Chapter 629 - 627 Give Up A Lot
Inconceivable? Jinrong furrowed his brows.
Yet, Jiang Yifan knew that the world Ye Xinyan spoke of, for the present times, could indeed be defined as inconceivable.
He explained to Jinrong, "What Ye Zi probably means is that if the talented people of the world weren’t all competing for success in the imperial examinations but instead some devoted themselves to mastering craftsmen’s skills, then the world would continuously see the emergence of ingenious devices such as rail transportation, hand-operated hoists, and screw-cutting lathes, perhaps even more refined and unexpected devices based on the skills of predecessors. When that time arrives, everyone’s actions and everything they use will be of such wondrous invention that the world would truly be deemed inconceivable."
Jinrong strained to envision what such a world would be like and said in confusion, "Everyone in the whole world using unimaginably ingenious devices?"
Jiang Yifan nodded and said, "Indeed. If you had not seen it with your own eyes, could you have imagined that a small piece of iron could actually lift a weight of a thousand jin? Could you have pictured a piece of iron being transformed into a uniformly threaded rod on a workstation, capable of interlocking tightly? Could you have imagined that in just one daylight hour, Jiwang’s military provisions could be transported to the key town in Liaoyuan Prefecture?
If this continues, in a few hundred years, the earthly paradise that people dream of might just appear. Everyone in the world would have enough to eat and warm clothes to wear, ordinary people could ride vehicles as swift as the wind, and the Immortal Realm’s all-seeing eyes and all-hearing ears would become commonly used items by the people..."
"Could there really be such a day?" Jinrong was full of skepticism, yet thinking of the things that had been created in Clear Water Village, if all the world’s ingenious minds dedicated themselves to the craft of mechanics, after years of immersion, perhaps that day really could come.
"Does Ye Zi believe that by raising the wages of craftsmen, the lot of craftsmen can be changed, making the people of the world willing to commit to handicraft skills?" Jinrong asked.