St. Elvin City, downtown.
At the gate of the Holy White Women's College, a group of beautiful young girls wearing the same college uniform walked out of the school gate.
Their upper bodies were dressed in grass green form-fitting formal uniforms, and their lower bodies were light gray knee-length skirts. Under the skirts, pairs of slender and straight calves were wrapped in black, white, flesh-colored, purple … Exquisite stockings.
Now, with the rapid development of the Duchy's "oil industry", the production of nylon stockings had greatly increased. It was no longer as scarce as it was in the early years.
Women all over the world who loved beauty praised it. For example, "as thin as spider silk, as strong as steel wire, as beautiful as silk". Although the evaluation was exaggerated, it was not too out of the ordinary.
However, even if the logic of "it can keep people warm in winter and cool in summer" was a hard flaw, it could not stop their love for beauty regardless of spring, summer, autumn, and winter.
Beep!
Although the extended version of the school bus with a "gemstone emblem" logo and powered by an internal combustion engine at the school gate had already started, this group of girls rushed to the street opposite the school gate.
They squeezed their heads together and gathered in front of a coin-operated cigarette and perfume vending machine that could be seen everywhere in the Duchy.
After throwing a copper coin, a colorless fragrant mist sprayed out from the silver-plated nozzle.
"Front notes: tea leaves, mugwort, orange flowers. Middle notes: pepper, cardamom, moss. Back notes: hibiscus, rose, jasmine.
That's right, it's really the 'Qinghuan White Tea Series' that we prepared. The vending machine company has already started to fully distribute the goods! "
"That's great. With this result, we can directly join the Sekhmet Biomedical Company after graduation."
"Hahaha …"
As the beautiful girls clapped their hands in celebration.
Pop! Pop! Pop!
A group of little girl-like flower fairies flapped their wings and jumped out of the uniformed satchels on their shoulders. They danced around them.
It was obvious that they happened to have tea leaves, mugwort, orange flowers, hibiscus, rose, and jasmine on their heads.
It was the raw material of the "Qinghuan White Tea".
In fact, each of these girls had a thick tome stuffed in their leather satchels — "Magic Book: Monster Encyclopedia".
They were undoubtedly Transcendents, and their profession was the [Transcendent Profession — Monster Scholar] created by Angel, a [Divine Creature] who had taken great strides on the path of the [Goddess of Harvest].
Through studying the habits of various monsters, including temperament, ability, talent, living environment … To cultivate specific monsters, the most important thing was how to reach a contract with them and borrow their power.
Naturally, some of them were good at fighting, while others were better at production. For example, this group of girls who came from good families but dreamed of joining the world's largest pharmaceutical company.
At this moment.
It had been more than a decade since the steam industry revolution was announced. The productivity of human countries had soared, and the social form of the whole world had undergone profound changes.
This was something that everyone could see and experience personally.
The development of productivity, the complexity of product structure, the replacement of equipment, and the endless demand for funds all required that the scale of production must be expanded, and the equipment and funds must be more concentrated.
Just as Elvin had predicted in the beginning, under such special requirements, both the countries of the [Monarch's Shield] and the countries of the [International Democratic Alliance] began to transition to capitalism.
They were gradually transitioning to monopoly capitalism, or "imperialism," and monopoly organizations were born.
Especially with the development of the Shattered Star Sea, abundant materials were continuously transported to the civilized countries, and the human world entered an unprecedented great era of technological innovation!
During this period, old ideas were gradually revised, and new consciousness began to be established.
From the steam engine to the internal combustion engine to the electric motor, from the civilian steamboat to the tungsten filament of the light bulb, from the difference engine to wireless power transmission … all kinds of magnificent scenes were possible.
This was an era where ideas were not limited, and there were many geniuses.
However.
In the steam industry era, science had no significant impact on industry.
So far, the inventions in the textile industry, mining industry, metallurgy industry, and transportation industry were rarely made by scientists, except for those led by the "Alchemy School".
