Chapter : 85.1 : The Advent of The Steam Engine

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"Stenger in Wingston is a little anxious." Next to the Southeastern Great Lake, Anderson and Fujimori were looking at the lake and discussing matters.

The center of the conversation was naturally this world's great power. Two major powers had attracted the most attention in the Imperium recently, one was Stenger from Wingston. He destroyed the three most powerful native clans and cleared the biggest obstacle to the unification of Wingston, but it also took a significant number of casualties.

"No way, who would have thought that Abel and Vale would join forces." Anderson smiled slightly, looked into the distance, and said, "This defeat has greatly damaged Max's vitality, and he has also lost his deterrence against many forces."

Stenger was so anxious. It was because, not long ago, another major event of even more significant concern took place. Among the many forces in the world, Abel's territory in the northwest was closest to the capital.

Max was aware of the threat, so he dispatched Daniel and mobilized 10,000 elite warriors. The intention was to eliminate the threat that is Abel in one fell swoop.

Abel, who heard the news, assembled 5,000 warriors with firearms.

While the two sides fought head-to-head on a plain, halfway through the battle, a team of 5,000 people came out from behind. It was Vale's reinforcements.

Under the attack of the two teams of Abel and Vale, Daniel was defeated and he hurriedly fled back to the capital with only 2000 men left. This battle was shockingly rumored all over the world.

After this battle, the situation of the entire Imperium also changed. After the loss of 8,000 elite guardsmen, Max's military power no longer had an absolute advantage. Abel and Vale temporarily allied and became the biggest winner.

Near the southwest of Wingston, the threat was faintly felt. So, Stenger accelerated the plan to unify Wingston to destroy the three major native families.

***

In the capital city of the Imperium.

The loss of this battle made Max, who was already grief-stricken by the loss of his son, even worse. He fell sick. People were panicking and they started to have different thoughts.

Inside the capital city, the undercurrent was more obvious. Everyone could see that even if Max recovered from this illness, he had lost his chance to be the best in the world. Logically speaking, in the battle with Abel, there was a surprise attack by Vale, but both sides had equal strength. There was also Daniel, known as the "First Warrior of the Imperium", who shouldn't have lost so badly.

Max's team was still dominated by archers and cavalry, while the teams of Abel and Vale had been replaced with firearms and cannons. Even without Vale's help, this battle was estimated that Daniel would still lose with a high probability in the end. It was just a matter of how much was lost.

This battle also let the many forces who were originally watching make up their minds, they were preparing to develop firearms vigorously. Bow and arrow or something are outdated.

For the Astra Militarum, Max was seriously ill. The biggest benefit was that no one paid attention to the situation on the side of the Royal Tomb Mountains while Elizabeth put people outside the capital.

On the main road to the capital, she opened a Recruitment Hall and they were recruiting talents from all over the world. The trick worked pretty well as it recruited a lot of strange people and some talented people. Alexander Cross brought a man that day.

"Her Royal Highness, this person said that there is a major invention, and he must tell Her Highness in person," Cross reported.

"A major invention?" Elizabeth raised her eyebrows, "Let him in."

Ever since the opening of the recruitment hall, this was the first time anyone had dared to say that.

Soon, a young man covered in filthy, torn clothes like a beggar, was brought in. Seeing Elizabeth, his eyes lit up.

"What great invention do you have, you can tell now." Elizabeth looked at this beggar-like young man.

Some days ago, she met a lot of people with ordinary backgrounds, but they were very gifted and talented people.

The young man cleared his throat and shouted, "My lady, I made a very crucial, and significant discovery."

There was a pause. In a sacred tone, this young man continued, "When I was boiling water, I was suddenly surprised to find out that after the water boiled, the water vapor was able to move the lid over the top. Think about it, my lady, it's just steam from a pot of water. If there was a bigger container and more water, wouldn't the steam be generated to be able to lift the roof?"

