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438 Conviction

Weiren has been curious about how humans do not rely on wires to achieve long-distance power supply, so as soon as the news of this victory came, he couldn't wait to come here, but when he stepped onto the battlefield, he found that the current space station was far from what the soldiers described during the battle.

In the mouths of those soldiers who participated in the battle in the early stage, the space station was a living "monster". While it was constantly turning, the anger of light fire burst out from all over his body. But now, these huge round metal objects that appeared in front of Veren seemed to be huge suspended graves, dark, cold, and lifeless. As many empires said, these "monsters" were alive, like other machines made by the earthlings. After the earthlings left, their "life force" disappeared forever, just like other "trophies" seized by the empire.

Before coming here, Viren almost thought that this kind of power supply method on the battlefield was the "permanent motion machine" invented by the Earthlings in a certain situation. Just like their magic power station, they used magic to complete a huge technological leap. If the Earthlings had found cheap and cheap power supply methods through magic, then the Empire could also learn this method to complete a huge technological leap. During this period, the problem of manufacturing generators alone had exhausted Viren. Although the "project" was still in progress, he had already vaguely admitted in his heart that although the empire was large and there were many manpowers, it would be impossible to create truly usable power generation equipment for a considerable period of time.

Before taking over the task assigned to him by the emperor, Viren thought it was just a difficult task, but it would eventually be achieved - no matter how complex and difficult the machines of the Earthlings were, as long as they conquered their creators, he would have indirectly possessed these technologies. When he first took office, Viren even thought that the Emperor's team could have a gun like the Earth's army, so that the people of the Empire would live like the Earth's people, and that everyone lived in tall buildings, and every household would always have lights...

However, the fact is that almost two months have passed, and he can't even make a screw and nut that meets the standards, and a uniform piece of copper wire cannot be pulled out. As a professor of earth who participated in the "modernization" of the empire said: "From the agricultural era to enter industry, and even the information age, people need the most not technology, but concepts." Weiren had not been convinced of similar words before, thinking that it was the pride of the captives on earth who insisted on their last pride, but after two months, he had vaguely felt that this sentence seemed to be becoming more and more correct.

In the more than two months of living with the captives on earth, Villen has realized the difference in this so-called "concept". The most important point is the narrow thinking - almost all the imperial people believe that farming, eating, having children, and obeying the will of the emperor are their own life, and nothing else is important. When Villen describes life on earth to them, they will temporarily express envy and longing, but when he holds his mouth, everyone will return to the original life inertia - no one thinks that the scenes that Villen describes to them will become reality, for them, it is a world of "a paradise after death".

The advancement of technology does not mean that a few drawings and a few recipes can be completed. The most important thing is to specifically focus this knowledge into production and products. This process inevitably requires training a series of technicians. Originally, Weiren thought that the consciousness network would greatly reduce the cost of training. He even felt that as long as the professor gave a few lessons in the consciousness network, those students who "listen to the lectures" would all learn it. However, the facts proved that this was just his wishful thinking. For the so-called "curriculum", most of the craftsmen participating in the training seemed to be listening to heaven, such as Ohm's law, Hooke's law, Newton's law... For the imperialists, these nouns alone were more knowledge than they had in their lifetime. Faced with these massive influx of information, most people's reaction was "shock thinking". Not to mention truly learning, even the most basic understanding or even imagination could not be achieved.

On the contrary, the consciousness network that thought it could play a positive role is increasingly becoming more and more negative. On the earth, "thinking" is a very self-movement. Everyone in life will think involuntarily at any time when facing any problem. This behavior is already an instinct. For example, when seeing a bird flying, you will think about why it fly. Although the answer has long been deeply rooted, such thinking is just to deepen this knowledge point again. However, in the empire, professors from the earth discovered that the "learning" of the empire is not like this. When encountering a specific problem, they tend to search more - just like the earthlings searched for problems on the Internet using Google.

The answer is the same. Ask questions to everyone who can "connect" them, and when their questions cannot be answered in the consciousness network, they will choose to give up. This "knowledge transfer model" has been accompanied by the history of the empire and has lasted for thousands of years. The advantage of this model is that if there is information in the "network", it can be easily transmitted to every node, but the disadvantage is also obvious. That is, every node is extremely dependent on the network, because of the unquestionable belief in "old" knowledge and the lack of innovation ability in individuals, the knowledge level of the entire empire has never been improved. This also explains why the empire has thousands of years of history, but the technological level has always been hesitating.

