There were simply too many benefits to using robots.
At last, the rulers of some nations could no longer resist.
Those abandoned lands, mountains, deserts, and coastlines could all be put to large-scale use.
Sparse populations, poor quality, lack of diligence—none of these shortcomings would remain shortcomings.
Never underestimate the ambitions of rulers.
Many small nations dared to provoke powerful enemies.
Before long, the first ruler willing to take the plunge emerged.
The ruler of one region made promises to the local people similar to Yang Weite's. Of course, they were nowhere near as generous, offering only ten percent of the value created by robot labor to be distributed among the locals.
Everyone accepted it joyfully.
The reason was simple: the locals had never had much proper work to do in the first place. Every day, they muddled through one meal as two, basking in the sun, then moving beneath the trees when it got too hot.
Naturally, such people were the easiest to persuade.
Before long, robots were deployed on a massive scale in that region.
People soon discovered that the region had begun producing relatively high-end goods.
No matter how brutally exploited workers were, they could not compare to robots...
Robots worked 24/7/365. They needed no monthly wages, no child support, and whenever there was new technology, they could be upgraded immediately, with no time cost for learning.
All they consumed was hardware maintenance and electricity, and compared to workers' wages and benefits, that was nothing.
In just one year, an utterly backward region became a moderately developed place capable of producing large quantities of cheap low- and mid-tier goods.
Agricultural productivity rose dramatically.
One robot could handle the work of hundreds of mu of farmland, while ten could handle tens of thousands. Once there were enough of