Chapter 478 Computer
Here in Shang Kingdom, there is always no lack of shock; but today's newspaper revealed another surprising piece of news:
Brilliant Star Group has opened a new investment, 50 million taels of gold to build a "computer branch factory".
What is a computer? It doesn't matter, the following is reported by Dazhu, and even includes the news that "the materials of the Cultivation Conference have been sorted out and officially released".
It should be said that this is a very thorough use of the "Cultivation Conference", using the reputation of the Cultivation Conference, the materials of the Cultivation Conference, and the circle of speakers of the Cultivation Conference to promote computers.
At that time, a total of 1,187 people participated in the lectures at the Cultivation Conference, and each person gave three sets of materials in return—three computers and three sets of jade slips that recorded all the materials.
At the same time, there is also the price of the computer: the temporary pre-sale price is 9999 taels of gold. The complete set of lecture materials for the last comprehension conference costs 49 taels of gold, and is not sold separately.
"A profiteer! The pre-sale price is only 10,000 taels of gold, and it will definitely increase in the future. But is this thing really that good?" Everyone gave such accurate evaluations as soon as they saw the news . But after the evaluation, everyone couldn't help but look forward to the public sale of the computer.
The countdown is 10 days; those who were at the comprehension conference at the beginning can receive three sets for free first. But if you want to buy more, you also have to wait for three days.
And if you want to cooperate in wholesale, you have to wait for the construction of the computer branch factory to achieve mass production of computers. For the time being, computers are only sold within the Shang Kingdom and the Tang Kingdom, 50% of which are sold in Anyang City, 20% are sold in the rest of the Shang Kingdom, and 30% are sold in the Tang Kingdom.
Faced with the official sale of computers by Shang Kingdom, there are naturally different opinions; but just like another world, at the beginning, no one paid too much attention to the role of this small computer-aiding learning? Auxiliary office? Auxiliary research?
Go sit around and circle around, life is fine now without computers. It is also very easy for a cultivator to learn, a jade slip is enough!
For a powerful cultivator, even if he can't remember it with a photographic memory, his memory is dozens or hundreds of times that of ordinary people; taking a step back, even if he really forgot, it is enough to prepare a jade slip for himself !
But some people who lived in Anyang City and gave speeches at the Cultivation Conference could experience the magic of computers in advance.
Some who leave a fixed address will be delivered directly to the door; some who do not have a fixed residence can go to the newspaper office of Anyang Daily to pick it up for free.
Don’t waste the free ones, the three sets add up to a price of more than 30,000 taels of gold, even if you don’t use it, you can sell it. And with the character of Shang Kingdom, he probably wouldn't make a loss-making business.
During the turmoil, newspapers were sent to the mercenary regiment's garrison. If there are the most capable people in Anyang City, then it is the place where the mercenary regiment is stationed. Here, not only the mercenary group, but also many, many adventurers.
As the Shang Kingdom continued to encourage the development of adventurers and mercenary groups, a large number of social idlers began to register as adventurers or join mercenary groups. At the same time, the originally designated bases for adventurers and mercenaries became more and more prosperous.
Here, it is no exaggeration to say that it is Crouching Dragon, Hidden Tiger. Not to mention the top ten mercenary regiments, even the top 100 mercenary regiments, whoever doesn't have a Nascent Soul stage master sitting in the town, is embarrassed to go out to say hello.
And among the many mercenary groups, the one who pays the most attention to computers is—the head of the Tiangang mercenary group, Zhang Hang!
As a master who uses talisman seal cultivation as the main method, Zhang Hang has a trouble that others don't have-calculation! It is calculation! The drawing, research, improvement, etc. of talisman seals require indescribable calculations. Especially the calculation of combining multiple talismans, or when multiple talismans are used in combination, is even more complicated.
"The thing that slows down the development of talisman research is calculation! Every study of talisman requires tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of calculations, and it may not be successful."
This is Zhang Hang's emotion countless times. But today, in the newspaper, Zhang Hang saw such words: the calculation speed is about 800,000 to 1.2 million times per second.
This speed... Zhang Hang carefully looked at it again and again, yes, it is a calculation speed of one million times per second! million times per second, million times per second...
Zhang Hang was a little excited, he could complete his calculations for a month or even a year in one second? ? ? Even if this number is exaggerated ten times, it is shocking enough.
Go get a table and try it! In fact, deep down in his heart, Zhang Hang was skeptical. Isn't this too exaggerated? But at the same time, Zhang Hang was very excited by the good reputation of Shang Kingdom, especially Brilliant Star Group.
Not only that, Zhang Hang also explained the basic knowledge of talismans at the Cultivation Conference, so he can get three computers for free.
It just so happens that there is nothing to do recently, so Zhang Hang is going to pick it up at the Anyang Daily newspaper office in person. I don't want to be at this moment, someone from the front came to report, and someone has already delivered the goods to the door.
"Tell the delivery man not to leave, I have something to ask him."
Later, the delivery staff said helplessly: "Really, I'm just an errand runner. I don't even know what a computer is. But I heard that every computer has an instruction manual."
"Oh..." Zhang Hang suddenly realized, "I forgot the instruction manual. Okay, come, give this little brother ten taels of gold and send him away."
"Thank you, thank you, Daoist." The ordinary staff member was overjoyed.
Zhang Hang couldn't wait to open the box and took out the computer.
"Huh? What kind of material is this?" The computer is made of a plastic shell, mainly black, and the foam cotton used to package the computer is also an unprecedented material.
Even though he had seen too many miracles here in Shang Kingdom, Zhang Hang was still a little surprised at this time. Needless to say, the plastic material is neater and easier to process than wood; it does not have the thorns of metal materials and is very soft.
