Chapter 474 No one will stop
Everyone is developing, no one will stop.
In order not to wake up Hetty who was sleeping peacefully, Gao Wen stood up and left the desk. He first put on a piece of clothing for Hetty, then went to the large floor-to-ceiling window of the study, and watched the city scenery outside in the gradually sinking sunset, Cecil was still busy and full of vitality.
This is a city that is developing very quickly, and with the end of the integration war, the development of the entire southern border will also become faster.
But while Cecil is developing, others are also developing. On this road of progress, no one will stop and wait for the steps of the latecomers.
Tifeng's development was unexpectedly rapid, but Gao Wen believes that there is more than one Tifeng developing. Even An Su, who looks stale and conservative, must have its own development process, especially when the war breaks out, their development will only accelerate.
But Gao Wen was not very worried about the development of Ansu's country and the church, because he knew that these forces were still trapped by their own backward system, and their development speed was limited. Unless there was a huge change, their speed of progress would always lag behind Cecil, which was not worth worrying.
It is worth worrying that Tifonrosetta Augustus is a more dangerous opponent than Gao Wen expected.
He started by changing the system and had already made some initial success.
His Majesty the Emperor spent more than ten years gradually reforming the aristocratic system of the empire, concentrating his authority, and turning Tifeng into a more efficient execution machine. In recent years, his centralization has become stable and the imperial execution efficiency has been unprecedentedly improved, so he soon entered the next stage: promoting education, liberating the shackles of land, and realizing the production resources.
It is very likely that he has realized the existence and significance of "productivity and production relations", at least he has found some ways, and is trying to move towards deeper reforms, and as long as his control over the empire has not weakened, these reforms will inevitably go further in the next few years.
It is impossible for Emperor Rosetta to achieve such great achievements. In order to make such a huge and ancient empire run, Emperor Rosetta must have a large group of think tanks and assistants, perhaps a young and powerful aristocratic elite, or an enlightened and prestigious old aristocrats. In short, Tifeng is definitely not only a talented emperor, but also a group of important officials who coexist with wisdom and skills.
At the same time, Tifeng also has excellent technical talents.
Gao Wen has Carmier, Pittman, Rebecca and Jenny. They are all excellent technical talents, but there are so many talents in the world. It is impossible for all the geniuses to be concentrated in Cecil, which is a 3-point land. If there are no technical experts in others?
There must be, the only difference is whether they have the opportunity to shine.
Tifeng's chief alchemist discovered the process of tartaric acid dissolving, but does Tifeng have only one chief alchemist? Do they have rune experts? Do they have mechanism masters? Do they have magicians? What new things will these people... develop?
Gao Wen can be sure that there are definitely people in the world who are more talented in mathematics than Rebecca, more talented in rune than Jenny, and more talented in the theology and naturalism than Pittman. According to the distribution law of the extraordinary people in this era, these people must have gathered in the upper class of various countries. They may achieve amazing achievements in the academic field at any time, but depending on the situation of their country, the impact of their achievements will also be different.
In some places, a new magic technology may just add a new entertainment program to the nobles, while in other places, an alchemy achievement may be promoted as a huge boost to national food production.
The technicians of Tifeng obviously caught up with a good era and a good emperor.
Cecil's only advantage is that Gao Wen can be more inclusive, forward-looking, and clearer in the future development laws of society, so as to more efficiently exert the dividends brought by technological research and development.
Gao Wen carefully analyzed the information obtained from Daniel, and in the process he speculated on Tifeng's speed of progress and the next steps of Emperor Rosetta. In this process, he even had the horror idea that "Roseta Augustus is afraid that he is also the surname Chuan", but after some analysis, he found that Tifeng's development should be without doubt.
First of all, Rosetta Augustus's path to change was not achieved overnight. He spent the first few decades of his life to take up the throne, consolidate the regime, win over and improve the aristocrats bit by bit, divide the opponents, and gradually change the Tifeng aristocratic system. This is a normal and long accumulation process.
Secondly, Tifeng's social change was not smooth. Rosetta Augustus had many obvious characteristics of insufficient experience in the process of implementing the new policy. Some lack of experience can even be described as "mistakes":
He left behind many hidden dangers based on the old aristocratic forces, and for this reason he had to make more compromises to maintain Tifeng's stability;
In the process of promoting literacy education, he wasted a lot of energy because he did not find any incentives and did not establish a complete education system. Until now, the enthusiasm of Tifeng civilians to receive education cannot be compared with that of Cecils;
The degree of liberation of Tifeng's labor force is obviously lagging behind Cecil. They still maintained the situation of "going to do short-term work in the workshop after farming", and there were no real professional workers, nor any systematic vocational education and management systems;
Tifeng's "stone-burning acidification workshop" is still based on the old "alchemy workshop" system, with many problems such as small production scale, low efficiency, inconsistent systems, inconsistent standards, and disorderly management. Although Rosetta Augustus tried to establish a large-scale stone-burning acidification production facility, it was just an enlarged workshop, with serious waste of manpower and material resources...
