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Chapter 78 Emperor Taihe's Questions

"Is there really no way to use it?" Emperor Taihe was a little unwilling.

"Without supporting technology, it's useless. You should know that our country has only developed in the past 20 years or so, and the most important thing is that you don't even have electricity." A technological gap of one or two hundred years.

"What is electricity?" This girl Xiaoyue said that if there is no electricity, then let's go find electricity! But she doesn't know what electricity is?
"That one can only be lit with electricity." Wang Yue said, pointing to the energy-saving lamp on the roof.

"What is electricity? Why does it emit light? What are the uses of electricity?" Emperor Taihe immediately asked a hundred thousand questions.

Although Wang Yue knew this knowledge, she still couldn't describe it clearly in a few words.

"I'll find some information for you later. It's not clear enough just by words. You just need to know that the lightning that is emitted when it thunders and rains is also a kind of electricity, but that kind of electricity cannot be used at present."

"The electricity we can use now includes hydropower, wind power, coal power, and nuclear power. Among them, hydropower is the most used and is the easiest to obtain."

"If you want to develop electricity, hydropower may be the best choice. To develop hydropower, you must first develop water conservancy. You must intercept the entire river and build a dam. The dam can be used to raise the water level. The power generated by the water flowing from high to low can drive the operation of the generator. The electricity generated by the generator is the electricity we need."

"Having electricity is not enough. We need to bring electricity to every household. How do we do that? We need to use wires, which you cannot achieve."

"The wires contain high-quality metals, such as copper and aluminum, which conduct electricity better. These can still be achieved if we find a way."

"The previous ones are not particularly difficult. The most difficult part is the insulation material. We need to wrap the wires with insulation material. We are currently using plastic, which is not a natural product. It is obtained through chemical means."

It seems that the key is here: "What is chemistry then?"

Wang Yue thought about it and asked, what kind of chemistry was there in ancient times? In fact, burning fire is a chemical reaction.

"Do you have any alchemists there?" Wang Yue asked.

"Hmm! I seem to have heard of it!" said Duke Lu.

"Yes!" said Emperor Taihe.

"Do you know how they make the elixir?" In fact, if they do it well, it might be possible to make Western medicine.

"They put some mercury, cinnabar, gold, silver, quartz, etc. into the alchemy furnace and then heated it. I have never seen the details with my own eyes. Several emperors of the previous dynasty died at the hands of these sorcerers."

"The founding emperor of our dynasty established a rule that no member of the royal family is allowed to take elixirs. Once discovered, they will be expelled from the royal family. Therefore, ordinary people basically don't know about the existence of sorcerers." Emperor Taihe explained.

"Do you know? Occasionally, the furnace will explode when they are refining the elixir. This is a chemical reaction. I don't know what they added, but they reacted with each other to produce new substances. When the temperature is too high, the furnace will explode."

"Then according to what the young lady said, these sorcerers can make some useful things besides making harmful elixirs?"

These sorcerers have existed for more than a thousand years. They can be found in every dynasty, but no emperor has ever achieved immortality by taking the elixirs they made.

I only saw those emperors who took the elixir and died young. This was Emperor Taihe's impression of sorcerers.

"You can put it that way! For example, the cold medicines and antipyretics we use most often now are all chemical drugs. The plastics I just mentioned, as well as gunpowder, are all these."

"Of course, this can't be done randomly. Look at what the sorcerers in your area use. Mercury, lead, sulfur, these things are poisonous to people. How can they be non-toxic after being refined into pills? Can anyone get well after taking the pills made from these things?"

"Oh! I understand a little bit." It seems that if we want to develop chemistry, we still need to plan long-term and see how to get methods from the supermarket.

"I'm not a professional in this either. If you need it later, you can discuss it with our professionals."

"We can trade the electricity and communication technologies I just mentioned. I only know about these half-knowledgeable things." "Those are of high technological content and are not easy to introduce. But there is no threshold for grain seeds and vegetable and fruit seeds. Any experienced farmer can grow them."

Farming! It can be said to be the simplest, but also the most important, after all, food is the first necessity of the people.

As an emperor who has been in power for more than ten years, he understands all these principles.

I was just dazzled by modern technology and only thought about bringing all this technology back to Dayan, while ignoring the difficulty in between.

After listening to Wang Yue's analysis, I realized the difficulty involved, and my boiling blood gradually cooled down.

Yes! Things that can produce immediate results are good things. As long as you can solve the problem of food and clothing, leaving your name in history is not a problem.

Taihedi immediately adjusted his direction and looked at Wang Yue: "Miss, please introduce other crops to us."

"Okay then! I'll introduce you to two more varieties. These two varieties are stronger than rice and wheat, and their yields are incredibly high."

Wang Yue led the two people to the vegetable area. They were once again shocked to see a huge vegetable area. All the vegetables they had eaten were there.

There are also some vegetables that I have no impression of at all, including leafy vegetables, root vegetables, stem vegetables, and melon and fruit vegetables.

There are also processed vegetables, such as tofu, jelly, konjac, and bean sprouts...

"Miss, are these the vegetables you usually eat?" asked Duke Lu.

Because of their status, Duke Lu and Emperor Taihe had the best material living conditions.

However, due to transportation and technical reasons, they only eat seasonal vegetables every day, resulting in a period of time every year when there are only one or two fresh vegetables on the table.

Emperor Taihe also looked at Wang Yue with envy, and Wang Yue received their envy.

But how should she tell them? She was particularly distressed for a long time because the vegetables remained the same all year round, and buying vegetables became the most troublesome thing.

If she really said that, she didn't know if the two people in front would beat her. It was too Vansel.

But it's true! In summer, green peppers, red peppers, carrots, leafy vegetables...

In winter, green peppers, red peppers, carrots, leafy vegetables...

Some stalls don’t even change their locations.

Many people living in cities don’t even know what seasonal vegetables are? What are off-season vegetables?

Emperor Taihe and Duke Lu were troubled by the fact that there were few varieties of vegetables and not many choices in their area; while modern people are troubled by the fact that vegetables do not change with the seasons and there are no seasonal vegetables.

Therefore, the sufferings of different people are not the same.

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That book friend was reading it on Hongxiu, and I watched him squatting for a whole day.

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