Dragon, choose cultural victory to make money

Drogo stood in the study of the Lord's Mansion in Waterdeep.

His exclusive office was finally built.

Oh, the Lord's Mansion. I'm still a little uncomfortable staying in a building with this name.

In the past, I would come to places like this to buy for free.

However, precisely because of his rich experience in free shopping in the past, Drogo has no shortage of decorations in his own lord's mansion.

He himself knew little about Fearing's artwork, but he chose to trust the vision of his former "peers".

What? What if someone comes to visit and recognizes me?

How to prove it!

Will it respond if you call its name?
These were all picked up. I just put them there at the beginning, thinking no one would want them.

Whoever gets something owns it, but this has always been Felin’s “fine” tradition.

The large museum in the royal city of Sutton also houses many collections from other small countries.

It is just displayed there openly, and there is even a small sign introducing the source.

At least Drogo doesn't even know where he came from.

However, since the ornaments were randomly selected from many years of collection, their origins are quite complicated and the styles are not very uniform. The final effect is somewhat similar in aesthetic to that of a doggerel enthusiast who likes to stamp calligraphy and paintings.

After watching it, Fulin gave the following comment: "Disgusting! I feel like my eyes are hurting if I look at it for one more second!"

And wanted to give Drogo an art lesson on the spot.

Drogo said that if he could do it, he could do it, but Flynn replied that she didn't have time.

Recently, Fulin has devoted almost all her energy to the junior class.

He is obviously the teacher of the magic general education course, but he is doing the job of the homeroom teacher.

There was no way. In her long life, she had never met more than two dozen students at a time who could understand her lectures.

It was so beautiful that it seemed a little unreal to her.

As for the decorative style of the lord's mansion, Drogo himself actually thought it was okay.

When it comes to aesthetics, the standards are still too vague.

The other criterion is much more specific.

price.

Only display the most expensive ones.

It is very consistent with the characteristics of a place where dragons would stay in legendary stories.

The architectural style of the entire manor is not the castle or manor commonly seen in Felin, but a style that is very novel to the locals.

It was a square, straight building with Drogo's logo on the door and a sign with black letters on a white background that read "Waterdeep Lord's Mansion". Outside was a large lawn and a wide square.

In the evening and on weekends, many citizens come to the square to stroll and play.

The only thing missing from the appearance he remembered was a tablet with the words "Serve the People" written on it.

Drogo still has self-awareness. Given his style, it is not appropriate to build such a monument.

The mansion here is not the lord's residence, but the common office location for a large number of functional departments.

It is very convenient for communication between different departments.

Today is the first day of handling work in the lord's mansion, and Drogo plans to work a serious day.

The organizational structure of Waterdeep City implements the "Lord Uselessness System".

Once the various departments are fully staffed, there are very few decisions that the lord must make.

Ideally, in the future, Drogo would be to Waterdeep what Gerda is to the North.

It's considered a mascot.

Unfortunately, it’s not possible now.

There are still many things that need Drogo to deal with.

Sitting at his desk, Drogo began to look through the latest report on the territory.

As a city that currently derives almost all of its income from the sale of industrial products, the main content of the report is naturally business-related.

Thanks to the good relations previously established with many business groups on the mainland, the sales network for the new products was established smoothly.

The only difference is that the things bought changed from toys to cars.

The biggest difference is that cars are too big and not very convenient to transport. They can only rely on railways and ships, and the transportation capacity is not ideal. Moreover, neither of these two modes of transportation can complete the last leg of the journey.

Currently, the most common way to transport cars to the store is to drive them there one by one.

Trucks powerful enough to transport family cars are still under development and are still a long way from mass production.

Besides, even if there are trucks, there are no highways, and it is unknown how long it will take for the infrastructure to be completed.

The infrastructure of the entire continent is not under the sole management of Drogo.

As a result, nearly 20% of the selling price of a car now consists of transportation costs.

Fortunately, the product is excellent and there is no competing product for the time being, so there is no need to worry about sales. Orders have been scheduled for two years later.

However, it is said that the many magic car workshops of the past have united to develop their own cars.

