In the Name of Empress-Chapter 268 - 188: I Want to Focus My Main Efforts on Teaching
According to the intelligence he gathered, the productivity and technological level of this world in 1792 roughly equates to the early to mid period of the first industrial revolution before his transmigration.
Perhaps it’s the particularly nourishing small grains of the Otherworld, or perhaps the different gravity, but the average physical quality of people and animals on the Theia Plane is noticeably stronger than in the pre-crossing world.
Besides, due to the existence of Magic and alchemy and the exhaustion of petrochemical energy, the technological tree on the Theia Plane is heavily skewed.
Industry is on a single line, that is, boiling water — ahem, steam power.
Gigantic, noisy, crude steam engines are the mainstream machinery in this world.
High-Level technology basically relies on archaeological excavation.
Whoever can find relics from previous eras and excavate precious tomes can gain technological power surpassing the times.
Of course, not all excavations yield treasures. If one is unlucky enough to uncover relics of internal combustion engines or fuel combustion tomes, they can only curse their luck.
After all, Dragon Slaying Skill requires dragons to be useful.
With the strengthening of Soul Card power, Roland can now directly extract tomes from the memory library and automatically translate them into Sussex Language versions.
Rewind time to more than a month prior, with Rodinia University completed, Roland became the principal, staying in the university every day guest-lecturing and passing on knowledge.
The various affairs of the Governor’s Territory were entrusted to Sif.
Roland’s reason for becoming an absentee landlord was simple, "You must start by governing the three provinces and gradually get used to managing the entire Empire. I’m very busy. I need to focus mainly on knowledge transfer."
As per Roland’s request, only Sif and a few key personnel could directly approach him; others were not allowed to interfere with his teaching activities at the school.
On his second day as principal, the Secretary of Education came to find Roland.
"Lord Governor, a set of textbooks is needed for the promotion of compulsory primary and secondary education. The start of the school year is imminent, and we are sorely lacking systematic textbooks."
"Let me correct you, this is the school, please call me Principal. What you mentioned is easy to solve; I have ready-made textbooks, have professional personnel modify them first, and then print them at the printing factory."
Roland had plenty of books, like the "Sussex Language Textbook for Primary and Secondary Schools," from the Langwen Group, very authentic.
Except for a few actor names that are somewhat Seres-like, they basically do not require translation.
The Secretary of Education took the book handed over by Roland, flipping a few pages and showing a surprised expression.
"Oh my, there are color illustrations, these are very precious relics from the previous era! Alas, we simply don’t have the capacity to print such exquisite textbooks."
It was still the era of lead-type printing, and color printing did not exist.
Roland smiled and said, "This is simple, please have educational experts make appropriate modifications, especially simplifying them as much as possible so that children without foundation can quickly learn."
"I understand, some names here are quite strange, such as this Han... Meimei? I’ve never seen such a spelling."
"You are the expert in this aspect, you are responsible for translation modifications."
Roland smiled, delegating authority to the Secretary of Education.
The Secretary of Education was immensely grateful. Making modifications was certainly not difficult; what thrilled him more was Roland’s trust.
Lord Governor always fully trusts technical personnel, and even if he knows more, he fully respects technical personnel.
Worthy of being the best leader.
The Secretary of Education left happily, holding the full set of textbooks Roland took from the bookshelf.
He was happy, Roland was happier. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦
Without lifting a finger, others would work overtime, while he could sit quietly drinking coffee and receive the corresponding Inheritor Badge.
Each additional badge would make the golden glow of the Soul Card even more dazzling.
The Scholar star path’s drawback is the difficulty of promotion, but its advantage is the huge potential.
Normally, no one has Roland’s opportunity for large-scale knowledge promotion; to upgrade the underside of the card to gold is already a stroke of luck.
What Roland desires is not gold, but a more brilliant colorful card.
The sly old Macbeth is still waiting for him; without enough strength, the day of promotion is the day he’d perish.
Just after sending off the Secretary of Education, the Secretary responsible for industry hurriedly arrived.
"Lord Governor, I heard from others that you have many books here, could I borrow some?"
"Of course you can."
Roland had already organized the relevant materials for him.
Besides various technical books related to steam engines, he even secretly tucked in some 19th-century science fiction works.
Imagination is combat power; these science fiction works are important too.
Though Roland possesses many tomes, he is not a professional by any means.
He understands steam engine principles, but asking him to manually craft a steam locomotive capable of running at 300 km/h is truly demanding of him.
He chose to trust the professionals!
Those popular science works, though, are his own private interest. He hopes to inspire experts by providing sparks of imagination through such an approach.
As for partially replacing internal combustion engines with steam engines, and gradually transitioning to the electric era, that’s for the scientists to solve.
He merely handles inheritance, not specific research.
The Secretary of Industry briefly went over the materials and was almost about to jump with joy.
This is exactly the ancient tomes he needs.
"Submersible capable of diving underwater, vessels able to travel on the sea without reliance on wind!"
The Secretary of Industry murmured to himself, "No wonder it’s the wisdom from the Ancient Era!"
Roland couldn’t be bothered to correct his mistaken conception, only nodding his head.
People from this era understood technology as archaeology.
