Chapter 378 Sugar

The Rainbow Project is a derivative research plan for the Fountain of Life, based on the design structure of the Fountain of Life, combining the advanced mechanical theory provided by Roland, the dwarf basic mechanical science and the dwarf rune science.

The main purpose is to explore the possibility of miniaturization and convenience of the Fountain of Life, to find the universality and applicability of resurrection, and to explore the possibility of convenient resurrection props.

Looking at the explanations of the machinists represented by Siqi on the Rainbow Project, Roland felt helpless. Was this a bit too radical?

Although Roland brought a lot of advanced theories about strange machines, the idea of ​​making the means of resurrection universal and applicable was still a bit too presumptuous.

In Roland's memory, even in the later stages of the game, reckless players could not achieve universal access. Convenient resurrection items were more expensive than one another. Most ordinary players chose to register at fixed resurrection points similar to the Fountain of Life in various player guilds. Only a few players would spend a lot of money to buy such luxury goods.

Although the system can also revive, the system's resurrection will lose experience, and resurrection at the player's guild's fixed resurrection point will only result in a severely weak limited-time debuff.

Of course, this kind of fixed resurrection point also has its disadvantages. In order to be registered, you need to leave something like a life mark.

And this type of mark is basically made of the origin as raw material. Basically, every time a life mark is left, one's own strength will be weakened.

For ordinary players, this is naturally not a big problem and does not affect their daily gameplay very much, but for players who specialize in PVP, this difference in data is very important and fatal.

Therefore, a convenient resurrection item was born. Since the life mark is carried with you, the combat effectiveness will not be affected.

The convenient resurrection prop has no disadvantages. If you have to say one disadvantage, there is only one, and that is that it is expensive, very expensive.

Looking at the Rainbow Project in front of him, Roland thought about it and did not agree to start this big project.

Although the current level of the committee's artificers was forcibly promoted by Roland, the current theory of artificers is based on the basic theory of the dwarves and the advanced theory provided by Roland. The two sets of theories lack connection and are still in a state of abnormal development.

In terms of conventional supernatural knowledge, the War Council's development in traditional knights and spellcasters is not very good. For knights, there is only Donnar's damaged knight heritage, and for spellcasters, there is only the crude system built by Roland.

Although knights and spellcasters have a relatively complete promotion plan, which is unique and advanced, the extraordinary system is not comprehensive and lacks supplements, and is still in a neither-upper-level state.

In short, given the current level of the committee, it is still too difficult to start this project.

In addition to the Rainbow Project submitted by the Mechanic for review, the Ministry of Law also submitted their project.

Compared to the Mechanic's Rainbow Project, the Law Department's project is relatively conservative. It only involves expanding the size of the Law Department, adding subordinate departments and increasing manpower to revise the Golden Law. The reported funding requirements are also very conservative.

This project was much more practical, so Roland did not hesitate. After looking through it and finding no problems, he directly agreed to the project of the Ministry of Law.

After deciding on the project of the Law Department, Roland also looked at the agenda of the Executive Committee. Apart from the two projects of the Qiji Industrial Zone and the Law Department, the rest were regular topics and there were no projects from other departments.

Roland glanced at the requests for meetings from representatives of various departments on his communication device and said.

“Hela, is there a vacant conference room?”

"Yes, meeting rooms 7 and 10 are currently vacant."

Hela tapped the magic communication device in her hand, looked at the information on it, raised her head and spoke.

Roland rubbed his head helplessly and said.

"Let's schedule tomorrow's meeting room No. 10 first and inform them to submit any plans first. I will meet everyone in meeting room No. 10 tomorrow."

"Ok."

After hearing Roland's words, Hela immediately took action.

As Roland's order was passed down, the various departments that received the order also honestly submitted their plans and programs to Roland.

Since everything had already been prepared and those who dared to apply for an audience basically already had a complete plan.

Therefore, in less than half an hour, all the plans and programs from various departments were delivered to Roland.

Except for the Ministry of Law and the small Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which submitted plans, all departments including the Ministry of Administration, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Engineering, Ministry of Management, Ministry of Military Affairs, and War Committee submitted at least one plan. The internal factions of slightly larger departments even proposed a plan each, so there were several sets of plans.