Zhuo Ge didn't care much about this. It was only a matter of time before competitors appeared. Although cars were very technologically advanced, the difficulty would be much lower if there was a sample that could be disassembled and studied.

Of course, Drogo will not just sit and wait for competitors to appear. He plans to cooperate with lords from other regions and build factories in more places.

The core components are provided by Deepwater City, and the remaining parts are assembled directly locally, which can save some transportation costs.

But what was beyond Drogo's expectations was that many nobles in various regions expressed their desire to build factories in their places and wanted to give them money.

Getting such a reply really made Drogo laugh.

I can't understand what those nobles are thinking.

It is clearly a good opportunity to increase employment and boost the economy, but they are still thinking about money.

How can we carry out the Industrial Revolution with these insects?

Fortunately, there are still some lords who have shown a strong willingness to cooperate and promised to provide preferential policies.

Zhuoge plans to improve the specifications of factory construction in these places to reflect Zhuoge Group's attitude towards its friends.

By the way, let those short-sighted nobles know how stupid their decision was.

In addition to automobiles, sales of new firearms are also considerable.

The outstanding performance on the battlefield of Augustan, coupled with the passionate promotion of the Devil Friends, made the Drogo Group's firearms the most well-known weapons at the moment.

Sales have been growing for some time, but have only stabilized in the last two weeks.

Civilians, adventurers, and non-governmental organizations that have a need for firearms have almost purchased all of them.

However, official organizations of various countries did not choose the Drogo Group.

Any country with a little bit of strength chooses to develop its own weapons.

After all, it is not very sensible to rely heavily on a caravan established by a stateless dragon for weapons.

It is said to be self-developed, but in fact it is just copying. The technical content of this thing is lower than that of a car. The gun institute mainly innovates in ideas, but there is no technological breakthrough.

At present, those countries are still relatively "ethical" and will bypass the patents of the Drogo Group when imitating.

Drogo had no doubt that once a state of war was entered, no one would care about patent protection.

Gun sales entered a period of stagnation and there were no new ideas for a while, so Peter stepped forward.

The guy who first came up with the idea of ​​magic firearms, turned to studying how to defend against the guns he designed, preferably one that he could carry with him.

It won't be long before magic bulletproof vests are available.

Another major source of income for Waterdeep City is the magic energy supply system that was demonstrated at the Expo. Most of the public facilities in the city were created on this basis.

With the exposure at the expo, many people noticed this magical system.

Many merchant groups even visited Waterdeep just to see it.

Drogo was prepared for these visitors.

There are many model rooms in the city that are specifically used to showcase magic energy systems.

When big businessmen from all over the world saw that after a rune stone connected with a wire was pushed into the base on the wall, the magic viewer lit up without the magic stone installed, they all exclaimed that this was simply a magical creation from the future.

All you need is a special rune stone to avoid the hard work of moving magic stones every day.

However, the earliest batch of magic energy machines sold were used in mines.

Used in the same place as early steam engines.

Buyers quickly got the taste of the benefits; it felt great to be able to use magic power almost everywhere.

Poor people are the workers in the mines.

Being able to use magical equipment anytime and anywhere does not reduce their working hours.

After the boss noticed the workers' improved efficiency, he chose not to allow the workers to rest after finishing their work, but instead raised the daily performance standards.

The new standard can only be achieved after becoming proficient in the use of magical tools.

Then they found that the single-person standard was so high that the mine did not need the original number of workers.

"Naturally", lay off the redundant people.

Then the mine owners were pleasantly surprised to find that they could lay off a few more people by simply giving the work of two people to one person.

In the past, when magical tools could not be used, one person would be exhausted to death if he had to do the work of two people. Now, he would only be half exhausted.

So another large number of people were laid off.

As for the remaining “lucky ones” whether they can get the salary of two people.

Why?
If you don't do it, people will do it.

It fully demonstrates the characteristics of the capitalist profession: every animal has its own way of doing things.

As a result, there were a lot more refugees around Waterdeep, most of whom were unemployed miners from the new mines.

Drogo absorbed them all into Waterdeep and made them workers again.

The report also mentioned that some people had recently appeared in the city to explore the magic energy supply system.

