Chapter 581 The rest of my life
Chapter 581 The rest of my life
Shao Quanzhong laughed loudly, "You guys did a good job. Even without my involvement, you have managed to preserve the foundation I laid."
"This is all because of the good foundation you have laid, Your Majesty."
Well, Yali speaks better than Tesla. Thinking of Tesla, Shao Quanzhong suddenly remembered that Tesla had just boasted to him about quantum time travel.
Just now, I was worried about Wilson's space-based kinetic weapons and didn't listen to Tesla's words. Now I am not worried anymore. I am clear-headed and suddenly something moved in my heart.
It’s not that Shao Quanzhong wants to dominate the world, but feels that the earth can’t accommodate him, and wants to live forever and ascend to the fairyland.
He suddenly thought, how great it would be if he could really travel through dimensions and return to where he came from.
Although I am satisfied here, I still have some unfinished business that worries me.
"Yali, use my special fund to fully support Tesla. He can spend as much as he wants. Don't cut off the supply of funds and human resources. Just treat it as the willfulness of an old man like me who is confused and senile."
"Now, let's go and restore the reputation of that bad guy and award him a medal. I have to do this personally."
The big bad guy Shao Quanzhong mentioned is the chemist Fritz Haber, the bald German expert in making poison gas.
At that time, Shao Quanzhong asked him to make up for his crime by doing meritorious service. He lived up to the expectation and spent five years to develop synthetic ammonia equipment for the industrial production of nitrogen fertilizer.
Just for this one achievement, it is not enough to describe it as the Buddha of thousands of families.
Once nitrogen fertilizer was introduced, the human population exploded, from 1.6 billion to 5 billion in just 22 years.
According to the latest census taken by the Planning Commission, the population under the direct rule of the Shaw Dynasty now exceeds two billion.
New inventions have enabled the Earth to feed an additional 3.6 billion people, an unprecedented achievement.
It is time to rehabilitate the reputation of the man who invented poison gas that killed millions and was forced to hide his identity.
In the Jiangyan Auditorium, the 49-year-old Hubble was in high spirits as he was officially awarded the belated Nobel Prize. Shao Quanzhong, who had not appeared in public for a long time, personally awarded him the first-class Jiahe Medal.
After more than 20 years of hiding his identity, Harber reappeared under his real name and was absorbed into the Xiaoxiangya Science Academy.
Although he changed his name over the past twenty years, his life was not bad. After inventing the synthetic ammonia production line, he also won the favor of a beautiful woman.
Miss Clark Emeva, who is known as the successor to Princess Sissi and the new generation of European and American beauty benchmark, took the initiative to pursue and married this great scientist.
Harber was very honest and confessed to Clark his previous mistake of making poison gas, and easily gained the beauty's forgiveness. After all, the order to kill was given by Waldersee.
If a knife kills someone, you can't arrest the knifemaker, but should chop the hand that holds the knife, right?
Of course, the premise of all this is Hubbard’s great achievement. He has truly turned over a new leaf, laid down his butcher knife and become a Buddha.
Historically, synthetic ammonia came first, and then the European War. Clark committed suicide in anger because Haber invented poison gas, ashamed to be associated with him.
In this time and space, Shao Quanzhong provoked the European war ahead of time. As a result, he first produced poison gas and then invented synthetic ammonia. Instead, he happily married the beauty and had a happy ending.
The same person did the same two things in a different order, and the results were very different.
People cheer for the wicked to become Buddhas, but cannot tolerate the saints making mistakes. This is the weakness of human nature. Harber is a person with a very flexible moral bottom line, but it does not conflict with his current honor.
There are many people who have talent but no moral integrity. It all depends on what you have done. If your talent can benefit the world, you will also be admired by future generations.
For example, Cai Lun was a shady and villainous person, but people in later generations would not deny his contribution to human civilization just because of his character.
After Shao Quanzhong presented the award and medal to Harber, he was sighing about the relationship between virtue and talent when a second lieutenant ran into the auditorium, came to Shao Quanzhong and whispered something in his ear.
Shao Quanzhong immediately turned around and left the award ceremony.
Shao Quanzhong had ignored state affairs for twenty-two years, and he didn't even know about major events like the "Jiangyan Plan". But there was one thing he had instructed Xiao Yi, that if there was any change in Lucia, he should send someone to inform him immediately. Now the opportunity he had been waiting for had finally come.
Potowski, who had been in power for decades in Lucia, passed away, and his successor and team were people Shao Quanzhong was very familiar with.
These people's views were much more radical than Potowski's. As soon as they came to power, they launched a mutiny and drove Nicholas II out.
Fortunately, Shao Quanzhong had done enough work decades ago and planted enough secret agents in the Lucia court.
At the critical moment, the undercover agent rescued the Romanov family at the cost of exposing himself. Now Shao Quanzhong, the nephew, once again went into exile in Crimea with the state gift porcelain in his hands.
The nuclear button in Shao Jiming's hand can threaten the fearful dark creatures, but it cannot threaten Lucia's new team. They are really not afraid of death.
Shao Quanzhong had no intention of interfering in other people's internal affairs. He just called his son Shao Jisen and gave him a few instructions.
Shao Jisen is Maria's child. Lucia's name is Alfred Shao Romanov. She has now inherited Shao Quanzhong's title of Prince Lucia and manages the United Kingdom of Crimea.
In fact, the territory of the Crimean Kingdom has always been under the direct control of Shao Quanzhong. If you look into the nuclear test conducted by Daxia on Novaya Zemlya, it is actually the territory of the Crimean Kingdom under Russia, but no one thinks there is anything abnormal.
Shao Quanzhong did not show up. Shao Jisen announced that the new Russian government had abandoned the Romanov family, the Crimean Kingdom had lost its allegiance and no longer had any obligation to stay in Russia, and the Crimean Kingdom declared independence.
An hour later, Shao Jisen sent a telegram to the world, announcing that the newly independent Crimean Kingdom would be incorporated into Daxia.
The Shao family ruled the Crimean Kingdom earlier than the founding of Daxia, and had already firmly controlled this vast territory, so now they don't even need to go through the transition procedure of becoming a vassal.
The complete territory of Daxia that Shao Quanzhong had always dreamed of was finally perfectly and thoroughly unified from a legal perspective.
Shao Quanzhong stood with his hands behind his back, looking at the updated map of Daxia on the wall, feeling very satisfied. For the rest of my life, I have no regrets in this world.
"Second brother."
Huh? Shao Quanzhong turned around and asked, "Siwen, why are you back?"
Zhang Siwen retired last year at the age of 70. He entrusted the affairs of state to Wang Yongxian and Zeng Xiaoyi, and then went to live in seclusion in Ireland, finally ending his years of separation from Jessica.
How come he's back after only being here for a year? Fighting with his red-haired wife?
Zhang Siwen had a sad face, "Second brother, my in-laws passed away, I want to come back to see them off."
"We can have what we have today thanks to the guidance of my father-in-law and his good friend, two great experts. Now that you have time, come with me to pay your respects."
(End of this chapter)