Chapter 161

He also felt some emotion.

Never expected that ten years after Yan ascended the throne, he would have already brought about the Four Great Inventions.

The compass, papermaking, gunpowder, and printing.

These four things...

It can be said that they played an extremely important role in the evolution of civilization.

The compass represents a leap-forward development in navigation and exploration.

Printing and papermaking represent the popularization of civilization and the transmission of knowledge.

Gunpowder...

It even directly leads civilization toward the era of thermal weapons that can destroy the heavens and extinguish the earth!

And in the imperial palace hall.

After Yan finished rewarding the Ministry of Works.

He then asked: "Now that the wilderness has been settled and the compass has been successfully developed, when can the steamships I ordered you to build be completed?"

During these years.

He studied the chapter on strange objects in the Divine Book every day.

He knew deeply the importance of the compass and steamships for conquering the sea!

Only when both are ready can the conquest of the sea begin!

On his current map, the land is already complete.

The only remaining unknown area is the sea!

Your Majesty.

The Minister of Works hurriedly replied: "Reporting to Your Majesty, the Ministry of Works is already rushing the construction, and the steamships should be successfully developed by next year!"

This kind of steamship is not an ordinary small boat.

It is a large iron steamship, the kind that can carry thousands of troops!

Yan nodded.

After the morning court session.

He went to the Divine Temple again.

Kneeling before the statue of the deity.

He reported his current achievements.

"Great deity, Yan has spent ten years unifying all the land; under the heavens, there is no longer any hidden place!"

"The craftsmen of today are even researching the various strange objects recorded in the Divine Book."

"The Four Great Inventions have been successfully developed; it won't be long before the steamships are revealed, and the Great Yan Kingdom's army will once again conquer the ocean!"

He always remembered.

On the day he usurped the throne, he expressed his ambition to the deity.

And now, from that day...

It is not far off.

The eleventh year of the Great Yan Calendar.

The Ministry of Works lived up to expectations and built the first steamship capable of carrying a thousand people!

Yan was overjoyed.

He ordered the Ministry of Works to mass-produce them according to the prototype of the mother ship.

The twelfth year of the Great Yan Calendar.

Ten giant steamships set off from the east coast, sailing majestically into the depths of the ocean.

The main power for these ships relied on wind and human labor.

When sailing with the wind, the speed was incredibly fast.

And every long-voyage steamship carried a thousand-man army and map-drawing officials.

Every time they saw an island, they had to mark it on the map.

And they had to land on the island to record all the customs and features of the island.

Then transmit them back to the Great Yan Kingdom's imperial palace!