Bai Ye's Development Plan

"If it were just simple teleportation, it's not impossible to achieve in Teyvat. However, what we're about to do is something universal."

Bai Ye remembered very clearly that in the story, besides the twins, the Abyss Order and the Fatui had used teleportation. It's just that the Abyss Order was too mysterious, and the Fatui, before the appearance of Osial, had taken a boat to Liyue first. This indicated that they had at least distance limitations for large-scale teleportation.

These were indeed useful, but they had nothing to do with ordinary people.

What Bai Ye wanted to do was to create machinery that everyone could use.

In this regard, the people of Inazuma had made some attempts and created some machinery. Bai Ye had seen them, like the Omni-Ubiquity Net and steam devices. Their technological level, excluding elemental power, was roughly equivalent to the first to second industrial revolution. However, these were mostly for entertainment and daily life, with little development in productivity.

The people of Inazuma would never consider inventing vehicles for long-distance transportation like this.

"So, this task will be completed by me alone. To change all of Liyue, and even the entire Seven Nations, with the will of one person, is truly an exciting thing."

Bai Ye's motivation surged.

He picked up paper and pen and began designing the vehicle.

"Change the Seven Nations?"

Hearing Bai Ye say this, Hagintos was a little surprised.

"Are we doing something like that?"

She had only wanted Bai Ye to create some of his own Art of Automata, partly to make the lives of Liyue's people more convenient, and partly to allow Bai Ye's Art of Automata to reach a higher level.

How could it be changing the Seven Nations now?

"Of course, sometimes a single invention is enough to change an entire country. Moreover, I'm not just making one invention."

Bai Ye said affirmatively.

As the saying goes, "A single thought can broaden the world."

After his teacher's reminder, Bai Ye's mind was flooded with ideas.

Many thoughts surged into his mind.

"Aren't you just planning to invent a convenient transportation machine? What will that change?"

Hagintos still didn't quite understand.

"Teacher, if I can make the manufacturing cost of this mechanism low enough for all merchants to use, will they adopt it?"

Hagintos thought for a moment and then gave Bai Ye an affirmative answer: "They definitely will. After all, Liyue Harbor relies solely on maritime transport, which has many shortcomings. Maritime transport still depends on ports to transport goods. If the destination is inland, it will be extremely troublesome."

"Yes, and I also plan to speed up the development of the vehicles, making them faster than maritime transport. If I succeed, many people will surely adopt land transport. At that time, the original Liyue imperial roads will seem insufficient and will definitely need to be expanded. At the same time, because the number of people using land transport will increase, there will definitely be places for rest and repair along the way. Then, whether actively or passively, merchants will begin to develop the northern regions."

In fact, the most criticized aspect when Bai Ye traveled from where he first met Hagintos to Liyue Harbor was that Liyue still had so much undeveloped land.

So much wasteland in Liyue, and they weren't farming it?

Not farming it!

Bai Ye had lived in the countryside when he was young. Although he wasn't skilled, he could tell from touching the soil that Liyue's soil was suitable for growing vegetables.

Looking at it, his heart ached.

There weren't many monsters plaguing Liyue now. Those few scattered Hilichurls and Slimes, were they even a problem?

If the people of his previous life knew about this, let alone Hilichurls, even Hilichurl Kings would be made to plow the fields.

Bai Ye felt that the reason for this was that Liyue relied too much on trade for development.

A few inhabited areas.

Liyue Harbor was at the port, responsible for maritime transport; Qingying Village was also trading with Inazuma; Qingce Village was more of a place for retirement.

Many places could not remain undeveloped.

Bai Ye planned to use the developed transport vehicles to gradually influence Liyue's merchants to start developing Liyue's wastelands.

Of course, vehicles alone wouldn't be enough. If there were opportunities in the future, Bai Ye would want to lay railways and build trains.

Not only to connect various parts of Liyue, but also to trade better with other nations.

Continuously develop productivity.

As long as he didn't touch forbidden knowledge, Bai Ye believed he wouldn't incur the destruction of the Heavenly Principles.

It wasn't Honkai.

After Bai Ye finished speaking, Hagintos immediately expressed her approval.

"So that's how it is. I always thought Art of Automata could only make life more convenient, I never imagined it could change so much."

"Yeah. When the time comes, as the founder, I'll definitely get a large income. Then, Teacher, we'll be rich."

Towards the end, Bai Ye eagerly anticipated a life of wealth.

He would definitely live in the Jade Chamber himself, right? He'd need a cat-eared maid, wouldn't he? For three meals a day, he'd need a dedicated little chef, right? And masseuses, opera singers, dancers, from Mondstadt, Inazuma, Sumeru, Inazuma...

After imagining a beautiful future for a while, Bai Ye turned and picked up the white paper in front of him.

For now, it was just a fantasy.

Let's get this first step manufactured.

Hmm, let's set a recent goal first.

Deliver those goods on time and really slap that greedy merchant in the face.

Bai Ye began to immerse himself in the design process.

Once he started designing, it would take him several days.

During this time, Liyue Harbor operated as usual.

The Feiyun Commerce Guild seemed unwilling to give up and planned to try an adventurous delivery to Port Ormos to fulfill their contract, currently considering its feasibility.

Xingqiu, on the other hand, had nothing to do and could only wander around Liyue Harbor.

One day, as he was passing by Wanmin Restaurant, someone called out to him.

"Have you seen Bai Ye these past few days?"

Xiangling said to Xingqiu.

"Huh? Bai Ye?"

Xingqiu was startled.

"Haven't seen him? Did he go for bounties? You haven't seen him these past few days either?"

"That's right. He hasn't come to Wanmin Restaurant to eat for several days now. Do you think something might have happened to him?"

Xiangling nodded seriously.

Hearing Xiangling say this, Xingqiu also felt the seriousness of the situation.

"No, let's go take a look first."

He quickly said.

Xiangling nodded.

The two of them hurried towards the house Bai Ye had rented.

"Bai Ye, please don't let anything happen to you!"

Xiangling muttered worriedly as she ran.

Soon, they arrived at the place Bai Ye had rented.

Before they even got close, they heard somewhat frenzied laughter coming from inside.

"Done, done, I finally did it!"

Through the window, Xingqiu and Xiangling saw a disheveled young man.

Xingqiu and Xiangling exchanged glances.

"Is he... possessed?"

Xingqiu said to Xiangling.

"Mm..."

Xiangling hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

"Alright, Xiangling, I have a good friend who is from an Onmyoji family. I'll go ask him to come over and take a look."

"Mhm, hurry and go invite him over."

Xiangling nodded seriously.

Then she thought for a moment, feeling she couldn't just do nothing.

"No, I should call Hu Tao over. She deals with ghosts often, maybe she can scare them away?"