A cheap, convenient, stable and reliable way of long-distance communication, its role in the process of social development is beyond doubt, especially at the current stage when Gao Wen destroyed the old aristocratic forces in the southern border and began to integrate and build a new southern border , its significance is even as great as those guns that can destroy the old aristocracy.
There are many factors restricting social development. For Cecil Territory, which has a rapidly expanding territory and a rapidly increasing population, the two biggest challenges in maintaining the dominance of the southern border at this stage are transportation and communication, and the ability to transport materials and personnel within the territory. , construction capacity, information flow capacity, the response speed of the entire ruling structure, and the effectiveness of the response... These almost all depend on the development of transportation and communication technology.
Excellent transportation can enable the rapid flow of materials and personnel within the territory, production and construction will be guaranteed, commerce will be developed, and the connection between various regions will become closer and not loose. When an emergency occurs, It is also a prerequisite to ensure that the army can quickly rush to the theater, and excellent communications allow the government affairs department to understand the situation throughout the territory, ensure timely and smooth intelligence in various regions, and allow the government affairs department to respond to various emergencies as quickly as possible. To achieve these two points, we must rely on the development of technology and productivity.
Ansu's aristocratic enfeoffment system seemed backward to Gao Wen, but it was the inevitable result of limited transportation and communication technology. The ruler could not control the situation outside the territory in time, nor could he send troops to the area in the shortest time. Outside of this limit area, at the same time, it is difficult to transport the supplies of a city to other cities, and it is also doomed to the situation where the nobles divide their territories and regard the city as a state. In fact, until Ansu 557, the nobles and scholars still followed the following wise words:
The area a lord can rule effectively is as far as his knights can reach in three days and nights, and the area he can rule absolutely is as far as his mage advisors can see with eagle eye.
This ancient saying has been popular in Ansu for hundreds of years, and it didn't change until the summer of 557: a noble mage named "Delta" of the Holy Spirit Plain invented a crystal device that can amplify the eagle eye spell, and installed it in the The top of his mage tower, thus expanding the "absolute rule area" of the lord.
In the following ten years, under the suggestion of this visionary noble mage, the royal family of Ansu started construction in 567 with the city of Saint-Sunil as the center point. The "Kingdom Avenue" within the territory is also called the cross artery, which greatly strengthened the royal family's control over the country, and the upper-class nobles from all over the country followed suit and built a series of roads within their respective territories. In the same period, the successful cultivation of the new species of "White Feather" Griffin and the emergence of the Messenger Pass Act, the domestic transportation and communication in Ansu have greatly developed, and the ability of the nobles to rule the territory and the royal family to rule the country has taken a big step forward. .
However, in these developments, the centuries-old aristocratic enfeoffment system has shown its strong inertia. Except for the Kingdom Avenue, almost all road construction in Ansu is still fragmented by enfeoffment territories. Whether it is road standards or carriage and horse specifications, there is almost no continuity between different aristocratic territories. Griffin messengers are also regarded as a symbol of noble glory. In addition, the cost cannot be reduced, and it has never been developed to In the stage of popularization, enfeoffment nobles continued their pride, restraint, self-esteem and self-enclosure. On the one hand, they enjoyed the benefits brought about by the strengthening of dominance in the territory, but on the other hand, they instinctively refused these things to continue to develop and affect them. The absolute authority of the fief.
Originally, if there was enough time, the day of breaking the situation would appear sooner or later. The old nobles could not stop the society from moving forward forever, but it is a pity that Ansu ushered in civil strife before the Kingdom Avenue could be repaired to the border.
So today's Ansu still has to rely on the way the king canonize vassals and vassals canonize vassals to maintain order. Even due to the huge loss of Ansu's national strength due to the civil strife in the foggy moon, the remaining nobles in various places are almost unable to maintain the roads, " The number of "White Feather" Griffins also dropped sharply during the war, and Ansu's traffic and communication conditions almost degenerated to the state before 557.
The worse situation is yet to come: the nobles and the royal family of the Second Dynasty who have experienced the Brumaire Civil War still remember the horror of the coalition forces from all over the country attacking the Holy Spirit Plain through the Kingdom Avenue. The road to the castle has become a hidden danger for the lords to sleep and eat. Moreover, due to the population decline and the chaotic situation after the war, the nobles had to retreat to protect themselves. This passive and degenerate attitude has even continued to this day.
It wasn't until 735 in Ansu that an ancestor emerged from the coffin, with the authority of the founder of the country, with millions of years of experience from two people and one star, and with disdain for the traditional aristocratic system Gu, started to build his Cecil new situation in the most unreasonable way.
