Extreme Cold Era: Shelter Don't Keep Waste-Chapter 805 - 34: Setbacks

To promote technology, often it's not about how impressive or complex it is, but about having a low barrier to entry, being easy to learn and spread, and most importantly, being easy to use.

Even if one is not a professional, without professional training, as long as they follow the written procedures in order, they can get it about right, and that's the essence of promoting technology.

Those things that are insanely high in threshold and so technically complex that non-professionals can't understand them at all and which cannot be replicated outside of stringent laboratory conditions are highly unfavorable for dissemination.

Perfikot clearly remembers that in the original world, there was a book regarded as one of the three great divine books, the Barefoot Doctors Handbook. If you only look at its content, it's actually quite straightforward and easy to understand; it just tells people to go up into the mountains to gather herbs and use some folk remedies to treat common ailments.

From a later perspective, this was naturally equated to reckless endangerment, after all, someone without medical education relying on a book to treat people is plainly criminal!

Practicing medicine without a license is a legitimate offense, warranting criminal prosecution.

But from the perspective of that time, it was a great and meritorious act.

Why? Because the country at that time did not have enough medical resources. You could even say that outside of major cities, there were not enough qualified doctors anywhere across the country, and many places only had hospitals at the county level!

As for the towns and villages below that, doctors? Having two old traditional Chinese doctors capable of prescribing herbs and feeling pulses was an ancestral blessing!

So at that time, the country's leaders organized a large number of professional medical experts and experienced old traditional Chinese doctors to compile this book by combining various validated folk remedies.

The book listed a large number of symptoms of common diseases and treatment methods, striving to make it so anyone literate could use the book to treat illnesses, using herbs from the mountains or relatively easy-to-obtain medicines.

Thus greatly bolstering the medical resources at the grassroots level, allowing the impoverished masses to finally have a place to receive affordable medical care.

For a long period, it was an essential part of the country's primary healthcare system until the new century when significant advancements and developments in national medical infrastructure replaced this once invaluable book and the barefoot doctors it trained with the new healthcare system.

Moreover, crucial to highlight is that many of these barefoot doctors, who excelled through self-study, later received more systematic training to become genuine doctors and contributed to the construction of the country's medical system.

This is truly a successful case of technology promotion!

Allowing the masses to engage with and grasp basic technology in a straightforward way, laying the ground for the emergence of technical talents, then proceeding to targeted professional development, promoting the development of the industry system.

If Perfikot only aimed to widely promote this warming potion, it would be simple enough. After all, this potion is truly a necessity in this era; you just need to set up the potion factory for mass production, and the market demand would naturally absorb these potions and spread them broadly.

However, after discovering the astonishing value hidden in the warming potion recipe, Perfikot became unsatisfied with merely analyzing this formula or making so-called 'improvements' to it.

She wants to unravel the core technology of this formula, and based on it, promote alchemy on a large scale in the Northern Territory.

Although everything in daily life in the Northern Territory seems related to alchemy, alchemy is still a sophisticated, professional technology mastered only by a few.

Those without a complete university education would find it difficult to grasp the essential knowledge required by modern alchemy.

This isn't an artificially imposed requirement but rather a necessity imposed by modern alchemy demanding such extensive knowledge to practice it smoothly.

Even though Perfikot has done her utmost to spread alchemy knowledge, even printing the Imaginary Alchemy into booklets and distributing them everywhere, it hasn't changed this reality.

The technical threshold is too high, and even the impoverished and struggling alchemists have at least, for the most part, been through proper university education, emerging as graduates from university alchemy programs.

As for the workers in the Alchemy Workshop? The minimum requirement is at least primary school graduation, requiring literacy and basic arithmetic. If you can't read or even count all your ten fingers, you're unqualified to be a worker.

Even in the Northern Territory, the only exposure ordinary people have to alchemy is being able to purchase products or creations manufactured through alchemy.

If Perfikot could decipher what she needs from the warming potion formula, she could attempt to compile some household alchemy formulas into a booklet and disseminate these basic knowledge bits.

Because for the common populace, they don't need to understand why alchemy works or why it should be done this way.

They only need to know what results come from doing this and what it can accomplish.

And those truly suitable for learning alchemy would cultivate an interest in alchemy through environmental influence. When they grow up, they'd naturally want to learn alchemy and become real alchemists.

With such a positive cycle in place, the alchemy industry in the Northern Territory would witness an influx of talents and flourish.

Although it might take time to nurture, this will undoubtedly change the future of the Northern Territory.

Furthermore, if Perfikot wishes, she can entirely accelerate this process, for instance, by taking advantage of the opportunity to build a Floating City, massively training alchemists and skilled workers, thus hastening the spread and proliferation of alchemy.

If Perfikot wants, she can completely achieve this.

However, all of this predicates on her ability to decipher what she desires from the warming potion formula.

And for Perfikot, that means time is needed.

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Three months passed in a flash, and Perfikot's analysis of the warming potion can't be described as fruitless, but it's hard to claim any significant practical gains.

She indeed deduced the framework formula embedded in the recipe and even attempted to apply this framework to some known formulas, but the results were poor.

This, of course, does not meet Perfikot's aims and expectations, and she feels highly dissatisfied with achieving just this within three months.

Frankly speaking, in these three months, she has already completed the first design of the Floating City and even crafted the floating core, yet she still hasn't grasped the framework formula hidden in the warming potion recipe or understood its operational principles.

This let Perfikot experience, for the first time in her life, the so-called 'frustration,' and after deliberation, she sent a telegram to Langton, summoning Sanderion back to the Northern Territory.