The reason for this happening, Layton also mentioned in "Measures", is that several household magic appliances will be withdrawn one after another after the magic stove. This mainly depends on the progress of Chateau's student Jay.
Just as the magic stove can be popularized smoothly, it will also be conducive to the subsequent promotion of household magic appliances. Although the initial investment for products such as magic stoves is relatively high, in the long run, both cost and convenience are far superior to traditional ordinary ones. appliance.
There is still a comparison. More and more magic instruments in the future will not have similar existences in the past traditions. They are all brand-new concepts. In fact, they are still to facilitate people's lives.
For example, in the past, it was almost impossible for ordinary people to imagine the existence of a washing machine. Even the cleaning technique of the caster was not as easy to use as imagined and could only clean up some floating dust.
Dirt such as oil stains, odors, juices, etc. are not so easy to clean.
Of course, this is a traditional cleaning technique. For example, Xia Duo developed a new cleaning technique very early, but it can only clean up most common stains, rather than adapting to all future scenarios. Moreover, this technique is largely useless. To be specially adapted.
Adapting it to individuals, clothing, and various things that need to be cleaned may not be too troublesome for the individual spellcaster, but when it is used in a universal appliance, it is not that simple.
And if you consider the principle of washing machines on earth, detergent has become a big trouble.
In short, household magic tools have a lot of room for development, and they are also the main focus of future civilized magic work in the territory. The popularity of magic lamps has laid a good foundation for this work.
Once the magic stove has successfully entered thousands of households and allowed most residents to enjoy the convenience of magic, then if such magic appliances are withdrawn in the future, there will be no need to try every means to promote them, but the problem of insufficient production capacity. .
Thinking of this, Xia Duo pulled out the "Measures" document that was still under discussion, left an "agree" mark on it, and put it on the desk aside, waiting for Leiden to come here next time. You can see it when the time comes.
Of course, it doesn't have to be Leiden. Leiden's clerks will come here almost every other day to save copies of documents. If they see documents approved by the lord, they will naturally bring them to Leiden. Shado doesn't need to worry about this at all.
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In addition to specific measures to promote magic tools, this column of bookshelves also contains some of Leiden's thoughts on magic tools for civilian use in the territory, as well as Jay's responses to them.
They introduced their team’s research and development progress on magic instruments, as well as their feasible answers to Leiden’s proposal. Among them, the most mentioned ones were the cost and manufacturing difficulty.
Xia Duo roughly browsed through it. Most of the various magic tools being developed by Jay's team are not high in cost - of course this is compared to traditional magic items. If the cost is found to be too high during the development process, Jay will decisively interrupt it. Research and develop, save data, and wait for another chance to restart in the future.
The cost of these magic tools is no more than ten or twenty gold coins, or more expensive than five hundred. Xia Duo noticed that the most expensive magic tool in Jay's plan was named [Home Force Field Barrier] by him. .
It has not entered the research and development stage yet, but based on the price of traditional magic items, the cost of five hundred gold coins has been initially estimated. Of course, these costs are after labor is deducted.
As for labor costs, the current cost of magic technicians here in the Tower of Time is relatively uniform. There is no situation where high-level magic items are more expensive. The salary of magic mechanics has nothing to do with the level of magic items. It is related to the working hours and the time to complete the link to the magic network. It depends on the number of spell elements.
Although objectively high-level magic items contain more elements and require longer working hours, for the Tower of Time, a unified wage standard is more meaningful for long-term development.
"Perhaps we can add more people to the household magic equipment research and development team!"
Although the Tower of Time was short of manpower, Xia Duo still seriously considered this matter. This would not only help promote the civilization of magic in his territory, but also sell these magic instruments to the outside world in exchange for various investment in the construction of the territory. resource.
For now, the only material that Shado does not need to import from the outside is fine gold. Others such as mithril. Even if he has arcane strings that are close to the strings of the magic network, it is impossible to completely replace mithril.
To explain it in earthly terms, it should be that the stability of Mithril itself is not as stable as Arcane Strings, but the robustness of magic items based on Mithril materials is higher than that of Arcana String creations.
After all, no matter how close the Arcane String is to the Magic Network String, it is still not the real Magic Network String. It is essentially the material projection of the Arcane Energy from the Magic Network String.
Even if its nature is very stable, the nature of its energy is still not as reliable as mithril, which is a material, when forming a complex system.
Therefore, for Shado, he usually only uses arcane strings in places that cannot be replaced by mithril, such as Mythra, high-flux portals, etc. Even if other places require more frequent maintenance, he prefers them. For using mithril.
From this point on, the superiority of the Mystic Lock becomes even more prominent. It is directly reshaped using the Strings of the Magic Network, and is essentially divorced from the concept of ordinary magic items.
It does not require frequent maintenance, and its stability is also guaranteed. There are often mythical locks that have been lost for hundreds of years and still survive, but it is rare to hear of any magic items that can be used for hundreds of years.
It's no wonder that even if the Red Heart Alliance in the projection plane has a brand new magic system, it will regard the mystery of the elf magic system as the main application direction of the new magic system.
But even in the Red Heart Alliance, mithril is an important magic material that is very excluded, and it is even more impossible for Sha Duo now.
Selling household magic instruments and other mass-produced magic items that may be more combat-oriented in exchange for raw materials such as mithril is in line with the general trend of the territory's development.
Of course, if you have the opportunity in the future, you still need to find a few more rich mithril mines. Making money from others does not count as much. Only when you have mines yourself can you really be able and confident. And if you have mines yourself, you don’t necessarily have to do it right away. Mining.
Xia Duo now has a mithril mine, but he has no intention of mining it at all. Instead, he uses it as a strategic reserve. He should try to buy other people's mines when he can.
In addition to mines, not only mithril mines, but also gold, silver, copper, etc., the best result is actually to discover the elemental composition of these substances.
At present, Xia Duo has mastered the elemental composition of a total of fifteen kinds of substances, including fine gold and iron, which can be produced in batches. If the elemental composition of more key resources can be mastered, the dependence of Daxia Territory on external resources can be said to be reduced. At the lowest level, we can have the greatest initiative in all kinds of external interactions.
(End of chapter)
