A cheap, convenient, stable and reliable method of long-distance communication. Its role in the development of society is unquestionable, especially after Gawain destroyed the old aristocratic forces in the South and began to integrate and build the new South. At this stage, its significance is even as great as those guns that can destroy the old nobility.
There are many factors that restrict social development. For the Cecil Territory, which is rapidly expanding its territory and increasing its population, the two biggest challenges to maintaining its dominance in the south at this stage are transportation and communications. The territorial scope The internal transportation capabilities of materials and personnel, construction capabilities, information circulation capabilities, the response speed of the entire governance structure, and the effectiveness of response... almost all of these depend on the development of transportation and communication technology.
Excellent transportation can allow the rapid flow of materials and personnel within the territory, production and construction will be guaranteed, commerce will be developed, and the connections between various regions will become closer and not loose. When an emergency occurs, it is also a prerequisite to ensure that the army can quickly rush to the war zone. Excellent communications allow the Government Affairs Department to understand the situation throughout the territory, ensure that the intelligence in each region is timely and smooth, and allow the Government Affairs Department to Respond quickly to emergencies - and to achieve these two points, we must rely on the development of technology and productivity.
Ansu's noble enfeoffment system is a manifestation of backwardness in Gawain's opinion, but it is an inevitable result of limited transportation and communication technology. The ruler cannot control the situation outside the territory in a timely manner, nor can he control the situation outside the territory in a timely manner. The army was dispatched outside this extreme area in the shortest possible time. At the same time, it was difficult to transport materials from one city to other cities. This also destined the situation where the nobles were divided into feudal states and the city was the state. In fact, until 557 Ansu, the nobles and scholars were He also adheres to the following wise saying:
The area where a lord can effectively rule is the farthest point that his knights can reach within three days and nights, and the area where he can achieve absolute rule is the area where his mage advisor uses the eagle to The farthest distance the eye can see.
This ancient saying has been popular in Ansu for hundreds of years, and it was not until the summer of 557 that there was a change: a noble mage from the Holy Spirit Plains named "Delta" invented a crystal that can enhance the eagle eye spell. device and installed it on the top of his own mage tower, thereby expanding the lord's "absolute domination area".
In the following ten years, under the advice of this visionary noble mage, the Ansu royal family started construction in 567 with the city of Saint-Sunil as the center point, with east-west, north-south crosses running through the entire Holy Spirit Plain. , and extended to varying degrees to the "Kingdom Avenue" (also known as the Cross Artery) within the four borders, thus greatly strengthening the royal family's control over the country, and the upper-class nobles in various places followed suit later, within their respective territories. With the construction of a series of roads, coupled with the successful cultivation of a new species of "white feather" griffon at the same time and the emergence of the "Messenger Passage Act", Ansu's domestic transportation and communication conditions have greatly developed. The nobles' control of the territory and the royal family's control of the country His governance ability has taken a big step forward.
But in these developments, hundreds ofThe aristocratic enfeoffment system of 2000 has shown its strong inertia. Except for the Kingdom Highway, almost all road construction in Ansu is still fragmented by the enfeoffed territories. Whether it is road standards or vehicle and horse specifications, in There is almost no continuity between different nobles. The griffin messenger is also regarded as a symbol of the glory of the nobles (and the cost cannot be reduced). It has never been developed to the popularization stage. The feudal nobles continue to use it. With their pride, reserve, self-esteem and self-isolation, on the one hand they enjoy the benefits brought by the strengthening of dominance in the territory, on the other hand they instinctively refuse these things to continue to develop and affect their absolute authority over their own fiefdom.
Originally, if there was enough time, the day of breaking would appear sooner or later. The old nobles could not stop the development of society forever, but it was a pity that Ansu had not yet had time to build the Kingdom Highway to the border. Ushered in the civil strife in Fog Moon.
So today's Ansu still has to rely on the king to confer vassals, and the vassals to vassalize to maintain order. Even due to the huge loss of Ansu's national power due to the civil strife in Wuyue, almost all the remaining nobles in various places have No longer able to maintain roads, the number of "White Feathered" griffins also declined sharply during the war, and Ansu's transportation and communication conditions have almost degraded to the state before 557 years.
The worse situation is yet to come: the nobles and the royal family of the Second Dynasty who have experienced the Brumaire Civil War still have vivid memories of the horrific scene of allied forces from various places attacking the Holy Spirit Plain through the Kingdom Avenue. In the later stages of the war, the power of nobles from various places After the war, the nobles had to retreat to protect themselves due to the declining population and chaotic situation after the war. This negative and degenerative attitude even It continues to this day.
It wasn’t until Ansu 735 that an ancestor emerged from the coffin, bringing with him the authority of the founding ancestors and millions of years of experience from two people and one planet. Disdainful of the traditional aristocratic system, he began to build his new Cecil situation in the most unreasonable way.
