Entertainment could save the world? Instead of being entertained to death?
Of course, this was not a joke.
History had proven countless times that when a country's economy was in decline, only the entertainment industry could save the entire country!
What could the entertainment industry do?
Let people live in a drunken stupor and forget the troubles of life?
Let people spend a lot of money and spend all their savings? Revitalize the economy?
Shallow! It was too shallow!
An idol star who was in the hands of those in power could easily gather the faith of the people!
A perfect virtual reality simulator could greatly shorten the learning time of people and even train a large number of elite soldiers in a very short time!
Just like on Earth, the computer games that were once popular all over the world suddenly changed after the birth of real virtual reality technology. Shooting games were more and more realistic and militarized. Later, they were directly controlled by the military to select civilians with shooting talents and recruit them into the army. Action-based competitive games began to explore the limits of human reaction. At one point, it even led to many people's reaction speed becoming faster and faster. After leaving the game, their bodies could not keep up with their reaction speed, forcing the body to constantly strengthen to adapt to the neural reaction speed, which indirectly affected human evolution …
These were the benefits of the entertainment industry.
Tang En now wanted to turn Beatrice into a national idol. Beatrice was under his control, so she could help Tang En instill positive thoughts in people through her songs and performances and make them loyal to Tang En's ideas!
What Tang En wanted to do was to create something similar to a virtual reality simulator so that these people who had not awakened their talents would have a way to get in touch with militarized training. Not to mention letting them go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, at least let them master the ability to protect themselves. Once the war broke out, these people would be able to put on equipment and come in handy.
Of course, it was a bit too big of a leap to go directly to that step, so what Tang En wanted to do now was to create an entertainment industry and let people discover that there were other means of entertainment besides listening to bards singing songs and playing Gwent.
Then, he would dig deeper bit by bit and attract people's interest bit by bit until they were all tricked into his trap.
The reason why Fiona did not understand was that the entertainment industry she knew was just an industry that helped people relax and promote consumption. It was similar to a brothel — that's right, she thought that Tang En had decided to open a brothel.
Although from a certain point of view, there was nothing wrong with this understanding, it was still too shallow!
"The development of the entertainment industry is not something that can be done overnight, especially now that the Irus Empire is in a period of time where there are many things waiting to be done. People are under a lot of pressure at work, and there is no other way to relax at home other than making babies. The cost of the magic energy projection receiver is still too high, and there is no way to quickly popularize it. Therefore, we have to find a way to promote a cheap and effective entertainment method as soon as possible."
"A chess room is a very good choice. In addition to Gwent, we can also add poker cards, mahjong, billiards and other entertainment facilities. We can even organize some competitions and provide prize money to stimulate people to take the initiative to learn these things. Once they get used to it, they will immediately fall in love with these things."
Fiona frowned. "But I always feel that these things will only make some people lazy and lose their fighting spirit. I think that in the current situation, the entertainment industry is something that we don't have to consider at all. We don't have that much time to waste."
"You're too nervous."
Tang En patted Fiona's shoulder and said earnestly, "Being nervous is a good thing, but if you're too nervous, you'll break. Next, the speed of our development will further increase, and people will also become more and more nervous. The rhythm of life will become faster and faster. If they continue to live such a boring military life, they will collapse sooner or later. Even if they don't collapse, they will rebel. You know, not everyone will believe what I say, and not everyone will understand the crisis we are about to face, so we have to let them adapt bit by bit. "
Fiona was silent for a while, then said slowly, "What you said makes sense. Then we'll do as you say. But in order to prevent the entertainment industry from spreading, the operation of this industry must be included in the supervision. As for the market, let the other chambers of commerce do it. We will still follow the original policy."
Fiona, who was used to making a lot of money, did not care about this meager profit. She was too lazy to compete with those small chambers of commerce for profits. She simply followed the original approach and directly invested, providing them with ways to make money and a market. She would send people to check the accounts regularly, and she would just sit there and collect the money.
