Chapter 482 The Future Industrial Center of the Salvation Papal State
It rained heavily for three days straight, and even the sewage in the sewer overflowed from the fir boards.

On the slippery and muddy streets, every day when you open the door, you can see groups of slimes crawling around on the bricks and rolling around happily.

However, specialized craftsmen will soon arrive with temporary hired laborers, arrest all the slimes, peel off their skin and extract their tendons, and make them into one of the raw materials for mortar.

It was not until the fourth day that the rain gradually subsided. The mist-like raindrops lightly embraced the long embankment, and the blue-gray stones seemed to be covered with a layer of transparent rain fluff.

Wearing an oilcloth cape and holding an oil-paper umbrella, which was better than nothing, Horn stood on the top of the dam, looking at the lake water hitting the dam like waves.

Although he was holding an umbrella, his body and face were wet with rain, which stuck his black hair to the corners of his mouth.

Due to the special climate of Qianhe Valley, the rain here does not fall straight down like in the south of the Yangtze River, but blows diagonally or even flies horizontally.

Horn originally thought that the locals preferred to wear cloaks instead of umbrellas because umbrellas could not be made.

But when he opened the umbrella, he found that the rain had stopped. When he didn't open the umbrella, he found that it was raining again. After he opened the umbrella, the flying rain blew all over his face. Then he found that the clown was himself.

Horn handed the umbrella in his hand to Armand unhappily, put on his hood, walked on the slippery floor tiles, and continued forward.

Five days have passed since Horn returned from the underground palace. Currently, news about the underground palace has only been circulated among senior officials in a small circle.

As for the murals in the underground palace, Horn had someone roughly draw them, and Shilov is still deciphering the two books.

These two pieces of information will be used as internal reference materials for the Salvation Army and can only be seen by people with certain permissions.

The events caused by the Demon Hunter ended here.

The only puzzle is that the person who acted secretly has not shown up yet. They have checked several times but have not found any reliable results.

But Horn didn't care. He was unprepared before, but now the security force on Qiumu Island has increased two or three times.

If that person really came with malicious intentions, Horn would make sure he/she would be in big trouble.

In the pouring rain that followed, Horn had to stop many of his daily activities.

The two or three days of rain were the time when he could truly rest, until today when Armand brought the news that the day scheduled to open the sluice gates to release water had finally arrived.

"What time will the gates open?" With his hands behind his back, Horn looked at the turbid dark blue water in front of him. Water plants, gravel and mud were surging underwater, and there were also many fish bones and branches rolling in it.

"About an hour later, we are doing the final check." Armand stood about two feet behind Horn.

Horn turned around and faced the previously dry riverbed.

After a few days of heavy rain, the sludge in the river became thicker and wetter.

In this sticky, wet mud, hundreds of people were running back and forth barefoot, their trouser legs and cheeks covered with yellow and black mud spots.

Horn sometimes even saw a few pieces of mud floating on some people's arms. Upon closer inspection, he found that it was river mud stuck to the hair on their arms.

According to the hydraulic talents recruited by Horn (many of whom were captives, and even some were knights), the criterion for judging whether a river worker is working hard is to look at his calves.

Because any river worker who works hard will have his calves left without a single hair on them by the mud.

But they were also amazed that these paid laborers were much more efficient than their service laborers.

Some people even did careful calculations and found that the higher the salary, the harder the workers worked and the higher their efficiency.

With higher efficiency, the total time to complete the project is shorter, and then less money is spent, and the total salary spent is lower.

So the more you earn, the less money you make.

But to be honest, Horn believes that their reasoning process is to deduce from nothing to nothing, because they did not even take into account the two things that really work - clockwork machinery and collective consciousness.

Not to mention the clockwork machinery, this primitive collective consciousness passed down from the Gulag era has reduced the difficulty of managing labor in the Papal State of Savior by several levels.

Talking about this, Horn couldn't help but think of the craftsman exam a few days ago.

