Knowing what Lou Gao wanted, Li Pu brought up his vision of an industrial revolution.
The advent of the Spinning Jenny marked a revolution in the textile industry. Mechanized spinning increased output and efficiency, driving the rise of modern industrialization.
Next came the power generated by boiling water into steam. With Li Pu's guidance, Lou Gao invented the Steam Engine, then improved upon it.
It had not yet been widely adopted, but it had already shown Lou Gao that blacksmiths' status would rise to unimaginable heights.
Not to mention the ideas for firearms.
Li Pu did not know the detailed workings of guns, but he could draw up a simplified design for the divine craftsman to study.
After all, people in Douluo had their wits about them. In the original story, Lou Gao had eventually managed to develop soft armor that fit close to the body and could change size. If Li Pu provided rough blueprints and ideas, how could the divine craftsman Lou Gao fail to figure out how to make it?
The blueprints and concepts for the many machines needed by light and heavy industries were drawn up, and the divine craftsmen led by Lou Gao set about bringing them to life.
Over the past four years, all sorts of new machines had begun to appear, newly invented for use in factories across the light and heavy industries.
Even when others heard about them, they paid no mind.
With their level of intelligence, they could not begin to understand what an iron tide meant.
Nor could they imagine the shock it would bring them!
But Li Pu's plans went beyond that.
In a low-martial world, productivity and technology were paramount. Crush your rivals with technology and productivity, and everything else became easy.
Technology was the primary productive force.