It was a cheap, convenient, stable and reliable way of long-distance communication. Its role in the development of society was beyond doubt, especially when Gwen had destroyed the old aristocratic forces in the Southern Territory and began to integrate and build a new Southern Territory. Its significance was even as important as the guns that could destroy the old aristocrats.
There were many factors that restricted the development of society. For Cecil, whose territory was rapidly expanding and population was rapidly increasing, the two biggest challenges to maintaining the ruling power in the Southern Territory were transportation and communication. The ability to transport materials and personnel within the territory, the ability to build, the ability to circulate information, the speed of the entire ruling structure, and the effectiveness of the response. These were almost all dependent on the development of transportation and communication technology.
Excellent transportation could enable the rapid flow of materials and personnel within the territory. Production and construction would be guaranteed, commerce would be developed, and the connections between the various regions would become closer and not looser. In the event of an emergency, it was also the prerequisite to ensure that the army could quickly rush to the war zone. Excellent communication allowed the government office to understand the situation in the entire territory, ensure that the information in each region was timely and smooth, and allow the government office to respond to various emergencies as quickly as possible. To achieve these two points, it was necessary to rely on the development of technology and productivity.
The feudal system of the Ansu nobles was a reflection of backwardness in Gwen's eyes, but it was the inevitable result of limited transportation and communication technology. The ruler could not timely control the situation outside the territory, and could not send the army outside the limit in the shortest time possible. At the same time, it was difficult to transport materials from one city to another, and this was destined to be a situation where the nobles were divided into feuds and divided into different cities. In fact, until the year 557 of the Ansu, the nobles and scholars still followed the following wisdom:
The area that a lord could effectively rule was the furthest that his Knight could reach within three days, and the area that he could achieve absolute rule was the furthest that his mage advisor could see with Eagle Eye.
This old saying was popular in the Ansu for hundreds of years, and it was only in the summer of 557 that there was a change. A noble mage named 'Delta' invented a crystal device that could enhance Eagle Eye and installed it at the top of his mage tower, thus expanding the lord's' absolute rule area '.
In the following ten years, under the suggestion of this noble mage with foresight, the Ansu royal family started to build the 'Kingdom Avenue' (also known as the Cross Artery), with St. Sunil as the center, crossing the entire Holy Spirit Plains from east, west, north, and south. This greatly strengthened the royal family's control over the country, and the upper-class nobles all followed suit and built a series of roads in their own territories. Coupled with the successful breeding of the new 'White Feather' Griffin and the appearance of the 'Messenger Passage Act', the transportation and communication within the Ansu greatly improved, and the nobles' control over the country and the royal family's control over the country took a huge step forward.
However, in these developments, the nobles' feudal system that had lasted for hundreds of years showed its strong inertia. Other than the Kingdom Avenue, almost all the roads in the Ansu were still cut up by the feudal territories. Be it the standards of the roads or the specifications of the carriages, there was almost no continuity between the different noble territories. The griffin messengers were also seen as a symbol of the nobles' glory (plus the fact that the cost could not be lowered), and they had never been able to be popularized. The feudal nobles continued with their pride, modesty, self-esteem, and self-isolation. On one hand, they enjoyed the benefits of having a stronger ruling power in their territories, but on the other hand, they instinctively refused to let these things continue to develop and affect their absolute authority over their territories.
Originally, if there was enough time, the day of change would have come sooner or later. The old nobles could not stop the development of society forever. Unfortunately, before the Kingdom Avenue could be built to the border, Ansu ushered in a civil war in the Moon of Mist.
Therefore, today, Ansu still had to rely on the king to confer titles to the vassals, and the vassals confer titles to the vassals to maintain order. The civil war in the Moon of Mist had a huge impact on Ansu's national strength, and the surviving nobles were almost unable to maintain the roads. The number of "white feather" griffins had also decreased sharply in the war. The transportation and communication situation in Ansu had almost deteriorated to the state of 557 years ago.
Worse still, after the civil war in the Moon of Mist, the nobles and the royal family of the Second Dynasty still remembered the horrifying scene of the allied forces charging through the Kingdom Avenue to the Sacred Plains. In the later stages of the war, the strength of the nobles declined, and the smooth roads in their territories that led directly to the castle became a hidden danger that made the lords unable to eat or sleep in peace. After the war, due to the decline of the population and the chaotic situation, the nobles had to retreat to protect themselves. This negative and degenerative attitude had continued to this day.
It was not until the year 735 of Ansu that an old ancestor opened the coffin and jumped out. With the authority of the founding ancestor, the experience of the two men and one star, and the disdain for the traditional aristocratic system, he used the most unreasonable method to build a new situation for his Cecil.
