Chapter 327: It's Not What It Used To Be
In the seventh year of Tianyou, Wang Jian led 10,000 troops to enter the country of Gülen, at this time the country of Gülen has been divided, becoming dozens of large and small national groups, fighting each other, Wang Qian's army rode in a dragon car, came, with muskets and cannons, not to mention these small countries, even the original unified Gülen country could not fight against it.
Wang Jian is a famous general, even if his army has the strength to crush the other party, but he is not a strong attack, but uses a means of smashing vertically and horizontally, attracting some moderate national ethnic groups to suppress those hardliners, the advantage of this is that within a year to unify the country of Glan, of course, at this time it is not called the country of Glan, but has become the territory of the Great Zhou.
At this time, Liu Yuetian arrived here with his family in a fire dragon car, and he was accompanied by a large number of people from the Great Zhou, who volunteered to follow Liu Yuetian.
Some aliens still want to restore the glory of the Gülen country for several years, Liu Yuetian doesn't care about them, just vigorously improve the people's livelihood, spread a lot of technology, he occasionally performs "miracles", many Gülen people are frightened and overwhelmed, and even some tribal groups use Liu Yuetian to replace their gods, and every family worships, this belief Liu Yuetian doesn't care, what he wants to do is to convince everyone through technology.
In the fifteenth year of Tianyou, the steam engine was finally applied in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and Gao Huan's scientific research institute also made progress, and the first electric engine was born.
The birth of the electric engine is a big event, Liu Yuetian deliberately rushed back from outside the territory, these years Liu Yuetian has not been idle outside the territory, while "teaching" those ordinary people at the same time, vigorously develop basic industries, build a large number of roads, the longest one is from outside the territory to Tibet directly to a long highway of more than 3,000 miles finally completed, it took a full five years, and in these five years, a large number of villages and towns around the highway have also begun to appear, and the large area of no man's land has also begun to appear popular.
Many people pilgrimage to the Great Zhou, at the same time, many merchants in the Great Zhou also began to continue to enter the country of Gelan, such as the Shen family merchants, they sold a large amount of silk and tea to earn wealth, and at the same time, a lot of furs outside the territory were also brought back to the Great Zhou, and now Shen Wansan is really the richest man in the world, and those people outside the territory are more full of yearning for the culture of the Great Zhou after seeing the wealth of the Great Zhou, and they will vigorously promote it after returning to their own place of residence, which can also promote the continuous exchange between the two cultures. It is something that Liu Yuetian wants to see.
It only took five days for Liu Yuetian to travel from Ge Lan to Tibet, which was unimaginable before, at this time he and Sun Shangxiang had five children, and these children made Liu Yuetian add a lot of sweet "troubles" to the balance.
"Lord, your appearance is no different from seven years ago, not only you, but even the appearance of the eldest princess has not changed from back then, unlike us, in the blink of an eye, you have become an old man of forty or fifty years old!"
Shi Le said with a sigh that the others were also very excited to see Liu Yuetian, and the eyes of literati like Fang Xuanling, Zhang Juzheng, and Zu Chongzhi were filled with tears.
Liu Yuetian has been away from Tianshui for seven years, although the two sides have sent messages through carrier pigeons from time to time, but they have not met for such a long time, everyone present misses Liu Yuetian very much, and at the same time sighs that time flies, the oldest Shi Le has passed fifty years old, and he is already an old man in this era, even Liu Yuetian is now thirty-five years old, and he is also middle-aged.
However, Liu Yuetian's subordinates are proficient in martial arts, and now almost all the generals have opened up the meridians, Shi Le, Fu Jian, Chang Yuchun and Gao Huan and other generals have more than eighty military generals, even if they are literati like Zu Chong's Fang Xuanling, they have also penetrated the meridians after practicing the Yijin Sutra, although the force value is not high, but the physical strength value is very amazing, far beyond ordinary people, such a high physical strength value means that their life expectancy is far away from ordinary people, and there is no problem at all to live a hundred or ten years old, for example, the Bodhidharma Patriarch is already over ninety years old this year, But the body is still strong, and there are not many problems in living for more than 90 years.
As for Sun Shangxiang, she and Liu Yuetian get along day and night, and her kung fu is naturally not weak, although it is not as good as Liu Yuetian, but it is not bad compared to Shi Le, which makes her appearance basically not much changed, it is still the same as seven or eight years ago, saying that she is a big girl Some people believe that she would think that she is already the mother of five children.
A few years have passed, Shi Le, Chang Yuchun, Gao Huan and others have all married families and children, they have at least two wives, and Gao Huan even married a woman from outside the territory and gave birth to a beautiful son with blonde hair.
"Brother Gao, it seems that you are still powerful! I actually married a princess of the Gülen clan, admire, admire! ”
Liu Yuetian joked.
"Hehe, my lord, don't make fun of me, in the past few years, a large number of aliens have entered our Great Zhou, they are all coming for you, you are a great general, your prestige exceeds anyone else, if you want to marry a wife, I am afraid that the women in the world will go crazy."
Gao Huan laughed.
