Chapter 742 Chapter 1718 Next Step
Chapter 742 Chapter 17.18 Next Step
In early 3234, escorted by Anglo intelligence personnel.
The airship on which Her Royal Highness Princess Sherry was evacuated from the southern port. At this time, Her Royal Highness's face was much more mature and more charming than before, and her chest was much more bulging than a year ago.
At this time, Her Royal Highness the Princess looked at the homeland she had left and the people she had to leave.
The former sky empire will soon belong to Iron Star. And two hundred kilometers away. The troops led by the man who loved her (Ludis) were also surrounded by heavy troops.
In this great upheaval, the empire's royal family bet on many forces, but this time they all failed.
Iron Star, a force that emerged from rural areas, has a strong determination to eradicate all conservatives in the territory.
The "Griffin Emblem", the symbol of the former rule, has never had any interaction with Enma's circle. (God actually arranged it, but he didn’t rely on it.)
Next to the carved railing of the airship, Sherry's white waistband was tightly wrapped around her abdomen, regaining its fullness, but the lost flesh and blood still made Sherry's heart worried.
There are certain things that she cannot take away. At this time, she must resume her status as a princess and continue the political marriage that has been set long ago.
Sherry silently clasped her hands together and prayed to the God of Destiny, praying that the person she loved would be safe.
Somehow, this prayer was answered.
...Fate has placed a heavy bet on Princess Snow. Of course, some people have not made a wish, but there will be "blazing stars" coming in time and space...
On the industrial tower of Bolang City, as the airship of the Anglo "Business Group" was far away from the coastline, Seagate, who was a step late, looked at the airship navigation and other equipment as it flashed away.
At this time, she was holding a baby in her arms, a baby that was just one hundred days old. Seagate's figure is now as flat as before, and it is obvious that this child is not hers.
The princess stayed here and wanted to bring the child to the father. Seagate did not know at this time that "Ludis, who was far away in the encirclement, was about to leave in grief and anger."
If Ludis knew that the shot he made ten months ago had results, he might not have given up in a hurry.
After watching the princess leave, Seagate looked at the baby in his arms. This child was destined to have nothing to do with the royal family of the Sky Empire.
The baby twirled its fingers and looked up at the sky, with the stars reflected in its pupils. It looked like - Seagate couldn't help but whisper: "It's really cute."
This is a boy with sprouts on his crotch, and he is very well-behaved. He is just two months old and will use different cries to indicate whether it is time to pee or to feed.
…The stars in the sky twinkle and shine…
Fire Emblem Calendar Year 3234, February 22nd, Iron Star officially liberated the entire territory of the original Sky Empire. Because the founding war was fought beautifully, the national borders remained unchanged at this time. There are no external territorial disputes.
Moreover, the current leadership of Iron Star and the old ruling class of the Sky Empire are two different types of people. This means that in terms of "legal system", they will not inherit all the economic treaties signed by the rulers of the Sky Empire during the defeat phase.
Not only does the "economy" not endorse the "investment" of international capital that intervened in the sky in advance, but even the now-changed "Kaidi City" has this thorn in the entire defense line and has become Iron Star's fault. scope of management.
The Kingdom of Osima has repeatedly declared that it will use war to get it back, but facing the current Iron Star, it feels unsure and can only delay it temporarily.
With the current world situation, Iron Star can afford to hold off now.
Because as far as the situation in Wanlun Continent is concerned at this time, it is beneficial to countries with a system like Iron Star, but not beneficial to those middle and lower reaches countries in the imperialist capital system whose industrial technology is at a disadvantage.
…Countries, like people, value themselves. …
Two thousand years ago in modern times, many theories that "the Lord is the last institution of mankind" were canonized. "Open = correct" has also been dogmatized,
Textbooks after the twenty-seventh century: The mind must be open no matter what, but economically, this is like putting on a quilt. When the weather is cold, you need to add more, and when the weather is hot, you need to reduce. It has nothing to do with absolute correctness, but depends on the overall environment.
When deciding to open up the economy, Eastern strategists have a preconceived judgment that there will be no global war in the short term. Note: This was a judgment made ten years before Maozi was finished. The strategic vision is not too forward-thinking.
When there is no war in the world, it means that conflicts have eased, and global raw materials and technologies have begun to be exchanged.
