Ming Dynasty, New Rome, and Infinite Divine Machine

"You don't expect everyone to cultivate immortality by relying on their talents." Qi Yuan replied, "If you expect everyone to cultivate immortality, it will be fatal. Immortal cultivation can kill people. If you don't work hard to cultivate immortality, you will be far away. If you are left behind, those who cannot cultivate immortality will become like ants. For example, in our previous competition, whether or not immortality was introduced was completely two tracks, but the two tracks had to compete on the same podium. . If nothing unexpected happens, the side without magic will probably have no chance at all. In other words."

She thought for a while: "Perhaps the road you opened can prepare the cornerstone for everyone to lead to the future. Just like the eight-part essay."

"Eight-part essay? Why?"

"The so-called eight-part essay refers to objective questions." She looked at Shangluo, "Look at our current exams, even the subjective questions actually have scoring points. Except for the composition, it is difficult to give specific scoring points for each point. In addition, for other things such as reading comprehension, the grader will give points based on the score. Needless to say, it goes without saying for completely objective questions, it just depends on the options. Mathematics questions are even more: if you can, you can, and if you can’t, you can’t. But this isn’t the norm for imperial examinations, is it?”

"Well, our imperial examination was only reformed in modern times, right?"

"Yes. Even when the imperial dynasty was established, even if there was stereotyped writing, stereotyped writing only gave the gentlemen who marked the papers a way to evaluate the articles. In fact, there was still no specific score. They just combined the papers of the same issue. Put them together and compare them in order. The current art examination is still marked in this way."

"Eh? How do they grade the papers?"

"Usually it's like this - there are subdivided categories. If the perfect score is 100, the teacher will first give a rough score and subdivide it according to the assembly line. For example, if you imagine there is an assembly line in front of you, and the papers are lined up on the assembly line. The one ranked first The teacher will first give a rough grade to check whether your paper meets the passing standards and whether it is necessary for many teachers to spend time to grade it. Then, after entering the 60-point grade, 70-grade grade, 80-grade grade, etc. 80 The points will be more detailed as you go up, with 5 points or two or three points in a grade, and then each teacher will only evaluate within a few points of his own grade, and classify them into A, B, C and D.”

Chapter 624 Wei Ya

"Ah, is this fair?"

"Yes, look at the three people in front of them. They were busy with such an art test before. Of course it's over now - to be honest, it was quite stressful. Because they are the few who need to directly face the invigilator. The psychological pressure of the 'direct appreciation' test is comparable to writing eight-part essays. But even eight-part essays have only been developed since this dynasty. Going forward, there were also those who wrote poems, songs, and poems, and those who wrote articles directly on a large piece of white paper. , it’s all settled in a few articles. This kind of thing will only trouble the emperor himself now.”

"You mean, the imperial examination?"

"Yes, now only the palace examination will be graded like this. Anyway, if you enter the palace examination, you will be a Jinshi, it's just a matter of ranking. In the end, the number one scholar is usually chosen by the emperor himself - how do you ask the emperor to comment on it? The emperor is not doing it In literature, he doesn’t even have a degree in political science. He can only start from his own experience and see who among the few who finally entered the palace examination has a affinity with him. In fact, his pressure is not that great, because the top two The treatment is the same, he just has to personally order a few ceremonial top picks, top picks, and second picks. But here."

Qi Yuan looked at him: "You seem to have turned the Chinese language test into mathematics. If it works, it works, if it doesn't work, it doesn't work. One carrot and one pit, you can build up your strength step by step. Maybe you can also conduct targeted research in the future. Each slot is equipped with the most suitable Tianyi nobles, etc. In the end, only the cultivation of Tianyi nobles itself needs to be considered. This is actually very good. For example, I really want it."

"You are not the first to say this"

"I personally think that I am indeed the person who needs this function the most. Children of monks generally cannot cultivate immortality. You see, although my father is an alchemy cultivator, I have not been able to meet the standards of a Qi practitioner until now. I just I can make do with the Fetion card. If I can get these extra aids, then I will be the first to benefit. And those like me who are stuck on the edge of the realm and cannot break through. And Lu Liang, Lu Liang and I I’m not very familiar with it, but she must really want this too, right?”

