Ming Dynasty, New Rome, and Infinite Divine Machine

"I want to cut a round-neck robe for you. I just want to ask if you have a pattern or style that you particularly like, as well as any special requirements. In addition to the formal attire, I can also add a few other pieces for you, depending on your own requirements. ."

"Ah!" Shangluo suddenly thought, "Um, can you customize a school uniform like that for me? It's the kind of sportswear with a zipper. That one is more comfortable to wear."

Chapter 637 Tailoring

Shangluo hand-painted the clothes he wanted for his old master.

The old master looked at it.

The old master took off his glasses and looked carefully.

After that, the old master moved his eyes to Shangluo's head: "This is"

He pondered for a while before asking the question: "What is the shape of this dress? Can you tell me."

"Shape?"

"Look." The old master took off his glasses and pointed at the cuffs with his temples. "The cuffs are too narrow. This is the shape of narrow clothes. But the shoulders, waist and other parts of narrow clothes are cut, which is not the case at all. The collar looks like a The lapels, but the volume is too large. It feels like someone is too lazy to find a tailor, so they just make a bunch of clothes that are not too big or too small. They don’t care about the shape or shape, just put them on intuitively and it’s done - so this is ready-made clothing, right?"

"Ah, I almost forgot. There aren't many ready-to-wear clothes here."

Ready-made clothing, Shangluo has almost forgotten this word. Because ready-made clothes are relative to customization, the applicable situation of this word is: some clothes on the market can be customized, and some clothes are made in advance and put on the shelves. "I" want to choose among them - only at this time, will Take out the word ready-to-wear. There is no need to mention the word customization, because when it comes to buying clothes, it is almost inevitable to go to a tailor to have them made.

But at that time in Shangluo, there was almost no place for customized clothes on the market, because ready-made clothes already covered all categories from top to bottom. At this time, there is no need to say the word ready-to-wear. Just like when meat is mentioned in a dish, it usually refers to pork. Beef and mutton need to be mentioned separately.

"I would like to ask first, what is the current relationship between 'ready-made clothing' and 'tailoring' here?"

Professor Wu, as a senior master, paused.

"Your question really tested me."

"Huh? No, no, I'm just asking."

"You can ask whatever you want, but I can't answer casually. The relationship between ready-made clothing and tailoring can be discussed in detail from the perspective of the balance between production efficiency and quality, supply chain management, culture and fashion, etc. So, I I feel like I have to pick a specific aspect to ask."

"price?"

"The price is very clear. The answer is almost the same. But the price of ready-made garments is not stable because there are too few practitioners at all levels from top to bottom, and consumers' awareness of ready-made garments is not high. Although both sides are in various There is a wide range of consumer products to choose from at all levels of consumption, and the most widely used areas for ready-to-wear are school uniforms and various work clothes."

"Our school uniform?"

"Your school is"

"He is from the Wutai Mountain Training Center." Zhu Xianwen answered for him.

"That's not true. Your school's uniforms are all custom-made and tailor-made. After all, it is a health school, and the money to buy your clothes comes from the school." After saying that, he thought for a while, "It stands to reason that students should wear formal clothes. It's a t-shirt, and the t-shirts are the same from the Imperial College to the county school, and the fabrics are similar."

"By the way, I haven't worn it yet. What does a t-shirt look like?"

"According to the ancient system, the robe is a very particular literati attire. Modern times are not so particular. It is just a round-neck robe with a wider hem, and black edges on the cuffs, hem, collar, and inner and outer plackets. The narrow robe of the robe The version is a military coat, and the difference between the two sides is whether there is extra volume in the waist, sleeves, shoulders, etc. Everything else is pretty much the same."

After saying that, he looked at Shangluo: "I won't be here to help you prepare the sweatshirt. Anyway, your school also goes to the Weaving Bureau to find someone to make it, and it's the same. According to His Majesty's wishes, I will help you here first. Prepare a formal suit for going out. The shape is a round-neck robe, but you can change it if you have requirements."

"Well, I don't quite understand. Master, which one do you recommend?"

"I was the one who recommended the round-necked robe. Official uniforms all have round-necked robes. Do you know why?"

"nice?"

"No, because it's easy to wash."

"..." Shangluo blinked, "It's true. Easy washing is indeed very important. For people like me who don't have a laundry room at home, easy washing is more important."

"Because you probably only have this set of dresses, I recommend you to make a round-neck robe because it is easy to wash. In addition, it can be used in a wide range of situations, formal, less formal, very informal, as long as it is an occasion that requires a dress. Everyone can wear a crew-neck robe, it’s always right anyway.”

