I became the slime toy of the evil dragon girl?

Secondly, there's the issue of infrastructure.

Only a few hundred rabbit-people came this time, according to the progress of building the house.

Ian estimated that even if those minotaurs and rabbitmen worked for three days straight, they'd be lucky to finish building it...

Moreover, it was built as a very primitive wooden house.

However, this seems to be better than the treatment the three outsiders received when they first arrived in Dragon Territory. That's right, the Gilded Rose Squad is still living in tents.

Wooden houses are not unusable, but simply building a house does not mean the infrastructure is complete.

The direction of infrastructure construction is very complex and diverse.

The simplest approach is: if you want to get rich, build roads first.

Having experienced the speed of China, Ian understands how important efficiency is.

Magic in this world represents efficiency and advanced productivity, but that is almost always applied to individuals.

But they can only maintain high productivity in the tasks they are required to perform.

These people find it difficult, and are even less willing, to extend this advantage to others.

These productive forces are localized, isolated, and cannot be diffused.

The mages or high-level professionals controlled all of this.

A mage skilled in fire magic could fire a kiln of fine bricks, but he wouldn't do it because firing bricks is simply not a respectable thing to do.

A mage skilled in earth magic could build a road overnight, but he wouldn't do it because there's no reward in it.

Their magic serves only their own needs, or in exchange for a sufficiently high reward.

Magical productivity is locked in the hands of individuals and cannot form social productivity.

……

Ian suddenly thought of those noble territories again.

The political logic of this world is very much in line with the classic medieval system...

"The lord of a lord is not my lord, and the vassal of a vassal is not my vassal."

In other words, each link in the aristocratic chain can be considered an independent kingdom.

The nominal king was merely the most powerful nobleman in this land.

Under this system, what is the logic behind infrastructure development? There is no logic. Infrastructure development requires economies of scale. The benefits of building a 10-kilometer road are vastly different from those of building a 100-kilometer road.

But in this fragmented world, you can't even build a hundred kilometers. Fifty kilometers away is the border of another lord, and you can't enter their territory. Your road becomes a dead end, and your investment goes down the drain. After a few times like this, who will still build roads? So nobody builds them. Anyway, they can live without building them; their ancestors have lived this way for generations. Why should they have to build them?

This is the inertia of a system. The system determines the direction of incentives, incentives determine the choice of behavior, and the accumulation of these choices of behavior forms the shape of civilization.

Productivity, institutions, incentives, economies of scale...

These words are never used in this world.

The clever people here are thinking about how to curry favor with the nobles, how to make more money from adventure commissions, or how to get some rare materials in the next demonic tide.

No one considers why there is never enough food, why the roads are never repaired, or why everything remains the same after a hundred years.

Because they have no reference point and are unaware of another possibility, they don't perceive any problems with the current situation.

But Ian knew, he knew what the other possibility was like.

That might be called unification.

It's called centralized power.

This is called standardizing the written language and the gauge of carts.

What kind of "King of Monsters" is that? Let Vivian be that title.

What Ian wants to do is become the "Emperor" of Erathia!

If these things can be accomplished, under this system, roads can be built from south to north, rivers can be connected from west to east, weights and measures can be standardized, markets can be opened up, division of labor can be refined, and efficiency can be improved.

So what Ian is trying to do is not just modify Dragon Territory, but to create a completely new Dragon Territory.

However, this goal is somewhat distant for Dragon Territory at present. What Ian needs to do now is focus on the key points.

such as……

Cement, and steel!

These were the first two things that came to Ian's mind.

Cement can be used not only for building houses for rabbit people or other races, but also for building a happy house for dragon girls.

Instead, we need to develop transportation and build the "capillaries" of the Dragon Territory!

The entire territory of Dragon Territory is a forest, and the transportation conditions are not bad, but there are none at all!

For example, if we need to purchase emergency food for the rabbit people from Mirabelle this time, we will probably have to open a teleportation array for them in order to deliver the goods.

If the population of Dragon Territory increases in the future, and people want to buy or sell anything outside, they will have to spend magic crystals to open a teleportation array...

Is Vivian's family rich?

"Hiss... Vivian seems to really have a magic crystal mine," Ian suddenly thought.

However, even with abundant mineral resources, such consumption cannot be sustained, and besides, it is not worthwhile from a value perspective.

As a time traveler, it was a great pity that Ian didn't get to use potatoes or sweet potatoes for farming.

Ian didn't want to miss out on cement.

This world has iron ore, and steel can be smelted here. Limestone and clay also exist in this world.

Ian guessed that there was a high probability that cement existed... provided that magic did not significantly alter the properties of these substances.

The problem is that, as a keyboard warrior, Ian knows that cement is made by burning limestone and clay.

But when it comes to the actual implementation, they're completely clueless about how to do it.

"I was never prepared for time travel in my past life, what a failure!"

The same applies to steelmaking...

And the scariest thing is that there doesn't seem to be a single proper blacksmith in the territory!

The quickest way would be for Vivian to go outside and "invite" a few dwarves back.

But wouldn't doing that make us just like those vicious and wicked monsters in human legends...?

Ian quickly shook his head, trying to banish the somewhat wild idea from his mind.

But none of this could stop Ian from taking the first step; what he needed to do was to immediately communicate his ideas.

Then, he quickly found some cattle and horses on his territory to experiment with how to burn cement and how to smelt steel on a large scale.

……

Aside from farming and infrastructure development.

There's also the issue of the system...

Currently, the systems of Dragon Territory and Human Nobles are almost identical.

The Monster Forest is created by countless monster tribes.

Vivian is nominally the supreme ruler of the Monster Forest, but it is only the core races under her command that have a slight sense of teamwork.

Moreover, the future will be characterized by the coexistence of multiple races. Unlike human kingdoms, which only need to consider the simple and pure issue of humans, they must also consider the problems that will arise from the coexistence of multiple races of monsters.

However, the issue of coexistence has not yet arisen, so there is no need to rush.

What's most pressing is how to leverage the existing enthusiasm of the races in the Dragon Territory to build a new, more attractive Dragon Territory.

We can't rely on well-meaning Tauren to participate in all the construction indefinitely, can we?

Therefore, Ian decided to first establish a basic contribution system.

"Let's test it out with the newly joined rabbitmen and goblins first," Ian muttered to himself.

Why is there absolutely no movement from the goblins...?

Holy crap! What are those green-skinned bastards doing all this time?!