Gao Wen took a deep breath and knew that Tifeng's development was the "normal situation".
To explore, hit a wall, improve, to explore again, hit a wall, and improve again, countless people have paid huge time and manpower costs (sometimes even consume the youth of a generation) to try to gamble on a field, and in the end their only gain is probably just to verify that "this road is blocked". Tifeng is doing such a thing now, and this is normal.
A large part of the reason why Cecil developed so rapidly was that Gao Wen directly used his judgment and experience to avoid these "this road is blocked" in advance. He used his knowledge in his previous life and observation experience as a satellite technician to plan the southern border, which saved huge amounts of time, manpower and material costs.
At least at this stage, this is Cecil's huge advantage over Tifon, but from another perspective, Tifon also has its own advantages, and this advantage is something that Cecil cannot make up for for the time being:
Tifeng is a huge country, with its land area, resource reserves and population several times that of the Principal of Cecil!
This means that it can withstand resource loss in the development process, have sufficient trial and error opportunities, and more importantly, it can exponentially amplify those development dividends!
Even if its forward efficiency is lower than that of Cecil, it can use its own size to crush Ansu and Cecil soon.
So what should Cecil do and what can he do...
Gao Wen turned around and looked at the stack of documents placed on the desk.
That is the next stage of the construction and development plan of the four new industrial belts in the southern border.
At this stage, there is actually not much development that Gao Wen can do in the southern territory. Only by pursuing his head to develop and maximizing Cecil's advantage in "efficiency" can we maintain the current good situation.
Moreover, this development process must be stable and controllable.
His territory has been over-inflated in the past year, and now he has no energy to expand again unless he wants the Principality of Cecil to return to the loose and disorderly feudal lord system of lords in the past, otherwise all he can do in the territory is to digest and absorb and focus on the technology tree to engage in infrastructure.
Apart from Ansu, he could not cause any direct damage to Tifeng, all he could do was dig a hole.
The huge imperial machine controlled by Rosetta Augustus has been running, and it is impossible to stop it. So it is better to just push it and move it towards a direction that seems to be brilliant but is actually a thousand feet deep...
Gowen must do this for Cecil's survival, and Tifon must be harmless.
But he still needs to find ways to retain Tifeng's development potential in this process... because Tifeng in the future is likely to be a force to resist the magic wave.
What Gao Wen is most grateful for now is that the Magic Network information he deliberately released entered the sight of Rosetta Augustus and his think tank in time. With the help of this opportunity, he could penetrate his influence into Tifeng.
But is Daniel's "magic net technology" alone enough to bury enough poison in the body of the giant beast Tifeng?
Although Gao Wen believes that it is not enough, Rosetta Augustus will definitely treat this technology from Ansu with caution. He is very likely to limit the application of magic nets. Moreover, even if the "Demon Net Poison" plan is successful, Tifeng will not suffer much damage. At most, it will waste a lot of manpower and material resources in the process. As a huge empire, Tifeng can afford to lose.
Some bolder and more adventurous ideas were brewing in Gao Wen's mind, and his face became shady and shady.
Hetty finally woke up from her sleep. She was so excited that she sat up and saw that Gao Wen had already left the "meditation" and was standing not far away, while she was wearing a coat. She was suddenly nervous and embarrassed: "Ancestor... I... I didn't sleep on purpose..."
Seeing Hedy wake up, Gao Wen's expression quickly regained his gentleness. He smiled faintly and took the coat handed over by Hedy: "It's okay, it will be good to sleep for a while. You are really too tired recently."
"Actually, it's been good recently. There is not so much happening after the production and construction plan is arranged," Hetty explained with a blush on his face and lowered his head. "It's just that recently the Government Affairs Department is testing the newly installed Magic Network file transfer system and has encountered many unexpected problems, which are a bit...thorny."
"It is normal to encounter problems when new technologies need to be applied," Gao Wen nodded. "Compared with this, the development of various industrial zones in recent times, output, private merchants' willingness to invest in factories, the attitude of the transformation aristocrats towards factories, and the operation of the Production Coordination Committee and the Labor and Social Security Department, do you have any information on this?"