"After all, I dress like this." Zhu Xianfen replied, "I almost wear this outfit all year round. It's really practical. Anyway, there is nothing special about men's clothes. Since the Tang Dynasty, they have been wearing a round-neck robe. Although there are many different styles when broken down, for example, a blouse is also a round-neck robe. However, round-neck robes used as formal wear are generally solid colors with some hidden flowers."

As he spoke, he also gave instructions: "Go to the Weaving Bureau to pick up some good materials."

"So...what's the level?" the old master asked.

"If you see what's within the limits, give him the one I use - let's do this. The blue one I had last time was pretty good."

"Understood." The master nodded, "I'll go back and check the inventory to see if it's still there. This is because Her Royal Highness Princess Ningguo recently came to buy a batch for the consort, Marquis Yingchuan."

"Why does my aunt and I always pick the same batch of materials? My uncle is so fat, and he doesn't wear the same thing in everything he wears. Forget it, let's see if it's still there. If there's no blue, you can put on other colors. Look back and see what's there Contact me if you have inventory.”

"Okay." He wrote it down, "Then the rest is just measurement. Then this classmate, please stand where I am now."

"Put your hands down, don't raise them up." She muttered silently while measuring, "Stick it under the armpits. When measuring the fullest part of the chest, leave a finger gap."

She was chanting like a mantra while pulling in the measuring tape to measure her bust.

"Don't inhale, yes, let it out. Let me take a look. Tsk, there doesn't seem to be any meat."

"what?"

"Nothing. Next is the waistline. Don't inhale."

"Sister, you are measuring so slowly. If I don't inhale, am I going to die?"

"Please be patient when I measure you for the first time. I am studying arts and crafts, not tailoring. Okay, the waist measurement is this number and then the shoulder width. You turn around, otherwise I can't reach it. "

"Good guy." Shangluo just looked at the numbers on the board and memorized them more and more, "So it's so troublesome to cut a suit of clothes?"

"Originally, undressing doesn't need to be so troublesome," the master replied, "but if you don't measure it more accurately, you will easily have wrinkles even if you wear a belt, and you will look lethargic. Okay, that's it."

After taking a look at the measured size, he glanced at Shangluo himself.

Chapter 638 Power Supply

"Okay, there is no problem with the measurement. The important thing is that you have to know why you need to measure these sizes and which cutting parts of the clothes these sizes should correspond to." After explaining, he left. However, he will have to wait until next week to reply as to what colors are available.

“It’s quite troublesome to cut clothes.”

"That's right." Zhu Xianfen and him were the only ones left in the room. "Zhu Ling has to cut clothes half a year in advance. Although she doesn't like to wear jewelry, she has some small things like hairpins, which have to be cut half a year in advance. Go do it. Sometimes I almost forget that only custom-made items can be delivered. Oh, by the way, it’s not just about clothes. The old businessman won’t be back for the New Year, do you have any other commitments for the New Year’s Eve dinner?”

"No."

"Then come and eat at my place."

"Ah, this is your family banquet, senior brother. Isn't it good for me to go?"

"It's okay, it's just because of the family dinner, so it's more lively when there are more people. There's no one else, just my grandma, my mother, Zhu Ling, my aunt and uncle, and a few cousins ​​- maybe my cousin will come too. Because he keeps saying he wants to see you."

"Why are you meeting me?"

"Because you are his idol. He also went to the car race that day. In the next room, he thought you were too handsome and wanted to meet you. He called me five times a day in the past two days to ask if you were coming. Tsk , I think you are about to have your own fan club like Yan Qiu. That is to say, the extraordinary world has not come out from behind the curtain, otherwise there will be more people who like you."

"Ah, this, but I seem to feel that my personal efforts are not enough, and it always feels inappropriate."

"Don't worry about it. There is no reason for people to like you. Sometimes it may be because you are a heavenly being. You can see some subtle differences at a glance without meeting. As for whether you are worthy or not, that is another matter. , it depends on your own cultivation. Sometimes I also feel that I am qualified as the emperor. Later I realized that it is not important, what is important is whether I tried my best - because I cannot resign from this position. "

As he said that, he looked out the window: "Dali Temple has issued a final opinion on the last murder case, and I have approved it."

"what's the result?"

"Execution pending in prison." Zhu Xianfen replied, "The death penalty is suspended for one year. If there is no change in the case after one year, the execution will be carried out. The main reason is that this is basically how we execute all death sentences at present. Because the 'Zhan Li Jue' is reserved for some heinous crimes that have rebelled against Tiangang. The imperial court has not signed a 'Zhan Li Jue' for a long time, and ordinary death row prisoners are usually in prison. But..."

