Save the Bachelor of Heaven

After Xiang Nan lit up the Forbidden City, he sent electricity to the factory.

In the past, spinning machines, looms, etc. used in factories all used steam engines.

One of the disadvantages of the steam engine is that its power is unstable. After all, it burns coal and boils water to do work, converting thermal energy into mechanical energy. If the coal filling speed does not keep up, there will be problems with the output of the steam engine.

Moreover, steam engines are noisy, highly polluting, have complex transmission devices, and are not very efficient in energy utilization.

In comparison, electric motors have stable power, low pollution, low noise, relatively simple transmission devices, and high energy utilization.

Therefore, after switching from steam engines to electric motors, not only the production environment is improved, but the most critical thing is that the production efficiency is greatly improved. The advantages of electricity are immediately apparent.

Subsequently, electromagnetism was added to the middle school physics textbook written by Xiang Nan, and the university added the subject of electrical energy engineering, making people gradually aware of the nature of electricity and its benefits.

All in all, with the completion of the first power plant, electricity began to be gradually recognized by everyone.

…

Subsequently, several hydropower stations began to be built in mountainous areas, and many state-owned factories began to build branches in deep mountains, just like the third-line construction back then.

Building a factory in the mountains is convenient for keeping secrets secret. For example, some companies that produce military products, such as bullets, artillery shells, machine guns, mortars, howitzers, etc., need to be kept strictly confidential. Production in deep mountains can avoid leakage of secrets to the greatest extent.

After all, ordinary people would not appear in the deep mountains and forests, and the strangers who appeared there must be either traitors or thieves.

On the one hand, it saves energy. Gun production is inseparable from lathes, milling machines, drilling machines, grinders, boring machines, planers, punches and other processing machines, and these machines all require a large amount of energy to drive.

In the past, it was mainly driven by steam engines, and even at the earliest, it required human power. After switching to electric, not only the power is higher and more stable, the key is to save more energy. In the past, dozens of tons of coal were burned a day. Now, after switching to hydroelectric power generation, this money can be saved completely.

…

In September of the thirty-seventh year of Qianlong's reign, Concubine Zhu Ying accidentally contracted wind-cold and had a high fever that did not go away.

Initially, after two injections of penicillin, his condition had eased, but then his condition took a turn for the worse. He had a high fever for several days and even started talking nonsense.

Xiang Nan visited her twice and knew that she was dying, so he quickly ordered Jing Xi to enter the palace and show his last filial piety in front of her bed.

"Eniang, please open your eyes and look at the baby. The baby sees you coming." Jing Xi couldn't help but cry sadly when she saw Eniang on the hospital bed.

Perhaps after hearing Jing Xi's words, Zhu Ying slowly opened his eyes and saw Jing Xi and Xiang Nan in front of him.

She opened her mouth with force and said in a hoarse voice, "Xi'er, E Niang is leaving. Your Majesty, take care of yourself, I will come to accompany you in the next life." After saying that, she closed her eyes forever.

"Eniang, Eniang, don't leave the child, don't leave the child~" Jing Xi saw this, lay on her body and cried bitterly.

When Xiang Nan saw this, his eyes turned red and he shed tears.

"Pass the decree to confer Concubine Zhe as Imperial Concubine Zhemin, and order the Ministry of Internal Affairs to carefully organize the funeral of the Imperial Concubine." Xiang Nan then issued an order.

Ruyi, Hailan, Wanyin, Luyun and others couldn't help but feel heartbroken when they heard the news.

Zhu Ying has always been kind to others, gentle and virtuous, and does not fight or grab, so he is very popular in the palace. Now that he has passed away, how can everyone not be sad?

Therefore, people gathered in Anhua Hall to burn incense and mourn her. Xiang Nan also personally burned incense and paper for her, adding an extra layer of mourning and honor to her.

…

Thirty-eight years later, the Ganzhou Yellow River Bridge was officially completed.

As a result, China has another railway to the Western Regions.

This railway starts from Xinzheng, passes through Chang'an, Ganzhou, Wuwei, Dunhuang and ends at Yili. It connects Beijing, Hebei, Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Xinjiang and many other provinces, and closely connects the hinterland of the Central Plains with the borders of the Western Regions. Together.

In this way, it will also help the economic development of the hinterland of the Central Plains.

Prior to this, although China-Turkmenistan’s foreign trade was developed, most of the benefits were in the coastal areas.

For example, the port cities opened in Xiangnan, such as Jinmen, Qingzhou, Haizhou, Hujiang, Quanzhou, Yuezhou, etc. are all coastal cities.

And because of the development of foreign trade business, these port cities developed rapidly. The economy is soaring, the population is growing, goods are gathering, and people are prosperous.

Inland areas like Shaanxi, Gansu, and Henan are not close to the sea and their transportation is not developed enough, so it is impossible to do foreign trade, so they are naturally poorer.

Now that the railways are connected, inland provinces such as Shaanxi, Gansu and Henan can also transport goods to all directions via railways, so economic development can naturally be accelerated.

Xiang Nan is also planning to build several more railways in Central China, such as from Hankou to Tianfu, from Zhengding to Taiyuan, from Chang'an to Hanzhong, from Linzhou to Hetao, from Yongzhou to Dali...

Except for the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which cannot be connected to trains due to insufficient technology, other provinces in Xiangnan are willing to build railways.

Firstly, it facilitates the exchange of people, secondly it facilitates the circulation of goods, and most importantly, it also strengthens local control.

…

As for foreign countries, especially Europe, Xiang Nan took a completely different approach.

In all regions of Europe, except for mines and factories that have been nationalized, private enterprises are not allowed to employ more than ten people, and violators will be banned and severely fined.

Moreover, more advanced production tools such as hydraulic machines and steam engines are not allowed to be used. To put it simply, it was to suppress the development of European productivity and keep them at the medieval level before the Industrial Revolution.

As a result, their productivity will not be developed, and civilization and technology will not progress, but will continue to regress.

In fact, this is also true. Before Xiang Nan invaded Europe, their bourgeois revolution had already begun, and the democratic enlightenment movement was also in full swing.

For example, England had already carried out a bourgeois revolution in the seventeenth century and issued the "Bill of Rights", which clearly restricted the royal power in the form of law. At that time, the Qing Dynasty was still in the Kangxi period.

Entering the 18th century, Voltaire published "Philosophical Correspondence", advocating that people are born free and equal, opposing tyranny and calling for freedom;

Montesquieu published the book "The Spirit of the Laws" and issued a call to "put power in a cage"; Rousseau published "The Social Contract", emphasizing that everyone is born free and that the king's power is not granted by God but by the people. The legislative power should be vested in the people...

However, with the defeat of various European countries, a large number of progressive people were killed, exiled, and relocated, schools were disbanded, libraries were banned, private collections were burned, and a large number of people died abnormally... European civilization has become inevitable There has been a significant setback.

Coupled with Xiang Nan's continuous immigration to Europe, the proportion of white people in the European population is now less than 50%. The total population of Central Plains people, Tianzhu people, Tianfang people, and African Americans already exceeds the number of white people.

As a result, Europe has become a big sauce tank. Even if there are still people who want to resist, they will not be able to make too big a storm.