Chapter 395 Business and Sugar
Although the data network has just been established and is mainly used to improve the administrative efficiency of the War Council, the improvement in administrative efficiency is also promoting and accelerating the all-round development of the Council.

At the same time, as the data network was successfully applied, the committee's machinists began to expand the data network, adding new databases and servers to further improve the coverage and carrying capacity of the data network.

As the first generation of data networks developed and improved, they were able to meet the needs of the administrative system and were then applied to the committee's ten-year plan.

Under the coordination of the data network, the mobilization of materials, workers, officials, and extraordinary people has become faster and more convenient, so the committee's reconstruction plan has become smoother and more successful.

In addition, with Roland's approval, the War Council also established an encrypted, more secure, and secretive data network based on the first-generation data network.

At the same time, local area networks are established in various strange machinery industrial zones, burial grounds and botanical gardens to improve scientific research and production capabilities.

After establishing the War Council, Roland established the direction of the joint development of the Council's three areas: mechanics, necromancy, and botany.

However, compared with the booming science of mechanics, the development of necromancy and botany is relatively lagging behind.

The reason why the science of machinists was able to develop so rapidly was mainly because Siqi took the initiative to surrender with a large number of dwarf machinists, which established a solid foundation for machinists for the War Committee. Moreover, after defeating the Green Tide, a large number of dwarves came from the Bay Dwarves.

With the assistance of these mature artificers, the artificer science of the War Council will develop rapidly.

Necromancer and Botany were not so lucky.

On this continent today, the only one that systematically studies necromancy is the Soul School of the Tower of Truth, and as for botany, there are only elves.

The former was not in decline because of Princess Freina as Roland remembered. On the contrary, with the birth of a new high-level spellcaster, Hess, the Soul School could be said to be thriving.

As for the latter elves, let alone the Moon Elf Kingdom and the Phoenix Empire, which elves would give up their good life and come to join the War Council, which was facing the Green Tide and could be destroyed at any time? As for the Wood Elves, a group of elves living in the Thousand Trees Forest, let alone.

Their situation was not as bad as that of the dwarves. Moreover, even if Siqi defected to the committee, they had no interest in Roland's invitation at first. It was not until Siqi saw the future of defecting to the committee through prophecy spells that they made up their minds to defect to Roland.

Therefore, in the absence of a transcendent who specializes in necromancy and botany to join him, Roland can only train himself from scratch.

Although through the original body surgery, Roland quickly trained a group of death knights and wood apostles who studied necromancy and botany.

However, in the final analysis, the Primitive Soldiers are quick products. They are qualified to be fighters and soldiers, but not qualified to be scholars and researchers. They still need time to continue learning and training.

Therefore, even if some Death Knights and Wood Apostles were transformed into scholars, they had only just learned the extraordinary knowledge and various materials provided to them by Roland.

Although there are some small innovations, it is still a bit immature to create Unit 0, data network, and even the Rainbow Project like the Mechanic, which were all created.

However, after the establishment of the data network, their scientific research capabilities have also been improved, and they have now begun to experimentally launch some scientific research projects.

Since it was the first time, the necromancers were cautious and started a small project called the Undead Mine. The research goal was to study and design a labor-saving, undead, and automated mining method.

The Wood Apostles were relatively radical. Based on the theories Roland had copied down from his memory, they launched a project called the Longevity Project.

The Longevity Project, as the name suggests, is to explore and research ways to prolong life. Although it is a bit radical to study this for the first project, the goal set by Apostle Wood is not particularly radical. If they can prolong life a little bit, it will be considered a win.

If it only extends life by seven or eight years, this is not impossible.

With the idea of ​​encouragement, Roland also agreed to the first scientific research project they proposed.

After agreeing to these two projects, Roland only occasionally dealt with some miscellaneous issues encountered in the committee's reconstruction plan.

The entire war committee, from top to bottom, devoted themselves to the construction and development of the committee. Large-scale construction was carried out in various parts of the committee, and the situation seemed to be thriving.

