Unlike the Southern Province, where Duke Windsor's ban had driven people away from the entire province and even left it looking somewhat lifeless, the other provinces of the Candel Empire were inevitably swept into a rapidly rising tide of the magic industry revolution as vast quantities of industrial magic products poured in, led by the Xinfei Merchant Guild.
People discovered that when the same product was made by traditional craftsmen, it not only took longer and cost more, but its quality was also highly inconsistent, and its performance was not necessarily good.
When a magic machinery merchant guild made it with magic machine tools and manual labor, however, it was an entirely different story.
Products made this way not only took very little time to produce individually, but could also be manufactured in huge quantities within an extremely short period. They cost less, and their quality was remarkably consistent-so much so that almost every item looked as if it had come out of the same mold.
As for performance, the various products made using new magic machine tools and new materials supplied by the Xinfei Merchant Guild far surpassed their predecessors.
Take shovels, for example, one of the most common and frequently used tools in ordinary people's lives.
Previously, obtaining a shovel usually meant having a blacksmith spend several days making it.
Yet even the most skilled blacksmith, working with complete concentration, could not guarantee a hundred percent success rate.
The shovels produced this way were also heavily dependent on the blacksmith's iron-casting techniques. If anything went wrong while smelting the pig iron, the resulting shovel could easily become either so brittle that it broke after a few uses, or so soft that it could not serve its purpose.
By contrast, the shovels shipped from the Stantin Duchy, produced by