The administrative department was fine. Although it was the largest department in the committee, due to the pressure from Julius and the busy work of the administrative department, there was only one plan that was obviously just to make up the numbers.

Although the report was several pages long, the executive department's plan was simply to unify the architectural style and planning of the city halls and spend some money to unify the styles of the city halls in various parts of the committee.

There was no need to write a report proposal for Roland for such a small matter. It was just done to make up the numbers, and there was no funding even requested.

If the plan from the Administration Department calmed Roland down a little, then the plan from the Finance Department made Roland's blood pressure rise.

In order to ease the committee's financial problems, officials from the Ministry of Finance used their amazing wisdom to impose large-scale tax increases and tax hikes, and enforce the use of food stamps. Food was no longer used as an anchor for food stamps, the exchange rate between food stamps and food was increased, and a large number of restrictions were placed on the exchange. At the same time, people were prohibited from paying taxes with food stamps, and only gold and silver were accepted.

Where did this little genius come from?

Looking at the first half of the Ministry of Finance's plan, Roland felt nothing in his heart. He even wanted to laugh. How could there be such a genius in the committee?

After reading the first half, Roland had already thrown the Ministry of Finance's plan into the trash can in his mind. However, with the idea of ​​seeing what else they could come up with, Roland still looked at the second half.

In order to achieve economic benefits, the area of ​​grain cultivation was reduced and a large number of cash crops were planted.
Specifically, after calculation, the Ministry of Finance believes that the high returns of cash crops are far higher than those of food crops, and the committee's arable land can be completely converted to crops with higher economic value. As for the food problem, it can be solved by relying on foreign imports or using meal making techniques.

Roland took a deep breath, resisted the urge to throw the plan into the trash can, and put it aside.

Afterwards, Roland looked at the other plans from the Ministry of Finance. After taking a quick look, Roland's blood pressure rose even higher. Each of his ideas was to make the people suffer even more.

In addition to raising taxes and planting cash crops, there are also cuts to education and military spending.
The only relatively reliable solution is to start from the perspective of alchemical potions and strange machines, invest in building some simple alchemical potions and strange machine workshops, encrypt some basic alchemical potions and strange machines, and then export them to the outside world to obtain external funds.

Although it requires a considerable amount of start-up capital and a certain amount of labor, the Ministry of Finance still believes that it is worth investing based on the calculated returns.

After looking through it, the Ministry of Finance only opened the alchemy and strange machine workshops which is acceptable, the rest are a bunch of outrageous operations.

After reading the incredible plan of the Ministry of Finance, Roland thought that the plans of the remaining departments would be relatively normal, but it turned out that he was overthinking it. The plans he proposed were either a bit incredible or not very reliable.

The agricultural plan set by the Ministry of Agriculture was too radical. It either involved purchasing a large number of slaves for agricultural development or enclosing large amounts of land to develop animal husbandry. In addition, there were plans for cultivating extraordinary vegetation and large-scale planting, which were all unrealistic plans.

The composition within the committee is already complicated enough. Introducing foreign slaves is a completely thankless task. As for agricultural development and animal husbandry development, let alone development, they haven't even recovered yet. They haven't even learned to walk, yet they're thinking about flying?

The engineering department wanted to do a big job and build a palace complex for Roland on a large piece of land in Tianqi City. However, Roland did not have such high requirements for housing, so why waste the money?

The management department was even more outrageous. They formulated a plan that even Roland couldn't handle. They planned to build a statue of Roland in every city and town. They planned to build a statue in every place with a population of more than a hundred people.

Roland was speechless. It was even more useless than the Engineering Department. The palace seemed to be used for living and some government agencies could be crammed in, but the statue that the Administration Department wanted to build was useless. Were people to pray to the statue?

Compared to these departments that possessed amazing wisdom that Roland could not even imagine, the military's plan was completely within Roland's expectations. The messy plan could be summarized very simply. It had two purposes: to expand the army and to fight the green skins.