At the same time, it happens that a new round of technological explosion brings about an economic explosion. At this time, the global market boom is filled with a large number of basic technologies and basic materials that can be purchased, allowing emerging groups that are interested in developing industries to accumulate their own "advantageous industries." Narrator: Under the magic of small money, everyone is a lively and heroic man. Being lying down can only mean that it is difficult to make money and it is difficult for everyone to develop.
During the dividend period, opening up the economy to the outside world will definitely bring more benefits than disadvantages to industrial countries that already have an industrial foundation! It can quickly improve the production chain.
Zhongguo's follow-up historical research experts commented on the 21st century: More importantly, because economic stimulation in the international market can stimulate you, it can also stimulate others. You grab a bite, the little days next door, and little Asan, Nanyang Thousand Islands, The upgrading of the science and technology industry chain will have to fall behind.
In terms of technology, as long as you are faster than your opponent, you are one step ahead and can seize the market!
One step behind will cost several times and dozens of times. This is why, despite the rapid advancement of smart technology throughout the 21st century, there are still so few late-developing industrial countries.
But when the big environment changes, for example, in the 23rd century, it is an era of bottlenecks in technological advancement, economic stagnation, and accumulated contradictions.
The major powers have blocked all technical information from the outside world and blocked the raw material market. There is nothing in the market except for the bonds. If you choose not to protect the economy and open it up, then it is equivalent to a colony delivered to your door.
…Wearing sweatshirts in summer and adding quilts in winter, this is knowing the destiny...
Wei Keng's judgment on the Wanlun Continent is that there will be a war in the next ten years!
The Thunder Flash Alliance has consumed a lot of financial resources in the war against the Sky Empire. With the rise of Iron Star, what benefits did it get? Oh, I got some gold coins!
Gold coins are equivalents.
The problem on the Wanlun Continent now is that the richest people have no shortage of gold coins. They can't support the consumption of shipbuilding, steel, and electricity expansion, while the vast majority of people who want to consume, they don't have gold coins, their own labor force is idle, and they can't stimulate industrial development.
Due to the lack of supervision of commercial speculation, the price of gold coins corresponding to actual materials can fluctuate up to ten times in different economic cycles!
For example, when a country is defeated, the gold coins will appreciate suddenly, and the capital speculation groups holding the gold coins will also frantically harvest the defeated countries.
The nobles of Anglo-Saxon who were born as pirates thousands of years ago and are now whitewashed, but still have not lost their "family education", have always chosen the sky as the defeated country with shining eyes, trying to force the sky to open the country's door, and put everything in the family on the "street" at the door for low prices.
Everything here includes "minerals", "farmland", "port cities that absorb cheap labor", "freedom of customs tariff adjustment", and "currency issuance rights".
At this time, Anglo-Saxon threw several times the gold coins back to Iron Star and devoured the Sky Empire. After destroying a country's economic immunity, the profits obtained by selling high and buying low are far greater than tens or hundreds of times the compensation.
For the old capitalist powers, the biggest head is not your "compensation", but the active sale at a low price when you are short of that penny after the defeat.
For example, the 200 million taels of silver paid by the Qing Dynasty after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 was just a drop in the bucket. The terrible thing was that the 200 million taels of silver had to be paid in pounds (they borrowed pounds to fight the war), which directly led to a sharp depreciation of silver against the pound. Since the Ming Dynasty, the wealth of the East, which absorbed the world's silver, has shrunk directly, and it has to exchange more than ten times the silver for British paper pounds. No matter how much silver there is, it cannot withstand printing. This is the systematic plunder of the ancient East by modern finance at that time.
Now that Iron Star has completed its control over the Sky Kingdom, it has built a financial system that the Anglos have used all their language to slander as "closed", "conservative", and "lacking in flexibility and innovation".
Iron Star has now preserved the core capital of a country, factories are running at full capacity, and agriculture has accumulated capital steadily with sufficient technology and funds. The Anglos, these external hungry wolves, can only buy "consumer goods" in industry when they come with gold coins, and cannot grab core production resources. At this time, the rural areas also have their brains: things that can continue to make money are heirlooms and cannot be sold.
Enma: The gold coins lost in the past few years as compensation for the empire can be considered as aid to poor countries. When the economic crisis is over, whatever you eat today will be vomited tomorrow.
…For national capital, the most important thing is internal stability…
As long as a powerful country is stable enough, the output of productivity will make the surrounding forces dependent on it in terms of economy, military and culture.
