Zhu Yuanzhang had risen from poverty, climbing step by step from nothing. If he truly lacked vision and courage,
he could never have reached his current position.
After Zhu Ying's explanation, he deeply understood what changes the steam engine could bring to the Ming Dynasty—no, it should be called a transformative leap.
Steam trains that could travel a thousand li a day.
Steam-powered textile production increased tenfold, even dozens of times over.
Steamships and warships that improved sailing speed and could travel a thousand li a day across the sea.
Just thinking about it
made it clear what the steam engine would bring to the Ming Dynasty.
At this moment,
Zhu Yuanzhang only held back because the implementation of the Ming Dynasty's other national policies also required money. Otherwise, he might have used seventy or eighty percent of the treasury's silver reserves to develop steam engines.
This was the future of the Ming Dynasty.
The steam engine had emerged.
For the time being, it had yet to affect the Ming Dynasty, and only a small number of people knew of it.
But as Zhu Yuanzhang issued an imperial decree, mobilizing sixty percent of the treasury's silver reserves to build workshops outside Ying Tian City, within the Imperial Guard Camp,
for a time,
Yu Xin of the Ministry of Revenue was greatly alarmed. Yet after leaving Wenyuan Pavilion, he wore a look of utter shock and ultimately gave his full support to the construction of the workshops.
Within the Imperial Guard Camp,
at the place where the dinosaurs were held,
half a year had passed.
The Ming Dynasty army that had entered the [Prehistoric World] had firmly established itself.
Aside from cold weapons powerful enough to threaten dinosaurs, such as giant crossbows and mounted crossbows,
three hundred Red-Clad Cannons had