Chapter 362 Returning to the Country, Prelude to Chaos

[While the steam engine was booming, you suddenly issued an order: Xizhou, Beizhou, and Dongzhou must all plant trees! ]

[After giving the order, no one reacted: Why are you suddenly planting trees? ]

[You didn’t explain much, because verbal explanations are always pale and powerless. When the problem really arises, they will naturally understand what you mean...]

[In short, once the steam engine was born, its great value was revealed! ]

[For a time, steam locomotives, steam ships, steam looms, steam forging hammers, etc., steam power quickly entered all walks of life and caused quite violent social unrest. ]

[But fortunately, the land of Xizhou has been in turmoil for decades and has never been stable, so everyone is very adaptable. After a period of adaptation, all places have exploded with stronger vitality! ]

[New factories are springing up one after another, artisans are transformed into formal workers, and the social landscape is changing rapidly...]

[Although everyone adapted quickly to such a drastic change, there were still people who were affected, such as... international students.]

[The young students who came from Shunchao originally planned to study for only ten years before returning to Dashun, but they did not expect that the changes in Xizhou were so fast that even if they worked overtime to study, they still felt it was difficult to catch up, so they could only postpone graduation again and again...]

[This time the steam engine suddenly appeared, which directly eliminated a lot of industries and technologies, making them very confused. They had to postpone it again and learn new things...]

"Damn it! Again!"

In the tidy classroom, the black-haired young man held the newspaper in his hand and couldn't help but speak a word about the quintessence of Chinese culture!
"As soon as technology changes from one generation to another, it changes again. We already have a hard time learning, and now there's the steam engine..."

"That's great! I think even if we study until we are 30 or 40 years old, we still won't be able to keep up with the speed of change in Xizhou!"

Some students covered their heads and cried:
"I study every day! I can never finish studying! When will this end..."

"I think we should not go back yet, let's postpone it for another two years."

Someone sighed:
"I have a feeling that there must be something else behind this steam engine. Maybe everything we learned before will be useless..."

"Still delayed?"

Someone almost cried:

"I came to Xizhou when I was five years old. Now I'm twenty. If I delay any longer, I might as well settle down here..."

When he said this, many students also felt the same way and sighed:
They haven't been back to their hometown for almost twenty years. If it weren't for the name of Dashun, they really wouldn't want to go back.

After all, what's so good about Dashun?
There were chaotic military battles every day, and troops were sent to Luoyang every year. On average, Emperor Shun would be told the pros and cons in person once every few years. Sometimes he would be sent on a "Northern Hunt", sometimes on a "Western Hunt"... Even the emperor of the Shun Dynasty was so miserable, let alone the civilians. The whole country was in chaos!

On the other hand, although Xizhou would experience turmoil from time to time, these were mostly positive turmoils. Once the turmoil subsided, it would become more prosperous, and the entire society would be filled with a vibrant and flourishing state...

To put it bluntly, being a worker in Xizhou is more enjoyable than being a small landlord in Nanzhou!

On one side is heaven, on the other side is hell. Anyone with a normal mind would know what to choose.

But the problem is that they are all government students sent by Dashun, so it is impossible for them not to go back...

"If you want to stay, I can actually plead for you."

Accompanied by laughter, a wheelchair slowly floated up and landed on the podium.

Lin Liu, who was sitting in a wheelchair, tilted his head and looked at the students with a smile...

"gentlemen?!"

The students who were originally complaining to each other were startled and stood up in unison, shouting:

"loyalty!"

"Pasha's kindness is endless!"

This is the most basic etiquette, and everyone living under the Pasha's rule should pay him respect from the bottom of their hearts.

Lin Liu still smiled and said:

"Do you really want to stay?"

As soon as these words came out, the students looked at each other in bewilderment...

【Go back? 】【Forget it. 】

[Although everyone just complained, if they really wanted to stay, they would not have been able to study in school for so many years.]

[Of course, this is due to my identity restrictions, but more importantly, it is due to my ambition! 】

[Admittedly, they were very young when they came here, and they really couldn't have any lofty ideals, but under your personal education over the years, they knew from a young age what kind of hellish situation Shun Dynasty is facing now.]

[They were deeply touched by the chaos that was happening all the time in Shun Dynasty, and the peace and prosperity they saw in Xizhou reminded them at any time: the two continents seemed to be in the same world, but in fact they were not in the same world at all...]

[No matter how good Xizhou is, it does not belong to them; no matter how bad Dashun is, it is still their root.]

[Besides, after learning such a skill, shouldn't we put it to good use in the construction of our hometown? If we can really rewrite the future of Dashun, then it will not be in vain for everyone's hard work and study over the past ten years...]

[You were also relieved to see that no one among them really planned to stay in Xizhou.]

[However, when you heard that they would postpone their study for a few more years to learn new knowledge about steam engines, you shook your head and said, "No need. You have already learned all the technical knowledge. There is no point in staying any longer."]

[“I have already made an agreement with them. I will send you back to Dashun in a few months. After studying for so many years, it is time to repay Dashun…”]

[Everyone was stunned: Are you really leaving? ]

[No! What about the steam engine? ! ]

[At that time, a student couldn't help asking: "Sir, but we haven't learned about steam engines yet..."]

【You shake your head.】

[“You don’t need to learn this. It’s useless even if you learn it.”]

【what? 】

[For a moment, everyone seemed to want to say something, but in the end, nothing came out...]

[You still didn't say much, because there was nothing to say. It was useless. At best, this thing could only be used on a small scale under your rule. If it were placed in the Southern Continent, it would not only be useless, but even harmful.]

[You calmly continued to teach them...]

[A few months later, after a graduation ceremony, the international students who had completed their semester successfully finally boarded the ship back home with mixed feelings.]

【…】

[In the 52nd year of the New Heavenly Palace, the 201st year of the Dashun era, the overseas students who had studied for a full 15 years returned to Dashun by sea.]

[From the modern new urban area, back to the city of the classical feudal era, the gap is so big that it is naturally like traveling through time. ]

[However, the international students are of high quality after all. After a short period of adaptation, these young people with knowledge and ideals gradually started their work...]

[When they came back, they were definitely not going to be frontline workers, but rather educators, doing work related to education and guidance, so the court treated them very well.]

[Soon, under their guidance, the old industries that had received assistance from Xizhou once again achieved high-level progress and development! ]

[Furnace after furnace of molten steel was produced, and new types of gunpowder appeared on the new land, such as muskets, cannons, etc.]

【Seeing that their efforts had paid off, the Dashun court was very excited! 】

[While increasing investment, they quickly recruited a group of new soldiers using new firearms. After a simple training, they were quickly sent to the battlefield...]

[A new army using foreign guns and cannons is no less than a dimensionality reduction attack on the Restoration Army that is still stuck in the era of swords and spears! ]

[Not long after, the Dashun court, which had been frequently "hunting west" and "hunting north", stood up again, and successively repelled several groups of wild god righteous armies that drank magic water and took powerful pills, and also directly defeated several groups of restoration righteous armies that tried to go to Luoyang to discuss the benefits and disadvantages with the emperor.]

[This battle is going more and more smoothly, and it seems that Dashun is about to have a revival...]

[On the other hand, a large-scale riot gradually appeared in the Western Continent, and then spread to the Eastern and Northern Continents...]

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(End of this chapter)