Chapter 698: Telegram

In the past, the expansion of the Great Heng people was to occupy a place and slaughter a place, which also led to the thousand-year history, the central continent has had more than a dozen anti-Heng wars, until now, the people of all countries in the world have a very negative feeling about the Great Heng people, and always think that the Great Heng people are a group of brutal and bloody barbarians......

The conscience of heaven and earth, the people of Daheng have not launched a foreign war for decades, and the most recent one is the Hengao War, and the expansion failed at that time.

Hundreds of years ago, playing the slaughter of the country would have caused such serious consequences, and now I am afraid that the consequences will be even more serious, not to mention that other countries have joined forces to fight Daheng and the like, they don't dare to come if they give them 10,000 guts, but what if people are afraid that you Daheng people will not do business with you?

Isn't this a loss to death?

Can't you fight one country at a time and force them to do business with you?

Besides, in the Hengao War, almost the whole world supported the Olissa Empire, and many Great Heng people still remember it!

It's not a good feeling to be the enemy of the world!

Besides, the good places in the central continent are basically occupied by the Daheng people, and the rest are the six northern countries, and the two southern countries are rotten land......

It is a bit unreasonable to fall out with the whole world for the sake of the barren land of the six northern countries!

There is another very important factor: the six northern countries are also hard bones, not easy to gnaw!

In history, the people of Daheng had many neighbors, but now, there is only one neighbor left of the people of Daheng, and that is the six northern countries!

Even the two southern countries have actually been conquered by Daheng many times, and the current people of the two southern countries are not the natives of the past, but the mixed descendants of the Daheng and the Olisa, and the original people who lived here at the beginning were repeatedly killed by the Daheng and the Olisa hundreds of years ago.

However, in the six northern countries, the people are pure-blooded indigenous, and their appearance and customs are very different from those of the Daheng people.

And such a purebred indigenous can survive until now, resisting several invasions in the history of the Great Heng people, even if it is protected by the West Sea Corridor, but it is enough to show that the six northern countries are also hard bones, not easy to gnaw!

What is the end of gnawing hard bones?

Just look at the current kingdom of Krull.

In the name of the world's largest power, he attacked a small country with a total population of just over 5 million, but a year later, more than one billion military expenditures were spent, tens of thousands of casualties were lost, and even the hinterland of the people's homeland could not be attacked......

The six northern countries are also a country where all the people are soldiers, and the territory is mountainous, and the talent for war does not belong to the Daheng people, if there are any shortcomings, that is, the land is a little barren and poor.

In short, this is also a hard bone!

If they weren't hard-boned, they would have to wait until now, during the Ji Dynasty, the Daheng people had already beaten them down.

With the current world situation and the severity of the war, the Lin Dynasty wants to forcibly break through the West Sea Corridor and capture the six northern countries, and it doesn't know how many soldiers' lives it will take.

And after paying so many soldiers' lives, they can't get any obvious benefits, there is no fertile land, there are no rich resources, and even their women are not quite in line with the aesthetics of the Daheng people, so in the past hundred years, the Daheng people have actually lacked the motivation to attack the six northern countries, and the same is true of the Lin Dynasty.

In recent years, the empire's policy towards the six northern countries has been to hold the West Sea Corridor, then ease diplomatic relations, carry out certain economic cooperation, and win over and support the peace factions in the six countries.

The diplomats of the empire boldly predicted that after such infiltration and influence for more than ten years, the six northern countries would become puppet states of the empire!

As for the means of war, they are the last resort!

In contrast, even if the people of Daheng want to start a war, they will wage war against the south!

The Olisa Empire in the south is even more threatening, the Endless Strait is like a rope around the neck of the Great Heng people, if the Empire wants to start a war, then there is no doubt that it will start a war to seize the Endless Strait!

But even if it was a war against the South, the Empire did not intend to fight it in the short term.

Recently, the most important task of the empire has been to develop the industrial and commercial economy in the country and to develop industry.

After all, the wars of these years are no longer won by relying on personal bravery and the like, and if you look at the Orr War, you will know that the war in these years is about logistics consumption and money.

If the Daheng Empire wants to expand and fight in the future, it must first have a complete and advanced industrial system, so that it will be easy to fight.

Therefore, in the past few years, the Daheng Empire has still seemed to have a tough attitude towards the outside world, but that is just to cater to the feelings of the domestic people, but in fact, it is still mainly business-oriented.

Isn't it good to make money by selling weapons and oil now, why do you want to fight and kill!

Against this backdrop, the empire's economic development is getting better day by day.

The Ma Brothers' textile company also achieved rapid growth in this big wave, and in order to expand, they built advanced machinery and equipment with direct mortgages, produced better quality cloth, and the cost was also much lower.