"Yeah" Shangluo nodded, "Actually, if I don't say anything else, I will just assemble the three hearts and six lungs that I am already using directly on Lu Liang. She will become a Qi practitioner immediately, and maybe she can become a Qi practitioner. The best among the morale. But there is only one thing I am not sure about right now, and I also want to ask your opinion."

"Ask me?" Qi Yuan did not evade, "Ask. I know you are just collecting opinions, and I will try my best to give valuable opinions. Moreover, I will also explain the reasons."

"Okay. So what I want to ask is - this path is physical cultivation. And if physical cultivation can't actually lead to immortality, what will you do? I'm worried that if many people waste too much energy on physical cultivation , and eventually lead to deviation from the Dao, then I am a sinner who uses heretics to bewitch immortal cultivators."

"Ah, this." Qi Yuan looked at him, "Then how come you are so sure that practicing qi is the right path? Even if you are the Taoist, the Taoist has not ascended to the level yet, and who can say that the leveling is right? .In the final analysis, living is better than anything else. If physical cultivation can allow a person who could live for 120 years to live for 240 years, that is better than anything else. What's more, as long as you become a heavenly being, the opportunities for trial and error can be said to be unlimited. Well, because as long as the Taoist heart is not broken, you won’t die, right? So.”

She shook her head: "Don't worry. At least as far as I'm concerned, even if the path of physical cultivation you pointed out is wrong, I won't blame you. I'm not a Qi practitioner yet, and I can't figure out the path of alchemy cultivation at all. on the edge. If you can let me see the flow of breath, give me the ability to activate the alchemy furnace, and let me enter this door, then I will definitely thank you. Really, even a knot of grass and a ring is not enough to repay you. .Because you have become my reborn parents."

"There is no need to be a parent again. Then since you are willing, I will add you to the closed beta list."

"Closed beta, list? What is it?"

"Closed test. After I verify the safety, I will select people from the closed test list to start testing as soon as possible. But it is not a free test. After accepting the plan, you have to work for the Lei Department. If I ask you to help , you can’t refuse.”

"Definitely! Definitely!" Qi Yuan's eyes began to shine, "Then it's settled! You must include me in the closed beta! You must never forget me!"

"Okay, I'll definitely remember that. I'll ask Xiao Han later if he's willing to join the closed beta test. After all, it seems like you all have been stuck at this level for a while. Although Xiao Han is a Xuan cultivator, his level doesn't seem to be very high either. Is there anything else you want to tell me?"

"Yes, yes, yes. At lunchtime, please tell my dad: I want to eat liver! Be sure to tell him, I want to eat liver! Remember to pack some liver for me!"

Xiamafang, subway station. Although there was no appointment, Shangluo knew that he would definitely see Wen Yuan here.

"Hey, Wen Yuan, you come too."

"Liver." He interrupted and looked at Shangluo, "I'm telling you, remember to aim for the liver as soon as the food is served. I see that you are quick, so if you can grab it, grab a plate for me."

"Why do you all want to eat liver? What kind of liver? Dragon liver and phoenix liver? If you don't know, you'd think it's a peach convention."

"Absolutely." Wen Yuan lowered his voice, "It seems you don't know what you want to eat, right? That's good food~~"

"Can you practice?"

"That's not the case, it's just delicious. Working for the imperial court is nothing all year round, but you can get a lot of tributes. Although this tribute is not particularly precious, you can't always get it at the Jinling Hotel. Those who eat at this level are tributes after all. Ah, I saw it, I saw it! Did you see that dining car?"

From a distance, Shangluo saw a truck. The truck's bed contained a huge clod of soil, as big as an elephant. The clods of earth were covered with cracks, signs of being burned in the fire. In the distance, you can smell the fragrance of lotus leaves. That thing looks like

"Looks like this year it's the beggar chicken's way."

