In the Sima Empire, Sima Xuan stood on the top of the city wall, looking at the soldiers who were practicing in front of the imperial capital. More than 500,000 elite soldiers were practicing martial arts here, and the scene was so grand that it almost stretched to the end of the sight.
If he had seen such a scene in the past, Sima Xuan would have been very happy. With such elite troops, it would not be difficult to conquer a country of three or four thousand miles.
But at this moment, Sima Xuan looked at such an army and did not feel any strength at all.
Looking east, there are ports and shipyards on the coast of the Sima Empire, and there are arsenals next to the imperial capital. These ports, shipyards, and arsenals were purchased from the Shang Dynasty at a huge cost by the Sima Empire, both in terms of technology and equipment.
Previously, the Shang Dynasty blocked the attack of the demon tribe, and the surrounding countries did not have a clear idea. But when the Shang Dynasty swept the surrounding countries with overwhelming force in less than two months, everyone suddenly woke up. Times have changed!
The Sima Empire certainly also tried to catch up, introducing technology, equipment, and even the systems of the Shang Dynasty at all costs.
But Sima Xuan sighed, it is easier said than done, it is not easy to completely copy the development path of the Shang Dynasty! At that time, he only saw the rise of the Shang Dynasty in just a few years, but when he really started to copy the development path of the Shang Dynasty, Sima Xuan realized how difficult this road was!
There are too many key points in this, which are completely mastered by the Shang Dynasty. Obviously, the Shang Dynasty will not easily reveal these key points.
With no other options, Sima Xuan wanted to find direction from traditional practice and materials. After tens of millions of years of accumulation, there were indeed a lot of technical accumulations that could be directly borrowed. But just like the problems Li Xian encountered back then, the wire problem and the energy problem became the two major bottlenecks that plagued the development of technology!
In addition, materials (spiritual materials), systematic scientific theories, etc. are not things that can be taken for granted.
The Sima Empire had a difficult time on the road of industry and science.
In the fairyland environment, it is destined that the science and technology that does not rely on spiritual energy will have no room for development. Maybe there will be room for development in the future, but the entry step will block the Sima Empire!
Or to put it more realistically, no one is optimistic about the development of "non-spiritual technology" now. Even many technologies of the Shang Dynasty paid special attention to the application of spiritual energy and formations.
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But in the west of Yingzhou, in Ningguo and Liangguo, the situation is different.
Let's talk about Liang State first. Xiang Bowen was really talented. With various rewards and incentives, Liang State had explored some new technologies and theories bit by bit. Different from the technology system of the Shang Dynasty, the technology system explored by Liang State was based on traditional cultivation.
Of course, both countries also encountered problems with wires, spiritual materials, and energy, but for the time being, Liang State did not feel the tremendous pressure from the Shang Dynasty and felt very good about itself.
Because Liang State's only competitor was Ning State in the north, and Ning State's scientific development did not seem to be very good.
But Liangguo didn't know that Ningguo's scientific development was cheating! The small jade slip that Li Xian gave to Zhang Quan was one of the core technologies and foundations of science.