Daming: Let you supervise the country according to the order, and you go to cultivate immortals?

Chapter 114 Linggu Disaster Relief, Feng Tianjing is Difficult

steam train?

Designed so quickly? !

This speed shocked Zhu Xiongying a little.

After all, in the original historical track, 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 do not know how many detours have been taken during this period.

But at this time, Xueji invented the steam engine, and it was only a month or so.

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

In fact, it was Zhu Xiongying himself who fell into the misunderstanding of his own fixed thinking.

The reason why it took a century to go from steam engine to steam train in the original history is because people at that time had no idea of ​​using steam engine to build trains at all, and they didn't even have the concept of 'train' at all.

For a whole century, it is estimated that 99% of the time was spent on advancing concepts.

But it's completely different here in Xue Ji.

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

Apple Cow has a good saying: stand on the shoulders of giants.

For Xue Ji, Zhu Xiongying is that natural giant.

Of any invention and creation, the theory seems to be the most useless, but it is also the most difficult to establish.

Going from 0 to 1 is the hardest.

But when you have already got 1 and know the existence of 1.1, it is no longer difficult to go from 1 to 1.1.

"Can the construction technology keep up?"

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 drive the steam engine to do work. The main reason is that the structure is huge, although this thing is not fine in terms of casting technology.

But with the level of craftsmanship of the Ming Dynasty, it may be difficult to achieve it for a while.

Xue Ji smiled when she heard this.

Obviously, he had expected that Zhu Xiongying would ask himself this question.

"The concubine has already discussed with the artisans of the Ministry of Industry in advance, and they can do it under the premise of sufficient silver."

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

Zhu Xiongying thought for a moment.

"Alone."

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

The first attempt will inevitably be accompanied by many failures and detours, and the amount of silver that needs to be consumed must be huge.

After receiving His Highness's permission, especially feeling His Highness's unconditional trust in her, Xue Ji bowed respectfully with excitement on her face.

"Thank you Your Highness~!"

"Well, get up."

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

'Still nothing. '

For more than ten days, Xue Ji ate Linggu every day, and in recent days, she ate Linggu for three meals 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 doesn't particularly care whether other people have spiritual roots.

But Xue Ji must have it.

Because Zhu Xiongying had an idea.

Using the mana of practitioners as the fuel of the internal combustion engine, combining Daming's industry and immortality, created a new era completely different from the original history.

A steam engine burns coal.

For coal mines, you just need to dig directly into the mountains. With Tao Chengdao, a gunpowder expert, blowing up mountains is a small problem, and now that there are steam engines, it is not a big problem to design a mechanical tool for coal mining.

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

According to the original historical industrial progress, further improvement is to develop the internal combustion engine, and the internal combustion engine does not burn coal, but oil and natural gas and so on.

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

Xue Ji, as Zhu Xiongying's chief engineer to promote the industrial age, must become a practitioner. Only when she possesses the magic power can she fit perfectly in the invention.

"Eat this."

Zhu Xiongying was silent for a moment, then flipped his hand and an ice blue pill the size of a thumb appeared in the palm of his hand.

He only has one pill.

"This is…"

Xue Ji looked at this ice blue pill and was shocked for a moment.

The fragrance of the ice blue pills is tangy, and there is a shallow circle of ice mist on the surface. Just smelling it, you will feel refreshed.

Subconsciously taking the ice blue pill, Xue Ji looked at Zhu Xiongying with eyes, and put it into her mouth only after receiving Zhu Xiongying's nod.

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 dry and hot feeling surging in the body, Xue Ji's cheeks are flushed in an instant, and she feels like thousands of ants are gnawing inside her body, and she can't help becoming anxious.

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

Just when Xue Ji was flushed and anxious, Zhu Xiongying took her into his arms.

A few minutes later, the Happy Chair shook automatically.

The archmage spent an hour and a half with his own great magic power to help Xue Ji perfectly absorb the power of the marrow washing pill.

"How does it feel."

Zhu Xiongying looked at Xue Ji who was blushing in her arms.

"much better."

Xue Ji took a long breath.

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

"what?"

Xue Ji looked at the golden light on her body, with an unbelievable surprise on her face.

The appearance of golden light represents the birth of the spiritual root.

"This accusation is not in vain."

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

"Xue Ji, carefully remember what Gu told you next."

When Xue Ji heard the sound, her face immediately changed into a serious expression.

Then Zhu Xiongying roughly explained his understanding of the internal combustion engine. Of course, the archmage, who is a scumbag, explained the basics, but for Xue Ji, whose talent and IQ are comparable to apple cows, these basics are enough.

