"Time."

The voice of Amaia IX resounded in the splendid cabin, like a room inlaid with gold and precious stones, luxurious but without warmth.

Hearing this, Feng Shiguan, who was standing behind him, stepped forward and opened the pure gold square box inlaid with red, blue, and green gems on all sides, which he had been holding in both hands, and presented it to him, and on the gold velvet at the bottom of the box lay a hollowed-out enamel gold watch, only three inches in diameter. Feng Shiguan's movements were respectful and careful, as if he was presenting a holy relic in his hand - indeed a "holy relic", a magic watch given by the Heavenly Garden, with a magic circle embedded inside, which was more accurate than the mechanical clock made by the Tang Dynasty, and which was powered by a spar the size of a fingernail and could be used for a year. Only the noble caliphs and the upper nobles of the whole empire have this glory, and they are given the "time of holy power" by the heavenly garden. But the official did not know that when his noble caliph picked up the watch, there was a kind of ridicule in his heart.

Amaia IX glanced at the time and closed the lid with a "snap".

A soft crunch sound echoed in the cabin.

It makes people feel that His Majesty is in a bad mood.

Of course not.

Coming to meet the Pope of the Heresy and the Emperor of the Heresy Empire, how can Your Majesty be in a good mood?

The attendants standing in the room did not squint, but their hearts moved silently.

Feng Shiguan also stood silently behind His Majesty, waiting for His Majesty to put back the Dharma watch.

The gold watch quickly warmed in the palm of his hand, and Amaia IX squeezed it, mockery flashed in his eyes, the transparent law window was not reflective, and the mockery in his eyes was completely hidden in the bottom of his eyes, and there was no reflection in the slightest.

His mockery wasn't directed at the two fleets opposite.

It's to the people who have the watch in their hands—the one who gave it.

The old people who think they are gods are immortal.

Yesterday morning, after the caliph's customary morning tea, he flipped through the summary of today's information - every morning Assad would present a briefing for the caliph to keep abreast of the latest current affairs at home and abroad, and one of the less important pieces of information was placed at the end of the briefing, but it caught the attention of Amaia IX.

He stared at this news for about a minute: it was about the successful development of a miniature mechanical clock by Tang Guo, imitating the shape of a Tianyuan magic watch, and the inside was not an engraved magic circle, but a three-inch reduction in the movement of the elastic mechanical clock......

Amaia IX was expressionless, but his heart was turbulent.

He paid attention to this piece of information, because a year ago Assad had a piece of information that Tang Guo was developing a small mechanical clock, which was suspected to be compared with a French watch; And now, in just one year, Tang Guo has successfully developed it!

Although it is mentioned in the intelligence that the accuracy of the time cannot be compared with the French watch, what is the problem with this kind of accuracy that only errors tens of seconds to one minute? Ordinary people would never see a single hedron in their lifetime, but even if this kind of mechanical watch was sold for 10,000 gold coins, it was purchased by a moderately wealthy family, and it would not be exclusive to the high-class aristocracy. Of course, Aimaya doesn't care if civilians can have this kind of watch, he cares: mass production!

When Tang Guo made this kind of watch, it would definitely be mass-produced and mechanized parts processing.

His heart fluctuated, and he got up and walked in the palace garden for more than ten minutes before he calmed himself down.

Amaia IX's science is very good, he has liked science since he was a child, and his grades have been among the best after entering the Imperial Academy of Science, and he was determined to enter the Institute of Engineering and Engineered Science in his youth and strive for the development of Imperial Science, but the reality made his blood from boiling to cold, and finally had to give up the road of science research, joined the army, entered politics, stepped on his brothers and cousins, stepped on the position of the heir of the caliphate step by step, and then sat on this throne and ruled the empire, but his foundation in science is still there, and he has personally dismantled the pendulum clock and elastic clock made by Tang Guo, Knowing that the smaller the parts, the more difficult it is to make, how small and precise do you have to put the gears, pinions, and springs in three inches? And how amazing is the machining accuracy of Tang Guo?!

He secretly ordered the Industrial Construction Department to imitate the pendulum clock of the Tang Kingdom, and they made it, but they knocked out the parts one by one by hand, and it was impossible to use machining, because the widest clock face of the pendulum clock was only one and a half feet wide, and in such a small space, there were more than 100 parts assembled, which must be precision machining, and the largest bearing parts, the most sophisticated machine tools of the Industrial Construction Department could not be processed. After the Tang Dynasty, the elastic mechanical clock parts that did not require a pendulum were more precise, and it is said that the total production process reached more than 600.

