Chapter 946: The First Self-propelled Machine

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Back in Lan City, Ren Baqian wanted to deal with various matters, but was dragged into the hall by the empress and only got carried out seven days later…

After emergency treatment from the clinic, he rested for two days before shakily starting to deal with those matters.

Ren Baqian hadn’t been away for very long this time. It was only slightly more than half a month. It had been nine days since he returned, and he had been away from his work for about a month. There were really quite a lot of things that he needed to deal with.

The laboratories, the Rearguard Commandery, the Department of Commerce, the new city, the school… All of these things kept him busy for a month.

During this period, the commander of the imperial bodyguards had changed to a woman named Jiang Ningyun.

Ren Baqian had seen this woman before.

Back then, he participated in the lantern-grabbing contest after the New Year and was hit with lots of flying shoes. The champion of that event was Jiang Ningyun, a woman with excellent talent. She was a commoner, but her strength was comparable to Hong Xian’s.

After that, she joined the Protectorate of the Northeast and attained the Cardinal Heaven level in just a few years. Her fighting skills were outstanding. Now, she had been transferred by the empress and promoted to the position of commander of the imperial bodyguards of the palace.

There were no ugly girls among the aboriginals, and she was the same as well. She was completely wild natured, full of heroic spirit, and also looked gorgeous.

Especially after returning from the Yun Nation, the bloody smell on her body lasted for a long time.

However, Ren Baqian still felt that the lady in spectacles looked more pleasing.

It was currently July in Dayao.

Ren Baqian randomly counted that it had been six years since he had arrived in this world.

It had been July of the 70th year of the Dayao calendar when he first arrived, and it was currently July of the 76th year.

He then began to count his age… It really took him a long time to figure this out. After all, he had been running back and forth between the two worlds, so it was a little complicated… He was currently 35 years old.

Only six years had passed for the empress, and she was only 29 years old.

As time passed, this gap would only widen.

Of course, the same was true for the age gap between him, his brother, and his parents.

Regardless of whether they were people from this world or Earth, he had a unique timeline, different from everyone.

Although it sounded impressive, Ren Baqian felt pretty miserable.

He wandered across two worlds by himself, but was different from the people in each world.

The reason for this was mainly because Ren Wannian incidentally noted, “Brother, are you 43? Why do you look so young? Even younger than me?”

18 years had already passed on Earth.

However, both Papa and Mama Ren only had one thought in mind.

You are already 43—when are you going to have a kid? Even Wannian’s son is around four years old, yet there’s still nothing happening on your side.

If there are any problems, go for artificial insemination or simply artificially produce a baby.

This was a new technology at present that directly produced babies in vitro. It was unlike test tube babies, where embryos were transferred from test tubes into the mother’s body. Artificially produced babies were developed in vitro from beginning to end.

Ren Baqian was also very vexed about how they felt.

To the elderly, nothing was more important than having heirs. Especially when there was nothing missing and nothing to worry about, their hopes of having a grandchild to play with grew even greater.

He wanted to say that the empress was pregnant, but only God knew when she would deliver the baby.

She had already been pregnant for 31 months, three times as long as the pregnancy period of a normal woman. However, she still showed no signs of delivering the child.

“Your Majesty, how is our son?” The first thing Ren Baqian did when he returned to the palace from outside the city was touch her belly. He didn’t bother to listen to the heartbeat of the baby since there wasn’t one.

Inside the empress’s belly, there was a ball that isolated the response between the baby and the empress. It also isolated sounds such as the fetus’s heartbeat.

The empress sighed faintly because she had been feeling pretty jittery these days.

After all, it wasn’t always convenient to move around with such a belly.

The empress felt restless and irritable at first, but she slowly got used to it and found it pretty interesting after realizing that there was a ball in her belly. Lately, however, she started to feel jittery again.

She felt vexed. Even the sight of Ren Baqian didn’t look pleasing to her.

Next, she scolded him with a cold look, “It’s your fault!”

Although she scolded him, he felt that it was heartwarming. He hugged her waist with a giggle and gently stroked her belly with his palm.

The empress calmed down as well, and the two sat quietly for a while.

“Where’s the wine pool? What about the meat forest? Also, you don’t even plant candy trees anymore.” Then, she suddenly brought up a few old matters.

Ren Baqian immediately leaped up after hearing this.

“Where are you going?”

“Excavating a tree!”

Ren Baqian subsequently ran into the courtyard, dug up a tree, brought it back, and planted it in the shop. He then went back to Earth and brought back a few bags of candy, planting a candy tree for the empress once again.

Seeing this tree, she was reminded of the first candy tree that he planted and immediately lost all of her fretfulness.

Unfortunately, the first tree was destroyed in the original quarters.

…

In August of the 76th year of Dayao’s calendar, several major events happened in Lan City.

First, tickling was included in the code of law as a punishment.

For a while, this was a laughingstock.

However, half a month later, none of the people who experienced this punishment were able to laugh afterward.

This punishment was even more excruciating than caning.

In addition, the criminals wouldn’t even suffer the slightest injury and could leap and frisk about after being released from the Public Order Bureau.

The arenas were used to expend most people’s energy. Now, with this painful and unbearable punishment, various public security incidents in the city had been greatly reduced.

A month later, there were fewer people fighting in Lan City. This was the case even though there were many aboriginals from other places as well as native commoners who ignored everything when they got hot-headed.

If anyone who had been to Lan City back in the day visited the place again, they would definitely be shocked by the changes in the city’s public security.

As for the second event, it was also one of the reasons for the public security improvement.

There were currently 103 public toilets in Lan City, but only seven people were responsible for them.

It could be considered that no one would do such work for a living.

Notices had been posted many times to recruit workers, but most of them would quit after a day.

As long as they had the strength, there was no lack of places that were hiring, regardless of whether it was transportation or mining. As a result, who would take up such a job?

The thing that the aboriginals lacked the least was strength.

Out of desperation, Ren Baqian had to hand this matter over to the Public Order Bureau.

Those who fought in Lan City would have to clean the toilets for three days in addition to being tickled.

This way, Lan City’s public security was improved while also easing the predicament of having a lack of personnel to maintain the public hygiene facilities. However, a month later, Ren Baqian was troubled again.

The third event, which was also the most important one, took four months. Dayao’s first fully handmade tractor was finally complete.

This tractor was 4.2 meters long, 1.7 meters tall, and weighed 1.3 tons. It moved on wheels, had 21 horsepower, and could pull eight tons of goods. If it was used for farming, its abilities in breaking down the soil, plowing the land, harrowing, and rotary tillage were almost above average.

After all, since it was developed by many of Earth’s researchers, it had a high degree of completion, which directly met Ren Baqian’s standards. It was even better than expected and could be directly put to use.

After the trial period, he directly set an auspicious date for the unveiling of the first self-propelled machine in this world.

This was also the first new product launch in this world!