C3353 The Energy Revolution (1/2)

The Industrial Revolution pursued a huge increase in productivity, but what exactly was this thing called productivity? In the end, it was just a power, so how did that power come about?

In the end, it was still a key factor, and that was energy!

Humans could walk, run, jump. They relied on their muscles to fight. Where did the energy come from? It's the slow oxidation of carbohydrates in the body, or, to put it bluntly, burning.

Carbohydrate is actually the basic energy source for the human machine!

Before the Industrial Revolution, there was only one source of energy, and that was by relying on solar energy. The sun feeds plants through photosynthesis, plants nourish animals, and humans rely on the energy of plants and animals to sustain life.

The wood, water, wind that the primitive handicraft needs... Other sources of energy are directly or indirectly derived from the sun!

The energy of the sun is very fair, no one can snatch more, and no one can ask for less. You have to bear with the drought and natural disaster, watching the sky and eating is the most important feature of the farming economy!

But this kind of life, mankind will not be satisfied with the life, smart forerunners began to explore how to use the new energy!

At this time, the most important source of energy for the first time in Industrial Revolution, coal, appeared in the eyes of the humans!

This was the first time that humans had started using solar energy on a large scale. Although the mining history of coal was almost as long as that of humans, it had never been used as a pillar of energy for humans like it was today!

Britain's powerful productivity, with so many machines operating, produced so many cotton textiles and machinery products, the final source of power came from coal!

What a contrast! While other peoples were still enjoying their meals and waiting for the sun to bestow energy, the British were already using coal power to power economic engines on a large scale!

From a certain point of view, wasn't this the hype for Xiao Letian's future generations of gamers? While all the players were operating according to the original rules of the game, a certain player was secretly researching his or her own hacking skill.

His mining will double the profit and his farming will also be several times faster. His army will be ten times faster than yours, and his material production efficiency will be unimaginably high!

Was it torture to encounter such a player?

England, France and the rest of the countries that had jumped onto the Industrial Revolution's train were the first players to play take-out. Unfortunately, it was useless for any other people to look for customer service to complain.

Because there was no customer service that maintained the fairness of the game!

If one or two players were to use hacking, it would definitely cause more players to use hacking too. Industrial Revolution's technology began to be widely spread in Europe.

However, what was laughable was that in this era, there were many players like the Great Qing who stubbornly refused to let go of the old version of the game and stubbornly refused to accept the system's bonus effects.

He even insulted those who used the outlets for their moral deprivations! It really made people sigh endlessly!

Once he understood the rules, he would naturally be able to see the developments of the future. Coal energy was an external source of energy that countless countries could use.

Since most players used the external system, it became one of the rules of the game!

At this point, if the powerful countries wanted to continue, they would have to research the new external system. Other than coal, what was the next energy breakthrough?

Xiao Letian was very clear, it was oil, but at that moment, the whole world was still trying to figure it out!

Of course some scientists have decided that oil is the next source of energy, but this awareness was not fully agreed in 1871.

Politicians and businessmen were still watching from the sidelines. They did not want to invest too much into the gamble. What if they lost?

They were unwilling to gamble, but the Chinese came to gamble … Right now, Xiao Letian was not only investing in the purification of oil, he was also heavily investing in the manufacturing of machinery, geology and other basic subjects.