Chapter 238: Technological Stagnation
As time passed, the successors of the "Goertek" began to have a headache. A large population has great benefits, but if management can't keep up, it becomes a hidden danger.
Any major project, such as an aqueduct, or marble mining to create a larger underground living space, will take a hundred or even five hundred years!
Even if the Gliese people live long and work poorly, these projects are ridiculously slow, leading to growing dissatisfaction among the population.
But dissatisfaction is dissatisfaction, and no matter how powerful the consuls are, it is impossible to change the results of this chaos.
The root cause is work and rest!
More and more Gliese people are realizing that Gando's idea of "planning a routine" is actually correct. But the opposition is still strong, and there are many stubborn Gliezers who believe that dormancy is their own freedom, and that this freedom should not be taken away.
Since it is not advisable to enforce work and rest, in order to solve the problem of chaotic dormancy, the clever consuls have come up with more ways to "save the country by curves", such as certain art performances will be opened at certain times, and schools will be opened at certain times, so as to indirectly guide the people to sleep.
But this kind of guidance is too slow and too slow, and it has only had a preliminary effect after thousands of years.
This confusion lasted until the birth of another wise man "Karn", whose ideas were more similar to those of Gando: the Gliese were too lazy and too idle, and the stress of life was generally absent, so where did the upward momentum come from?
It argues that the ideas of the ruling elite and the common people in the past were separated, and that for many people, science, including mathematics, was just an elegant "art" that had not been significantly converted into productivity, and that even if they did not go to school, it would not be a big deal, at least not in their own lives......
"High arts" such as science and mathematics were in the eyes of the consuls, and only a few intelligent people could understand the beauty in them. And smart people are generally at the top.
However, ordinary people are not interested in this kind of "high art", they prefer popular arts such as theater, song and dance, so it is impossible to change their work and rest because of learning "high art".
The son of a merchant, Karn was naturally sensitive to the economy and knew what life was like for ordinary people.
What do the general population like?
Money!
Face!
Beautiful opposite sex!
And...... Higher status!
It soon promulgated a whole set of economic policies in an attempt to better promote commerce, in particular the creation of a number of large collectively-owned handicraft factories, in which it was necessary to work and leave work at the same time.
At the same time, the policy of opening bazaars is regulated, and on certain specific days, there will be certain tax incentives.
Those who follow a regular schedule will have more opportunities to gain wealth; Individuals who want to sleep as they please, staggered group activities, have fewer opportunities to acquire wealth, and slowly become impoverished.
Gliese people, like humans, yearn for a better life, and if the sober period is completely staggered from the large army, then life will undoubtedly be more troublesome.
Free hibernation? No problem, as long as you can endure poverty.
Stimulated by this economic interest, year after year, more and more Gliese people began to lie dormant......
The unified routine is finally ......
formed.
The whole process took nearly 10,000 years!
A decent country, even if it is only the size of a city, has a huge advantage over scattered tribes, both in terms of system and population size.
The host on the stage said sonorously: "At this moment, the idle Gliese civilization has finally ushered in its own period of rapid ascent!" ”
Seeing this, Zhang Yuan always felt that the history of the whole civilization was very strange, and the knowledge level of the Gliese people in that period was equivalent to that of human civilization from the 18th century to the 19th century, and they began to explore the threshold of chemistry and physics, and the result was that they had just founded the country!
The problem of unified dormancy, all kinds of ways to turn it over and over, took tens of thousands of years, and he simply didn't know what to say.
"To say that they are ignorant is not to be considered ignorant, and to say that they are smart is definitely not to be wise."
"Hey, we look at primitive human beings as ignorant and uncivilized."
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, more and more Gliese people found that the primitive life, which was already more satisfying, actually had more room for improvement, such as more exquisite food, more interesting entertainment, more comfortable living places, and so on.
The original cave where the original cave was inhabited was prone to collapse, and it is unknown how many Gliese people died because of the cave collapse and were buried alive.
But now, Goertek's underground city has been planned by architects, reinforced with marble, and is comfortable and secure.
Moreover, after the unification of work and rest, many group work is indeed much more convenient, especially some large-scale projects, which were unimaginable in the past.
Where there are interests, there will be a driving force, and after seeing the benefits, one country after another follows suit.
It is not so much a state as a "city-state" made up of a large group of people.
The Glitzers, who were inherently idle, did not have a high reproductive capacity and did not like too much constraint, generally adopted a "democratic system" that evolved from the primitive system, with the citizens' assembly as the supreme authority and the leaders elected by the people to govern these city-states.
There is also a high degree of competition between city-states, and smart people will naturally know which city is better, which city is politically clear and has room for growth, which city has a more comfortable climate to live in, which city is the capital of art, and so on......
In such a situation, it is natural for people to migrate to better cities.
Where there is competition, there is an upward momentum, and one wise man after another appeared on this planet, began to improve the system and laws, and proposed a higher level of morality.
And scientists are trying to reproduce the miracles brought by the "enlighteners", constantly groping for nature, mastering the laws, trying to increase the productivity of the entire civilization......
It seems that the entire civilization seems to be thriving, and a high level of intelligence, a qualified ideology, should soon break through the atmosphere and get out of its own planet!
But it's a pity......
A fatal flaw has appeared!
The planet has very low levels of oxygen, almost nothing.
The absence of oxidants means that there is no natural combustion, and without combustion, the development of various industries is also extremely difficult. The Gliese people have only a small amount of wind power, water power, and other simple natural resources at their disposal. For example, dig a wind tunnel and build a windmill out of wood fiber plants. Make waterwheels near some underground rivers......
But these energy sources are always unstable, not easy to control, and cannot really advance the times, and they urgently need a more powerful energy source.
Fortunately, the Gliese already knew about the existence of electricity, and they knew that the lightning in the sky could be harnessed. With some revelations from the "Inspirers", it is possible to jump directly from the Stone Age to the Age of Electricity, even if it is ......
This step is very, very difficult.
But it is a pity that for a full 150,000 years, this group of Gliese people did not take this crucial step.
Until...... The arrival of the second group of aliens......