When you are hungry, you have to eat, when you are thirsty, you have to drink, and no one can avoid the three urgencies, so why should it become shameless to eat a mouthful of baked cakes? This is Xiao Letian's truth, a very simple and practical truth.

In the eyes of Weng Tongyi and others, the Great Dynasty will be sacrosanct, which represents the prestige of the empire.

The ministers of various countries are watching from the sidelines, what other intentions can you Xiao Le have besides smashing the face of the court like this, you are the rebel of the Qing Dynasty, you just want to dig the roots of the Qing Dynasty.

The clear stream also has the truth of the clear stream, the conflict in human concepts has never been irreparable, and the truth instilled by thousands of years of self-brainwashing by Confucian scholars is not something that Xiao Letian can change alone.

There was a buzz of discussion in the hall, and everyone was condemning Xiao Letian, but Xiao Letian was unmoved and still looked at Weng Tongxiao with a hippie smile.

"I've never held such an unreasonable meeting, and I don't let people eat or make it convenient, so what is the use of holding this meeting besides tossing people?"

"Your Majesty, the Queen Mother! The court meeting is here, and the ministers have not seen anything except for hearing a piece of flattery, fake and empty eight-strand text, I think that the minister will return to Beijing thousands of miles away to get together to eat bragging, eat and drink, and then disperse?"

"Bold! The Great Dynasty Meeting has its own rules of the Great Dynasty Meeting, and if there are no hundred officials reporting on their work first, how can there be a discussion of governance later? Barbarian ......," Weng Tong scolded.

"Hehe, since it's a debriefing that I don't like to listen to, then I have the right to choose not to listen, I'm not allowed to eat a bite of baked cakes when I'm hungry, so you go ahead with the debriefing, I'll let you go outside to eat, right?"

Now the courtiers are even more speechless, such a rogue official is really rare in the world, you don't like to listen to it and you don't stop? How can you be so willful, the loyal ministers of the Qing Dynasty are going crazy one by one.

But this dynasty meeting cannot be without Xiao Letian, the protagonist, all the issues behind are related to him, if he picks a son, the court meeting will be meaningless.

At this time, a voice sounded among the ministers, "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother, Weichen has something to play!" Everyone saw that it was Zuo Zongtang, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang who entered Beijing with Zeng Guofan.

Although Xiao Letian has not dealt with Zuo Zongtang, he knows a lot of information, this iron-faced Hanchen has just established the Mawei Shipbuilding Bureau this year, and the prototype of Nanyang has sprouted under his care, and Li Hongzhang's Beiyang has not yet had a shadow.

This is a very remarkable late Qing Dynasty minister, Liang Qichao once said that Zuo Zongtang is the first great man in five hundred years, which is to put his status above Zeng Guofan.

However, this glory is based on Zuo Zongtang's entry into Xinjiang and the pacification of the Agubai riot, a famous general who won a foreign war must have a higher historical status than a general in the civil war.

Regarding Zuo Zongtang's achievements in history, Xiao Letian also wanted to give this face, he stuffed half of the baked cake in his hand into his mouth, smiled at Emperor Tongzhi, and turned his head back to his position.

Weng Tongxiao's eyes were dark, and it seemed that his blood pressure had been raised by Qi, but the emperor and the queen mother did not follow their own words, and Zuo Zongtang went out to disrupt the situation, so he had to endure it.

"The minister invites His Majesty Xià, the Empress Dowager Shengdu, now Xinjiang Agubai is invading, and there are faint signs of turmoil in the Ganshan Hui Department, the minister please build a telegraph line from Beijing to Xi'an, in order to pass the news, please Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager is gracious!"

After speaking, Zuo Zongtang took out a piece of music from his sleeve and read it, and the excerpt is nothing more than the origin and development of telegraph technology, and then its military importance. It seems that Zuo Zongtang has worked hard, and this excerpt has also been verified by foreigners, and even Xiao Letian nodded frequently when he heard it.

"In 1843, the twenty-third year of the reign of Emperor Daoguang, the American Samuel Morse built a 120-mile telegraph line from Washington to Baltimore, and in May of the following year, he sent the world's first telegram to Baltimore in the Capitol Supreme Court Chamber in Washington, D.C., using the telegraph he had invented since 1837 and had been perfected......

Zuo Zongtang began to popularize telegraph knowledge to the courtiers in easy-to-understand words, and this magical technology that instantly spread for thousands of miles made the ministers present look at each other one by one, and no one dared to believe it.

"It's really fake, thousands of miles of sound, nonsense, this is all a trick of foreign devils to deceive people......"

"Listen to it, you look at the emperor and the queen mother and all the princes, as if they have already believed it, let's not shoot the first bird!"

The most excited is the little emperor Tongzhi, the child is full of interest in the magic of Western technology, as soon as he heard that this thousand miles of sound transmission is true, his eyes lit up.

When Zuo Zongtang finished reading his fold, the little emperor was the first to ask, "Do you dare to use your head to guarantee that the telegraph technology you said is really not a lie?"

"Wechen is willing to vouch with his head!"

"Well, tell me how much silver it would cost to have such a long telegraph line?" the little emperor then asked.

"Your Majesty, the laying of telegraph lines is actually not difficult, it is nothing more than to set up a wooden stake every other mile, and then import telegraph lines to the shelves, there is no need to open mountains and bridges, from Beijing to Xi'an Chen is expected to have 150,000 taels of silver is enough......"

