Chapter 438 The locked technology tree
"Latest news! Complete process!"
"Breaking news! Breaking news!"
"Not much money, but a lot of fun! A big change happened in the Church of the God of Light. Bishop Tran was taken back to the capital yesterday to be dealt with!"
"Archbishop Eugene of the Cardinal Council has made an important instruction. All localities should reflect on themselves and maintain the purity of the church. We will never tolerate any violation of church rules. We will deal with it as soon as we find it!"
"The details of the incident are recorded, and there is also an analysis. Everything is available!"
A few days later, in the early morning of October, the sky was just getting light, and the hardworking newsboys were running back and forth in the streets and alleys of the Dawn City, cupping their hands into the shape of trumpets and shouting the sentences they learned from the newspaper.
These children, who are generally 8 or 9 years old, actually don't know what words like "Cardinal Council", "Archbishop" and "Church Purity" mean. They only know "Dawn Church".
But it doesn't affect them to imitate and shout these things to sell the newspapers they want to sell.
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It is not an exaggeration to describe the development efficiency of the Dawn City as changing with each passing day.
There used to be newspapers in Ceylon, but they were not large in scale and the efficiency of publishing was very low. They summarized news from local or neighboring areas and often only published one issue a month.
Ordinary citizens were reluctant to buy a monthly magazine that cost 2 or 3 silver coins.
Therefore, the main sales channels of "newspapers" in Ceylon were actually nobles, merchants, professionals, and various taverns.
Taverns would ask people to share news and interesting stories from newspapers on a regular basis every day, such as which noble next door had a new baby, how many new people registered in the Adventurer's Guild last month, which mercenary group completed a difficult commission, or which caravan arrived in Ceylon and brought unique goods.
Listening to these news and information is one of the few entertainment activities for ordinary citizens, so it is also a means for taverns to attract, recruit, and retain customers.
Which tavern has good news and storytelling, and its business will be much more prosperous at the corresponding time.
However, newspaper offices and newspapers, like many other industries, have successfully "super-evolved" in the Dawn District of Chim Town.
With the involvement of a large number of divine arts users in the production process.
The biggest problem that once plagued newspaper production: the serious shortage of paper and ink, no longer exists.
The catalysis of the harvest divine arts has led to a rapid explosion of agricultural productivity.
What it brought was a huge amount of raw materials pouring into the handicraft market.
In terms of the consumption capacity of the people in Ceylon, the resources are almost unlimited!
Then use the corresponding craftsman divine arts to quickly convert the raw materials into corresponding products.
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Noven was once curious that although the effect of divine arts is very powerful, this ability requires the dual restrictions of "gods" and "mortals".
Why no smart mortals try to study "machines" that can be almost independent of human power.
The Kingdom of Reyak has always remained in an almost pure agricultural society.
In essence, all kinds of industries are actually two words:
"Hand-kneading."
The masters of divine arts are actually also hand-kneading.
The difference is that either their hand-kneading efficiency crushes ordinary people; or they have certain unique characteristics that require the participation of divine arts to form.
This actually limits production efficiency.
If it can promote technology and develop the industrial revolution, even if its efficiency is not as good as divine arts, it is at least better than ordinary people's hand-kneading.
Even if only a few links in the production process are accelerated by machines, it can also bring about productivity progress.
In fact, such "machines" exist in the continent of Prentis.
It's just that basically only those little green goblins are tinkering with the so-called "goblin engineering", and the machines have real gears, pull rods, bearings, bolts and other parts.
Not to mention anything else.
The goblin airships flying all over the continent are the product of goblin engineering, and the large spiral at the tail of each airship is a real mechanical structure.
But the tool of "machine" has not been further spread and popularized in civilization.
After observing and studying it, Norwen understood.
This is not just a problem of the technology tree being skewed!
Although the mortals of the Prantis continent are quite dependent on divine arts, a large number of problems are solved by divine arts obtained by praying to the gods, and they have developed into a "God-given civilization", and have all given up the path of "technological civilization".
But this is actually the inevitable result of natural evolution!
Because the technology tree is "locked"!
In fact, many smart people on the Prantis continent have tried the proposition of machines!
Even according to the historical records of the New Huili, some people have discovered the power brought by the physical phenomena of combustion and steam, and designed the prototype of "steam engine" and even "internal combustion engine"!
But they all failed without exception in the end.
The reason is very magical, and it is very consistent with the feeling that this world brings to Norwen.
In this world, water, fire, wind, and earth are considered to exist at the level of "elements".
This is not only a cognitive point of view, it is supported by solid evidence.
The evidence comes from another land called "Dicklann" far away from a whole sea of fog and further west of the Prantis continent.
On that continent, there are life forms composed entirely of elements such as "water element" and "fire element".
Elemental life forms are intelligent, can think, have unique languages, and have their own "social structure". It is said that there is also a dimension that belongs entirely to the elements.
The ruler of the elemental society, the "elemental monarch", controls the authority of all elemental reactions in the world.
Like the goddess of magic, the god of radiance and other gods, the elemental monarch is undoubtedly a god in terms of power.
The operation of the machine is essentially the use of the phenomenon produced by elemental reactions.
If the permission of the elemental monarch is not obtained, the elemental reaction will not occur at all!
This is the most magical and magical place for Norman.
For example.
When boiling a pot of hot water, various elements are active in this process. People can see that the lid of the teapot is pushed back and forth by the power of steam.
There is no doubt that it is a real steam power phenomenon.
This is something that is allowed by default.
But if you boil a pot of hot water in a "steam engine".
As long as it involves machines with power concepts such as steam engines, the situation will change immediately!
Even if you burn through the machine and melt it.
The steam produced by boiling hot water will not have any impact on the world at the physical and chemical levels!
This time, not only does physics no longer exist, but chemistry also does not exist.
From the perspective of elements, this is equivalent to the water element, wind element, and fire element refusing to participate in the reaction, resulting in the machine being unable to obtain a power source.
The existence of the "element monarch" has locked the "technology" limit of this world at this special stage.
There is a way to avoid the blockade.
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