"Create new magic to improve people's living standards?" In the council hall of the Sanctuary in the Holy Kingdom, the Goddess of Ocean, who had the highest attainment in magic among all the gods, pondered for a moment and nodded with a smile. "This is a good idea. Improving the living standards of believers is conducive to consolidating their faith and strengthening their power. When their power is strong, they can promote the expansion of their faith and embark on a virtuous cycle." Sui Xiong was stunned for a moment.
Sui Xiong was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that she would think in this direction, but on second thought, he felt relieved. Only when there was a goal would there be motivation, and only when there was profit would there be enthusiasm. If his ideas could benefit the people and his friends, wouldn't that be the best result?
"Yes," Sui Xiong said with a smile. He said with a smile, "So I think we can work together to sum up the problems in people's lives that can be solved with simple magic, and then invent targeted magic."
"I don't think this is a good idea." Yorgaardman, the God of Justice, who always dressed shabbily, shook his head and poured cold water on the idea. "Spellcasting is a very difficult thing, and it takes a lot of time and resources to train spellcasters. If we spend so many resources just to solve some problems that are not urgent, it will be a waste. "
"It's better than no solution," Manissy, the Goddess of Wealth said. "It's better to have a solution than to have no solution."
"This idea is too naive." Yorgaardman sighed. "Think about it. At present, the human resources of spellcasters are generally concentrated in the hands of three forces. The first force is naturally the religion, but all the gods are hostile to each other. Most of the spellcasting ability of the clergy is used for preaching, and the rest is used in meaningless conflicts. In fact, not many resources can be freed. "
Seeing everyone nodding slightly, he continued, "The second force is the nobles. Because spellcasters themselves need money, often only the nobles and merchant families can afford it. And after the merchants get the spellcasting ability, most of them will seek the status of nobles. Similarly, many spellcasters who are scholars and adventurers will also seek the status of nobles. For example, in the Commonwealth of Mifata, there are a large number of spellcasters, but as long as they reach the middle level, almost all of them have the status of nobles … So in the final analysis, the second force is the nobles. "
"The nobles don't care about the lives of the commoners. Although there are some upright and outstanding people like the late Baron Keane, most of the nobles stand against the commoners. It wasn't that there weren't any spells that could improve people's living standards in the past, and they had mastered many of them. However, when had they ever used these spells to benefit the common people? I've never even thought about it! "
The deities all felt a bit sad, sighing one after another.
"The last force is the adventurers. They are very strong, but they are in a state of disunity and lack even the most basic organization. They might be a powerful force when it came to destruction, but when it came to construction … they were not good enough. Putting everything else aside, how were they going to make those adventurers who pursued freedom settle down and work for ordinary civilians? Do you have any ideas? "
The gods thought for a while, looked at each other, and shook their heads.
Yorgaardman talked a lot in one breath. Finally, he picked up the glass and took a big gulp of wine. Then, he concluded his point of view. "In general, I think that magic that improves people's living standards will not improve people's living standards. Instead, it will become a tool for the nobles to enjoy themselves."
He spoke clearly and logically, and everyone could not help but fall into deep thought.
When it came to understanding mortal society, no one among the gods could compare with Yorgaardman. Not only did he come from the bottom of the mortal society, but he also always disguised himself as a mortal and walked everywhere on earth. He had seen too much of the joys and sorrows of mortals, the good and evil of the mortal world. The other gods present probably did not know as much about the human world as he did.
Since he thought that magic that improved people's living standards would only become a tool for the nobles to enjoy themselves, then things would probably develop in this way.
However, Sui Xiong was not reconciled to this.
He felt that magic was just like the technology on Earth. If it only served a small number of people, it would never have any vitality. If he wanted magic to usher in a great development and thus promote the progress of the whole society, he should let the power of magic serve the public and popularize magic to ordinary people.
However, Yorgaardman was right. Learning magic required talent and resources. They were like two high thresholds that mercilessly shut out the vast majority of ordinary people, making it impossible for them to enjoy the benefits of magic. Correspondingly, for those who had crossed these two thresholds, why should they condescend to serve ordinary people again?
How did this kind of problem be solved on Earth?
He thought hard and tried to find a solution.