"There are all, and I've been sorting out everyday life," Hetty nodded, then a little curious, "Do you need it?"
"You need it, but don't worry, just summarize a comprehensive report for me in the past few days."
"I see."
Gao Wen nodded slightly, then said softly as if he was talking to himself: "Original strength is the hard truth..."
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Tifeng, the imperial capital Aldernan, in the living room of the Obsidian Palace.
Grand Duke Peidinan looked at Emperor Rosetta Augustus sitting on the opposite seat, and felt a little complicated in his heart.
The war between Tifeng and Ansu was finally postponed, but anyone with a discerning eye could see that it had nothing to do with peace.
After the signing of the peace agreement, Ansu was almost immediately involved in a catastrophic civil war. The Tifeng Empire closed its borders and began to watch. Emperor Rosetta began to rectify all forces in the country, frequently met with various nobles, and continued to promote the reform of professional troops... All of these, all of which were seen by Pei Dinnan Wendell.
He knew that the wise and wise Emperor had never given up on An Su's fat piece of meat. The temporary truce was just to make the fat piece of meat more tender, delicious and easy to swallow.
He was delighted that Rosetta Augustus had successfully escaped from hereditary madness, that the empire had such an emperor with wisdom and strength, but also regret that the demise of the noble golden spirit, and that of the new war promoted by cunning conspiracy.
Ansu's civil war was undoubtedly a part of Rosetta's power.
But Pei Dinnan Wendell also understood that this disgraceful method was necessary for the benefit of the empire, and the Ansu people had to make sacrifices.
Moreover, the Ansu people not only have to make sacrifices, but they also have to become nourishment for the growth of the empire.
A middle-aged woman in a magician robe stood respectfully beside Emperor Tifeng, pointing to the drawings spread on the table and explained: "This is the so-called 'magic net', but it is the first generation and belongs to something outdated. The second generation of magic nets is even more streamlined, but the drawings we obtained are not complete and we have not found a specific processing method."
Grand Duke Pei Dinnan looked at the drawing in front of Emperor Tifeng and could see the complex runes and magic lines drawn on it. Although all runes are primary, the entire array has a strange sense of coordination. Although he is not a mage himself, with his pretty good magic knowledge, he can also judge that this magic array has done excellently in optimization.
This is the key to the rapid rise of Ansu's ancient Cecil family, and the "lost technology" brought by the ancient hero who resurrected from the dead.
Rosetta Augustus' voice came from across the table: "Pei Dinanqing, I heard that the second generation of magic nets are composed of 'units'."
"Yes, your Majesty," Duke Pei Dinnan replied, "Andersha caught some fleeing Ansu mercenaries. Those mercenaries had seen the second generation of magic nets. It is said that those magic net units are hexagonal rune arrays, requiring extremely high processing accuracy, and in huge quantities, unlike those knocked out by blacksmiths and rune craftsmen one by one..."
Speaking of this, the duke couldn't help but frown and sighed: "It's a pity that we don't have drawings... nor did we get the physical objects."
The royal minister in the living room, who was in the living room, heard this and said: "Ansu's southern territory has been blocked, and the Cecil family is strictly governing there. It is not easy to inquire about information. However, this is the temporary Cecil family that did not completely block the spread of the magic net. It is said that in the Holy Spirit Plain and a few areas of the East Ansu area, local nobles have already obtained the magic net drawings circulated privately. As long as they have enough patience and cost, those Ansu nobles will be easily bribed."
Emperor Rosetta glanced at the minister indifferently: "Golingqing, even if you get the drawings and real objects, do you dare to use them directly?"
The royal minister named Gorene was stunned for a moment, and a thoughtful look appeared on his face.
"According to what we know, before the war in Ansu Nan border broke out, the Cecil family had actively spread the magic net on a large scale. Then what? Then the stupid Ansu nobles spread the magic net everywhere, so that the Cecil family's army had sufficient magic power to supply everywhere, which was quite profound. "
The Ansu Nanjie War ended very quickly, and the entire southernjie quickly blocked after the war ended, but there was no wall in the world without any wind. Before the southernjie completely blocked, some of the exiled knights and mercenaries escaped and took away all kinds of credible and untrustworthy news, some of which fell into Tifeng's hands.
This information made Emperor Rosetta realize Cecil's rise and was even more wary of the "magic net" from Cecil.
However... Magic Net is still a good thing.
Chapter completed!