The matters in Nanilla were completely settled. After Fiona had arranged for the Datang Chamber of Commerce in Nanilla to operate normally, Tang En and the others returned to Ellington the next day.
There were too many things to do, and he didn't have time to waste.
First, the most urgent matter was the improvement of the warship. With the help of Jean and Aiguin, Vasquil could last for another month. Within this month, Tang En had to complete the design, improvement, production, and arming of the warship.
The warship didn't just have to be improved and produced. There was also the corresponding weapon system, such as fish, ship-borne missiles, and large-caliber machine guns. Although the magic modification technology saved a lot of time in research and development, the amount of work was too large, and time was still very tight.
Next was the expansion of the civilian Harley-Davidson motorcycles. Oscar had a thousand and Levitz had two thousand. Although three thousand wasn't a lot, the civilian models hadn't been put into production yet, so the production line had to be redesigned.
After the expansion of production, there was a huge demand for workers. Ellington's industry was growing bigger and bigger, and the industrial area here had already taken shape. Now, the population of Ellington was close to 150,000, but it was still far from enough. Even if everyone had their own job, the gap was still huge.
Now, most of the heavy jobs were taken by elemental creatures, but Tang En couldn't use elemental creatures forever. His goal was to let people earn income from work, and at the same time, to accumulate experience and pass it on. What the hell was passing on knowledge to elemental creatures?
Not only that, after their orders were delivered, they would be slightly delayed. When the road network began to take shape, the civilian Harley-Davidson motorcycles would be completely introduced to the market. At that time, the price would be directly pushed to the bottom. The price of 500 gold coins was already very close to the people. Tang En was very sure of one thing. With his reforms, the income of the people of the Irus Empire would increase as a whole. When the time came, there would definitely be many people who could afford the Harley-Davidson motorcycles.
The popularity of Harley-Davidson motorcycles would speed up the pace of society. The rapid flow of people, goods, and information would accelerate the development of society. The whole of Prandal would enter a period of rapid development.
The third thing was to work with the Star Diamond Bank to build a highway network. However, Tang En didn't have to worry about that. All they needed to do was to produce and provide enough magic-powered machines to help with the road construction and ensure a sufficient supply of asphalt. The Star Diamond Bank was responsible for the construction of the highway, so this matter could be carried out at the same time as the other two.
After estimating the manpower needed, Tang En was surprised to find that Ellington still needed at least 50,000 workers.
In other words, in order to meet the expanding market demand, Ellington alone needed 200,000 workers to work in different positions.
Mining, smelting iron, steelmaking, synthesis, molding, stamping, assembly, transportation, and so on … These series of assembly line jobs were inseparable from workers. Tang En had long understood why the Industrial Revolution led to rapid social development, but he did not expect that once industrialization began, the demand for labor would be so great.
At this time, Tang En also thought of another thing.
Ellington was an inland city. Although there was a river, it couldn't take large ships, so the transformation of the ships still needed to be done in the shipyard at the port.
The Irus Empire's shipyard was in the northern suburbs of Fehra, which meant that he had to open a sub-base in Fehra to train soldiers … Ah no, to build ships …
Opening a sub-base was nothing. It was something that the farming class often did. Fehra was also under Tang En's control, so there was no danger. However, opening a sub-base meant that Tang En had to divert his talents.
In order to transform the ships, it was necessary to train a new batch of existing shipbuilders. He had to let them understand the assembly line process and the concept of new ships and weapons. This required some people to come and train them.
Dwarven engineering skills were used in shipbuilding, so the dwarves also had to send people over.
Furthermore, for the convenience of obtaining raw materials, it would be best to build a new large-scale steel mill near Fehra to refine universal alloy. Now, after the research of Brian and the dwarves, Errington's steel mill had been modified to a certain extent by Prandal's localization. Not only had the output increased, but it was also more in line with the appearance of a magical civilization. This also meant that some dwarves would have to be diverted to Fehra.
The weapons could continue to be developed and produced by the military factory in the Black Rock Grotto. When the time came, they could be directly transported to Fehra for assembly. The dark elves and the dwarves of the Red Rock Grotto did not need wages. They only needed food. With the efforts of Eutinia, Grandia, and the other elves, the food supply would be greatly improved. This could be considered as saving a lot of money.
