episode_0053

Cass and Crommel traveled to A1, the original target pilot factory complex, in an early steam car.

And before we knew it, the steam car carrying Cass had left the Revolutionary Workers’ Street where the car parade was taking place and arrived at the main gate checkpoint of the A1 industrial complex.

When the steam train arrived, the main gate guards, who were on sharp guard, immediately stood in an orderly manner on both sides of the road and saluted, allowing entry into the A1 industrial complex.

“Vivat Revolution! All salute to Kasduks and Crom’el!”

“Vivat Revolution! Long live our leader and His Excellency!”

Cass sat on the right side of the passenger seat of the steam train and waved his hand loudly in response to the guards’ enthusiastic salute.

“There really are a ton of guards. The security seems to be as good as I wanted.”

“As Dux has repeatedly said, the A1 pilot factory complex is a very important starting point where our future depends. So, the industrial complex is well secured starting at the checkpoint so that no one can get information without permission.”

The security is really tight. A large site stone wall at the main gate checkpoint. Besides, each factory also has a stone wall, right?

It was the Kingdom of Bemes during the Middle Ages, and here in the A1 industrial complex, there were a lot of completed factories with strong stone walls, as if the enclosure movement of the Industrial Revolution had already begun.

The A1 pilot factory complex is large, but when was the factory site completed like this?

Even though it was a mixed medieval and modern factory with a short construction time, the construction speed was extremely fast.

Like the Revolutionary Workers’ Street, the original streets were not renovated, but factories were clearly built on flat land. This is really amazing.

“Honestly, I thought only a few factories would operate diligently on this vast land. However, when I inspected it in person, it was a large, fully completed factory complex.”

“Although the A1 factory complex has not yet grown as large as desired, the wizards of the Water Magic Tower, numerous super-human workers who came through the Raivis Merchant Association, and surplus workers such as refugees within the enormous territory made a great effort.”

“Still, the construction period has only been a little over a month, and it’s only summer, but we’ve already seen this kind of progress.”

Construction of the factory site was completed at such a crazy pace in just over a month.

As people took on the role of heavy equipment with special power, the speed of construction of human labor was unmatched even by the Roman army, which was considered a master of construction.

While I was impressed by the amazingly fast construction, we continued to move by steam train to meet the factory capitalists of the A1 industrial complex.

Soon, we were able to meet the future bourgeoisie who were waiting for us in a nearby vacant lot, where they had set up a tent to protect themselves from the full summer sunlight.

All of them were big and small capitalists who were owners of factories and invested in us through various channels with the Raibis Awards.

“Oh! Kasduks, the pioneer of a new era! It’s truly an honor to meet you for the first time! My name is Henry Cassel, and I am the representative of the G-Rex Factory Association!”

“Hello. Henry Cassel. My name is Cas Magdia. I am a humble academy student.”

“What are you talking about! I stayed up all night reading your wonderful autobiography, Mein Kampf, full of nationalistic ideas and sound economics! And then I realized! The Kingdom of Bemes definitely needs a revolution! You are a true prophet who came down to the ruined Kingdom of Bemes!”

Oh, you read my exaggerated propaganda autobiography, a highly edited version of Mr. Hitler’s original? No, it’s a completely fantasy-filled autobiography that mixes nationalism and modern ideas related to liberal nationalism instead of fascism and anti-Semitism with an exaggerated version of my life… .

The autobiography of the birth story of Cas Magdia, which was more embarrassing than expected for a factory association representative to read, seemed to be selling really well.

How could such a big-time capitalist read all night long!

How on earth could the factory association representative read that?

No matter how fast the revolution was, I felt ashamed and ashamed that Cas Magdia’s autobiography of Mein Struggle, which described my life and the hardships of 10 years as a traitor so brilliantly, was widely distributed through the printing press.

I felt that the story that the public was passionate about with only a book of liberal nationalist ideology was not enough for the revolution, so it is a fantasy autobiography that tried to create a wonderful narrative of the revolution, like the late Van Gogh who eventually went from obscurity to a famous artist through his story, but it is too much of a propaganda genius. Did you refer to Hitler’s book?

