Steam trains?

Designed so quickly?!

This speed shocked Zhu Xiongying a little.

After all, in the original historical trajectory, from the invention of the steam engine to the appearance of the first steam train, it has gone through nearly a century of development, and I don't know how many detours have been taken during the period.

But at this time, it was only a month since Xue Ji invented the steam engine.

A century and a month, the time gap between the two is inevitably too large.

In fact, this is Zhu Xiongying himself falling into his own fixed thinking misunderstanding.

The reason why it took a century to go from steam engines to steam trains in the original history was because people at that time did not have the idea of using steam engines to build trains, or even the concept of "trains" at all.

For an entire century, it is estimated that 99% of that time was spent advancing concepts.

But here in Yukihime, it's completely different.

Although Zhu Xiongying didn't understand anything, he knew the existence of such a thing as a 'steam train' and instilled this concept into Xue Ji, which was the biggest help.

The apple cow has a saying that says it well: stand on the shoulders of giants.

For Xue Ji, Zhu Xiongying is that natural giant.

Of any invention, theories seem to be the most useless, but they are also the most difficult to establish.

Going from 0 to 1 is the hardest.

But when you already get 1 and know that 1.1 exists, it's no longer difficult to go from 1 to 1.1.

"Can you keep up with the construction process?"

Zhu Xiongying asked in a condensed voice.

The principle of the steam train is very simple, it is nothing more than relying on burning coal to convert heat to promote the steam engine to do work, mainly to remind the huge structure, although this thing is not fine in the casting process.

But with the craftsmanship level of the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid it is still difficult to achieve for a while.

When Xue Ji heard this, she smiled.

Obviously, he had long expected Zhu Xiongying to ask himself this question.

"The concubines have discussed with the craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry in advance, and they can do it on the premise that the silver taels are sufficient."

After the invention of the steam engine, Zhu Xiongying immediately involved the Ministry of Industry to professionally improve the steam engine and promote it to various industries, striving to promote the evolution of the Ming Dynasty from an agricultural society to an industrial society.

Zhu Xiongying thought for a moment.

"It's lonely."

"But if you need it, you can ask the household department to withdraw the silver taels."

The first attempt is bound to be accompanied by many failures and detours, in which the amount of silver that needs to be spent is bound to be huge.

With the permission of His Royal Highness Taisun, especially feeling His Royal Highness's unconditional trust in him, Xue Ji had excitement on her face and saluted respectfully.

"Your Highness Xie~!"

"Well, get up."

Then Zhu Xiongying raised his hand slightly, pointed between Xue Ji's eyebrows, and a wisp of divine sense penetrated.

Still not. ’

In the past ten days, Xue Ji has eaten Linggu every day, and in the past few days, she has eaten Linggu three times a day.

But so far, there is still no sign of a spiritual root being born in her body.

In Zhu Xiongying's opinion, he didn't particularly care if other people could have spiritual roots.

But Yukihime, there must be.

Because Zhu Xiongying has an idea.

Using the mana of the cultivator as the fuel of the internal combustion engine, the industry of the Ming Dynasty and the immortal path were combined to create a new era that was completely different from the original history.

The steam engine burns coal.

Coal mines, just dig the mountain, with Tao Chengdao, a gunpowder expert, blowing up the mountain is a small problem, and now there is a steam engine, and it is not a big problem to design a coal digging machinery tool.

Coal can be burned, and the efficiency of thermal conversion is too low.

According to the industrial progress of the original history, it is necessary to further improve, that is, to develop the internal combustion engine, and the internal combustion engine is not to burn coal, but to burn oil and natural gas, etc.

With Daming's current industrial technology, it is relatively difficult to extract oil and then purify it.

Moreover, it is also troublesome.

It would be much more convenient if mana could be used instead of fuel.

Every practitioner is a mobile gas station and can be recycled.

As the chief engineer of Zhu Xiongying's promotion of the industrial age, Xue Ji must become a cultivator, and only if she has the magic power herself, can she fit perfectly in the invention.

"Eat this."

Zhu Xiongying was silent for a moment, then turned over his hand, and a thumb-sized Ice Blue Pill appeared in the palm of his hand.

He only has one pill.

"This is..."

Xue Ji looked at this Ice Blue Pill and was stunned for a moment.

