An Active Economy

When you did the math, it had only been barely a year since Lux had taken up residence in Demacia City.

For the vast southern regions of Demacia, that year had merely given them a more direct, clearer impression of their new emperor.

Although a great deal of land that had once belonged to the nobility had been distributed among the common people, earning the new emperor their approval, beyond that, the lives of southern farmers seemed little different from before.

Aside from working harder in the fields, their lives did not seem to have changed much.

By contrast, in the north, as military contracts dwindled, the nascent magical industrial sector was undergoing a rapid transformation.

After the surge in production capacity driven by military contracts, new markets had been found, and the factories quickly poured into civilian industry all at once.

The textile industry was the first to find a market.

After a sailcloth factory transformed into a textile mill and made a fortune, many related factories in the North began following its example.

Those who made sails, woolens, and military uniforms all began moving into civilian fiber textiles.

The sailcloth factory had used sail-net technology to bring magic into its regular production process. Combined with the North's advantages in organization, it had crushed traditional handicraft textile production. But that was only the most basic approach.

The more sophisticated ventures were silk weaving and woolens.

As everyone knew, silk in Runeterra had two main places of origin: Ionia and Nazumah. Both Ionian silk and Nazumah Silk were "Riot Games" products in international trade and highly important luxury goods.

Both Ionia and Nazumah sold raw silk, and it was not particularly expensive compared to finished silk. But silk weaving had always relied heavily on skilled workers. Silk woven elsewhere and