“The content of the autobiography, except for the content related to liberal nationalism, is largely dramatized and exaggerated, so I would really appreciate it if you could read my exaggerated life as a novel… .”

“No! Because you are such an amazing man, isn’t it because Divaella, the Sword of Ten Thousand Faces, the highest grade 4 holy relic, chose you after a long sleep of over a hundred years?”

Henry Cassel seemed to have done something wrong and refuted me in an enthusiastic voice, deifying me.

No shit. That life story is completely exaggerated and fictional? Please trust me.

However, the attitude toward accepting Henry Cassel’s autobiography of Mein Kampf as truth did not change.

“Dux! Please do not deny your great birth and life! An ordinary person like me is so burdened by Dux’s humility!”

Oh shit. Did you say this bastard was Henry Cassel? A man who was truly incommunicado became the representative of the factory association.

I secretly whispered worriedly to Count Kromelle next to me.

“Is this okay? You completely believe in that absurd birth myth-level autobiography? Does it make sense that this man is the representative of the factory association in G-Rex territory? Isn’t it dangerous?”

“Dux. it’s okay. Henry Cassel is clearly a great businessman and inventor! With his help, we have now begun mass production of conveyor belts derived from caterpillar technology. He is a trustworthy man who is capable enough.”

“No. The problem is my mental state of believing in my extremely exaggerated autobiography for propaganda purposes!”

“Wasn’t that half-truth? I just thought that was the case… .”

No shit. Give me back my solemn and serious revolutionary comrade Kromel!

This man also half believed the terrible autobiography called “My Struggle” that deified me.

Fuck. I despaired because even if it was already forcibly taken out of print, it would be copied and sold again by the people like crazy along with the revolutionary ideology of liberal nationalism.

I am not the crazy northern pig general who makes grenades out of pine cones!

Ha shit. Anyway, I focused my mind again. No matter where you went, all you had to do was make the revolution successful. Holy crap.

If I can significantly intervene in the regime of the Kingdom of Bemes through a successful revolution, I will burn the whole book.

“Okay then! Take a tour with me of steam-powered spinning machines, weaving machines, reverberatory furnaces, and countless other factories producing everyday items!”

I got off the steam train and started touring the factory with Cromwell under the guidance of Henry Cassel.

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“This is the steam-powered spinning mill that spins yarn from our vaunted cotton!”

Cheek! The sound of steam spurting and crackling! The sound of coal burning fiercely was heard countless times in the spinning mill.

A huge steam engine converted the enormous force created by piston motion into the force of smooth circular motion with a large disk, turning the gears of the factory’s mechanical weaving machines round and round, causing countless mechanical weaving machines to move automatically and pull out thread from the cotton supplied by the workers. .

“That’s really amazing. Newcomen’s steam engine has now become a James Watt steam engine with perfect circular motion!”

“That’s right! Now, with just two coal and a metal steam engine, this gigantic factory can produce yarn as quickly as now on mechanical looms, replacing countless people!”

I was constantly impressed by the mechanical spinning machines that produced cotton thread at a speed more than 300 times that of a handmade spinning wheel.

That’s really crazy speed. Also, unlike the wheelwright, if only the engineers work shifts, the machines never rest.

“Do you really think cotton yarn profits from spinning mills will be good?”

“It’s no joke. Although the factory has not yet been in operation for a month, merchants who have become known through the Raibis Awards have already placed many pre-orders for cotton thread. In addition, the number of people who are purchasing cotton, moving away from wool fabrics, is gradually increasing after learning about the uniform and dense quality of cotton produced through steam-powered weaving factories.”

Henry Cassel made a large coin shape with his thumb and forefinger, expressing that the profits that spinning and weaving mills would make in the future would be no joke.

“But, what is the working environment at the factory?”

“The working environment sufficiently follows the revolutionary ideology so as not to go against the free nationalism of the revolution. We don’t want to suddenly get beaten to death by workers. Haha.”

Are you following the advice?

