Everyone is developing, no one will stop.
In order not to wake up Hetty who was sleeping soundly, Gawain got up and left the desk lightly. He put a piece of clothing on Hetty first, and then came to the large French window of the study, watching the city scenery outside gradually changing. In the setting sun, Cecil was still busy and full of vitality.
This is a fast-growing city, 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 footsteps of the latecomers.
Typhon's development is unexpectedly rapid, but Gao Wen believes that Typhon is not the only one that is developing. Even Ansu, who looks obsolete and backward, and the church that seems stubborn and conservative must have their own development process, especially In the event of war, their development would only accelerate.
But Gao Wen is not very worried about the development of Ansu's country and the church, because he knows that these forces are still trapped by their own backward system, and their development speed has an upper limit. Unless they encounter earth-shaking changes, their speed of advancement will be forever Falling behind Cecil is nothing to worry about.
What is worrying is that Typhon Rosetta Augustus is a more dangerous opponent than Gawain expected.
He started by changing the system, and he has initially succeeded.
His Majesty the emperor spent more than ten years gradually reforming the aristocratic system of the empire, concentrating his own authority, and turning Typhon into a more efficient execution machine. Efficiency has been unprecedentedly improved, so he quickly entered the next stage: promoting education, liberating land shackles, and reallocating production resources.
It is very likely that he has realized the existence and significance of "productivity and production relations", at least he has touched some doors, and is trying to move towards deeper reforms, and as long as his control over the empire does not weaken, these reforms are inevitable. Will go further in the next few years.
And to achieve such great feats, it is impossible for Emperor Rosetta alone. In order to make such a large and ancient empire work, Emperor Rosetta must have a large group of think tanks and assistants around him, perhaps the noble elite of the young and strong, perhaps It is an enlightened and prestigious old aristocratic platform. All in all, Typhon must not only have a talented emperor, but also a group of important ministers with both wisdom and skill.
At the same time, Tifeng also has excellent technical personnel.
Gao Wen has Kamel, Pittman, Rebecca and Jenny under his command. They are all excellent technical talents, but there are so many talents in the world, it is impossible for all talents to be concentrated in Cecil's acre. Don't other people's homes have technical experts in three-thirds of the land
There must be, the difference is only whether they get the chance to shine.
Typhon's chief alchemist discovered the process of acid hydrolysis of burning rocks, but is there only one chief alchemist in Typhon? Don't they have rune experts? Don't have an organist? Isn't there a magician? What kind of new things will these people... research
Gao Wen can be sure that there are definitely people in the world who are more talented in mathematics and science than Rebecca, more talented in runes than Jenny, and more talented in theology and natural history than Pittman, and according to the distribution of extraordinary people in this era, these people People must be gathered at the top of each country, and they may make amazing achievements in the academic field at any time, but depending on the conditions of the countries they live in, the impact of their achievements will also be different.
In some places, a new magical technology may just add a new entertainment item to the nobles, while in other places, an alchemy achievement may be promoted as a huge boost to the national food production.
Typhon's technicians obviously caught up with a good time and a good emperor.
Cecil's only advantage is that Gawain can be more tolerant and forward-looking than Rosetta, and he is more aware of the next development law of society, so that he can more efficiently leverage the dividends brought about by technology research and development.
Gawain carefully analyzed the information he got from Daniel, and in the process speculated on Typhon's advancing speed and Emperor Rosetta's next move. In the process, he even had "Rosetta Augustus is afraid It's not the horror idea of wearing a surname", but after some analysis, he found that there should be no doubts about Typhon's development.
First of all, Augustus Rosetta’s road to change was not achieved overnight. He spent the first half of his life decades sitting on the throne, stabilizing the regime, wooing progressive nobles little by little, dividing opponents, and gradually changing the Typhon aristocratic system. This is a normal and lengthy accumulation process.
Secondly, Typhon’s social change was not smooth. Rosetta Augustus had many obvious characteristics of inexperience in the process of implementing the New Deal. Some inexperience can even be described as “mistakes”:
He left behind a lot of hidden dangers based on the old aristocratic forces, so he had to make more compromises to maintain the stability of Typhon;
In the process of promoting literacy education, he wasted a lot of energy because he didn't find good incentives, and he didn't establish a perfect education system. Until now, the enthusiasm of Typhon civilians to receive education is not comparable to that of Cecil ;
The degree of emancipation of Typhon’s labor force obviously lags behind that of Cecil. They still maintain the situation of “doing short-term labor in the workshop after farming”, and there are no real professional workers, nor any systematic vocational education and training. management system;
Typhon's "burning rock acid chemical workshop" is still based on the old "alchemy studio" system, and there are many problems such as small production scale, low efficiency, inconsistent systems, inconsistent standards, and disordered management. Although Rosetta Augustus They all tried to build large-scale burning rock acidification production facilities, but that was just an enlarged workshop, a serious waste of manpower and material resources...