The bursts of aroma emitted by the Ice Blue Pill were fragrant, and there was a shallow circle of ice mist on the surface, just by smelling it, it was refreshing.

Subconsciously took this Ice Blue Pill pill, Xue Ji looked at Zhu Xiongying with her eyes, and only after getting Zhu Xiongying's head did she put it in her mouth.

The pill melted in the mouth, turning into a cold stream and falling into the body.

The taste is cold, but after entering the body, there is an extremely hot feeling surging in the body, Xue Ji's cheeks are flushed in an instant, and she feels that the whole person's body is like thousands of ants gnawing, and she can't help but get anxious.

"Your Highness, the concubine is good, it's so hot..."

Just as Xue Ji was flushing and eager, Zhu Xiongying took her into her arms.

After a few minutes, the Easy Chair swayed on its own.

With his own great mana, the archmage spent an hour and a half helping Xue Ji perfectly absorb the power of the Cleansing Pill.

"How does it feel?"

Zhu Xiongying looked at Xue Ji with a blushing face in his arms.

"Much better."

Yukihime exhaled.

At this moment, her body glowed with a slight golden light, which lasted for about five breaths.

"Huh?"

Yukihime looked at the golden light on her body, and her face showed disbelief on her face.

The golden light appears, representing the birth of the spiritual root.

"This impeachment was not done in vain."

Zhu Xiongying was very satisfied, and then spoke in a deep voice.

"Yukihime, carefully remember what Lone said to you next."

When Xue Ji heard this, her face immediately changed to a serious look.

Then Zhu Xiongying roughly talked about his understanding of the internal combustion engine, of course, the archmage who is a scumbag said very basic, but for Xue Ji, whose talent and IQ are comparable to that of Apple Cow, these foundations are enough.

For this part of the internal combustion engine fuel, he directly told Yukihime to directly replace it with 'mana'.

And this concept of 'mana', after the birth of the spiritual root, Yukihime will slowly understand.

"The concubine understands~"

Yukihime nodded, a look of realization in her eyes.

Looking at Xue Ji in front of her, Zhu Xiongying couldn't help but sigh with emotion, this kind of well-behaved and smart, graceful woman, and rabbit rolling rabbit is simply a great love in the world.

"Go get busy."

Zhu Xiongying said that Xue Ji is different from other concubines, in addition to sleeping every day, she is dedicated to the construction of Daming industry at other times, and is inspired to shine for the Daming Immortal Dynasty.

It's not that Yukihime is interested in this.

She is just a woman, and she has no lofty ideals and ambitions.

But in Xue Ji's opinion, such a self can help His Royal Highness Taisun, as long as she can help His Royal Highness, even if it is just a penny, she will do her best to do it.

"The concubine retired~"

After Yukihime retreats.

"Your Highness, the left attendant of the household department, Xia Yuanji, is here to see you."

Xiaobao's voice came from outside the screen sliding door.

"Xuan."

Zhu Xiongying lay on the rocking chair and looked at the starry sky in the sky.

For Xia Yuanji's visit, Zhu Xiongying is also used to it.

Xia Yuanji is a typical liver-exploding workaholic, a night owl.

The soy sauce party in the household department is estimated to have been tortured by Xia Yuanji.

Ten days ago, Xia Yuanji had already come to meet Zhu Xiongying once, and at the same time brought his business plan, and the stack of plans was enough for five household heads, of course Zhu Xiongying didn't read it, and directly approved him.

At the same time, he handed over the expansion of the planting of the Linggu to Xia Yuanji, and selected the best field in the suburbs of Beijing, which was guarded by tens of thousands of forbidden troops, and the Linggu was planted in it.

"See Your Highness."

Xia Yuanji entered the stargazing tower and saluted respectfully.

"Your Highness, the Linggu is harvested every three to five days, and the harvest is excellent, and now the treasury has been piled up, but now the Linggu is still golden, and the size is no different from ordinary rice grains."

As he spoke, Xia Yuanji took out a golden ear of wheat from his sleeve, and looking at the size of this spirit valley, it was already the same as ordinary rice.

"You're here to talk about this with Lone?"

Zhu Xiongying glanced at Xia Yuanji.

