Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 754 'Setbacks'

When promoting technology, what is often desired is not how awesome or complicated the technology is, but that it has a low threshold, is easy to learn, easy to spread, and most importantly, is easy to use.

Even if you are not a professional and have not received professional training, as long as you follow the written rules and procedures in order, you can do it almost perfectly. This is the real promotion technology.

Things that have terribly high barriers to entry, are so technically complex that non-professionals cannot understand them at all, and cannot be replicated without a harsh laboratory environment are very unfavorable for dissemination.

Perfect remembered clearly that in the original world there was a barefoot doctor's manual which was praised as one of the three great sacred books. If we only look at the content, it is actually very easy to understand. It just asked people to go up the mountain to collect herbs and some folk remedies to treat common diseases.

From the perspective of future generations, this is certainly a disregard for human life. After all, a person who has never studied medicine dares to treat people with a book. If this is made public, it is simply a crime!
Practicing medicine illegally is a serious crime and the offender will be held criminally liable.

But if we look at it from the perspective of that time, this was a great good deed that brought life to thousands of families and brought immeasurable merits.

Why? Because the country did not have enough medical resources at that time. It can even be said that there were not enough qualified doctors in all parts of the country except in big cities. Many places had to go to the county town to find a hospital!

As for the towns and villages below, doctors? Having two old Chinese doctors who can prescribe medicine and take pulses is a blessing from eight generations of ancestors!
Therefore, the national leaders at that time organized a large number of professional medical experts and experienced old Chinese medicine practitioners, and compiled such a book by combining various verified folk remedies.

The book lists the symptoms and treatments of a large number of common diseases, and strives to ensure that anyone who can read can treat the disease according to the contents of the book. Moreover, the medicines used are all mountain herbs or relatively easy to obtain medicines.

This has greatly enriched the medical resources at the grassroots level, allowing a large number of poor people to finally have access to medical treatment and be able to afford it.

For a long time, this was an important part of the country's primary medical system. It was not until the new century when the country's medical construction achieved considerable progress and development that this magical book, which had made great contributions to the country, and the barefoot doctors it trained were replaced by the new medical system.

And the most important thing is that many of these self-taught barefoot doctors later became real doctors through more systematic learning and contributed their own strength to the construction of the country's medical system.

This is a truly successful case of technology promotion!
By making the most basic technologies accessible to the public in an easy-to-understand way, we can create the soil and foundation for the birth of technical talents, and then provide targeted professional training to promote the development of the industry system.

If Perfect just wanted to promote the Warming Potion on a large scale, then things would be very simple. After all, this kind of potion itself is indeed a rigid demand in this era. All it needs to do is build a potion factory for large-scale production. The market demand will naturally absorb these potions and spread them on a large scale.

But after discovering the amazing value hidden in the formula of the warm potion, Perfect was no longer content with simply analyzing the formula or making so-called "improvements" to it.

She wanted to crack the core technology of this formula, and then use it as a basis to promote alchemy on a large scale in the North.

Although it seems that everything in life in the North is related to alchemy, in fact, alchemy is still a sophisticated professional skill that is only mastered by a few people.

It is basically difficult for people without a complete university degree to master the necessary knowledge required for modern alchemy.

This is not a hard requirement imposed by humans, but in order to become a qualified alchemist, modern alchemy requires one to learn so much knowledge in order to perform alchemy smoothly.

Even though Perfect had tried his best to spread alchemy knowledge, and even printed pamphlets of fantasy alchemy and distributed them everywhere, it did not change this fact. The technical threshold was too high. Even if they were poor alchemists who were not appreciated for their talents, at least most of them had studied in college and were graduates of alchemy majors.

As for the workers in the alchemy workshop? The minimum requirement is to graduate from elementary school and be able to read, write and do basic arithmetic. If you are illiterate and can't even count on your ten fingers, you are not qualified to be a worker.

Therefore, even in the North, the only alchemical channels that ordinary people can access are to buy products or creations produced by alchemy.

If Perfect could parse out what she wanted from the recipe of the warming potion, then she could try to compile some alchemical formulas that could be used in daily life into a book and then spread this basic knowledge.

After all, for the lower class people, they don't need to understand why alchemy works and why they do it this way.

They just need to understand what the consequences will be and what it can be used for.

Those who are truly suitable for learning alchemy will develop an interest in alchemy under the influence of the environment. When they grow up, they will naturally want to learn alchemy and become real alchemists.

With such a positive cycle, the alchemy industry in the North will usher in a large number of talents and flourish.

Although it may take time to hatch, it will definitely change the future of the North.

Moreover, if Perfect could have wanted to, he could have accelerated this process. For example, he could have taken the opportunity of building a floating city to train a large number of alchemists and skilled workers, thereby accelerating the spread of alchemy.

For Perfecto, she could do that if she wanted to.

However, the premise of all this is that she can parse out what she wants from the formula of the warming potion.

And what Perfecto needs is time.
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Three months passed in a flash. It can't be said that Perfecto's analysis of the warming potion was fruitless, but it is also hard to say that he had any practical gains.

She did deduce the framework formula used in the recipe, and even tried to apply this framework to some recipes she was familiar with, but the results were poor.

This certainly did not meet Perfect's purpose and requirements, and she was very dissatisfied with the fact that she had achieved such little result in three months.

To put it bluntly, in three months she had completed the first version of the design drawings for the floating city, and even made the floating core, but she still couldn't figure out the framework formula hidden in the warm potion recipe, nor its working principle.

This made Perfect feel the so-called "frustration" for the first time in her life, and after some consideration, she sent a telegram to Langton to recall Sandrion back to the North.

(End of this chapter)