"Beggar's chicken? Is that a whole beggar's chicken?"

"Yes, they are all eaten whole. That's the whole thing."

"Why is a chicken so big? A beggar dinosaur? Do we eat dinosaurs?"

"It's about the same as a dinosaur. It's the Madagascar elephant bird that the country pays tribute to. It's three meters tall. It's about the same as an elephant. It weighs 500 to 800 kilograms. It's only eaten once a year. The emperor is thinking that if the welfare is extended, not everyone will be able to get it. Let's just have a meal. This elephant bird is a tribute, so let's have a meal together. Last year I remember eating hot pot. This year, will it be roasted whole? The liver will be more delicious. Let me tell you, the elephant bird is the best What you eat is liver. It is tender, delicious, and huge. It is the quality of tribute. Haha, go to Jinling Hotel for a meal. At least this amount, and you have to book it six months in advance. Ha, I feel that my morale is rising. Next year It’s another year of loyalty to the country.”

Chapter 625 Dining Room

Purple Mountain Grand Palace, Jinshen Hall.

This is the new Jinshen Hall. Different from the Forbidden City inside the city wall, the New Jinshen Hall is air-conditioned and allows for gatherings.

Shangluo stood in the freight elevator and followed the "Beggar Dinosaur" up to the second floor. He also held a handle beside him while pushing the cart. The corridor was filled with the aroma of lotus leaves and roasted chicken. More than a thousand kilograms of elephant birds weighed on the cart, causing the wheels to click on every joint of the floor tiles.

There were already many people waiting in the dining room at the front, and there were people looking out from the door.

"Come on, come on!" Jin Yiwei turned around and shouted, then came out and opened the dining room door. The sound of the wheels getting closer and closer, and people inside started clapping.

A small mountain of elephant birds entered the door. Because it has been wrapped in "bricks", the meat is still piping hot. There is also a fire under the trolley, which keeps the whole plate of "chicken" as hot as when it comes out of the oven.

"Oh!!!" Seeing such a big mountain of meat entering the door, everyone inside began to celebrate in advance.

The first one to go in was Lu Huaiyang. He had just brought Shangluo here, and now he was also taking them in from the front. This time he also took the chicken over.

"Qi Qianhu? Where is he?" He asked an acquaintance because the organizer of Wei Ya had not arrived yet this time. The Jinyiwei all worked directly for the emperor, and it was the emperor himself who invited them to eat their tail teeth.

"I don't believe it, just wait."

"The chicken is here. If you don't eat it, it will be cold."

Compared to the emperor, this chicken is obviously more important. Because the emperor is here every day, this chicken is only here today and will be gone after today.

"Wait, wait, wait." Qi Qianhu waved his hand, "He said he would come in a while. If he doesn't come, there will be a letter. Where is the Shangluo man? You go and do your work. Just leave him to my care."

"Here." Shangluo, who was following the cart, waved in response. The chicken was too big and blocked him.

Shangluo came out from behind the car: "Qi Qianhu, Qi Yuan told me this morning that he asked you to pack some liver for her and take her back?"

"I've packed it for her. Tsk, if she was really good at refining the elixir, she would come directly to the site to eat it today. Why would she have to pack it up for her to take back?"

"Have you brought it?" Shangluo thought about it for a moment. He remembered that before entering, Wen Yuan told him that he had to fight to eat the chicken. How come it can be packed in advance here?

Seemingly sensing his doubts, Qi Qianhu lowered his voice and said, "Where do you think this chicken was roasted? Of course it is the alchemy room. We are the first to get the moon near the water."

"Good guy" Shangluo also lowered his voice, "Isn't it possible that other people don't know?"

Watching the car drive away, Qi Qianhu continued: "How could they know? Besides, the internal organs of a roasted chicken must be removed first, otherwise how can we fill it with stuffing. The heat for frying the liver is also different from that of the whole chicken. We just Pack some in advance to eat."

"Oh, I understand." Shangluo looked around - the dining room was quite large.

