Pioneering

"Ming, you said we..." Kesha Lina said melancholy, stroking her abdomen.

"Honey, I know what you want to say, isn't it that you have been pregnant for 14 years and the child has not yet been born.

Isn't it common sense that the more powerful a life is, the longer it takes to conceive?You should be happy that our children are so talented. " Zhong Ming comforted Kesha Lina, Shanna and Lavinia,

"And I think it's fast, I can even feel the children's faint thoughts."

"But this time is too long. The time for a dragon to conceive an offspring is not so long." Shana touched her seven or eight-month-old belly like an ordinary person, with a look of sadness on her face.

"Strictly speaking, it usually takes about two years for five-color giant dragons to give birth to offspring, about three years for metal dragons, up to ten years for sacred dragons, and even 20 years for some natural dragon kings to give birth. offspring.

In another two or three years, our child should be born.Looking at it this way, our child is quite normal, only sixteen or seventeen years old.

I wish they would stay in your womb for a little longer, maybe they could give me a child comparable to the Dragon King. " Zhong Ming comforted him.

The examples of the combination of real gods and mortals are very rare, and most of them are the offspring of acquired gods who existed in the material world before they became gods.

Even the Goddess of Ice and Snow doesn’t have too many examples to tell Zhong Ming to refer to, but after taking the Golden Apple and being promoted to the Golden Seed, the three daughters should be able to barely bear the child of the gods. Although the growth of the fetus is slow, it is also stable. Enter.

It's just that she was pregnant for more than ten years. The first six or seven years were fine. Kesha Lina and the others would not affect their actions. In the past few years, they have reached the point where they cannot help Zhong Ming handle affairs.

Moreover, some pregnancy syndrome-like emotional instability, strong dependence, and irritability appeared...

This had to make Zhong Ming spend more energy to appease the three girls.

It is worth mentioning that in the eighth year of the Axial calendar, Le Qi was officially established as the heir apparent of the Principality of Magzek. The following year, Zhong Ming formally proposed marriage to Grand Duke Magzek and asked to marry Le Qi.

But not in the name of Queen Yasha, but in the name of the princess.

Grand Duke Magzek of course disagreed at first, furiously claiming that Yasha was insulting the Principality of Magzek and wanted to sever diplomatic relations with Yasha.

But after one night, Grand Duke Magzek didn't mention the matter of cessation, and agreed to the marriage without saying a word.

No one knew what happened that night, only that it was the hot summer in the palace, and it was so cold that night that people didn't want to breathe.

It was Frostia, the goddess of ice and snow, who used her supernatural powers and had a friendly "negotiation" with Grand Duke Majek Dalilu.

"I, the Ice and Snow Goddess, one of the twelve main gods of the pantheon, your daughter wants to grab a man from me, are you sure?"

"No, no, misunderstanding, it's all a misunderstanding, tomorrow...no, I'm going to tell that Yasha kid to pack up and leave now."

"That's not what I mean. The King of Asshai can have heirs in the mortal world, but he can't occupy 'my place', understand?"

"understand."

"Remember what you said, the goddess of nature can't save you, and she won't start a battle with me because of such a trivial matter, even if something happens to you, she won't turn against me. Do you understand?

That person is destined not to be an existence that your daughter can monopolize, and it is also destined not to be confined to the narrow material world. In the future, it must be a member of the stars in the astral world.

If you can share some of his brilliance, you should be content, people, don't be too greedy. "

"..."

On the second day after the marriage proposal, Grand Duke Magzek's back molars were about to be crushed, and he spoke word by word, quickly completing the process.

Zhong Ming didn't just bully others. He promised that if Le Qi and his children had more than two males, he would adopt one of them to the Dodd family.

Grand Duke Dalilu is not young anymore, and he has also experienced the pain of bereavement in the Estonian incident. He lost his beloved son. His hard work in the past few years has not yielded results. Will he be able to cultivate a qualified male heir in the future? Qi is known as the prince.

In the last Northern Continent War, Magzek was beaten to death, and now he has barely recovered.Looking at the ups and downs of the Western Continent, the rise and fall of kingdoms one after another, the Principality of Magzek seems to have been unable to keep up with this kind of strong merger. It can catch up with the rising star of Yasha, and the merger of the two is also possible. good.

