Lin Youde had just opened the book, and Ysera pushed the door and came in, still holding Oh-chan's favorite rabbit.

She handed the rabbit to Oh-chan, then pulled over a chair and sat down in front of Lin Youde's table.

"What, can't you sleep?" Lin Youde asked his daughter softly.

At this time, Oh-chan, who got the rabbit, no longer looked out the window, but held the rabbit doll, combing the rabbit's hair with a comb that didn't know where it came from—even though it was just a doll.

Ysera nodded lightly at Lin Youde.

"What about your sisters?" Lin Youde asked again.

"Lilith has been sleepy for a long time, and that idiot has always slept fast."

Lin Youde smiled: "Although Nia does look like a vigorous and stupid, you can't call your sister stupid so directly." ”

"She's not going to be angry when she hears it anyway." Ysera said disapprovingly, "Nia, she doesn't care about such a small thing." ”

"Not necessarily, wasn't she so angry with Lilith that she cried before?" Although Lin Youde said so, he also had to admit that his second daughter was not a person who would make trouble if her sister said a few stupid words.

The father and daughter glanced at each other, and then Lin Youde said, "Then like before, Dad will tell you a story?" ”

"No, I don't want to hear the story today—no, I'm still curious to know what Wang Wu did again, but I'll save that for next time. Today I want to hear from you, Dad, about the world you used to live in. Ysera lay on the table and looked up at Lin Youde, her eyes shining with curiosity.

"That's a lot to talk about, so you should ask questions." Lin Youde said and glanced at Oh-chan, and found that Oh-chan's attention was still on her rabbit.

Ysera thought for a moment and asked, "Is there still a war in that world?" ”

"Yes," Lin Youde looked up at the richly decorated ceiling of the special train carriage, "wars happen all the time, leaving many people from their homes. ”

"Is the war in that world also taking place in Europe?"

"No, Europe and Asia in that world are basically at peace, and Europe has been in an armed confrontation between the camps of two countries since the end of the war, but in the end it didn't happen, just some small-scale friction. Asia is a little worse than Europe because of Afghanistan, the graveyard of empires, and the strife that the British created when they withdrew from India – they divided India into two different countries and then left them with a disputed dividing line. ”

"The British have created strife again," Isera sighed, Lin Youde had already told her how bad-hearted the British were when they withdrew from the Arab region, leaving the fuse of strife in the Arab region, "Aunt Isabella is obviously a good person, but her country is so bad." ”

Lin Youde smiled.

"Daughter, you have to remember that the state is selfish and acts only for its own interests, and from the point of view of evaluating people, the state is all selfish bastards. To change this situation, it is necessary to establish a true Earth Federation and completely bury the concept of the state in the old paper of history. ”

Ysera nodded, said "I know", and then asked, "What happened to Britain in that world?" ”

"It's almost over, the colonies are gone, and even Scotland is fighting for independence. During the Royal Navy training, because there was no funding, they did not dare to use live ammunition for training, and the gunners could only shout 'bang' instead of firing guns. ”

Ysera laughed happily.

"It's really fake, Aunt Isabella can't let this know, she must be very sad."

"Why do you always call her Aunt Isabella?"

"It's just a habit." Ysera shrugged, "What about China in that plane, I know that China in that plane has finally come to its senses, but Dad, you never said how powerful Napoleon said about the sleeping giant after waking up." ”

"Well...... Lin Youde looked up and thought about it, "Actually, before I was thrown into this world, the most powerful country in the world was still the United States, and the balance of power between the East and the West was indeed reversing, but this reversal was not yet complete." However, as I told you, the Chinese are a very productive race, whether it is farming or developing industry, and the modern Chinese who have evolved into an agrarian nation are better at it than Westerners. This kind of adeptism is very evident in the China of that world, which has created many incredible miracles, such as feeding one-fifth of the world's population with very little arable land; For example, it has built a large number of super bridges in mountainous areas where engineers from all over the world have to make headaches - the world's top 100 super bridges in that time and space, and China's railway bridges account for half of the seats; For example, it has built a railway to the highest plateau in the world, and no other country has been able to build such a long railway line at such a high altitude and in such harsh conditions.

"I can tell you that I can't finish these things for three days and three nights, my daughter. Let me give you an example to let you know the production capacity of China in that world: the first place in the world's steel production is the total output of China except Hebei Province, the second place is the total output of Hebei Province excluding Tangshan City, the third place is the output of Tangshan City, and the fourth place is the ...... of the United States."

Lin Youde didn't know if this was a joke made up by anyone, but he just told it seriously, and no one here could correct him anyway.

Ysera's mouth opened wide in surprise.

"Then why hasn't China unified the world yet?" She asked.