Of course, Viren could not have such a deep understanding at this moment, but he also vaguely felt that this task seemed to be more difficult than he thought, but if he wanted to tell him where the specific obstacles were, he probably couldn't say it. He just felt that - although in the past two months, everyone, whether the imperial people or the captives of the earth, had no discount on their instructions: the captives of the earth were teaching with all their hearts and no lies or misleading in the process, and the imperial people also tried hard to learn. It was absolutely impossible to have a small waste or absent-minded behavior like the people on earth who were studying. The craftsmen sweated heavily and made things according to the drawings in vain and night, but they just couldn't achieve the expected results.

So on this day of victory, he truthfully told His Majesty that he had confusion and attached the reasons he thought he thought - Viren felt that instead of relying on the power of the empire itself to start from scratch, it was better to use the existing "trophy", which included not only ready-made machines and factories, but also the workers working in it. Since the earthlings are naturally good at these jobs, why not just hand over these jobs to the earthlings, and the empire, as long as the people who control these jobs, is fine.

Weiren didn't know that his proposal was essentially the same as the idea of ​​Earthlings controlling AI - let AI be responsible for labor, while humans are only responsible for controlling AI.

The emperor admired this suggestion very much, but in the specific implementation, the emperor felt that there might be a big problem. Judging from the current performance of the captives on earth, most people cannot adapt to the imperial consciousness network, and the imperial consciousness network is also not suitable for them. Compared with the imperial people, the humans on earth have too active thinking and are extremely keen on questioning and resisting. In the ancient well-being Wubo's imperial consciousness network, they are natural aliens, just like catfish thrown into sardines. Regarding the problem of how to purify their thinking and maintain their original abilities, the empire has not yet come up with a satisfactory plan. The empire's rich experience in "purifying" can easily turn normal people into obedient machines, but most people after being "purified" are somewhat ill and can only be used as slaves. So the emperor sent him here and is ready to try to implement the Villen plan at this time to see if there is any way to achieve the best of both worlds.

As of now, there are not many people who can "experiment" for Viren, only a few more than a dozen prisoners. However, the Medieval, who was in charge of the war, had already told him that as long as the attack on the earth was launched, there would be "more than enough here to hold on" in the future.

Villen did not doubt this, but that was the future after all. What Villen had most urgent to do now is to let the empire fully master the existing technology of the earth as soon as possible. Although he did not understand what nights were long and dreams were too long, he also knew that only by eating food in his stomach could he solve hunger. For the empire, the enemy was not just the army, diseases, famine, and natural disasters on earth... Before coming into contact with the earth, Villen always felt that these disasters were inevitable and could only be borne passively, but from the people on earth, he saw the extent that human power could reach - magic was only part of the truth, not all.

Since these prisoners were the first target of Viren's trip, after reaching the space station, Viren met them as soon as possible. Although according to the soldiers of the Empire, these prisoners were all fierce and cunning warriors on the battlefield, Viren did not care about it - they lost their weapons, and there was no difference between the Earthlings and the Empire, and he had the advantage of magic, so he was not worried about personal danger at all, unless there were real mages among these prisoners - but would the real mage be captured? Unless the mage tried hard to kill himself.

The captives did not give him a good look at his arrival and his active greeting. One of them saw the electronic watch on his hand and showed unconcealed ridicule - it was a kind of mockery from the heart when people saw animals being stupid. He saw this smile many times on the faces of those captured earthlings, and he was not angry because he knew that these people were qualified to laugh. Compared with most earthlings, he was indeed an ignorant barbarian, and he had this self-knowledge.

"I came here to tell you a fact," Villen spoke to each of them through magic—except for one who was still in a coma. "No matter what the end of this war, it is impossible for you to go back. All your life afterwards will be spent under the rule of the empire. You have no means of escape except to die, but you can still choose, or choose to be forced to accept the rhythm of life of the empire, in your words, medieval agricultural life, or you can try to change, like your predecessors in history, to change the environment of your life, in order to restore the life you once had."

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