Chapter 59, from the Golden Age
"Do you believe it?"
Wu Jiarong didn't believe it.
Productivity comparable to Forge World? It's possible;
Is the standard of living comparable to Garden World? There are no such examples.
But having both?
That's a joke.
The Garden World has a beautiful environment, abundant resource supply, and excellent people's quality of life. It is usually an administrative planet or a business hub planet. As for the foundry world, the environment is usually not much better. The entire world will look like a huge factory, in which countless people have to contribute their sweat and even their flesh and blood.
Can these two things be fused at will?
How many such examples can be found among the countless stars throughout the empire?
Can Holy Terra, the capital of the empire, live up to what the governor says?
have no idea.
She heard the propaganda, but she had never been there or seen it with her own eyes, so she didn't dare to believe it.
She couldn't even believe that Holy Terra looked like what the Governor said, let alone on this remote wasteland planet.
Rationally, she felt that the Governor was just talking nonsense and painting a pie.
That cake was big and round, but it was ridiculously distant and unreal.
But emotionally, she could feel Governor Gu's lofty ambitions.
Ambition, of course, cannot be eaten as food. She had ambitions to be promoted to a machinist, or even to a technical priest, but in the end, wasn't she treated as imperial tax?
But she felt that she could believe in Governor Gu's ambition.
Believing that he has ambitions and believing that this ambition can be realized are two different things.
But just by believing in the governor's ambition, she could probably picture in her mind that her future governor should not be someone who only wants to live and die, only wants to levy excessive taxes, and only wants to deal with the imperial tax every two years. The rest of the time is spent having fun.
So working under such a governor, it seems, seems, probably... is a good opportunity that I have never had in the past?
Ten years ago, she was in the forging world. She thought she was talented and talented, but she only wanted to be promoted to a mechanic. On the starship, her future was cut off, and all she could think about was finding a better man to marry and have a child with. Baby, then eat and wait to die. One day I will be too old to retire, but it is also very likely that before then, the Quintet will be destroyed in a certain war, and all the people on board will become another part of the space junk.
Following a governor and becoming the most important technician under his command, her future achievements may not be just a mere mechanic or mechanical priest. Perhaps, she can have a chance to become a mechanical bishop, or even...
She didn't dare to think any further. It was too difficult to be promoted to a sage. Isn't it as nihilistic as the Governor's fantasy that Raging Owl could become a combination of the Forge World and the Garden World?
It's still far away, but not that far away.
Indeed, the Governor is now very poor. The population under his direct control has not even exceeded 10,000, and even the Governor's administrative power cannot be extended to the world. But then again, if the current governor has great power, can he still value such a small technical specialist like himself? I'm afraid it won't be possible to recruit a bunch of more advanced experts just casually.
It is now, when starting a business, that we have the opportunity to provide help in times of need, and that we have the opportunity to continue to grow as the governor continues to take power.
What's more, the Governor also has a black box making machine...
The value of this thing is extremely precious.
According to legend, they come from the distant Golden Age, a time when empires had not yet been established and were almost unverifiable. It is said that at that time, human beings were the masters of the entire universe. Every human being had dignity, could enjoy the best life, and could engage in any industry according to his or her own interests, or it didn't matter if he didn't work at all.
The black box manufacturing machine was a product of that era to ensure that humans could easily and quickly obtain products in any environment. As long as interstellar colonists have a black box, they can quickly establish a suitable home on a new desolate planet.
It is precisely by relying on black boxes that mankind in the golden age could spread its footprints throughout the universe and maintain a fairly similar technological level in every world. In today's era, the empire's technology is completely different from that of the golden age.
Scientific research relies on archeology, this statement is no joke.
A subject that cannot be solved even after a hundred years of research in the forging world. Maybe one day you discover an ancient ruins and get a few tips from it to solve the problem.
In fact, many of the various technologies now widely used in the empire were restored through archeology, and their levels are less than one percent of those in the golden age. The precious Titan armor may have been just some kind of vehicle driven by lumberjacks in the Golden Age.
And things like black box manufacturing machines are the top priority of archaeological... er, I mean scientific research work.
This thing can directly produce finished products and has extremely high research value.
Although the three black boxes suspected of being in Governor Gu's hands are all products that have long since become commonplace in the empire, they have little value in themselves. After all, what normal world can't produce rifles, alloy plastic steel, and grindstone engines?
However, the most valuable thing is the black box itself.
The output product is not that important, but the technology from the golden age contained in the black box itself is enough to drive the Mechanicum crazy.
……
Gu Hang listened carefully as Wu Jiarong introduced the situation to him.
Some he knew from rummaging through his memory, and some he didn't.
These messages are important, but not that important.
According to Wu Jiarong, he basically gave up the idea of selling black box manufacturing machines. In fact, it's not that it can't be sold at all. It takes a lot of effort for people to grab it. If you can buy it for a little money, it might be more labor-saving.
However, Gu Hang would not sell it.
It's too dangerous.
Compared to the Mechanicus, which was extremely powerful throughout the entire empire, his little governor was nothing.
What's even more dangerous is that if he sells a few units, won't the Mechanicus keep an eye on him? Looking to get more? Or want to know how he obtained the precious black box?
As for the unimportant point, it is that the Raging Owl is too remote and inconspicuous. It is difficult for what happened here to reach the ears of the Mechanicus.
Currently, the only interstellar communication on the entire Raging Owl is with the Quintet. If the news is not leaked to heaven, this matter will be ignored.
What's more, it's impossible for Gu Hang to abandon the good and the bad, and not use the black box in his hand.
He had been careful before, but it was inevitable that some of it would be exposed, and there was nothing he could do about it as long as he used it.
In the future, he will be more careful.
At the same time, he also needs someone to help him.
Gu Hang looked at Wu Jiarong with expectation.
(End of chapter)