This is already the case in a one-foot-and-five-foot land, let alone a three-inch meter?

“…… It is estimated that there are more than 900 production processes......"

Amaia IX read this information several times, and a feeling of powerlessness and desolation arose in his heart.

It's not because of the gadget of clocks, but what it reflects - the technological gap between Da Shi and Tang Guo has become farther and farther away.

More than 140 years ago, Da Shi established the School of Science and implemented science education, but it was 50 years later than the start of the Tang Kingdom, and it was because the science of the Tang Kingdom played an increasingly important role in the military field, which was impossible to ignore, and at the strong request of the then caliph Amaiya III, Tianyuan agreed to introduce science. However, it was only limited to the aristocracy of the big cannibal family, rather than implementing universal education as in the Tang Kingdom, and listed it as a compulsory basic subject.

Although Aymaya IX believed that the aristocracy was wise, with the Tang Empire as a typical example, he must also admit that only civilian education was the source of the sea. How many people are the nobility? Ten years ago, the total population of all the territories of the Great Food Empire was more than 98.6 million, but 57 percent were women, and among the male population, the Great Food Eaters accounted for only 27 percent, of which the Great Food Nobles accounted for only 50 percent; And only the big food aristocracy can learn science, which means that the population base of receiving science education is small, which means that the talent base is small, and those who have the talent of science are even less, how to compare with the national education of the Tang Kingdom?

Among the aristocracy, however, there are not many people interested in science, because the future is completely incomparable to the study of military and political affairs.

He knew better that in order to develop industry like the Tang Kingdom, in addition to the theoretical research of science, there should be more technical positions to support the application of science, but those nobles were all above the top and regarded technical official positions as low; Even the highest science research institute, the Industrial Engineering Institute, and the highest official office, the Industrial Construction Institute, are only institutes serving the military industry, subordinate to the Ministry of Military Affairs, and are second-class departments, how to make those nobles favored? Even the caliph could not change this general environment, because the direction of the wind was blowing from the heavenly garden.

There are still tens of millions of workers in the military workshops of the Tang Kingdom, who are ordinary people who have received basic education, at least they are literate and can read literature, understand basic arithmetic, and after entering the factory, as long as they train professional skills for two or three months, they can master the streamlined mechanical production. Not to mention that there were various technical schools in the Tang Kingdom, where various vocational technicians could be obtained to support their underlying technical production, and among these people, intermediate and senior technicians could emerge to enrich and improve the theory of science from actual production.

From above, from middle, to bottom, this forms a virtuous circle.

And the big food is in the circle of a vicious circle.

The aristocracy who had received a science education was unwilling to stoop to become a technical officer, and those who became a technical officer did not receive a systematic science education, so a bad circle of those with knowledge who were unwilling to do it and those who were willing to do it without knowledge was formed.

And a science, its development must be theory and application complement each other, without which corner will not work, the Great Food Empire introduced the science of the Tang State one hundred and forty years ago, but until now, it is still a weak empty shell.

Whose fault is this?!

Amaia IX cursed fiercely in his heart, and if prayer could be useful, he hoped that the old guys in the Heavenly Garden would go crazy one by one and be summoned to it by Allah.

His fingers gripped the watch tightly, but the hard watch was not damaged by his anger or force—as powerless as he sat on this throne.

His heart was filled with bitter olives again.

The Tang people said that they were industrially powerful, and they ate a lot, believing in the divine power.

A strong country in the way of law.

It is true that the way of magic is very strong, but the problem is that there are too few people with an elemental affinity physique, less than one percent, and those who can be promoted from apprentice to mage, according to Assad's secret statistics, less than thirty percent, which is more important to the empire than the science that everyone can learn and master? And the millions of workers in the workshop can't learn the magic pattern even if they are trained, but the mechanical operation has no foundation and can be learned in a year. This is a choice that can be determined without much consideration, but it is not something that the caliph can decide.

God says that you must sincerely believe in God and believe in God's power in order to be endowed with strength by God.

There is only one true God in the world, and the prophets of the true God have been called to heaven, so the true God sent down the messenger to guide the world, and the messenger spoke the oracle of the true God, which was believed by the believers of Allah.

The Great Cannibals believe in God, believe in the power given by God, the powerful power shown by the holy mages makes them fear and worship madly, the power of the human world is vulnerable in front of this power, how can they believe in it? How can one have a fanatical heart to pursue science? …… Even if there are such people, the gods of the heavenly garden will not allow them to exist for long unless they keep their mouths shut.

