Xu Yi had already disappeared from Sines for a long time.
Other than the sporadic news about the Demon Cloud Continent that came back every once in a while, there was also some news about Xu Yi. However, the Demon Cloud Continent was over ten thousand kilometers away from Sines, making everyone feel like it was a completely different world.
So as time passed, the impression of Xu Yi in the hearts of the people of Sines gradually faded.
Moreover, two years after Xu Yi left Sines, Xu Yi's wife, Stiel, resigned from her position as the New Moon Chamber of Commerce's president and disappeared from the public eye.
It's said that Stiel and Xu Yi's other wives moved to a small island on the endless sea after retiring, living a life of seclusion, not caring about the world at all.
Like this, the impression that Stiel left on people also faded.
Of course, this didn't mean that the mark that the two of them left on Sines would disappear because of this.
The New Flyer under the leadership of Freya continued to develop over the years, holding an absolute position in the magic machine industry, having a strong influence on every country in Sines.
The New Moon Chamber of Commerce was also developing quickly.
As the cost of production kept falling, the price of the Magic Illusion Projectors that normal families used also kept falling. Now the most common one only cost eighteen gold coins.
So in every family in Sines, they had already bought a Magic Illusion Projector as a standard.
If someone didn't have a Magic Illusion Projector in their home, they would be laughed at by everyone around them. It would even make it hard for their family's young men to marry the girl they loved because of this.
When the Magic Illusion Projectors were popularized in every household, the Magic Illusion Network that the New Moon Chamber of Commerce had been promoting also entered every corner of Sines.
The various Magic Illusion Programs that the New Moon Chamber of Commerce made were deeply rooted in people's hearts with the Magic Illusion Network, attracting everyone's attention.
When they came home from work each day, they would turn on the Magic Illusion Projector and watch the Magic Illusion Show, which was something that every family had to do.
Moreover, just last year, the New Moon Chamber of Commerce and the Azshara Tribe had publicly announced their magic illusion production technology. They cooperated with one hundred and twenty three countries at once, opening their own magic illusion production department in these one hundred and twenty three countries. They specialized in making magic illusion programs that belonged to these countries.
There were only one hundred and forty six countries that had complete sovereignty over the Sines. With the New Moon Chamber of Commerce's actions, the Magic Illusion Program was able to enter all the Sines countries.
Because every country had their own Magic Illusion program production department, the Magic Illusion programs that people could watch were no longer limited to the New Moon Chamber of Commerce. There were many more choices.
Moreover, because some small countries didn't have any special restrictions, in these small countries, if they used a Magic Illusion Projector, they could watch several dozen or even several dozen countries' Magic Illusion Programs.
Although the quality of the Magic Illusion Programs produced by these countries couldn't compare to the New Moon Chamber of Commerce's Magic Illusion Programs, having more choices was naturally very good for normal people.
The most important thing was that by watching the New Moon Chamber of Commerce's Magic Illusion Programs, they could understand the continent a bit more and understand the other races a bit more.
By watching the Magic Illusion Programs of their own country, they could understand the things that were closest to them.
And by watching the Magic Illusion Programs of other countries, they could deepen their understanding of other countries. They wouldn't feel like they were in another world like before.
Adding in the fact that transportation was very developed, it wasn't that hard to go to another country.
So the New Moon Chamber of Commerce's "walk more, see more" slogan through a travel program became the consensus of everyone on Sines.
Rich people would travel around and see for themselves the things they saw on the Magic Illusion TV show.
Poor people could also travel around, or travel on a budget, or look for better opportunities and jobs.
On the current Sines Continent, it was no longer like before. Everyone lived their entire lives within fifty kilometers of where they were born and had never seen the outside world.
The mobility of people on Sines had never been this high before.
There were even many people who weren't satisfied with staying in Sines and chose to head to a new continent.
Most people went to the Demon Cloud Continent and a small portion went to the Southern Continent.
There were even a few people who were even more extreme. They formed their own exploration fleet and went into the endless sea, heading to the new continents that had already been explored, but hadn't been listed by the New Flyer.
These people who called themselves explorers said that they would create a new world in the new continent and become the king of the new continent.
These explorers' slogans were loud and clear, but it was hard to say what they would become.
But according to some newspapers, among these exploration fleets, there were fleets supported by some countries and companies on Sines.
They wouldn't go to the Demon Cloud Continent to steal territory from the New Flyer, nor would they go to the Southern Continent to compete with the Levin Dynasty who had already established a firm foundation there, so naturally they would set their sights on the other continents.