"Technology hasn't caught up. Listen to my daughter, science and technology are the primary productive forces, and if you take over my empire in the future, you must not neglect scientists. Some projects may not be of practical significance for the time being, but the technical foundation they have stored may come in handy in the future. I've seen a lot of these things in my original world, so never take any scientific theory lightly. ”

Ysera nodded like a chicken pecking rice, and then changed the question: "In that era, was everyone's usual life any different from what we have now?" ”

"The biggest difference is." Lin Youde held up the novel on the table and shook it at Issera, "At that time, paper books began to be replaced on a large scale. At that time, everyone would have a machine that was only that big. ”

Lin Youde used his hand to compare the size of a general mobile phone to his daughter.

"This machine can make phone calls, it can send cutting-edge messages - just like a telegraph machine, except that this information is sent to the machine in the hands of a specific person, and it does not need to be encoded and decoded, all the steps are done by the machine in the blink of an eye. In addition, this small computer can store an entire library of books, which can be read anytime, anywhere. ”

Ysera glared at Lin Youde with her mouth wide open, her expression more exaggerated than when she had just heard the joke about China's steel production.

"Dad, are you bluffing me?"

"No, this is more real than the number of Chinese steel production just now."

"I know there's definitely an element of exaggeration in that steel production, but Dad, that's what you just said...... It's like magic. ”

"Any advanced technology is nothing different from magic at first glance, according to a science fiction writer in our world."

Ysera closed her mouth and thought for a moment, her eyes rolled for a while, and she continued to ask, "Did the ideas of the science fiction writers on our side come true later?" ”

"Then depending on which idea you are talking about, Wells's stealth man has not been able to realize it."

"What about Verne's cannons?" Ysera moved slightly closer to the table and looked at Lin Youde with concern, "Have the people of that world landed on the moon?" ”

"Ascended."

"So people were already colonizing the moon at that time?"

Lin Youde's expression suddenly became a little subtle.

"Not yet," he said in a tone of regret, "for a complicated reason. However, human beings have not stopped deep space exploration, our aircraft has already landed on Mars, and even a probe has landed on a comet. I think one day the time will come to colonize the universe, and if I stay in that world, maybe I'll see it in my lifetime. No, I'll see it in my lifetime. ”

"But now you're here, Dad." Ysera sighed, "No wonder you feel sorry. ”

"No, I think it's a pity that human beings have wasted too many resources in internal friction and mutual struggle, and there has been no new progress for a long time after the glory of the landing on the moon, and further exploration operations after landing on Mars have also been lost. I think it is very regrettable that the capitalists stopped investing in the probe because they did not see short-term benefits. And now, here I am, almost thirty years away from the day of the human moon landing on another world. I wish I could do better than my predecessors on another plane. ”

Ysera looked at Lin Youde, as if she was infected by what he had just said.

"No wonder Dad, you're continuing the space program in this situation."

"Yes, to be honest, it is indeed a bit difficult to continue to provide Dr. von Brown with unlimited funds and resources. Dr. von Brown himself is not upset, and it has been evident that they have recently reduced their requests for money. However, I will not order a reduction in investment in spaceflight, which is the project that I just told you about that there is no benefit for the time being but has to be carried out. This is not only to open up the frontiers of human activities, but also to promote economic and industrial development through the technologies and processes spawned by aerospace engineering. Because space engineering is a cross-domain super project, in order for the spacecraft to be successfully launched, the countries that advance the project must make breakthroughs and progress in every field. ”

Lin Youde paused.

"Do you remember what your dad told you about the little machine just now?" Lin Youde once again compared the shape of the mobile phone, "Many of the origins of this technology used in a modern country in the 21st century can be traced back to the Apollo Project, and the moon landing program provided fertile soil for the eventual birth of this 'magic box'." So, daughter, in the future, when you take over my empire, some people will definitely say that it is better to use the money to add a nutritious lunch to the children than to engage in aerospace engineering, and then you must resolutely spit on them, ridicule them, despise them, and ignore their statements. ”

Ysera nodded repeatedly.

Lin Youde stood up, looked at Oh-chan, who was asleep with a rabbit in his arms, and then came to the window and looked at the platform where soldiers were patrolling outside.

"I crossed over here and had a lot of things I wanted to do. For example, to help my country get out of its current destiny. However, what I want to do most is to speed up the rate at which humans colonize the universe. I once thought that there was something that the independent X government would definitely do better than the government of the people, and the last thing that came to mind was space colonization. Space colonization requires too much investment, and it takes too long to pay off, so the independent X government is more suitable than the civil X government to advance the colonization plan. I'm now a de facto dictator, so I'm going to use that to make humanity go a little faster on the journey to the stars and the sea. ”

Ysera looked at Lin Youde's back and was completely speechless.

She decided that if she wrote her own memoirs in the future, she would describe her father's back at this moment: "He is like Prometheus staring at the fire in the sky. His vision is grander than anything else. ”

(Hand shake to write Ysera as Isabella embarrassed, modified)