Believe in Science

Yunzhou City.

One of the thirty-six provincial capitals Lu Chuan had designated, a bustling city.

Time could fade everything. After a year had passed, the effects left behind in this city by war and military disaster were also disappearing bit by bit.

Cries and hawking calls rang out endlessly in the streets. And under Lu Chuan's "inspiration," the Office of Extraordinary Scholars had achieved no small results in clothing, food, housing, and transportation. Shops lined the streets row upon row like fish scales and comb teeth, and goods, food, and fruit came in every variety.

Not long ago, even paper had been created, and Ding Ce had taken it to present to Wu Geng.

When the many ministers saw the paper, they were even more incomparably shocked.

After Bi Gan saw it, he was so excited that his words came out in a jumble. He cried out that a certain lord possessed the talent of a divine man, and afterward Bi Gan took the initiative to oversee the promotion of papermaking technology throughout the nation.

In Lu Chuan's memory, there were four great inventions. In fact, before him, the compass had already appeared.

No, now it should be called the South-Pointing Chariot. It had been made by Chiyou's subordinates during his great war with the Yellow Emperor.

Lord Lu made improvements to it, making it smaller and more convenient, and then after it and paper appeared, the Office of Extraordinary Scholars spread both of them to the mortal world.

Of course, after bringing out two of the four great inventions, Lord Lu certainly had ideas about the remaining two as well—gunpowder and printing.

However, there was no hurry with printing until after papermaking had been popularized across the whole country. Last was gunpowder. The might of a nuclear bomb was