Even if there are only a few hundred tons of symbolic gold in the treasury, it is still capital-rich.
But if military weapons, food, and core industrial components are all dependent on the outside, then even if you have a huge amount of precious metals, you are still short of capital (not to mention that in the ancient times, those international companies still hoarded green paper.)
With strong capital, you can engage in technology. Capital is not necessarily gold. As long as your productivity is strong enough and others need you, your paper money (credit commitment) is also capital.
…In the 27th century, Wei Keng's history elective included capital in the ancient industrial era...
Iron Star has now completed effective capital integration after the Great Revolution, which is cross-era.
What is "capital"? "Capital" is the proof that people within the influence range are willing to contribute their labor.
In the urban area of the eastern part of Iron Star near the Kingdom of Oshima, tens of thousands of newly graduated science and engineering students were transferred here to start the next step of industrial development.
These technical workers have been allocated living expenses and future social status guarantees.
This is converted into gold coins, which is a "sky-high capital" that Anglo-Val, two first-class powers, have to frown on, even though they have more than 20 times the gold coins of Iron Star. But at this time, Iron Star has not yet been connected with the international community, and external capital cannot introduce large-scale technical personnel to "immigrate" to live in unstable areas outside.
...In Iron Star's propaganda, Anglo-Val is not a paradise "flowing with milk and honey", and all technical personnel do not immigrate...
"Technology determines the future!" This sentence is more effective in this era than on Earth.
Technology is not the accumulation of data, but the industrial group that makes it operate in a system.
When the Iron Star Land Cruiser entered the imperial capital, the technical guards leading the team pushed open the Sky Empire treasury.
The technicians of Tiexing have discovered many technological devices accumulated over hundreds of years. Their strong curiosity is driving the scientific research department to race against time to decipher them.
On April 15, a technician in the scientific research team, "Su Ni" (one of Wei Keng's clones), made a discovery.
Su Ni picked up a crystal stone on the experimental platform. This stone lost the blessing of God's grace and was said to be an ordinary stone. After prying it open, it was found that the inside was like the interface of a dense granite fracture, with shiny crystals.
Wei Keng rubbed his eyes and sighed. He knew the basic situation of this kind of crystal stone in his "personal system". It was the same as the "spiritual crystallization" technology of ancient arcane masters.
It's just that ancient arcane masters were not good at education and could only use their personal "cognitive" mental power to lock the rules of the fluctuations around them. However, only by popularizing science can a fixed reflection be formed in the etheric world, which can make the condensed matter physical constants very stable and mass-produce superconducting and semiconductor materials with excellent properties.
Of course, once the cognition is popularized, even if there are only tens of thousands of people in the science and technology circle, the "idealism stabilizes materialism" effect will be produced, which can make the technology of this plane very easy to deal with.
For example: below two nanometers on Earth, the wafer technology processing technology is very complicated, but in the special concept field, all processes can be completed very easily.
…In the era of optical computers, the initial materials have been found,…
Iron Star, no, the entire Wanlun Continent must face energy and information to break through.
There is a saying on Earth that technological progress is the discovery of new energy and new ways to boil water, and the progress of civilization is information recording and transmission.
Information recording and transmission in the main world: In ancient times, starting from knotting ropes to paper and then disks, the scale of information recording has become larger and larger. And information transmission has also evolved from early word of mouth, letters, wireless telegraphs, submarine optical fibers, and now plane node transmission. The speed of information is also getting faster and faster.
In the multidimensional plane, quantum effects are permeated with various concepts, and the development of concepts has many possibilities, so technology is also uncertain. But as long as a certain technology is used more and more and forms a broad concept law, other technological routes will be blocked.
…How will the next era of Wanlun Continent go? This is in the hands of Wei Keng. The gods have mixed interests here and cannot reach a consensus...
Now there are at least three possible developments of the future computer technology system on Iron Star.
The first is electronics. Oh, this depends on whether the semiconductor components can be stable in nature. If it starts from the diode and is gradually accepted by people and forms the concept of the world, then one-micron integrated circuits can be integrated. In the future, it will be one hundred nanometers, forty nanometers, and twenty nanometers, and the technology is constantly approaching the physical limit.
The second is the optical brain system. The photoelectric effect is still very impressive now, and light information can be processed through crystals. At present, this technology is seriously disturbed by quantum tunneling. The light solidification will be easily controlled by mental power, so that this thing can directly complete the soul condensation. Some dark wizards in the arcane era rely on this kind of knowledge to prepare "soul gems".