With the expansion of planting, Zhu Xiongying has long known about the fact that the Spirit Valley has become smaller, because the Taisun Mansion also maintains a small scale of Spirit Valley cultivation.

For this reason, Zhu Xiongying also deliberately studied the difference between the smaller Spirit Valley and the Great Spirit Valley.

Verified that there is no difference in the effect between the two.

At present, Linggu is open to tasting, except for a few people such as Xiao Yilun and Xue Ji, there is only the starting point orphanage.

Zhu Xiongying has done a lot of comparative experiments in the orphanage these days, and according to the comprehensive data of the orphans after eating the Spirit Valley, Zhu Xiongying's previous guess that it is wrong to judge the talent by eating the Spirit Valley a few times before the spirit root is born.

After a comprehensive analysis, the results were obtained, whether it was the Great Spirit Valley or the Small Spirit Valley, the Spirit Valley was just a key to unlocking its own spiritual root, and if you ate more and eat less several times, the effect would be the same.

It can only be said that long-term consumption by cultivators can help their cultivation, while long-term consumption by ordinary people can have the effect of strengthening the body and maintaining health.

The most accurate measure of aptitude is the birth of a spiritual root on the first few days after eating the Spirit Valley for the first time.

Such as little Yilun, the first day.

This is a great talent of the first class.

This kind of talent can only be achieved by a few people such as Xiao San and Xiao Shi Hao among the shadow guards.

As for whether the speed at which a spiritual root is born in a day has anything to do with aptitude, it is difficult to judge this in a short period of time, and we have to wait for the first batch of cultivators to grow up before we can make a comprehensive analysis.

And according to the observation in the past half a month, after nine days from the first devouring of the Spirit Valley, the Spirit Root will not be born, at least until now, none of the more than 100 children who gave birth to the Spirit Root in the orphanage were born nine days later.

There are more than 2,000 orphans in the orphanage, and the birth rate of spiritual roots is 5%, far exceeding the 1/10,000 given by the system, which shows that the talent rate of adopting orphans is extremely high.

According to the time sequence of the birth of the spiritual root, Zhu Xiongying temporarily divided the spiritual root into nine grades, one to nine grades.

Such as Xiao Yilun, it is a first-class spiritual root.

And the ninth day birth spirit root is the nine-rank spirit root.

In addition to Xiao San, Shi Hao and others who have already entered the shadow guard, among the more than 100 children who have been born in the orphanage, there is only one Yipin Linggen, and that is a melancholy boy named Ye Fan.

"Your Highness is wise, you really can't hide anything from Your Highness."

Xia Yuanji smiled awkwardly and hurriedly continued.

"Your Royal Highness, there have been frequent natural disasters in various places recently, and the surplus food of the victims has been seriously damaged, and all the political secretaries have reported the disaster situation and asked the imperial court to allocate grain for disaster relief, if it is one or two places, it is just that, the imperial court is still rich in food hoarding, but now there are too many places to request disaster relief, there are twenty-three places in various places, and the household department is really..."

Xia Yuanji looked ashamed.

He still remembered that when he first took office, he patted his chest in front of Zhu Xiongying and promised that as long as he Xia Yuanji was there, he would definitely make Daming's treasury abundant, but now it can't be solved just by facing some natural disasters.

"Disaster relief in the Valley of the Spirit."

Zhu Xiongying opened his mouth.

He didn't blame Natsuharaji.

The reason is also very simple, if it is an ordinary natural disaster of the times, with Xia Yuanji's allocation of the household department, the current treasury is full enough to cope with everything.

But the frequency of natural disasters at the moment is unusual, it is God who is targeting Zhu Xiongying, not Xia Yuanji's fault.

God maliciously sent disasters, and the supply of ordinary rice grain must be insufficient.

Only the growth rate of Linggu can solve the current problem.

And according to Zhu Xiongying's plan, now that the first batch of people who swallowed Linggu has finished the experiment, and the first batch of experimental data has been obtained, it can indeed be popularized by the whole people.

Of course, in this promotion process, it is necessary to strictly order the inspectors of the political departments to record all the proud sons of heaven who have produced spiritual roots.

These people are the first batch of laborers of the Ming Immortal Dynasty.

In addition, the popularization of cultivation in Linggu can greatly liberate the productive forces of the people.

