The Admiral of Hogwarts

The smooth progress of the outer space colonization plan greatly improved Hugo's mood, mainly because he knew that what he was doing would affect the entire world.

More importantly, as the technological development of the ordinary human world became faster and faster, the difficulty of hiding the wizarding world's future would become greater and greater. Therefore, preparing a backup plan was a very important thing.

Of course, the above were just some long-term plans. The short-term plan was to have a production system of his own that could support a force capable of competing with the pure-blood families.

After all, the pure-bloods now controlled most of the production power and resources in Europe. Therefore, it was difficult for Hugo, as an ordinary person, to gradually accumulate power in secret.

As for obtaining various supplies from overseas, it was also very troublesome, because most of the import and export and domestic sales channels were also controlled by these pure-blood families. Therefore, any major action could be discovered in advance.

But when Hugo and his ship girls turned their attention from the ground to the sky, all the problems were solved. They found a source of raw materials that was not within the scope of the pure-bloods, or even anyone else.

According to Hugo's plan, as long as they were given a year to develop, it would be enough to build a system that could compete with the production system constructed by pure-blood wizards.

Of course, this was mainly because the system established by pure-blood wizards was a full-category system, including all parts needed by the entire wizarding world, while the system of Hugo and his ship girls was a purely military industrial system.

After all, there were not many people in Hugo's organization now, so all civilian goods could be purchased externally, and they were only responsible for producing military industrial products and necessities.

“In fact, the technological level of the wizarding world is much more complicated than we imagined.” After reporting the recent arrangements, Xuefeng began to talk about some new discoveries. She picked up a monocle with gold trim and placed it on the table.

“For example, as long as wizards wear this monocle, their will can enter a state of lucid dreaming under the effect of magic, similar to the holographic games in science fiction novels.”

“They actually have this kind of thing.” After hearing what Xuefeng said, Hugo curiously picked up the magic wand in his hand and tapped the monocle. “What is this thing used for?”

“Video phone, training equipment, game console. It can be said that those wizards have integrated a large number of uses on this.” Xuefeng shrugged and said.

“We seized this thing in the Western Balkans before. It used to be placed in a pile of toys. Recently, when we were counting all the supplies, we discovered that this thing has some special uses.”

“You said this is a toy, why?” Hearing what Xuefeng said, Hugo frowned. Because after hearing the use of this thing, he could immediately think of many places where it could be used, and its potential was far from what a toy could encompass.

“Accurately speaking, this is a toy that has been eliminated.” Xuefeng shrugged, “This is mainly because wizards are different from ordinary humans. Their core is magic, and magic is closely related to consciousness.”

“So, if this thing is made into training equipment, the user will cast magic randomly, but if it is made into a fully virtual environment, it is impossible to have any effect, and it may even have the opposite effect.”

“But on the other hand, the cost and difficulty of making these things are so high that only a few were sold to pure-blood families as toys after they were made, and the alchemist who invented it even spent several years paying off his debts.”

“Sounds pretty miserable.” Hugo raised his eyebrows. “But I think after you got this thing, you should be able to develop other uses for it, right?”

“Of course we can. There are already virtual training pods made using this principle in the lunar base.” Xuefeng showed a smile. “Learning technology in this way is much more convenient than other methods.”

“You mean, this thing is not only for wizards?” After hearing what Xuefeng said, Hugo asked in surprise, because many things of wizards cannot be used by ordinary people who do not have magic.

Taking potions as an example, many potions that wizards can use have no effect on ordinary people, or the side effects explode.

“Of course it can, because although the souls of ordinary people are not as strong as those of wizards, the basic situation is not much different. Therefore, all that is needed is an external source of magic.” Xuefeng explained.

“In fact, in our several bases, we are trying to replace magic with energy and use magic for industrialization. This is mainly because the energy intensity contained in controlled nuclear fusion can be converted into magic.”

“Although it is impossible to see the possibility of those spellcasting facilities being personalized in a short period of time, it is still no problem to use nuclear fusion reactors to make corresponding industrial facilities.”

“In addition to this kind of rapid training facility, we also use magic to drive the core intelligent magic arrays of alchemy golems as the control core for those automatic industrial robots.”

“So now most of our factories are only guarded by one or two people, and complete automation has been achieved. Because of this, we can carry out large-scale industrial production with very few people.”

“Well done.” Hugo nodded with satisfaction. What he was most satisfied with about those ship girls now was actually this kind of enterprising spirit, the ability to think of blind spots that normal people would not think of.

“It seems that the lives of those pure-blood wizards are not as boring as we imagined.” After reporting those serious matters, everyone began to formally enjoy the food. At this time, Hermione seemed to have thought of something and said.

“I always thought that the wizarding world only had entertainment items such as Exploding Snap, Wizard's Chess, or flying broomsticks. But I really didn't expect that there would be such high-end games.”

“In fact, the lives of pure-bloods are not boring at all. For example, some pure-blood families have mazes and various puppets at home, where they can play real-life adventures. For another example, they can also go hunting, appreciate works of art, or listen to concerts.”

Hugo quickly explained the situation here to his sister. To be honest, if the ship girls had not uprooted many pure-blood families before, it would be difficult for outsiders to imagine how comfortable the pure-blood families were living.

“In fact, you can think of pure-blood families as those nobles in the outside world, so they naturally have things in enjoyment that others can never compare to.”

“But unlike the outside world, because ordinary companies in the magical world cannot obtain the resources needed for those enjoyments, ordinary wizards know very little about this.”

This is the biggest difference between the industrial age and the handicraft age. If most of the enjoyment in the industrial age is just the difference between good and bad, then the difference in the handicraft age is the difference between having and not having.

And the overall productivity of the wizarding world is in the era of handicrafts, so it has created the huge gap between the top pure-blood wizards and ordinary wizards.

“I think this is also a direction for our efforts.” Hermione smiled and said. “Although it is certainly impossible to make everyone live like those top pure-bloods, it should be no problem to live better than in the past after industrialization.”