This area is located within the base of the three main halls. The new three main halls were built in modern times, so reinforced concrete is used here. Several pillars run through the center of the dining room, connecting to the pillars of the three main halls. Although they appear to be made of wood, the pillars of the three main halls above are also cast in concrete. The roof is a steel beam frame, with only the tiles still glazed.

At this time, there were many royal guards standing in the dining room. Everything you can usually see and can't see is here. Shangluo has met many of them, because he often walks back and forth in the neighborhood and can meet the Jin Yiwei who are standing guard in various places.

"So there are so many Jinyiwei?"

"Not all Jin Yiwei are Qi practitioners." Qi Qianhu replied, "Although our main purpose is to recruit Qi warriors, as long as they meet the standards of the task, even if the cultivation level is a little behind, or there is no cultivation level, etc. , all of which are accessible.”

"What about Qi Yuan?"

"She could have entered, but she probably thinks that alchemy can't save her, so she has no interest in our profession. Tsk, tsk, tsk." He shook his head, "You are her classmate, and you should know that she wants to win. . She doesn’t want to hang around here as a half-hearted Danxiu, she wants to go to a place where she can make her own decisions.”

[The relationship between father and daughter is really complicated. This person seems to understand his daughter very well, but he also knows that it may be difficult to point out a suitable path for her based on his own abilities. 】

"That's true. After all, cultivating immortality is ultimately your own business. And our squad leader doesn't seem to be an ordinary person. She is probably not willing to be protected by her father. Although working under her father is always a way out, but She shouldn’t be satisfied with just this step.”

He is one of the many "busy people" Shangluo sees. They are really busy, and they seem to feel uncomfortable after just one day off.

[You guys seem to be quite energetic]

"After all, this is what this era is like. The building of science has not been completely obscured by those two dark clouds, and new challenges and new opportunities are arising every day. Well, I hope this kind of vitality can continue in the future."

Shangluo knows that there is another very important reason why the current "atmosphere" can be maintained - it is that the world is invincible. Many people don't even realize the existence of the word "Da Ming" because there is no "outside" in the world. Since there is no outside, there is no need to always mention who "I" am.

In other words, although this was indeed the "Ming Dynasty", the concept of the "Ming Kingdom" was not born. The modern international relations that Shangluo knew were mutually equal and born out of the Westphalian system did not exist here. There were only royal territories directly under the emperor's jurisdiction, as well as vassal screens that guarded the royal territories, as well as marquis robes, The "five servers" such as the guest server and the desert server were arranged in an orderly manner and the various tributary countries were seated.

It turns out that there is another Rome on the other side of the world - whether Rome counts as the world is something that both sides have put aside. I think that in a country, both sides are so big that there is no need to cause trouble for each other.

But he didn't know if such an order could be maintained, because Rome could no longer hold on.

In the spirit of preferring to give to its friends rather than domestic slaves, Rome planned to hand over its inheritance to the Ming Dynasty, which was also a civilized country, rather than to other tributary countries within its own sphere of influence. This can indeed be exchanged for a decent funeral, allowing Rome to be buried in splendor.

At the same time, the court had to accept this inheritance. Because the imperial court cannot allow barbarians to jump left and right on the border without restraint, it will cause disaster sooner or later.

Chapter 626 Screening

Shangluo is not the only one who thinks so.

Qi Qianhu looked at the lively people in the room: "I don't know if we will have time to eat our teeth here next year. Once the situation changes, we may be the first batch of people to get busy. We may have to Traveling to all over the world to do all kinds of urgent things. By next year, I’m afraid not even half of the people will be able to find time to eat here.”

"We can meet online!"

"Online?" Qi Qianhu was stunned for a moment, "Using Zhongguo's technology? That's fine."

He pondered: "However, I haven't experienced what it would be like to use online meetings to replace face-to-face communication. If you can only chat with text or voice, it seems too thin."

"It's definitely not that simple. When the time comes, we can create a virtual room of the same size."

"Can we still eat chicken?"

