Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 1156 The Age of Electricity
"Aren't I the principal now?"

His rhetorical question made Guan Xuqing speechless. Indeed, he is also a principal now, leading the principal who is so close to more than 100 Chinese and Russian students.But a brilliant educator like him should have been in a better school.

"This is the path I chose. According to the rules, teachers in areas with poor support conditions can be rotated every three years, but I think the worse the conditions are, the more people like us are needed. Ten years have passed in the blink of an eye. , I have been to six impoverished states in Siberia to support education, and my students have been left behind in each place, and my youth and sweat have been left in each place.” After speaking, the teacher took the older students and began to carry some Construction materials, ready to build a new school building.

His words made Guan Xuqing respectful. Although the three-year teaching support life was difficult, teachers who had experienced teaching support would be given priority in the rating of future jobs. This made many students who graduated from normal schools go to places with difficult conditions for a Teaching work.However, Guan Xuqing was the first time to meet a teacher who had supported teaching six times.

In the face of such a selfless and dedicated teacher, Guan Xuqing didn't know what to say. Because of such selfless people, the future of the empire is hopeful, and the basic education of the empire can penetrate into every corner.As Guan Xuqing once said, although the peak of the technological pyramid is unattainable, it is the huge and solid foundation that creates the peak. The stronger the foundation is, the higher the peak can be built.

In the car on the way back, Guan Xuqing thought silently that this school may not produce an internationally renowned science giant in the future, but it will train hundreds of students who have received basic education in the years to come. It will also produce a small number of students who are admitted to universities.It is precisely these thousands of basic education schools that will become the solid cornerstone of China's future science and technology system. Through these schools, the cultural level of the people of the empire will be gradually improved, starting bit by bit, each student From childhood.These schools not only changed the future destiny of these students, but also changed the future destiny of the empire.

"Your Majesty, shall we go to the University of Siberia next stop? A special lecture will be held there soon." Seeing the Emperor pondering for a long time, Chen Bulei carefully asked for instructions.

"Lecture? Who is the keynote speaker?"

"You must be familiar with Mr. Nicholas Truss."

"Oh?" Guan Xuqing immediately became interested, "Isn't Tesla in the vault laboratory? Why did he come to Siberia?"

"Mr. Truss heard about the lack of well-known professors in higher education in Siberia, so he readily agreed to be a visiting professor at the University of Siberia and give lectures from time to time without any payment."

"Haha, everyone said that this guy, Tesla, was weird. It was indeed so when I saw it today. Let's go and have a look!"

Siberian University Lecture Hall.

In front of the huge boxwood podium, a thin and slightly haggard man in a black suit was giving a speech to the dark audience below.Judging from his appearance, he is a Westerner, but at this time he is talking to thousands of teachers and students in very fluent Chinese.

Guan Xuqing recognized at a glance that this person was Dr. Nicola Truss.

"In fact, right now, a new civilization is emerging in our lives. Although it has been suppressed to some extent, it can be confirmed that this new civilization will change the way we work, live and love, bringing A new economic and political conflict, and above all, a change in our ideology. This new civilization is already showing its head and feet in our lives. In today's world, many people have doubts about the future , They always feel that they are going to be in a desperate situation, they are always obsessed with the past, and want to restore the dying old world they were familiar with in the past, but I am here to tell them clearly that the birth of a new civilization cannot be stopped and obliterated No way."

Truss' voice was high-pitched and passionate, and no one could have imagined that it came from a middle-aged man who had been working continuously for two days and two nights.

"Energy is the prerequisite for the existence of any civilization. The energy of ancient agricultural civilization is mainly human and animal power, as well as natural energy from the sun, wind and water. When people cook and heat, they use firewood and push the millstone Water power is used, and livestock are used to pull the plow to cultivate the land. China has been the most mature and richest agricultural country in the world for a long time in history. I remember some statistics saying that there are still 400 million horses in China And 700 million cows and various other animals are working for this huge agricultural empire. This is almost the largest energy source in Asia. No matter in the east or in the west, in agricultural civilization, energy is renewable. Just like nature will grow new trees, sails don’t have to worry about the wind disappearing one day, running water will provide lasting power for waterwheels, as for livestock and working people, it is a renewable energy that can continue to reproduce from generation to generation.”

Having said that, Truss glanced at the young students who helped him move the instrument.

Truss cleared his throat slightly and continued: "Actually, during the period when agricultural civilization dominated, hints of the future balance of power often appeared. We all know that there were large-scale production factories sprouting in ancient Greece and Rome. Someone drilled an oil well on an island in Greece a few years ago. China has already started to use oil on a large scale in the Tang and Song Dynasties. In ancient Alexandria, even a primitive steam engine appeared. These are all faint flashes of things to come. Just as agricultural civilization cannot and cannot reject the emergence of industrial civilization, we cannot and cannot reject future civilization now.”

"The industrial revolution is when the rule of agricultural civilization is the most stable, setting off an unprecedented storm and creating a civilization with more vitality than agricultural civilization. It involves all aspects of human life and impacts all the characteristics of the past. It It gave birth to the automobile factory, made the tractor run across the fields, made the railroad and the train, got the typewriter in the office, got the ship in the sea, got the airplane in the sky, and above all, it connected all these things together , assembled like a machine to form the most powerful and expansive social system the world has ever seen, and this is our present world."

"Contrary to the agricultural society, the energy in the industrial society began to widely use coal, natural gas and oil, which are extracted from underground storage, and provided a large number of subsidies for people living in industrial civilization, which greatly promoted economic growth. These come from Underground energy constitutes the basis of industrial civilization. On this basis is the rapid advancement of technology. It can be said that new technologies are driven by new energy systems.”

"Coal, railways, imitation weaving, steel, rubber, machine tool manufacturing, etc., they consume a lot of energy and produce a lot of waste and pollutants. We can now foresee that these traditional industries will become backward and However, just as the industrial civilization had already begun to emerge when the agricultural civilization was still dominant, a new civilization has quietly appeared now. What is it? It is electricity."

"Electricity is no stranger to us now, it has profoundly affected our lives, but what I want to say is that our understanding of it is far from enough, and the real "Electricity Age" is coming , the changes to our lives will be far beyond our imagination."

"300 years ago, when people saw a large number of farmers working in the fields with hoes and sickles, only a lunatic would have thought that the rural population would decrease in the near future, and people would flock to the cities in droves , go to the factory to earn bread. But today's facts prove that the madman's idea is completely correct."

"Today, in the eyes of many people, I may be an out-and-out lunatic. Here I would like to thank my many Chinese friends for not treating me as a lunatic, but now please listen to a lunatic describe such a lunatic to you. time."

"In this era, we sit at home and can see people and things in another country just through a display device."

"In this era, we can transmit signals, text and voice to any corner of the world at will, and can transmit printed and handwritten documents."

"In this era, everyone will have such an electric device in their hands, which can not only be used to communicate with people in another corner of the world, but also can be used to transmit text and images, and images can be Activities. Let the relatives far away from home can see each other's appearance, listen to their words and talk with each other without any effort."

"In this day and age, each of us has a machine powered by electricity, which can solve all kinds of problems for us, and which can perform tasks for us that even the greatest mathematician in the world can't stand. Computing can record and store a large amount of information, images, photos, and music for us, and display these information, images, and photos in front of us when we need them, and play any music we want to hear for us. We use It can control the activities of some machines, so that the same work as in the factory can be done at home."

"In this era, no matter where a ship sailing in the sea or a car driving on land goes, the driver can accurately know his position and speed, so as to avoid accidents such as shipwreck and collision."

(End of this chapter)