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"Your Majesty, the Institute's spiritual energy etching has been verified and can be widely popularized."

An old man wearing new clothes stood under the Questioning Stone and reported the results to Lu Bai, with excitement in his tone.

"It was actually done by the aura etching first?"

Lu Bai raised his eyebrows, slightly surprised.

By the way, in the process of enforcing the law, he also set up an additional research institute, recruiting some monks who majored in puppets and mechanisms to research machines that mortals can also use.

The reason is simple. He knew very well that no matter how strict or lenient the laws he made were, as long as he was gone, the order he established would inevitably disappear.

So something else had to be done.

For example, improving productivity is a feasible direction.

However, he did not make too many demands, but mainly provided some ideas to the research institute, such as steam engines and internal combustion engines.

There is no way. The popularization of science and technology requires not only technology, but the key is accumulation and ideological liberation, so that the people can develop basic scientific literacy.

This is actually not as simple as you think.

If he was not powerful enough to suppress Xuanzhou, he would have died long ago if he had not carried out such top-down reforms.

You know, high-level cultivators can live for thousands or even tens of thousands of years, and the history of the world of immortal cultivation is so long that it can be traced back to ancient times.

The fact that not much has changed at the social level over such a long period of time means that the monks do not want to make changes.

With the means of monks, manufacturing machines can be said to be easy.

Don't they know that providing machines to mortals will increase output?
The answer is of course no.

But the monks thought there was no need to do so.

Mortals are like leeks, they grow again after being harvested. Their value to cultivators is just to serve as slaves and provide immortal seeds.

Wars, plagues, natural disasters, man-made calamities, and even the massacre of one side by the evil monks are actually insignificant to the major immortal sects. As long as they don't kill everyone, it's fine.

In the eyes of monks, giving mortals intelligence is considered an unstable factor, let alone researching machinery specifically for mortals.

In this situation, over endless years, mortals can only survive and continue in the most ancient way.

The common people did not even have a state power, and in terms of social progress, they were still in the realm of slavery.

If Lu Bai wants to improve the status of mortals, in addition to relying on bloody promotion, he naturally has to find ways to improve the productivity of mortals.

"Uh... Your Majesty, that's not the case. In fact, the technical difficulties of steam engines and internal combustion engines have long been overcome. We have also made some progress in electric energy and nuclear energy. It's just..."

The old man, the leader of the Immortal Puppet Sect and the vice president of the research institute, explained hesitantly: "...According to the experimental results, the efficiency of this type of new energy machinery is far inferior to that of the spiritual energy etching machinery."

As the deputy director of the research institute spoke, he took out a detailed experimental report and presented it to Lu Bai.

Lu Bai glanced at him. He would not doubt the intelligence of these old immortals.

Even in the face of unprecedented upheavals, they could vaguely deduce from past experience that giving mortals science and technology would definitely affect the monks' stable position.

But in the face of Lu Bai's tyrannical power, these immortal sects did not dare to stand up and oppose, and could only make some small changes in some places.

For example, this research on energy.

On the surface, their approach was reasonable. Whether in terms of development prospects or effects, spiritual energy etching was undoubtedly ahead of other energy sources.

There was only one problem, and that was the aura etching, which mortals could only use, and not create independently.

Based on this, Lu Bai was too lazy to discuss it with them, and calmly asked back: "Can mortals learn the craft?"

The deputy dean paused, and said after careful consideration: "With the careful guidance of researchers like us, perhaps..."

"Then let's continue researching spiritual energy etching until we have further results. We can spread the word about the other energy machines first."

"This……"

"Is there a problem?" Lu Bai showed a harmless smile on his face.

The vice president shuddered unconsciously and said hurriedly: "No, no, no, no, no problem."

……

Three months later.

Lu Bai, wearing the standard Taoist robe of Qingwang Sect, landed silently at the gate of a big city and easily blended into the crowd queuing to enter the city.

There were no soldiers or monks guarding the city gate, only four registration personnel responsible for recording the information of people entering and leaving the city.

Cars, horses and pedestrians come in and out freely, and the voices are noisy, making it seem very lively and prosperous.

He stood in the queue and looked around. He could see that these people wearing tight and fine clothes had no cultivation and were just ordinary people.

I have the impression that when Lu Bai first came to this world of cultivating immortals, the mortals he saw were all wearing linen clothes.

Food, clothing, housing and transportation, just the clothes alone can show that the quality of life of ordinary people is much higher.

It is worth mentioning that the carriages in the queue are almost all mechanical structures. When the spiritual sense scans the bottom of the carriage, it will be found that bearings, differentials and other accessories are exposed to the air, and the tail of the carriage is spewing thick smoke.

In Lu Bai's opinion, the overall shape has a rather absurd steampunk feel, and he wonders why there is still a horse tied in front of it.

We hadn't been waiting in line for long when we heard the roar of a diesel train coming from the other side of the city. It was a special train transporting supplies passing through the city.

After all, this is a world inhabited by cultivators. If they are willing to lose face, the construction speed can be faster than that of various large-scale machines.

The thick smoke from the locomotive floated over the city and then gradually dissipated.

With Lu Bai's special intervention, the speed at which the world of immortal cultivation entered industrialization was not running, but riding a rocket.

Ordinary people naturally have no concept of environmental pollution. With the improvement of living standards, this thick smoke is seen by ordinary people as a symbol of industrial progress.

When people in the city think that their city is better developed than the neighboring city, they can't help but puff out their chests.

What's more, the labor law is clearly written in Lu's Law Code. The history of exploitation and oppression of the lower-class people before industrialization in the real world has not been repeated in the world of immortal cultivation.

The advanced and still rapidly developing productivity, combined with a strict regulatory system that leaves no room for wiggle, makes a huge number of mortals full of expectations for the future.

If you ask anyone on the street, he will probably say with anticipation that good days are yet to come.

Lu Bai stepped into the city, his spiritual sense sweeping across the city in an instant. After all, the time was too short, the blood on the execution platform was not yet cold, and no one dared to violate the law for the time being.

In the corners, there are no beggars to be found, let alone any illegal activities. (End of this chapter)