Magic Starts with Measurement

The mines were flooded, the granaries were bottomed out, and creditors were preparing to seize the last assets of the territory. No one among the mages, merchants, nobles, priests and craftsmen in the city really obeyed his orders. Fortunately, Simon was a control engineer in his previous life. So, starting from the Black Birch Hill Mine—— The out-of-control water wheel has a feedback device, the runes that rely on experience have standards, the magic passed down by word of mouth has teaching materials, and for the first time, expensive knowledge can be printed, verified, and learned by ordinary people. Schools, factories, newspapers, railroads, and ocean-going fleets emerged. The power once monopolized by bloodlines, temples and towers began to enter thousands of households. However, when knowledge can cross borders, when magic can be replicated in batches, and when ordinary people have the power to change the world, the old order begins to collapse, and new monopolies, classes, and state machines are born. The imbalance of resources, markets, shipping routes, nations and security will eventually push the entire world into an unprecedented war. Simon initially just wanted to drain the mine. Later, the entire era was pushed off its original track by him. This is a story about an engineer and countless ordinary people who spent a hundred years turning magic into civilization and learned to restrain civilization.