Chapter 281 Times Have Changed

Sir, times have changed.

A popular meme on the Internet: On the last page of a European swordsman textbook from the late Middle Ages, a swordsman with a sword killed another swordsman with a matchlock gun, and the caption of the illustration was "Sir, times have changed."

In the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark, the black-clad swordsman showed off several sword moves against the evil protagonist, but was shot down by the protagonist.

Thirty years later, when the first senior school student used credits to buy the first ordinary pistol from a store, it indicated that the kobold society, which originally belonged to the Bronze Age, had leapt into a new stage.

It directly allowed the kobolds to leap from the Bronze Age, across several cold weapon evolution periods, and into the hot weapon era. Of course, it was not that the kobolds could make them, so strictly speaking, it was not considered to have entered the hot weapon era, but hot weapons appeared in society.

The pistol was the strongest weapon that the kobolds could buy with credits at school.

The reason why humans put pistols on the school is not because the new government is crazy and handed weapons to the dog-headed people, but because the current human body is strengthened, pistols do no harm at all.

Even without any armor, humans can withstand pistol bullets, so there is no such thing as giving someone a handle.

In addition to the extremely expensive pistols, other steel knives, pots and pans and other daily necessities have also been gradually introduced into the homes of ordinary dog-headed people in the 30 years since the school was opened.

Even many things have been sold to neighboring countries after passing through the hands of the dog-headed people of Volcano Country.

The ultimate purpose of humans to establish schools is to improve the knowledge reserves of dog-headed people, and then enable them to become suitable machine equipment operators in the future.

Therefore, humans do not ask about the fact that school students use credits to buy goods from the school and then resell them. Not only do they not ask, but they also support the addition of many successfully researched improved crops to the school store.

The circulation of goods will also increase the commercial prosperity of Volcano Country, and the emergence of improved crops will enable dog-headed people to obtain more food.

With prosperous business, the kobolds will have more money and more food, so they don't have to run around all day to feed themselves. With the free time, they can think about other things.

Thinking more often, inspiration often appears, and that inspiration may be the spark that changes the social form.

Humans did not directly intervene in the evolution of the social form of the kobolds, but through school shops, the kobolds themselves evolved and promoted the intelligence level of the kobold population.

Humans have decided to use kobolds after the "ideological imprinting" technology matures, so they are not worried about kobolds becoming smarter. On the contrary, the smarter they are, the more humans like them.

However, the kobolds in the slave society are too backward in thought and their productivity is extremely low. Even if some nobles and royal families come to human schools to study, the number is still too small to meet the future human needs.

On the other hand, since the use of kobolds has been determined by the new government, the content of the advanced schools opened by humans to train kobolds has also changed.

The focus of all content has shifted from classroom learning to practical operation, and the same is true for various exams.

After the dog-headed people pass the middle school exam, master certain basic knowledge, and form a certain worldview, the teaching direction of humans will change.

The dog-headed people who pass the assessment will get to know the various control equipment, communication equipment, facilities, scientific instruments, etc. on the warships, and through practical operation, they will master the use of various scientific equipment and instruments.

Anyway, the hope of these dog-headed people stepping into the starry sky is very slim, so humans decide to take as many as they can take away at that time. The dog-headed people who meet the assessment goals will enter the Kingdom of Light, that is, they will be frozen, so that they can be thawed out and become the vanguard of humans after the ideological imprinting technology is realized in the future.

Humans want to use these dog-headed people to create a loyal and fearless cannon fodder army. To this end, humans will plan to build another batch of lake-class warships for future use.

The approval of this plan proves that humans have now completely become a wandering civilization based on spacecraft.

Winter goes and spring comes, year after year.

Of course, there is no distinction between spring, summer, autumn and winter on the spacecraft. Only the time clock set by humans reminds humans that the new year has begun.

The beginning of a new year means that the schools on the planet will welcome a new batch of students. And on this day, the capital of the Volcano Kingdom also welcomed three dog-headed people who came from afar.

As soon as they arrived at the gate of the capital, the three dog-headed people were stopped by the guards.

"Who are you!"

Seeing two shining steel knives blocking the way, the three dog-headed people hurriedly greeted with a smile: "Reply to the guard, the three of us are from the Bashi Kingdom in the east, crossing thousands of mountains and rivers. I hope the guards will let us go."

As he said, the leading dog-headed person fumbled around on himself for a few times, took out a few copper coins from the Volcano Kingdom and handed them to the guard.

"What are you doing here?" The guard saw the coins and immediately put away his weapons with a smile, but still asked a routine question.

The leading dog-headed man from Bashi country was secretly happy when he saw this, and looked at the steel knife in the guard's hand: "We have heard that the Volcano Country has all kinds of rare treasures, and there are also swords and knives that can cut iron like mud. We came here to buy some rare goods and sell them for money."

"Oh?! Are you traveling merchants?"

"Yes, we are traveling merchants from Bashi country."

The guard's eyes lit up when he heard this, and then he took out a four-hand lighter from his pocket and said, "Since you are a traveling merchant, I will sell you the lighter."

"Lighter? What is that?" The traveler looked at the delicate lighter in the guard's hand, staring at the transparent liquid inside, filled with curiosity.

"Of course it's for making fire, look at it." The guard showed off by pressing the lighter button, and a small flame suddenly appeared.

"This, this, this is the Fire God's spell. It's impossible. How can you know the Fire God's spell?!" The traveler was shocked. He had only heard that there were many magical things in the Volcano Country in Bashi Country and wanted to take a trip. I'm sure I can make a lot of money. I didn't expect the guards of the Volcano Country to know the Fire God's spells.

"What God of Fire? This is a lighter created by our God of Light with his great magical power. It is the source of fire for our God of Light. It has nothing to do with you, God of Fire." The guard waved the lighter in front of the merchant, and then said: " Since you are a traveling merchant, I will sell you this lighter that stores countless fires for only five thousand copper coins."

He bought this lighter from someone else. If he could trick a trader from another country, he could earn two thousand copper coins.