After being bound to the learning system in my mother's womb, I became the empress

Chapter 271 Prepare to start the steam era

"What is this?"

Lin Wushang fed Tianlinghua blood and saw Lin Xi sitting behind the desk drawing pictures.

He leaned over and took a look. It was something he had never seen before. To be precise, it was a machine. It looked very complicated and sophisticated.

Lin Xi didn't even raise her head, and continued drawing, "Steam engine."

Lin Wushang: "Steam engine?"

Lin Xi: "Have you ever noticed the steam that boils in a pot when boiling water? That steam can even lift the lid of the pot, and a steam engine is a boiler device that boils water to produce high-pressure steam.

"The steam it produces is many times more than the steam produced when boiling water, and the power it generates is also many times that of boiling water. It can drive various machinery to operate."

She explained it very straightforwardly, and Lin Wushang understood it without any difficulty.

It was precisely because I understood it that I couldn't help but feel frightened.

It's like an ant accidentally entering a human study and getting a glimpse of mysterious knowledge that is unbearable for it.

"Are the airplanes, cars, trains, etc. you talked about before powered by steam engines?"

Lin Xi chuckled, "Where does the steam engine come from? There are internal combustion engines and steam turbines behind it.

"Dayong is still in the Iron Age now. If the steam engine can be successfully born, then the steam age will come, followed by the electrical age, the information age...

"The world I came from has entered the information age."

Lin Wushang felt his throat tighten, and his heart began to tremble with inexplicable excitement.

Her gentle words described a magnificent and distant era, a world that he could not even imagine.

"So where can a steam engine be used?"

Lin Xi: "That's a lot. The steam engine is a power device. It can be used wherever power is needed, such as textile looms, carriages, ships, etc.

"With the steam engine, manpower and animal power can be greatly liberated. By then-"

She turned to look at him, her eyes as bright as stars, "A new era will be born."

Her first five-year plan was the Steam Plan.

She expects Dayong to initially enter the steam age within five years.

In the previous life, the Flower Kingdom did not enter the steam age in ancient times, so it lagged far behind Western countries.

A majestic oriental dragon was pressed to the ground and rubbed by a group of hyenas equipped with powerful weapons.

But now, with her here, the situation will be completely different.

But she couldn't take too big a step at once. Before she could build the steam engine, she still had to make a lot of preliminary preparations.

After all, steam engines can’t just be built.

Various ores must be found, and raw materials such as coal, iron, copper, lead, and tin are essential.

It just so happens that private mining of ores is not allowed in this era.

She could secretly mine gold and jade in Songshan, but she couldn't secretly mine all the ores she needed, right?

You can hide it if you mine one area privately, but it is difficult to hide it if you mine multiple areas.

She has to work hard.

Secondly, she had to train a group of skilled workers in mechanical manufacturing.

The top blacksmiths of this era may be able to create peerless weapons, but manufacturing precision instruments and machinery is their blank field.

All of this must be taught from scratch.

In short, it is impossible for her to draw the design and the craftsman can make it according to her requirements.

There is still a lot of distance between the design drawings and the real thing.

Lin Wushang looked into her eyes, feeling as if his soul had been hit, so that his mind went blank and he was unable to speak for a long time.

When he came to his senses, he saw her bent over her desk drawing pictures seriously.

Her figure and face were still so immature, but the thoughts in her mind were completely shocking.He felt as if he was standing on the top of a huge wave, and she was the leader of that huge wave.

On this quiet autumn morning, he witnessed the beginning of an epoch-making change.

However, at this time, he only had a vague premonition, and he could not imagine the huge turmoil this huge wave would cause in the future.

After Lin Xi finished drawing the picture, she put down her pen and found that Lin Wushang hadn't left yet.

He sat quietly on the couch opposite, in a daze.

"Any thing else?"

Lin Wushang came back to his senses and said, "Yeah," "There are two things I need to tell you.

“This winter will be very cold, and there will be a snowstorm that is rare in a century, probably in the middle of the twelfth lunar month.

“In my previous life, I caught a cold, and my condition waxed and waned. I lay in bed all day, feeling groggy. Every time I woke up, I would see thick snow outside, which I couldn’t sweep away.

"Later I found out that there was a snow disaster. It snowed continuously for days. More than a dozen states including Peizhou, Zhuozhou, Shanzhou, etc. were affected by the disaster. Half of Dayong's land became a snowy area, and countless people died of cold and hunger.

"My grandfather was already hurt by my sister's death, and his health was not as good as before. He also worked hard because of the snowstorm, and finally couldn't hold on anymore and collapsed.

"Died in the early spring of the fourth year of Jingyu."

Lin Xi: "This is a snow disaster that is rare in a century. It seems that we need to be well prepared."

She took a new piece of paper and wrote the four words clothing, food, shelter and transportation on it.

Warm clothing, sweaters and down jackets must be prepared in advance.

Both of these are not technically difficult things and can be produced in this era.

Or she could simply open a factory and mass-produce it.

It would have been better if there was cotton, but it was a pity that the cotton she asked people to retrieve had just been planted.

Not to mention that it’s not time to harvest yet.

Even after harvesting, the cotton in those few acres of land is far from enough.

Food needs to be stocked up.

In terms of accommodation, the house must be strengthened, otherwise it may collapse under the weight of heavy snow.

In this era, most of the houses were made of earth and wood structures, while poor families had thatched houses, which were more likely to collapse.

She has to build another brick factory to produce red bricks.

This can be done by continuing to cooperate with the queen. On the one hand, it can make money, and on the other hand, it can use the money earned to do charity and build some shelters for free.

Otherwise, I don’t know how many people will die by then.

To be honest, she didn't care about the life or death of those people, but she needed people, a lot of people.

Only when there are talents and labor can there be people to work for her. Otherwise, how could she open a factory?How to mine?How to make a steam engine?

She doesn't have three heads, six arms, and thousands of clones, so it's impossible for her to do all those things by herself.

Moreover, she has had enough of the lifelessness of the apocalypse and does not want the world to become like that.

On the premise of ensuring that she lives a good life, she wants to save the lives of as many ordinary people as possible.

Lin Xi brainstormed frantically, coming up with ideas one after another to resist the snowstorm, and kept writing and drawing on the paper.

Lin Wushang: "..."

I feel a little aggrieved for no reason.

After he said so much, she only paid attention to the snow disaster.

"Do you want to tell the emperor about this?"

Lin Xi paused, "Of course I have to say, how many people can we save just by the two of us? But it will be different if the emperor knows. He can mobilize the power of the whole world to resist this natural disaster."

In addition, she also has a little selfishness.

(End of this chapter)