I, transformed into a vampire girl, sparked the Industrial Revolution.

Chapter 104 The Glory of the Automobile Industry

"Hey, Mr. Smith, who's that person who came today?"

"Oh, Hunter, that short guy looking around up there? What else could he be but a dwarf?"

Whiterun, a railway hub and industrial center in the northwest of Amelia, is home to the Volkswagen industrial complex, one of the three pillars of the nation's automotive industry, nestled amidst the snow and ice. This industrial complex, a joint venture funded by the government, is part of the complex.

The automobile industry has become a national strategy, and Alice personally gave the order to vigorously develop the automobile industry. A car, from engine technology to the leather of the seats, is related to the life of the entire country.

The rapid development of the automobile industry has not only led to the rapid development of upstream and downstream industries, but also the rapid development of its fuel, namely the petrochemical industry, and its carrier, the national road and bridge industry. Except for the northern region, there is no oil in the entire south. Only the northern region can produce this crucial fuel. The extraction of oil and its processing into gasoline, diesel and related chemical products has led to a large number of laborers being absorbed by related industries.

Often, newly recruited workers lack technical knowledge and may not even know how to maintain the production line. To address this, Alice called on all factories to organize intensive training courses for workers, with experienced workers mentoring new ones for rapid training.

The automotive industry in Amelia was built up through such stumbles and falls. The accident rate was not optimistic; many people had their fingers cut off or their legs broken. In the beginning, a considerable portion of the costs went into worker disability compensation.

Loralan Forging Hammer walked along the walkway above the factory, looking down at the bustling production line. Even the dwarves didn't have such a production process; they were all seasoned, skilled forging masters who preferred to complete everything alone, and each product was unique.

What he saw were some young faces who were neither masters nor of the same caliber as the dwarves, or even as good as the dwarf apprentices.

He had seen those vehicles speeding along the roads before. They didn't need horses or snow bears to pull them; they could move on their own. He had originally wanted to see what kind of masters could create such exquisite machines. But as he ventured deeper into Whiterun, he saw even more and more cars. Whiterun was a major industrial town, so it was only natural that it had a large number of trucks and cars. He saw the roads congested with long lines of cars.

In his view, a craftsman could not build so many carriages in his lifetime, and automobiles, which are obviously evolved from carriages, must be more complex than automobiles. Although there are different models of automobiles on the road, automobiles of the same model are like they were made from the same mold, with only differences in the marks of use.

This could never have been made by craftsmen hammering away, and even if they had hundreds of such craftsmen, it would be impossible for them to mass-produce these things in just a few years.

Because even the dwarves could only produce a double-digit number of carriages a year, and even after the invention of the magic lathe, the output was only close to a hundred. And this city was clearly not a major city for the demons; it was too cold, and neither demons, humans, nor elves could withstand such extreme cold.

And this city has so many cars running around, more than the horse-drawn carriages in the dwarf city. No wonder the demons are trying to sell them horse-drawn carriages; it turns out they've already phased out such products.

Now, walking through this factory, he began to realize that the demons had surpassed them in steel and forging. The steel frames beneath his feet stretched for thousands of meters, and the lights above his head hung high on the factory roof, with no passageways for lighting.

"This is our stamping workshop. We use these large steam stamping presses to stamp the steel plates we need. These steel plates are delivered from the Whiteman City Steel Plant, which is several kilometers away. We have laid an industrial inner ring railway between the factories."

Alice's vision of industrial complexes consisted of a series of large industrial buildings connected by an internal loop railway, which reduced the time required for transportation.

Since the national treasury is in deficit anyway, investing a little more isn't out of the question. Money left in hand isn't wealth; it's just a meaningless number. The National Finance Committee is pouring money into building new factories everywhere. The Las Vegas region, which has become several independent countries, is constantly suffering from the dumping of goods from Amerlane, and even the more distant desert empires are not immune.

“I understand, but why not build the steel plant here?”

"The steel plant is located near one of our nearest mega-mines, close to our railway hub, which makes dispatching more convenient."

Loralan Forgehammer stared at the massive stamping press. As a skilled blacksmith among the dwarves, he was eager to see how the demons forged iron, but unfortunately, the demons had located their steel mill in a different place.

But he had already seen a lot. The so-called assembly line manufactured by the demon race had great advantages. He could see that each worker did not have to be responsible for every step of the production process. They only needed to assemble the corresponding parts. They did not have to start by forging steel. Instead, they only needed to stamp out steel plates of the corresponding shape, integrate the parts, and assemble them. Each assembly line station only needed to do one simple process.

He had seen enough of everything from loose parts to a brand-new, beautiful car, with cars flowing downstream like a stream, hence the name "assembly line."

When we get back, we must make sure the elders consider a similar manufacturing method.

"Are you satisfied with this visit, Mr. Loraland Forgehammer?"

The engineer who received him asked, somewhat puzzled, as the demons were almost completely open to his questions. Dwarven craftsmen would guard their exclusive secrets closely, but the demons were open about these groundbreaking things; they didn't even bother to hide them.

There must be something here.

“I have a question, sir. Why do you not hide anything from me? I can see that what you say is correct.”

The engineer smiled and said, "Mr. Loraland Forging Hammer, we're not hiding anything, but how many factories have you seen on your way to Amelansey?"

How many factories? He had seen the endless chimneys and huge factory buildings. From the roof of the factory administration building, the Whiterun Industrial Zone was full of these buildings.

"How many are there?"

“I can proudly tell you, Mr. Loraland Forging Hammer, that there are thousands of industrial production plants registered in Whiteman City alone, five thousand in the Trian Industrial Zone, two thousand three hundred in the Ruhr Economic Development Zone, and seventeen hundred in Port-Hilla.”

"So many? But that's related to my question..."

Loraland Forgehammer felt he had vaguely grasped the answer, but there was still a membrane between them.

"This vast industrial system, comprised of nearly ten thousand factories, is so complex that no one dares to claim they know every aspect of it. We call it the Amelanxi Industrial System. Take, for example, the newly built acid blast furnace at the Whiterun Steel Plant. Such a blast furnace encompasses dozens of industrial categories."

"The basic principles of these industrial sectors are complex and difficult to understand, and cannot be replicated in a short period of time."

We are not worried about you replicating it, because you don't even have basic science, so how can you replicate such a huge industrial empire?