Industrial Revolution of the Mage Lords

Chapter 120 The Prototype of Industrialization
After some bargaining through the spell messenger, Harvey obtained the first purchase order for the "Magic Stone Steam Engine", and the buyer was still from his old partner, the Dragon Stone Chamber of Commerce.

Compared to the profits he made on the Spellcaster Forum, the transaction amount was actually not that high.

A "Magic Stone Steam Engine" costs 150 gold pounds, including the machine itself and a complete set of replacement parts, as well as specialized operating training.

However, the newly established machinery factory currently has a low output. Limited by the workers' technical proficiency and cast iron production, it can only assemble a maximum of five qualified finished machines per month. The Longshi Chamber of Commerce's huge order for twenty machines can only be postponed to delivery in batches within four months.

But Harvey was still very satisfied with the deal. The order amount was a full three thousand gold pounds, and all the materials used were produced in the territory. The iron ore from the southwest mining area was transported back to the ironworks in the territory to be directly smelted into iron ingots, and then transferred to the iron foundry to complete the casting of various parts, and finally sent to the machinery factory for assembly.

This is already an extremely complete industrial production chain.

Putting aside the labor and raw material costs, the net profit can be close to 1500%, allowing Harvey to make a net profit of gold pounds.

Moreover, the subsequent equipment maintenance, parts replacement, modification and many other after-sales support require the machines to be sent back to the pioneer territory for completion. This continuous income will gradually expand profits as the production and sales of machines increase, and can provide a large number of jobs for the territory and cultivate an extremely mature group of technical workers.

The pioneers originally took in refugees and slaves living in the northern wilderness. They had been homeless for generations, or were enslaved by evil orcs and tied to livestock pastures. Their offspring had the same future and saw no hope at all.

Before coming to the territory, most people lived a numb life day after day. What drove them to work and hunt was not the desire from their hearts, but the constant hunger and the whips and blades of the evil orc slave owners, which resulted in extremely low efficiency of their production and labor and very high manpower losses.

There are also a large number of poor people in the countries of the southern continent who have lost their land or are driven to flee their homeland due to high taxes and are forced to become serfs.

Harvey believed that the low social productivity during this period was probably caused by this unreasonable and cruel serfdom system, which was the biggest enemy of the industrialization process and must be abolished within its own territory.

Therefore, Harvey provides all the refugees who join the pioneer territory with an opportunity to change their identity and destiny, work hard to earn income, and accumulate assets for themselves to benefit their descendants.

Or they can receive education, upgrade their jobs from manual labor to technical work, and ultimately achieve class transition.

Typical examples among them are professional soldiers in the regular army and managers in municipal departments. They are the first group of people to taste the benefits of class leap, and will undoubtedly greatly encourage latecomers to follow suit and quickly integrate into the institutional ecology of the territory.

In addition to the machinery factory, Harvey also plans to build new textile mills, steel mills, shipyards, steam carriage shops and other production and manufacturing ports that are in line with the development of industrialization.

After all, it is impossible for Harvey to achieve the complete industrialization of the territory by relying on his shallow experience as a time traveler to piece together a magic steam engine.

Besides, he was not a technician in the relevant profession in his previous life, and he couldn't even understand mechanical design drawings.

Only by attracting enough people to participate in the manufacturing, transportation and sales of industrial products can we truly set off this wave of development.

As long as these basic industrial prototypes appear in the territory and get on track, there will be an endless supply of supporting industries emerging in the future. Letting them develop freely at the beginning may lead to inefficiency and a terrible product qualification rate, but they will gradually become proficient and train qualified professional workers.

As long as he has the right people, Harvey has the confidence to not only realize the internal circulation of various materials and commodities within the territory, but also take into account the revenue-generating import and export business, and spread his business empire throughout the southern countries.

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"Sir, the office space of the Police Department, the inspection department you requested, has been completed. The Construction Department completed the detailed internal construction yesterday, and the subsequent personnel recruitment..." Reiner stood behind Harvey and reported in a rambling manner, holding a work record manual.

"How's the recruitment going? Aren't there enough people applying? I remember the salary was no less than what you get at farms and factories..."

For a long time, all security and crime detection work in the territory was directly handed over to the patrol team of the defense army, but this was not a long-term solution, especially as the territory wall was about to be completed. These soldiers, who were originally responsible for the defense of the territory, had to shoulder the defense of the territory wall and the daily vigilance around the territory.

The armed forces of the army should not directly intervene in the internal supervision of the territory. The magic guns in the hands of the soldiers must always be pointed outward consistently, and they must never aim the guns at their compatriots at will.

Therefore, it is necessary to have a semi-armed organization independent of the army and the territorial laws that arise accordingly.

The formulation, interpretation and adjustment of laws are of course best left in the hands of Harvey, the supreme ruler of the territory.

However, a concise and effective inspection agency is the basic guarantee for the smooth implementation of laws and regulations.

"The Police Department is responsible for monitoring the municipal center and identifying and arresting individuals or groups that may threaten the stability of the territory. This department is directly responsible to me and is completely independent of the military and municipal departments..."

Harvey turned to Reiner and instructed, "So, when it comes to recruiting, you must maintain a tight rein. Only select refugees from the Northern Territory with clean identities and simple backgrounds. Don't let anyone from the Southern Territory infiltrate to avoid any accidents."

Reiner nodded and honestly wrote down what Harvey said.

"Sir, what I wanted to talk about earlier was the issue of recruiting... The Defense Force and the Northern Army have just undergone a recruitment expansion, and young people who meet the requirements are more willing to join the army rather than join... uh, the National Police Agency."

"After all, an ordinary soldier's monthly salary is 120 gold yuan, and they also provide food and lodging in the barracks." Reiner paused, his tone rather complicated. "Even factory workers can get a salary of 100 gold yuan per month. If the recruitment salary of the police department is the same as that of workers, those young people who meet the requirements will prefer factory work. After all, they can also learn a useful skill..."

Harvey slapped his forehead and remembered that the salaries for various jobs he had casually quoted seemed a bit arbitrary and unreasonable because they were related to the issuance of printed banknotes.

Basic production departments such as farms, factories and mines should naturally encourage everyone's enthusiasm for participating in labor by providing more pay for more work, stable basic salary and floating overtime pay.

Institutions such as the military, municipal administration departments and police departments should fix a higher salary limit to ensure "high salaries to maintain integrity" and also have clear "promotion channels". Otherwise, they will gradually breed a group of government parasites who are just sitting in their positions and doing nothing, which will have a negative impact on the future development of the territory.

"Reiner, prepare a set of paper and pen for me. I need to readjust the salary system for all professional positions in the territory..."

Reiner was startled and asked in a daze, "Sir, are you going to cut the salary?"

Harvey laughed and said, "Of course not! Re-adjustment means an overall salary increase! To encourage everyone to work harder!"

As for different positions, the increase in salary will naturally be different...

(End of this chapter)