This is also what made Ma Brothers' textile company develop rapidly from a small factory with dozens of people to a medium-sized textile factory with a scale of more than 500 people, and because of advanced machinery and equipment, although the number of workers is smaller, the production capacity is very large, and the quality of the cloth is also good.

As a result, they gradually became famous in the textile industry in Luohai City, and many cloth traders came to their door to cooperate in buying their high-quality cloth for export.

The development of the Ma brothers is not an exception, many of them have been bold in investing in industry in recent years, and they have found the right way, and they have basically made money if they are not stupid.

This can be seen from the gradual rise in the stocks of the companies in the three stock trading markets of the empire, namely the Luohai Stock Exchange, the Jingzhou Stock Exchange, and the Western Stock Exchange.

The economy is very good, even if the empire still implements a low tax policy, and the taxes of many industries are very low, but the empire's fiscal revenue still has increased significantly.

With this increase in revenue, more funds can be used for education, infrastructure and other fields.

And the investment in these basic fields in turn helped the empire's technological progress and economic development, thus forming a virtuous circle.

This made Emperor Lin Ziran quite pleased!

Over the years, Lin Ziran has withstood huge financial pressure, implemented a low-tax policy, and invested heavily in basic areas, and now it is gradually paying off.

Investments in education, in particular, have yielded even more notice.

Not to mention basic education, Daheng people have traditionally done better, the primary school penetration rate is very high, and the middle school penetration rate is also good.

In recent years, the Empire has invested heavily in the field of higher education, of which Imperial College London is the most outstanding achievement.

The predecessor of this university was the Gyeongju Industrial and Commercial College, which has a history of more than 200 years and was originally the most outstanding science and engineering university in the empire.

This makes Imperial College London the largest and most powerful science and engineering university in the empire.

In recent years, the university has cultivated a large number of scientific talents, enriching the R&D institutions of major enterprises.

Most of the researchers in the research and development of the Royal Telegraph Company, which is responsible for the research and development of the telegraph in the Royal Assets Department, are graduates of Imperial College London.

The Royal Telegraph Company, which is also one of the royal assets that Lin Ziran is most concerned about, attaches great importance to the same level as the Royal Power Machinery Company, which is responsible for the research and development of internal combustion engines.

Because the telegraph company's R&D project has a crucial wireless telegraph project.

The electrical development of the contemporary Blue Star has a certain foundation, and the power facilities have been successively applied in the field of industry and national defense, such as many new warships in the contemporary era, which have been equipped with searchlights and electric lights.

The Endless Sea-class battleships had hundreds of carbon filament lights, four large sets of searchlights, and four power generators to power them.

However, the current power facilities are basically limited to the national defense and industrial fields, and there is basically no civilian use, mainly because the cost is expensive, and the life of electric lights is also very low.

Large warships can afford such high costs for the sake of performance, but it is unlikely that ordinary commercial or civilian use is possible.

Other power equipment, including electric lights, have related enterprises in the empire R & D and production, such as the Jingzhou Arms Company, there is an electrical company, responsible for the research and development of generator sets, motors, cables, lights, searchlights and other electrical equipment, the research and development progress is not slow, and has begun to be applied in the field of national defense.

There is no need to set up a separate business with royal assets to invest.

The only thing worth Lin Ziran to do is the telegram!

The strategic value brought by the rapid communication of the telegraph is immeasurable!

When the empire was first unified, Lin Ziran had already ordered the establishment of a telegraph company and was responsible for telegraph research and development.

In fact, the telegraph thing, the Krull Kingdom came up with the theory many years ago, and in the second year of the Qiansheng, the Krull Kingdom had already successfully tested the telegraph

However, if the theory is there, the success of the laboratory does not mean that it can be applied on a large scale!

Even the Krull people waited until the fifth year of the reign of Qiansheng to erect the first commercial telegraph line.

After the Kruer people first came up with the telegraph, the Daheng Empire also tried to introduce technology, and the Krull people were willing to give it, but the broken telegraph company of the Kruer people was very ambitious, not only refused to sell technology, but also did not sell equipment, so they wanted to go to the Daheng Empire to set up telegraph lines and then operate them.

In other words, what they want is the right to operate the telegraph on the side of the Great Heng Empire.

The empire naturally can't bear it!

Therefore, the negotiations have been carried out, and the empire would rather use the telegraph a few years behind than let the telegraph line, a key weapon of the country, be controlled by foreign enterprises.

Moreover, although the R&D capabilities of the Royal Telegraph Company were a little worse, after secretly getting back a few Krul telegraph equipment, it began the road of self-production.