Lord of Industrialization

The structure of the Southern Fruit Company is no different from that of the big companies in the Duchy of Wessen. After Waldemar was promoted, there were basically no major problems.

The company's work was in order. Although there were flaws, they were within the controllable range.

Frederick was very satisfied. He asked them to report a work briefing to the shareholders every month and report detailed progress every three months without giving any instructions.

Maria and everyone in the company breathed a sigh of relief. They finally passed the test.

"I knew you were fine." Susan said while tidying up her winning pajamas, "Don't you know him yet? As long as there are no problems in principle, mistakes are inevitable. Just correct them."

Maria sat on the sofa, patted her chest and said, "You don't know, he always has a stern face these days, which scared me to death."

Susan covered her mouth and laughed and said, "I thought you were playing some game."

Maria looked at the pajamas. It was better to say that it was a fishing net than a pajamas. It was strung with gold beads and various gems, and only had some key shielding functions.

"You are the one playing games," she said to Susan, "the carpenter came to fix the bed this morning."

Susan blushed slightly.

Before, Frederick was only slightly intimate because she was young.

This year she is sixteen years old. A few days ago, she put on her winning pajamas and went to Frederick's bedroom.

Susan said to Maria, "When it's your turn, you have to change to an iron bed. The wooden bed will definitely collapse."

Maria blushed and started to play with Susan.

At this time, Frederick was in a fishing port on the coast of Cyclops Island. This coastal area was a cliff with a beach of more than 200 meters between the cliffs. The local landlords built several villas on the cliffs to rent to tourists.

Now the Grand Duke of Mainz and the Grand Duke of Bavaria live here. They fish, play chess, and take a walk every day. They live a leisurely life.

After Frederick arranged the affairs of the Southern Fruit Company, he came to find the two of them. He didn't expect to chat about an extraordinary topic.

Serfs, a group that occupies a major position in agricultural production in the north.

Serfs were attached to the landlord's manor and had no freedom of life. For example, without the lord's permission, they could not permanently leave the territory or village, marry, change their occupations, or dispose of their property.

But correspondingly, they were protected by the lord.

In literary works, stray dogs are often used to describe free people, while serfs are livestock.

Although stray dogs are free, there is no "animal protection" here, and they need to bear social risks themselves.

Although livestock are hard-working, they are at least safe in the territory, and the lord does not want others to harm their property.

Free people will become serfs due to bankruptcy and other reasons.

Serfs can only become free people through liberation, redemption, or escape by the lord.

In today's society, such production relations are adapted to the current productivity.

Because of the food problem in the territory and the allies, Frederick distributed part of the light industry to the Duchy of Mainz and the Duchy of Bavaria, and exported a large number of agricultural machinery, fertilizers and fine seeds. Now their industrial and agricultural development has begun to encounter the obstacle of serfdom.

The use of agricultural machinery not only improved production efficiency and reduced the demand for agricultural population, but also broke the original strip-field system. Each serf had one field, which made agricultural machinery useless.

At the same time, the newly built factories needed a large number of workers, but the serfs were bound to the land and could not become workers at will.

In the new territories occupied by Frederick in the past decade, the serfs were liberated by him to obtain the status of freemen.

One of the causes of the trade route war in the past few years was that a large number of serfs from the Duchy of Franconia and the Regens Union fled to the Duchy of Wessen and became freemen.

Hoffman, a famous factory owner in Wessenburg, used to be a serf. His sister was redeemed and married after being favored by the old birch. At first, he relied on paying extra taxes and his parents staying on the farm to temporarily redeem his freedom.

Frederick had foresight and solved this problem at the beginning.

The Duchy of Mainz and the Duchy of Bavaria could not copy the answer, because the Duchy of Wessen had only one big landowner, Frederick, and these two traditional duchies had a large number of vassals, and the lords could not give orders for their internal affairs.

This was a problem that shook the foundation of feudal rule. The two did not dare to discuss it at home, so they took the opportunity to go abroad to discuss it.

Now Frederick has returned from the north, so they just caught him to discuss it together.

Frederick was silent for a long time. He had been thinking about this problem for many years, but he did not expect that it was raised by the two of them.

"This problem is very dangerous." Frederick looked at the sea and said, "If it is not handled well, there will be a war."

The Grand Duke of Mainz frowned and asked, "Is it so serious?"

Frederick nodded.

The Grand Duke of Bavaria took a breath of sea breeze. With Frederick's talent in war, no one dared not believe his prediction of war.

After sorting out his thoughts, Frederick said, "I have a theory that can explain this problem, but it has not been published yet."

"This theory has two core concepts, namely productivity and production relations."

He has studied the history of this place and found that magic is mainly used in war. Even if the predecessors used it for production, it did not form a qualitative change due to cost-effectiveness and was short-lived, so it did not play a big role in the development of productivity.

Correspondingly, those with extraordinary powers were absorbed into the landlord class, and force and wealth were combined.

So he used history as the background to describe what productivity and production relations are and what kind of relationship exists in simple and easy-to-understand language.

The Grand Duke of Mainz and the Grand Duke of Bavaria had not known about this before, but they suddenly understood it after Frederick talked about the example of serfs.

"I understand a little bit." Archduke Bain used an example familiar to explain Frederick's theory, "Just like the development of war skills prompted changes in the structure of the army."

"In the past, there was no era of multi-person cooperative spellcasting, and magicians could only cast spells alone."

"At that time, a large number of magicians cast spells with a small attack range and a short distance. Magic battles would be carried out before the war, so the magic team was placed at the front of the queue."

"Later, multi-person cooperative spellcasting was developed, which could gather the power of the entire magic company, and the power and distance became greater."

"At this time, the magician's task on the battlefield changed from pure offense to both offense and defense, and his position in the army began to move back to avoid being exposed to direct attacks from the enemy."

"Now that the new weapons you invented are widely used, the original standing army formation has also become lying on the ground to reduce the number of scattered soldiers attacked, and the role of magicians has gradually become the use of magic weapons."

"If the army formation cannot keep up with the development, and the ancient army formation faces new tactics, it will face a massacre."

Frederick nodded and said, "That's what I mean."

"So the social structure must change, just like the army formation."