The above three factors—maritime trade, product technology, and increased domestic demand—created a force driven by economic factors—capitalists—who gradually stepped onto the historical stage.
This force included scholars with patents, merchants who accumulated wealth, and fleets engaged in maritime trade. They built a complete commercial chain, from product research and establishing farms, workshops, and shops to long-distance ocean trade.
This force, fueled by commercial prosperity, gradually penetrated every corner of the Muxi Kingdom, beginning to influence this emerging kingdom in multiple ways.
The first point is that it helped the Kingdom of Muxi deal with refugees. Whether it's product development or production, free labor is an indispensable factor. Due to the unique nature of the Kingdom of Muxi, serfs dependent on nobles and landowners are almost non-existent, and the labor cost of Muxi residents is too high. Therefore, capitalists, in order to obtain qualified labor, turned their attention to the cheap refugees in the outer cities.
They provided refugees with education, ensuring they acquired basic job skills; they also provided them with food and lodging, securing their livelihoods through contracts. While these actions were driven by self-interest, they also indirectly accelerated urbanization and increased education levels.
The second point is the emergence of land grabbing. The production and processing of products require a lot of land. Take the popular product of Muxi City, "Night-blooming Jasmine Essential Oil", for example. The "raw material processing plant" alone requires 200 acres of land. If you add the space for drying, purification, bottling, etc., the perfume industry alone can develop into the scale of a small town.
However, the land within and around Twilight City was already largely planned and unusable. What to do? Capitalists turned their attention to the 'noble fiefdoms' that the Twilight Knights had once plundered but then abandoned. These lands originally belonged to the Silver Ring nobles, but the outbreak of war turned them all into 'public wasteland'. Initially, people were worried that King Todd would prohibit development, but after some subtle inquiries, they discovered that the king not only didn't oppose it, but actually quite supported the reuse of the 'public wasteland'. Capitalists could obtain the right to use the land for 20 to 40 years from the royal family by paying a pittance in rent.
The third point is the development of agricultural productivity. Unlike the small-scale peasant economy of the Middle Ages, the rise of capital power promoted the development of agricultural and rural productivity. Due to the long-term cheap leasing of land, most capitalists were more willing to invest in new crops, apply better fertilizers, use better tools, reform drainage systems, adopt advanced farming methods, and increase yields.
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