After Qin Xiaobai finished reading the files of these research projects, he rubbed the sun vigorously, these research projects did not take a little bit. Iron smelting, gunpowder, that was the core of the Iron Age and the Imperial Colonial Era.

Oh my God, and "A Study of the Bronze Machine", is it going to make the leap directly from the Bronze Age to the Industrial Age?

Qin Xiaobai definitely doesn't mind the radical idea of "asking for money and not dying" to catch up with the times, which is actually very good, once a breakthrough is made in these aspects, he will gain an unparalleled advantage. But there is a premise, don't lose all his money. Otherwise, he will be dragged down by huge losses before he has time to enter the latter era.

"Explain to me, why are these projects being studied? The process of research, and how to make so many losses! ”

Qin Xiaobai put down these files and said to ask for money.

Seeing that Qin Xiaobai didn't mean to pursue it, he couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief, and his original crying face immediately turned into a smiling face, and he quickly explained: "Boss, here's the thing. In the past three months, our Zhoushui University has researched a large number of technologies suitable for the Bronze Age, and has accumulated four or five hundred NPC researchers in basic disciplines. However, a large number of Bronze Age projects have been opened, and there are fewer and fewer valuable research projects, so I decided to take a higher risk to study iron, gunpowder, and machinery, which are objects of the Iron Age and the Industrial Age. Once the research is successful, it will be an era of progress, bringing a large number of new technological projects. Besides, sooner or later, we will enter the Iron Age, and now that the research of the Bronze Age is saturated, it is time to enter the Iron Age. ”

Qin Xiaobai nodded. "Hmm. It is appropriate to do some technical preparation in advance. How do you do it? ”

If you want money, you don't want to die, and then he continued: "I started the three core major projects of iron smelting, gunpowder, and machinery at the same time, as long as one of the projects is successful, it will be enough to recover all the investment capital, and I will gather a group of NPC craftsmen who smelt bronze to study iron smelting technology." Other than that. Found some NPC forgers who were turned from wizards. Research and manufacture of intricate bronze machinery. ”

Speaking of this, he suddenly cried and said with a sad face, "In these three major types of projects, I have set up a total of 22 small projects, "Blast Furnace Ironmaking", "Black Powder", "Cotton Gunpowder" and so on, all of which have failed. ”

Qin Xiaobai frowned, "What about the technical proficiency of NPC craftsmen?" There is no relevant skill bar at all. Or is it rising too slowly? ”

The reason why he asked this was because the research proficiency of each NPC, when the proficiency reaches 1.00%, there will be a technological breakthrough, and the most basic skill to master this technology. If a craftsman's iron-smelting proficiency reaches 1%. Then it means that he has officially mastered the lowest level of iron-smelting technology. Every 1% increase in percentage points means that the craftsman has advanced a step in the technology and obtained a higher level of technology.

Asking for money, he hurriedly said: "All NPC craftsmen have relevant skill bars, iron smelting technology, gunpowder technology, mechanical technology, these have appeared, otherwise I would not have invested tens of millions of huge funds to research." I saw technology come along at the time. And after research, the proficiency continues to rise. I was so excited that I invested a lot of money in my research. Although the technical proficiency has risen slowly. But as long as they are rising, I dare to throw money into them. But here's the problem, some of them have a technical proficiency of 0.99%, and all of them stop increasing, as if they are forcibly stuck by something, and they can't continue to break through. No matter how much I put money into the research, the proficiency just doesn't go up. = I invested 4 million in research on iron smelting technology alone. Boss, what do you mean by this? I checked the official website of Empire, and there is no indication of this on it. ”

Qin Xiaobai was stunned.

Is there such a miraculous thing? He was aware of this situation for the first time.

He began to ponder.

The Imperial Expedition is a strict distinction between the 12 eras, but it does not give a clear and detailed description of the corresponding technologies of the respective eras. All technical research relies on the players themselves to organize NPC craftsmen to explore and research. If you have the right direction of research, you will gain an advantage over other players. If you go in the wrong direction, you will have to suffer huge losses.

