How to Survive in the Roanoke Colony-Chapter 267: Market Expansion (6)

The embodiment of future technology that emerged 200 years earlier than in the original history due to Kin Issei’s intervention, a product of a highly developed industrial society.

If one tries to mass-produce such an item...

"Let’s move! Hurry! Bring the coal!"

It was naturally impossible with current methods.

The gradually spreading reverberatory furnace-based ironworks expanded on a much larger scale than before. The molten iron spewing from there formed the framework of tractors.

And conveyor belts were set up in every factory.

And numerous industrial-monastics stood in their places, meditating devoutly. They efficiently assembled giant tractors in front of the noisily moving belts.

Such factories were built by the dozens.

Of course, brick factories were needed to produce the bricks to build these factories. So the Virginians built brick factories.

Then ships and harbors were needed to transport the produced tractors. So they built ships.

Roads were also needed to move tractors on land. So paths were dug and moderately filled with gravel, extending in all directions.

In this situation, raw material prices had to be kept low. Conveniently, many bandits and former slave owners captured in Florida chose mines as their penal colonies, extracting cheap iron ore and coal.

As numerous factories were built near Chesapeake, people naturally flocked to work.

As various villages merged, a massive city with tens of thousands of people grew in Chesapeake, which was already gathering population thanks to the marketplace.

Of course, it wasn’t as if they hadn’t predicted this situation when building the factories. Kin Issei standardized city buildings and roads appropriately and laid simple sewage systems underneath to prevent epidemics.

And.

Kin Issei invited Elizabeth there.

To ’Chesapeake,’ which had become the center of the community.

"...Goodness. Can it change this much in just a few months, a few years?"

"When you last came here, the population was probably around 10,000."

"Then what is it now?"

"30,000."

A population of 30,000.

Such a large city was rare even in England.

In the original history, London should have been trending to surpass 200,000 in population, but due to rebellions and turmoil, it was just barely hanging on at the level of 100,000.

But Elizabeth wasn’t surprised merely by the size of the population.

She briefly... looked up at the half-completed cathedral bell tower.

The principle was simple. When Kin Issei’s wristwatch vibrated with an alarm, the bell-ringers rang the bells accordingly. Thus, the citizens of Chesapeake were informed of the time.

That bell tower was the command center of this city.

When the bell rang 9 times, people immediately left their homes and flocked to the roads, forming clouds. Then they rushed into factories, offered simple prayers, and entered into sacred labor-asceticism.

Then when noon came and the bell rang 12 times, they would come out and buy lunch from street vendors.

And during commuting times, lunch times, and quitting times, those belonging to monasteries would recite to inspire loyalty to the community and work motivation.

Dong. Dong. Dong, dong...

"We, the citizens of all countries under the influence of this Covenant, establish this covenant and swear by our own conscience to protect and expand justice, peace, and freedom."

Dong. Dong. Dong. Dong...

"The Continental Covenant will endure perpetually and will serve humanity forever. For humanity."

"For humanity."

"For humanity."

"For humanity."

Dong. Dong. Dong. Dong...

And then, people dispersing back to their respective factories.

It was amazing.

Just in terms of scale, England should have had a center tens of times more magnificent and wealthy than Virginia and its union, given that its population was tens of times larger.

But the reality was different.

The vast waves of commuting people, the sound of that oath echoing everywhere at set times every day, and the quick and regular hand movements of those self-proclaimed monastics were placing this new city on a massive bedrock.

Elizabeth marveled at this, while Kin Issei thought that they had finally gotten a bit closer to the 21st century as he looked around the factories.

Virginia was prospering.

No, it wasn’t just Virginia.

Far away in Florida, factories were also being built. Also, considering the massive number of tractors and knights heading to Florida, one could expect how much grain would soon come from Florida.

The same was true for other member countries. The gift trade network became denser, new large plantations were established everywhere, and everyone was becoming wealthy.

It was now... 1615.

In just 2 to 3 years, everything had changed.

Elizabeth had seen many cities larger than this. No, she had lived in such cities for almost her entire life.

But she had never seen ’this kind of city.’

She had never once seen an industrial city.

"Come."

"Ah... thank you."

Anyway, Elizabeth hadn’t come here for sightseeing.

She led her old and tired body, receiving help from Kin Issei, and barely climbed the stairs toward the Council of Six building. As Kin Issei led the way and opened the door, she was soon able to meet the members of the Council of Six.

Facing them, Elizabeth sat down. And she said:

"Magnificent. It was a spectacular sight I hadn’t seen in a long time."

"Thank you."

"Anyway, let’s keep the greetings to this much. Shouldn’t we... discuss the practical matters now?"

The Queen said.

"Does ’the Union’ now inherit the treaties that Virginia had previously made?"

"That’s correct."

"Then... the treaty document?"

"Here it is."

The Queen and her advisors carefully examined the paper handed by Kin Issei, who sat across from the Queen. There didn’t seem to be any problematic clauses, but...

"...There’s a blank."

"..."

"You still haven’t decided? The name of the country, I mean."

"Nemo has deliberately chosen not to decide on a name. This is for humility before God and this political body’s..."

"I understand well. But it cannot be left blank indefinitely, can it?"

"..."

"..."

"Come, tell me, Nameless One."

The Queen, smiling like a mischievous child, forced Kin Issei to make a choice.

"What will you write?"

And the moment the Queen spoke, the bell rang outside the window. Exactly, twelve times.

Then soon, monastics who had come out to the streets for break time began to murmur:

"...The Continental Covenant will endure perpetually and will serve humanity forever."

And Kin Issei inadvertently murmured:

"Continental... Covenant?"

The name of the covenant that had led them here years ago.

Hearing this, Hewett silently wrote that name in each of the blank spaces on the treaty document without missing any.

’The Continental Covenant.’

That became the name of this nameless union.

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