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

And this concept of 'mana', after the birth of the spirit root, Xue Ji will gradually understand it soon.

"The concubine understands~"

Xue Ji nodded, with a look of enlightenment 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, smart, graceful, and tumbling woman is simply the love of the world.

"carry on."

Zhu Xiongying said indifferently that Xue Ji is different from other concubines. Apart from serving her bed every day, she devotes herself to the construction of Daming Industry at other times, inspiring to shine for the Daming Dynasty.

It's not that Xue Ji is interested in this.

She is just a girl, without any lofty ideals and ambitions.

But from Xue Ji's point of view, such a self can help His Highness, as long as she can help His Highness, even if it's just a tiny bit, she will do her best.

"The concubine resigns~"

After Xue Ji withdrew.

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

Xiaobao's voice came from outside the sliding door.

"Xuan."

Zhu Xiongying lay on the rocking chair, looking at the starry sky.

Zhu Xiongying was also used to Xia Yuanji's coming to see him.

Xia Yuanji is a typical hot workaholic, night owl.

The soy sauce gang in Hubu must have been tortured by Xia Yuanji.

Ten days ago, Xia Yuanji had come to see Zhu Xiongying once, and at the same time, he brought his business plan. There were five heads of the household department in that stack of plans. Of course, Zhu Xiongying didn't read it, and directly approved it for him.

At the same time, he entrusted Xia Yuanji with the task of expanding the planting of the Spirit Valley. He selected the best field in the suburbs of Beijing, guarded by tens of thousands of forbidden troops, and planted the Spirit Valley in it.

"See Your Highness."

Xia Yuanji entered the Star Observation Building and saluted respectfully.

"Your Highness, the spiritual grains are harvested every three to five days, and the harvest is excellent. Now the treasury has piled up like a mountain, but the current spiritual grains are no different from ordinary grains of rice except that the color is still golden."

As he spoke, Xia Yuanji took out a golden ear of wheat from his sleeve. Judging by the size of this spiritual valley, it was no different from ordinary rice.

"You came here just to talk to Gu about this?"

Zhu Xiongying glanced at Xia Yuanji.

Zhu Xiongying knew about the fact that the spiritual valley became smaller as the planting expanded, because the Taisun Mansion also maintained a small-scale cultivation of the spiritual valley.

For this reason, Zhu Xiongying also specially studied the difference between the smaller Linggu and the big Linggu.

After verification, there is no difference in the effect between the two.

At present, Lingu Valley is open for tasting, except for Xiao Yilun, Xue Ji and a few other people, only Qidian Orphanage.

Zhu Xiongying has done a lot of comparative experiments in the orphanage these days. Based on the analysis of the comprehensive data of the orphans after eating the spiritual grain, what Zhu Xiongying guessed earlier, judging the talent by eating the spiritual root several times before birthing the spiritual root is wrong. of.

After a comprehensive analysis, the result is that whether it is the Great Spirit Valley or the Little Spirit Valley, the Spirit Valley is just a key to unlock one's own spiritual root. If you eat more or less, the effect will be the same.

It can only be said that practitioners who eat for a long time can help their practice, while ordinary people who eat for a long time can have the effect of maintaining health.

The most accurate measure to verify talent is the birth of a spiritual root in a few days after eating the spiritual grain for the first time.

Such as Xiao Yilun, the first day.

This is the first class of excellent talent.

Among the shadow guards, only Xiao San, Xiao Shi Hao and a few others can achieve this kind of talent.

As for whether the speed of birthing spiritual roots in a day is related to talent, it is difficult to judge in a short time, and a comprehensive analysis can only be made after the first batch of practitioners grow up.

And according to the observations in the past half month, no spiritual roots will be born nine days after the first devouring of the spiritual valley. At least until now, none of the more than 100 children who have given birth to spiritual roots in the orphanage was nine days later born.

There are more than 5 orphans in the orphanage, and the birth rate of spiritual roots is [-]%, which is far higher than the one in ten thousand given by the system. It can be seen that the talent rate for adopting orphans is extremely high.

According to the birth time of the spiritual roots, Zhu Xiongying temporarily divided the spiritual roots into nine grades, from the first grade to the ninth grade.

Like Xiao Yilun, it is a first-grade spiritual root.

And the spiritual root born on the ninth day is the ninth-grade spiritual root.

In addition to Xiao San, Shi Hao and others who have entered the shadow guard, among the more than 100 children who have been born with spiritual roots in the orphanage, there is only one first-grade spiritual root, 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 Highness, there have been frequent natural disasters in various places recently, and the food left by the victims has been severely damaged. All the chief secretaries have reported the disaster situation and requested the imperial court to allocate food for disaster relief. There are too many places, there are 23 places in all places, and the Ministry of Households is really..."

