Because this was a real world, the Academy Dean had to make arrangements based on each person's personality and way of doing things.
Yang Bo had thought it would be simple to follow gardeners and sculptors into noble households to work, but it was anything but simple.
Nobles held a great deal of power in this world and belonged to the privileged class, so working in their homes meant following the rules especially carefully.
Because Yang Bo had been recommended by the Academy, if he failed to follow the rules, he would implicate the person who had recommended him.
So why did those game players who entered the game dreaming of getting rich and inventing all kinds of things ultimately fail?
Because no one would recommend those game players to the nobles.
Moreover, ancient productivity rejected new technology. On one hand, the privileged class disliked new technology because they believed it would shake their privileges.
On the other hand, artisans also rejected new technology because it would leave many people unemployed.
Improving a single aspect of productivity alone had no meaning, because the consumption level of society as a whole had not improved.
Even if Yang Bo built a super factory capable of producing however many clothes, where would the raw materials come from, and where was the market?
Even if Yang Bo built a simple processing machine to process Stone Balls, demand for Stone Balls was not unlimited. Once demand was met, would everyone else become unemployed? If those unemployed people could not find work, would they become a source of social instability? Only by starting from the very foundation—from the raw materials end, such as increasing food production—could the production and consumption level of the entire society be raised.
In his previous life, Yang Bo had read novels