The Linggu can ripen in three to five days, which means that the people of the Ming Dynasty no longer need to spend a lot of time cultivating in the fields, but can put their minds elsewhere.

For example, industry and commerce.

Of course, while liberating the productive forces, universal education and work needs must keep up, otherwise there will be nothing to do, and there will be tattooed elders everywhere, and there will be big problems with social security.

"You go and prepare the Spirit Valley for disaster relief, and then tell Gu after you finish counting."

Of course, Zhu Xiongying would not send people to travel long distances to transport grain.

For this kind of thing, I usually go out with 10,000 catties, and when I get to the place, there are less than 3,000 catties left.

In the past half a month, Zhu Xiongying has been practicing the Great Shifting Technique, and it is the same wherever he moves when he is practicing, so during this period, he has taken the time to set up a Qiankun Movement Formation in various political offices in the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, except for the places in Zhu Laosi's hands in the north.

Zhu Xiongying also selected fourteen shadow guards with five or six spiritual roots from the shadow guards, these few shadow guards eat and drink in the Taisun Mansion, and have been under Zhu Xiongying's highly intensive training.

When the training is over, let them try their hand at the work of the Qiankun Envoy.

If the training of this first batch of Qiankun envoys is successful, then the Ming Qiankun Prison will be formally established.

It just so happened that this disaster relief and grain transportation could be used as a practical training exercise.

………………

In the north, Liaodong Phoenix City, this city is also known as Phoenix Fort, which is the last important town on the Liaodong Peninsula near Goryeo, and it is also the last place of defense of Zhu Quan, the current king of Ning.

If Phoenix City is lost again, Zhu Quan can only go to Goryeo to beg for food.

"Rubbish!"

"It's all rubbish!

”

Zhu Quan's roar rang out from the mansion in Phoenix City.

In addition to the shocking snakeskin on his body, Zhu Quan's ability to speak has now been restored.

He went from being the strongest vassal king with the strongest combat power in the world, holding 100,000 iron troops, and 1,000 chariots, to the current situation.

The soldiers and horses under his command are only in their early 20,000s, and most of them are disabled.

However, Zhu Quan reviewed all the decisions he had made during this time, and none of the steps were wrong, every step was decisive and ruthless.

Let him do it all over again, it will still be like this.

Among them, there is only one variable.

That is, every battle with the Yan army, even if it initially has an advantage, or even forms a crushing trend, it will eventually be defeated under the influence of strange factors.

For example, when Fu Yuwei and Duo Yan Wei raided the Yan army after going around, it was almost a sure victory, but at the last moment, Fu Yu Wei and Duo Yan Wei sat down and committed epilepsy.

Who the hell is going to reason with this kind of thing? It's clear that you're messing with me!

"Your Highness, Zhu Gaoxu and Qiu Fu are attacking in two ways, and they are only thirty miles away from Phoenix Fort!"

At this moment, his cronies came to report.

Zhu Quan clenched his fists tightly, he wanted to rush out to fight to the death, but reason told him that it must not be like this, rushing out is a dead word,

He now has more than 20,000 soldiers and horses under his command, this is his last capital, no matter where he goes, even if he goes to Mobei to fight in the wilderness, this capital can make him have the possibility of turning over.

A gritted tooth, a stomp of the foot.

"Withdraw from Liaodong!"

After retreating from Liaodong, Zhu Quan had only two places to go.

One, go to Goryeo to eat kimchi.

Second, go to Mobei to eat scorpions.

………………

Jindi, Taiyuan Mansion.

The current King of Jin, Zhu Di, is already two big heads.

He stood on the wall of Taiyuan Mansion with an ugly face, looking at the moonlight outside, the Yandi army led by Zhang Yu and Tan Yuan was suppressed, and the whole person's brain was buzzing.

From the beginning of the Yan army's offensive half a month ago, until now, he was still in a state of confusion, and he had unconsciously made the situation what it is now.

"Father, the Yan army has begun to attack the city."

Zhu Jixi's face on the side was gloomy, he had several war wounds on his body, and he was weak when he spoke, and he didn't have the heroic spirit of half a month ago.

"Order all armies to defend the city to the death!"

"The Yan army is advancing too fast this time, as long as it is defended for a few days, the Yan army's grain and grass will definitely not be able to be helped, and it will be able to counterattack at that time."