Looking at the communication device that was still in the testing stage, Gwen's mind was not only thinking about the communication device, but also the orderly roads that connected all parts of the southern border, and even all parts of Ansu.
Transportation and communication. For the former, he had cement and various kinds of rapidly developing arcanotech devices. As for the latter, he finally saw the results of Kamel and Rebecca's hard work. These two problems that troubled all rulers seemed to have a solution.
"At present, this communication device uses a hybrid rune formation. Most of the runes came from the technology of the Eternal Sleepers, but the generation and control of the magic shock is still using the traditional way of communication spells." Kamel floated next to the communication device and explained some of the technical details of the device to Gwen. "Unfortunately, we still can't figure out how the network of the Eternal Sleepers transmits signals in nature's' primordial magic field ', so this device can only operate within the range of a standard magic field."
Gwen was quite interested in the technical details. "Standard magic field … within the range of the magic obelisks?"
"Yes, the standard magic field produced by the magic obelisks is like the 'lake' you described. The ripples produced by the communication device propagate in the magic field, from one magic obelisk to another. So we can call this communication method 'magic net communication'," Kamel explained. "I have found a way to use the magic obelisks as a 'relay' to continuously transmit signals, and it has succeeded in a small range, but the specific effect after the transmission distance has increased is still to be tested …"
"How do these communication devices pair up or identify?" Gwen asked again. "If I have a hundred of these devices scattered all over the place, how do I use one of them to accurately contact another specific device?"
This was also a question that Gwen was curious about. The communication device created by Kamel was very different from traditional communication spells or the Great Wall of the elves. It was a combination of communication spells and the technology of the Eternal Sleepers, and its communication medium was the 'standard magic field' produced by the magic obelisks, which was still considered cutting-edge technology. In terms of working principle, it was more like a non-selective 'broadcast' device, broadcasting its own signal in the magic field so that other devices of the same kind could receive it. Without a matching or identification method, all signals would be transmitted publicly without encryption, and the entire magic field would become a chaotic mess. This would make it difficult to achieve the 'communication network' function that Gwen requested.
"We have referred to the technology of the ancient Gondor period." Kamel seemed to have expected Gwen to have this question. He immediately gave an answer with pride in his voice. "You are also a citizen of the Empire. You should know about the Empire's information network. It was already in operation as early as the Age of Sparks."
Gwen nodded and shared the knowledge that he had just extracted from his memory. "Oh, I know about this. When I was an apprentice of Knight, I often listened to the opera broadcast from the imperial capital in my mentor's house. I remember that device could not only receive the broadcast, but also communicate with people far away in the imperial capital. At that time, only nobles or big businessmen had a 'Deep Blue Terminal.' But compared to this era, it was already very popular. "
Before Kamel could speak, Rebecca's voice came from the communication device. She had not hung up and was still making faces while Gwen and Kamel were chatting. "Wow! So this communication device was so popular back then? "
"Compared to the number of messaging and communication devices now … the communication technology of the Gondor people was indeed a miracle." Kamel sighed softly and then continued. "I added a 'resonance' structure to this device. Only signals that meet the resonance condition can be transmitted between the devices. In order to achieve this resonance, I used four basic runes of the wind element and four basic runes of no attribute. I then randomly arranged these eight runes on a substrate with three by three empty slots. They don't form any runic knot, and they don't have any magic effect. But according to the principle of mana resonance, when another rune group with the same pattern participates in the magic oscillation, this' resonance substrate 'will have the same reaction … "
Carmel paused for a while as if to give Gawain and Heidi some time to calculate and think. Then, he continued, "The eight types of runes have a large number of combinations on the three-by-three substrate. When one device is used to call another device, you only need to use a rune trigger similar to the 'color palette of the experiment bench' to easily assemble the rune structure of the calling target. I just directly used my own magic power to control this process. If ordinary people use it, the rune trigger is here, and the side of the device is here … "
"Dialing, we can call this process dialing." Gwen felt that it was too complicated for Kamel to explain this simple process with a lot of ancient Gondor nouns and modern magic nouns, so he simply said, "In addition, we can number the eight runes from zero to seven. This way, each communication device has a specific string of numbers to identify it, and people who use the communication device can 'dial' more easily. After all, it's always easier to remember numbers than runes, and numbers are more suitable for registration in a form than runes. "
Whether it was Kamel, Heti, or Rebecca on the other side of the communication device, everyone seemed to be used to Gwen's "as long as something new popped up, he would immediately act as if he had been using it for years" behavior. Everyone accepted this suggestion indifferently.
To be honest, Gwen was quite unused to it …
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