Chapter 1192: (No Title)

At this time, the firearms researched by Zhang Jiao's disciples were more advanced than the Peru musket, but they were not yet rifled muskets.

However, Su Fan estimated that it wouldn't be long before these people researched rifled muskets. Once they did, they wouldn't be far from modern firearms.

Historically, rifled muskets appeared in the 15th century, but at that time, they were not fully formed. True large-scale appearance of rifled muskets was in the 19th century.

And in the following hundred years, the technology of the Earth exploded, developing to that level in just one or two hundred years.

The technological development of the previous few hundred years was not even as powerful as the last few years.

Of course, the reason why it could explode, besides the catalyst of war, was the popularization of basic knowledge.

This is the most important thing. Another thing is the appearance of war. The first half of the 20th century saw two world wars, affecting hundreds of millions of people.

War is the catalyst for technology. After all, technology itself is first for war and military. Even in the peaceful era of later generations, the most advanced technology is military.

Civilian use is also entirely transformed from technology that the military does not need.

In the Taiping Dao of the Jiuzhou, these people might not be comparable to great figures like Newton in academics, but in this practical technology, these people are definitely not bad.

First, use the means of refining tools to refine what they have researched, and then research the machinery for large-scale manufacturing. Su Fan cannot say much about this method.

After all, there was no such method in the research on Earth. This might be a method for cultivators to research science. You cannot say they took a shortcut or went on an evil path.

As for basic science, anyway, Ma Yuanyi led a group of people to research it, and Ma Yuanyi preferred to research civilian technology.

Trains—this thing has actually been researched. Steam locomotives actually don't have much technology to speak of.

Besides the steam locomotive head, there is no technology at all. What is needed is steel.

And steelmaking, for the Taiping Dao, has no difficulty at all.

Steel—this thing actually came out in the Great Qin era. After all, those Daoist priests or Mohist craftsmen always discovered some kind of alloy during the process of refining tools.

In fact, those refined metals were all refined and purified from ore, and alloys were also accidentally discovered in the process. Steel is just the most ordinary one.

Therefore, steel could also be produced on a large scale in the Great Qin era.

High-temperature steelmaking furnaces built by cultivators would actually not be worse than those of later generations. At least the output of steel in the Great Qin era was definitely not low.

Tens of millions of tons per year was nothing.

This was also because of the Great Qin's demand for steel, which was not as high as in later generations.

The steel of later generations is mainly used in the construction industry, transportation such as cars and trains, mechanical manufacturing, industrial manufacturing, etc.

And in the Great Qin, the construction industry rarely used steel. Transportation like cars might need steel, and mechanical manufacturing mostly used weapons and armor.

And among them, for the weapons and armor of the elite army, steel was just a basic material; various alloys needed to be added inside.

Yes, the Great Qin's alloy technology was also quite developed. It was not some bronze alloy, but a true high-grade special alloy.

Of course, most alloys were refined by cultivators with true fire. With the means of mortals, it was impossible to refine them.

After all, in terms of temperature, mortals could not reach it.

The Great Qin did not go to research this. After all, the true fire of cultivators was actually very ordinary. The cultivators of the Great Qin were more than tens of thousands, and Golden Core cultivators could batch-refine them.

The craftsmen in the Craftsman Bureau, except for a part of mortals, the rest were Qi Refiners.

Some of the Great Qin's technology was still very developed, but it could not be popularized. Many could not be manufactured after leaving the cultivators.

Now, the Taiping Dao does not have too many Qi Refiners. Although Zhang Jiao's direct disciples have high cultivation, the disciples of the Taiping Dao are not all Qi Refiners.

Cultivation is now much more difficult than in the Great Qin era.

Besides inheritance, the scarcity of heaven and earth spiritual energy makes it very simple to get started in the Great Qin era, but now it depends on aptitude. If the aptitude is not good, getting started often takes several years, or even longer.

This is also a selection of heaven and earth. Only those with good aptitude can cultivate and reach a higher realm.

And Martial Dao entry does not pay attention to aptitude, but it requires more resources. This kind of resource is first food and meat, and later it needs things containing spiritual energy.

The difficulty of Martial Dao cultivation might be even greater.

Ordinary people almost have no qualifications.

After all, those resources are almost all controlled by the strong of the aristocratic families. Unless it is the kind of person with heaven-defying aptitude who also defects to those aristocratic families, they will not be cultivated.

Although the Taiping Dao has the idea of equality for all, it is impossible for every disciple to embark on the path of transcendence.

This is unlikely. That is tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of disciples.

If they all embark on the path of transcendent cultivation, Zhang Jiao simply cannot afford it. Even if he squeezed himself dry, it would be impossible.

Of course, the resources in Su Fan's hands are very easy. After all, even for hundreds of thousands of disciples, most are still in the Qi Refining stage, and the resources consumed are not even comparable to a True Immortal.

Of course, Su Fan cannot support it either. After all, the Jiuzhou will eventually move towards the era of the end of the Dharma. This is the will of the human race.

But the future potential of the Jiuzhou will not truly be like that of Earth. After all, the Jiuzhou are just sealed, and they can still be opened.

By then, it will be the recovery of spiritual energy.

Of course, by then, the Jiuzhou might be able to leave by relying on their own technology. By then, it might be "Cultivation Industrialization."

One side is transcendence, the other side is technology.

It's just that that level is not easy to develop.

It needs to see what kind of power the mortals of the Jiuzhou can create. Anyway, if it is only the technology of the Earth in the first life, then even if they walk out of the Jiuzhou, the power of mortals is still very pitiful.

After all, the power of the strongest peacemaker on Earth can at most threaten the Primordial Spirit stage, and it is only a threat, not necessarily able to kill a Primordial Spirit cultivator.

Such technology is still not enough. Stronger power is needed, such as the technology in "Swallowing Star World."

But this requires time and talent to research.

This requires a huge knowledgeable population. With the current literacy rate, that is simply impossible.

In Jizhou alone, there are about 300 million people. Jizhou is considered a top-tier major province of Liu Han. There are more than ten such major provinces in the Liu Han Imperial Court.

Of course, the most populous Sili has a full 3 billion people. The land of the Luo River is also the most essential land of Liu Han. ===== CHAPTER 1193 =====