my wonderful zoo

Chapter 285 Electric Light and Telegraph

On August [-], Gan Ping stood on the Yazhou City Tower in Chengdu Prefecture and ordered to his men:
"Send a letter to Guangzhou to tell His Majesty that the battle for unification has been successfully completed."

After more than two months of hard work, all the states and counties of Lizhou Road, Zizhou Road and Chengdufu Road were occupied by the imperial army.

So far, all the lands of the original Song State, all the lands of the Liao State, all the lands of the Xixia State, all the lands of the Goryeo and Japanese States, and Daliuqiu Island were all occupied by the Chinese Empire.

Even the Yellow-headed Uighur (also known as the Yellow-headed Uighur) in the southwest of Xixia was captured by the idle Zhe Keqiu.

At this point, the size of the Chinese Empire is no smaller than that of later generations, but it is different in location. However, all Chinese generals, including Chen Xun, believe that this is just the beginning, and the countries surrounding the Chinese Empire will be annexed one by one in the future.

September [-], [-].

This year’s National Day is particularly lively.

The city of Guangzhou, which has developed rapidly for two years, has become somewhat modern, and seven-story buildings can be seen everywhere.

There are many gifts for National Day this year. Not only in the military field, there are also many great achievements in industry, civil affairs, science and technology, etc.

The shipyard's first fully armored steam-powered warship was launched in July and delivered to the South China Sea Group Army on September [-].

The displacement of this steam-powered battleship reached two thousand tons (one thousand kilograms is a ton, smaller than the ton of later generations, equivalent to twenty thousand shi), and its full-load displacement exceeded three thousand tons.

But this was not the biggest surprise for Chen Xun. Instead, the Ministry of Science and Technology released a big firecracker for Chen Xun.

I still remember the way Chen Youwen turned on the lights in the laboratory and looked at himself. That kind of pride was something Chen Xun would never forget.

According to the contents of Chen Xun's notebook, Chen Youwen successively invented the generator, electric light, and telegraph in the two years after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

And put all these together to show Chen Xun the day before National Day.

In the past two years, Chen Xun has been busy with official duties and has neglected various research and inventions of the Ministry of Science and Technology. In addition, Chen Youwen deliberately concealed it and was holding back a surprise for Chen Xun.

This time, Chen Xun was indeed shocked.

Not only electric lights, but also a small thermal power plant and a small hydropower plant have been built by Chen Youwen in the research institute. All experimental verification work has been completed, waiting for large-scale popularization.

"As expected of my younger brother!" Chen Xun hugged Chen Youwen's shoulder excitedly.

"Brother, I am now your pride." Chen Youwen asked, with expectation in his eyes.

"Forget it, absolutely, you are the greatest pride of our Chen family, and also the greatest pride in my eyes." Chen Xun said affirmatively.

Being able to complete so much research in two years using only his rough notebook shows how much effort Chen Youwen put in despite his talent.

In order to commend Chen Youwen, Chen Xun directly made him the first king of the Chinese Empire. In order to realize this king, he specially formulated the title system of the Chinese Empire.

The title is mainly used to reward those who have made great contributions to the empire.

It is divided into six levels: male, son, uncle, hou, duke and king.

Imperial titles do not include fiefdoms, only honors, pay and some privileges.

Chen Xun, who came from a later generation, knew the bad consequences and disadvantages of the proliferation of titles, so he stipulated that such titles could only be inherited by downgrading.

In other words, a child of a prince (regardless of male or female) can inherit his title after his death, but he can only inherit the title of duke.

With electricity, there are elevators, and the final technical difficulties in building higher-rise buildings have been solved.

It is estimated that there will be high-rise buildings with more than seven floors in Guangzhou at the earliest next year and the year after next at the latest.

With steam engines and electric machines, industrial areas will no longer be limited to riverside areas in the future.

……

September 1131 ([-]).It’s National Day again.

At night, Guangzhou Port is still brightly lit, with bright electric lights everywhere. Guangzhou Port still does not stop operations at night and remains busy as before.

A sailing fleet entered the port from the north and docked at the pier under the guidance of tugboats.

In the middle of the night, Chen Xun was woken up from bed.

"Your Majesty, Fang Yang is back."

The news had been received before that Fang Yang was coming back soon, so Chen Xun specifically asked his men to wake him up as soon as possible no matter when the fleet docked.

"Finally back, let's change and let's go to the port."

After heading north in September [-] and crossing the Bering Strait in the summer of [-], this fleet lost contact with the mainland.

It wasn't until last winter that he received a message from a flying pigeon. Fang Yang had discovered the North American continent and sailed all the way south along the coastline to the end of the South American continent before turning back.

It was already winter when we returned to the Bering Strait. Fang Yang did not take any risks and chose to spend the winter in the North American continent before continuing his return voyage. He did not return to Guangzhou until September this year.

There were seventeen ships when they left, but only nine were left when they came back. The other ships were sunk in the hurricane.

It took two years to go back and forth, which is enough time to sail around the world.

Chen Xun believes that Fang Yang will be able to complete his dream of sailing around the world next time he goes to sea.

"Your Majesty, fortunately you have fulfilled your mission. Your men discovered North America and South America and mapped the routes." When he saw Fang Yang, Chen Xun could hardly recognize him. He was so skinny that he was just skin and bones.

"Okay, okay! Just come back!" At this moment, Chen Xun felt that he might be a little too eager.

If they could have waited until the shipbuilding industry became stronger before sending them to find the New World, so many people might not have died and suffered so much.

The next day, the second king of the Chinese Empire was newly released, and Fang Yang received the honor he deserved, completely at the cost of his life.

In the next few days, Chen Xun spent all his time collecting new species.

According to Chen Xun's instructions, apart from discovering the New World, Fang Yang's biggest task during this expedition was to collect various marine creatures along the way, especially jellyfish of all sizes.

Hard work pays off.

Finally, on the fourth day, September [-]th, Chen Xun burst out laughing after receiving a jellyfish smaller than a fingertip!
Hahahahaha!
Phylum: Cnidaria

Class: Hydra

Order: Mediphora
Family: Polyzoaidae

Genus: Lighthouse Jellyfish

Species: Lighthouse jellyfish
finally found you!Lighthouse jellyfish!
The only organism capable of reverting from sexual maturity to the larval stage.

In other words: rejuvenation.

In order to avoid accidents, Chen Xun quickly collected all the remaining lighthouse jellyfish in the bucket into the zoo. There were only four in total.

Looking at the label on the bucket, a total of one hundred have been collected, and only four have survived so far. It is estimated that Chen Xun may pass them by in a few days.

Origin: North and South America intermediate waters.

It turned out to be the Caribbean Sea in later generations. No wonder it can't be found in the East China Sea and the South China Sea.

(End of this chapter)