Wandering Spaceship in Deep Space Chapter 445: Looking for a new world
The third stop is "Gernli", this small and remote city produces a kind of "snake girl", that is, female slaves. Due to the remote location, humans here do not survive well. If the population is too large, there is a possibility of starvation to death. Therefore, the locals like to sell their daughters and sons. Although this kind of thing is very inhumane, it also has its specific reasons.
This station is very popular with sailors. The long voyage can suffocate these male animals. They eagerly want to vent their desires, and they spend all their wages. Only a few who have seen the world and read books will choose to save their money.
Zhang Yuan can only sigh lowly. There are very few things a person can do.
Life is always full of helplessness. Knowing this is completely different from seeing it with your own eyes.
Working in the direction of technology and developing science can indeed promote the entire world.
But for him, it was still not enough.
From the first industrial revolution to the second industrial revolution, it was mainly the use of electricity and internal combustion engines. Zhang Yuan is able to produce electricity, but it is difficult and difficult to apply it on a large scale, and it takes a huge amount of time.
To give a simple example, the large-scale application of electricity requires a serious power grid. State Grid, how big is the project? How many qualified power engineers are needed and how much metal is smelted? It is impossible for him to do it alone.
Even after electricity is available, he has to invent all kinds of electrical furniture. There are many electrical appliances. He only knows the principle. A lot of details are still unknown. It needs to be estimated temporarily. This part of the project cannot be completed by one person. ...
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The fourth stop of the entire voyage is "Albarbilli", an originally impoverished place, but gems were found in this place, so a large number of gold prospectors formed the city.
The fifth station is already close to the dusk zone in the west, and there is a lot of sunlight in the sky, and the air has become more and more hot...
All the crew members cheered loudly for the sun. Humans are always animals that long for light.
But, it’s too hot here.
Zhang Yuan wiped the sweat off his body, squinted his eyes, and witnessed the sun on the horizon. The clothes on everyone are as if they were fished out of the water.
The only advantage of this place is that you can eat the freshest vegetables, including some fruits that are not easy to keep fresh.
The sixth stop......
going around in such a circle, it takes about half a year...
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In a blink of an eye, five years have passed.
Through the accumulation of wealth, Zhang Yuan has his own fleet. He has inspected the customs of 206 human settlements and conducted more in-depth investigations.
The conditions in this world are too bad. The sunny place is too hot, and the precipitation is extremely frequent, making it difficult for people to adapt to such a humid and hot environment.
A remote area without sunlight, too cold, and poor food.
so that the area where humans can live safely is very small.
Boulder City can be regarded as the most advantageous place to live, with convenient transportation, and a large number of fish brought by ocean currents around it. But the more remote areas lack natural resources, the weaker and poorer they are.
The vast majority of the world is again oceans, and there are no large tracts of land. Many small islands were barely able to live until after the industrial revolution.
But it's just that, there is no way to improve.
"Humans in this world will inevitably decline after coal is exhausted. Even if humans will not be completely extinct, they will only linger in a few habitable places, and there will be no possibility of turning over again. "
There are still large reserves of coal, which can last for at least four hundred years. Compared with a society where the average life expectancy is less than 35 years, few people worry about this.
The professors in the university are still very optimistic, because technology is still advancing, and theories are still developing. They think that in the next four hundred years, many problems will always be solved.
However, Zhang Yuan, who has traveled from other worlds, deeply understands the shortcomings of this world.
Through reference materials and personal practice, Zhang Yuan did not find any signs of oil, in other words, oil may be hidden on the seabed. With the current technical level, there is no possibility of development at all.
"Without oil, it would be difficult to give birth to a true second industrial revolution! Electricity alone is far from enough."
"The four-hundred-year countdown to death has already begun. No one but me knows the final outcome."
Even if he is Zhang Yuan, it is difficult for him to drive the whole world on his own.
Industry needs all-round progress, and one person can do too little. The industrial revolution requires a lot of supporting facilities. Zhang Yuan can forcibly get out generators and telegraphs, but he can't get out rockets, satellites, and even controllable nuclear fusion technology by himself. This is almost a fantasy!
What's more, the high-quality population here is really too small.
100 million people are distributed on more than one thousand islands, large and small, most of them are illiterate, and there is no talent pool needed for the second industrial revolution.
A Boulder City alone, with a population of one million, is still too weak. This world is not the cherry blossom world. It has strong productivity. As long as he gives drawings, robots can produce parts. There are many things, even if there are drawings, it still won’t work.
Then, what should I do?
can only come from another direction, an unknown road, Zhang Yuan sighed for a long time, not knowing whether his choice was right or wrong, or just wasting his time.
"咚咚咚", someone is knocking on the door.
"Please come in!"
came in a large group of enthusiastic and ruddy professors.
A voice headed by trembled slightly and said: "Earl, we just received a wireless telegram from Malfa City, which introduces a local news!"
"The wireless telegraph... succeeded!"
"The wireless telegram succeeded!" There was a loud noise and cheers in the room.
Everyone knows what this means. The successful development of wireless telegraphy means that the dissemination of information no longer needs to be carried out through the primitive way of carrier pigeons. The speed of information transmission between cities will be the speed of light, and the connection will become closer!
Ocean-going vessels equipped with radio telegraphs, even if they are still in communication with land on the ocean, can also send out distress signals when needed.
Everyone with a bit of mind~IndoMTL.com~ has seen a huge business opportunity.
From now on, every cargo ship will be equipped with a telegraph machine, and communication between different cities will also be realized by sending telegrams. This is a real business opportunity!
This incident has alarmed a large number of nobles in Boulder City. Zhang Yuan, the inventor of the wireless telegraph... Oh, yes, his name in this world is Count Steve Hoffman, and he has undoubtedly become the city. Shining star.
Zhang Yuan recovered from his thoughts and said with a smile: "Thank you, thank you for your hard work. I believe there will be a good plan for related cooperation and benefit distribution! I hope you can participate in the evening banquet!"
"Of course, at the invitation of Lord Earl, how could you not participate?"
Everyone left with a fanatical look. When it comes to money, everyone becomes very active. The young earl has always been known for his generosity, and even sponsored many research projects in the university and trained many navigators.
Although this big project will be shared by various nobles, even if it is just soup, it is enough for them to be prosperous and wealthy for a lifetime!
Zhang Yuan sighed slightly, he really didn't have much interest in making money, and most of his affairs were left to his sister. However, if you want to do big things, you can't do it without money, especially... the next plan.
"Brother..." A head poked out from behind the door, his sister Anna.
She said a little disturbed: "Do you really want to...find the New World?"