Not only did the military industry need people, but Ellington's other industries also needed people. As the business of the Datang Chamber of Commerce grew bigger and bigger, the orders also increased. The paper mill's production capacity was now overloaded. There was a large demand for paper every day. The canning factory was busy every day. The production workshops of the magical furniture factory were almost at full capacity. Magical air conditioners, magical washing machines, magical water heaters, and other convenient magical furniture were highly praised. Especially after the elves redesigned the appearance, although the price had increased, the sales had increased. Even a few production lines could not meet the demand.
Now, many chambers of commerce in the market had bought the rights of the Datang Chamber of Commerce from Alinx and had begun to imitate the Datang Chamber of Commerce's model to produce similar products. But because of the first-mover advantage, people now recognized the brand of the Datang Chamber of Commerce. The other brands were basically not competitive. They could only lower their prices and reduce their profits to compete in the market, which could be considered as snatching a lot of low-end customers.
The magical industry was now showing signs of blossoming everywhere. This had achieved one of Tang En's ideas. Perhaps people would soon be able to accept more and more new things. The popularity of magical power was unstoppable.
But the more popular it was, the greater the demand for workers, so Ellington still needed to continue to expand the efforts to attract more people.
Now that the Ellington Military Academy had started school, but the local students in Ellington were not enough. The resources of teachers were also very scarce. If they wanted to light the torch of civilization, it was not enough to rely on this academy alone.
So these two days, Tang En was still thinking about restructuring the Royal Military Academy of Irus. He wanted to turn this military academy into a comprehensive university and recruit students from Alinx.
In addition to the restructuring of the Royal Military Academy of Irus, it was imperative to order the major cities of the Irus Empire to build schools and force children of suitable age to undergo compulsory education. Previously, he did not promote it because there would be great resistance. But now that the aristocrats had been wiped out, no one would stop Tang En's reforms. Of course, he had to carry it out boldly and decisively.
Education was an essential part of society's progress towards civilization. Only with enough education would people think about themselves, think about the world, and think about power and obligations. People would then understand what they should and should not do.
This matter had to be carried out.
In addition to the more important matters mentioned above, there were also some things that were not too urgent but that he had to pay attention to waiting for Tang En.
Angus was still thinking about how to repair the Scepter of the King in Irus before coming over to study the teleportation array technology. At that time, he would have to find a way to keep him working hard in Ellington. Before the Burning Legion invaded … Bah! Before the Chaos Army invaded Prandal, Angus' alchemy was indispensable to the creation of powerful magically modified technology.
The communicator that Reeves gave to Tang En still needed to be persuaded to repair, and he was still eagerly waiting for Tang En to make a spaceship.
Although Tang En did not believe that the communicator was really used to contact immigrants from outer space, he had to do what he promised the other party. Thus, he had to find time to meet Kloto and have a good talk about how to send Reeves to heaven.
But he did not expect that before Tang En went to find Kloto, Kloto would excitedly come to him to report the good news.
"My friend! Let me tell you a piece of good news! "
Kloto rushed to Tang En's study and excitedly shouted, "The Heaven Breaker is finally completed!"
Tang En was surprised. "Oh? Didn't you say that the pressure from the last battle was so great that it almost fell apart? "
"That was an accident! If not for those damn green monsters … Forget it, let's not talk about them. I'm annoyed whenever I talk about them! "
Kloto cursed as he jumped onto the sofa. During the last beast tide attack, if he had not been provoked by Gary, he would not have taken out the experimental Heaven Breaker. As a result, the Heaven Breaker almost collapsed after the battle. Fortunately, the gnome engineers reacted quickly enough to save it.
"What do you mean by completed?"
"That's exactly what it means!"
Kloto's expression changed, and he beamed. "Didn't you buy a batch of floating stones before? Then I got a batch from Fiona and installed them in the mezzanine, which greatly reduced the weight of the Heaven Breaker and increased the thrust-to-weight ratio of the steam spiral engine. Coupled with the wind-powered magic energy engine you provided me, the Heaven Breaker can now fly stably in the sky! "
"Not only that, but due to the great reduction in weight, the Heaven Breaker can now even carry a large number of soldiers and goods. It has completely reached the standard of practicality!"
"My friend!"
Kloto was so excited that he danced. "It's time for us to return to the sky!"
"Oh …"
Tang En grunted, then pointed to the communicator that was thrown aside and said, "Then see if you can fix this thing first, and then we'll discuss how to go up into the sky, or how to send Reeves up into the sky …"
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