What's more, there may be blood of the Dodd family on the throne of Asshai in the future.

At worst, it is possible to harvest a god-born blood in the future. By then, the Dodd family will still worry about not being able to rise?
His Majesty predestined Zhong Ming's future in the star realm, which means that this kid is really likely to become a god in the future.

It doesn't look like a loss for a principality to change a family into a god-descendant family, but it feels like a small profit.

It's definitely not that he, Dalilu Dodd, was cowardly!

Zhong Mingti had of course discussed it with the Goddess of Ice and Snow before getting married. Apparently, Frostia did not regard a mortal as a competitor, but asked not to conclude a wedding that violated the marriage covenant between the two.

Le Qi devoted herself to the study of wizards, and after Zhong Ming promised that there would be no queen on the head of the princess, she didn't care about it.

Thus, Le Qi married Yaxia and officially became one of Zhong Ming's legitimate spouses.And conceived in the tenth year of Ashali, and has not given birth to an heir for five years.

In the [-]th year of the Asshai calendar, the Principality of Magzek announced that it would peacefully integrate into the Kingdom of Asshai through a ten-year plan.

"At present, Le Qi's child is actually the only legal heir. It doesn't matter whether the king is a queen or not. The main reason is that I think Yashai is reliable, and the people of Magzhek want to be Yashais!
As for the nobles who disagree, well, what does it matter to me?Who cares about the flood after I die?Sorry, those strangers who claim to be my nephew, niece and nephew, we don't know each other well. "Dalilu officially lay down.

According to the plan, the Principality of Magzek will be divided into five provinces to join the Kingdom of Yashai.

Zhong Ming repeated this operation again in the tenth year of Yaxia, announcing that he would marry Estonian Grand Duchess Aisha.

With Aisha's active cooperation, the duchy of Estonia, which had been infiltrated by Asshai from economic, political and military aspects, turned into six provinces and joined Asshai.

"Phew, this bastard grand duke, I don't want to do it for a day! The title will only affect my study of spells." Aisha said.

Zhong Ming didn't force Aisha to really be Princess Yaxia, and the two sides didn't have any feelings at all. Aisha even stabbed his mirror image in the back. Although it was forced, Zhong Ming really didn't have any special affection for her.This was done only to better speed up Estonia's integration into the Kingdom of Assia.

He promised that he would never touch Aisha unless she took the initiative. After ten or eight years, after Estonia is fully integrated, Aisha can take her sister wherever she wants, and he will give Aisha who has reached the nine-ring wizard. Sha provides resources and knowledge to advance to demigods.

It's also righteousness.

In the past few years, Yasha has also used dumping of low-priced commodities and agricultural products to force farmers and handicraft practitioners in neighboring small countries to go bankrupt on a large scale, causing huge economic turmoil.

On the one hand, the greedy nobles of these small countries are unwilling to give up their trade interests. On the other hand, the bankrupts of Wized gave these bankrupts of small countries an example of "the day will die". Attract bankrupts to naturalize in Assia.

These small countries quickly collapsed into disrepair.

If Yasha took the opportunity to serve with carrots and sticks, the rulers of these small countries would have to succumb and choose to join Yasha.

It is not even necessary to use force, just find an excuse to significantly increase the price of agricultural products exported to the country, or cut off trade for a while, it is enough to make these small countries whose economies have been eroded and assimilated by Yashai unbearable.

In the 15th year of the Ashari calendar, the current territory covers an area of ​​540 million square kilometers. If you add the land of the Principality of Magzhek that will be integrated into it five years later, it will be close to the 700 million mark.

With the rapid development of these years, Yaxia has also ushered in the first wave of baby boom, with a total population of 3000 million.

As for the issue of no successor, Zhong Ming said that he is only 32 years old this year, and the average reign time of the rulers of the human kingdom in the North Continent is more than a hundred years, so there is no rush.

Anyway, there is already a princess, but the descendants are too good, and they will not be able to come out for a while. He has worked very hard, what can he do.

Le Qi doesn't live with the third daughter, she should still be at the Wizarding Academy at this moment.

Zhong Ming bid farewell to the three women and came to the Wizarding Academy, because another interesting invention that may change the times turned out.

Maybe a big step forward in getting rid of these nasty meat eaters, parasites.

