I became a witch, but I started the industrial revolution

The government cannot afford to pay too high a price for a necessity like food, which is consumed in huge quantities. Therefore, even if Media can give more concessions to farmers, there is still a threshold upper limit on the price of food.

Therefore, even though both parties are working equally, the compensation they can receive can be very different.

How big is this gap? So big that within twenty years at most, a gap will be created between the two that can never be bridged.

So how can we solve this problem? The answer is that it cannot be solved at all.

Because the rural base is vast and the population is large, there will be more and more farmers, further spreading the limited profits. This is an inevitable trend.

As for the working group, Medea has planned welfare benefits and routes for them from the very beginning. As long as the country does not collapse, workers will always be popular.

By the time agricultural production caught up with industrial production, they had basically missed the golden period of rapid development of the federation.

So she couldn't solve it with normal methods, so she tried a roundabout way to solve it.

First, an additional 2% subsidy tax will be levied on factories and workers respectively.

According to the current prices in Serbia, it is equivalent to workers treating their comrades to four bowls of noodles when they receive their monthly salary.

Second, the number of newly built and expanded factories in Seres is increasing, and the shortage of skilled workers is also increasing.

Under this circumstance, various vocational and technical schools jointly run by factories began to spring up, recruiting urban youth to study and supplement the workers.

This allowed Mitia to find a breakthrough point, which was to remove the qualification of vocational and technical schools for junior professional title selection.

If you want to work in a factory, you have to go to a township-level technical school for one to two years of study and only after passing the assessment can you obtain the qualification.

Ordinary technical colleges run by township factories are fully capable of teaching primary technical jobs, and universities have all been decentralized and distributed to lower-level towns and villages in states and cities.

For this purpose, Media also delegated most of the site selection for newly approved middle schools, high schools, and universities to towns and villages, leaving only some of the previous advanced technical vocational colleges and military defense colleges in the city.

This is the origin of the quarrel between the two old men. The school must be demolished, no room for negotiation.

Simply put, if urban youth want to work in factories, they have to go to towns and villages to study. If they want to transfer from high school to university, they also have to go to towns and villages, which sets a certain threshold for urban workers.

Rural youth can go to school nearby and enjoy special subsidies from the whole country. Schools must also combine agricultural science with textbooks and conduct field learning in the fields.

In the three stages of primary, middle and high school, every effort is made to ensure that their families do not lose the labor force during the autumn harvest and spring ploughing during the time when they are receiving education. This type of school is collectively called "Workers and Peasants School".

When agricultural youth reach high school, they already have the capital to enter society, and can start to choose their career direction based on the country's current environment.

If you choose to be a worker, you can take the exam at the nearest township workers' college to get a certificate. Later, you can choose to continue your studies in the next level city or simply be assigned a job like the children of workers.

Those who choose to take the college entrance examination will enjoy the policy of additional points for children of agricultural products. They can enter the nearest university and join the children from higher-level cities to continue their studies.

With a rural household registration or a certificate from the village head, they can enjoy the national unified subsidy for college students' special tuition, room and board, which is 20% more than the amount for students with urban household registration.

The subsidy for agricultural children before high school is paid out from the 2% additional tax paid by factory workers, and is earmarked for the specific purpose. The subsidy amount is uniform across the country, and the national tax authorities will pay more or less.

Subsidies during university are distributed vertically by the federal central treasury.

Slaves would become free citizens after working for a sufficient number of years, and their household registration would be transferred to rural areas to enrich the rural labor force.

In the final analysis, what she did was nothing more than reducing the cost of education for children of farmers, broadening their promotion routes, and diluting the basic base of the rural population to relieve pressure.

In the previous life, after the initial success of the Industrial GM, the gross domestic product in a hundred years was higher than the total of the five thousand years before industrialization. It was impossible for her to suppress industrial development to supplement agriculture. Going against the trend would be self-destruction.

Therefore, all Media can do is to subsidize them with a part of the industrial profits, lower the threshold for changing their destiny, give them some opportunities, and let them try to leave the agricultural class.