The Qiumu Island craftsman examination is divided into two parts, the first one is a written test.

However, since there are many unsophisticated craftsmen, many of them handed in blank papers. But it doesn’t matter, because if everyone is equally bad, it means they are all okay.

The second round is the most important practical test. The sawmill workers saw wood, the textile workers weave, and the dyers print and dye on site. The time for each type is different according to the working hours of the finished product.

The examination for dyers can last three to five days, while that for sawyers is over in half a day.

For example, the clothing craftsman exam requires designing and making a piece of cold-proof clothing to be worn between an underwear and a coat based on existing materials within a specified time according to Horn's needs.

Surprisingly, among the two craftsmen attacked by Aigalang, one named Aslai turned out to be an excellent all-round tailor.

The improved jackfruit he designed was successfully selected as the first, as it met Horn's requirements and was in line with the characteristics of the existing materials.

In appearance, his design was very similar to the Victorian woolen waistcoats Horn remembered, indicating that Asler was basically on the right track.

There must be a reason why Horn set up the craftsman examination on Autumn Dusk Island in this way.

The first product designed by Asleil will be the first order that Horn gives to his workshop.

500 woolen waistcoats, prepaid by the Papal Palace, to be delivered before winter.

These woolen vests are not tailor-made in the way that the original tailor shops did, but are made according to uniform model sizes.

These vests and other clothing will be first put into various shops and grocery stores under the name of the Papal Palace, and the price will be lower than custom-made ones.

If sales are good, Horn will continue to place additional orders. If sales are not good, Aslay will have to find orders on his own.

One of Horn's development goals for Autumn Island is to focus on the textile and clothing industry.

At the current level of civilization, the only industry with large gaps in food, clothing, housing and transportation across the empire that can be developed and profitable is the textile industry.

The history of his hometown proves that both the Netherlands and England started out by relying on textile and light industries.

The former caught up with the dividend of the Reformation, while the latter caught up with the dividend of the steam engine and took the Netherlands as the dividend itself.

Qiumu Island or Dazexiang is full of dividends from clockwork machinery and alchemy.

The former can get rid of water power and animal power and produce a large number of standard textile industrial products stably and quickly.

The latter brings a variety of exotic alchemical products, including slime gel, mortar, mountain copper and various alchemical potions.

Take slime gel as an example. As a dye fixative, it has extremely strong cloth adsorption ability and can firmly fix the dye on the fiber.

The printing and dyeing effect of using slime gel as an auxiliary material can even make the worldview of experienced dyers collapse.

If this were a high-magic world, these old dyers would probably have their heads exploded because they could not accept the new knowledge.

The most outrageous thing about Qiumu Island is that these two bonuses are basically tied to it itself.

Due to the political environment, many wizards within the Papal State prefer to live in Dazexiang rather than in cities outside.

Because the residents of this place are the most pious, the customs are relatively open and there are naturally many priests, they will not be discriminated against too much.

As for the clockwork machinery, since the Starforge gear needs to be recharged every 15 to 20 days, the Starforge gear cannot be too far away from the Ether Spire.

Otherwise, it is very likely that there will not be enough time to recharge, resulting in low efficiency.

This means that many powerful clockwork machines cannot leave the range of Autumn Dusk Island and can only build workshops on Autumn Dusk Island.

Horn planned to move the ruling center to Autumn Island, not only because it was the old pious base, but also because of practical factors.

If Horn were asked to guess the future industrial center of the Papal States, he would guarantee that it would be the island in the lake before him.

"Speaking of which, the distribution of Star-cast gears was just counted a few days ago. Would you like to hear about it?" Armand suddenly spoke as he listened to Horn's words.

"Why didn't you tell me about this earlier?" Horn looked at the confused Armand and suddenly remembered that he was the one who ordered not to disturb him for non-emergency matters.

He coughed before saying, "Then tell me about it."

(End of this chapter)