Xia Yuanji showed shame on his face.

He still remembers that when he first took office, he patted his chest in front of Zhu Xiongying and promised that as long as he had Xia Yuanji around, Daming's treasury would be enriched, but now he just faced some natural disasters and couldn't solve it.

"Pull Spirit Valley for disaster relief."

Zhu Xiongying spoke lightly.

He didn't blame Xia Yuanji.

The reason is also very simple. If it is an ordinary natural disaster in the era, with Xia Yuanji's deployment to the Ministry of Households, the current national treasury is sufficient to handle everything.

But the natural disasters are so frequent at present, it is not unusual, it is God who came for Zhu Xiongying, not Xia Yuanji's fault.

The gods have sent disasters maliciously, and the supply of ordinary rice grains must be insufficient.

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

And according to Zhu Xiongying's plan, the first batch of people who swallowed the spirit valley has now completed the experiment, and the first batch of experimental data has been obtained, which can indeed be popularized by the whole people.

Of course, in the promotion process, the chief secretaries and inspectors must be strictly ordered to record all those favored children who have produced spiritual roots.

These people are the first batch of labor force of the Great Ming Dynasty.

Furthermore, the widespread cultivation of spiritual valleys can greatly liberate the productivity of the people.

The spiritual valley can mature in three to five days, which means that the people of Ming Dynasty no longer need to spend a lot of time cultivating the fields, but can focus on other places.

For example, industry and commerce.

Of course, while liberating productivity, popularization of education and work needs must keep up. Otherwise, there will be nothing to do, and there will be tattoo bosses everywhere, and social security will definitely be a big problem.

"Go and prepare the spiritual valley for disaster relief, and tell Gu after the statistics are completed."

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

For things like transporting grain, people usually go out with [-] catties, and when they get to the place, there are less than [-] catties left.

During the past half a month, Zhu Xiongying has been practicing the Great Teleportation Technique. Anyway, it doesn't matter where he moves when practicing, so he took the time to set up the Universe Teleportation Formation in various chief administrative offices of Ming Dynasty.

Of course, except for the few places in the hands of Mr. Zhu in the northern border.

At the same time, Zhu Xiongying also selected fourteen shadow guards with five or six spiritual roots from among the shadow guards. These few shadow guards ate and drank in the Taisun Mansion these days, and they had been under Zhu Xiongying's highly intensive training.

After the training is over, let them try the work of Qiankun Envoy.

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

It just so happens that this time the food delivery for disaster relief can be used as a practical training exercise.

………………

In the north, Phoenix City in Liaodong, also known as Phoenix Fort, is the last important town on the Liaodong Peninsula near Korea, and it is also the last place where King Zhu Quan of Ning is now defending.

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

"waste!"

"Everyone is trash!!"

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

Apart from the eye-catching snakeskin on his body, Zhu Quan's ability to speak has now recovered.

He abruptly went from being the most powerful feudal lord with the strongest cavalry Duoyan Sanwei in the world, one hundred thousand iron troops, and one thousand chariots, to the current situation.

The soldiers and horses under his command are no more than [-] at full count, and most of them are disabled.

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

Ask him to do it all over again, and it will still be the same.

Among them, there is only one variable.

That is, every battle with the Yan army, even if they had an advantage at first, or even formed a crushing trend, they would eventually lose under the influence of weird factors.

For example, when Fuyuwei and Duoyanwei went around and raided the Yan army, it was almost certain to win, but at the last moment, Fuyuwei and Duoyanwei sat down and flattered, and they both suffered from epilepsy.

Who the hell can I turn to to reason with this kind of thing?It's obvious that you are messing with me!

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

At this time, the cronies under his command came to report.

Zhu Quan clenched his fists tightly, he really wanted to rush out to fight to the death, but reason told him that this must not be the case, rushing out would be a word of death,

He still has more than 2 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 wild, this capital can make him stand up.

Grit your teeth and stomp your feet.

"Withdraw from Liaodong!"

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

One, go to Korea to eat kimchi.

Second, go to Mobei to eat scorpions.

………………

Jindi, Taiyuan Prefecture.

The current king of Jin, Zhu Xi, already has one head and two big heads.

He stood on the city wall of Taiyuan Mansion with an ugly face, looking at the Yandi army led by Zhang Yu and Tan Yuan under the moonlight outside, his whole head was buzzing.

From the beginning of the Yan army's offensive half a month ago, until now, he is still in a state of confusion, and has turned the situation into what it is now without knowing it.