After reading the plans of various departments, Roland suddenly felt that the Rainbow Project was actually quite good.

Although there are many difficulties, it is after all an internal research project of the Strange Machine Master. Apart from spending money on scientific research, it will not cause any big noise, nor will it affect people's livelihood. Moreover, if it can be shipped, it will be a win.

It's not that the plans of these departments have no benefits. From the perspective of the traditional monarchs of this world, Roland believes that the plans against the will of heaven are still usable. There are still many benefits for the committee. They can speed up the recovery and development of the committee. At most, it will make the people suffer.

As for palaces and statues, they are also very common in this world. Not to mention leaders like Roland who killed Kan'ozu and repelled the green tide and made great contributions, even some nobles who stayed in their own palaces and did nothing would find ways to erect statues for themselves.

Any noble or monarch with a bit of vanity will do this. The money in the treasury is their money, so they should spend it on themselves.

Although Roland is somewhat vain, he still has a bottom line. He cannot do such feudal and rotten work when the people are living in poverty.

Besides, Roland had no interest in palaces and statues. Instead of worrying about these trivial things, it would be better to copy a few dishes for Roland, which would at least improve his food.

Roland rubbed his head, then he took out a piece of white paper and flipped through the plans and programs, picking out some parts that were worth using.

Although the plans of various departments did not quite match Roland's ideas, their ideas could still be used as a reference, and some of them could still be used after copying and modifying them.

It is true that taxes can be increased, but they cannot be increased as much as the Ministry of Finance plans. It is better to simply increase commercial taxes.

As for food coupons, they cannot be decoupled from grain for now and still have to be anchored by grain. They can be promoted more widely, but they still have to be based on voluntary participation and inducement. It is definitely not acceptable to copy food coupons on a large scale to reap private wealth and to prohibit the use of food coupons to pay taxes.

Planting cash crops is indeed a good development direction. However, grain still needs to be planted. On the premise of maintaining sufficient grain production, cash crops can be developed.

As for cash crops, which one is better to grow?
Roland twirled his pen and came up with an idea: let's grow beets.

Beet can not only be used to make sugar, but its by-products also have high comprehensive utilization value. After processing, they can become various raw materials. The filter mud after sugar making can also be used as fertilizer. Beet stems, leaves, green heads, tail roots and beet pulp can be eaten first, and when you become wealthy in the future, you can also use them as high-quality juicy feed.

Although in this world where supernatural powers exist, the process of making sugar from beets has long been created, and due to the existence of spellcasters, the sugar-making process is not bad and can produce very high-quality sugar.

However, the spellcaster's sugar-making process has a great limitation, that is, the labor cost is too high. High-quality sugar has to be made by the spellcaster himself, and although low-quality sugar does not need to be made by the spellcaster himself, the cost of setting up the workshop and training skilled workers is added up to a cost that is close to that of an alchemy workshop.

Moreover, even if there is a workshop and skilled workers are trained, the sugar production of a small workshop is very limited and the output cannot be much.

Therefore, the current world sugar production is not high. Sugar is still a luxury item with high prices. Moreover, only low-quality sugar is circulated in the market, and the production of high-quality sugar can only meet the consumption of a small group of the top ruling class.

It was not until the dwarves moved to the New World and the magicians developed the technology to produce sugar on a large scale that sugar was transformed from a luxury item into the cheapest placebo.

Although Roland did not have the details of this technology in his memory, it was not a big problem. A rough direction was enough. With the current level of the committee's strange machinery, they could not develop a convenient resurrection prop, but it was easy to research the sugar-making process.

As long as the sugar-making technology is developed, sugar may become the main commodity exported by the War Committee. From the top nobles to the common people, who can resist the temptation of sugar?
Of course, cheap sugar must be supplied to the committee first, so that it can at least slightly improve the quality of life of the people.

While formulating the sugar plan, Roland was also thinking about what he would say at the meeting tomorrow and preparing a draft in his mind in advance.

　One million words.

　　I never thought that I could write this book to one million words.

　　When the book was first put on the shelves, there were only more than 200 orders. I planned to write at most 600,000 or 700,000 words, and then cut the book and run away.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)