Unlike the Candel Empire, the Malo Empire had shown a willingness to cooperate with the Xinfei Merchant Guild from the outset thanks to Marquis Southgate. Over the nearly ten years that followed, the two sides had maintained close ties, and their cooperation had been harmonious.
Thus, compared with the Candel Empire, whose magic industry sector was still only in its infancy, the Malo Empire had already established a basic magic industry framework over the past few years with the Xinfei Merchant Guild's assistance.
The Malo Empire could now not only produce a wide variety of household magic machinery on its own, but had also shifted the production of most everyday goods within the empire to industrialized, large-scale manufacturing.
Several years earlier, the influx of the Xinfei Merchant Guild and other merchant guilds involved in magic machinery had sent enormous shock waves through the Malo Empire. Even when buying a washbasin, its citizens would choose the cheap, practical, attractive plastic basins shipped from the countries in the continent's southwestern corner, or simply opt for rustproof stainless steel or other alloy basins.
Now, however, by importing production technology in large quantities and boldly promoting magic industry, the Malo Empire had won its citizens' approval for domestically produced stainless steel and other alloy basins as well.
Even the manufacture of plastic products, long monopolized by the Night Song Tribe, had changed. Through active discussions between the Malo Empire and the tribe, the Night Song Tribe had finally agreed to establish several Plastic Processing Factories within the empire, allowing plastic goods to be produced locally.
It was no exaggeration to say that the Malo Empire had now become largely self-sufficient in low-end industrial goods.
Although the quality of most products still could not compare with those of the Xinfei Merchant Guild, or even those