Just the casing of the computer attracted Zhang Hang's attention. But soon, after Zhang Hang discovered that plastic was just an ordinary material without the slightest spirituality, the old problem of cultivators appeared... Ordinary materials, I despise them!
But it doesn't matter, the plastic is not eye-catching, and the computer still attracts Zhang Hang's attention. When I found the manual, it turned out to be a jade slip. It has to be said that the Brilliant Star Group also considered the first batch of computers in detail, and all of them were made of jade slips.
After unfolding the spiritual consciousness, it is easy to read the method of using the computer from the jade slip; it is very detailed and cumbersome. In fact, the manuals for the first batch of computers can be said to be "tutorials".
The person in charge of explaining is a very beautiful and gentle woman who teaches how to use the computer little by little, almost hand in hand.
This tutorial seems to Zhang Hang to take more than two hours! After reading the computer "tutorial", Zhang Hang was excited.
"This is definitely the slowest jade slip I've seen! It's also the most detailed jade slip I've seen." Sighing, Zhang Hang turned on the computer.
However, before turning on the computer, Zhang Hang had to plug in a spirit stone as a power source—computers sold outside the country would not be pre-installed with spirit stones, so the Kingdom of Shang would not do such a loss-making business.
Although the computer can also be driven by the real yuan of the practitioner, but while inputting the real yuan and operating the computer at the same time, it is multi-tasking, and the real yuan must be kept stable. Don't be careless, the real yuan is too large, and the computer will explode.
Yes, first generation computers were fragile! Is this a technical reason? Obviously not, this is the true nature of a profiteer!
The first-generation computers had various problems, and the second-generation computers sold better.
Okay, let's go too far. Zhang Hang stuffed a spirit stone and turned on the computer. After waiting for as long as a minute, after seeing the more gorgeous boot screen, I finally got to the point.
"I found it, the rune calculator, and it really has this tool."
"Dudu..." After clicking on the rune calculator, a pop-up window pops up, "Reminder, this software patent belongs to the Brilliant Star Group. A one-year free trial period is provided. After one year, please purchase the official, permanent right to use. Trial The long-term software capability is only 30%.”
Beep the dog, there is no such thing in the tutorial! He has lived here in the Kingdom of Shang for more than two years. Does Zhang Hang know how to write the word "profiteer".
After clicking OK, I found that many items in the software menu are grayed out; click on it, and a window will pop up—please purchase the official software usage rights.
Creaking... Zhang Hang clenched his fists, and now Zhang Hang only had one thought in his mind: rush to Li Xian, and give this big profiteer a good beating.
But soon, Zhang Hang calmed down, anger could not solve the problem, since Shang Kingdom dared to do this, he was naturally confident. Moreover, Zhang Hang knew nothing about how computers worked and what software was.
"Try it first! 30% of the functions are enough for testing." Zhang Hang began to input data, and after inputting more than a dozen basic runes, click "Generate water attribute talisman seal".
A progress bar appeared on the surface of the computer, and the progress bar was very fast, almost 1% of the progress was achieved in one breath.
Zhang Hang waited quietly, but he knew it well. The runes I input by myself can be combined into at least thirty low-level water attribute runes; but if I calculate it myself, it will take at least one day.
But after about three minutes, the computer suddenly popped out the words "Calculation completed". Then, the screen scrolled with a swipe, the speed was dazzling, but Zhang Hang, as a Nascent Soul stage master, could see it clearly.
The tenth... the thirtieth... the seventieth... the 122nd!
A total of 122 were calculated! There are so many?
Zhang Hang was surprised, turned around and checked one by one, and suddenly found that none of them were bad!
In three minutes, complete the combination calculation of 122 talismans! At this time, Zhang Hang suddenly jumped up, "Computer, computer, this computer must be bought, buy a lot, and send it back to the sect! I will try again.
Next, Zhang Hang continued to experiment, although only 30% of the functions were available, but even so, it was amazing enough! "
Suddenly, Zhang Hang was stunned, "No wonder Shang Kingdom is developing so fast, talismans, formations, etc. are constantly being updated. It turns out that there are such things. Now that the computers are sold publicly, the Shang Kingdom's internal use should be more powerful. computer is right.
Otherwise, let me ask Li Xian, can I buy a more powerful computer? "
Thinking of doing it, Zhang Hang immediately walked out.
At this time, Zhang Hang was excited and even a little shocked. The computer, this is just the tip of the iceberg revealed by Shang Kingdom; and what I used just now is only a part of the many functions of the computer; even so, the functions are already so powerful. So after thinking about it, what kind of hole cards does Shang Kingdom have?
Suddenly, Zhang Hang thought of the so-called "Lei Zhenzi". Intuition told Zhang Hang that this thing is by no means simple; it is a pity that Shang Kingdom is tight-lipped, and no information can be obtained from the outside world.
While thinking, while walking, he didn't want to see Master Beidou, the head of the Seven Star Mercenary Group, just outside the door. When we met, Beidou real person Pitou asked, "Computer, have you used it yet?"
"You use it too?"
"You use it too!"
The two moved forward, one behind the other, and then the two spoke at the same time:
"Very powerful. I use it to count runes and do my day's work in three minutes."
"It's too powerful! I use it to calculate the formation, and I can complete my calculations for four days in five minutes!"
Ha... The two met their eyes again, and their shock couldn't be concealed in their smiles.
This time, Zhang Hang took the lead and said: "The computers sold outside are already so powerful. Then, what about the computers used by Shang Kingdom? Thinking that Shang Kingdom may have used a more powerful computer than this, and it has been running continuously for several years, I ...Suddenly I am a little afraid of the Shang Kingdom!"
Master Beidou nodded silently when he heard the words.
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