Don't Mess with That Dragon-Chapter 735 - 121 Economic Drive (Second Update)

Though life may have improved compared to the past, it is by no means a respite.

Utilizing the allure of industrial products, the Blue Dragon Kingdom takes the surplus grain from the farmers through trade, and the value of industrial products far surpasses that of agricultural grain. Many families, despite their efforts, find it challenging to save enough money to afford a radio, the most popular novelty among the farmers in the village, within a few years.

To promote these expensive household appliances, the upper echelons of the Blue Dragon Kingdom have put in a lot of thought.

Essentially, they equip each grassroots village official with household appliances such as radios that can access external information. In some rapidly developing, electrified areas, even the latest televisions have been provided.

In this world lacking entertainment, where people return home every day after laboring and the only entertainment is procreation, these household entertainment appliances are akin to a dimensional strike, deeply captivating all the farmers in the rural world with that sound-emitting box.

Every night after returning from work, the entire village gathers with small stools at the entrance of the village committee, eagerly watching the Village Chief turn on the radio switch.

This is not an exaggeration,

Perhaps in Austin's previous lifetime, before he traveled to a world where information and entertainment were extremely developed, it might seem unbelievable. But to those who have never experienced the bombardment of information and entertainment, who spend their days facing the earth and have never left the village's thirty kilometers radius in their life, except for the chaotic singing and dancing during the harvest festival bonfire or procreation activities in the pitch-black night, there is nothing worth entertaining.

A gossip about the King tripping would be relished and passed on for half a year.

In this spiritually barren area,

the increasingly mature radio with its myriad programs that could still receive sound from thousands of miles away,

has made an earth-shaking entry into the lives of the vast farmer masses, bringing a revolutionary impact to their lives.

Not to mention those captivating storytelling channels that no one can forget listening to daily, and those mesmerizing music channels, and entertaining life knowledge programs, even the commercials played halfway leave an indelible impression on those who have never experienced such novel entertainment.

The allure of these newly produced industrial and commercial products is something that the entertainment-deprived peasants absolutely cannot resist.

However,

the price of any high-tech industrial product is not cheap. Besides a very few families with considerable savings, others can merely gaze longingly at them.

Moreover, due to the high agricultural production efficiency in the Blue Dragon Kingdom, even in years of natural disasters, food prices cannot rise. Instead, with the harvest season in newly occupied areas, the increase in market grain has caused a decline in food prices.

Perhaps one could say not buying products like radios and just hanging around the village would work, but the problem is that essentials like fine salt, cloth, and even iron sickles, and hoes also have numerous places where they are needed.

As the industrial era descends actively or passively, the desire for a better life can only be achieved through more labor.

However,

nestled in a mountain village farming, 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

it's practically impossible to truly become wealthy, nor is it easy to obtain enough money to purchase these various industrial and commercial products in the Blue Dragon Kingdom, where food prices are not high.

At this time,

with economic development, factories near urban areas or in locations convenient for water resources become the primary source of income for the rural population during the off-farming season.

Many people, driven by a desperate desire for a prosperous life, coupled with official government encouragement, put down their hoes during the farming off-season and head to nearby town factories to work.

The wages earned from working, a small portion might be spent on meat cans, candies, and other novelty snacks during harvest festivals for the children, or on things that can help increase crop yields, such as fertilizers, or sickles, hoes, clothes, etc. Most of the remaining sum would be saved for future contingencies.

A few who earn more may set their sights on large household appliances, such as the popular radios and bicycles, etc.

Through policy promotion and the gradual permeation of the economy,

the vast rural population either actively or passively began participating in the process of industrialization, with the Blue Dragon Kingdom's GDP rapidly growing at an incredible speed, and the national strength was quickly strengthening.

Meanwhile,

the vast territories and population of the newly occupied areas are only beginning to be integrated into the economic system of the Blue Dragon Kingdom, quickly expanding the Kingdom's might.

A powerful kingdom, drastically different from the medieval feudal old world, is rising like the morning sun.

Of course, in the process of digesting the new territories and rapidly enhancing the kingdom's strength,

the Blue Dragon Kingdom's official never forgets to guide the public opinion and beliefs of its populace.

During the thirty thousand years when the Divine disappeared, Divine Power has been unnoticeable, and the development of various Churches has not been smooth, so that secular royal power mostly outweighs Divine power.

Although it's not to the extent of a life-and-death, extremely antagonistic opposition, the domination of royal power over Divine power is indisputable.

Against this backdrop,

the Blue Dragon Kingdom Government officials easily established a strong belief in Austin throughout the Kingdom, akin to an Earth Dragon Divine Kingdom that worships Austin.

The majority of the citizens hold a deep admiration and respect in their hearts for Austin, who grants them a good life, forming a rich atmosphere of belief throughout the Blue Dragon Kingdom.

Through the influence of managed official public opinion, and the subconscious infiltration by Austin's Dream Power, coupled with the continuously improving quality of life that was unimaginable before,

thus, a large number of citizens, under official guidance, have developed genuine and fervent faith.

Of course, in this vast Kingdom, there truly exists a small grain of sand.

For instance, those former aristocrats who have been forcibly deprived of their territories; however, this small handful of people is negligible in the vast Blue Dragon Kingdom.

As a result, during this period, the Power of Faith gathering around Austin has seen an unprecedented increase, making Austin more eager to find ways to utilize this Power of Faith.