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Chapter 514 You have to stand on the top of the mountain (54)

What do ordinary people represent to sublimated people?
Perhaps, they are still working hard to protect these "ordinary people" just to ensure the size of the country, to ensure the potential of the "future", and to cultivate more geniuses and sublimators for a larger base.

The reason why Inaiga II was able to persuade the major groups in the empire to carry out universal education was that he was strong enough. I am afraid that other groups also believed that universal education can improve the quality of the people and create more sublimators. Ideas to populate their forces.

The emperor eats meat, but they can also drink broth. Everyone is a courtier, and they can't beat Emperor Inaiga and the first knight. If this is the case, then forget it, listen to them, and drink soup is also good.

But in the end, because of too much technological progress, these educated ordinary people lost their advancement channels. Inaiga II miscalculated human nature. He thought that learning and knowing more knowledge was a reward in itself. A kind of reward, but many people don't think so.

They need a more direct, intuitive 'reward'.

And among this group of people, although there have emerged a group of more sublimated people than in the past, the number is far from as many as imagined, and it has also caused social chaos in many areas.

The whole empire realized the benefits of universal education, as well as the 'disadvantages', and the death of Inaiga II caused them to have a cautious attitude towards this policy, only willing to pay attention to some geniuses and Psykers invest.

Ian has been able to get so many preferential treatments along the way, precisely because of the continuation of this policy - he was selected by this system, so he can rise so smoothly.

This is why Ian is favored by so many nobles, and even the second prince like Mikael came to warn him personally.

Because, he is a 'high-quality investment product that can get stable gains, not chaos'.

A sure-fire stock.

That's enough to throw money at you.

As for ordinary people, protection is enough.

For most of Terra's sublimated rulers, only the elite among ordinary people is needed to select these people and turn them into sublimated people, and whether other mediocre ordinary people can receive education, do they have hope and dreams? , are trivial matters.

They don't care.

——This is no longer a question of class.

"This is an isolation. The isolation that is almost impossible to break is the isolation caused by technology beyond the times!"

When Ian knew that the empire had actually mastered the 'Inscription Intelligence' technology that could produce 'alchemy potions', his heart gradually 'cooled' down after a burst of 'ecstasy'.

The ecstasy is because Terra's artificial intelligence technology has a foundation, which means that the world's productivity will soon usher in a big explosion-if it can be practical, then the productivity will explode, and Terra will be able to become a near-stellar world at any time. capacity for civilization.

But cooling, because of a very simple problem.

——Big explosion, so what?

A fifth energy level... no, a fourth energy level, which can destroy all this at any time.

It doesn't even need to be destroyed, who can consume these bursts of productivity?
free delivery?Give for free?Free benefits?What a joke, this kind of thing never happened in the previous life, expecting the alchemy workshop where the ascendant is in power to do this job?
Even with the authority and strength of Inaiga II, they have to resist...

--Oh.

The boy finally understood why, why Inaiga II was betrayed by almost all his old partners back then.

Because, that naive guy, that guy who was so genius that he ignored the problem at his feet.

Really want to do that.

"I'm afraid it's really because he wants to provide free benefits to the whole people... This is no running, it's a rocket leap to the Datong society. Entering through the interstellar pioneering that can consume productivity infinitely can only treat the symptoms—it can’t cure the root cause.”

"Without four or five fifth-level platforms, how dare you carry out this kind of reform? Counting that era, our Ciehalorvo family even came up with something like the Echo of Eternal Life. Everyone thought that it would be so popular with Inaiga II." After tossing for a lifetime and for future generations, it’s no wonder it’s all reversed.”

"Not to mention the crown prince at that time. Everyone probably thought, 'The emperor and the first knight are too strong, we can't oppose it, even if we can reverse it, the price will be too high, why don't we bear it until they both die of old age? Besides, with such a compromising mentality, they accidentally learned about immortality technology, even if it was just mirror echo...they were frightened, so they could only fight back."

"At that time, Inaiga II's basic board, that is, those emerging productive forces, the Alchemy Association and other forces, were probably still liquidated and bankrupt."

Ian smiled wryly in his heart. The more he understood the world of Terra, the more he felt that there were many problems.

people?No shortage.

technology?There is no shortage.

Social system?As long as you are strong enough, you can do whatever you want.