These people tried to establish contact with the staff of the Shenzhen Research Institute and asked for more information about the principles of the magic energy system.

Clearly not some curious enthusiast.

Some people also want to build it, so they hire people to gather information.

After investigating all the way back, I found that some countries have already established magic research teams and invested a lot of funds.

Therefore, Drogo found the person in charge of the magic energy machine production line.

"We will definitely strengthen the management of internal personnel to ensure that no one with bad intentions can obtain useful information!"

The person in charge patted his chest and assured.

He was once a member of the Deepwater City construction team. After seeing the speed of development here, he resolutely chose to stay. Step by step, he became the person in charge of the production line, and his salary increased several times.

A living example of the Waterdeep dream.

As a typical character, he appears in many promotional articles for Waterdeep.

When he was called here today, he thought it was because of the leak of information from the magic energy machine and they wanted to hold him accountable.

"No, no need. I will handle the affairs of those investigators. Before that, you can arrange someone to reveal a little more inside information." Drogo said.

"Ah? Boss, you mean, reveal it voluntarily!"

The person in charge wasn't sure if Drogo really meant it or was just being sarcastic and mocking him for not doing his job well.

"Yes, take the initiative to reveal it and try to let them see some hope of copying it, so that the financial backers behind them will increase their efforts and invest more funds." Drogo explained.

“But what if they really do it?”

"It doesn't matter if we make it. At the beginning, there were no large-scale production lines, and the cost was definitely much higher than ours. By that day..."

Drogo grinned.

"We lowered the price of the magic energy machine to a price lower than the production cost, and sold it aggressively, so that the things they copied with great difficulty could not be sold at all, and all the gold coins they invested were wasted."

At this moment, the person in charge deeply understood what Ms. Aisha meant when she said that the boss was not a serious dragon.

It is indeed ungentle to come up with such a way to defeat a competitor by "stabbing oneself in the back".

Drogo certainly did this not just to solve the current problem.

Now is the best opportunity to defeat competitors, and it is worth it to suffer some temporary losses.

As the magic energy machine continues to develop, it will become increasingly difficult to imitate it from scratch.

If a solid foundation is not laid at the beginning, the cost of imitation in the future will become an unacceptable figure.

Zhuogo may suffer a small loss now, but in return the entire industry will use him as the standard in the future.

By then he will be the National Magic Network!

Just think about it and you will be happy.

Finally, most of the contents in the report were processed.

Drogo stretched and thought he was tired, so he decided to start a game.

Ever since Fulynn became obsessed with teaching, Drogo's free time has increased significantly, and even his rank has improved a lot.

Just as the matching started, there was a knock on the door.

"Who is it?" Drogo sounded a little impatient. He didn't like being disturbed while playing games. He had a hunch that he might be able to score hundreds of points today!
"Boss." The voice of Zhuoer's assistant came from outside the door.

Although Drogo is the lord of Waterdeep, his subordinates are still accustomed to calling him boss.

"The initial construction work of the main campus of Deepwater University has been completed and is ready for inspection."

Hearing this, Drogo immediately lost his impatience, quit the game directly, and opened the door excitedly.

"Quick, take me to see it."

If everything were done according to Drogo's design, the University of Waterdeep would be much more fun than the game.

Soon, Drogo arrived at the station that led directly to the campus.

The university was built in the suburbs to allow for future expansion and so on.

There is another advantage of being in a place with fewer people: there aren't so many people wanting to walk into the school.

If the campus is completely closed, some people may feel that it is not free enough; if it is open and everyone can enter, many students will feel affected.

Drogo chose a compromise, being open but building it in a place where there were few outsiders.

As for why we have to come to the station instead of flying there or teleporting directly there.

That’s because the design of the school starts from the station, and this train is a special train for the school district.

Not only that, Drogo was standing in front of a wall in agitation.

Next to him was the principal and the designer who put Drogo's messy ideas into practice.

I always feel that the designer’s hair is a lot grayer than when he took on the project.

"Are you sure it's this wall?" Drogo asked.

"I'm quite sure. It's right here, the third pillar between Platform 9 and Platform 10, nine and three quarters, what you requested." (End of this chapter)