Work Prophet-Chapter 910: Victoria Just Wants to Slack Off

James Watt manufactured the first practical steam engine in 1776, ushering human civilization into the Steam Age.

And on the Bratis Continent, in the fifth year of the Double Rest calendar, benefiting from the development in casting technology, especially steelmaking technology, Ge Lipeng, named after Watt, also began to engage in the research and production of steam engines.

By this time, a whole year had passed since the end of the great war referred to by continental historians as the Unification War.

Ge Lipeng stepped down from his position as the director of the arms factory because he preferred tinkering with civilian inventions to making weapons.

Coincidentally, not long ago, Lu Weijia discovered a coal mine near Black Stone City. A simple exploration revealed thick coal seams, good quality coal, and simple geological structures, making it an excellent mining field.

Ge Lipeng felt the timing was about right to bring the steam engine to the Bratis Continent.

The principle of the steam engine is very simple, even middle school students can understand it.

It's nothing but boiling water through a boiler to produce steam, then using steam to drive a piston to perform work, replacing human or animal power.

However, producing steam engines, especially those that can be truly put into use, is a long-term and complex project.

Even before Ge Lipeng's journey through time, improving the thermal efficiency of internal combustion engines was still a research direction for many scientists.

The thermal efficiency of ordinary internal combustion engines is only between 40% to 60%, and steam engines are even lower; even multi-expansion steam engines barely exceed 20%. In comparison, permanent magnet synchronous motors can achieve over 90%.

However, the invention of motors and batteries came much later. Of course, theoretically speaking, if you already knew the production methods of batteries and motors, you could skip the invention of internal combustion engines and leap directly into the electrical age.

But even in another realm, most of the electricity used in modern society still comes from the combustion of internal combustion engines. At the same time, internal combustion engines are virtually everywhere.

Obviously, the Bratis Continent also requires internal combustion engines.

Fortunately, Ge Lipeng now had many helpers around him. More than a hundred people brought by Li Yu, after realizing people from the other side could no longer reincarnate, mostly chose to join the Double Rest Sect, observe its precepts, becoming true followers of the Sabbath.

With the help of these physicists, chemists, and engineers, the first steam engine rolled off the line in less than half a month.

Moreover, unlike James Watt's Number Zero Engine, the efficiency of Ge Lipeng and his research team's machine was obviously much better.

And once you have an internal combustion engine, it's hard not to try attaching carriages behind it, laying down iron tracks on the ground—thus, the first train on the Bratis Continent appeared six months later.

Its running distance was very short, only from the coal mine to the steel factory, approximately thirty or so li.

However, the day the railway was completed, quite a few people came.

Even Queen Victoria was startled. Upon hearing the news, she rushed back from the Royal Capital and personally cut the ribbon for the train.

Afterwards, everyone got into the large wooden hopper that carried coal; the little train chugging along, spewing black smoke, under the gaze of the onlookers, it traveled smoothly from the Holy City Steel Factory to Peace Mine without any faults occurring.

Once they reached the destination, applause erupted all around, continuing for a long time.

Although everyone had seen many miracles from the Double Rest Sect over the years, especially the residents living in the Green Field area, who were somewhat accustomed to it.

Nonetheless, a self-moving small vehicle, not reliant on horses or other animals, was still quite a shock.

After experiencing the little train, Miss Rabbit felt that although it wasn't as fast as a horse, it excelled in endurance and was quite an eye-catcher, though a bit bothersome for passengers.

The black smoke from the front kept blowing into the nose, and the wind was quite strong.

Ge Lipeng explained that this small train was intended to transport coal; future trains that could actually carry passengers would be produced, which would include rooftops designed to conform as much as possible to aerodynamics, thereby further reducing energy consumption.

Ireya expressed anticipation; these past two years Miss Rabbit led armies in battle abroad, defeating dwarves and elves, fully unifying Bratis before returning to Lion Heart Castle to handle governmental matters.

She busied herself for half a year, and it was only now that the Empire's situation stabilized completely, leaving her time to return to her homeland.

The Green Field, as the first territory of Arias Family and the origin of the Double Rest Sect, developed most rapidly, changing almost daily.

When Miss Rabbit returned, she nearly couldn't recognize it. Now the Green Field was filled with uniform brick houses, neat and orderly, whether city or village looked clean and unlike other places, there was no human or animal feces visible.

Besides the ongoing hygiene education by the Sabbaths of Double Rest Sect, local farmers had already tasted the sweetness of composting.

The rising demand for fertilizer made previously despised manure valuable, to the point where some would even steal dung from privies at night.

Additionally, the newly named Holy City was paved with floor tiles; it housed cinema, bathhouses, schools, chapels, stadiums, shopping streets... almost everything one could want.

Early on, Li Yu leveraged giant dragon blood (Sildenafil), white paper, and low-cost linen to establish the commercial reputation of the new city, attracting caravans from various places to flock to Green Field.

Then new products from Double Rest Sect like glass, porcelain, soap, perfume, dye began rolling out one after another; now Holy City had become the trade center of the western territory, even merchants from Foreign Countries had heard of this city.

Some even wouldn't mind braving war to travel thousands of miles just to procure goods from here.

What's more, Double Rest Sect used this place as a testing ground, building twelve elementary schools in one go, fully implementing three-year compulsory education to cultivate basic skills like literacy and arithmetic.

Children over six could enroll free of charge, not only were tuition fees fully waivered but even three meals a day were provided, just this alone saved parents a significant amount on upbringing costs.

Kids of that age weren't really a labor force anyway, even given to others as servants or apprentices, at most their meals would be provided.

In comparison, sending them to elementary school offered much better conditions and meals, and learning to read opened up more career opportunities down the line.

Besides the train, Ireya also tested a hot air balloon; for safety reasons, she didn't fly too high, only two meters off the ground.

In the afternoon, she watched a football game, and with such entertainment combinations, Miss Rabbit instantly didn't want to return to the Royal Capital, even not wanting to be queen anymore.

Work couldn't compare to the joy of rest, especially when others fought wars growing poorer while Miss Rabbit's wars grew her riches, after unifying the continent, Ireya had achieved full financial independence, further reducing her work enthusiasm.

It was just that she had only recently been crowned, and tossing everything aside to indulge in life so young would be unseemly.

So Miss Rabbit could only suppress the urge within and coast a few more years while grooming a successor before returning home to live and enjoy.

Yet Li Yu wasn't known when he would return to have babies with her; Ireya thought idly waiting wouldn't work, still needing to take proactive steps, or else if by chance she worked until death in the queen's position, that would be too unworthy.

Ireya's gaze swept around and landed on her attendant Abus.

"Does Your Majesty have any instructions?" Abus quickly inquired as the queen looked his way.

"I remember you can't read, yet you're a noble now, that's unacceptable."

Miss Rabbit sternly stated, "Since Double Rest Sect has opened elementary schools, you should go to school as well."

"Ah?" Abus wondered how Ireya suddenly wanted him to become a primary school student, he was actually a bit old for elementary school.

"Mm, after you finish, you can accompany me in attending the Imperial Conference." Ireya disregarded Abus and continued, "Then you can go to Quintus Sabbath, I heard he's compiling the Prophet Book and needs manpower."

Abus was totally baffled about how he could help with Quintus's Prophet Book compilation, but since it was an order from the queen he still agreed. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

Miss Rabbit felt satisfied, this now had a proxy to shoulder responsibilities.