Destiny Only Han

Chapter 573 Liu Ying: Welcome to the Age of Steam!
On the square of the experimental base, more than 20 strong men walked over carrying a huge iron lump.

This is the first steam engine made some time ago.

"Is this the chicken you were talking about?" Zhang Buyi frowned as he looked at the strange machine in front of him, stretched out his fingers and knocked a few times.

"You'll find out later!"

Liu Ying raised her eyebrows, full of confidence.

About a quarter of an hour later, the water was boiled and rolled up and down, and there was a crackling sound in the cylinder, which was the sound of the cylinder body being heated and expanding.

Zhang Buyi was silent for a while, looked at the account book in Xiao Lu's hand, and muttered in a low voice: "It took more than 200 million yuan to build a stove to boil water? No wonder who called him a prodigal..."

My wife calls me a prodigal for fun, but you call me an insult!What is the crime of insulting the crown prince?Forget it, cut it off... Liu Ying rested her thumb and forefinger on her chin, showing a somewhat wretched expression at the corner of her mouth.

While he waited quietly, the steam gradually filled the cylinder, and then, a scene that surprised everyone happened.

The piston starts to push the connecting rod outward, and when it reaches the top, the other connecting rod pulls the sliding valve, and the steam pushes the piston inward.The two connecting rods drove the wheels to rotate rapidly back and forth, and as the firepower increased, the speed quickly reached its peak.

The ear-piercing roar of the steam engine, and the white gas from the exhaust port, announced to the world the arrival of a new era!

"This... this..." Zhang Buji muttered to himself, dumbfounded.

"Pei Ran is powerful, unstoppable!" Liu Ying clapped her hands in admiration, and then looked at Zhang Bu doubting: "200 million units, is it expensive?"

"Expensive!" Zhang Buyi replied without delay.

Liu Ying was speechless for a while, why does this guy look like a miser now, who did he learn from!

"If I say that such a big guy can pull the goods carried by a hundred four-wheeled carriages and travel eight hundred miles a day, is it still expensive now?"

Liu Ying crossed her arms, and the steam spewed out behind her, and there was a faint golden light in the sun, which made Zhang Buyi, who was trying to continue to argue, a little timid.

Beside the steam engine, the engineer in charge of the display waved his hand, signaling the apprentices to pull out the coals that had been stuffed into the furnace and start to turn off the fire.

After all, transportation in this place is not easy, and the price of coal is a bit expensive, so if you can save it, you can save it...

Liu Ying walked over, hooked shoulders with Zhang Buyi, and smiled all over her face: "This is just a small test, and the steam engine version 1.1 is being manufactured."

"With this version of the steam engine, it can be conveniently used to pump water in mines, extract heavy objects, and replace waterwheels to power textile looms!"

"You also know that my teacher... well, that is, Xiao Xiangguo, often arrested me and reprimanded me because of the dams I built in Shanglinyuan, saying that the country is based on agriculture, and agriculture is based on water. For God's sake, my dam building will cut off the livelihood of farmers downstream, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah!"

"Now that I have this thing, who still uses water trucks! The maintenance costs are high, and I'm always being sued!"

Liu Ying and Zhang Buyi complained of suffering, with aggrieved faces.

Nowadays, with the stable development of the Han Empire, many nobles have accumulated a lot of wealth in their hands, but because Liu Ying has the first-mover advantage and formed a monopoly, they can only become suppliers and distributors of raw materials, and they cannot make much money.

So they didn't dare to confront Liu Ying on the surface, but secretly they often tripped Liu Ying up, such as encouraging downstream farmers to go to Chang'an County to file a complaint, saying that the upstream textile factory blocked the dam and blocked the water, preventing them from watering the land. ...

Then, the pleadings were transferred to Xiao He, and Liu Ying was scolded...

However, Xiao He is only half-truth and half-false. The fake side is naturally showing off to outsiders, and the real side is secretly persuading Liu Ying that Muxiu is bound to be destroyed by forest wind. What he needs to do now is to hide his strength and bide his time. Especially when he just led the army to defeat the Huns, captured two kings in one battle, and opened up thousands of miles!
In fact, Zhang Liang also implicitly expressed this point to him.

The Taishanghuang's lifespan was much longer than expected, and his body was very strong, so it would be no problem to live another ten or eight years, so Liu Bang would naturally think that he would live to Liu Taigong's age.

So, how can there be a 30-year-old prince in the world?

But the other princes are not because they have no strength, but Liu Ying is different, at least in Liu Bang's view!

Although Liu Ying and Liu Bang are still loving fathers and sons, they are very close, but there will always be people who will have various ways to separate their father and son.

All mouths make money, and three people become tigers!
The more outstanding Liu Ying is, the more suspicious Liu Bang is. In the end, the father and son turned against each other and let others take advantage of the loophole!
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To the south of the colorful clouds is the Kingdom of Dian.

According to legend, in the third century BC, during the lifetime of King Wei of Chu, he sent General Zhuang Yu [qiāo] to lead his army upstream along the Yangtze River, conquering the areas west of Berkshire and Qianzhong County, and finally arrived at Dianchi Lake, which is the later generations. of the Kunming generation.

Well, at the earliest time, Kunming referred to a nation rather than a place name. It was not until the Tang Dynasty that Kunming appeared as a place name, but it was not the Kunming of later generations, but Dingze Town in Sichuan. It was not until the Yuan Dynasty conquered Dali that Kunming appeared. It has truly become Kunming.

On the muddy path leading to Dianchi Lake, a team of hundreds of pack horses staggered forward.

The first person held a scepter in his hand. Although his feet were covered with mud, his face had a sacred and inviolable look.

This person was Kuai Che, the ambassador recommended by Liu Ying to appease the Southwestern Yi.

Now under his consolation, the Yelang Kingdom has returned to the Warring States Period, and they fought against each other endlessly. For a forest farm, a stream was fought every day, every month and every month, every village was fighting, and the peace and harmony of the past would never again...

Therefore, an iron sword brought by Han merchants can be exchanged for a nimble woman, and a bag of salt can be exchanged for a captured male slave!
In just half a year, at least [-] Yelang people left their hometowns and joined plantations in various places, working hard for the great rise of the Han Empire.

Therefore, when the manpower of the Yelang Kingdom began to dry up, Kuaiche set his sights on the Dian Kingdom further south...

When it was dusk, they chose to set up camp to rest and bury their pots for cooking. When they entered Ruo[zuó] the next day, there was a sudden sound of excitement in the camp.

"Look, there are dragons in the sky!"

"What? Where?"

"Don't talk nonsense, he lied to you!"

"I won't lie to you, there really is a dragon, and it sprays water... But why does this dragon have two small wings on its back, which looks weird..."

For a moment, Kuai Che's forehead was covered with cold sweat, and he was trembling while holding the bowl of mushroom soup that was said to be extremely delicious.

(End of this chapter)