The capital of ronin.

This is the capital of Dongtu Datang, with a population of 1.5 million. In terms of population size, it is the largest city in the entire world, even more than Rober’s Westwind City and Shuangqing City.

The huge population has brought great potential to this city, and it has also brought the pride of the celestial kingdom.

At this time, Shang Hui was summoned by the emperor and came to the palace. Because of the special identities of Shanghui and Godfather, the emperor of the Eastern Tang Dynasty didn't dare to neglect her. He set aside two rows of civil and military officials and summoned them in the main hall. This scale is considered to be quite a face.

Shang Hui passed through the two rows of civil and military officials, before reaching the throne, and respectfully saluted the emperor: "Long live my emperor!"

A gentle smile appeared on the emperor's face: "No gifts and no gifts! I heard that Aiqing has something fun to offer to me. I don't know what it is?"

Shang Hui said, "Your Majesty! What the Caomin wants to dedicate to you is something called a steam engine, which can help us complete various tasks. This kind of thing has been widely used in the Western world, and the Caomin wants to give it free of charge. Dedicated to the Tang Dynasty, so that our country can also make rapid progress with the help of steam engines."

"Oh?" The emperor felt interesting: "Take a look at that steam engine."

The palace guard went out to pass an order, and soon a group of civilian men came in carrying a huge machine.

This huge machine looked heavy, and when it was placed on the floor in the hall, the emperor was a little worried about his beautiful white marble floor, so don't be crushed by this machine. But forget it, as an emperor, don't be so stingy. If the floor is crushed, it is a big deal to ask the craftsmen to help them again. Anyway, I have a lot of white marbles, so I can't seem to be too petty.

The steam engine was set up, but no one could understand what it was.

Shang Hui gave an order, and the folks began to demonstrate.

Put coal in, set the fire, connect gears to the shaft, and hang ropes. Soon, the steam engine turned on, and it rumblingly turned, pulling the rope, and then the rope pulled a big grinder, the grinder revolved, and grind the tofu.

The emperor and a group of ministers opened their eyes to look at the diorama, only to find that the machine was actually grinding tofu.

A minister could not help sweating: "Ms. Shang, your machine looks very powerful, but it is only used to grind tofu? I don’t have to use a special machine to grind tofu. Donkeys can grind, there are really no cows or donkeys, and people can still grind."

Shang Hui smiled and said, "This machine was invented to save manpower."

The minister looked disdainful: "What manpower is saved? Why use machines for things that can be done with manpower?"

The ministers next to each other nodded together: "Yes! This machine only knows to rotate, and it doesn't know how to work around it, but it's much better to use people to polish it. It turns when you want to turn, stops when you want to stop, and when you want to be fast, you can go faster. , Slow when you want to be slow, how can human wisdom be comparable to machines."

Shang Hui: “You can’t say that, manpower is sometimes poor. After we use machines to save manpower, people can free their hands, free more time from heavy labor, and do something more creative and artistic. Thing."

"Cut! Nonsense!" The ministers expressed boredom: "This machine is also a toy, so there is no use for it."

A military attache next to them reminded them in a low voice: "Civil ministers, you should be careful when you talk to business women. She is that... the man's woman, you are so rude to her, beware that the man comes to you for trouble. "

The civil servants sneered: "When have we been afraid? Is there any reason why we are afraid of a strong enemy and dare not speak up? Don't say that we are not afraid of that man. Even if the emperor has issued a wrong imperial decree, I will dare to take the lead. , Where is it?"

The military attache was speechless, okay, the civil servants of the Great Tang Dynasty were notoriously stiff necks, and they didn't give any face to anyone.

Shang Hui smiled at them: "You are not afraid of power, and you dare to speak out. That is right or wrong. Now it is horrible to sacrifice your life to maintain the wrong concept."

The civil servants sneered: "Where did I go wrong? You are a broken machine, pushing the millstone, what's the use of it? But it consumes a lot of coal, and the gain is not worth the loss."

Shang Hui said: "It is just a machine that provides power. It can not only push the grinding disc? We can also use it to pull the behemoth that you can't push with human power. It can push the train to roar forward, and it can also drive the fearless steel battleship. Moving forward, it is not a toy, but the future!"

The civil servants shook their heads, sneered, and were not interested: "We can use a thousand people to pull the giant giant, and ten thousand people. We've also heard about it, but the train is not as fast as the horse, isn't it just to transport more things? We can surpass the train with 500 carriages and 1,000 carriages. As for warships, how about warships made of steel? Being able to float on the sea is simply nonsense. You confuse the emperor with such tales. Even if you are the woman of that man, we will still **** you."