In August of the same year, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reached an agreement with the Silver Empire, with two delegations sent by the Silver Emperor and the Silver Family respectively, thus successfully opening up trade with the Silver Empire.

At the end of August of the same year, the pioneer corps sent by the War Committee to the buffer zone successfully occupied various important nodes and connected them to establish a simple border line.

At the same time, thanks to the efforts of the Pioneer Corps, several permanent and safe passages connecting East and West Nar were successfully opened up.

As the committee opened up official channels in the Silver Empire and created a permanent safe passage, commercial trade between East and West Nar began to rise rapidly.

Merchants continuously transported large amounts of raw materials and low-level, cheap extraordinary materials from Sinnar into Donnar, and then purchased large amounts of luxury goods and cheap syrup from Donnar, and then transported them back to Sinnar in truckloads.

Although the art of magic has been discriminated against under the suppression of the Sinar spellcasters, it does not mean that magic is not a good thing.

Due to the existence of the Dwarf Free City within the Silver Empire, strange equipment products have actually been circulating within the Silver Empire.

Except for most schools in the Tower of Truth who are still resisting strange machines, the human nobles of Sinar are still very happy to use strange machines. After all, strange machines are really useful, and various civilian strange machines can make their lives more convenient and comfortable.

Although miraculous machinery does not seem to be very popular in Sinar, in fact, once miraculous machinery products appear on the market, they basically disappear instantly.

In fact, many Silver Nobles used strange machines as traditional magic props. Anyway, unless you just examine them carefully, they would look the same.

Moreover, since the dwarf artificer has not yet developed an assembly line, each artificer product needs to be made by the artificer himself. Even some simple artificer products require an artificer apprentice to make them.

In addition, the Silver Empire restricted the development and expansion of the Dwarf Free City, so the production of strange machines in the Dwarf Free City was not high, and strange machine products have always been a luxury in Sinnar.

This is the committee's opportunity.

After an on-site inspection by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the cheap rare equipment that the War Committee originally intended to export was replaced with the luxury rare equipment needed by the Sinar nobles.

The main reason was that the nobles of Sinar were not interested in cheap farm tools and strange machines that could improve farmers' productivity. They preferred entertainment products for their own enjoyment. Therefore, the committee naturally followed suit. After all, the real rich people in Sinar were these nobles.

In order to better plunder wealth from them, Roland personally designed a series of luxury brands based on the levels of citizens, extraordinary people, and nobles. At the same time, he also spent money to bribe bards from all over Sinnar to start touting these brands.

With this series of tricks, the committee's rare equipment products successfully became famous and entered the rare equipment market of the Silver Empire.

In addition to rare equipment products, the War Committee also began to sell Dream Silk to the outside world.

The high-quality Dream Silk is retained, while the low-quality Dream Silk is exported to Sinar.

As a high-end luxury product even in the future, even low-quality Dream Silk can easily open up Sinnar's trade routes.

As spellcasters and nobles scrambled for it, the price of Dream Silk skyrocketed.

Even later on, the Dream Silk exported by the committee was exchanged for goods only and could only be exchanged for extraordinary materials.

Of course, these are not the main export commodities of the committee. After all, in this era, the market for luxury goods is so small, and the export volume must be controlled to ensure the quality of the luxury goods. Only so much can be exported in a year.

Moreover, strange machines and dream silk are not consumables after all. If they are well preserved, they can be used for a very long time.

Therefore, the committee's main export product is still sugar. Sugar is so good. From spellcasters and nobles to ordinary people, who doesn't like to have a sweet bite?

From crystal clear, high-quality sugar specially made for spellcasters and nobles, to ordinary, watered-down, cheap low-quality sugar, the committee has everything and can meet almost everyone's requirements.

Whether it was the gold coins of the nobles, the silver coins of the citizens, or the copper coins of the lower classes, the War Committee wanted them all.

