They urgently need to transform the Kingdom of Hightins from a backward agricultural and pastoral nation into a powerful industrial country.

Then use the entire known world as a source of raw materials and a market for goods, rapidly enhancing their strength to face the imminent crisis.

This initiative began on the second day of the Throne War, and within just over a week, the first factory located in the Royal Capital of Kingston started trial production.

"Your Majesty, this wool spinning factory is the model factory of the Pioneer Guiding Colonial Trading Company, named ’Kingston First Woolen Mill’ by Queen Violet.

Due to time constraints, it’s not very large, with a designed annual production capacity of five thousand tons.

But the second and third factories will soon follow.

Hundreds of commercial aristocrats and merchants from all over have submitted requests for visits, and subsequent applications for technical partnerships to jointly establish factories are bound to increase."

The factory director led Byron to tour the workshop, reporting on work achievements along the way.

Unlike the cotton spinning in Torrentfort, they made targeted adjustments to the machinery based on different raw material sites.

These two major production bases, one is a cotton-producing area, and the other is a wool-producing area, so the industrial structure needs adjustment.

Modern people know that only selling raw materials is not profitable; that’s the business of low-end industries and economic colonies.

Refinement and high added value are their pursuits.

If they were to take the wool produced by "Sheep Eater" and send it to the neighboring Netherland to be made into wool products and then sold back to them, wouldn’t they become the big fool?

The factory director of the First Woolen Mill took Byron to tour the workshop and then to see the site for future planning.

Byron did not come with a big entourage but instead arrived in casual attire, anyway, he was not afraid of any gunman assassinations, he could offer you his left ear after his right ear was shot, and didn’t even bring several Guardsmen, appearing especially down-to-earth.

Byron was generally satisfied with other aspects, but when he saw two ragged children hurriedly running by with satchels filled with newspapers, he asked another concerned question:

"What about the workers? No problem, right?"

The factory director clearly did not hear Byron’s true meaning and said excitedly:

"Your Majesty, don’t be fooled by the prosperity of the Royal Capital, in fact, there are actually countless homeless people, as many workers as you want.

The recruitment condition is just to provide meals, and they will scramble for jobs.

The treatment you initially set seems slightly too high..."

The Royal Capital of Kingston is the largest city in the Kingdom of Hightins, "thanks" to the Land Noble enclosure movement, the total population exceeds one million, accounting for about 14% of the total population.

An inexhaustible supply of cheap labor has established the foundational conditions for initiating industrialization.

Upon hearing the factory director’s cost-saving suggestion, Byron directly denied it:

"Follow the original standards, we can’t let their income be lower than that of farmers and herders, making survival difficult."

Money, of course, is a good thing, the bigger the family business, the more places there are to spend money.

Don’t look at how much the Treasure Fleet has looted, it’s enough for a lifetime personally, but on a national scale, especially in terms of a country’s original capital accumulation, it’s just like that.

But Byron never wanted money from the beginning, but national prosperity and strength to in turn drive his extraordinary journey.

Apart from money, the citizens themselves are equally his wealth!

He even has a revamped "Labor Law for Traitors" that he hasn’t revealed:

"In the future, you will work a full eight hours a day, with only three meals and snacks provided;

and milk only available in the mornings, with only one hour of lunch break;

bonuses are given only three times a year, with only two months of annual leave, and wages are increased every four months.

Overtime can only earn triple wages, and after work, compulsory one-hour exercise..."

This is a massive weapon prepared for late-stage industrial countries, too advanced for now.

The principle is to use subsidies to eliminate opponents, and what remains is not manipulated at his will?

"Yes, Your Majesty. You are indeed benevolent."

The factory director naturally bowed and complied.

At the same time, similar factories were being simultaneously constructed on Rose, Thistle, and Clover Islands.

Since they’ve already had a long period of experience accumulation at Torrent Fortress.

A large group of artisans, eager to apprentice under Violet as Whale Oil Mechanics, have already designed production lines, technology processes, illustrated work manuals, and so on.

Just as long as various Industrial Mother Machines produce Whale Oil Steam Engines and are distributed to the Royal Capital and major wool-producing areas, continuously replicating successful experiences is possible.

"In the past, to initiate industrialization, money, land, and labor were required, and the Land Noble class would definitely resist wholeheartedly, but they are already gone, and the industrialization process will encounter no obstacles..."

Not even a day passed after Byron said this, before he was utterly disproven.

Just by evening, he received an emergency report.

The factory under construction on Trefoil Island had an accident. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

The newly constructed plant area and machines were submerged by a vast primitive forest, with hundreds of workers, engineers, and artisans—all perished!