He added: "This sentence of sentence to imprisonment is not only due to conventional considerations, but also considering that the eighteen levels of hell are being built. It is too cheap to kill him now, and he may be able to live again soon. . You have to be thrown into the 18th level of hell to be punished - I feel like the process of history has sped up since you came. We are getting closer to the avenue step by step, and the avenue is also getting closer to us step by step. But..."

He turned back and asked: "It's like measuring the size just now. The tailor needs to measure it on the spot to understand the role of each step of clothing cutting. I also want to ask here - after your experiment is over, What will the 'Zhongguo' technology deployed in combination with Taoism be like? I heard Qi Qianhu say, you mentioned the rice cooker? Is there an overall impression? Or overall characteristics. For example, it is related to current household equipment, or What’s the difference between magic weapons?”

"Ah," Shangluo pondered for a moment, "There are differences, and a very typical one: compared to magical instruments like Fetion, all the technologies I want to deploy may need to be plugged in, connected to a power source, like plugging in an electric cord. But compared to home appliances, these will all be smart. For example, in the future, one of the King's Heavenly Soldiers may be connected to a wire that reaches the sky, and at the other end of the wire there will be a weapon that can launch attacks from above. For example..."

He looked at the table and said, "There will probably be a small rice cooker that can be placed on the table, but it can cook a large table of dishes at a time, and it can take out food continuously. But it also needs to be plugged in."

"What if it's a flying sword?"

"It's the same as wire-guided torpedoes. But this is actually not only a technical limitation, but also a constraint. I heard Apollonia say that Rome is used to using buttons to control magic. Here we can use wires - both The difference is that the button is a mechanism that makes magic understandable. The wire allows the 'depth' of Taoism to be controlled. Similarly, the Roman side uses clockwork to constrain the action of the perpetual motion machine itself. "

"It makes sense, so to speak, like a puppet on a string?"

"Yes. It doesn't have to be a black cable - sometimes, a slender copper wire is enough. The king's heavenly soldiers don't need to go deep into dangerous situations, they only need to launch unmanned strike groups in safe areas to complete the battle .Compared to Rome, our technology is more suitable for making 'magical instruments'. Also different from the past Qi cultivation, the new system will use magical instruments as representatives. These magical instruments will have miraculous functions. But they all need to be powered by wires or other power sources.”

"In other words, it may not necessarily be a wire, but it could also be a battery?"

"Or a spiritual stone or something like that." Shangluo replied, "In short, you must not stuff a perpetual motion machine into it. Otherwise, the infinite energy and our current infinite intelligence will create things that cannot be contained at all. Infinite intelligence and infinite One of the driving forces must be removed. Just like the previous TVs, although the content of the picture is decided by the Doudou, the light still needs to be plugged in. "

"Very good." Zhu Xianxen applauded, "A very thoughtful arrangement. Are you going to experiment at home or somewhere?"

"The court wants to reimburse me for the electricity bill?"

"Huh?" Zhu Xianxen was stunned for a moment, "Are you thinking about this? Yes, yes, the electricity bill can be reimbursed to you. But what I think is that your home circuit may be burned, because the current household circuits I didn’t consider the use of high-power electrical appliances when I pulled the wires.”

"Senior brother, do you mean to provide me with a place?"

"No. If you don't mind, you can use the Vulcan core, which can provide unlimited power. I found the key."

"Good guy! So we can find it!"

"I also discovered it suddenly in the warehouse. In short, although unlimited intelligence and unlimited energy may cause problems, both ends are in your hands. Just like the neutral line and the live line of an electric wire, you don't have to leave it alone. Just take it up with Zero Right Fire."

Chapter 639 Key

"Take it." The ordinary key is exactly the same as the small key on the market for winding up gadgets such as the tin frog, the tin car, and the tin Monkey King.

"That's it? Is this the key to Vulcan's core?"

"Yes, that's it. So I lost it and couldn't find it at all. It looked too ordinary."

Shangluo took the key and looked inside the keyhole.

"It's weird. It's flat inside? There are only two slopes that catch the tongue and groove? Then can you just match one?"

"I have tried it a long time ago. I have put the exact same key in it to turn the clockwork. But the Romans are very evil. It is obviously the same key, but it does not move at all when inserted. Obviously there is something hidden in the key. There are many sects. They are different from what they are on the outside, and they are called evil sects here."

[Ah, the principle of this thing does seem a bit evil. 】

"What do you say?" Shangluo asked.