Amaia IX shut up, and there were more talented people in front of him who shut up, and those who didn't want to shut up had already been buried in the soil.

So the science of Da Shi is like a snail, it has climbed down for more than 140 years, and it has not advanced far.

Amaia IX opened the watch and looked at it, and at three o'clock in the afternoon, the time of arrival was very accurate. And the accuracy of this time also depends on the sail array of the battleship, remembering that the battleship of the Tang Kingdom has been equipped with steam engine power, Aymaya IX is gloomy again.

A mile-long white trestle came into his eyes, and the caliphate came to a gentle halt.

Crete had only one deep-sea port, and in the north-western direction, the Holy See fleet made its way into it. The fleets of the Great Food and Euroton could only anchor on the far shore and go ashore via trestle bridges or ships with shallow drafts.

Amaia IX snorted, closed the gold watch with a "snap", and put it back into the pure gold watch box at will, thinking that it would not be long before the noble "Holy Power Time" of Great Food could be held by civilians in the Tang Kingdom, and there was no need for "the Holy Power given by the True God", he wanted to laugh twice, and his heart was desolate and ridiculed.

Thinking of the Holy Power Bell Tower that must have been built in the center of the empire's large and small cities, and thinking of the people worshipping the Holy Power given by Allah under the Bell Tower, there was an icy dark tide in his chest, and the mages spent their time studying this magic array, consuming so many spars every year, just to show the holy power to the people and condense their faith, rather than spending their minds on how to strengthen the army and the country! - I really want to throw Don's man-made mechanical watch in the face of those old guys!

…… Knowledge! Technology! How he wanted to lead the empire in the direction of knowledge!

The Prophet said, "Knowledge is far away, and it should be sought."

But their empire is closing knowledge and destroying knowledge!

The Tang people are brave and diligent on the road of knowledge, but they eat the people of insight who pursue knowledge but are secretly murdered!

"That group" stole the faith of the Prophet, tampered with the teachings of the Prophet, turned the believers of Allah into a flock of shepherds in the Heavenly Garden, and provided them with a source of mana with a steady stream of faith!

They are the greatest heresies!

Amaia IX had a raging anger in his heart, but these anger could only be hidden under the reverence for Allah, the reverence for the heavenly garden, and his own aging countenance, as a "god" above what he hoped to see: a caliph with a strong desire for power, capable of ruling the empire, but not bold enough.

Yes, a caliph who has the power and ability but does not have the courage can keep the empire moving forward and maintain the continuous supply of cultivation resources for the Heavenly Garden, and will not have the courage to resist the Heavenly Garden, and will not have the idea of getting rid of their control.

Hehe......

With a sneer in his heart, Amaia IX turned and strode out of the cabin, wearing the steps of traditional leather slippers but with a bit of military boots.

The caliph did not choose to go ashore in a four-wheeled chariot or chariot, but chose to ride a horse.

The pure-blooded horse eater is tall, vigorous and beautiful, and the old body of Aymaia IX also looks tall and heroic on the horse, looking up in the northwest direction, his eyes are as sharp as an eagle, and at that moment, the old and turbid are completely gone.

Chaleman, the Emperor of the Euroton Empire, also rode up to the pier, and he also looked up to the west, surrounded by the minister's attendants.

The eyes were also very cold and sharp.

……

The tripartite meeting took place the following morning, after breakfast.

The meeting place is halfway up the main peak of Crete, Ij, where a Cretan king's summer palace is built, where the king and queen spend the hottest time of the year, and this year the king's family is going to spend the summer elsewhere, of course, this is not a problem, the wealthy Cretan royal family has built more than a dozen palaces and estates on the largest island in the Mediterranean, enough for the king's family to vacation.

The palace complexes here are scattered along the mountain, but in general they are spread out around the central courtyard, with a total of 1,500 rooms, enough for the entourage of the three parties, and the three armies are stationed in the mountains and forests around the palace complex according to the region. The meeting on the first day was not in the palace where the king met with his ministers, but in the central courtyard in the center of the summer palace, where the sun was shining brightly, and the fountains, sculptures, meadows, manicured holly trees, and beautiful gardens were a relaxing setting – the meeting was arranged here at the suggestion of the special envoy of the Holy See, who clearly hoped that the first day would be off to a pleasant start.

However, Amaia IX's opening words undermine this ease.

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I don't know if the 27th can be updated, I wish you all a happy New Year and a happy family :)

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