In a very large room, a machine with an area of ​​about 20 meters by 30 meters and a height of about 5 meters stands leisurely, consisting of hundreds of large transistors and various circuits.

Its exterior form looks like a series of large metal racks that house the components needed for various computing.The racks are connected together by thick cables.

The top and sides also include a number of consoles and control instruments for setting up and monitoring the calculation process.

The structure of the entire machine was so large and complex that it took up an entire room and required specialized cooling systems to keep it running stably—one wizard specialized in wind and one wizard specialized in ice.

"Computer." Zhong Ming exhaled and said with emotion.

As primitive as it is, this is indeed a computer in terms of functionality.

The most primitive computer, a computer relying on mana.

Even though relying on the memories in Zhong Ming's mind, it has crossed the era of electron tubes and vacuum tubes to the era of transistors, designed excellent gate circuits, and possessed various special metals and minerals with excellent physical properties. amazing.

It may be related to the difference in the choice of semiconductor doping materials for transistors. These wizards say with certainty that better materials that are more suitable for magic energy can be used to build this computer.It may also be related to the fact that computers in this world are on the ternary path.

Zhong Ming caressed its metal frame obsessively, and seemed to see that distant and kind blue star.

"How about its computing power?" Zhong Ming asked.

"21000 magical resonant transistors, covering an area of ​​230 square meters, weighing 43 tons, power..., can perform 7000 calculations per second!" Le Qi said with emotion, "It can do thousands of operations with one machine. Tens of thousands of mental workers are employed, and many more will lose their jobs."

"No, the replacement of the old by the new will certainly cause some old things to disappear, but it will also inevitably bring about the emergence of something more dynamic.

The blacksmith disappeared, but there was still an iron smelting industry chain in which more people were engaged.

The pain of development is inevitable, but you can't stop because of it, right?

In that case, I'm afraid there will be many people in Yasha who won't be able to eat. "Zhong Ming shook his head.

"Perhaps," Lucky said.

"Don't worry too much, this computer is just the beginning, and it won't be able to replace many people in a while.

Besides, what I want to replace is not the group of civil servants you hate the most. "Zhong Ming smiled and hugged Le Qi.

"Yes, computers can't make false accounts, and they can't go to jail for people." Le Qi covered her mouth and chuckled.

"Tsk tsk, let's think about how to continue to improve its computing power, and reduce its size and weight." Zhong Ming lightly flicked her brains.

"Increasing computing power...why do we have to reduce the volume and weight?" Le Qi was a little puzzled.

"Don't you think it's too big?"

"No? An official knight can move around, isn't it very big?"

"...What if it is used by ordinary people?"

"Ordinary people? You mean those civilians?" Le Qi said, "Can they afford it? The cost of this computer is 54 gold dollars in terms of materials alone, not to mention the research and development costs and processing costs.

And to use it, you must hire a wizard to dissipate heat, otherwise the huge heat energy will make the machine explode! "

"In the short term, ordinary people really can't use it. At this stage, what I count on is to use it to calculate the orbit of some long-range weapons.

However, the future of computers must be civilian use and miniaturization, otherwise without the support of the market, even the best items will lose their use value. "Zhong Ming said,
"Market demand will be the best driving force for technological progress. Cost, size, and performance will continue to improve with demand.

Just think about the impact that just industrial production machines would have if computers were used.This is undoubtedly another 'steam engine' and 'magic machine' that changed the times! "

"Not to mention, it will shine in the fields of film and television, banking and finance, transportation, medical care, education and many other fields in the future. My dear, you will be recorded in history for this achievement!"

"Is there such a god?" Le Qi expressed doubts about this, "but it can only do some rigid calculation problems now, and it is not even as fast as a senior wizard apprentice who has studied mathematics."

"This is just the beginning, don't worry, it is only the initial completion of the realization of input and output and computing functions, and more advanced processing systems, more colorful output devices, simpler inputs, more sensitive controllers, and cheaper Cooling system, more efficient bus, and most importantly…”

"What's the most important?" Lucky asked.

"The most important storage system, my dear, don't you think this storage system with a large number of counters and programming plug-in boards to realize the storage and processing of data and instructions is too bad?
The space saved by the transistor is wasted by it with this terrible memory system!

This is the biggest reason for making it so bloated, if only there could be a..." (End of chapter)