Chapter 401: We want points
"Luck is luck?"
Star-Lord Peter. Quill muttered, "The Sandar people support the lower civilizations just for luck?" But what do they want luck for? ā
"Technology. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info" Xiao Li said casually: "When scientists study science and technology, they often have a flash of inspiration, grasp the clue, and then follow this clue to study deeply, so for scientists, genius whimsy is as important as deep theory, and even in a sense, genius whimsy is more important than deep and solid theory, because a scientist who has mastered a deep and solid theory is just a researcher, and only by combining genius whimsy and solid theory is a complete scientist." ā
"And where does the whimsy come from? No one knows, biologically speaking, whimsy is just a reaction of the human brain, but the specific operation and production of this reaction is not clear to anyone. ā
"But what does that have to do with luck?" Star-Lord Peter. Quill couldn't help but ask.
"Because when other people boast about their scientific achievements, most scientists will say that I am lucky, but just lucky."
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Star-Lord Peter. Quill was a little speechless, he looked at Xiao Li suspiciously, "Is that really the case?" ā
"Fake."
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"I can only tell you that luck can boost the development of technology, but I can't tell you why." Xiao Li's smile was put away, "Don't chase after me, I won't tell you if you ask me." ā
"Star-Lord Peter. Quill, you should know that when you chose to oppose our Earth Federation, you had already abandoned your identity as an Earthling. ā
Star-Lord Peter. Quill turned pale and barely pulled up a smile, "I'm from Earth." ā
"If it is, it's also a ball rape."
"Alright." Xiao Li's eyes caught a glimpse of a familiar figure, and he also lost his relationship with Star-Lord Peter. Quill continued to talk with interest, "Star-Lord Peter. Go ahead and save your universe, Quill. ā
He turned to meet him and spoke to Gardel, "Mr. Gardel, how are you deep-sea civilizations thinking about it?" ā
"We, the deep-sea civilization, are willing to exchange technology with you." "But we need a complete set of basic technology, including theory, experimental data, and a few records of errors," Gardell said. ā
There are failures and successes in experiments, but even if it is a failed data, it will be retained, because this is very important, it is a very common behavior to find a way to succeed from failure, and for deep-sea civilizations, these failed data can repeat some fragments of the original Earth Federation's research and development of technology, so that deep-sea civilizations can master as much experience as possible, even if it is a failed experience.
"Is that okay?"
"No, no, no...... No. Xiao Li shook his head, "Mr. Gardel, you are asking too much, handing over all our basic technology to you, and you give us the technology that the Xandar people gave you, I think our Earth Federation is very bad." ā
"The transaction must be fair, if you come up with a few technologies, we will trade a few technologies, so that it is fair."
Gardel's face immediately changed, "This won't work. ā
How can this work? The deep-sea civilization needs all the low-end technologies to lay a good foundation and let the deep-sea civilization continue to move forward, just one, two or dozens of doors will not work, because no technology exists alone, it must rely on the support of other fields.
For example, a computer, no CPU can be made? No material to make? Don't have a software program that works? Any scientific and technological crystallization is made of countless related fields, lack of support in any field, the effect will be greatly reduced, if there is only a few areas of support, then the manufactured machinery, whether it can be used or not is a big problem, even if it can be used, I am afraid it is not very ideal.
"We have to exchange all the technology with you, otherwise, there is no difference between us and not, and we won't be able to achieve the effect we want."
They want to restore the potential of the deep-sea civilization to develop and march to a higher level of civilization again, if they can't achieve this goal, then their exchange will become a meaningless exchange, so what is the difference between exchange and non-exchange?
"But you have too little technology." Xiao Li said: "I have learned that the technology mastered by your civilization is basically logistics technology, what kind of flying, energy compression, energy harvesting and other technologies are logistics technology. ā
"But we're at the high end of the technology."
Poof......
Xiao Li smiled, "Gardel, when trading, technology is not divided into high-end and low-end, only important to you, for our Earth Federation, without your technology, we can slowly develop it, but for your deep-sea civilization, without our technology, you can only desperately watch yourself lose the potential for progress." ā
"In the same field of technology, your desire for low-end technology far exceeds our desire for high-end technology, so when the two are traded, our low-end technology should far exceed your high-end technology."
To be fair, it's true that high-end technology is far more valuable than low-end technology, but who's to call it special now? Rare things are expensive, the high-end technology mastered by the deep-sea civilization has been flooded in this universe, and the low-end technology mastered by the Earth Federation is a rare product.
"Yes, we crave, but it's not rare." Gardell immediately retorted, "Although our deep-sea civilization is not a great civilization in the universe, our deep-sea civilization has still communicated with many high-level civilizations, and they are very happy to export low-end technology to us to help us improve our scientific and technological system." ā
Gardel directly showed Xiao Li that our high-end technology is not rare, but your low-end technology is not rare, in the universe, the most important thing is a variety of advanced civilizations, as a step by step development of advanced civilizations, their various basic theories are very perfect, and scientific and technological information belongs to knowledge, it can be infinitely valuable, or it can be worthless, it depends on the psychological positioning of the person who sells it, because knowledge itself is something that can be infinitely copied.
"I believe it."
Gardell immediately became happy, but Xiao Li replied with no surprise in his next sentence, "I believe that the higher civilizations are willing to export technology to you, but I doubt that you can have any technology to impress those high civilizations." ā
"What high-end technology do you have? It was given to you by the Xanders, and it has long been flooded in the universe, and it is impossible for a higher civilization to look at these technologies. ā
"People? Cloning technology is already very advanced in this universe, and the only thing you can get your hands on is all kinds of resources, but unfortunately, as you can see from the logistics civilization that you have fallen into the Xanders, you can't decide which civilization your resources are exported to. ā
"Before I can get my hands on the trading goods, I don't think that any advanced civilization is willing to risk offending the Sandal people to export low-end technology to you, if there is, please tell me, I will ask them for high-end technology, I believe they will not refuse."