On the contrary, most of them were naturally completed by talented technicians in response to a strong economic stimulus.
However, after the steam industry revolution was completed, science began to play an increasingly important role.
Industrial research laboratories, equipped with expensive instruments and staffed by well-trained scientists, replaced the attics and workshops of lone inventors.
The systematic science and technology born from the laboratories began to greatly affect industry, and a large number of industrial production technologies were improved and applied.
The scientific geniuses who studied the high-tech revolution brought countless novel things to the world.
And they were also sought after by countless people, and the combination of inventions and business made this group of trendsetters of the era very profitable.
Airships, battleships, penicillin, "Theory of Evolution", "Modern Medicine", "Periodic Table of the Elements" … The rapid development of science and technology.
Not only did it broaden people's material world, but it also broadened the depth and breadth of people's understanding of the world.
In fact, at this time, it was also the time for the Transcendents, Demon Gods, and Wizards to shine, and the trend of "compensation for the weak" was pushed to an unprecedented height.
With the combination of the mortal world and the Transcendents, the accumulation of technology over a decade ushered in an explosive period.
Therefore.
It was not just science and technology itself. When the Transcendents' isolation was completely broken, the entire world became completely different.
Radio across the Black Sea, radio broadcasting, phonographs, record players, cameras, telephones … All kinds of magical creations swept the entire material world.
However, due to the inherent law of technological development and the existing industrial structure restrictions, the "Electrical Industrial Revolution" led by Elvin and Olivia had not yet replaced steam technology as the mainstream for the time being.
But Elvin believed that day should not be too far away.
More importantly.
In this competition of science and technology, the main position of the [Lord's Shield] and the [International Democratic Alliance] was quietly moving towards the two major powers in the New World.
Although the Duchy of Garriott firmly held the "Golden Palm Federation", which had gathered countless Transcendents and Demon Gods, it was also not to be underestimated.
In September of the 205th year of the Haiyuan calendar, the "Sirius" and the "Great Western" passenger steamships belonging to the two sides only took 13 days and 15 days to cross the "Black Sea" respectively.
The time was only half of the fastest sailing ship, the "Flying Scissors".
Because they did not have to consider the influence of wind and ocean currents, it was almost a sign that they had achieved fast navigation throughout the season.
This milestone was enough to announce the end of all the old sailing ships, including the Flying Scissors.
In November, the Duchy of Garriott was the first to launch a new research project in the field of food chemistry. They used the abundant grains to ferment monosodium glutamate and made a lot of money.
The following year, in March of the 206th year of the Haiyuan calendar, the Golden Palm Federation released a magical creation called the "Nipkov Disc."
This was a mechanical device that scanned pictures. It could be used to separate the light and dark signals in the image, and could also be used to combine the light and dark signals again.
When the disc rotated, the small holes in the disc would intercept the light signal of each point in the picture. The light sensor would then record and transmit the light signal, and an identical black and white image could be replicated on another disc that was responsible for receiving the signal.
Based on the radio communication invented by the Duchy, they could use the "Nipkov Disc" to achieve the real-time transmission of visual information.
There were many similar inventions, such as artificial hearts, underwater breathing devices, parachutes, refrigerators, and so on.
If those old Transcendents who had been in seclusion for a few years were to come out, they would be easily fooled by this changing world.
.....
Of course.
The competition of science and technology obviously could not be limited to the field of people's livelihood, or the various inventions in the field of people's livelihood were just byproducts of the military field and the arms race.
And this kind of competition couldn't possibly stay on paper forever.
In May of the 206th year of the Haiyuan calendar, the Eritrean Sea between the Southern Continent and the Peacock Islands.
Beep!
The Duchy's strongest warship, the Super Dreadnaught-class Crown Prince, had just finished patrolling the Peacock Islands colony and was preparing to return for a friendly visit to Faletis.
"Sir Captain, the sonar feedback indicates that an unknown thing is following us underwater!"
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