High Above

  Chapter 513 Unsolvable technological disaster (44)

   "We are the empire. The black tyrants and late emperors you speak of are me and my father's grandfather and father... Are we crazy to discredit our own grandparents? Especially when he brought us such a powerful empire?"

Shaking his head slightly, the second prince patted the experimental table in front of him after laughing: "My meaning is very simple. Ian, your strength is not worthy of this kind of 'simplification and popularization' that even the fifth energy level can't do." .Now is the limit, because everyone can benefit, and if you continue to go deeper, the first one to oppose you is the monopoly group formed by the Platinum Iridium Workshop and all other large alchemy workshops."

   "At that time, without the support of financial resources, how will you become stronger? If you don't become stronger, you will always be suppressed by others, and you will not be able to do what you want to do!"

   "Give up this path. When you become the fourth energy level and become the first talker combination of Platinum Iridium Workshop with Isengard, then there may be a chance to make some reforms."

"But even so, don't continue to research 'reuse' - remember my advice, Ian. You have done a good job, your new theory can increase the production of alchemy potions, and the market price will inevitably decrease Some, this is already progress, more people will be able to use cheap medicine, but don't make more changes now... that will only cause confusion."

  At this moment, Mikael's eyes are shining: "Because of the great increase in productivity, there will be a shortage of raw materials, and there will not be enough consumers to buy the extra goods..."

   "Do you think the economic crisis of the empire was due to insufficient goods? No, there are too many!"

   "Do you think it's insufficient technology? No, it's too much!"

His voice became louder: "Under the call of my grandfather, the major alchemy workshops are actively producing, and they have even developed the 'Inscription Intelligence', a single alchemist can produce hundreds or thousands of alchemists on the production line. Potions that can only be made by an alchemist—it just happens to be in the same direction as your research, Ian, those potions are of mediocre quality, even inferior, but they are quite cheap, and theoretically 'ordinary people' can afford them."

"However, too many things are produced, but no one buys them, no one uses them—nobles don't want to use these inferior products, and ordinary people don't need them. Do you know how many alchemy workshops closed down at that time? You know The Platinum Iridium Workshop you are in now, was this huge monster just a small workshop that could be seen everywhere at that time, and it was even difficult to make a profit?!"

   "What... what?"

Ian couldn't help widening his eyes when he heard this - he originally thought he would hear something like the alchemy workshop refusing to cooperate, but he never thought that what he heard was "the alchemy workshop actively cooperated in development and then closed down" Something bordering on nonsense.

  But what Mikhail said was beyond his expectations...even beyond his worst imagination and guessing before.

  —Inscription Smart...with the production line?

  —Great surplus in productivity? !

   No wonder, no wonder universal education failed at that time, no wonder educated people at that time couldn’t find jobs…

   Not because the technology is too low, but because the technology is too high! ?

"I see…"

  Ian moaned in his heart: "It's actually because of the breakdown in this aspect..."

It’s no wonder that Master Goser’s attitude towards the late emperor is so complicated, and it’s no wonder that Mikael asked himself not to study any popular potions—the “reuse” technique he researched to reduce the cost of potions and the artificial intelligence matching rate are too high. It may not be the best in terms of quality, but it may be much better than humans in terms of operating precision in saving materials.

   Researching this, is it to make the major workshops reproduce the era of bankruptcy when too many medicines were produced and no one bought them?

   No wonder, no wonder... no wonder that in that era, Inaiga II didn't have many relevant helpers, as if he was isolated and helpless.

  Because, he really did screw up the group of people who supported him.

  Thinking of this, the boy couldn't help but forget to breathe.

  The words of the second prince continued.

"It is the development of technology at will without restriction, which will cause turmoil! Now the empire still has the technology of inscription intelligence, but it dare not use it at will, because once it is used, what will those who have no jobs do? Those who save What about productive groups? Is it true that everything is replaced by intelligence? Isn’t the empire in turmoil the target surrounded by countries and the target of other forces?”

   "Can you understand now? Pure technology can't solve the problems that the empire will face—it can even be said that the better the technology, the bigger the problems, and the more terrifying the disaster we will face..."

  Taking a deep breath, Ian remained silent, listening to these did not seem like problems that an 'empire', or a 'normal civilization' would encounter at all.

   Mikael seemed to think that Ian knew the secrets of these alchemy circles, but in fact he didn't.

  Ian fell into deep thought, but a very clear concept emerged in his mind.

  —Terra civilization is the legacy of the pre-epoch civilization...it was not a normal civilization in the first place.

  It's a...post-apocalyptic civilization with a legacy, nourished by a legacy, and bound by a legacy.

  The remains of an interstellar civilization.

Staring at the pensive young man, Mikael stood up slowly, knowing that Ian understood what he said: "I have to say, it's really a pleasure chatting with you, you can always understand me, no wonder Everyone loves you."

   "I understand." At this moment, Ian suddenly said: "You think that the failure of the late emperor is because the ordinary people he tried to help couldn't help him at all."

  Ian suddenly understood Mikael's thinking.

  —Yes... In Terra, ordinary people who are not sublimators, even if they are empty-handed, even one million, ten million, one billion billion ten billion, cannot kill a second energy level. It's very simple, the second energy level can fly, the subsonic level flying, and the body is unbelievably strong.

Unless you use alchemy cannons and more high-tech weapons, the cost performance is extremely low, and there are so many resources to pile up... But in fact, they can't operate, and if the second energy level is also armored or ether armed , everything is reversed again.

  Even if it can be manipulated, the third energy level is truly extraordinary, and the existence of the mind light body is unsolvable... let alone the fourth energy level that is enough to destroy the kingdom.

  In addition to the intelligence of the inscription... sublimators don't even need ordinary people to 'produce'.

  Whether it is arable land, alchemy potions, or even more industrial production, at most a small number of technicians are needed to troubleshoot some mechanical problems, and other things can be handled by intelligence.

Just like me at the beginning—as an engineer, I don’t need to really work. Most of the self-maintenance engineering machines are enough to deal with most of the low-end problems, and what I need to do is to deal with some more difficult problems. There are also fewer accidents, or to solve the problems on the maintenance robot.

   So here comes the problem.

  What is the meaning of the existence of ordinary people?

  The class of nobles and sublimators includes all "knowledge owners". Their brains are smarter than ordinary people, and their thinking is more agile. They can even observe the frequency of light waves with the naked eye, and directly manipulate nanostructure creations with source matter.

   They themselves are a complete set of production equipment, and they are a technology tree itself.

  Ian is confident that at the third energy level, he can rub out the power engine of the previous life with his bare hands, or the power furnace of the pre-epoch civilization in the Sequoia Base. Of course, this is assisted by a silver chip, but if the powerhouse of the fourth energy level has blueprints, he may be able to do it.

  As long as there are blueprints, the powerhouse of the fifth energy level can probably make a spaceship by hand.

  They alone can replace the industrial system with tens of millions of people, even more, and it is even more terrifying.

  If you add a full set of artificial intelligence systems...

All right.

   Look back at the question again.

  When sublimators can even do such outrageous things...

  What should ordinary people do?

  (end of this chapter)