Lord of Arcane

Chapter 1944 Magic Society
Xia Duo admitted that what Layton said was very reasonable, but the other party was not a mage after all, and he didn't know the way of magic items as well as a real expert.

Let's talk about cost.

Take the Tower of Time's first-generation communication magic weapon as an example, the cost including labor is less than 200 gold coins, and in a typical Naither territory like the Savile Territory, the annual income of an average craftsman is about one to two hundred gold coins. five times.

The merchant will be higher, and the farmer will be lower, but as long as you bite your teeth and spend a few hundred gold coins to buy a magic item, you can still do it.

In Daxia collar, the annual income of 300 gold coins is already the minimum income guaranteed by law, basically there will be no lower than this, it will only be higher.

Xia Duo had long planned to use the territory as the first market for cheap magic items from the Tower of Time, so he deliberately created a high-income, high-consumption economic system in the territory.

On the one hand, it is to make the citizens get used to consumption in units of gold coins, and on the other hand, it is to allow the magic items to be perfectly embedded in the territorial economic system.

Instead of becoming an alternative existence that only spellcasters can afford as in other territories.

Only when there are more shipments, can we give full play to the mass production advantages of the tower of time, use the market to test products, and form a positive cycle to promote the rapid iterative update of relevant experience and technology.

Of course, it is not enough to rely on the internal market of the territory. It may be enough to verify the product, but to make the capital flow return to positive, a considerable external market is also needed.

For this reason, Xia Duo chose to cooperate with the Mingshui Chamber of Commerce to sell the magic items produced by the Tower of Time to all parts of Netheril and even the world of elves.

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In addition to reducing the production cost of magic items through mass production, Xia Duo mostly uses transfer payments in terms of how to increase the income of the people.

For example, subsidize agriculture and other industries, and transfer wealth directly to formal citizens;
Another example is the development subsidy. Every official leader can receive a large amount of gold coin subsidy or salary when granting land. There are no other development territories. The specific amount is related to the number of meritorious service during the development period.

Having a child is also counted, and you can get more land!

There is also the infrastructure construction of the territory led by the Government Affairs Department. The salaries of the recruited citizens are far higher than those of other territories, or other territories don’t pay at all. Those subjects provide free services for the lord for a fixed number of months every year.

In addition, unlike other territories where there are almost only a few managers, such as tax officials and clerks, each department of the Daxia Territory has a large number of civil servants, and the management of the territory is almost trivial, unlike other territories.

Not to mention, armed forces such as the army and security officers also have income far exceeding that of other territories.

Basically, Xia Duo's high-income policy has covered all people in the territory.

Even children who are still in school, as long as they study hard and get good grades in the Tower of Time's weekly, monthly, and annual exams, those whose family members are still in the pioneering stage will be credited, and those who are already official leaders will be paid directly .

So far, Xia Duo has not heard of a case where the Tower of Time apprentices did not learn well, and each of them is working hard, for themselves or for their families.

You must know that the Tower of Time now has a lot of apprentices, nearly 2000!

Before Xia Duo crossed over, it was said that it was a school with 2000 students, and everyone in it was good students who worked hard and made progress. He would not believe it if he was killed, but now, the facts are in front of his eyes.

Of course, he also knows the general environment of Netheril at this stage, the spread of knowledge is so closed, everyone knows the value of knowledge, especially magic knowledge.

Whenever the people at the bottom see a little hope, why don't they try their best to work hard.

When magic education in the territory reaches a certain level, situations similar to those in Xia Duo's hometown will inevitably appear, because the society at that time is no longer in the state of "only those who know magic can have dignity".

As long as the non-mage profession can gain social recognition and security guarantees, not everyone will work hard towards the mage, or there are too many directions to work hard, and focusing on one direction will inevitably make people slack.

But in general, the more choices the people have, the more prosperous the civilization will be.

As for the progress of magic, Xia Duo believes that the driving force of a genius is far more effective than a hundred mediocre ones. Of course, this is under the premise of ensuring a certain number of basic researchers.

Without a certain base of researchers, it would be difficult to promote the progress of magic and civilization with individual geniuses alone.

That's why Xia Duo worked hard to promote the popularization of magic education, in order to obtain a sufficient base of researchers, and at the same time to select more outstanding magic talents.

And this, and the popularization of magic items and even the process of civilianization of magic, are actually complementary to each other. Whichever one is missing, you will only get a lame person in the end.

Therefore, no matter how many difficulties there are ahead, Xia Duo must insist on promoting the civilianization of magic and the popularization of education.

As for the risks mentioned by Layton, there is nothing in this world that is completely risk-free!Even drinking water, some people choked to death!

As long as the risks are relatively controllable and the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, it can be true.

Refer to Xia Duo’s hometown, which is an electric society, and ordinary people can be related to electricity almost all the time, but as far as Xia Duo knows, people on earth do not have the talent to control lightning, and they will still die if they touch the electric switch.

However, engineers have set up various insurance measures for electrical appliances and electrical facilities. Although hidden dangers cannot be completely eliminated, as long as the operation is standardized, the probability of accidents is very small.

The same is true for magic items. As long as the scenarios used by ordinary people are considered at the beginning of the design, and then continue to optimize according to the feedback of use, a civilian product with a high safety factor can be obtained in the end.

As for the abuse of magic items, Xia Duo wasn't too worried about it.

At this stage, the Great Xia Territory has not yet developed to the point where there are many types of magic items. The civilian magic items that the Territory first promotes are all practical tools.

For example, Xia Duo is more optimistic about the magic stove, magic washing machine, magic fan, magic cultivator, magic harvester, and so on.

For the citizens, these may be very new at the beginning, and you have to try them a few times, but if you use them a lot, and every household has them, they will not be a treasure every day.

It's like buying an induction cooker on the earth. Even when the induction cooker was just emerging, it was impossible for normal people to play with it all the time, and they only used it when necessary.

At the beginning, I may look at it a few more times, but after a long time, I feel nothing.

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Of course, Xia Duo did not use his knowledge and experience to suppress Layton's concerns. He still asked the other party to discuss with the heads of various ministries at the territory meeting.

I haven't caught a glimpse of this matter yet, at least we have to wait for Jay to have the results that can be put into practical use. Before that, the more we discuss, the more problems will be discovered.

After all, experience on Earth is not necessarily suitable for this place.

(End of this chapter)