You became an emperor by letting me AFK.

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[New technologies are constantly evolving, and this is a summary of frequently occurring messages...]

Xia He's pre-set program was triggered. If the status bar refreshes too quickly, it will automatically organize and summarize the information to present it to the player in a concise manner. Otherwise, the experience of being bombarded with information would not be good.

There is a limit to how much attention a person can focus.

Of course, since I took charge of this project, I have become sharp-witted and quick-thinking, able to understand even large amounts of information with just a glance.

What one sees is a concentrated burst of inventions and creations, which complement each other and form a scale effect.

In a single round.

It's hard to imagine that in just 10 years, the technological achievements of the Great Qian have sprung up like mushrooms after rain, dazzling the eyes. Clearly, Feng Tianyin is behind it all, actively guiding the development of the Great Qian.

Xia He's access to war information was limited to minor conflicts.

The little robot can distinguish between primary and secondary tasks. Since it is focusing all its efforts on advancing the technology tree, there is no need to start wars everywhere.

She is focusing all her efforts on farming.

Moreover, the amount of resources poured in was comparable to the so-called "rest and recuperation" of the 10 years before the Southern War. In reality, it was a round of military preparation, and the accumulated momentum swallowed up the South whole without leaving any trace. Now it has become an inseparable part of the Great Qian Dynasty.

Feng Tianyin invested a huge amount of money in this.

Xia He believes that in the early stages of the Industrial Revolution, there was no dominant force, and many inventions originated from the ingenuity of engineers.

In other words, it actually lacked support from large capital, high investment, and professional expertise in the early stages.

After all, no one knows whether a technology is actually feasible; everyone is exploring, and exploration carries risks.

The Great Qian Dynasty was different.

The top leader not only provides clear guidance but also provides very detailed instructions.

The Industrial Revolution, which she had been holding back for many years, finally began. The first industry to experience a boom was not the mining industry, which was equipped with early steam engines, but the textile industry, which possessed the spinning jenny.

Previously, one person could only spin one cotton thread, but now it has increased many times over.

Xia He saw that the technology tree of this invention was progressive, almost in one go, completing the process of water loom, spool spinning machine, and spinning machine.

complete in one step.

"It's like a new technology that delivers diarrhea-like relief."

The textile industry in Daqian is experiencing a leap forward, faster than anyone predicted, because its efficiency improvement rate is indeed the highest. It has now developed machines that can load 100 spindles at the same time, and the number is still increasing rapidly.

not enough.

The textile industry needs a more stable power source that does not rely on water power and can be deployed on a larger scale.

This, in turn, spurred improvements to the steam engine, gradually leading to machines that wouldn't easily explode and could now withstand long working hours.

Xia He saw a meticulously crafted plan for unlocking the technology tree in Da Qian.

Demand drives creation.

The roar of the steam engine began in the academy and then quickly spread, entering fields such as forging, grinding, and transportation under Feng Tianyin's impetus. Countless people were still thinking wildly about "putting a steam engine on this thing," giving birth to all sorts of inventions...

She no longer needs to specifically drag scientific research forward.

The creativity of the people was unleashed.

However, in Xia He's view, the main player in the first phase of industrial upgrading is still the textile industry, whose influence continues to expand, easily penetrating agriculture. The market needs cash crops, or rather, just one:

cotton.

The once neglected western river valleys and vast deserts can now be utilized, with large cotton fields stretching out, transforming into a rippling white ocean from a high altitude, giving people a sense of warmth.

Xia He's gaze swept across the area, discovering that the cotton fields were still expanding; with such vast land and abundant resources, there were always unexpected discoveries.

Who would have thought that the once impoverished city-states of the Western Regions would experience a second spring?

Moreover, it has no shortage of water.

Water was simply drawn down from the glacial plateau of the natural reservoir. Once a series of projects began, the cascade reservoirs and irrigation systems were immediately coordinated, and the resulting benefits in transportation, employment, and tax revenue naturally benefited the cities of the Western Regions.

They never dreamed that their hometown would be reborn in such a unique way.

From the perspective of the workers who entered the cotton field, everyone was repeatedly bending over to pick the cotton.

"We have no trouble selling them at all; orders keep coming in."

"This stuff is so valuable, everyone's buying it now. I heard they've built dozens of spinning mills right here."

"We finally know what it feels like to wear a cotton-padded coat. It's so comfortable, and we won't be afraid of the cold anymore."

"Yes, it's not prickly at all, and it's lightweight and warm."

"We've caught a good time; I heard that cotton is also being grown in Linchun."

Xia He looked towards the northern desert.

Sure enough, this vast desert grassland also kept up with the times, irrigating its cotton fields with groundwater. Only then, after carefully reviewing the research notes, did she discover that these cotton plants had from the beginning possessed characteristics such as resistance to pests and diseases, drought tolerance, rapid growth, and high yield.

Logically speaking, cotton seeds should have undergone several iterations of breeding technology, so why are the cotton seeds circulating on the market all of the advanced version?

Technical reserves!

