The manpower of the Moon Liên Islands was limited After All; it was impossible to spend too much time on such low-output, highly labor-intensive work.
In building up the islands, Zhang Qingyuan had drawn on the principles of industrial powers from his previous life.
In this Cultivation World, large-scale livestock breeding, organized artifact refining, and pill refining were industry in the conceptual sense of this cultivation world.
With Secondary Processing at its core, one mastered the key technologies and mass-produced all manner of finished cultivation goods, thereby reaping enormous profits.
Large-scale production reduced costs, crushing individual workshops in a dimensionality-reduction strike and seizing dominance over the market.
This was the Moon Liên Islands' primary development model.
Other Cultivation Markets mainly relied on taxation for income.
The Moon Liên Islands' methods were undoubtedly a level above. By controlling core technologies, they carried out invisible exploitation of the vast numbers of low-level Spirit Essence Realm rogue cultivators, squeezing their labor to produce great quantities of low-level pills, Demonic Beast meat, Magic Tools, and other processed cultivation goods, thereby earning immense profits.
This method of exploitation had been formed by Zhang Qingyuan's reference to the fully developed theories of capitalists exploiting wage workers in his previous life.
Compared with blatant plunder through coercion or force, this method was undoubtedly more covert and more advanced!
And if large-scale Secondary Processing production was the driving force—
Then labor-intensive tasks such as going out to obtain feed for breeding Low-level Demonic Beasts and gathering raw materials needed for pill refining and artifact refining were best left to the vast numbers of Low-level Cultivators!
After all, the Moon Liên Islands had limited land and limited Spiritual energy. The various raw materials they required could not possibly all be produced by themselves, and their own output could never