Become a feudal king from today

"Perfect!"

Zhao Xu came to the telegraph machine and picked up the paper scratched by a pencil. There were different combinations of dots and lines on it.

Although Tsui Hark didn't understand, he was shocked and dumbfounded by the scene in front of him.

What Wang Chong performed was almost like magic.

He couldn't help but ask: "Your Highness, what on earth is this?"

Zhao Xu explained to Tsui Hark while touching the parts on the telegraph machine.

After Tsui Hark heard this, he was even more shocked than before. After a while, he came back to his senses.

"It's unbelievable." According to King Yan, this thing is actually capable of transmitting news to Yancheng from thousands of miles away in an instant.

No wonder King Yan said that this thing would also be of great benefit to the supervision of the Fourth Academy.

In the future, their speed of delivering information will be even faster.

"There will be many things that will surprise you in the future. This wired telegraph is just a gadget. In a few years, you might be able to talk directly to people thousands of miles away instead of just sending telegrams." Zhao Xu laughed.

The laboratory telegraph was completed, and the next step was to lay the cables.

He already has a plan in his mind. This first cable will start from Yanzhou and go to Ningjindusi. From now on, this line will continue to look northward until Siberia.

The second cable will go west to Xiaoguan. This line will extend westward to the Western Region in the future.

The third antenna looks southwest, passing through Jingzhou. In the future, if Yizhou is recovered, it will extend to Yizhou until Tibet.

The fourth line goes south, and when Jiangnan is recovered, it will extend all the way to Jiaozhi.

For him, these four lines can be produced and laid immediately.

In fact, he also wanted to lay a submarine cable from the bottom of the sea to Korea and Japan, so as to control the two countries in the future.

But without rubber, Naihe couldn't produce submarine cables that could be water-proof and insulated. He had to wait until he got rubber to find a way.

Once these are laid, he will be able to remotely command the battlefield in Yancheng and understand the situation of the war.

The establishment of command communications will be conducive to the victory of the war.

This is like a person commanding his left and right hands. If he wants to hit someone, he can swing it out instantly.

But the other party needs several days, even ten days of response time.

By the time they reacted, they were already beaten to death.

However, the project of laying cables is not small and costly.

There will be another huge expenditure on Jiangbei's finances.

But fortunately, with the cable laid, he could cancel the station in Jiangbei.

Since ancient times, feudal dynasties have transmitted information through inns.

The number of captive post soldiers will be more than 100,000, often with hundreds of thousands of horses.

This was also a huge financial burden for the court. In the late Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, finally became king of Chuang because the court reduced its burden and abolished the post station.

Of course, this does not mean that Jiangbei will also have a king. After all, life in Jiangbei is much more comfortable than in the late Ming Dynasty.

But even so, the cost of laying cables and railways is not small.

It is urgent to expand overseas markets and obtain large amounts of funds through business.

"Hahaha, then I will wait patiently." Xu Ke and Zhao Xu said this and laughed.

The three of them laughed for a while, and Zhao Xu left with Xu Hark.

When leaving, he ordered Wang Chong to prepare a workshop for manufacturing cables.

If there is a breakthrough in electric power in the future, cables will be indispensable, and preparations must start now.

Arriving outside the research and development institute, Zhao Xu told Tsui Hark to continue to monitor the movements of all forces.

Immediately, he returned to the palace and asked people to send the mine design to the Department of War.

This landmine is actually a large hand grenade buried underground. To Wang Ying, it is just a gadget, and it only needs to be handed over to him for production.

In the next month, Zhao Xu, whether it was Dongying, Beidi, or the powerful clans, seemed to have calmed down.

Zhao Xu also enjoyed his leisure time, either traveling around the mountains and rivers with Yang Susu, or hanging out in the military department and research and development institutes, overcoming technical problems with Wang Ying, his son and Qu Sheng.

In addition, they inspected the production of workshops and the laying of railways.

With the arrival of Gaoli Qingzhuang, the construction of railways accelerated.

According to his wishes, the Ministry of Industry established four railway construction departments, and classified railway construction workers into them. With Yancheng as the center, four railways in the east, west, north and south were built at the same time.

300,000 young Koreans plus Japanese and Beidi prisoners made up 400,000 people.

Each railway department oversees 100,000 people, each responsible for one railway.

Now, each railway company can lay about ten kilometers of railway every day.

Of course, this is the situation on the plains. If you encounter rugged mountain roads, you will need to cut mountains and stones, which will be much slower. If you encounter rivers again, you will have to build bridges.

But despite the difficulties, the railway must be laid.

Fortunately, the Government Affairs School had a course on construction engineering. He taught a lot of construction techniques, and the officials selected from the Ministry of Industry were all the best in the school.

This won't bother them.

In addition to railways, the construction of agricultural machinery and engineering machinery workshops is also in full swing. 70% of the workshops are completed, and steam engines, lathes and other machinery will be installed next month.

In agriculture, peppers, corn and sweet potatoes are planted in July.

The farm is currently harvesting.

Potatoes are also producing more seedlings, which can be planted in November.

All the best.

However, calm is often the illusion before the storm.

On October 28, Tsui Hark suddenly sent an urgent military message.

"Your Highness, Beidi has expanded its troops to three royal tents in the north of Ningjin Dusi. Cavalry continues to appear around Jincheng. At the same time, Ashur is commanding the three royal tents under his command to show off his troops and seems to intend to threaten Xiao Guan." Xu Ke said.

After a pause, he continued: "One more thing. Just six days ago, Liang Xiang suddenly proclaimed himself a minister to Beidi, and Dou Mu recognized Mule Hongzhen as his uncle and nephew."

A series of information made Zhao Xu frown, and he sarcastically said: "This Dou Mu might as well just accept Muller Hong as his father, why bother to make an uncle and nephew."

Dou Mu is no longer part of his Zhao family. If it were before, he might still be angry.

But now, he doesn't care.

"In addition, the powerful army suddenly deployed troops on the south bank of Jiujiang River. They once sent small boats to carry soldiers across the border and attacked the villages on the north bank. However, they were repelled by the patrolling cavalry of the royal family." Xu Hark added with a solemn expression, "Also, A group of Western mercenaries numbering about 10,000 people disembarked in Lincheng and were heading to the south bank of Jiujiang."

Zhao Xu nodded, his brows furrowed deeper.

This simultaneous provocation by the North and the South is obviously no accident.

As a result, he had some vague suspicions about the actions of Japan and Britain some time ago.

"Beidi is just pretending. With their old firearms, as long as Mulehong is not crazy, he will definitely not start a war. As for the Wu Kingdom, I know that Liang Kai is a bastard who is unscrupulous for profit, but I can't help but stabilize him." One month is enough, I am just looking for a reason to deal with him," Zhao Xu said slowly.

Then, he sneered, "Whether they are the powerful clan or Beidi, they should all know that with their current abilities, they are still unable to fight against me, but they just did this. As the saying goes, there must be monsters when things go wrong. I'm afraid this is The purpose of Japan and Britain's strategy of diverting trouble from the east is to buy Japan breathing time to accumulate capital to deal with this king. "

"But I, the king, will not let them get what they want!" Zhao Xu slammed the table.