Tang En thought so. Now there were more and more things to pay attention to, and they did not have the energy to pay attention to everything. It was good enough that they could continue to pay attention to the market until it took shape. As for the follow-up investigation later, they could forget about it.
He nodded and continued, "These entertainment rooms are only the first step. Next, we will build large amusement parks or theme parks in several key cities in the Irus Empire, such as Ellington, Alinx, Taris, Hanging Axe Castle, Fehra, Saint Song City, and even Blood Rock City. Because it involves the follow-up plan, these parks must be operated and managed by our own people."
"So we need to set up a subsidiary chamber of commerce, Tang Entertainment, to be responsible for the operation management and follow-up development work. At the same time, its authority includes discovering and cultivating talented idols like Beatrice, and further increasing the number of employees in the entertainment industry."
Fiona said as she recorded, "I roughly understand your idea. Building these amusement parks — although I don't know what they are, you should have other purposes, right?"
"Of course."
Tang En smiled and said, "I don't just want them to go in and play … But if we can't attract enough people to participate in the early stage, the follow-up plan can't continue to be promoted."
"Oh? What other wonderful ideas do you have? "
Fiona squinted at Tang En, as if she did not believe that he could have any creativity other than copying things from another world.
"Of course! Are you looking down on my creativity? "
Tang En raised his eyebrows and whispered in Fiona's ear for a while. Fiona frowned at first, but after listening to Tang En's description, her eyes widened and she looked shocked. "Are you sure you want to do this? Although … it may be useful, … isn't the risk too high? "
"So we need to control the risks. We need to let people accept this project, give them a strong enough stimulation and sense of achievement, and reduce the risks as much as possible. In particular, there must be no casualties."
Tang En said with a smile, "But according to our current development, these problems are not big problems. They can be solved by using our brains."
"If that's the case … it's feasible!"
Fiona was excited. According to Tang En's description, this was indeed a very good idea. Not only could it stimulate economic consumption, relieve the pressure of people's boring lives, but it could also let them gain valuable experience. It could be said that it was killing two birds with one stone.
"It's just that the early construction work will consume a lot of labor resources, so …"
Tang En smiled and tapped Fiona's forehead. "You have to discuss with Olga how to mobilize more people to join the labor construction."
"Not only labor resources, but also a lot of construction resources."
Fiona rolled her eyes. "I don't know what the so-called amusement parks and theme parks are, but according to your description, there will be a lot of entertainment facilities. These facilities will definitely consume a lot of metal ores. So, urge Cloto and the others. The Month of Frozen Over is almost over, and they have only modified less than ten Giant Golden Idols to join the astral mining team. The efficiency is still not enough. According to my calculations, if we want the entire Prandal to meet Ellington's construction standards, we need at least fifty Giant Golden Idols to mine resources day and night. If we want to speed up the pace of development, we have to further increase the scale of the metal extraction industry. We have to increase the number of Giant Golden Idols used for mining to about a hundred to meet the basic needs of our entire world."
Tang En shook his head. "If we want to further prepare for war, this number will have to be increased by more than ten times. The faster society develops, the greater the demand for various resources. This is not just a gradual growth curve. As the speed of development increases, the demand for resources is likely to double."
Fiona sighed. "Fortunately, we have the astral base. Otherwise, with our current mining efficiency, we will definitely not be able to meet our needs in the later stages."
After the matter was settled, the two began to discuss the details, especially the supervision and management plan for the chess room, the design of various entertainment facilities in the amusement park, and so on. After the discussion went deeper, Tang En simply called Aurelia over. She was more knowledgeable about politics, and at least knew how to standardize a new market.
It took them a full week to finalize a set of implementation plans, including a complete set of market supervision and management regulations, as well as various operation and promotion plans in the early, middle, and later stages. In order to achieve the best results, Aurelia even decided to use the power of the country to promote the project as soon as possible.
Thus, in the Month of Dawn (January), Year 851 of the Order Calendar, Tang En's third year in Prandal, a large-scale construction project that affected the people of the whole country suddenly began with a bang!
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