She remembered that Feng Tianyin had always maintained several experimental fields, and that the number had only increased over the years.

Before the development of genetically modified technology, breeding relied on exhaustive methods of piecing together mathematical formulas. Fortunately, the project took long enough to accumulate a wealth of results, which were then released to the market when the time was right.

Those savvy cotton merchants discovered this.

The high priest was extremely worried.

In their eyes, Feng Tianyin was farsighted and meticulous in her playing, but little did they know that the little human-machine interface operated on multiple threads and with multiple cores, and had concerns about a vast number of things.

This is just a casual note, but today I finally have the opportunity to showcase the superior cotton breeding varieties.

"In that case, the northern desert can also be utilized."

Xia He saw that the farmland that used to exist only around Linchun was now expanding continuously, becoming countless cotton fields, covering tens of thousands of acres of land, supporting a bottomless demand.

She even saw a banner posted at the textile factory that read, "Everyone in Daqian should have cotton-padded clothes to wear," along with a propaganda poster.

The rough art style has a distinct sense of the times.

This is a promise.

Feng Tianyin has targeted the four key aspects of "clothing, food, housing, and transportation" for governance, and the fastest progress is currently in cotton clothing, which is of course strongly supported.

The temple didn't forget to provide subsidies and tax exemptions, knowing they could recoup the costs quickly anyway.

Because the revenue doesn't just come from mainland China.

Xia He retrieved information from [Trade Route Information], [Current Trade Lines], and [Export List] and found that all the ocean city-states were listed, as well as Borneo, and even newly added civilizations, other small countries discovered in recent years. They all welcomed textiles.

Initially, the merchants of the Great Qian Dynasty sold their goods at very high prices, which was pure ripping people off. However, after the temple subsidized the difference and held talks, the prices were reduced to be of good quality and low price.

It wasn't out of kindness, but rather a logic far more profound than that of short-sighted businessmen:

Dumping.

Although the barriers to entry for textiles are not that high, the temple's leadership sees it as a means of primitive capital accumulation and does not allow others to interfere and share the pie. This product must generate huge profits to nourish this nascent industrial behemoth.

Maritime trade.

Xia He glanced at Daqian's current export routes, which were basically centered around the inland sea.

Over the past decade, several small kingdoms have been discovered in the southwest, west, and south. In the broken islands, a small island may be a kingdom in itself. Although they are not as large as Borneo, they are still quite substantial when combined.

They can fully absorb the expanded productivity.

Humans cannot live without clothes.

The improved quality of cotton-padded clothing has relegated the old linen to the dustbin of history, with its comfort, warmth, and versatility all significantly enhanced.

The markets in these countries were powerless against Daqian Textiles and opened their doors wide.

Bought it.

Local merchants weren't picky at all; they'd buy anything from Daqian without hesitation. After all, the goods were high-quality and inexpensive, and as middlemen, they could always make a profit from the price difference—a win-win situation for everyone.

The quality they endorse forms the basis of a brand.

Xia He's investigation of the intelligence displayed by these small countries also shows a continuous output of research points, with particular attention paid to textile machines.

But that's not enough.

The technology involved in the machines themselves isn't particularly advanced, given the relatively low technological barriers in the early industrial era. However, this doesn't mean everyone can do it; on the contrary, the barriers to industrialization are never limited to technology. For example, intelligence has already revealed:

Our businessmen have confirmed that textile machine technology is spreading between mainland China and overseas.

However, it is still far from becoming a large-scale industry.

First, there are the seeds.

Feng Tianyin's decades-long research into cotton varieties in the experimental fields is no joke; she has developed different strategies for different regions with varying soil and water conditions.

In contrast, their cotton plants are often infested with large patches of insects, or grow slowly and have low yields, which is unbearable.

Xia He clearly saw a chorus of curses erupting from the other party's experimental field:

"Why can't you breed them properly, you idiot."

"Perhaps it's because of the soil conditions? After all, the Great Qian Dynasty planted cotton in desert areas."

"It's not that simple. There must be other conditions. Find them for me."

Seeing Daqian making money was more painful for them than losing money, since who wouldn't want a piece of the pie? Therefore, they started imitating the machines early on, which was actually not difficult.

Secondly, there is land.

The competitors have realized that cotton is both drought-resistant and delicate, requiring suitable conditions, which they do not possess.

Even if there were some suitable lands, they wouldn't be as large as Daqian.

Not to mention water sources, irrigation facilities, and other infrastructure.

"The resources of arable land are far more precious than they appear on the surface, and cannot be forcibly transformed by technology."

Xia He, as the designer of the initial map of the Great Qian Dynasty, deeply understood this point. Starting from the relatively small arable land of the Cifu Basin as the base, and then expanding to the fertile Cifu Plain in the south, a self-contained system with a well-developed water network...

Even at this point, it's still not working.

Because it can easily evolve into a terrain similar to the North American Great Plains, the "through wind" in winter can cause temperatures in the south to drop to -20 degrees Celsius overnight, and then be swept away by tornadoes.