In the following days, Zhang Yuan had completely gone bankrupt. No noble could afford two failed oceanic voyages, and he became the talk of the town, an example of a fallen aristocrat. However, he quickly recovered his spirits and began to develop technology at a slow pace, coming up with some minor inventions.
His sister, indeed a true sister, was willing to support Zhang Yuan's basic living, and the decision to divide their assets in the past proved to be a wise one. For Anna, as long as her brother settled down, everything else was secondary.
For someone of Zhang Yuan's intelligence, a few small inventions could significantly improve life. Take air conditioning, for example. The principle behind its invention was not complex: the low-pressure vapor of the refrigerant in a cooling system was sucked in by a compressor and compressed into high-pressure vapor before being released into the condenser. In simple terms, it involved the indoor air doing work to the outside.
