Chapter 69 How to develop industry in the idealistic world?

Alexi, an orphan adopted by the royal orphanage in the northern border of the empire.

Through his own efforts, he got an opportunity to study. After receiving elite education at the University of the Rhine, he was recommended to study at the Royal Military Academy.

He was involved in rhetoric, logic, history, and even military theory.

But Hughes's point of view was something he had never heard of or thought of before.

In his original worldview, the world is divided into the part that he understands - the parts that are within his reach, the things he has heard from others, and the parts that are vague and confusing but consistent with his cognition.

The rest is the unknown.

This part is so weird and incomprehensible that it is unacceptable and evil and blasphemous.

But Hughes' words opened a new door for him.

He gave himself the torch called science to illuminate the fog of the unknown.

Those terrifying monsters didn't seem so scary once they entered the firelight.

Even a bold idea popped up in his mind:

Would those pollutions, monsters, or extraordinary beings be afraid of muskets and bayonets? If not, what about bomb barrels?

There are many methods in the Royal Infantry Drill Manual.

Xius found it a little funny that his clerical manager was sometimes depressed and sometimes excited, and now he was looking at him eagerly.

"Okay, open your notes and let me tell you why the factory can continue to operate."

"I have already told you the detailed explanation of the trouble we are facing this time, namely cognitive interference."

"Although the direction of its mutation is idealistic, at present, its cause can be roughly guessed."

In fact, in Zeus’ previous life, the church’s practices gave him a lot of inspiration, allowing him to perfect the specific rules of cognitive interference.

"First of all, there were already olive oil workshops in Castres. After we built the factory, we still used the old technology. There has been no cognitive intervention in this part of the olive oil factory until now."

"Secondly, soap and nitroglycerin were not newly created. I have repeatedly prepared them many times in the laboratory, using various processes, such as the sulfur and pyrite acid production processes. All of them were successful and did not cause cognitive interference."

"Then, only part of our soap factory had cognitive interference, and this part had one thing in common—"

“The artisans didn’t know what the soap was for.”

Alexei was stunned. Indeed, he discovered that the soap had mutated because the craftsmen were stealing the soap. They thought it was a kind of food.

"At the same time, cognitive interference also occurred in the nitroglycerin factory. Due to the need for confidentiality, we did not tell the craftsmen the true use of nitroglycerin. We only told them that it was a medicine."

Well, then it actually becomes medicine.

"Another detail is that the soap factory that had cognitive interference actually produced normal soap at first, but this batch was mutated."

Hughes sat back in his chair.

"It is very obvious that cognitive interference only occurs when new technologies are used and there is a huge deviation between the craftsman's cognition and the actual situation."

"We will discuss the specific results of cognitive interference later, but its causes are completely understandable and can be utilized."

Alexei's eyes lit up: "We just need to tell the craftsmen the real purpose of these things?"

"Pretty much. My guess is that the craftsmen need to fully understand the correct principles so that cognitive interference will not occur."

"That is to say."

“We need workers with the right cognition, whose solid cognition can prevent cognitive interference from happening.”

"hiss"

Hughes couldn't help but grin.

He finally put the last piece of the puzzle in place.

The new technology in this world has an extremely high cost of trial and error. Any mistake will result in cognitive interference, and the wanton arrival of pollution is difficult to control. They do not have the purification methods of Zeus, and the consequences are too serious, so the major forces have joined forces to prevent the advancement of technology.

The science in this world cannot conduct experiments, and cognition cannot be closed-loop, so it can only rely on imagination to make up for it. The results are naturally extremely biased.

This in turn leads to the need for more trial and error in technology, and the advent of more cognitive interference. Major forces have further stepped up their efforts to suppress new technologies, with increasingly extreme means.

Finally one day, people no longer remembered the reason for the suppression of technology, and the extraordinary people of the church simply followed the ancient rules and unconditionally killed those who tried to promote technological progress.

From then on, the world was spiraling instead of rising. All major forces became more and more conservative, and those who pursued change were gradually equated with believers of evil gods.

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The worker Hughes fell down like this.

It is really ironic that the idealistic world, which can shake the reality with personal will, has become the most conservative. Any force is unconditionally strangling the reformists, and anything unreliable will be ruthlessly abandoned.

But since there is technological stagnation, there must have been technological progress before. What caused the technological progress to be stuck here? Didn’t cognitive interference always exist? Wasn’t the world idealistic before!? There is too little information known now, so it’s meaningless to think about it. Let’s just continue to work on industry first.

"Alexei, how is our school going?"

"The first batch of literacy classes has ended, but the advanced class has not started yet. This..."

Alexei looked at Hughes.

It’s very simple. The only person in the territory who can teach advanced courses is probably Xius.

Alexei did receive an elite education and knew a lot about military theory, but the people he educated could not work in a factory.

Besides, he is very busy now and has no time.

Xiu Si sighed and said, "Okay, I will start teaching the advanced class tomorrow. I will make a schedule later. You can spread the word among the people."

"yes."

Xius really didn't expect that. He thought he had attached enough importance to education, but he didn't expect that the world forced him to pay more attention to it.

"In short, the nitroglycerin workshop will be temporarily shut down. You need to explain the principles of the soap workshop to them clearly. Don't be afraid of technology leaks. Outside forces may not dare to use our technology. I even suspect that they don't dare to understand it. In their eyes, technological innovation is probably the same as worshiping evil gods."

"Oh, there's one more thing. I caught a polluted beast and collected a lot of pollution. You mark this place as a restricted area and send people to guard it. Don't let anyone in."

"Pollution!? You mean?"

"It's physical pollution. Oh, you haven't seen it yet. Come to think of it, you don't even know about the Banshee. I'll tell you about it. I can use that pollution."

(End of this chapter)