Chapter 401

After they went to the seaside, they looked around and soon found letis and others in the seaside restaurant. They were eating cold drinks on the open balcony on the second floor.

Niya waves at the top, and the three below respond, and then walk this way.

"Ice cream?"

They turned the dark walls and steps and went up to the second floor, where she said to them.

The location of this restaurant is excellent. On a small hillside, you can overlook most of the harbor. On the spacious open-air balcony on the second floor, there are umbrellas, small tables, rectangular wooden flower pots around, in which there are low flowers and plants, and a few round bars to form a guardrail, which is quite poetic.

"Want to eat ~" Lily likes sweets very much. She jumps and answers, and then walks over briskly.

After the three sat down, a few cups of ice cream decorated with cherries were brought up.

Blowing warm and comfortable sea breeze, drinking cold fruit juice, several people began to talk about what they saw and heard today.

"I've seen a lot of new things, some of which I like very much." Lily said so, and boumancha and Niya agreed.

"Of course, these are all great changes brought about by technological innovation." Lettiss was a little proud to say that as a descendant of the mage born in ruhner, she was very proud of it.

"It's really comfortable." Alina agrees, but she doesn't envy ruhner's new invention, because the southern islands under the Chuyue Council are developing well. Each has its own merits.

"What does Lorraine think?" Boumansha looked at the girl quietly drinking the juice.

"Me?" Lorraine hill has experienced similar things in her previous life, and naturally has not been greatly impacted. She just thinks that the current technology is not developing fast enough.

Ruerna, or Oz, has reached a very high level of machinery, power and other technologies in hundreds of years. However, it has not been popularized as fast as in previous generations, but the progress has slowed down.

Just now, she was thinking about the reason. After all, the world is different from the previous life.

"It feels very good, but why is it not popularized on a large scale? This is yubere. Although all aspects are good, other small places are still the same." Lorraine Hill answered.

"Probably because I can't afford it." Niya quite emotional said, good things are always expensive.

"It's a bit expensive, but the cost is there." Said letice, raising her finger.

"The purchase, refining and processing of raw materials all require money and cost."

"Which links cost a lot." Asked Lorraine hill with great interest. She wanted to know what you think of this world. Just a few of her companions came from all over the world.

"First of all, materials." Letis was deeply touched by this, and she was from the lurna alchemy faction.

"Metal ores are mined from various countries and then transported. Every time we turn hands, every time we pass a noble pass, we have to pay money. Finally, when we buy from merchants, the price is very difficult to go down."

"Manpower is also the reason." Alina talks about her own experience. She comes from the southern islands, where the population is not very dense.

"A lot of people have to farm, fish, do chores and so on. There are not many local people who can get jobs."

"Let people from other places come." Lily asked simply and directly.

"If outsiders come so far, they must give more money. Otherwise, they might as well stay at home. Moreover, if outsiders come, the local grain may not be able to support them, so they have to import grain, so the price will be higher."

"So." Lily is a little angry.

"In general, the profit margin is not big enough." Lorraine hill is thoughtful.

The high cost of materials and labor makes the profit margin of goods smaller, and the price is also difficult to be cheap, and there are only a small number of people who can afford it, so the market can not be expanded.

The market is small and the overall profit ceiling is not high. As a result, the related technologies and products are not explosive amplification, but progress is slow.

"But it's better now." Said lettiss, holding her cup and looking at the busy harbor.

"After the merger of ruerna and Vilga, the resources, land, population and market have all expanded a little, which is not as difficult as before."

"If frost rose continues to expand and merge the resources of the whole Xuehua seven countries, it should be able to break through the previous imprisonment." Alina said with a sigh.

"Without the restrictions imposed by nobles, the import price of raw materials can be reduced, and the labor cost can also be reduced when the population flows." He added.

"Well, that's it. Isn't it very powerful“ Letis said brightly.

"But what I like most about Alina is to break your alchemy fantasy." Alina raised her finger.

“？” Letis looks at Alena a little puzzled.

"We are not bad at all. If we do it, the effect will certainly be good. It's really uncertain which side will win in the future." Alina is swinging her fingers.

"Well, well, you two don't argue."

Although Alina and letis have been roommates for more than a year, they are just like enemies. Some of their ideas are always different.

After a few people sit on the second floor of the restaurant for a while, they return to the place where they live. Alena and her three also take back the musical instruments they bought from each other.

At the dinner table, the two continued their previous argument.

"It's easy to cool down, save food, or make ice cream with alchemy props." Letis talked about the advantages of alchemy.

"It's not difficult. We have a kind of conch in the southern islands. After improvement, it has a natural inscription. As long as a little bit of magic crystal is added, it can also release air conditioning. And it's not made of metal, and it's not easy to break. "

"But the output is not high, and the cycle is long."

"The production is not low. Some islands and shallow waters specially cultivate this kind of conch. As long as a few mages maintain it, there will be thousands of them a year. Your production model needs more metal and metal. " Alina retorts.

"You can't popularize magic locomotives or even airships." Letis once again threw out the advantages of her own school.

"Well, although vehicles are not good, our special pack animals are more adaptable to all kinds of road conditions, and can run everywhere without road repair." Alina continued.

...

Lolan Hill quietly listened to the two people's argument, feeling waves of novelty, but also slowly sort out the characteristics and advantages of the two groups.

There is no doubt that the alchemy group overlaps with the industrial machinery of previous generations. Heavy industry, large-scale machinery, unified standards and production capacity are indeed dominant.

But they also have many advantages in biology, pharmacy, dealing with a variety of environments, small and flexible, low demand for materials, and so on.

If only we could combine the strengths of the two factions. Unfortunately, at present, it seems that there are still some difficulties.