That's the question, how is it strong enough?

Originally, Ian thought that the lack of enthusiasm of the people of Terra for universal education was simply due to the simple "can't find a job after learning" and "mismatch between productivity and education" - this is easy to solve, as long as an industrialized society is gradually built, Improving the consumption power of citizens while increasing productivity will allow Terra to quickly enter a modern society.

But now it seems that the two problems of "can't find a job after learning" and "mismatch between productivity and education" are indeed correct.

But the fact is completely the opposite.

Terra is a technology in terms of productivity, and it has already pointed out 'artificial intelligence', so it makes it useless for ordinary people to learn it-how can ordinary people compete with artificial intelligence!
And sublimators are also not interested in this, what they need is a sufficiently 'strong' alchemy potion, those that can only be produced by a master alchemist, or even advanced alchemy potions that need to be controlled by a 'soul', which artificial intelligence cannot provide , which ordinary people cannot provide.

Therefore, the empire did not dare to continue research, and felt that universal education was meaningless.

Because, if the inscription intelligence that even the soul can have is researched... Does that mean that apart from ordinary people, the current batch of alchemists don't need it anymore?

Is that really about to start being rebelled by the entire sublimated class?
"Sometimes the technology left over from the civilization of the previous era is really not a good thing... Hey, too powerful technology is really a disaster, it will completely destroy the possibility of the development of the times, and make the whole society deformed .”

Thinking frantically in his heart, Ian spoke slowly.

"I understand."

The young man's words made Mikael, who was about to turn light and leave, stop: "Your Highness, you think that the late emperor's mistake was wasting too much time on ordinary people, and these ordinary people are too sloppy. Propaganda, a little smearing, a little deception and tampering, can make them change their positions and hate those who really love them."

"So, ordinary people... just help whoever wins. They need to be won over, but what they need to do more is to make themselves stronger first and ensure that they can win, otherwise everything they do will be meaningless."

"Instead of being nice to ordinary people from the beginning, it's better to choose a genius and cultivate it to the fifth energy level to strengthen your own strength, and then you can do more things."

"Goodness and love without the support of power will definitely be distorted and twisted into... a tyrant."

Mikael turned his back to Ian, listening to Ian's words in silence.

"Yeah." After the young man finished speaking, he said softly, unable to see his expression or hear his tone: "Isn't this land like this? Ian, why weren't you born 100 years earlier, catching up with the era of your grandfather?" ?”

"If there was another fifth energy level beside my grandfather back then, history would be rewritten."

But no.

Inaiga II is dead.

"Ian, you are really smart." Turning his head, the second prince faced Ian.

Before leaving, Mikael said seriously for the first time: "But the way you look at things is too inclined to technology itself, and it doesn't have a high level."

"Life in Nanling has made you feel the hard work of ordinary people. I can understand that I have done similar things. But you are already a lord, and although you may not take office so soon, at this moment you You should understand."

"Compared to the simple happiness of a group of people, it is more important to ensure the stability of the cities and provinces they live in. You have to understand that besides the empire, there are many other forces, other high-level powerhouses. We check and balance each other and fight against each other. Most of the resources have been thrown into this bottomless pit, and we have to continue to throw them as long as we live."

"All technologies and all resources must be biased in this direction - we have no way to change the allocation of resources, even if there are better options, but if this change will cause turmoil and drastic changes, then we will not Can't do that."

"We can't compare the best, because going from bad to good will cause flaws, and we are just comparing who can't survive first, who will show flaws first."

"Ian, you can't think about developing with peace of mind, and you can't imagine this kind of luxury."

"You have to allocate resources to fight against the destruction of Warcraft and other countries—destruction that is much easier than construction—you have to protect the stability and peace of this land, and then you have to make a choice."

The second prince stretched out his hand, and pressed his right hand on Ian's shoulder, while raising his left hand, pointing to the distance...Ian knew that it was the direction of the upper city of the imperial capital: "You are the kind of person who can stand on the highest place , Ian, you will become an important minister of the empire, standing on the top of the imperial capital."

Mikael said almost solemnly: "Whether it's me or someone else who becomes the emperor in the end...even the father, if he sees you now, he will train you. You will become one of them."

"You have to learn to think this way."

"Ian, you have to stand on the top of the mountain!"

(End of this chapter)