"Uh" Shangluo thought for a moment - given the current technological prospects, it may be a bit difficult to eat chicken.

Shangluo's planned route is that since everyone thinks "Zhongguo technology" is good, they will reproduce it first.

In fact, Shangluo has been observing Ming's technical level for so long - in the field of cutting-edge technology, even without relying on spiritual energy technology, Ming's technical level has reached the level of the Cold War period. It just seems a bit outrageous in certain areas.

The typical example is Ninghehao. In terms of technical level, or in terms of "technical indicators", the Ninghe has indeed reached the indicators of those monster aircraft during the Cold War. However, the Ninghe cannot actually be driven by ordinary people. Ordinary people will be confused just by riding on it, let alone driving the machine.

The existence of Qi Practitioners allows many fantastic monster machines to operate normally, making Ming's strengths and weaknesses very distinctive. Daming's strengths are materials and engineering, and the machines here are as exquisite as works of art. Because of the existence of Qi practitioners, the development of these technologies has routes to follow and is easy to follow.

But it is precisely because of the existence of Qi practitioners that the development of "automatic technology" seems less necessary. After all, autonomous technology replaces humans. It is indeed very simple to replace a mortal, but there is no way for a Qi Practitioner to replace him. If Ninghe had a serious flight control system, it would probably need a computer that could reach the level of the 20s and s to support it. But now there is no need for such a flight control at all, a Qi practitioner can replace it.

Based on the Ming Dynasty's current automatic technology, it is probably difficult to see where the goal of "replacing Qi practitioners" is, and it is impossible to see it at all. Qi practitioners are too strong and cannot be replaced as easily as ordinary people.

But for Shangluo, this is not a big problem. Because except for automation, other technologies in Daming are all online. As for automation itself, it can actually be solved by Tianyi Guiren.

Although there is a problem of computing power, Tianyi Guiren himself cannot easily increase the number to make parallel decisions. However, Tianyi Nobleman can speed up, allowing a single Tianyi Nobleman to decide on a single problem faster - the so-called computing power is the ability to solve computing problems within unit time. Although Tianyi Guiren cannot improve his computing power, he can improve his ability to "manage time". This rounding is equivalent to computing power.

Based on this, Shangluo is very confident that everyone will have access to the Internet next year. At least everyone who eats here can surf the Internet.

But if you want to eat online, you still have to do something else - let people's consciousness sneak into the Internet. This is what can only be done here.

"I'll try my best. I haven't completed the evaluation of the Pure Land technology, which may require further participation from Rome. However, if there is only the Internet, then it will be no problem for everyone to meet in the virtual space today next year - eh, right Okay, how about I demonstrate it now? In fact, after I knew I was coming for dinner, I also brought a small thing."

"Oh? Let's give it a try? Do you want them to prepare?"

"No. Is there a projection screen for the slides?"

"It's over there in the corner. Do you want to play music or videos?"

"I'm going to put on a TV show."

At one side of the dining area, the curtain dropped, drawing the attention of many people. Shangluo pulled a submachine gun from his bag and pointed it at the curtain.

"Which channel are you watching?" Shangluo asked Captain Qi beside him.

"Which station? Since it's time to eat, how about listening to music?"

【Okay, I'll find a music station.】

Soon, a picture appeared on the curtain. A simple silhouette appeared on the curtain. He stroked his beard, pointed outside the curtain with his hands on his hips and started singing: "A flag with a dog's wings, a flag with a snake wrapped around a gourd. The fork is painted red, the ax is armored with silver, the melon is plated with bitter melon, and the gold is plated." "

"Good guy! Change the channel!" Shangluo quickly asked Apollonia to change the channel.

[Why, what’s wrong with this word? 】

"Look at who would feel scolded. A dog with two wings, a snake wrapped around a gourd, and a red-crossed pumpkin. This is Jin Yiwei's daily business!"

[Hey, why are you so difficult to serve? Change, change. 】

The screen changed again. The little man looks into the distance like a monkey. This is Sun Wukong's play.

"This."