellectual propaganda and attacks on exam-oriented (public) education and college entrance examinations over the years. And they have indeed succeeded... In part, there are more and more private schools now.
By comparing private hospitals with public hospitals, everyone will know the essential differences between private schools and public schools.
