After Rowan took over the Norwington Family, he systematically consolidated the mines and shipyards of the Inland Sea.
Before setting out for Southshore, Rowan had held a mobilization meeting in Morris Town, uniting the Inland Sea's factories and mines into a single operation.
A month and a half later, the once-quiet Morris Harbor had become bustling. From dawn to dusk, cargo ships arrived one after another, delivering vast quantities of Steam Power Engine components to the Morris Machine Factory.
A month earlier, the Norwington Economic System had reached an impasse. The Inland Sea's factories were operating at half capacity, products were piling up in warehouses, and Rowan had even needed to cover the workers' unpaid wages.
Unlike the factories owned by other families in Kul Tiras, the Norwington Family had made each factory a relatively independent entity to encourage production. In other words, each was responsible for its own profits and losses.
The workers' wages were directly tied to their factories' performance. This was the most important reason the products made by Norwington businesses offered good quality at low prices.
Everyone contributed, and everyone benefited.
Such an open economic policy, with its relatively fair distribution of earnings, had allowed Norwington businesses to seize the initiative in an environment of free trade. On this point, Rowan had to admire his father's foresight.
Now the situation had improved. The various merchants' guilds had resumed trading with the Norwington Family, and the factories had returned to normal operation.
Rowan did not, however, unleash the factories' production capacity to continue competing with Kul Tiras's major families and merchants' guilds.
The Inland Sea's textile mills, shipyards, blacksmith shops, mines, smelting plants, and other industries.
Rowan allocated ten percent of the factories' production capacity to commercial trade, while keeping the remaining ninety percent firmly under his