Knowledge itself is priceless, because it can be copied, it can be worthless, or it can be priceless, and the civilization that is willing to give low-end technology to the deep-sea civilization will not be stingy with the high-end technology of the Earth Federation.
Gardel's face flushed slightly, of course what he said was true, of course there are civilizations that are willing to trade with them and export low-end technology to them, but as Xiao Li guessed, the premise of exporting low-end technology is that they have tradable goods, but unfortunately, they don't, and it's not because of the restrictions of the Xanders that they have no way to trade with high-level civilizations.
Their deep-sea civilization is not afraid of restrictions, they would rather risk sanctions, but also develop their own low-end technology, just restrictions, they don't care at all, but the problem is that the resources they take out are not needed by others at all.
There are countless planets in this universe, and there are no scarce resources at all, even if there are, they are not in the hands of their deep-sea civilization, as for the so-called specialties, the higher civilizations are even more disdainful, they want to get low-end technology, but there is no way to trade at all.
That's why, until now, they haven't developed their own low-end technology.
But......
It was impossible for him to agree to Xiao Li's trade of one technology for another, even if he knew very well that in this transaction, their deep-sea civilization took advantage of it a little.
For their deep-sea civilization, if they can't trade the low-end technology they want at one time, then the low-end technology that they exchange is a bunch of useless information, there is not much difference between having and not having ice, even they know very well that even if they hand over the high-end technology to the Earth Federation, there is no loss for them.
Infinitely copied knowledge doesn't disappear just because you copied it.
Knowledge is there, no matter how many times you copy it, it's there, it doesn't increase, it doesn't decrease, it doesn't disappear.
"If you are willing to give us all your knowledge, our deep-sea civilization is willing to become the most loyal ally of your Earth Federation."
Ally? Xiao Weidi sneered, a white-eyed wolf civilization? He raises a pug, and everyone will wag their tails at him, but raising a deep-sea civilization? What else do you get in exchange for a backbite?
Although he thought so in his heart, he wouldn't say this, "I'm sorry, we don't need any allies in the Earth Federation, we are a wandering civilization." ā
Wandering civilization? Gardel was stunned, gritted his teeth and said, "Then our deep-sea civilization is willing to become your vassal civilization." ā
The order given to him by the consul is to get low-end technology at all costs, and in the message, the consul told him that the situation is grim, and the deep-sea civilization is desperately thirsty for low-end technology, even if it is reduced to a vassal civilization, anyway, the current deep-sea civilization is also a vassal civilization of the Xanders.
Vassal civilization? Xiao Li was also stunned, the vassal civilization basically lost the initiative, second only to the merger of other civilizations, which is different from the situation that the deep-sea civilization is experiencing now.
Although the current deep-sea civilization is actually a vassal civilization of the Sandar people, there is no agreement between the two civilizations, and what they have between them is only a rope.
These ropes forced the deep-sea civilization to become a vassal of the Xanders, they have no name, and now, the deep-sea civilization has taken the initiative to become a vassal civilization of the Earth Federation, which will be scolded as a traitor in the history of the Earth Federation, and the government will also be scolded as a traitor. Country. Politics. Prefecture.
But Xiao Li shook his head when he thought about it.
What if there is an agreement? Can a paper agreement bind a civilization? If they really want to tear up the agreement, the Earth Federation has no way to sanction it at all, and as for sincerity, it is even more unreliable, because people's hearts will change, and now they are sincere and not wrong, but decades, hundreds, or even thousands of years later, can they still be sincere?
I am afraid that when the time comes, any decision of the Earth Federation that damages the interests of the deep-sea civilization will lead to the fuse of the betrayal of the deep-sea civilization.
On the contrary, it is the right choice for the Xandar to put one rope after another on the body of the deep sea civilization, although this will make the deep sea civilization full of resentment towards the Xanders, but as long as the rope is not cut for a day, the deep sea civilization can only bow down.
Come to think of it. Xiao Li shook his head again, "Our Earth Federation doesn't need any vassal civilization. ā
"And what do you want?"
"Points!" Xiao Li finally said what he wanted, his trade with the deep-sea civilization, in addition to the technology that needed the support of the deep-sea civilization and the Sandar star, was the points in the hands of the deep-sea civilization.
Points are a good thing, you can exchange technology for advanced civilizations, and although these technologies have certain limitations, they will not be the top technologies of major high-end civilizations, but they are definitely mainstream technologies, which is very important for the Earth Federation.
So he came up with a way to get points from other civilizations.
"Points ......." Gardel's face changed, "Can you change it?" ā
Points are important to the Earth Federation, but they are equally important to deep-sea civilizations, with points, their deep-sea civilizations can be exchanged for some higher-end technologies to improve their own technology, and this is also the only opportunity for their civilizations like castles in the sky to promote the development of their own civilization and technology.
Although they also have to be controlled by others, being able to promote the development of science and technology is also an indescribable temptation for their civilizations, which is why they immediately followed the declaration of war after the Sandar Star people declared war, for them, this is the only way to improve the technology of their civilization, although now the deep sea civilization has seen the second way, they are still unwilling to give up.
"Our deep-sea civilization is willing to pay a lot of resources to trade with you, including all kinds of high-purity, pollution-free energy crystals and various alloys."
"Nope." Xiao Li refused without hesitation, "Your resources have no effect on us, we only need high-end technology and points in your hands, if you don't want to, then this transaction will be stopped." ā