Chapter 832: Orbital Carriage

Ling Chen has been very bored lately.

Having not fought a war for a while, he felt as if his whole body was itching.

Engaging in construction.

Continuing to engage in construction.

Ling Chen looked at the large pile of plans placed before him and felt a headache.

When he was in the Western Regions, he had led people and been responsible for this sort of work.

And now, it was happening again.

To be honest, he was very reluctant to deal with these things. He just liked leading troops into battle, fighting wars.

But there was no Method.

For the Young Master's plan, he could only bite the bullet and get on with it.

These days, the talent and equipment coming from Liangzhou had already entered the Indian Continent in a mighty, sweeping fashion.

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The governors of India were very excited.

Liu Zheng's planning for the Indian Continent was actually very simple. It was just like in his past life: the planning of the Delhi-Bengal Industrial Corridor, and then merging this industrial corridor with the Yinliang Industrial Corridor. The population of the Indian Continent was still very large, and in this era—no, it should be said in any era—population was the greatest Dividend.

Liu Zheng's layout for Central Asia was very clear.

Liangzhou's investment in the East India Company also allowed Liangzhou to once again control the largest share of the East India Company. Therefore, equipment, factory construction, and talent all swarmed over at once.

Industrial Corridor.

Agricultural development.

But the people's enthusiasm was very high.

Because looking at the entire World Map, India and this region of Central Asia were too critical.

The entire Indian Continent also set off a craze for building factories.

The journey was very long.

This was a springboard.

Simple and crude colonization could not solve the problem; furthermore, if a major war were to break out between himself and Europe in the future, the colonized people would very likely cause your backyard to catch fire.

It was the greatest passage for Longyan to reach the Western world.

Liu Zheng had to manage it well.

The best way to enslave is not violence, but taming.

The task he gave Ling Chen was to go and tame these people.

Therefore, Liu Zheng believed.

The best way to colonize is not violence, but construction.

Therefore.

Liu Zheng prepared several policies for Ling Chen.

It might be a bit impolite to say it this way, but that was the fact of the matter. Regarding the people here in India, Liu Zheng had no good feelings about them in his past life. Therefore, rather than killing a pack of wolves, it is better to tame them into a pack of dogs.

Of course, whether they could be counted as wolves was still open to debate.

Three: Promote "Heart Learning" and promote the Confucian culture of Longyan. As for why this is, I will not elaborate specifically.

And in Liangshan.

One: Develop industry and develop agriculture to let these people be well-fed.

Two: De-religionization; this is very important, mainly to counter those governors who control religion.

The Technology Tree developed from the Steam Engine was what Liu Zheng wanted.

For example, the Steam Train.

The technological development that Liu Zheng had always been concerned about was also slowly breaking through one technical difficulty after another.

The appearance of the Steam Engine was far from the ultimate goal.

Xie Tianyao had never taken action against Liu Zheng and could only shout and order people about in Imperial Edicts; the biggest reason was that he believed most of Liu Zheng's military strength was currently in places the imperial court could not reach. For example, Central Asia, for example, the South.

As mentioned earlier, the military strength of Liangzhou was already very small now. Through several external deployments and military downsizing, the current military strength of Liangzhou was maintained at about 150,000—this number was directly half that of other territories.

This was something Liu Zheng had always dreamed of. But it was also something he dared not bring out in a short period of time.

Why?

Marching speed.

This had not changed for thousands of years.

And if any dispute occurred within the country, his other forces would need at least a year's journey to return to support the country.

The journey.

Once the Steam Train appeared, it would be different.

Liu Zheng believed without hesitation that once this thing was released to the world.

Even with the Grand Canal now, there was not much change.

However.

For thousands of years, wind, water, animals, and human labor had always been the power sources humans relied on for survival. Since the invention of the Steam Engine, humans had completely broken free from the long-term limitations of human labor, water, wind, and animal power.

The Steam Engine replaced living power sources with inanimate power sources. By utilizing machines—rapid, regular, precise, and tireless machines—to turn heat into work, it would make economic growth more "intensive," and both per capita income and material welfare at the individual level would be improved.

Xie Tianyao would definitely kill him without a second thought.

Because the Train's ability to transport troops was too powerful.

In 1624, the British Parliament passed a patent law, then called the "Monopoly Law." Liu Zheng did exactly this. Without a doubt, the introduction of the patent law and the appearance of the pioneers of the cowboy spirit would undoubtedly cause large-scale fermentation in the land of Liaodong.

And in the Industrial Revolution, the appearance of the Steam Train represented the arrival of a new era.

This was the effect Liu Zheng wanted to achieve.

That is why he encouraged invention and creation in Liaodong; this was how Britain acted during the First Industrial Revolution.

Therefore.

This thing must be kept hidden well.

This is a massive shock to ancient methods of transportation.

Once the Steam Train is unveiled, his troops hidden abroad can reach Jinghua in ten days at most!

How to secretly lay the tracks is the issue Liu Zheng should be considering most right now.

Looking at the letter from Liangshan, Liu Zheng finally breathed a sigh of relief.

This is Liu Zheng's greatest trump card.

But if one wants to use a Steam Train, then there must be tracks.

Only when these difficult problems are overcome can a mature Steam Engine be considered truly brought into the world.

Then

The technical difficulties of the Steam Train are being overcome step by step; it seems the Research Lab in Liangshan has begun to mature.

The Planetary Gear has already been produced by the Research Lab. Next will be the Double-acting Steam Engine, as well as the Flywheel to solve stability, the Parallel Motion Linkage Mechanism, the Centrifugal Governor and Throttle Valve, and the Pressure Gauge to accompany the Steam Engine.

What about the tracks?

Liu Zheng smiled slightly.

Easy to handle.

He will first introduce a novel gadget to let the Longyan people get a taste of something new.

The Track Carriage.