His words immediately made everyone laugh, Gao Huan was right, the nobles of many ethnic groups outside the territory have been trying to please Liu Yuetian for so many years, and some people even want to give him their own daughters, Sun Shangxiang is very generous on the surface, but in fact, of course, he grabs Liu Yuetian in his heart, once a certain big clan comes to worship her with a beautiful woman, he will follow Liu Yuetian and not let go of it, which makes those people very headache.
However, Liu Yuetian is single-minded and never cares about those women with ulterior motives.
"Haha, don't let the eldest prince know this, if he knows, hmph, she won't let you go!"
Sun Shangxiang took a group of children to play in Tianshui and was not around, otherwise he would definitely teach Gao Huan a hard lesson.
"That's, that's, if the princess is here, we don't dare to say these jokes, the lord's character is known all over the world, I don't want us, everyone has married several wives, but the children are not as many as the lord, Yuchun only has three children at most, we are still not as good as the lord in this regard!"
Shi Le said with a smile on the side.
"I can't control how many wives you marry, but remember that women are also human beings, and you must not bully them for no reason."
Liu Yuetian said.
"Don't worry, my lord, our law says that everyone has equal rights, even we don't dare to bully people for no reason, otherwise those supervisory agencies won't let us go."
Liu Yuetian has long implemented the six-ministry system within the Great Zhou, especially the supervision department, which is responsible for the behavior of officials in the world, and the highest chief of this supervision agency is Sima Qian, who is selfless after taking office, and Liu Yuetian has given him huge powers, and many officials are frightened when they see him and dare not do whatever they want.
Of course, the biggest in Da Zhou is still Liu Che, but Liu Che also understands that Liu Yuetian's majesty is definitely not something he can compare, fortunately, Liu Yuetian has always been outside the territory for so many years, and he doesn't care much about Da Zhou, but he also admires Liu Yuetian's six-part system, so he also supports it very much.
"Okay, let's not talk about these things, let me see the electric engine!"
Liu Yuetian came to a laboratory surrounded by everyone, and a huge machine more than five zhang long was parked in it, this machine was constantly rotating, and the coil cut the magnetic field lines to produce a large amount of current, which entered another machine and drove a gear with a big head to turn.
"Lord, look, this is an electric engine, and the power is quite strong, much stronger than a steam engine."
Gao Huan said.
"That's nature, that's the power of electricity, we will vigorously promote it in the future, but now this engine is still too big, and the technology needs to be improved."
Liu Yuetian looked at it and nodded.
The application of the steam engine is the beginning of the industrial age, and now the Great Zhou has initially embarked on the road of the industrial age, of course, this industrial era is still a long distance from the industrial age of Liu Yuetian's previous life, mainly because the metallurgical industry has not been fully developed, and there are also a lot of deficiencies in energy, Liu Yuetian once sat in a dragon car to look for coal mines everywhere in the country, and he found more than a dozen coal mines, among which the Tang Dynasty and the original Qing Dynasty are the most abundant, but many of these coal mines are hundreds of zhang deep underground, It is very difficult to excavate, and it is also dangerous.
Metallurgy and coal are now these two major industries Liu Che attaches great importance to, has long ordered his subordinates to start research and development and mining, just around Chang'an has established several smelters, there are hundreds of blacksmiths in the day and night to make steel and iron, most of the steel is made into dragon cars and dragon boats for military use, and some are made into civilian agricultural tools.
The same was true for coal mines, where Li Shimin, the king of Tang, and Cao Pi, the king of Wei, were responsible for mining the coal mines in the territory, and then selling most of them to Liu Che at a low price, and using the coal to heat up and then smelt.
The other princes naturally couldn't lag behind, and they also built their own smelters, but many blacksmiths were asked by Liu Che to go to Chang'an, and if there were no craftsmen, they could open a school and train them separately, so they were inferior to Liu Che in terms of construction.
Because of the large amount of coal in the Tang Dynasty and the Great Wei, Li Shimin and Cao Pi had a good life, and even the palace used heating in winter, and when they had nothing to do, they sent troops to take the fire dragon car to the Russian side three thousand miles away to grab something, and the fierce Russians were so frightened that they begged for mercy when they saw them, and even asked to become a vassal state of the Great Zhou.
There is Sun Quan in Dawu with the help of Liu Yuetian to develop very quickly, especially with the help of dragon ships, their fleet is constantly expanding outward, the countries along the way have been occupied, become the subject countries of the Great Zhou, accept the baptism of the Great Zhou culture, they are very different from the original Glan country, they are already backward, relying on offshore fishing for a living, some places do not even have decent clothes to wear, similar to the primitive society, there is no resistance to the "invasion" of the Great Zhou, but very happy, Happily accepted the civilization of the Great Zhou, there are many people who even took a boat to live in the Great Zhou, just last year, a fleet of Great Wu spared the distant continent and came to the country of Glan, and finally joined Liu Yuetian, this route opened means that there will be a steady stream of ships to reach the country of Glan, and now Liu Yuetian is preparing to take this fleet across the ocean to explore more distant places.
This is the situation of the Great Zhou now, industrialization has been initially carried out, but it has not yet fully matured, and now the power system has been invented in advance, as long as the power system is popularized throughout the country, the industrial age is really coming, of course, this process is still very long, at least fifty or sixty years, I am afraid that many people here can not see this era.