That's right, that young man was Finnley McGee. After being "humiliated" at Stenger's residence in Wingston, he ran off to Vale in the southwest. But that time, Vale was on his way to leading a team to help Abel, only an old butler received him. At that time, only a coin was thrown to him.

McGee was furious.

"A benevolent gentleman? It's total bullsh*t-! A mere villain, how dare he look down on me." McGee cursed, "One day, you people will regret it. When the time comes, even if you kneel and beg me, I won't agree to give you mercy."

After venting for a while, McGee thought of today's world, the most powerful was Max. He went all the way north, by the roadside, but he saw the recruiting hall. Thus he came over to see what was going on.

Hearing McGee's exaggerated rhetoric, Elizabeth's eyes gradually became serious. In her mind, she imagined the steam hitting the lid.

After a while, Elizabeth murmured to herself, "Convert mechanical energy into kinetic energy?"

"What can?" McGee listened in confusion.

During this time, he also taught himself a little something. However, for mechanical energy, kinetic energy, or something, he hadn't heard of it at all.

Elizabeth glanced at McGee, then said to Chang Yu Chun at the door, "Give him 10,000 pieces of slivers coins and arrange for him to stay."

"10,000 pieces of silver coins?" McGee was slightly stunned.

A reaction followed. Did she buy out this idea of mine? For this ground-breaking idea, if you want to buy it out for 10,000 silver coins, you are too much.

McGee immediately shouted and said, "No, how can 10,000 silver coins be enough? I won't share-! For this epoch-making invention, I must take half of the profit..."

The words were not yet finished, Cross held him by the neck and pulled him out of the door.

Share? Elizabeth was somewhat speechless. This young man's discovery was unusual, but it was just a discovery. It was like someone found iron balls of different weights falling on the ground at the same time. Could it be that the law of free fall was owned by this man?

Besides, discovering the phenomenon called steam, this young man was certainly not the first person. Later that evening, in the residence of the recruitment hall, McGee made up a random excuse. He carried the 10,000 silver coins that just arrived and ran away.

"Humph, 10,000 silver coins to send beggars." McGee snorted, "Without 100,000 taels of silver, don't even think about buying it. If I am not appreciated here, there are bound to be people who appreciate me."

McGee immediately thought of Max.

At this time, Max was seriously ill, so such a discovery was needed. He found a random place to sleep and early next morning, McGee ran into the capital. He came to the residence of Max.

On the weekdays before dawn, there were a lot of people lining up outside Max's Mansion. But at that time, it was desolate, there was not a single person.

McGee waited around and finally, a butler from Max's house arrived. He immediately went up and told him the reason for his visit.

"F*ck off-! What steam, water vapor?! Hurry up and get lost-!" He hadn't said a few words yet, the butler impatiently shouted at him.

McGee was instantly enraged and shouted, "You know what I said, this is a great invention. Are you blind? The Recruitment Hall over there had offered me 10,000 silver coins."

"10,000 silver coins?" The butler immediately took another look at McGee, it was soon discovered that McGee's pocket was bulging with stuff.

It was not a small amount, so after blowing McGee away, there was a gleam in the butler's eyes. Several people were immediately called in and quietly ordered.

In the afternoon, someone noticed that in a remote gutter, there was a young man who fell in and seemed to drown. This kind of thing happened a lot in the capital, so no one cared at all.

***

On Elizabeth's side, a new research team was formed, the steam research team.

McGee's narration gave Elizabeth a lot of inspiration. Her first thought was that steam could be used to replace the current waterwheel to help irrigate water for farmland.

All the people in the research team that was established were very interested in this thing, a word from the people presented more ideas. Some people thought they could use steam to push the wheel, some people also thought that the steam could be used as a force for smelting metals, etc.

In short, the discussion was very lively.

As a scientist in physics, Elizabeth personally led this team and invested a lot of money. After Max became seriously ill, the Astra Militarum was starting to get bolder and bolder, for example, selling firearms. This was currently the main source of income for the Astra Militarum!