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After more than 20 years of development, the industrial revolution in recent years has reached a concentrated flashpoint.

Ten years ago, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed the first generator.

Seven years ago, researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences discovered a way to transmit electricity over long distances.

Five years ago, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences finally made the first practical electric lamp out of a carbonized bamboo wire placed in a vacuum glass bottle, which lasted for 400 hours.

Two years ago, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences filled nitrogen under the glass bubble and improved the filament, and finally made a carbonized bamboo wire lamp that can last for 1,200 hours.

Since then, electric lights have begun to enter the lives of people in Dazhong, and the night has become bright.

Li Yan also formally proposed the concept of power stations, and proposed the idea of hydroelectric power stations and wind power stations - initially, a generator equipment only supplied electricity for lighting on a house or a street, and this kind of power station generated a small amount of electricity, and with the introduction of electric lights, such power stations were obviously no longer enough.

More than 20 years ago, under the auspices of Li Yan, Dazhong developed the steam engine, and then the train was born.

After continuous improvement, the researchers of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed an internal combustion engine fueled by gasoline more than ten years ago.

A few years later, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed an internal combustion engine with a simpler structure and cheaper fuel - diesel engine.

Seven years ago, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed the first motor vehicle - the car is a three-wheeled car, using a two-stroke single-cylinder gasoline engine, this car has some basic characteristics of later cars, such as spark ignition, water-cooled cycle, steel tube frame, leaf spring suspension, rear-wheel drive, front-wheel steering and brake handlebars.

Four years ago, as the internal combustion engine became more and more mature, especially the invention of the diesel engine, researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences finally worked tirelessly to develop an excellent engine - this kind of engine is about 1,000 revolutions per minute, simple and compact structure, and can produce a lot of power.

This engine was soon fitted to two-wheelers, three-wheelers, and four-wheelers, making engine cars.

Last year, researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences built a gasoline-engined four-wheeled truck, equipped with the latest engine, and reached speeds of 18 kilometers per hour.

The automobile has been officially born and has begun to develop at a high speed.

And as it stands, one of the most useful research results is the telegraph.

Due to the discovery of electricity, researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences slowly discovered the various characteristics of electricity, and naturally began to study the possibility of using electricity to transmit information.

A few years ago, at the request of the intelligence department of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, researchers of the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed a code that could be used for communication between the two places on the basis of the mousse code "invented" by Li Yan in those years.

As a result, the telegraph was born.

The earliest wires were single-wired, requiring a full loop through the ground, with limited transmission distances and inability to cross the ocean.

Later, through Li Yan's continuous investment in improvements, this telegram could spread farther and farther.

Now, the farthest telegraph line can reach Dingyuan City, and from Zhongdu to the farthest Kangguo (later Portugal), it only takes a dozen times to transmit it.

This has played a tremendous role in promoting the consolidation of Dazhong's rule.

Before the invention of the telegraph, the main methods of long-distance communication included: post delivery, carrier pigeons, carrier dogs, and beacon smoke.

A courier is a person who is in charge of carrying the letter to its destination by a horse or other means of transportation.

Setting up a reliable and fast post system is very costly, starting with a good road network and then equipping it with the right post facilities.

It is even more infeasible in areas with limited access.

The use of carrier pigeons for communication is very unreliable and is limited by weather and routes.

Another type of communication method is to use signals that are visible to the naked eye, such as beacon smoke or swing-arm signals, and light signals, and transmit them by relay method.

This method is also costly and susceptible to weather and terrain.

Before the invention of the telegraph, only the most important messages were delivered, and the speed was unbearably slow from Li Yan's point of view.

In addition, on the basis of the telegraph, Li Yan had officially put forward the concept of the telephone.

It's just that the phone is still in the theoretical stage.

Let's put it this way, in the years when Li Cun controlled the power of Dazhong, Li Yan was actually not idle, in addition to creating people to greatly increase the population of the royal family and conquering the whole of Central Asia and Europe, Li Yan also presided over the development of a series of epoch-making things.

These things have greatly promoted the development of productive forces, whether it is people's lives or industry, there has been great progress, but also promoted the emergence of new industries such as electric lights, automobiles and chemicals, these things and their industries have made Dazhong more powerful, and economic growth has also appeared a new high.

The point is that the advent of the telegraph has made communication with Dazhong more convenient and rapid.

In addition, the early birth of trains, ships and other means of transportation has also made the connection between various regions of the world more convenient and close.

In this way, the world market is further formed.

Now, the whole world is moving forward at a high speed, centered on large and medium-sized enterprises.

But—

There is not only a good side to everything, but also a bad side.

The increase in the productive forces has made production more concentrated, which also represents the emergence of monopolies, in other words, some capitalists have begun to appear, the masses are increasingly divided into the bourgeoisie and the working class, and the opposite of social contradictions has begun to form.

In addition, the gap between the rich and the poor, the expansion of the urban population, the housing crowding, environmental pollution and other drawbacks have also begun to appear.

The monster released by Li Yan himself is obviously not under Li Yan's control, and Li Yan can't guess what kind of impact it will have on the economy, politics, culture, military, science and technology, productivity, and environment of human society.

The only thing Li Yan can do is to guide in the best direction as much as possible.

For example:

Li Yan has now put forward the concept of environmental protection, and vigorously encourages the development of green energy, such as electricity, hydropower, solar energy, wind energy, and so on.

To be more specific, such as cars and trains, Li Yan guides researchers to develop in electrical energy.

Like agriculture, taking advantage of the fact that oil and fertilizer agriculture has not yet appeared, Li Yan took the first step to put forward the agricultural model of Cuba in the later generations, that is, ecological agriculture, to put it bluntly, it is to reduce the input of petrochemical products to agriculture on a large scale, do not rely on external resources, rely on the natural cycle of land and nature to maintain soil fertility, increase grain production, and the specific method is the integration of planting and breeding.

It's just—

Li Yan can also guide as much as possible, and Li Yan doesn't know what this society will develop into in the end.

By the way, all these things that Li Yan did invisibly increased Li Yan's prestige, so that Li Xiu could only stand at Li Yan's feet and look up at Li Yan.

In addition, Li Xiu does not have as much aura as Li Cun, and his position as the crown prince is not like Li Cun's crown prince, which has been brought to him since he was a child, but because Li Yan changed the inheritance model for him to pick up.

Therefore, Li Xiu behaved very humblely, respectful to Li Yan from the bottom of his heart, and completely obeyed all Li Yan's arrangements.

Soon, Li Yan found that he seemed to cooperate better with Li Xiu - Li Xiu didn't want to get rid of Li Yan's influence at all, but completely followed the path that Li Yan planned for him, which had the meaning of Xiao Gui Cao Sui.

Soon after, Li Yan began to feel that it seemed better for Li Xiu to inherit his throne than for Li Cun to inherit his throne.

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