"Hello, madam, I am not a ghost. I am an artificial intelligence, and my code name is red queen."
"This is my daughter, Mingyue. Grant her Level 1 access."
"Yes, access granted. Welcome back, Master, Miss Mingyue."
Just then, a door opened in the mountain wall. Luo Mingyue, dazed, walked into the passage, then stopped in front of the elevator.
Ding—
The elevator opened. Rosen patted Luo Mingyue's back, then walked into the elevator.
The elevator descended for two minutes, finally stopping in the main control space.
Luo Mingyue was already astonished by the enormous underground space before her.
"Father... this... where exactly is this?"
"I plan to seize the world." Rosen's words directly overloaded Luo Mingyue's CPU.
"Father... do you know what you're saying?"
Rosen nodded very affirmatively: "I know what I'm saying. Do you want to become the second female emperor of the Central Plains, and also the founding emperor?"
"Father, shouldn't you first tell me what exactly is going on here?"
"That's too complicated to explain," Rosen thought for a moment, then added, "red queen, you explain to Mingyue, starting from the principles of electricity."
"Yes, Master."
red queen began to explain via projection, starting with a lightning bolt flashing across the sky.
"Miss Mingyue, you've seen natural lightning, haven't you?"
"Mm." Luo Mingyue nodded.
"The most common electricity is generated through friction. Lightning in nature is a discharge phenomenon caused by the friction of clouds and air..." red queen explained very meticulously, simultaneously playing matching visuals to ensure Luo Mingyue could understand clearly.
red queen covered the generation and application of electricity, then the application of steam engines and internal combustion engines, and then modern industry.
For three whole hours, Luo Mingyue had a vague concept, though some things needed personal experience to truly understand.
"Father, so what do you plan to do?" Luo Mingyue looked at Rosen.
"First, we control the Kaiyuan County Magistrate, making Kaiyuan County completely our territory. Then we begin to cultivate our own armed forces and talents. This power station's underground space is very large, so we'll find orphans, settle them here, and train them to learn knowledge beyond this era. No one will ever discover them. Then we accumulate wealth, control all trade in the north, and manufacture weapons," Rosen said. "Then we just wait for the right time."
"What time?"
"Chaos in the world."
"Father, why do you want to seize the world?"
"Because this is the Karma that the Zhu family owes me; what they owe me must be repaid," Rosen said as a matter of course.
"What about Big Brother?"
"He still can't let go of Zhu Yunwen."
Zhu Yunwen had been under house arrest all these years and was nearing the end of his life.
As for the stance issue back then, both Rosen and Law Ming believed they were not wrong.
However, Rosen's plan would require at least a decade of preparation, so if Law Ming wanted to return, Rosen would also let him participate in his plan.
If he was unwilling, Rosen would not force him; it was all the same with or without him.
To establish the capital city Rosen envisioned, the first step was to increase productivity.
The reason modern systems are better than ancient ones is that productivity is dozens, even hundreds, of times higher than in ancient times.
Take the simplest example of transportation: a distance of one thousand kilometers, which would take two months or even longer in ancient times, now takes less than a day.
Rather than waiting for the Jurchens to re-enter the Central Plains in the future and for China to suffer hundreds more years of humiliation, it would be better to rebuild China and for him to personally establish a brand new nation.
In the following time, Luo Mingyue studied modern knowledge, while Rosen went out to find orphans.
Although the main function of the hydroelectric power station was electricity generation, its internal living area was very large, sufficient to provide activity and living spaces for a thousand people.
In this era, it was very easy to acquire as many people as one wanted.
In one year, Rosen bought back nearly a thousand children.
Even in the era later known as the Yongle Prosperity, there were still starving people everywhere.
The so-called prosperous times in ancient times, in most cases, simply meant fewer deaths, fewer uprisings, and fewer disasters.
Imagine a country where ninety percent of the people had to bear over eighty percent of the tenant rent; where could there be a prosperous age? At most, it meant not starving to death.
And any prosperous age in history, to put it plainly, was a period when the imperial court's military strength was dominant.
During this period, all internal and external troubles could be resolved by force.
Confucianism had poisoned the Central Plains for a thousand years, treating the common people as mere fodder.
And the most flourishing periods of Confucianism were often also the periods of weakest military preparedness.
Therefore, what Rosen wanted to do was to expel Confucianism from the imperial court.
To launch his plan, Kaiyuan County had to be under his control.
Kaiyuan County had one hundred and forty-five surrounding villages, plus the county town population, totaling one hundred and twenty thousand people.
As long as Kaiyuan County was controlled, Rosen could begin the next phase of his plan.
So Rosen sent invitations to the Kaiyuan County Magistrate and the County Assistant.
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