Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 750

[Chapter 750 Provocation]

“Perfect!”

Zhao Xu came to the telegraph and picked up the paper that had been scratched by a pencil. It was just different combinations of dots and lines.

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

What Wang Chong performed was like magic.

He couldn’t help asking: “Your Highness, what exactly is this?”

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

After hearing this, Tsui Hark was even more shocked than before he didn’t hear it. It took him a while before he came back to his senses.

“It’s unbelievable.” According to King Yan, this thing is capable of transmitting messages to Yancheng instantly from thousands of miles away.

No wonder Yan Wang said that this thing is also of great benefit to the supervision of the Fourth Court.

In the future, the speed at which they transmit information will be even faster.

“There are still many things that will surprise you in the future. This cable telegraph is just a gadget. In a few years, maybe you will be able to talk directly to people thousands of miles away instead of just sending codes.” Zhao Xu laughed.

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

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

The second cable will go west and reach Xiaoguan. This line will extend westward in the future, all the way to the Western Regions.

The third antenna looks southwest, passes through Jingzhou, recovers Yizhou in the future, and then extends Yizhou until Tubo.

The fourth is to go south, and when the south of the Yangtze River is recovered, it will extend to Jiaozhi.

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

In fact, he also wants 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.

However, there is no rubber, and it is still impossible to produce submarine cables capable of water-proof insulation. He has to wait until he gets rubber to find a way.

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

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

This is like a person directing his left and right hands. If he wants to hit someone, he can swing it in an instant.

But the other party needs a few days, or even more than ten days to respond.

By the time they reacted, they had already been beaten to death.

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

There will be another big expenditure on Jiangbei’s finances.

But fortunately, after the cable was laid, he could cancel the post station in Jiangbei.

Since ancient times, feudal dynasties have all passed information through post stations.

There will be more than 100,000 post soldiers in captivity, and hundreds of thousands of horses.

This was also a huge financial burden on the imperial court. In the late Ming Dynasty, Chuang Wang Li Zicheng finally became Chuang Wang because of the reduction of the court’s burden and the abolition of post stations.

Of course, this doesn’t mean that Jiangbei will have a King Chuang, 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.

To expand overseas markets, it is imminent to obtain a large amount of funds through commerce.

“Hahaha, then I will wait quietly.” Xu Ke and Zhao Xu laughed loudly after saying this.

The three laughed for a while, then Zhao Xu and Xu Ke left.

When he left, he asked Wang Chong to set up the workshop for making cables.

In the future, if there is a breakthrough in electric power, cables will be indispensable, and preparations must be made from now on.

When he came outside the research institute, Zhao Xu told Xu Hark to continue to keep an eye on the movements of various forces.

Immediately, he went back to the palace and ordered people to send the design drawings of the landmines to the Bingzhang Division.

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

In the following month, Zhao Xu seemed to have calmed down whether it was Dongying, Beidi, or the influential people.

Zhao Xu was also happy to be free, either traveling with Yang Susu, wandering around in the Military Division, researching and researching institutes, and overcoming technical difficulties with Wang Ying, father and son, and Qu Sheng.

In addition, it is to inspect the production of workshops and the laying of railways.

With the arrival of young and strong Goryeo, the laying of railways was accelerated.

According to his intention, the Ministry of Industry set up four railway construction departments, including the workers who built the railways. With Yancheng as the center, four railways from east to west, south to north, were built at the same time.

300,000 young and strong Koreans plus Dongying and Beidi captives made up 400,000 people.

Each railway division governs 100,000 people, each responsible for a 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 need to dig mountains and dig rocks, which will be much slower. If you encounter rivers again, you have to build bridges.

But even with all the difficulties, the railway has to be laid.

Fortunately, in the Government Affairs School, there was a course of construction engineering, and he taught a lot of construction techniques, and the officials selected by the Ministry of Industry were all outstanding in the school.

These won’t bother them.

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

Agriculturally, peppers, corn and sweet potatoes are planted in July.

The farm is currently harvesting.

Potatoes have also produced more seedlings, ready to be planted in November.

All is well.

However, calm is often the illusion before the storm.

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

“Your Highness, Bei Di expanded his forces to three king tents in the northern part of Ningjindusi, and cavalry continued to appear around Jincheng. At the same time, Ashur led the three king tents under his command, Chen Bing Wuwei, who seemed to intend to threaten Xiao Guan.” Xu Ke said.

After a pause, he continued: “There is one more thing. Just six days ago, Liang Xiang suddenly surrendered to Beidi, and Dou Mu recognized Mu Lehongzhen as his uncle, and he was called his nephew.” A

series of information made Zhao Xu Frowning, he sarcastically said: “This Dou Mu just recognizes Mu Lehong as his father, why bother to be an uncle and nephew.”

Dou Mu is no longer from his Zhao family. If it was before, he might still be angry.

But now, he doesn’t care.

“In addition, the army of the powerful tribe suddenly sent troops to the south bank of the Jiujiang River. They once sent small boats to carry soldiers across the border and attacked the villages on the north bank, but they were repelled by the patrolling cavalry of the royal family’s own army.” Xu Ke added, with a serious expression, “Also, A Western land mercenary with a population of about 10,000 disembarked in Lincheng and was heading towards the south bank of the Jiujiang River.”

Zhao Xu nodded, his brows furrowed even deeper.

The simultaneous provocation of the North and the South is obviously not accidental.

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

“Beidi is just putting on airs. With their old firearms, as long as Mu Lehong is not crazy, there will be no war. As for the Wu Kingdom, this king knows that Liang Kai is a bastard who is ungrateful for profit, but how much can he hold him?” One month is enough, this king is looking for a reason to deal with him.” Zhao Xu said slowly.

Then, he sneered, “Whether it’s the power clan or Beidi, they should all know that they can’t fight against the king with their current abilities, but they just did this. The so-called abnormal things must have demons, I’m afraid Dongying and Britain have resorted to a strategy of attracting disasters to the east, the purpose is to buy Dongying time to breathe and accumulate capital to deal with this king.”

“But this king will not let them do what they want!” Zhao Xu slapped the table heavily.

(end of this chapter)