Struggle in the Steam Age

Half an hour later, Lawrence leaned back in his chair in a comfortable motion in his room. And on the table in front of him, the book charm that looked like a fog ball was flying back and forth over the table, busy.

I saw a tentacle stretched out above the open ink bottle that flew to the side first and sucked 1/5 of the ink from the bottle, and then retracted the tentacle and floated to the top of a stack of clean white paper on the other side of the table.

Coming to the sky above the white paper, the book charm quickly grew two tentacles that were also made of mist to wrap around the dipped pen, leaving only one nib outside, and then quickly started writing on the white paper below. As it was written, it also praised Lawrence: "Master, your knowledge is indeed very profound. I have never seen a person with so much knowledge like you before—"

"Okay, let's write quickly." Hearing these rough flattery, Lawrence waved his hand in embarrassment to stop the book charm. In his previous self-introduction, Lawrence found that this guy is not an ordinary weak chicken, except for a [stunning technique] that can be used in battle, all other magics cannot be used on the battlefield.

However, Lawrence also discovered one of the advantages of the book charm from his self-introduction, that is, it is stronger than most humans in terms of intelligence. Something like artificial intelligence still has a huge role for Lawrence now.

Through the link on the soul, Lawrence can pass the knowledge in his mind to this book charm. Then the book charm can sort out this knowledge, and then manipulate the pen to turn them into papers.

For example, now, with the help of Shumei, Lawrence is completing a new thesis titled "On the Relationship between the Existence of Microorganisms and Decay". In fact, after the old paper was written last time, Lawrence planned to continue this paper, but in order to make the process of producing the paper more reasonable, Lawrence had to repeat Pasteur's gooseneck flask experiment before.

During the day when he went to St. Gutenberg's Cathedral to select tasks, Lawrence also went to Peter's dormitory to observe the two contrasting gooseneck flasks entrusted to him. It is obvious that the broth in the unsterilized and sealed bottle has been severely spoiled, while the broth in the strictly sterilized and sealed bottle is still the same as when it was put in.

In this world, high temperature sterilization has been widely used in the food processing industry. However, everyone knows why heating is needed, but they don't know why. It can only be said to be a method mastered after accumulating experience. Lawrence's paper explained to everyone the principle and significance of high-temperature disinfection.

Even with the help of Shumei, it was completely dark when I finished writing this thesis. This made him have to give up the idea of ​​going to church to submit his thesis immediately.

Early the next morning, Lawrence went straight to St. Gutenberg Cathedral after having breakfast and greeting the two ladies. After going around the logistics, I found Priest Carter who was on duty in the office and submitted his thesis.

"This paper is indeed very valuable." After reading the paper, Priest Carter said, "I will submit it to the "Science" magazine as an excellent paper selected by our Church of Knowledge, and it should be published in the next issue. "

"Science" magazine is also the top academic magazine of the Federation. Besides the federal government, there are also a series of churches, including the Church of the Goddess of the Earth, the Church of the Goddess of Agriculture, the Church of Knowledge, the Church of Artisans, and even the Church of the Forge and the God of Fire on the dwarves side. Church support.

"You know, as the sponsor of the journal, we have a quota for one paper in each issue. But the problem is that we don't have enough excellent papers to submit every time the journal is released." Put Lawrence's paper in a file After clipping and carefully arranging them on the bookshelf behind him, Priest Carter complained to Lawrence.

"Our church's papers in these two issues are not good at all compared with the ones selected by other churches. It's really shameful that when I go to the editorial office to submit papers, I try to bow my head as much as possible when I see priests from other churches. Walk around them—”

Listening to Priest Carter's rambling, Lawrence also smiled helplessly. After all, the summary of various important discoveries and knowledge does not mean that there will be, and sometimes a little bit of luck is needed in addition to hard work.

After Priest Carter finished venting his emotions, Lawrence asked a question he had just encountered: "By the way, Uncle Carter, why did the church's self-made wine disappear when I went to the logistics?"

Lawrence planned to buy some wine today after submitting his thesis. After all, their shop catered to high-paying people, so he had to prepare some extravagant items, such as cigars and Shanghainese specialty products from the Xingchenhai area. Wait for golden shredded tobacco, and some wines that are not cheap. As a well-known specialty in this region, the home-brewed wine of St. Gutenberg Cathedral is a good purchase choice.

"Don't mention it, if you're unlucky, don't say that the logistics department can't buy wine, even I can only survive the whole year with the two bottles I bought before." Speaking of wine, Priest Carter looked helpless . "Although there are still a lot of wine hidden in the wine cellar of the church, in order to ensure that there is wine during the sacrifice, we have to stop selling it to the outside world."

"What's going on here? What happened?" Lawrence asked puzzled after Priest Carter said this. "Why is the wine suddenly gone? I obviously bought a copy not long ago."

"The problem just happened in the past few days." Priest Carter explained. "You know, the wine in the church comes from the manor west of Eagle Castle. But just three days ago, there was an unfortunate news from that manor: the grapes in the manor were infected with downy mildew this year, although the agriculture nearby the manor The Goddess Church has sent people to deal with it, but only a small part of the vines can be saved."

"After contacting churches in other places, we found out that there might be too much rain this summer, and several states in the northeastern part of the Federation that are the main grape-producing areas all showed signs of downy mildew. This also means that not only us Church, the wine production of the entire Federation is estimated to have problems in the past few years."

"That sounds terrible." Lawrence sighed helplessly, which didn't sound like good news.

"Yeah, it's very bad. So all the churches, the government, and the farmers are trying to find a way to stop the situation from getting worse." Priest Carter looked up at Lawrence. "By the way, your paper has been repeatedly promoting the role of various microorganisms, so the diseases of this grapevine are also related to microorganisms?"

"It should be—" At this point, Lawrence had a flash of inspiration. Priest Carter's words reminded him of some information about early pesticides that he found when he was researching information for writing novels in his previous life. "If I can go to the site to study it, maybe I can find a solution to the problem."

"What you said is true?" After hearing Lawrence's words, Priest Carter stood up from behind the table excitedly.

"I can only say——it's possible." Lawrence didn't dare to say it. After all, the world is different, and many things cannot be guaranteed to be exactly the same.

"Even a little bit of it might be good." Priest Carter said in a compassionate tone, "Some priests have reported to us that some farmers in various grape plantations have begun to eradicate and burn those that appeared. Diseased vines, but unfortunately, it only slows the spread of grape downy mildew. At the same time, if too many vines are cut down, the impact on the industry is actually no different from grape death.”

"I will do my best to solve this problem." After listening to Priest Carter's description of the terrible situation, Lawrence nodded vigorously. "So, when can I go?"

"The sooner the better." Priest Carter turned to Lawrence from behind the table and said. "I'll accompany you to the logistics side now. You can borrow anything you need as long as it's available here."