Looking at the communication device in front of him, which was still in the verification stage, what Gao Wen thought was not only the communication device, but also the well-ordered roads connecting all parts of the southern border, and even all parts of Ansu.
For transportation and communication, the former has cement and all kinds of magical machines that are developing rapidly, and the latter, he has finally seen the results of Kamel and Rebecca's efforts so far, these two problems that plagued all rulers Problems seem to have solutions.
"Currently, this communication device uses a mixed rune group. Most of the rune groups come from the technology of the Eternal Sleeper, but it still uses the traditional method of communication spells for the generation and control of the magic shock," Kamel said. Floating next to the communication device, he explained some technical details of the device to Gao Wen, "Unfortunately, we still haven't been able to understand how the Eternal Sleeper network transmits signals in the original magic field of nature, so this device is currently Can only operate within the coverage of a standard magic field."
Gao Wen was very interested in these technical details: "Standard magic field... within the range of the magic obelisk?"
"Yes, the standard magic field produced by the magic obelisk is like the lake you described to it. The ripples generated by the communicator spread in the magic field, from one magic obelisk to another. An obelisk, so we can call this communication method magic network communication," Kamel explained, "I have found a solution to use the magic obelisk as a relay to continuously transmit signals, and in It has been successful in a small range, but the specific effect after the transmission distance is increased has yet to be verified... ”
"How are these communication devices paired or identified?" Gao Wen asked again, "If I have a hundred of these devices distributed in various places, how can I use one of them to accurately contact another specific device?"
This is also a question that Gawain is very curious about. The communicator made by Kamel is quite different from traditional communication spells or the majestic wall of elves. It is a combination of communication and eternal sleeper technology, and its communication medium is The "standard magic field" produced by the magic obelisk, which is still considered to be a high-tech technology, is more like an indiscriminate "broadcasting" device from the perspective of working principle, by broadcasting itself in the magic field signal, so that all devices of the same type can answer, if there is no matching pairing or identification method, all signals will be transmitted publicly without encryption, and the entire magic field will become an extremely chaotic mess. It is difficult to realize the "communication network" function required by Gao Wen.
"We refer to the technology of the ancient Gondor period." Kamel seemed to have expected Gawain's question in this regard, and he immediately gave an answer, and his tone was quite proud, "You are also from the Empire, you should know the technology of the year. The Imperial Information Network has been in operation since the Starfire Era."
Gao Wen nodded, talking about the knowledge he had just retrieved from memory: "Oh, I do know this. When I was a knight apprentice, I often listened to the opera broadcast from the Imperial Capital at my mentor's house. I remembered that the device not only You can receive broadcasts, and you can also talk to people far away in the imperial capital. At that time, only aristocrats or big businessmen would have a dark blue terminal, but compared to this era, that is already a remarkable penetration rate."
Before Kamel opened his mouth, he heard Rebecca's voice coming from the communicator. She hadn't hung up, and she kept making funny faces when Gawain and Kamel were chatting: "Wow! Are communication devices so common?"
"Compare the number of communication techniques and communication devices now... The communication technology of the Gondorians back then was indeed a miracle," Kamel sighed softly, and then continued, "I added a resonance structure to this device, only Signals that meet the resonance conditions can be transmitted between devices. In order to achieve this resonance, I used four basic runes of the wind system and four basic runes with no attributes, and randomized the eight runes Arranged on a substrate with three times three empty slots, they do not form any rune knots, nor have any spell effects, but according to the principle of mana resonance, when another rune group arranged in the same order participates in the magic shock time, this resonant substrate will produce the same response..."
At this point, Carmel paused, as if to give Gawain and Heidi some time to calculate and think, and then continued: "The eight kinds of runes have a large number of arrangements and combinations on the three-by-three substrate, and When using a device to call another device, you only need to use a rune trigger group similar to the color palette of the test bench, and you can easily combine the rune structure of the calling target. I just used my own magic power to control it This process, if ordinary people use it, the rune trigger group is here, and the side of the device is here... "
"Dialing, we can call this process dialing," Gawain felt that Kamel used a lot of ancient Gondor nouns and modern magic terms to explain this simple process is too complicated, so he said simply, "In addition, eight We can number them from zero to seven, so that each communication device has a specific string of numbers to identify it, and the person using the communication device can dial the number more easily. After all, memory Numbers are easier to memorize than runes, and numbers are more suitable for registration in tables than runes."
Whether it's Kamel, Hetty, or Rebecca on the opposite side of the communicator, everyone seems to be very impressed with Gawain's "as soon as something new comes out, he immediately acts as if he has been using it for many years". Behaving as usual, everyone accepted this suggestion indifferently.
To be honest, Gao Wen is not used to it...