As the emperor, Liu Qingge boarded the steamship, and the other ministers had no reason to refuse, and for a time there were many people standing on the deck of the entire steamship.

"Let's test the waters!" Marco Polo shouted.

Compared with Liu Qingge's confidence, the other ministers felt that this time the test might not be successful, saying that it was not necessarily to give Liu Qingge face, after all, as the monarch of the Apocalypse, Liu Qingge was very supportive of this matter.

Boom Boom Boom ——!

Everyone heard a strange noise, and turned to look at the place where the noise had come from, and a large chimney towering into the sky was constantly releasing something like a puff of fog.

"Your Majesty, all the ministers, please see, this is something like a fog emitted from a chimney, it is all water vapor, and the whole ship is powered by steam." Marco Polo pointed not far away.

"It's a spectacle!"

"Steam can still be used as power?"

"So what's the difference between this thing and our usual boiling water?"

Marco Polo said with a smile: "This lord asked a good question, in fact, in the final analysis, there is no essential difference, but the steam engine we built is larger, and because of such a large steam engine, it can give us enough kinetic energy in just a few days of sailing." ”

"That's a rarity!"

"There weren't many sailors on the whole ship."

"Yes, it's just this steam engine!"

As the steamer slowly sailed out, everyone let out another exclamation, what a spectacle!

Marco Polo smiled and said, "If you don't understand anything, you can ask questions. ”

Today's successful test of the water indicates that the entire maritime history has reached a higher level, and everyone understands that this technology brought by Marco Polo will have a huge impact on the navigation industry of the entire Sifang Shenzhou.

"Master Mark, since this technology can be used on ships, can it also be used in other places, such as horse-drawn carriages?"

"Your Excellency, you asked a very good question, this technology can not only be used on ships when the sun never sets, but also on horse-drawn carriages, and the most direct thing is that where kinetic energy is needed, it can replace all kinds of kinetic energy that requires manpower and animal power."

"This? Wouldn't that be a great increase in efficiency? ”

"yes, it's all going to be replaced with the steam engine in Mark's mouth, wouldn't it be possible to work day and night."

"Who's to say it's not, although the size of our population has reached 500,000, but this number is simply insignificant for a country, and the most fatal impact on us is the shortage of labor, if we use these machines, we can greatly make up for the shortage of labor."

Marco Polo nodded and said: "This lord is right, especially rough labor, we can do it with machines, and we still do it by manpower for refined operations." ”

"Master Mark, I must ask you for advice when I come back, if this steamer can be popularized in agriculture, I believe our entire production capacity will be increased a lot."

"Is that all Master Zhang sees? Before, His Majesty said what to do with the fruits of our apocalypse, because of the invention of the steamship, we can choose a part of our fruits to sell to the Northern Desert. ”

"What Lord Zhang said is true, but Lord Zhang didn't say to make some preserved fruits before, so why did he change his mind then."

"Master Li, there is no need to be so rigid in doing things, this time and that, now that we can have a better choice, then we can make two choices at the same time, the first is to make preserved fruits, as for the second one, we can choose coconuts and other fruits that can be stored for a long time and transported to other countries."

"I agree with Mr. Zhang's words, with this boat, I am afraid that everyone will provide a great boost to our agriculture."

Yan Youzhi was quietly listening to everyone's speeches on the side, and he stepped forward abruptly and said: "Once this machine is popularized in large quantities, won't many people lose their jobs because of this machine." ”

Everyone was stunned by Yan Youzhi's words, but if you think about it carefully, it is true that some people sell the simplest labor, and if the steam engine is popularized in large numbers, it will indeed make some people unemployed.

"Lord Yan, there is some truth to what you said, what did the previous coachman and the previous boatman do? We already have a lot of boatmen, so we can't fire them all! ”

"Yes, if we are the people who cross the river and tear down the bridge, I am afraid that our overall image will not be good."

"Yes, everyone knows that our apocalypse is simply a pure land, and if there is a large number of boatmen who lose their jobs, the impact on us will be simply subversive."

Liu Qingge cleared his throat and said: "Everyone, our country is a developing country, isn't the people the people the people of development?" For these boatmen, we can train them to take on new positions on board, and if they are not willing to change positions, we can give them a severance pay. ”

"The whole resort will be completed next year, and we have invested so much material resources and need a large number of vendors, so can they also participate in our project?

Liu Qingge not only used ingenious ideas to crack the trap in Yan Youzhi's words, but also criticized all Yan Youzhi's words with sharp words.

Yan Youzhi immediately knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, I am also for the future of the Apocalypse, if it weren't for the advice of ministers like us to give advice to Your Majesty, wouldn't the world only listen to the words of one family." ”

Liu Qingge snorted coldly in his heart.

A good Yan Youzhi, although his words did sound like he was thinking about the apocalypse everywhere, but thinking about it carefully, he obviously never had a trace of affection for the apocalypse, which was definitely not normal.

But Liu Qingge still said: "Okay, although Lord Yan speaks freely today, let us listen to it well, what does Lord Yan have in mind." ”

"I feel that our apocalypse came out of Zhongzhou after all, and at the moment the true and false Emperor Song and Ming have not yet known that we have established ourselves as kings, but in the final analysis, we are all the people of Zhongzhou, and we should put the interests of Zhongzhou first, and the current Zhongzhou is in need of our help......"

As soon as Yan Youzhi's words came out, everyone was in an uproar, but they didn't expect that what Yan Youzhi said before was already powerful enough, and what he said now was even more shocking that he couldn't say anything, this is simply crazy!

"Lord Yan, do you think I should give up the Apocalypse now?"

"Your Majesty, that's not what the minister meant." Yan Youzhi is sincerely afraid.

"Then tell me, how should I help Zhongzhou, is it to help Song Jingshu or Song Jingyu, or to help Emperor Song Ming in Leng Wushou, is it called help?"