This feels a bit like touching the lottery ticket for ordinary players to see who is luckier. Because they have limited funds, once a technical research is successful, they suddenly jump to a strong monopoly position. However, once the research fails, it will lead to a lack of funds and inability to follow-up.

But for an unusually strong player organization, it is definitely a good touch. Because they have the money to buy almost all the lottery tickets, even if they tear out a large group of blank lottery tickets, they can always tear up a huge prize in the end, so they must be able to touch it.

Just look at how strong an organization of players is, just look at how strong their financial resources are and how many lottery tickets they can buy.

The financial and manpower of the Zhou Shui Academy can cast a huge net to fish in the lake, as long as it is in the Bronze Age, no matter what kind of fish it is, the chance of being caught is quite high. The bigger the fish, the easier it is to catch. Unless those small fish that Zhou Shui Academy disdained would be forgotten and missed by the giant net.

Qin Xiaobai knew very well that in the past three months, Zhoushui Academy had caught a large number of fatty fish in the Bronze Age, and it was probably impossible to continue to catch a large number of fatty fish in the pond of the Bronze Age. You have to go to the larger pond of the Iron Age to catch bigger and more fatty fish. From this point of view, asking for money is not dying, in fact, he did not do anything wrong, but just did what he should do, and unfortunately did not get a return.

Qin Xiaobai couldn't figure it out for a while, the craftsman's technical proficiency had reached 0.99%, why did it break through less than 1%? He wasn't a technical programmer for Empires, so it wasn't clear what the restrictions were or what they came from.

However, although he did not know where to limit it, he could speculate.

Qin Xiaobai thought about it for a while, and suddenly asked, "Did you bring all the research files from the previous weeks?" ”

Asking for money and not dying, he hurriedly said, "All the research project files for three months are stored in this suitcase. ”

Qin Xiaobai said: "Take them all out and classify them!" ”

Asking for money, he immediately opened the suitcase and took out all the research projects, a total of 572 project files—all of which were the result of the Zhou Shui Academy's financial and manpower efforts and casting a big net to catch big fish. Among them, there are four or five hundred successes, as many as seventy or eighty failures, and more than 10 are being studied.

Qin Xiaobai said: "Classify all technical projects in detail, metallurgy, equipment, shipbuilding, ceramics, textiles, etc., why some fail, and some succeed, see if you can find a certain logic from it." Programmers must limit these techniques according to some standard, limiting the level of technology in the Bronze Age. ”

If you want money, don't die, your eyes light up.

"Yes, we have so many research archives that we might be able to deduce something of value."

The two of them sorted through the hundreds of files in their office and analyzed the logic. Due to the extremely high confidentiality of these files, which record the research of many player power organizations in the Zhoushui Alliance, the loss of them will cause serious consequences, and it is impossible to borrow the hands of outsiders, and the fewer people who handle it, the better, they can only do it themselves.

After two days of tossing and turning, they classified and combined these hundreds of files in different forms, and incorporated the classification of one era from the official website, and finally drew a statistical chart of technical research. System. Core technology.

Bronze Age - Clan tribal chieftaincy, slavery. Core technology.

Bronze Age - tribal federations, feudalism, slavery. Core technology.

Iron Age - Monarchy, Feudalism/Statehood, Slavery. Core technology.

Age of Empires - Emperors, Counties, Slavery. Core technology.

Colonial era - imperial system, subordinate system. Core technology.

The Industrial Age - Imperialism, Capital. Core technology.

The era of the world war - the capitalist system. Core technology.

Don't be stunned if you want money, "The technical level should be directly related to the social system." Together, these two are linked to the times. I rely on it, the proficiency of craftsmen is not because of the lack of money and people, but because of the system, we seem to be still a feudal system of princes, not an imperial system, and we cannot enter the Iron Age. ”

Qin Xiaobai nodded, sighing in admiration.

He is also not entirely sure whether the social system is restricting technological progress. If this assumption is true, this hidden threshold is really hidden enough.