In October of Dragon Calendar 5585, the Shadowflame Grand Duchy was filled with harvest and joy.
Under the leadership of the new Grand Duke, Russell, the cabinet swiftly decided to launch an industrialization strategy in the Volcanic Oasis. All the industrial talent cultivated in the Blackfire Land was summoned by Russell to the Volcanic Oasis, where they worked with Minister of Industry Roland to establish numerous factories.
Lord Charles was appointed by Russell as Assistant Minister of Industry, becoming Roland's deputy and taking charge of industrial production.
"Railways, trains, roads, automobiles—these are the most urgently needed infrastructure projects." Russell issued this decree to his elder brother Roland and Charles.
He knew well the truth that if one wished to prosper, one must first build roads.
Only by solving transportation problems and allowing the population to move freely could the benefits of technology truly reach every place, even a remote little estate. Only by using transportation to exchange what each side had and needed, bringing mutual benefit, could commercial prosperity be encouraged.
Only once commerce prospered could it absorb industrial products and feed back into industrialization.
Of course.
Russell could not provide much direct help for the development of industrialization. He could only offer concepts—telephones, mobile phones, computers, air conditioners, washing machines, and the like—then let the scholars think and invent.
"Humanity on the Dragon Sleep Continent is divided by countless snowfields, making communication incredibly inconvenient. But what if there were mobile phones?"
Mobile phones could not be made anytime soon, and even fixed telephones would require a period of exploration.
But Russell thought of something else. He immediately gathered several Grand Scholars and a group of scholars for a meeting at Red Castle. "Have you ever considered why sound can travel through the air... If we find a medium similar