With the approach of ZTE's 23 years, and the deadline for developing radios in the first 10 years that Zhu Ci had envisioned is getting closer and closer, the Science and Technology Institute is busy all over the world, hoping to successfully develop it in ZTE 23 years.

"Bell! Clang! Bell ——————-"

With the ringing of the New Year's bell of the Nanjing Imperial Palace, Daming ushered in the twenty-third year of Zhongxing.

This also means that it has been 23 years since Zhu Ci hesitant ascended the throne, and Zhu Ci has reached the middle age of 38 years old.

Zhu Ci already has five princes and seven princesses under his knees.

The earliest eldest prince Zhu Xuanhua, the second prince Zhu Xuanyu, and the eldest princess Zhu Huimin have all grown up.

The eldest prince and the second prince were secretly sent to the local area for training very early.

"Father, father!" As soon as Zhu Ci stepped into Cining Palace, the eldest princess Zhu Huimin, who arrived first, immediately ran over and hugged his arm.

Speaking of which, Zhu Ci has so many princes and princesses, and the eldest princess is the closest to him.

It's no wonder that the princes are all people who may take over the unification in the future, Zhu Cihean doesn't want too much favor, let alone favors which prince, so in front of all the princes, he is a strict father, and only in front of the princesses is he a loving father.

Because the eldest princess is the first princess, and she looks like Dong Xiaowan carved out of a mold, it is very unusual, so she has been favored by Zhu Cizhen the most since she was a child, and she has simply become the most noble pearl in the palm of the Ming Dynasty.

"How old are you, and you're still coquettish!" Zhu Ci gently pinched the eldest princess's nose and smiled.

"The family is only nineteen years old, where is the age, and no matter how old they are, they are all the daughters of their fathers." The eldest princess put aside Zhu Ci's big hand in disgust, and said with a smile on her white and tender little face on Zhu Ci's arm.

Although she is nineteen years old, the eldest princess Zhu Huimin is not married.

In the Ming Dynasty, a fifteen-year-old woman can get married, and generally those who are not married at the age of nineteen are considered 'old girls'. However, Zhu Ciji doesn't think so, in Zhu Ciji's eyes, eighteen years old is called adulthood.

The main reason is that Zhu Ci is reluctant, and more importantly, the eldest princess has not yet found a suitable person.

For his daughter, Zhu Ci has no intention of forcibly marrying, he hopes that his daughter can find the person she wants to marry, of course, as a father, this person must also pass his secret assessment and get his approval, otherwise——-

This may be said to be a father's selfishness, but it is also a father's responsibility, after all, born in the royal family, many things are not as perfect as they can be seen on the surface.

In addition to the eldest princess Zhu Huimin, Zhu Ciji also has another more worrying pearl in her palm, the seventh princess Zhu Huiying.

The seventh princess was born to Zhu Cijiao and Chen Xiuxiu, although it is not as good as the eldest princess and Dong Xiaowan's mold, but she looks eight points similar to Chen Xiuxiu, and her personality is similar, and more importantly, her preferences are more than Chen Xiuxiu.

On the second day of the first lunar month, Zhu Ci stumbled to the Firearms Manufacturing Bureau and saw the thirteen-year-old Seventh Princess fiddling with a grenade, which frightened him so much that his heart and liver trembled.

Although the seventh princess showed her strong scientific and technological acumen at a young age, Zhu Ci couldn't be happy, and often couldn't help but worry that she would hurt herself, which may also be the helplessness of a father.

Zhu Ci was about to walk towards the Seventh Princess, suddenly!

"Your Majesty! Emperor! There is good news from the Academy of Science and Technology, and the radio telegraph has been developed! Zhao Dequan, the chief eunuch, ran in happily.

"Good! Hahahaha, come with me to the Academy of Science and Technology! Zhu Ci stumbled and laughed, turned around and walked towards the door.

The seventh princess seemed to hear it, her eyes lit up, she raised her head, and chased after Zhu Ci's back, it seemed that she was also very curious about the radio.

Zhao Dequan looked at the back of the seventh princess jumping and chasing out, and also smiled, and hurriedly followed.

Ten years ago, the Ming Dynasty won the Battle of Malacca and completely solved the hidden dangers of the Indonesian archipelago.

In view of the successful assimilation of the Indonesian archipelago, Zhu Ci fulfilled his original promise and canonized Zhao Dequan as the Duke of the Kingdom. As a eunuch, Zhao Dequan is also the first person, and he envies how many civil and military officials have died.

But it can only be envy, no one can say anything, the Ming Dynasty just conquered Indonesia, want to assimilate and open this land, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, but they all dislike it is a wild land far away from the Central Plains, no one wants to go, only Zhao Dequan finally stood up.

Even if Zhao Dequan was a eunuch, Zhu Ciji was willing to crown him as the governor of Indonesia, and after he led the successful assimilation of the Indonesian archipelago, he was crowned the prince of the country.

After becoming the prince of the country, Zhao Dequan resigned from the post of governor of Indonesia and returned to his hometown.

However, Zhao Dequan is a eunuch after all, and he has no descendants, and he does not want to enjoy the honor in his own Guogong Mansion, so he insists on returning to Zhu Cijiao's side, and even does not hesitate to kneel down for this.

When you come to the Science and Technology Institute, the electric lights here are bright, even during the day, the lights are on, after all, the light inside the factory cannot be compared with the outside.

Chen Xiuxiu was also among them, operating the announcer, making a bee-tick, tick-tick sound.

"It worked! It really worked! Zhu Ci said very excitedly.

Radio is almost a sign of the threshold of modernization.

Historically, it took more than 20 years for European countries to go from initial theory to slow experimentation, and almost all of them were private. Originally, although the Ming Dynasty already had the correct theory and direction, after all, it was more than two hundred years earlier than the later generations, even if Zhu Ci always said that it could be done in ten years, and fully mobilized all the resources and financial support needed, but in the end, the confidence was not ten percent, because it was not very sure.

Now that it has finally been developed within ten years, of course he is excited, which also shows that the Chinese nation is indeed the smartest nation in the world, after all, for so many years, the Chinese nation has always been inherited and always at the top of the world, how can it be done without enough wisdom.

With radio, the Ming Dynasty can cross thousands of miles and contact instantaneously, so that the Ming can truly consolidate its rule over overseas territories, even if the population growth in a lonely overseas territory such as Australia increases, as long as the Ming court contacts anytime and anywhere, it is not afraid of rebel forces derived from above, and in the end, because of the distance and slow response, those forces can resist successfully.

The Ming Dynasty would never let an American rebel break away from it, as the British did in later generations.

With the radio, Zhu Cijiao also gave an explanation to the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, so that they had nothing to say about the Ming Dynasty's continued overseas use of troops and the expansion of territory.

The next day, as soon as the Daming Daily announced the radio news, the entire Daming was shocked.

From the dignitaries to the ordinary people, they all sighed once again at the magic of science and technology, and sometimes, technology is really like 'fairy art' that makes people feel extremely mysterious.

In addition, Zhu Cicheng immediately ordered the order to activate the application of radio on the battleship.

With the successful development of radio, the war machine that had been quiet for ten years seemed to be resurrected all at once, and a large number of orders for the training of the army were conveyed to the navy and the 6th army.

The two major naval fleets were active, as were many regular armies, waiting for orders from the imperial court at any time.

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