Chapter 1234

"Sure enough, it didn't let me down."

Standing in the sky above Jizhou looking down, Su Fan looked at the black steel lines connecting Jizhou to other provinces, revealing a satisfied expression.

Railways have already appeared, and steam trains seem to have developed to a different level.

That speed is not even slower than the trains of the 70s and 80s of later generations; this is truly a steam magic era.

The Taiping Dao's use of steam engines seems to have exceeded the previous life; in that era of the previous life, steam engines were quickly replaced by internal combustion engines.

But the Taiping Dao seems to have created something different.

First, it was shrunk, and then the efficiency was not inferior at all; looking at the steam cars running on the road, they are much larger than the internal combustion engine cars of later generations, but on that cement road, the speed is not slow at all.

Thick smoke is billowing everywhere in the sky, but this represents the arrival of industrialization.

Although the air does not look very good, this represents the arrival of a new era.

This is the power of industry; Su Fan can see that in more than two hundred years, the Taiping Dao's industrialization level is not inferior to the 80s of later generations.

Even in some places, it is not inferior to later generations at all.

Technology combined with transcendent means can create more powerful things.

"Hmm!"

"Is that an airplane?"

"It seems they have also researched internal combustion engines."

Su Fan saw the crude airplane at a glance, and a smile immediately appeared on the corner of his mouth; although the airplane was very crude, it was already able to fly.

And the pilot inside was also a mortal.

The airplane flew in the sky for less than an hour before returning again, landing in an open space.

Immediately, a burst of cheers came from below.

"Haha! Success!"

In the Jizhou First Aviation Research Institute, a group of people cheered completely.

"Master, we succeeded."

Several young men looked excited; they were all disciples of the research institute and had joined the institute for several years.

"Master, mortals can also go to the sky; we did it."

Another young man was even more excited because he was not a cultivator; he was just an ordinary mortal, yet he could participate in researching a machine that allowed ordinary people to go to the sky.

How could he not be excited?

The previous train was also built by mortals, becoming a flood dragon for mortals; now that the airplane is in the sky, it is a flying phoenix, and they, these ordinary people, can also ride the flying phoenix to fly; this is what those teachers taught them before, that mortals can also conquer heaven.

"Yes, we succeeded."

As the lead researcher, Gongshu Yuan was also very happy; he was a disciple of the Gongshu family, and the Gongshu family existed as early as the pre-Qin period; in the Great Qin era, it could even compete with the Qin Mohists, and the Gongshu family was also very good at building war weapons.

Most of the flying boats in the Great Qin era were also built by the Gongshu family.

After the Great Qin disappeared, the Gongshu family, under the leadership of the contemporary clan head, had a part stay in the Jiuzhou and a part leave the Jiuzhou.

Gongshu Yuan was part of those who stayed in the Jiuzhou; after staying in the Jiuzhou, the Gongshu family also began to keep a low profile; in terms of heritage and strength, the Gongshu family was definitely not inferior to those top aristocratic families.

It's just that the Gongshu family had no interest in other things; they didn't seem to care about power at all.

They liked researching machines.

Inadvertently, the Gongshu family encountered the Taiping Dao and saw the Taiping Dao's cannons, so disciples entered the Taiping Dao and discovered the endless new knowledge of the Taiping Dao, which immediately completely attracted the disciples of the Gongshu family.

They quickly moved their whole clan to the Taiping Dao's sphere of influence and then entered the Taiping Dao's core research place, becoming the Taiping Dao's research core.

After all, the Gongshu family inherited part of the Great Qin's craftsmanship; perhaps many of the Great Qin's war weapons cannot be built now.

But the knowledge engraved in their blood still has a great improvement for the Taiping Dao.

In addition, their degree of accepting new knowledge is also very high, especially the knowledge that allows mortals to forge various machines, which makes the Gongshu family disciples even more excited.

Because they were busy with various machine research, the Gongshu family had Daoist inheritance, but few could cultivate to a profound level.

During the Great Qin period, the Qin Mohist lineage had people reaching the Taiyi Golden Immortal or even Great Luo Golden Immortal level, but the strongest in the Gongshu family only reached the Golden Immortal level, and there was only one.

Now the spiritual energy in the Jiuzhou is getting less and less, and the transcendents of the Gongshu family are even fewer; many are mortals, but their knowledge has been passed down, and after learning the Taiping Dao's new knowledge, they grew very quickly.

For more than a hundred years, they quickly became the backbone of the Taiping Dao's scientific research.

Gongshu Yuan is not an ordinary person, but has cultivation, and has been rewarded by Zhang Jiao many times; his cultivation has improved not slowly, and now he is a Golden Core level Daoist cultivator.

Like him, high-level talents who have a great effect on scientific research will be highly valued by the Taiping Dao, and they will also try their best to improve their cultivation; only in this way can they extend their lifespan.

The lifespan of ordinary people is very short; even in the Taiping Dao's range, the average lifespan of ordinary people is only about forty, and this is because the Taiping Dao has not lacked food in recent years.

If it were fifty years ago, the average lifespan would be even shorter.

Ordinary people only have a few decades; starting from ten years old to learn, ten years of learning, they can only start research at twenty, and by forty or fifty, people's energy declines, so there is only a peak period of twenty or thirty years.

But cultivators are different; as long as they cultivate to the Golden Core realm, they have hundreds of years of lifespan, and even if they cultivate health-preserving and life-extending techniques, they might live for a thousand years; such people can spend more time on research.

As one of the leaders of scientific research, Gongshu Yuan is obviously such a person; it can be said that he is a treasure of the Taiping Dao, and his importance is even higher than those high-ranking officials and generals in the Taiping Dao.

"Mo Qing, this is just the first generation; the military needs us to produce airplanes that can fight."

"Right now, this airplane is far from enough; the speed is not fast, the defense is not strong enough, although it can fly very high, ordinary grandmasters can't do anything about it."

"But it has no counterattack power now; even if it is installed with guns and cannons from the army, it will not have much effect."

"After all, once it descends close to the ground, it will be attacked by those strong people on the ground."

Gongshu Yuan was very calm; researching an airplane that can fly is indeed good, but in fact, back in the pre-Qin period, the Mohists and their Gongshu family had already researched that kind of flying kite.

What the military needs are war weapons, like the war flying boats of the Great Qin era, war weapons that can fight with strong people.

Today's airplanes are far from enough.

"That's because their muskets are not good enough; if those people invent muskets with longer range, our airplanes will have combat power."