Any intelligent life form has a natural craving for sugar. Therefore, although the War Council dumped countless syrups into Sinar, the Council could hardly satisfy the Sinar people's craving for sugar.

Sinar was like a black hole, eating up all the syrup exported by the committee.

Although Roland did not export all the sugar to Sinar, the production of only half of the syrup produced by the newly built Qiji Industrial Zone was enough to crush Sinar's sugar industry.

How can a mere handicraft workshop compare to a strange machine assembly line?
Faced with the committee's dumping, they could only struggle to hold on. If the committee's output had not been able to fill the entire Sinar, and they could still sell it at a lower price, they would have died.

Untold wealth was transferred to the Council through the sugar trade, giving new impetus to the Council's reconstruction plans.

The income from sugar trade is even dozens of times higher than all the luxury goods of the committee combined. Moreover, unlike the one-time transaction of luxury goods, sugar, as a consumable, is a sustainable income. Moreover, this is not the limit of sugar trade.

According to conservative calculations by the Ministry of Finance, the maximum profit the War Council could obtain from the sugar trade, if converted into food stamps, would most likely be 30 million yuan a year.

After calculating this huge number, the Ministry of Finance of the War Committee strongly demanded that all syrup be exported. With such an astonishing number, every day less of profit would be a huge loss.

Roland naturally refused this outright. He said that the cheap sugar he produced should not be given only to Sinar. Our committee should also try it. Moreover, it should be cheaper and have more varieties.

Due to transportation and commercial difficulties, the committee sells the highly concentrated syrup directly to the Chamber of Commerce in Sinar at a high price. The committee does not care how they sell it in Sinar, even if they directly mix it into sugar water.

But the same cannot be done within the committee. Under Roland's orders and because he was bored, all kinds of syrupy processed foods were created.

Therefore, half of all the syrup produced by the committee was not exported, but processed into various foods, some of which were distributed to government and military members as welfare, and some of which were sold within the committee. Moreover, the internal price was only one-tenth of the export price of ordinary syrup.

The Ministry of Finance expressed serious protest in response, but Roland said the protest was invalid.

Even when the Minister of Finance came to Roland, he did not agree to their request.

As long as there is enough money, the War Committee is not in urgent need of anything right now, so why sell so much candy? It is better to keep half of it and improve the happiness of the committee.

The War Committee also gave positive feedback on this. Who wouldn’t like to eat something sweet after a hard day’s work?

Even the protesting members of the Ministry of Finance ate the free desserts offered to them.

In this boring era, sugar used to be a high-end luxury item that only the nobility could occasionally have, almost equivalent to spices.

Honey and fruit are the main desserts used in ordinary dishes. Moreover, honey is also an expensive commodity. For some dying petty nobles, a bottle of honey is already a precious legacy worthy of special inheritance.

The lower and middle class civilians may not be able to eat a bite of sugar from birth to death. Even the extraordinary people and nobles, except for the top handful of people, cannot eat sugar freely. In this case, who can resist the temptation of sugar?
Even Roland would feel extremely satisfied if he had a bite of candy again after several years, not to mention other people. Who wouldn't be fascinated by having a bite of the dessert carefully prepared by the committee?

Even Odin, the former top noble in Donnar, couldn't resist the temptation of desserts, and spent all his salary on high-end desserts.

Therefore, sugar within the committee is in short supply and can only be purchased on a limited basis.

Under such circumstances, the expansion of sugar beet planting submitted by the Ministry of Agriculture and the industrial zone expansion project submitted by the newly established Ministry of Industry were quickly approved by the Administrative Department and the Executive Committee in less than half a day.

Faced with the war committee's desire for sugar, Roland readily approved their project.

As the chairman, Roland was embarrassed to give himself a backdoor, so the share Roland could get was limited.

Although it was his own decision, Roland still wanted to curse: the purchase restriction is disgusting.

(End of this chapter)