The basic labor intensity during the Industrial Revolution was that workers worked 14 to 16 hours a day. However, in order to provide more employment and strong support for the revolution, I completely banned child labor, which must have a factory employment rate of more than 20%.

The main concepts of syndicalism – 8 hours of work, 8 hours of rest, and 8 hours of sleep – were also actively accepted and the factories were forcibly given a working environment as similar to that of modern developed countries as possible.

There were concerns about weakening profitability of Chairman Sonbai Laibis along the way.

I was able to persuade them by explaining well the enormous efficiency of the machine and the future expansion of new markets and the emergence of consumerism.

So, in my industrial revolution, there was no mention of labor exploitation or collapse of the common people.

Anyway, if you try to cheer up the people, you will only create a lot of bourgeois robber aristocrats of the Gilded Age who will get in the way of a quick revolution.

For me now, it was a time when I needed to expand the influence and support of the revolution so greatly that the royal family could not recklessly start a civil war in order to enter the capital bloodlessly, like Lenin’s communist revolution in October.

Rather than throwing a fancy party for wealthy conglomerates who will drastically reduce the influence and support of my revolution.

“And here in the reverberatory furnace, every day workers take useless pig iron and turn it into huge quantities of wrought iron or steel!”

After stopping by the spinning mill and, as a bonus, the weaving mill that weaves cloth, Henry Cassel proudly took us to the steel mill, the reverberatory furnace, and began introducing the huge reverberatory furnaces inside.

“Pig iron, which is easily mass-produced from iron ore and coke, is made using coke made by high-temperature and carbonized coal instead of charcoal. Rather than making wrought iron by laboriously hammering it with manpower to remove impurities, large amounts of wrought iron and steel can be made directly. These are reverberatory reactors that can produce!”

As Henry Cassel said, the role and significance of the reverberatory reactor was as follows.

Pig iron, full of impurities, can be easily made in large quantities by combining iron ore and coke, a fuel, in a forged iron furnace, without the extreme labor of removing impurities with the terrible endless hammering unique to the Middle Ages.

By making full use of the radiant heat structure of the separate coal combustion chamber and iron reaction chamber of the reverberatory furnace, pig iron was easily converted into ready-to-use wrought iron and steel with impurities removed.

If the melting time of pig iron in a reverberatory furnace is shortened at a high temperature, it becomes steel, and if it is lengthened at a low temperature, it is decarbonized well and becomes ductile iron.

So, to put it simply, rather than turning pig iron, the most difficult activity of a blacksmith, into wrought iron by hammering, a reverberatory furnace easily changes pig iron into wrought iron, which can be used in large quantities, and directly into steel without the cumbersome carburizing process.

This was a massive evaporation of the human labor required to produce iron.

Even the bellows for oxygen supply in the coal combustion chamber of the reverberatory furnace and the stirring of the molten iron-lime mixture in the iron reaction chamber, which are human labor for the reverberatory furnace, were replaced by steam engines that would do the bellows and stirring that humans would do.

In the end, to summarize, through the ingot iron furnace that makes pig iron from iron ore, which is highly automated with the developed steam engine, and the reverberatory furnace that makes wrought iron and steel from pig iron,

With the automation of steam engines, humans were able to make wrought iron and pig iron, which were actually used, from iron ore without a lot of labor, using giant steam engines, which were 100 times more than the amount of iron made by hand.

“I’m going crazy. It is the age of infinite iron. Steelmaking has already reached the end of the first industrial revolution. I don’t know if we’ll soon be able to come up with a reverberatory furnace, which is an evolution of the second industrial revolution.”

My heart trembled when I thought about the industrial revolution and the infinite amount of iron that would be used in new weapons in the future.

And as I saw countless daily necessities being produced rapidly through division of labor using the conveyor belt invented by Henry Cassel at his household goods factory, I felt the beginning of mass production.

Indeed, the rich and powerful technologies from my past life in my memories were slowly becoming reality.

Cass could only smile at the wonders of the modern production plant as the bright future of revolution ahead came to mind.

The heart that would support the revolution was working furiously.