Actually, the countries on Sines knew that developing new continents would bring them great benefits, but because Sines was in a critical period of development, there wasn't a single country that was willing to transfer large amounts of manpower and resources to develop new continents, delaying their own development.
Other than these changes, the biggest change in Sines over the years was the people themselves.
Thirty years ago, before the New Flyer appeared, although Sines was big and had many countries, their total population didn't exceed a hundred million.
But with the appearance of the New Flyer and the agricultural magic machines, as well as the fertilizer from the elves, it greatly increased the grain yield of the various countries on Sines, allowing people to have more grain to feed more people.
Adding in the fact that in the past twenty years, there hadn't been any large wars on Sines, so the population of Sines had swelled up like a balloon.
According to the population statistics from the Kandla Empire two years ago, just the Kandla Empire alone had over a hundred million people.
The Malor Empire had also done the same last year, having close to a hundred million people.
If the populations of the other countries were added together, the population of Sines would have already broken a billion.
This was a very shocking number.
It had to be known, in the history of Sines, no matter which race was ruling, the total population had never surpassed a hundred million.
Now that it had broken the one billion mark, it was simply a miracle.
For this phenomenon, the New Moon Chamber of Commerce worked with the most famous newspapers and the magic illusion programs of all the countries to produce a program called « Population Explosion », revealing the reason for this.
After a bunch of analysis that people could understand and couldn't understand, they finally came to a conclusion.
The reason why the population of Sines had such a shocking increase was because of the increase in grain yield.
The deeper reason was the change brought by the increase in productivity.
The so called "productivity" was a new concept that the New Moon Chamber of Commerce proposed through this program.
The core of this concept was that productivity determined the standard of living of a society, and only technology could bring about an increase in productivity. Only then could people have more food, more clothes, better houses, and more comfortable lives.
So if they wanted to live a better life, they had to develop technology and increase productivity.
The program didn't say it clearly, but everyone knew that the so-called technology in Sines was the magic machine industry technology.
This wasn't something that the New Moon Chamber of Commerce needed to explain through this program. No matter which country or which person, they all had a deep understanding of this.
Not to mention that the increase in productivity brought by the increase in technology would make their lives better. On the other hand, if they didn't pay attention to this, they would fall behind others and their family would fall behind others. If it was a big problem, the entire country would fall behind other countries.
This kind of lesson wasn't rare at all.
Just three years ago, the Kingdom of Druz and the Kingdom of Mecca had a conflict over two mines on the border, which eventually turned into a war.
Because the Kingdom of Druz had a deeper understanding of military magic machines, they were equipped with more military magic machines, so their army was stronger. Therefore, they had a great advantage in the beginning of the war.
But because the Kingdom of Mecca had a more complete magic machine industry system and their production scale was larger than the Kingdom of Druz, after entering the war, they had a shocking amount of power. In terms of logistics, they far surpassed the Kingdom of Druz.
So after the war lasted for a year, it was the Kingdom of Druz that gradually couldn't hold on.
In the end, after a year and a half of continuous war, the Kingdom of Druz's army completely withdrew from the Kingdom of Mecca and was forced to sign a ceasefire agreement with the Kingdom of Mecca.
Not only did they give up the two mines that caused the war, but they also gave the other mines near the border to the Kingdom of Mecca.
At the same time, the Kingdom of Druz was forced to fully open their domestic market to the Kingdom of Mecca and couldn't impose additional tariffs on any of the Kingdom of Mecca's products.
Compared to the mines, the latter condition was the real fatal one.
The Kingdom of Druz had originally been behind the Kingdom of Mecca in the civilian sector because of their strong development of military magic machines. Now that they fully opened their domestic market to the Kingdom of Mecca, once all kinds of products from the Kingdom of Mecca flooded in, it would definitely squeeze out the Kingdom of Druz's local magic machine industry.
In the long run, the Kingdom of Druz would only have less ability to resist the Kingdom of Mecca.
Similar to the war between the Kingdom of Druz and the Kingdom of Mecca, there had been countless incidents in the Sines in recent years.
Several countries rose because of this, and several countries declined or even perished because of this.
But no matter what, the magic machine industry in the Sines had been developing rapidly and had never shown any signs of decline.
From another perspective, after Xu Yi disappeared for a few years, the Sines had taken great strides towards his ideal state.