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

Zhu Jixuan's face on the side was gloomy, he had several battle wounds on his body, and he was weak in speaking, not at all as heroic as he was half a month ago.

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

"The Yan army's advance is too fast this time. As long as they defend for a few days, the Yan army will definitely not be able to provide food and grass, and then they can counterattack."

In fact, Zhu Po's judgment was correct, but that was for normal situations.

I saw that he had just finished speaking.

Suddenly, a howling wind rose.

'Damn, here we go again! '

Both Zhu Bing and Zhu Jixi felt a chill in their hearts, and they were even used to such accidents, so they couldn't help scolding their mothers.

I saw that in the sky above Taiyuan Mansion, under the moonlight, dark clouds suddenly gathered rapidly. After a symbolic strong wind blew a stick of incense, hailstones the size of a fist fell crazily.

And the scope of this hailstorm is only in Taiyuan Prefecture, and the Yan army attacking the city outside the city will not be affected at all.

'Damn God, they are all Lao Zhu's sons, so partial! '

Zhu Bing 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 defend sooner or later."

Zhu Jixi said in a condensed voice.

The king of Yan has a destiny to help, and it is no longer possible to win by strategy.

………………

Beiping Mansion, Study Room of King Yan Mansion.

In this study, there are only four people sitting.

Zhu Di, king of Yan, Daoyan, a monk in black, Zhu Gaochi, a fat man without money, and Zhu Gaosui, an arrogant layman.

Zhu Laosi's complexion looked rosy and shiny. After changing the bad luck some time ago, the injuries on his shoulders and face have almost healed, and his mood is even better.

Just because the recent battle was really enjoyable.

Attacking Ning from the right and Jin from the left, the two-line battle was able to achieve frequent success.

"Your Highness, the current King Ning and Zhu Quan only have the last Phoenix City left. As long as the Second Highness's army is overwhelmed, with King Ning's temperament, he will definitely lead his troops to withdraw from Liaodong."

"As for the king of Jin, there is nothing to worry about. Zhang Yu and Tan Yuan's army should have arrived at the Taiyuan mansion. The king of Dai has already sent an envoy to express his intention to dedicate the land. In just three to five days, the six kings of the northern border The land will belong to His Highness."

"The next step is to integrate the army and fight against the sky. As for Sudi, Qingdi, and Qindi, you only need to hold the fortresses on the border. It will not be a problem to hold for a month or two. Your Highness will take Yingtian as quickly as possible. , after ascending the throne and proclaiming himself emperor, just issue an edict to surrender."

When Dao Yan said these words, his tone was very calm.

Zhu Di was in a turbulent mood when he heard it.

"Father, the second brother's speed is too fast. If it were me, I would have driven Zhu Quan to Korea to eat kimchi."

Zhu Gaosui had an arrogant attitude on his face.

"Shut up!"

Zhu Laosi glared at the arrogant layman.

Among his three sons, the eldest, Zhu Gaochi, was in charge of food supply and allocation, and the second was in charge of charging forward. Only the third, was still arrogant all day long.

Zhu Gaosui curled his lips. In fact, he really wanted to go to the battlefield, but Zhu Lao Si kept refusing to let him.

Then Zhu Di looked at Zhu Gaoxu.

"Gao Xu, the army is advancing from left to right, and you have to take care of the food and grass."

Fatty nodded quickly.

"Father, don't worry, the baby has been prepared in advance, and there will be no problem with the grain road."

Zhu Di nodded slightly, he was at ease when the big fat man was doing business.

Zhu Laosi took a deep breath. After so many years of planning, he finally came to this point.

The sword points to the sky, and competes in the world!
Although this day came a bit suddenly, and it came a bit fast, when Zhu Lao Si recalled the changes in the past half a month, he had an illusion that it was not very realistic.

Now, he is more confident than ever. He has completely believed that the destiny is on him, otherwise it would be impossible for every battle to be like God's help. One or two times is accidental, but more is inevitable.

At this moment, Ji Gang entered the study.

It can be seen that the current Ji Gang has become the confidant of Zhu Laosi's confidant.

Ji Gang's current position is that of Prince Yan's army of thousands of households.

"Your Highness, Guo Zi's call to action has been written."

Ji Gang holds a call to arms and presents it respectfully.

Zhu Laosi took over, and since he had annexed the Six Kings, the statement issued in the name of the Six Kings was naturally invalidated, and Zhu Laosi wanted to find a reason for himself to raise troops alone.

There are four words on the call to action, which are extremely eye-catching.

Feng Tianjing is difficult.

　Happy National Day~!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)