Chapter 456

In the following time, Zhang Yuan was completely bankrupt. There were no nobles. He could afford two failed ocean voyages and became a poor nobleman in people's talk after dinner. But he soon recovered and began to slowly develop technology and make some small inventions.

The younger sister was indeed a close sister and was willing to support Zhang Yuan's daily life. The original division of property was indeed wise. For Anna, as long as her brother settled down, everything else was nothing.

For Zhang Yuan's intelligence, a little invention can make life better. For example, the invention principle of air conditioner is not complex. The low-pressure steam of refrigerant in the refrigeration system is sucked into the compressor and compressed into high-pressure steam and then discharged to the condenser. In short, it is just that indoor air does work externally.

Then there is electricity. As a secondary energy, the applicability of electric energy far exceeds that of steam.

People in this era are too poor. It is almost impossible to popularize electricity on a large scale. However, in the wealthy aristocratic group, it is possible to use electricity.

Of course, these nobles have the most consumption power. Doing civilian business is far inferior to doing aristocratic business. The key is that they should pay attention to it!

Soon, air conditioning became popular again, and a large group of business people came to the door.

Capitalists are like this. When you are down, they fall into a well and want to bite more meat. When you show great value, they want to hold this thick thigh tightly.

Zhang Yuan has long been surprised at this

In addition to technology, he paid more attention to the new world. Yes, without the new world, mankind will still be finished. No matter how much you jump around in such a palm sized place, you can't turn the sky.

The new world must be a new world.

Now that the north and south poles have been explored, there is a larger unknown area waiting for him.

That's the back of the planet!

A more distant journey.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yuan took a deep breath and began to sort out the data collected during the previous two voyages.

The original way of looking for a needle in a haystack is not desirable. The low success rate is terrible. In this era, it is impossible to launch a satellite. Without computers, rare earths and chips, it is impossible to launch a satellite even if it takes a lifetime. So he must adopt another way

On the one hand, it is necessary to improve technology and make faster ships. On the other hand, it is necessary to predict whether there are continents on the back of the planet in a more scientific way.

The first two super long voyages exhausted him. After all, Zhang Yuan is a man of flesh and blood. After all, the ship is just a ship. If you stay on it for a long time, you will feel tired. We must have a good rest, raise our spirits and make all the preparations.

In this way, twelve years passed in a hurry

Some small thermal power stations appear in the world.

Because there is no oil, the internal combustion engine has not appeared, and the change of the whole society is not too great. The emergence of power station provides a good guarantee for new electrical furniture.

A series of electric furniture inventions such as air conditioner, hot kettle and electric lamp have become the first choice of furniture for the rich. Especially in some hot cities, air conditioner is a miraculous existence!

Of course, ordinary people certainly can't afford it. They can't even eat enough, so air conditioning can only improve the lives of the rich, not make a qualitative change in the world.

The emergence of power stations involves more, including electrical operation regulations, transformers and power control. Zhang Yuan has guided the whole world and entered the electrical era, which has greatly exceeded the "golden finger" he got at the beginning.

But it's a headache without an internal combustion engine. Without oil, there would be no internal combustion engine. He once wanted to use animal and vegetable oil to replace gasoline, but the biggest problem is that the world is quite short of food, and it is impossible to use food to make fuel.

Even if such an internal combustion engine is made, it is impossible to promote it on a large scale due to the cost problem.

Without internal combustion engines, ships and trains can still only use steam power.

The whole technology tree inevitably tilts in the direction of Steampunk. Such a technology tree obviously has a relatively low upper bound, which is difficult to solve the current dilemma.

"We still need to expand our territory, we must expand our territory!"

In 12 years, Zhang Yuan has perfected some theories about plate tectonics and ocean currents.

The first two voyages were not without harvest. The sailors measured the depth changes of the ocean all the way and accumulated a large amount of data. In recent years, with the continuous exploration of navigators in the new era, the survey of nautical charts has become more and more perfect.

"... ladies and gentlemen, the formation of large continuous continents is largely due to the collision between crustal plates... Oh, yes, in my hypothesis, plates, like the egg shell above an egg, have only a thin layer."

"Land is formed by compression and collision between plates. It's like two pieces of bread. They squeeze each other and bulge in the middle. "

Zhang Yuan is giving a speech on the stage, and underneath are many professionals and college students.

"According to the measured data, most of the zones where plates collide with each other are shallow sea areas. Even if there is no continent, there will be more frequent volcanoes. Volcanic eruptions may form smaller islands. "

"Such an island is not useless to us. There may be more abundant mineral resources. For example, Pala island is famous for producing all kinds of sulfur and precious stones. "

"If we follow this idea of plate science to predict the existence of the continent, it will undoubtedly be much simpler. You see, some of the islands we found in the past are actually the result of plate collision... I connect this line of islands into plates... "

Zhang Yuan's paper on "plate theory" soon caused a sensation among many geologists!

The count is a very controversial figure in Boulder City. Many down-to-earth nobles always feel sour like eating lemon when they see Zhang Yuan constantly losing his family and making money easily. There are a lot of people chewing their tongue behind his back.

However, Zhang Yuan's reputation in the academic circle is quite good. After all, the academic circles are mostly "result worship". As long as you are good enough, they will worship you if others can't catch up with you. Zhang Yuan is also the financier of many scientists. Without his sponsorship, many projects simply don't have enough funds to study.

This paper does not copy the theories of previous generations, but actually speculates the plate trend by combining a series of geographical data of the world.

Finally, Zhang Yuan announced loudly: "according to the final conclusion of the paper, there is likely to be a new continent hidden on the back of the planet. A continent full of light! "

Yes, back!

Many people at Newtown University exclaimed. Although Zhang Yuan had two failed voyages, he was the farthest person on the whole planet.

In addition to the initial cynicism a little exuberant, the voice behind was mostly praise.

"Lord count, are you going to start a new journey?" A young reporter shouted with a red face.

Many people cheered for it.

"Yes! I have this plan! "

Of course, the biggest thing is that he has status and money. After two times of squandering and losing his family, he didn't go bankrupt. On the contrary, he was richer, even enough for him to squander the third and fourth time. If he falls, there will certainly be more criticism.

One of the professors was a little mysterious and said, "Your Excellency, you speculate that there is a continent on the back of the planet. Let's not say whether it is true or false... If the climate is too hot or too cold, it won't be of great use. Especially in the light belt, if it is not the north and south poles, it will often be very hot, just like our light belt cities. "