"150,000 taels, it seems that the money is not a lot, but what about maintenance? This thing usually has to be maintained, right?" The little emperor was really smart, and asked the key point in a word.

Zuo Zongtang smiled slightly, and nodded to Fuqing in the court's class, "Your Majesty, the research work of the telegraph line, the minister is not as good as the Manchen Fuqing, this problem is best explained by him!"

Fuqing's face turned red, this was the first time he had participated in the Great Dynasty Meeting, and it was also the first time he had spoken in front of important ministers of the empire, and the third master's excited legs were a little shaky.

"Your Majesty, Queen Mother...... The minister did study the feasibility of telegraph technology, and the American minister Warren also demonstrated a telegraph call for his minister, and Wechen used his head to ensure that the telegraph technology was real......"

"If the Qing Dynasty wants to lay a telegraph line, it is completely possible to use the existing post station mail road, along the post road has been paved, the officials of the post station are responsible for the maintenance of the line in the local area on weekdays, as long as a little addition to the original post station funds is enough, the minister estimates that the cost of a year maintenance of such a line is only about 100,000 taels......

"What? Fuqing, you are simply crazy...... Weng Tonggong will not give face to Fuqing if he gives Zuo Zongtang face, he stood up and scolded loudly: "100,000 taels a year? Is the money you get to be a court court for nothing? Besides, if you build such a telegraph line, then if you go from Beijing to Jiangling or not? What about Guangzhou? What about Shanghai? In this way, this is a bottomless pit!"

"Your Majesty, the Queen Mother, our dynasty hasn't eased up yet, how can we spend money so indiscriminately?

Qing Sanye was also angry, he was not cold to Qingliu like Xiao Letian, and he would go over if he left coldly.

"If you don't have money, you won't be able to repair telegraph lines? Do you mean that if you don't have money, you won't be at war? Do you know how important telegraph lines are to the rule of the empire? Do you know how quickly the communication between the court and the local government will be?"

"Beijing sends a telegram now, and Shanghai will receive it in an instant, and if there is the slightest disturbance on the imperial frontier, the Taihe Palace will know about it immediately...... To put it mildly, if we had this telegraph line a long time ago, the conflict with Prime Minister Xiao would not have happened at all, and the court would not have been deceived by rumors!"

Even if what you said is right, this money can't be spent, this is the people's fat and people's ointment, I would rather build bridges and repair roads, and would rather subsidize the price of grain than spend a penny on strange tricks!"

If the telegraph line is really repaired, then the post stations in the whole world will have to lay off personnel, which is not a small amount, but millions of jobs...... Don't forget, how did Li Zicheng raise the army back then? Isn't he Li Zicheng a post guard in Shaanxi?"

"Emperor Chongzhen modified the post station system and made Li Zicheng lose his job, so he wants to rebel!

"I'm cāo!" Xiao Letian is crazy, this Weng Tong's brain hole is big enough, and he actually attacked telegraph technology from this point, this is a genius who planted blame.

Li Zicheng did lose his iron job, but his rebellion was still because of the bullying of corrupt officials and landlords, or because of the drought that has lasted in Shaanxi for many years, this is the fundamental reason.

Fuqing obviously didn't have much experience in scolding wars in the court, so the old man blushed and his neck was thick when he was so noisy, "You...... You're just messing around!"

"When did I say that the post guards were abolished? For the time being, the telegraph line can only connect the state capital, and the transmission of information from the counties below still depends on ......the post guards?

Emperor Tongzhi looked stupid, and he quarreled with the courtiers in the palace, which was more enjoyable than watching a play, but after watching it for a while, the little emperor suddenly turned his brain, "Wait...... Fuqing, you just said that the American minister gave you a demonstration of telegraph technology? Can you let me see ...... too?"

The eyes of the crowd suddenly focused on Hua Ruohan's body, and the American minister said with a wry smile, "Your Majesty, my telegraph has been bought and sold by Xiao Letianqiang, and he just gave me a roast duck with a telegraph, and I really don't have ...... in my hand."

This time, the little emperor set his eyes on Xiao Lotian again, and Prime Minister Xiao Cheng of the East China Sea shrugged, "Your Majesty, Weichen has been ready for a long time, just waiting for you to come out and see it with your own eyes!"

At this time, in the Taihedian Square, a black line had been dragged from the left wing door to the right wing gate, and it was a pitch-black telegraph line up close.

In fact, the royal family is not very resistant to telegraph technology, especially this time because of the poor information that Xiao Letian bullied, and they felt that the telegraph was indispensable.

But due to the natural fear of Western technology, the queen mother, princes and nobles are reluctant to express their stance immediately, they still want the court to quarrel again, be cautious and cautious.

Today, seeing that Xiao Letian was going to demonstrate the telegraph technology in person, the royal family did not stop anyone but walked out of the hall with great interest, watching the new army busy in the morning light.

Even if Weng Tongyi had any more opinions, he couldn't do anything at this time, so he could only follow everyone out angrily, and the cold wind in winter made him calm down a lot.

At this time, Xiao Letian, who had no skin and no face, walked over, pointed to the left wing door and said to Weng Tongyi, "Lord Weng, you go to the left wing gate, Prince Gong and your Qingliu go to the right wing gate, when the time comes, you can write a sentence casually, and I will let you see with your own eyes what is Qianli Chuan Yin......