"We are the Empire, and the Black Tyrant and the First Emperor in your mouth are the grandfathers and fathers of me and my father...... Are we crazy and smear our grandparents and fathers? Especially when he brought us such a powerful empire? ”

Shaking his head slightly, after the second prince finished laughing, he patted the experimental table in front of him: "What I mean is very simple. Ian, your strength is not worthy of this kind of 'simplified popularization' that can't be done at the fifth energy level. Now it's the limit, because everyone can benefit, and if you continue to go deeper, the first to oppose you is the monopoly group formed by the Platinum Iridium Workshop and all the other large alchemy workshops. ”

"When the time comes, how can you become strong without financial resources? If you don't become stronger, you will always be suppressed by others, and you won't be able to do what you want to do! ”

"Give up this path. When you become the fourth energy level, and become the first speaker group of the platinum-iridium workshop with Esengard, there may be a chance to make some reforms. ”

"But even then, don't continue looking into 'reuse' – remember my advice, Ian. You've done a good job, your new theory will increase the production of alchemy potions, and the market price will inevitably become lower, this is already progress, more people will be able to use cheap potions, but don't make more changes now...... That would only cause chaos. ”

At this moment, Mikael's eyes are shining: "Because of the great increase in productivity, there will be a shortage of raw materials, and there will not be enough consumers to buy the extra goods......"

"Do you think that the economic crisis of the empire was due to the lack of goods? No, it's enough! ”

"Do you think it's a lack of technology? No, it's too much! ”

His voice became louder: "At the call of my grandfather, the major alchemy workshops have been actively producing, and they have even developed the 'Inscription Intelligence', where an alchemist can produce potions that can only be made by a hundred or a thousand alchemists on the production line - just like your research direction, Ian, those potions are of average quality, even inferior, but they are quite cheap, and theoretically 'ordinary people' can afford to use them." ”

"But there are too many things that are produced and no one buys them, no one uses them—the aristocracy does not want to use these inferior products, and the common people do not need to use them. Do you know how many alchemy workshops closed down at that time? Do you know that the platinum-iridium workshop where you are now is a small workshop that can be found everywhere at that time, and even the surplus is difficult?! ”

"What...... What? ”

Ian's eyes widened when he heard this—he had thought he would hear about some alchemy workshop's refusal to cooperate, but he didn't think that what he heard was something close to nonsense like 'the alchemy workshop actively cooperated in the development and then went out of business'.

But what Mikael said was unexpected...... Even beyond his worst imagination and speculation.

——Inscription Intelligent ...... With the production line?

- A huge surplus of productivity?!

No wonder, no wonder universal education failed in that era, no wonder the educated at that time could not find work......

Not because the technology is too low, but because the technology is too high!?

"I see......"

Ian groaned in his heart: "It's actually because of the collapse of this aspect......"

It's no wonder that Master Gosai's attitude towards the Emperor is so complicated, and it's no wonder that Mikael asks himself not to study any universal potions - the 'reuse' technique he researches to reduce the cost of potions and the artificial intelligence rate is too high, and the machine may not be the best in terms of essentia, but it is probably much better than humans in terms of the accuracy of the operation of saving materials.

Studying this, is it to let the major workshops once again reproduce the era of great bankruptcy when there were too many potions produced and no one bought them?

No wonder, no wonder...... It is no wonder that at that time, Inaga II did not have many relevant helpers, as if alone.

Because, he really made the group of people who supported him miserable.

As soon as he thought of this, the boy couldn't help but forget to breathe a little.

And the words of the second prince continued.

"It's the arbitrary development of technology without restrictions that will cause turmoil! Now the empire still has the technology of inscription intelligence, but it doesn't dare to use it at will, because once it is used, what will those who don't have a job do? What about the groups that have preserved their production capacity? Is it really all about intelligence being replaced? Isn't that empire in turmoil a target surrounded by nations, and a target of other powers? ”

"Can you understand now? Technology alone will not solve the problems that the empire will face at all—it can even be said that the better the technology, the greater the problems, and the disasters we will face...... The more terrifying it will be! ”

Taking a deep breath, Ian was silent, listening to the problems of an 'empire', or rather, a 'normal civilization'.

Mikael seemed to think that Ian knew the secrets of the alchemy circle, but he didn't.

Ian was lost in thought, but a clear concept came to mind.

- The Terra civilization, a remnant of the pre-era civilization...... It was not a normal civilization in the first place.

It is a ...... that has a heritage, is nourished by heritage, and is bound by heritage Post-apocalyptic civilization.

The wreckage of an interstellar civilization.

Looking at the pensive boy, Mikael slowly stood up, he knew that Ian understood what he was saying, "I have to say, it's really a pleasure to talk to you, you always understand me, no wonder everyone looks at you very well." ”

"I see." At this moment, Ian suddenly said: "Do you think that the failure of the first emperor is because the ordinary people he tried to help couldn't help him at all." ”

Ian suddenly understood Mikael's train of thought.

- Yes...... In Terra, ordinary people who are not sublimators, if they are empty-handed, even if they are a million, ten million, ten million, one hundred billion, ten billion, ten billion, they can't kill a second-level level. It's very simple, the second energy level can fly, the subsonic level can fly, and the body is not like words.

Unless you use alchemy artillery and more high-tech weapons, the cost is extremely low, and there are countless resources to pile up...... But in reality, they couldn't do it, and if the second level was also armored or aether-armed, everything would have been reversed.

Even if it is operational, the third energy level is transcendent in the true sense, and the existence of the heart light body is inexplicable...... Not to mention the fourth energy level that is enough to destroy the kingdom.

Plus the inscription intelligence...... Sublimators don't even need ordinary people to 'produce' anymore.

Whether it is arable land, alchemy potions, or even more industrial production, at most, a few technicians are required to investigate some mechanical problems, and other things can be handled by intelligent estimates.

Just like I did at the beginning - I am an engineer, I usually don't need to really work, most of the self-maintenance engineering machines are enough to deal with most of the low-end problems, and what I need to do is to deal with some more difficult and less frequent accidents, or solve the problems of maintenance robots.

So here's the problem.

What is the meaning of the existence of ordinary people?

The aristocratic and sublimator class includes all the 'knowledge holders', whose brains are smarter and more agile than ordinary people, and can even directly manipulate nanostructured creations with essentia by observing the frequency of light waves with the naked eye.

They are a complete set of production equipment in themselves, and they are a tech tree itself.

Ian has the self-confidence, and at the third energy level, he rubbed out the power engine of the previous life empty-handed, or the power furnace of the pre-era civilization in the Sequoia base. Of course, this is assisted by a silver chip, but if the powerhouse of the fourth energy level has a drawing, it is estimated that he can do it.

As long as there are drawings, it is estimated that the powerhouse of the fifth energy level can rub the spaceship by hand.

They alone can replace an industrial system of tens of millions of people, and even more, it is even more terrifying.

Add to that a full set of artificial intelligence systems......

All right.

Again, go back and look at the problem.

When the Sublimator can even do such outrageous things......

What should ordinary people do?