In this way, Medea can start large-scale planting and harvesting in agricultural clusters in the middle and late stages, as well as enrich and raise the prices of agricultural and sideline products, so that the income of the remaining farmers can be increased.

It can also be seen from this that most of the kingdom's previous experience in governing the country cannot be used today, or is not allowed to be used, so most of the main policies have to be reviewed and decided by Medea himself.

As for people like Old Evan, Medea will temporarily support him as it is short of manpower now, but his kind will never be able to participate in the decision-making level and core departments of the federation.

This group of people already had a hidden ceiling in their levels when they first entered the Seris system, but it was not made public by Medea.

She didn't know much else, but she understood one thing very clearly: there were many things that only the generation that founded the country had the qualifications and ability to do.

The kingdom's vested interests, the nobles and manor owners, were used as fertilizer during her purge, which resulted in a brief vacuum in resource allocation.

If you don't lay out your plans in advance and use your reputation to push them through before the interest groups become too powerful to be eliminated, the resistance you will encounter will become greater as time goes by, and you won't be given a second chance to turn around.

Chapter 81 LB-11 Rifle

Ruling is an art. Who to rule, how to rule, what the goal is, and which group to rely on to achieve the goal, different choices will ultimately lead to different systems and results.

Moreover, the same concept can have various variations due to different ways of implementation.

Logically speaking, as a member of the aristocracy, Medea should take the path of elite rule, because this would bring the least resistance and the power of the old interest groups is also the strongest, but unfortunately her ideas run counter to theirs.

Their influence is everywhere and has penetrated deeply into the bones of the people. Even if many civilians rise up, they will be assimilated by their thoughts, just like old Evan.

Fairness and equality, these two words seem like a joke in this world where there is a huge difference in personal strength. When you are armed with a weapon, you will naturally want to kill. This is human nature.

Therefore, firearms will not be banned in Medea. Only when both parties are armed with violent weapons will they argue and reason with each other in a calm manner.

It is impossible to achieve complete fairness and equality, but we can make the other party hesitate and achieve relative fairness and equality.

If you cannot achieve your goals with the help of the old groups, then you should completely eradicate them and support new interest groups at the same time.

Medea tried her best to unite the workers and farmers around her, and she also opened the market to the merchants in the name of the federation, allowing them to compete freely within the rules.

Although the local business community is not very large at present, not many of them can fund the city's bidding for road construction rights.

But as long as there are no problems with the political system, there will be more and more big merchants like this in the future, and Media and the Federation can fully afford to wait.

The development of large infrastructure projects is a long-term dividend. As the federation grows and expands, businessmen will be able to make a steady stream of profits, and workers will be able to share in the profits and become rich.

Media has opened up not only its civilian industries but also parts of its military industry to the market for diversified competition.

For example, the submachine gun produced by Grace Arms Factory has initially passed the army test and has begun to be equipped to the troops.

Farmers are appeased through all-round subsidies, the sale of agricultural and sideline products, and the opening of promotion channels. The fundamental purpose of delegating high schools and universities to townships is to prevent rural areas from being monopolized by information because they are far away from urban clusters.

At the same time, the number of schools will increase with the strengthening of national strength and the rapid increase in population, and new consumer groups will naturally be integrated into towns and villages. This is also a good place for farmers to do small businesses to supplement their family income.

After several years, new scientists and magicians will emerge among the people who enjoy all this, and they will continue to inject new vitality into this giant ship.

“…”

"boom!"

'Crack'

"boom!"

'Crack'

The strange yet familiar sound of bolts being pulled continued to ring out, leaving marks on each target.

Mitia first test-fired two rounds to verify the accuracy, then pushed up the rear sight and zeroed to 400M, 600M, and 800M, and fired a five-round magazine one by one, and finally nodded with satisfaction.

With her eyesight, she can see very clearly at a distance of 800M, and the new rifle is completely up to standard in terms of accuracy.

Mi Wei, who was brought by her, was also trying out the new gun. Mitia asked, "How does it feel?"

"boom!"

“It feels great!”

Mi Wei's face turned a little red. She seemed to enjoy the feeling of shooting, which was very different from her soft and cute appearance.