Gao Wen took a deep breath, he knew that Typhon's development was "normal".
Groping, bumping into a wall, improving, groping again, bumping into a wall again, improving again, countless people have paid huge time costs, manpower and material costs (sometimes even consume a generation of youth) to gnaw hard at a field, and in the end their only gain is Maybe it's just a verification that "this way doesn't work". Typhon is doing such a thing now, and this is normal.
A large part of the reason why Cecil developed so rapidly was that Gawain directly used his own judgment and experience to avoid these "impossible roads" in advance. He used his previous life knowledge and observation experience as a satellite master to plan the southern border, Therefore, a huge amount of time, manpower and material costs are saved.
At least at this stage, this is Cecil's huge advantage over Typhon, but from another point of view, Typhon also has his own advantages, and this advantage is temporarily irreparable for Cecil:
Typhon is a huge country, its land area, resource reserves, and population are several times that of the Principality of Cecil!
This means that it can withstand the resource consumption in the development process, can have sufficient opportunities for trial and error, and more importantly, it can multiply those development dividends!
Even if its forward efficiency is lower than that of Cecil, it can use its size to crush Ansu and Cecil in a short time.
So what should Cecil do, what can be done...
Gao Wen turned his head and looked at the stack of documents on the desk.
That is the construction and development plan for the four nascent industrial belts in the southern region in the next stage.
At this stage, there are not many things that Gao Wen can do in the southern border. It is the last word. Only by focusing on development and maximizing Cecil's advantage in "efficiency" can the current good situation be maintained.
And this development process must be smooth and controllable.
His territory has been overexpanded in the past year, and now he has no spare power to expand it again. Unless he wants the Principality of Cecil to return to the loose and disorderly feudal lordship system in the past, the things he can do in the territory are Only by digesting and absorbing and focusing on the technology tree to build infrastructure.
Besides Ansu, he couldn't cause any direct damage to Typhon, all he could do was dig a hole.
The huge imperial machine controlled by Rosetta Augustus is already in motion, and it is impossible to stop it, so it is better to simply push it and let it move towards a seemingly brilliant, but in fact, abyssal abyss. direction forward...
Gawain had to do this Typhon had to be rendered harmless for Cecil to survive.
But he still needs to find a way to preserve Typhon's development potential in the process... because the future Typhon is likely to be a force against the demon tide.
What Gao Wen is most grateful for now is that the magic net information he deliberately released has entered the sight of Rosetta Augustus and his think tank in time. With this opportunity, he was able to infiltrate his influence into Typhon.
But just with Daniel's "Magic Web Technology", is it enough to bury enough poison in the body of Typhon, a giant beast
Gao Wen thinks that the magic net is not enough. Although it is of great significance, Rosetta Augustus will definitely treat this technology from Ansu with caution. He is very likely to limit the application of the magic net, and even if the "magic net kill "The plan is successful, and the damage to Typhon is not big enough. At most, it will waste a lot of manpower and material resources in the process. As a huge empire, Typhon can afford to lose.
Some bolder and more adventurous ideas were brewing in Gao Wen's mind, and his face became cloudy and uncertain.
Hetty finally woke up from her sleep. She sat up in a jerk, and saw that Gawain had already left the "meditation" and was standing not far away, while she was wearing a coat, so she felt nervous and embarrassed immediately. : "Ancestor... I... I didn't fall asleep on purpose..."
Seeing that Hetty woke up, the expression on Gawain's face quickly returned to gentleness. He smiled lightly, and took the coat that Hetty handed over: "It's okay, a little sleep will be good, you are indeed too tired recently .”
"Actually, it's been fine recently. After the production and construction plans have been arranged, there are not so many things," Hetty explained with her head down, still blushing, "It's just that the government affairs department is testing the newly installed magic network file transfer system recently. , encountered a lot of unexpected problems, a little... tricky."
"It's normal to encounter problems in the application of new technologies," Gao Wen nodded. "Compared to this, the development and output of various industrial zones in the recent period, as well as private businessmen's willingness to invest in factories, transformation Do you have any information on the attitude of the nobles towards the factory, as well as the operation of the Production Coordination Committee and the Ministry of Labor and Social Security?"
