Chapter 6 In fact, the first three volumes are just prologues......

The second daughter of a certain aristocratic family, Agui, became Lyle's wife in the form of a political marriage.

The appearance is average, if you don't count the accessories, such as clothing, hairstyle, and makeup, it is probably the middle and upper level of the maids in the house.

The IQ is average, and the account books of the family's living expenses can be dizzy, but when it comes to socializing, the skills are first-class.

The character is average, and the common diseases of aristocratic women are all learned, but there are no personal characteristics of evil deeds.

Loyalty is average, compared to the phenomenon of the male master and the maid messing around, the hostess and the male servant messing around is relatively rare, but this kind of thing is still difficult to say, maybe she noticed that Lyle and the maids have some unclear relationship, and in a fit of anger, she retaliated in the form of a red apricot out of the wall.

The bad news is that Lyle doesn't feel excited at all, and the good news is that he won't even vomit out the overnight meal at a glance, and he can still live his life.

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Several maids maintain improper master-servant relationships with Lyle.

Although it can't be rationalized for scumbag behavior, there are a lot of aristocratic lords who have improper relationships with maids, keep mistresses outside, and have illegitimate children outside in this era, and Lyle is definitely not the most disorderly one.

In view of his father's lessons, Lyle did not turn these maids into real 'mistresses', but only transferred them to work beside him, and he really needed someone to follow him anyway, who was weak in his ability to live alone.

As for accidentally killing someone, Lyle will also be responsible, but he will definitely not swagger to tell Ah Gui that he has an illegitimate child, just let the pregnant maid find a reason to take a long vacation to have a child, and continue to come back as a maid after giving birth. The child is hired to be fostered outside, and the mother can take time to visit her child, and there is no problem when she grows up, but there will be no inheritance rights.

Although these maids are slightly more beautiful than the public face wives, they still seem extremely ordinary compared to the women that Lyle met in his later life, and they don't even deserve a full name, let alone the specific process of falling in love with Lyle, everything is simple.

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Charles I's oppression, contempt for Parliament, and heavy taxation led to armed clashes between royal and parliamentary factions, which expanded into a civil war.

Skipping the relevant content, the improvement of the microscope, the discovery of bacteria, the containment of the Black Death, the development and trial production of new inventions will not affect the direction of British politics, as long as you know that Lyle's father is not on the wrong side of the family.

The motherland is in a civil war, and even if Lyle wants to do business and do research, it will be affected, but this is like a 'knee reaction', what kind of movement there is in the outside world, what kind of reaction Lyle makes, it is not special at all, there is no commotion operation, and there is nothing to narrate.

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The only thing worth mentioning is Lyle's 'medium-term plan'.

(Wooooooβ€”β€”!oo There was a long hissing whistle, and the steamer passed in front of the eyes of everyone on the shore with white steam.

"Lay, Lyle, what the hell ......is this?!" The directors of the East India Company, who were invited to the shore by Lyle's father to participate in the press conference, finally knew who the real organizer of the press conference was.

Lyle glanced at the maid beside him, asked her to convey instructions to the people on the steamer in the language of the flag, and answered the doubts of the elders in the company himself: "The steamer, that's what I named. ”

"Steam...... Steamship? The directors muttered.

"You must all be familiar with the use of guns, right?" Lyell then begins with the source of his original plan, "The energy released by the explosion of gunpowder expands the air and causes the bullet to be fired...... Right? ”

The directors didn't know why, but nodded cooperatively.

"The 'steam engine' I designed was conceptually similar to a gun, except this time it used steam, and I needed it to release that tremendous force in a stable, controllable, and continuous way." Speaking of the back, Lyle deliberately slowed down the pace of his speech.

β€œβ€¦β€¦οΌβ€ Perhaps it was really visionary, or perhaps Lyell's words were too forceful, and some of these directors were already excited.

"I have applied for a patent for a series of inventions such as the steam engine, if you are interested in the mechanism and principle, you can go to the relevant institutions to check it." It is impossible for Lyle to explain to a group of laymen what a 'piston', a 'cylinder', and a 'valve' are on the spot, and no matter how eloquent he is, he can't explain it all at once, "However, the purpose is very simpleβ€”to boil water with fuel, and the water vapor pushes the mechanical elements to complete some repetitive motion." ”

"Can be used elsewhere?!" Someone immediately asked.

Lyle's father couldn't help but stand up and show off, forgetting who was too dead to ride the steam car, "In fact, I already have a steam car on my estate that doesn't need to be pulled by horses at all. ”

"No, I think it's of very low practical value, and it's a lot worse to use than a horse-drawn cart." It was Lyle, the inventor, who poured cold water on him, and made his father a little unable to get off the stage," ...... Instead, consider making it very large, pulling a cartload of heavy goods to move with great force, so that it is estimated that a special passage will be left for it. ”

The inspiration came, but no one put it into practice until Lyle's bento box.

This is partly due to the lack of productivity, and partly due to the long-term turmoil in the domestic political situation in the United Kingdom, which does not have the environment to build infrastructure on a large scale.

An old director coughed dryly, stood up and asked, "Lyle, can you tell us more about the steamship?" ”

"yes, yes, let's talk about it first." When everyone heard this, they also agreed.

What kind of business did the East India Company do, if it could improve the shipping capacity of the ships, they would also get more profits, and it is no wonder that they skipped the core equipment of the 'steam engine' and directly asked about the practical case of 'steam ships'.

"Of course there is no problem~" Lyle doesn't necessarily have to publish his inventions, but he still feels very satisfied when someone agrees with his research and development achievements over the years, "However, this is not a suitable place to introduce it, would you like to go on board with me to have a look?" ”

The directors glanced at each other, and they were a little weak in the face of new things, but the businessmen were profitable, and they saw the business opportunities on the steamship, and the golden gold coins gave them courage, "It's a great honor!" ”

…… Subsequently, the East India Company officially put into production steamships, and although steamships were destined to be internal combustion engine ships and steam turbine ships in the future, they were still advanced products in this era.

After the success of steamships, people's attention gradually shifted to the 'steam engine', and various application examples appeared in the production of various industries, and the idea of 'replacing manpower with machines' gradually appeared.

It's just that, again, Lyle's lifespan is limited and he can't see too far into the future.