As for the third type, it is a standard black technology.
This is a steam computer. Under the protection of the Lord of Steam, the steam properties in this world have more flexible properties. It can become a superfluid or a viscous object.
Wei Keng: The rules of "fluid" in this world are obviously more complicated.
The Wei Keng cluster understands the development of "future high-speed computers" under the main rules of the "God of Steam", so a large number of tiny holes are drilled on a ceramic component, and each hole can pass steam. The "three-phase" (solid, liquid and gas) properties of water will also undergo flexible property transformation in the air cavity of each component. The different flow rates of the steam output in this way have computing effects.
Of course, in the more advanced future interstellar era, "helium" will be replaced as the fluid medium on the graphite semi-permeable membrane, and the computing speed can completely reach the speed of computer chips.
Wei Keng: The initial stage of steam computers relies on the calculation of mechanical gears such as differential engines. In the future, the flow rate can be faster and explosions can be used for calculation.
…The physical rules on the multi-dimensional plane can support the multi-linear development of science and technology, but due to the competition for "faith", only one path of science and technology can be chosen in the end...
The Wei Keng split of a certain inventor has manufactured dozens of such steam computers, which have been successfully used in textile enterprises to calculate the texture of yarn.
What Su Ni didn't know was that his invention now attracted the attention of the God of Steam.
In the past, all believers used differential engines for calculations, while Wei Keng's was pure steam.
The airflow limit is also several thousand meters per second, which is slower than electric current, but much faster than differential engines.
Moreover, once this superfluid computer system is scaled up, it consumes less energy and can be used boldly in nuclear wars without worrying about being burned.
More importantly, airflow can also conduct electricity, and it can be used as a basis for power calculations.
If the mainstream first-generation computer concept is stable under the use of steam, then steam can become the supreme god of the future in this world.
Of course, it is a pity that the mortal of Wei Keng's split body is not qualified to be favored by the God of Steam (qualified to be used as a pawn) - the sharp blade carried by Wei Keng himself even excludes higher industrial godhood, let alone the God of Steam.
Wei Keng is a mortal, but he is not an ordinary "mortal".
Mortals are "not single-minded", and this "not single-mindedness" can be various kinds of depravity in low-level interests. And here, Wei Keng, a mortal with a strong soul, his "interest" is to change the world in various ways and let it develop in the long run.
Wei Keng will not stand with the God of Steam, but as long as Wei Keng's willpower is slightly inclined in this direction, the God of Steam can make great gains in this world.
So when "Su Ni" was invented, the God of Steam quietly blessed the people around Su Ni. This small action did not destroy the consensus of the gods on the big goal, but it caused some tacit mutual calculations between the gods.
... All "inadvertent" favoritism is very "deliberate" in the eyes of other stakeholders...
The perspective returns to Swan City, which is the capital of Iron Star. As the first city, it is close to the core area of the sky. It is geographically suitable for leading the country, and it can also avoid the corrupt advantages of the old imperial capital.
In August of the Fire Emblem 3234, when everyone acquiesced that Enma would be the first leader, it was Willy who was actually elected. As the most powerful general in Iron Star, Enma retired at the height of his career.
Facing people's questioning, Wei Keng simply answered Willy: "What are we revolutionizing for? To overthrow an emperor? No, to overthrow the entire monarchy system and establish a consensus. Anything that hinders the formation of this consensus is a historical regression."
Willie: "Enma, although the situation is just balanced now, what if you leave now?"
Wei Keng: "I don't want to, what happened to Rudis happened to you, Beth, and Anjiexin! When I first met him, he was full of confidence, and you were also confident. Although Rudis is a guy who is confident and prone to mistakes, it is better than the "stale" conservative bureaucratic atmosphere. Willy, we are comrades. When we control the public tools of the state, we should allow "those who are led by us to make mistakes." The key point to grasp is the existence of those who "know their mistakes but do not correct them" who are entrenched in the public tools of the state.
Willie looked at Wei Keng and took a deep breath: "Yes, we are comrades. But I..."
Enma: "But you can't argue with those conservative parties now, right? ——If you can’t win the argument, you have to fight. Do you expect me to suppress it alone? I can’t. In the end, you guys don’t say anything, and I am the new emperor after being talked about by a group of people. This is a joke.”