Genjitsushugi Yuusha no Oukoku Saikenki - Ch. 56.1 - Research About a Certain Research

[MangaDex]

 

[rachjumper]

erm yeah I totally built this massive aircraft carrier in secret and never told anyone (or the reader) about it until we conveniently needed it

 

[HartSkai]

erm yeah I totally built this massive aircraft carrier in secret and never told anyone (or the reader) about it until we conveniently needed it

MC starting to really embody what a government is all about! Government secrets

 

[phil777]

MC starting to really embody what a government is all about! Government secrets

I mean, he already has a minister of the back doing the spy stuff for him.

 

[Kaarme]

erm yeah I totally built this massive aircraft carrier in secret and never told anyone (or the reader) about it until we conveniently needed it

I was just thinking that I must have forgotten the scene were this was foreshadowed. But I guess it was a retcon line, then, to say he launched the project back then.

Lack of fertilisers is not a problem even worth mentioning for Souma.

 

[ciera]

thank you for the update

 

[Baelgun]

Nice to see one of his "ideas" fail (ie. the wheat) but i'm pretty he'll bullshit his way into making it a success.

 

[JACGohu]

Nice to see one of his "ideas" fail (ie. the wheat) but i'm pretty he'll bullshit his way into making it a success.

For all we know this is just a step. Research takes time, and almost never gets it right the first time. Even under normal irl circumstances. The research in this case is researching the method of farming, more than just the land they're planting in. I sense a hydroponics project in the making.

 

[isoycrazy]

I like seeing Castor being humbled.

Thanks for the translation.

 

[Baelgun]

For all we know this is just a step. Research takes time, and almost never gets it right the first time. Even under normal irl circumstances. The research in this case is researching the method of farming, more than just the land they're planting in. I sense a hydroponics project in the making.

Oh i know full well that research take time it's just that in Isekai manga they usually introduce technology with no research and somehow everything ends up working magically.

I'll leave my favorite quote about research here : "There are two kinds of scientific progress: the methodical experimentation and categorization which gradually extend the boundaries of knowledge, and the revolutionary leap of genius which redefines and transcends those boundaries. Acknowledging our debt to the former, we yearn, nonetheless, for the latter."

 

[Doomer]

the author really underestimates the complexity of modern aircraft carriers, i very much doubt MC has blueprint knowledge about battleships

 

[hurafloyd]

Souma starts to look for Pearl Harbor in secret

 

[Shinigami_Death]

the author really underestimates the complexity of modern aircraft carriers, i very much doubt MC has blueprint knowledge about battleships

In the universe of the manga, the people know how to create large metal vessels floating on water, so they most likely already knew how to make larger vessels but there was no point in doing them because there weren't any efficient way to make them move nor were there any specific purpose for them to be larger because they'd simply be a slow inefficient big target. Here, the MC probably didn't give the blueprint for the carrier. I'd say he gave the ideas, he made people research what could make it work, here propulsion engines, and made it work.

 

[Cobaltzero]

Nice to see one of his "ideas" fail (ie. the wheat) but i'm pretty he'll bullshit his way into making it a success.

It didn't fail per se.
They gave a clue on the same page as them describing the issue.
 WATER
¥5 says Souma brings up hydroponics shortly.

 

[Al_Azif]

For a research department, they sure gave up quickly despite knowing what their experiment lacks, huh.

 

[CraniumAmbiguity]

Everyone is talking about Hydroponics being the key here. I thought the solution was going to be a plant that gives more nutrients than it takes from the soil, like soy beans.

 

[Haezer]

It's nice to see the other side characters getting their fair share of romance and love they deserved. I've read a lot of manga where waifus come up left and right and none of them fall for the side characters and it's quite annoying tbh.

 

[onihikage]

If their goal is to green a desert, they need to start with local plants that are almost hardy enough to grow in a desert in the first place, which only need supplied with a little bit of extra water to prosper in that environment. Those plants will shade the ground and retain water, reducing evaporation, which will allow slightly less hardy local plants to be grown without increasing the supplementary water. In the course of this process, they'll be able to introduce local small animals and fungi that can live among the brush and reinforce the hardiness of those plants by introducing additional nutrients and steadily creating new soil to replace the sand. Proceeding in this way, eventually they're planting full-blown trees.

The whole time, human beings are tending this land like a garden, culling diseased or harmful plants and eliminating fauna that interfere with the prosperity of the system as a whole. It's not a fast process; it can take decades just to make notable progress in the real world, and that assumes you don't make any mistakes like introducing a species that reverses past progress. Their conclusion that using magic to accelerate plant growth won't allow them to green a desert is correct, and I hope the author eventually shows the process that actually works in the real world.

 

[MesaOracle]

The only IJN ship I wanna see is Kongo, and then only if it's the Kongo from KanColle.
Last I looked, they were not surrounded by deserts so wtf. Is he planing on colonizing Arrakis?

 

[CrimsonSix]

Everyone is talking about Hydroponics being the key here. I thought the solution was going to be a plant that gives more nutrients than it takes from the soil, like soy beans.

It's complicated because there are multiple nutrients that plants need. Soy beans and other legumes can fix nitrogen from the atmosphere, but it's not really possible to obtain other nutrients like that. I think the long-term solution would be a circular economy, with sewage from cities and towns being processed into fertiliser to replenish the soil.