King Vladislav Orlovsky

"New technology like the steam engine will automate almost everything in this guild, you will basically need less employees than asking for more. It is not that far... I will build a steam engine for this guild before the year ends." After Virtya said this, he left Nataschenka as she remained still while trying very much to absorb what Virtya had just said.

'I haven't understood most of what his majesty king Virtya has said like this steam engine thing but I clearly heard him say that he will make blacksmithing to be a thing of the past... Well, is that even possible? What can make this most sought after services that useless... It seems that I am still a fool... I can't think of anything that will replace us. Maybe his majesty is just fucking around... Forgetting blacksmithing is impossible, right?' 

Clearly, with the steam engine, it would pave the way for Virtya to divide the blacksmithing guild because of specialization so that he didn't overwhelm the blacksmiths.

Virtya planned to make steel rolling and milling factories, a factory that would bake ceramics for the production of sanitary wares and other ceramic items, a factory that would manufacture stainless steel products, corrugated iron sheets factory and much more, all those factories would branch from the blacksmithing guild leaving the guild with nothing to do.

Nevertheless, the current employees of the blacksmithing guild would be posted in these new factories and no one would lose their jobs. It was just that the nature of their work would change. As instead of singularly making a complete item from scratch to the finish, a worker would only be needed to do something as simple like pouring molten iron into a molder and then there would be a mechanism to reshape the molded item and make sure that it was flawlessly made.

Blacksmithing would forever be a thing of the past but for that to happen, Virtya had to fabricate the steam engine and maybe, the electricity.

***

Whiyork, the capital of Litkesh kingdom,

King Vladislav Orlovsky could be seen seated on the throne in the throne room. His grey hair swayed side by side. Using his chubby fingers, he moved the hair that covered his face behind his ear but the brush of the annoying wind still made his hair to veil his face.

His face was covered with wrinkles which just showed how old king Vladislav was. However, even if he was old, he was still energetic and his selfish character had never died.

In front of king Vladislav, there was a bag of cement. This bag only had a few printed words that were barely readable but with just a single glance, one could easily read the vague words clearly.

After all, even if Pollow cement factory didn't took its time to print the instruction for use on the surface of the bag of cement, a few crucial words was not that hard to print on these many bags.

 Pollow cement had a stamp that had the mirrored words engraved on the surface of the stamp. This stamp was connected to a crankshaft in motion which enabled its reciprocating motion to stamp the few crucial words onto the surface of the bags of cement after the stamp dipped itself into the paint.

The few words on the surface of the cement bag in front of king Vladislav read:

"Pollow cement. Made in Azuhai."

These words were so few and so simple but they hammered heavily on the hearts of everyone who had assembled in this throne room.

"Your majesty, king Virtya has been acting strange as of late. From the carriages to the ox drawn plough and now this. We can keep quiet about something as simple as the ox drawn plough and the clothes but this... I think we have to act!" An old duke hollered angrily while his fellows nodded their heads in harmony.

"The duke of Irvana is right, If this continues, we will make the kingdom of Azuhai rich by buying their cement and they would soon overtake us in terms of technology. I suggest that we force the cement manufacturing process out of Virtya's head or from anyone that worked closely with him to build that cement factory or else, we invade Azuhai kingdom and make everything that they own ours including that Virtya!" Another incensed duke chimed in.