Ten thousand I am across the heavens

Although the reforms promoted by Lan Nuo across the country encountered certain resistance, they were basically successful in the general direction. The advanced productivity and the powerful army destroyed the original ruling model based on agriculture. At the local level, it was mandatory for everyone to receive basic education in night schools. All children of school age must learn the most basic literacy and arithmetic in school. When the teaching staff is relatively sufficient, they will be taught more knowledge as much as possible.

This was a considerable burden for a country that had just entered the industrial threshold. Even so, the liberated productivity allowed the people's living standards to improve at an extremely slow pace, which ensured the stability of the entire empire while also driving the empire to develop at the fastest pace.

During this period, conflicts with the nomadic peoples in the north were inevitable, but there is nothing much to describe about this war. When friction occurred between the two sides, the comprehensive national strength was no longer on the same level. The nomadic peoples' advantage in mobility and the advantage of their military strength when they went south to rob were simply not brought into play in the face of modern armies. On the grasslands that were not suitable for farming, fortresses were built one after another, which constantly oppressed the nomadic peoples' living space and forced them to become naturalized citizens.

In addition, expeditions are sent to explore more distant places to find out whether there are other countries. Population is of great help in accelerating development. In the early stages of civilization's external expansion, establishing colonies in relatively underdeveloped areas is also an indispensable part.

Facts have proved that this world is much larger than they originally knew, and the continent they are on is not the only one in the world. There are still many people living on this continent. On the other side of the sea, there is also a vast continent. Although the population on it is smaller than the two opposing empires in the north and the south, more than a dozen agricultural civilizations have been established. The large population also means potential for future development.

As time went by, breakthroughs were made in steel smelting, chemical technology, and crop improvement. In the third year since Lan Nuo traveled here, a breakthrough was made in synthetic ammonia technology. The industrial synthetic ammonia technology basically and completely solved the fertilizer problem, and the restrictions on population size were liberated.

In the same year, the Grand Canal running through the north and south of the empire was completed, and the railway running through the east and west of the empire was completed. Relying on the cross-hub empire's control over the local areas, it reached its peak in history. In the future, with the expansion of the railway network, the control will be further strengthened.

Two years later, the first practical internal combustion engine was manufactured. At the same time, the first hydroelectric generator was successfully built on a river flowing through the imperial capital.

The Industrial Revolution was breaking out at an unprecedented speed, and the technology was changing with each passing day, which was even difficult for ordinary people to accept. The trains that had just been built and put into use had to be replaced. The original trains could not be scrapped.

As a result, a strange situation appeared on the railway tracks, with steam locomotives, diesel locomotives and even electric locomotives running side by side. Different eras were scattered across this vast continent, and the entire country was stumbling towards a new era at a rapid pace in a deformed posture.

The invention of the microscope has significantly promoted the development of biology, and human and material resources from all over the country have spared no effort to invest resources and manpower in the development of biotechnology.

While various high-yield crops are being developed, contemporary biologists are also working hard to try and develop cloning technology. In this era, life sciences are developing rapidly at an abnormal speed.

The reason why this technology will develop so fast is that it is related to the birth of longevity technology. Cloning technology is the premise of longevity technology. Only when somatic cells are transformed into embryonic stem cells can the aging of the human body be significantly reversed. Of course, this is not the only technology route. If the level of technology is high enough, it is entirely possible to allow humans and nanomachines to coexist, and nanomachines can manually repair the telomeres of human cells, thereby achieving disguised immortality. But the technology he needs is definitely possible only in the interstellar era, and it is necessary to advance a civilization from the feudal era to the interstellar era within a hundred years. It is simply a fantasy.

Even if Lan Nuo had great ability, it would be impossible for him to take this technical route.

  The technical route he considered was a step-by-step approach. He would first take the route of cloning technology, and then wait until the future to take out his own frozen young bone marrow stem cells and combine the cells with plant embryonic cells to obtain his own cloned embryos. He would then use the cloned embryos to induce differentiation into organs for in vitro cultivation. He would temporarily use organ transplantation to extend lifespan to a certain extent. After the technology was further developed, he would consider the aging of the nervous system and how to repair it through technical means.

If the plan goes well, it is expected that his life span can be extended by one to three hundred years, which is enough for him to do many things. Even if this period of time is not enough for him to develop a truly practical longevity technology, he can use hibernation technology to put the human body into hibernation and wait to wake him up after the longevity technology becomes truly stable in the future.

In fact, hibernation technology is much simpler than imagined. It does not mean freezing a person instantly at a low temperature close to absolute zero. It is indeed a kind of hibernation, and it is the most perfect hibernation, almost like time freezing. However, this requires very strict technology. It is necessary to ensure that the water in the human body does not crystallize at all during the freezing process, otherwise it will puncture the cells in the body, causing the human body to become a piece of frozen rotten meat when thawed.

The hibernation technology that can be developed in a short period of time is actually somewhat similar to Lanno unlocking the genetic lock and stimulating the human body's potential. Both are developing abilities that humans may have possessed during the evolution process.

Many animals in nature hibernate. During hibernation, their energy consumption is extremely low, and their metabolism is reduced to one-tenth of the usual level or even slower.

Human ancestors or species similar to humans may also have the ability to hibernate. Therefore, as long as the corresponding segment in the gene is activated and the human body is given corresponding stimulation, in theory, humans can fall into a hibernation state with extremely reduced metabolism, just like animals that are born to hibernate.

Although this is far from hibernation where time stands still, it is still no problem to support it for dozens or even hundreds of years.

[To be continued]

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