Secondly, even if I finally waited for the convoy to arrive at this time, it would be meaningless.
A month or two would allow the Tang Empire to gather its troops and rush to the front line.
But this same seemingly quick, but actually long, time was enough for the Roman legions to knock on the door of Persia and even enter the Persian territory!
Maybe my father will be captured alive in a few days...
Asmin didn't dare to think about that, but what was certain was that she didn't really need to go outside the city to observe anything.
After realizing this, Asmin's mood was extremely cold, and it was completely cold at minus 105 degrees.
Although Asmin's mentality has been a bit cold recently, at this moment...
Asmin's mood finally reached its lowest point... or rather its highest point.
For a moment, Asmin even calmed down a little...
It's just a calmness caused by sluggishness.
Looking at his student's expression, Wei Ziyu naturally felt that something was wrong - and as a teacher, he couldn't help but ask.
"Asmin, are you... are you in puppy love?"
Wei Ziyu himself didn't have much experience, so... let's borrow the words of other teachers to ask...
However, when asked by her, Asmin was stunned, "What is morning..."
After all, Wei Ziyu was still inexperienced and didn't know how to ask, so he had to bite the bullet and said seriously, "Children of your age should still focus on learning... I miss you coming all the way to the Eastern Land of the Tang Dynasty.
Is it just for..."
Wei Ziyu made a long speech, but Asmin turned a deaf ear to it...
On weekdays, if I didn't understand half of the teacher's sermon, I would have to ask for clarification according to Asmin's habit, but at this moment...
For Asmin, it seems that all this has lost its meaning and she has no interest at all...
Persia is suffering, and what I have to bear this time is not an ordinary big pot...
Wei Ziyu didn't quite understand what was going on with this student, but the teacher...
After all, unlike the master in the master-apprentice relationship, the apprentice must be filial to the master in his later years, and the master must take careful care of the apprentice's life. This is the social contract of the master-apprentice system.
But the students in the college do not have that kind of obligation to their teachers, and there are a huge number of them... Wei Ziyu also understood very early on that he could not solve the problems that the students encountered in their own lives like the master among the craftsmen.
Go take care of it.
Asmin didn't want to hear it, so Wei Ziyu had no choice but to leave it like this. In the end, he shook his head and sighed, but it was not that he was imitating the lectures of other teachers. "I originally planned to take you to see the opening of the steam train today."
Yes, the result...Oh, forget it, let's do it another day."
"Ah? Steam train..."
Asmin's mind was originally blank, and Wei Ziyu didn't hear a word he said for a long time, but at this moment...
When I heard the words "steam train", my mind felt... like a machine that had been set up, it suddenly moved!
"Wait...steam train..."
Asmin's eyes suddenly shone brightly!
This thing...yes, this is some kind of "something"...
And I must have heard of this thing before...
By the way, this thing is extremely important, extremely important...
Although she couldn't remember what it was for a moment, Asmin's calculations in her subconscious were extremely fast at this moment, so fast that it was terrifying. It was as if there was a voice in her mind that kept shouting, telling her to quickly remember this "steam"
What is "train"...
what is it then?……
yes……
At the moment when Asmin was sweating profusely and racking her brains... she couldn't remember what it was because she was so nervous.
Wei Ziyu in front of her then spoke, "Asmin, what's wrong with you?"
Asmin woke up suddenly and opened her eyes to look at the person in front of her.
Who is this person? Wei Ziyu is the mountain director of the college.
In the entire Lingzhou, except for Li Sheng, the Marquis of Shengxiang, he was the most knowledgeable person.
Yes……
Her own teacher.
Then why not just ask her yourself?
"Um... Chief Shan, do you know... what a steam train is?"
…
There was something obviously wrong with the tone and way of questioning...
I just said that I was going to take my classmates to see the train open to traffic, but when Asmin asked this, wouldn't it make the teacher look stupid? Her tone was like a shady question, as if the student knew it very well...
But now that Asmin is in a trance, Wei Ziyu will not blame her, even though this question is very strange...
Are there any students in this college who don’t know what a steam train is?
This thing...
As early as last year, I had already led several division commanders to build one with common sense——
Originally, Wei Ziyu wanted to build a vehicle that could run on the ground like a carriage, but he soon discovered that the steam engine... was too heavy. Not to mention the dirt ground outside the city, even the solid cement roads in the city were weighed down.
The steel wheels rolled out cracks like spider webs.
So in the end, Wei Ziyu could only settle for the next best thing. Since he couldn't build a mechanical carriage that could travel to the ends of the earth, he had to first...
Use iron rails to bear the weight of the steam carriage.
Although the steam carriage is heavy, the rails do not crack like brittle cement, and then...
Under the rails, there is thick wood, and gravel is used to lay a foundation under the wood, so that the robotic carriage can walk on land——
In order to bring a steam engine from the sea to land to generate power, how much effort was spent to make this thing? Only Wei Ziyu himself knows.
But what made her feel very frustrated was that later... Li Sheng came to Lingzhou and when he saw the robotic carriage, he was immediately surprised...
That was a moment that Wei Ziyu can't help but blush when recalling it.
But then, Li Sheng canceled the entire project on the grounds that "the transportation capacity was too small." This decision almost made Wei Ziyu sick.
If Li Sheng hadn't then announced a new mechanical carriage that was "far better than this", which Li Sheng called a "steam train" - then Wei Ziyu would have wanted to die with Li Sheng.
But what is gratifying is that after a lot of hard work, the steam train is finally completed.
What Wei Ziyu expected, but also felt secretly in his heart, was that Li Sheng really did what he said, and really wanted to build something far better than what he had built. Apart from anything else, the basics in this academy were that
All the teachers' extracurricular breaks were completely taken up by Li Sheng...
And Li Sheng himself is really devoted to this thing wholeheartedly.
Of course, Wei Ziyu occasionally handed over some things to Li Sheng, and also found that there was a drawing on Li Sheng's desk that didn't look like a steam engine... But after all, he had been working day and night for so long, and this day...
Datang’s first truly practical train finally opened to traffic...