On Earth, not to mention those backward areas, basically everyone in the more advanced and developed areas had to learn scientific knowledge. But in fact, for the vast majority of people, the things they learned were actually far from the real "frontiers of science". Take Sui Xiong himself as an example. He was a serious college student. He studied from childhood to university, and he had studied for 16 years. But the scientific knowledge he learned could only be said to be at the mainstream level of society. If he wanted to do scientific research … Just look at how many times he tried to make a blast furnace and still failed, he knew that he was far from it.
So, on Earth, how did people solve the problem of "not keeping up with the pace of science"?
The vast majority of people on Earth did not have the ability to transform science into productivity, but they could still enjoy the convenience brought by science without any obstacles. What was the key to this?
Sui Xiong frowned and thought hard.
On Earth, when technology first appeared, it seemed that it was also used by a few rich people and nobles as a tool for enjoyment, right? I remember in China there is an idiom called "strange what coincidences" to describe this …
I don't know about things in Europe, but everyone has two eyes, one mouth, one pair of arms, and two legs, so there should not be much difference in the way of doing things.
So, when on earth did technology begin to be transferred to civilian use in large quantities?
At this time, he regretted that he did not study history well back then.
If he were a straight-A student majoring in history, wouldn't this kind of thing be at his fingertips? Maybe whether it was technology or governing a country, anything would not be difficult for him!
Alas! Why did he have to be an artist? What was the use of art at this time? Even on Earth, the Renaissance also relied on the support of the merchant class!
Wait! Renaissance?! Merchants?!
A flash of inspiration flashed in Sui Xiong's mind. The sudden inspiration made him unable to help but feel grateful that he did not skip class to play games when he was studying art history.
(I remember now! The key to the popularization of technology was also the promotion of merchants, or capital! In class, I said that the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution were all manifestations of the destruction of the old feudal system when the capitalist society developed to a certain extent!
Oh my god! I really have to thank Professor Cheng, who looked a bit like Leslie Cheung. When he was teaching art history, he always liked to talk about other things. At that time, I only thought that his words were interesting. Now that I think about it, they were the crystallization of the painstaking efforts of the scholars of the past!
Unfortunately, this professor did not teach how to build a blast furnace …
He could not help but secretly smile, and he already had a plan in his mind.
"This matter, I really need your help, Manissy," he said. "Most of your followers are merchants, and merchants pursue profit. As long as you let them find new profit points, coupled with the promotion of your church, I think there is hope for this matter."
Manissy was stunned and looked at him doubtfully. "I know that merchants pursue profit, but why do you think that merchants can bear such a heavy responsibility? They have always been dependent on the aristocracy. Even if they become rich, they will only choose to become a new aristocrat. "
Saying this, she sighed. "In the Commonwealth of Gold Coins, wealth symbolizes status. But the rich will still spend a lot of money and time to seek aristocratic status for themselves. Wealth alone is not enough. "
"That is because aristocracy can bring privileges, and no matter how rich merchants are, wealth cannot bring enough power," Sui Xiong said with a smile. "This problem can be solved slowly. What we need to do now is to create some magic that can not only improve people's lives, but also bring sufficient profits to merchants."
He turned his head to look at everyone. "The learning threshold of this type of magic cannot be too high, otherwise it will be meaningless. The cost should not be too high, otherwise it will be difficult to make profits from the civilians. As for the rest, it is up to us to steer the ship. "
"Yes, there is no limit to the pursuit of profit by merchants, so we need to use laws to limit it." Brandon was the first to nod. "We also need to strengthen supervision to prevent the law from existing in name only."
"I think it is best to control this set of magic in the direction of good divine magic," Yorgaardman said. "Good clergymen are the most reliable force. If we control the magic in this direction, we can directly eliminate a lot of dangerous people and avoid a lot of potential trouble."
"Finally, and most importantly," Sui Xiong smiled and said confidently. Sui Xiong smiled and said confidently, "We need to strictly control the scope of use of these magic. We can not blindly promote it on a large scale, but we need to popularize it bit by bit."
"Why don't we start with the Republic of Northwest? There are no aristocratic forces here, so we can minimize interference."
At this time, he thought of many sages on Earth and some famous arguments. "In the future, if we have any new ideas, we might as well set aside a small area to practice. Let's call it … a special area."
The gods looked at each other and nodded.
So, the matter was settled.
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