Time flew by, and soon it was the day of the transmigrator gathering. This was the first get-together after Lin Yi, Gu Fang, and Huang Xining returned from Mobei. Coincidentally, He Jing had turned her department store into a booming success, making it a landmark of Great Qian's cross-era characteristics. Everyone agreed to hold the gathering at the newly opened Lianxiang Restaurant branch on the third floor of the department store.
In the private room, everyone first raised their glasses together, congratulating the three heroes of Mobei on their triumphant return. As they chatted about their recent situations, they realized no one had been idle this past year. Ying Baichuan had made the country's GDP flourish, He Jing's business empire had expanded all the way to the Western Regions, and even Teacher Chen Tian had passed the county-level exam and entered intense preparation for the provincial exam. As for Lin Yi and Gu Fang, since returning to the Imperial City, they had done nothing but focus on their romance, not a single serious matter. Huang Xining, on the other hand, had restarted his laboratory, gone into mad scientist mode, and vowed to produce every medicine he knew within his lifetime.
When Lin Yi heard about Huang Xining's grand plan, she couldn't help teasing, "Brother Huang, isn't your goal a bit too ambitious? To make modern medicine, you'd need an industrial revolution first, right? And not just one, but three of them?"
Huang Xining pushed up his non-existent glasses and said with a face that said "I know what I'm doing," "That's why I've recently been recruiting students and teaching them the basics from math, physics, and chemistry."
"Just in time," Ying Baichuan chimed in, "I'm also planning to reform the education system—adding math, physics, chemistry, biology, geography, and other science courses."
Lin Yi had nothing to say to that. Well, Huang Xining, the study bug, might have had the surface goal of making medicine, but he was already cultivating talent for the first industrial revolution.
Chen Tian put down his teacup. "This is good. We still have to watch out for foreign transmigrators. If they develop elsewhere, sooner or later it will affect Great Qian's expansion."
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