"It feels good! It has a rear-pull rotating bolt, a built-in double-row magazine, better gunpowder, better craftsmanship, and a more scientific design. If nothing goes wrong, Seris will use this gun for ten to twenty years."

The total length of the gun is 1250mm, the barrel length is 740mm, the empty gun weighs 5kg, and the 7.92 standard metal bullet is more in line with dynamics, which has basically reached the peak.

Mi Wei was a little surprised when she heard this: "Can it last that long?"

Mitia nodded. "Yes! It will be improved at most, but it will not change in principle. When it is replaced, well... it will still shine in other fields."

Then he picked up another long gun with a bent bolt and a black unknown object on the barrel and handed it to Mi Wei's face and said, "You can try to put your eyes to the lens."

Mi Wei obediently moved her eyes closer as she was told, and when she took a closer look at the scene in the mirror, she felt suddenly enlightened.

"PU scope, magnification 3.5, crosshair width is 2 mils, horizontal markings are 7 mils." Mitia proudly introduced the data. The scope is an amplifier of the gun, there is no reason for her not to be proud.

"(Object size ÷ number of digits) × 1000. Assuming a person's shoulder width is 70cm, then the formula is (0.75 ÷ 5) × 1000 = 140m, which means it is about 140m away from you. Isn't that simple?"

Mi Wei turned around and looked at her blankly: "Ah? What did you say?"

"Forehead..."

Mitia was speechless for a moment before shaking her head: "Forget it, let me show you something special we made for you."

As he spoke, he took the iron box from the guard beside him and opened it. On the lining inside was a pure black rifle and 20 neatly arranged platinum bullets:

"The one you saw before I named it Federal 1-1, abbreviated as LB-11, and this one is a special improved version of LB-11, codenamed LB-11MF."

"The barrel material is our newly developed alloy steel."

"It's mixed with the powder alloy that was refined from the holy crystal you provided. It can withstand the energy of a compressed explosion of level 7 magic at most."

"It also has a strong tolerance to the air pressure generated by gas expansion. The gun body is made of hard black sunken wood, and the standard length of the gun body is consistent with the original."

Medea picked up one of the bullets and said:

"It is equipped with a special crystal bullet. The muzzle velocity is 1160 meters per second when fired. A layer of brass is sprayed on the surface of the bullet as a lubricant."

"The inner core is made of a silver alloy mixed with some Forbidden Magic Stone powder. When the Forbidden Magic Stone's absorption capacity reaches a threshold, it will explode, which can increase the bullet's speed in the air. Silver is a good magic material, you know~"

Mi Wei was delighted and wanted to take it out of the box, but she felt it was heavy and said in surprise: "It's a bit heavy~"

"Well, the weight is 24.5, because of the high density of the material."

Mitia spread his hands and said, "Don't say that this gun is completely suitable for you. Even if I were to shoot, I could kill a ninth-level magician with one hit. I mean the kind that would evaporate on the spot, with not a single piece of flesh left."

"This scope of yours is also specially made. Due to technical reasons, the magnification is only 4 times, so the improvement is not high. However, I specially found a big boss Loli to help you engrave a diagram on the mirror surface with magic, so that you can understand the principle more easily."

"The left and right sides of the tip are the wind direction deviation marks, the top and bottom are the ballistic drop marks, and the center of the tip is the effective impact point of the bullet within the specified distance."

"For your gun, the first range is 850 meters, and the next few ranges are 1100M, 1300M, and 1500M respectively."

“斜的是测距标尺，1.7的意思是一米七的基础人形身高，上面的2-4-6-8分别对应的都是百米，将对面1.7的人形框在测距标尺下可以让你对敌方距离你有多远进行参考。”

"This is simply a work of art!" Mi Wei exclaimed.

Mitia nodded and complained, "Indeed, it is. All the materials of the whole body are custom-made. The cost of the products in the laboratory is terribly high. I feel bad that I didn't spend money to make more of them myself."

"But it's nice to have two prototype guns to satisfy my cravings~"

Chapter 82 Hijacking Plan

While Medea and the other man were enthusiastically studying the new gun, Unica and her four teammates successfully sneaked into Seris after disguising themselves.