[This involves one point - the power demons of Taoism all have a source of creation such as heaven and earth. Regardless of right and wrong, good and evil, these forces can all be traced back to Tao. But the principle of this key is the 'Law of Contact' which has no origin. Its principle is that the key and the lock cylinder themselves are homologous objects. The magic discovers the connection and maintains the key and the lock cylinder even after they are separated. This power does not come from Tao, but from the object itself. If you want to follow what is said here.]

Apollonia thought for a while: [This is like making the door a talking, conscious door for the purpose of guarding the door. I know the court doesn't like this. If the court wanted to do this, it would probably find a noble person from Tianyi to work, or maybe find a group of people to work in shifts. Just like the mountain gods and the land all work in their own places. Roman enlightens you casually, and it becomes a spirit. 】

"Good guy" Shangluo looked at the key in his hand. From a mystical perspective, this seemingly ordinary key has entered the supernatural world after being cast.

He conveyed it to Zhu Xianxian immediately.

"I said, Miss Apollonia, what does your Muse Palace think about this? I remember that your views on technological ethics are also relatively conservative."

[This is already very conservative, Your Majesty. ] Apollonia sent a message, [The key itself is the last line of defense. Because the thing that will really explode is the Vulcan core itself. Compared with the Vulcan core, this key to becoming a spirit is already very conservative. 】

"Okay. Why do you do this?"

【Because I don’t want to die. No one wants to die. This reason should have been conveyed to you on many occasions. The Romans were eager to introduce supernatural powers, hoping that at least one of them would lead everyone to immortality - there was no logic in this. However, this is just like alchemists who can't wait to use gold to make gold. They feel that the immortality of gold can eventually be transformed into the immortality of humans.

[Even in modern times, their pursuits have not changed. But after countless attempts at immortal gold failed, Rome's technological focus shifted from the pursuit of 'immortality' to the pursuit of 'infinity'. Vulkan Core is one of the results. But to be honest, the original intention of this technology is actually no different from refining gold. It just wants to transform the infinity of things into the infinity of people. so. 】

She paused. "The Vulcan Core is an attempt at 'infinity.' The Romans experimented with many forms of infinity, including the wireless nesting doll universe in a nutshell they're currently using. Maintaining the infinity of consciousness at such a small scale is indeed easier to achieve. The Vulcan Core is more ambitious, an attempt to shake reality with a perpetual motion machine."

"What would it be like in an ideal situation?" Zhu Xianxun asked.

[In an ideal situation, a Roman warship equipped with a perpetual motion machine would use unlimited power to cruise on the sea while discharging ice cubes. Shangluo should know. 】

"Ah, I remember you were talking about automata?"

[Yes, the relationship between these two concepts is this - the automaton is a vision of 'practical perpetual motion machine'. Because the concept of perpetual motion itself is too big, its corresponding concept is 'prime mover'. Prime movers generally refer to all machines that use energy to generate source power, and perpetual motion machines, on the contrary, generally refer to all machines that can generate source power without using energy. 】

Zhu Xianxian nodded: "So the automaton you are talking about specifically corresponds to concepts such as car engines and ship engines. But where is the bottleneck of this technology?"

[Our vision is to use unconditional perpetual motion machines of the first kind. However, due to limited conditions, we can only use the second type of perpetual motion machine. I said before that when using the second type of perpetual motion machine, you need to move forward while discharging ice cubes. Because its principle is to infinitely absorb energy from a single external heat source in a state of reverse entropy, which will cause the temperature to drop sharply, requiring a thermal insulator to maintain the operation of the machine itself. Because water is a free thermal insulator, there is as much water as you need in the sea. as well as.】

She paused for a moment: [What I want to say now is a secret. You two, the most important technology of Vulcan's core is to maintain the anti-entropy state. Only in the reverse entropy state can the machine operate in the second type of perpetual motion machine. But do you know how to maintain a state of reverse entropy? 】

The two looked at each other and shook their heads.

[The answer is, life. Life is counter-entropic. All things in nature tend to change from order to disorder, and all tend to increase in entropy. Only life will spontaneously resist the increase in entropy and create a state of counter-entropy. Human beings and even human society operate on this basis. There are some beings with powerful potential sealed in Vulcan's core. They live there and they are fighting against the increase of entropy, so the anti-entropy state is realized. 】

"Good guy" Zhu Xianfen couldn't help it anymore, "This is so evil!"

[Even from a Roman perspective, this was very evil. Because the Vulcan core acts as a perpetual motion machine, although it does not consume any energy, it does consume the potential of life contained in it. 】

"Tsk." Zhu Xianfen pressed his forehead, "I can't even judge whether this is reasonable from an ethical point of view. Because there is no life that exists in front of you, it just might exist, right?"

[His Majesty the Emperor of Japan’s summary is very insightful. 】