Shang Hui sighed: "Oh! I want to hand over the new technology to the country, but there are so many frogs in the bottom of the well in the country. How can this be good?"

She was sighing. Suddenly, a little **** ran in from outside and said loudly, "The big thing is not good! The big thing is not good!"

The emperor squinted his eyes: "What is it? You have something to report, don't yell."

The little **** hurriedly roared and said: "It is reported that the warring times of the Guiren Kingdom ended a few days ago, and a guy named Toyotomi Monkey unified the Guiren Kingdom. This guy's self-confidence has swelled, and he actually wants to conquer my East Land. Tang also arrogantly said that he would set up the capital of Bonin. At present, he has sent troops to the high-level country, intending to conquer the high-level country first, and then use the high-level country as a springboard."

Civil ministers: "Oh! Ouch!"

Military generals: "Send troops to the Gaobang country and drive those **** ghosts back to the island."

Civil ministers: "But... Gao Bang's navy is powerful, our navy..."

At this time, Shang Hui stood up and smiled: "Leave this to me, just to show you the real power of the steam engine."

After more than three months, the high-ranking country was on the coast.

A large group of civil servants and military commanders of the East China Tang Dynasty stood on a cliff on the coast, watching a battle that was taking place on the sea.

I saw the iron-clad ships of the ghost country everywhere on the sea, looking extremely domineering. They are at war with the turtle ship of the high-bang country!

The tortoise ship of Gaobang country is also a very powerful warship with good combat power. However, because of its weak national power, the turtle ship has a small number, and it is being surrounded by a large number of iron-clad ships in the ghost country, making it quite difficult to fight. On the bow of the ship, many tortoise people who look like water arrow turtles are having fun with the ghost people with horns on their heads.

When Shang Hui saw this scene, he couldn't help sweating profusely: "What the **** are these?"

The ministers next to him said, "Don't you know? The people of Gaobang country are all tortoise people! When the people of our two countries held sports games, they were jokingly called the tortoise and the hare race by the people of the ghost country. But now our Datang people are no longer a rabbit head, hahaha, no longer a rabbit head. The Turtle Race can no longer rest on our heads, hahahaha!"

This trough doesn't know how to vomit well, it will vomit himself, so forget it!

A civil servant turned his head and said to Shang Hui: "Ms. Shang, what kind of steel battleship do you mean? Where is it?"

Shang Hui smiled and said, "I'll be here soon!"

As soon as she finished saying this, she heard the sirens sounded in the distance. Two huge steel ships rushed over from the sea. The two ships were black, and there was something outside of the ship. Two large steam water wheels were spinning fast, paddling the sea, making the two ships run fast.

When the civil servants of the Great Tang Dynasty looked at the ship, they immediately gasped, and once again made their precious contributions to global climate change.

"What a big ship, made of steel!"

"too frightening!"

"How did this ship run?"

Shang Hui explained with a smile: "The belly of this ship is loaded with something called a'steam engine' that I demonstrated to you last time. It spins the water wheel, and the water wheel strokes the water desperately, so it swiftly It's moving."

Ministers: "That's it! That's amazing."

After a military officer looked at these two big ships carefully, he couldn't help but ask: "Ms. Shang, why don't you have a cannon on this ship? Uh...it seems to be two civilian commercial ships."

Shang Hui smiled and said: "Sorry! I can't transfer the battleship. My master does not agree to transfer the steel battleship to beat the ghost kingdom. He said that the existing steel battleships are all flying the flag of the Grand Kingdom. If I take the Grand Kingdom If the steel battleship to which I belonged comes to join this war, the Kingdom of Gran will also be involved in the war. This is not what my master wants to see. Therefore, I can only take the merchant ship for my own use in the capacity of Master Dongtu. Come out to fight this battle."

When everyone heard it, their faces were half blue: "Is this a merchant ship for your own use?"

"Yes!" Shang Hui said, "Merchant ships don't have any weapons, so...just use collision to help."

Everyone: "???"

The appearance of rushing over at that time was simply terrifying.

The ghost people exclaimed, "What kind of ghost is that?"

"It's a ship, a huge ship, a ship made of steel."

"Ahhhhhhh!"

"Bump!" With a loud noise, the steel merchant ship crashed into an iron armored ship of the ghost race. Although the name of the ship was called "iron armored ship", it was actually the wooden ship nailed some iron plates on the outside. cheeky. It was hit by a real steel battleship with full force and instantly turned into dust.

On the second day, a minister surnamed Xu from Datang State came forward and put forward the policy of "learning from the barbarians to develop skills to control barbarians". With the help of Shang Hui, the steam engine was fully introduced, and advanced science and technology were learned. Catch the road.