Looking at the communication device in front of him, which was still in the verification stage, Gawain thought not only of the communication device, but also of the well-ordered roads connecting all parts of the Southern Territory, and even Ansu. .
For transportation and communications, in the former he has cement and various magic machines that are developing rapidly. In the latter, he has finally seen the results of Kamel and Rebecca's efforts so far. Two problems that plague all rulers seem to have solutions.
"This communication device currently uses a mixed rune grouping - most of its rune groups come from the technology of the Eternal Sleeper, but the generation and control of the magic shock are still traditional. "The way to transmit spells," Kamel floated next to the communication device, explaining some of the technical details of the device to Gawain, "Unfortunately, we still haven't been able to understand how the Eternal Sleeper Network has the original magic power in nature. The signal is transmitted in the field', so this device can only be used in standard magic fields at present.operating within the coverage area. "
Gawain was quite interested in these technical details: "The standard magic field... within the range of the magic obelisk? "
"Yes, the standard magic field generated by the magic obelisk is like the 'lake' you described to it, and the ripples generated by the communicator spread in the magic field. , from one magical obelisk to another, so we can call this communication method 'magic network communication'," Kamel explained, "I have found a magical obelisk The solution of continuously transmitting signals as a 'relay' has been successful in a small range, but the specific effect after the transmission distance is increased has yet to be verified..."
"These communication devices are How to pair or identify? Gawain asked again, "If I have a hundred such devices distributed in various places, how can I use one of them to accurately contact another specific device?" ”
This is also a question that Gawain is very curious about - the communicator created by Kamel is very different from the traditional communication spell or the magnificent wall of the elves. The product of a combination of technologies, and its communication medium is the "standard magic field" generated by the currently highly sophisticated magic energy obelisk. From the working principle, it is more like an indiscriminate "broadcast" "The device broadcasts its own signal in the magic field so that all similar devices can answer it. If there is no matching pairing or identification method, all signals will be spread openly without encryption, and the entire magic field will be exposed. It becomes an extremely chaotic mess, and it is difficult to realize the "communication network" function required by Gawain.
"We refer to the technology of the ancient Gondor period," Kamel seemed to have already expected that Gawain would have it. He immediately answered the questions in this regard, and his tone was quite proud, "You are also from the Empire, and you should know about the Empire Information Network back then - it was already in operation as early as the Spark Era. "
Gawain nodded and said the knowledge he had just extracted from his memory: "Oh, I know this. When I was a knight apprentice, I often listened to the broadcasts from the imperial capital at my mentor's house. Opera, I remember that the device can not only receive broadcasts, but can also communicate with people far away in the imperial capital. At that time, only nobles or big businessmen would have a 'Dark Blue Terminal' in their homes, but compared to this era, that was already an incredible popularity rate. ”
Before Kamel spoke, he heard Rebecca’s voice coming from the communicator (she never hung up and kept doing it while Gawain and Kamel were chatting) Grimace): “Wow! Was this kind of communication device so popular back then? "
"Compared with the number of communication techniques and communication devices now...the communication technology of the Gondor people back then was indeed like a miracle," Kamel sighed softly, and then continued, "I am here A 'resonance' structure is added to the device, and only signals that meet the resonance conditions can be transmitted between devices. To achieve this resonance, I used the four foundations of the wind systemRunes and four basic runes without attributes, and these eight runes are scrambled and randomly arranged on a base plate with three by three empty slots. They do not form any rune knots and have no spell effects. , but according to the principle of mana resonance, when another set of runes arranged with the same rules participates in the magic shock, this 'resonance substrate' will produce the same reaction..."
Speaking of this, Kamal paused, as if to give Gawain and Hetty some time to calculate and think, and then continued: "The eight kinds of runes have a large number of arrangements and combinations on the three-by-three base plate, and using a device to call When using another device, you only need to use a rune trigger group similar to the 'experiment bench palette' to easily assemble the rune structure that calls the target. I just used my magic power to directly control this process. If ordinary people use it, the rune trigger group is here, on the side of the device..."
"Dialing, we can call this process For dialing," Gawain felt that Kamel used a lot of ancient Gondor terms and modern magic terms to explain this simple process. It was too complicated, so he said simply, "In addition, we can give them eight kinds of runes from zero to Seven is numbered with numbers, so that each communication device has a specific string of numbers to identify it, and the person using the communication device can also 'dial' more easily. After all, it is easier to memorize numbers than runes, and numbers are more suitable for registration in tables than runes. ”
Whether it’s Kamel, Hetty, or Rebecca on the other side of the communicator, everyone seems to be indifferent to Gawain’s behavior of “as soon as something new pops up.” It has been used for many years, and everyone has become accustomed to it, and everyone accepted this suggestion calmly.
To be honest, Gawain was not used to it...