"what are you saying?"
"You're going to Europe?"
Everyone in Liangzhou expressed disbelief at Liu Zheng's decision.
There is no other reason.
What is Liu Zheng's status in Longyan now?
He is already the chief assistant of Long Yan! Under the constitutional monarchy, he is the number one person in Long Yan!
And now the entire war between Tsarist Russia and Long Yan is still going on. The war has entered a state of anxiety. In other words, Long Yan's situation has not been completely stabilized. You said you want to leave?
Liu Dahao was the first to jump up and disagree.
Liu Zheng chuckled: "Don't worry, Dad, the situation in the country is basically stable. Even if Xie Ming is unwilling to be a puppet, so what?"
"I must go to Europe..."
He said categorically: "Dad, don't think that the West is all barbarians. In fact, today's Long Yan really does not have the enterprising and adventurous spirit of those Western barbarians, whether in development or technology. Long Yan. Yan needs new subjects, and I have to go this time.”
"this……"
"son……"
When Liu Dahao and Feng Sanniang heard this, they didn't know how to persuade them.
After all, this was a national matter, and the two of them didn't want to get involved, so they could only keep urging Liu Zheng to pay attention to safety.
In fact, what Liu Zheng said is quite right.
In the past life of Long Yan, there was such a glorious civilization, but why has it been humiliated in modern history? It is precisely because of that "past glory" that the people of Long Yan hesitate to move forward and are unwilling to believe in the West. advanced.
This allowed Western countries to overtake in corners.
In the West at that time, before the first industrial revolution, civilization was naturally not as brilliant as Long Yan's, so they could start all over again...
This includes many disciplines, including a lot of industrial knowledge. It is easy to establish a new country, a new system, and a new discipline. In a country like Long Yan, where people have been learning since childhood, if you ask them to learn chemistry or physics, who will listen to you?
This is a cultural inheritance that spans thousands of years and cannot be changed overnight.
But Liu Zheng still wanted to change.
Because if he doesn't change, Long Yan will enter the stage of being passively beaten just like in his previous life!
Talent.
science and technology.
This is what he values most now.
It is inevitable that these new knowledge and new disciplines will appear. For example, the Age of Discovery, massive colonization, the development of battleships, and the background of the Industrial Revolution. These are all things that Long Yan has been indispensable for these years. . This is something that affects the entire social atmosphere and cannot be promoted by Liu Zheng alone.
Just like the former sea coachmen and the Dutch Empire.
Their technology was all designed to serve shipping. At that time, a lot of technological inspiration burst out. But now that the Netherlands has declined, Liu Zheng can completely attract these scientific and technological personnel with money and security. For example, the originator of the internal combustion engine was the invention of the Dutch scientist Huygens.
Set off.
Liu Zheng is a man of his word. After seven days of preparation, he had already boarded the Yinzhou ship, the Conqueror, which was tailor-made for him by Yintan City. From Yinzhou Port on the Longyan Grand Canal, he took the crew and Dark Night with him. Legion, set sail.
The Age of Discovery...
Liu Zheng still had some expectations.
…
France.
Some small village.
At this time, although France still had the temperament of a major European country, it was still an agricultural country because it did not catch up with the British Industrial Revolution in time.
In a Bordeaux vineyard, a tall young man was tinkering with his machine.
"I said Philip, will there be an explosion today? If it happens again, let's make an agreement first and we will stay far away!"
"Ha ha ha ha!"
"I'm telling you, you have a good vineyard, and you don't care. You've blown it up! Is that what you learned in Paris taught you to be so careless about your job?"
At this time, people who were working not far away laughed at this guy named Philip, but in fact, they called him a "madman" behind his back.
Because Philip is only in his twenties this year, but he already looks like he is thirty, because he holds a lot of books every day and is working on his own theories.
What about external combustion engines, internal combustion engines, what about Blake, what about latent heat and specific heat theory, I go crazy every day, working on my own machine...
In the eyes of these people, this Philip is completely crazy.
Their family was originally a middle-class family with their own manor and vineyard. This was a rhythm that was about to be defeated by him!
Phillip's face was covered with soot. He raised his head and smiled: "Wait for my internal combustion engine! By then, you won't have to work anymore!"
Everyone burst into laughter.
No more work?
Is there such a good thing?
Of course they don't believe it.
These farmers have been facing the earth with their backs to the sky for so many years. If you ask them not to work, what will they do?
In France, they, the common people, only farm and dig coal.
There is nothing else to do.
Phillip shook his head and said nothing, but sighed in his heart.
He came back from studying in Britain, but he knew that in Britain today, the industrial revolution was in full swing. France, which once pushed Britain to the ground, still maintained a high degree of centralization under the rule of the dim Louis XV, and did not give any power to industry. Opportunities for development.
France like this is even inferior to the Ottomans...
How can we compete with Britain in Europe?
Philip came back full of talent...
But when he came back, he found that he couldn't use what he had learned here.
People here don’t even know who Blake is!
Without that environment, there is no such environment, there is no such atmosphere, which can support his ambition!
Thinking of this, Phillip looked desperate.
If it weren't for the centuries-old feud between Britain and France, he would have wanted to stay in Britain...
continue!
No matter what, he was unwilling to give up his academic studies, so he kept his head down and continued tinkering with the internal combustion engine. In his half-exploded workshop, there are extremely complex drawings and his notes...
He must do it!
"I'll improve this today. This thread should solve the sealing problem..."
"A little less fuel?"
"No, there is not enough fuel, and the internal circulation cannot be reflected..."
"continue!"
Finally another busy morning has passed.
Philip had prepared everything and started gearing up.
then.
After one minute.
Boom!
There was a loud bang.
"You bastard Philip! Why didn't you remind us earlier what I just told you!"
"Quick, quick, there's a fire over there!"
"And this way!"
"Get out of here!"