"Yes, I have been tidying it up every day," Hetty nodded, and then she was a little curious, "Do you need it?"
"It is necessary, but there is no rush. You can compile a comprehensive report for me in the last few days."
"I see."
Gao Wen nodded slightly, and then said softly as if talking to himself: "Our own strength is the last word..."
…
Typhon, the imperial capital of Aldernan, in the living room of the Obsidian Palace.
Grand Duke Ferdinand looked at Emperor Rosetta Augustus sitting on the seat opposite, feeling a little complicated in his heart.
The war between Typhon and Anzu has finally been postponed, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that this has nothing to do with peace.
Ansu fell into a catastrophic civil war almost immediately after the signing of the peace agreement, while the Typhon Empire closed its borders and began to watch from the sidelines. The reform of the army... All of these, one by one, were seen by Ferdinand Wendel.
He knew that His Majesty, the talented emperor, never gave up Ansu's piece of fat, and the current temporary truce was just to make that piece of fat more tender, delicious and easy to swallow.
He was delighted that Rosetta Augustus had successfully got rid of hereditary madness, and was pleased that the empire had such an emperor with both wisdom and strength, but he also regretted the demise of the noble gold spirit, Regret the advancing new style of warfare.
There is no doubt that Emperor Rosetta was involved in Ansu's civil war.
But Ferdinand Wendel also knew very well that this dishonorable method was necessary for the benefit of the empire, and the Ansu people had to make sacrifices.
And the Ansu people not only have to make sacrifices, they also have to become the nourishment for the growth of the empire.
A middle-aged woman in a magician's robe stood respectfully beside Emperor Typhon, pointing to the drawings spread out on the table and explained: "This is the so-called 'Magic Net', but it is the first generation , is an outdated thing. The second-generation magic net is more streamlined, but we have incomplete drawings and no specific processing methods.”
Grand Duke Ferdinand looked at the blueprint in front of Emperor Typhon. He could see that there were complex runes and magic lines drawn on it. Although all the runes were elementary, the whole array had a strange sense of coordination. Although he is not a mage himself, with his fairly good knowledge of magic, he can also judge that the optimization of this magic circle has been excellent.
This is the key to the rapid rise of Ansu's ancient Cecil family, the "lost technology" brought by the revived ancient hero.
The voice of Rosetta Augustus came from across the table: "Mr. Ferdinand, I heard that the second-generation magic net is composed of 'units'."
"Yes, Your Majesty," Duke Ferdinand replied, "Andersa captured some fleeing Anzu mercenaries. Those mercenaries had seen the second generation of the magic net. It is said that the magic net units are hexagonal runes The text array requires extremely high processing precision, and the quantity is huge, unlike blacksmiths and rune craftsmen knocking out one by one... "
Speaking of this, the duke couldn't help but frowned and sighed: "It's a pity that we don't have the blueprint... nor the real thing."
Another royal minister who was in the living room heard the words and said: "The southern border of Ansu has been sealed off, and the Cecil family is strictly ruling it. It is not easy to inquire about information, but this is the temporary Cecil family. The spread of the magic net has not been completely blocked. It is said that in the Holy Spirit Plain and a small part of the east of Ansu, some local nobles have obtained the blueprints of the magic net that have been circulated privately. As long as they have enough patience and a price, those Ansu nobles can easily bought."
Emperor Rosetta glanced at the minister indifferently: "Mr. Ge Lin, even if you get the blueprints and real objects, do you dare to use them directly?"
The royal minister named Goring froze for a moment, with a thoughtful look on his face.
"According to the information we have, before the outbreak of the war in the southern border of Anzu, the Cecil family actively spread the magic net on a large scale, and then? Then those stupid Anzu nobles spread the magic net everywhere, So much so that the Cecil family's army has a sufficient supply of magic power no matter where it goes, this lesson is quite profound."
The Anzu Southern War ended very quickly, and the entire southern border was quickly sealed off after the war ended, but there is no airtight wall under the sun. Before the southern border was completely sealed off, some exiled knights and mercenaries escaped. Taking away all kinds of credible and unreliable news together, some of them fell into the hands of Typhon.
These intelligences made Emperor Rosetta aware of Cecil's rise, and he was even more wary of the "magic net" from Cecil.
However... the Ley is still a good thing.
"We need the technology of the magic net, and more importantly, the technology of using the magic net, and these technologies must be in our own hands," Rosetta Augustus said in a deep voice, pressing the blueprint on the table, "Typhon, you need Own magic net."