Zhu Di was actually right, but that was for the conventional situation.

I saw that he had just finished speaking.

Suddenly, a howling wind rose.

', here we go again!' ’

Zhu Di and Zhu Jixi were both cold-hearted, and they were even used to this kind of accident, so they couldn't help but scold their mothers.

I saw that in the sky above Taiyuan Mansion, there were suddenly dark clouds gathering rapidly under the moonlight, and after a symbolic wind blowing a stick of incense, there was a fist-sized hail falling wildly.

And this hail range is only in Taiyuan Mansion, and the Yan army attacking the city outside the city is not affected at all.

', they are all the sons of Lao Zhu, it's too eccentric! ’

Zhu Di stared at the sky, his eyes were about to burst into flames.

"Father, we have to make plans early, so that Taiyuan Mansion will not be able to hold it sooner or later."

Zhu Jixi said in a condensed voice.

King Yan has the help of heaven, and it is no longer a strategy to win.

………………

Beiping Mansion, Yanwang Mansion Study.

In this study, there were only four people sitting.

Zhu Di, the king of Yan, Daoyan, a monk in black, Zhu Gaochi, who has no money, is fat, and Zhu Gaosui, an arrogant layman.

Zhu Laosi's face looked ruddy and shiny, and after changing the bad luck some time ago, the injuries on his shoulders and face were almost healed, and his mood was even better.

It's just that the recent battle was too enjoyable.

The right attack on Ning, the left attack on Jin, but the two-front battle can be frequent.

"Your Royal Highness, the current King of Ning Zhu Quan only has the last Phoenix City left, as long as the army of His Royal Highness is pressed, with the temperament of King Ning, he will definitely lead the troops to withdraw from Liaodong."

"As for the King of Jin, there is no need to worry, Zhang Yu and Tan Yuan's army should have arrived at Taiyuan Mansion, and the acting king has already sent an envoy to express his intention to dedicate the land, and in just three or five days, the land of the six kings in the north will all belong to His Royal Highness."

"The next step is to integrate the army, the soldiers should be in the sky, as for the Sudi, Qingdi and Qindi, you only need to hold the border fortresses, and it will not be a problem to hold it for a month or two, and after His Royal Highness takes Yingtian as quickly as possible and ascends the throne as the emperor, he can surrender with an edict."

When Dao Yan said this, his tone was very calm.

Zhu Di listened with a surging mood.

"Dad, the second brother's speed is too ink, if it were me, I would have driven Zhu Quan to Goryeo to eat kimchi."

Zhu Gaosui looked arrogant.

"Shut up!"

Zhu Laosi glared at the arrogant layman.

Among his three sons, the eldest Zhu Gaochi is responsible for the supply and allocation of food and property, and the second is responsible for charging forward, but this third is still arrogant all day long.

Zhu Gaosui pursed his lips, in fact, he really wanted to go to the battlefield, but Zhu Laosi never let him.

Then Zhu Di looked at Zhu Gaoxu.

"Gao Xu, the army is marching left and right, and you have to take care of the grain and grass."

Big Fat nodded hurriedly.

"Dad, don't worry, the child has been prepared in advance, and there will be no problems with the grain road."

Zhu Di bowed slightly, he was fat and relieved.

Zhu Laosi took a deep breath, he had been planning for so many years, and he had finally come to this point.

The sword points to the sky and competes for the world!

Although this day came a little suddenly, it came a little fast, the changes in the past half a month, Zhu Laosi now thinks back, and he has a very unrealistic illusion.

Now he is more confident than ever, he has completely believed that the destiny of heaven is in him, otherwise it is impossible to fight every battle like heaven's help, once or twice is accidental, but more is inevitable.

At this moment, Ji Gang entered the study.

can not report in, it can be seen that the current Ji Gang has become a henchman among Zhu Laosi's henchmen.

Ji Gang's current position is that of King Yan's army.

"Your Highness, Guo Zi's essay has been written."

Ji Gang held a copy of the document and presented it respectfully.

Zhu Laosi took it, since he had annexed the Six Kings, the previous document issued in the name of the Six Kings would naturally be invalidated, and Zhu Laosi wanted to find a reason for himself to raise troops alone.

There are four words on the text, which are extremely eye-catching.

Fengtian is difficult.