On the third day, the lecture was given by Bi Maokang, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty, who talked a lot, and all of them were blockbuster decisions!

Although these were basically introduced in the books that were handed out, after he said it himself, the delegates of various countries present still listened with enthusiasm.

Why? Because of what he said, every decision of the Ming Empire was enough to change the pattern of the world.

First of all, the Ming Empire decided to build a telegraph network across Europe and Asia in the next five years.

Now, the telegraph network of the Ming Empire has reached Kandahar, an important town in northwestern South Asia, and next, the Ming Empire is preparing to cross the Persian Safavid Empire to connect the telegraph to the Ottoman Empire, and then, a branch road to the north, through the Ottoman Empire, to the Holy Roman Empire, and a branch road to the south, through the Eurasian Canal, through the Ottoman Empire's North African colonies, through the Strait of Gibraltar, to Spain and Portugal.

Once this telegraph network is completed, the Ming Empire will achieve real-time communication with the four allies of the European continent, think about it, originally to transmit information back and forth by sea, even if it is the ship of the Ming Empire, from the Ming Dynasty to the European continent, it will take almost a month to go back and forth, if you use the sailing ships of the four European continents, you can't even get a reply in two or three months!

After the telegraph network is connected, whether it is Spain, Portugal or the Holy Roman Empire, a telegram, the Ming Empire, thousands of miles away, can reply immediately, and it will not take an hour before and after!

The benefits brought by this speed of communication are immeasurable, and in the future, whether in the military field or in the economic field, the five-nation alliance will have to throw off the Habsburg alliance a few streets!

Then, the Ming Empire also decided that in the next ten years, the Eurasian railway would be built!

In other words, the Ming Empire wanted to build the railway from Kandahar to the Mediterranean coast, to the Holy Roman Empire, and even to the North Sea coast of the European continent!

This is all the more incredible, considering that trains can be more than twice as fast as ships.

Moreover, trains are basically not affected by the weather, unlike ships, which have to take shelter in case of storms, and even a storm at sea engulfs a fleet is a common thing in this era, so it can be said that trains are much safer than ships.

Also, trains can be built much faster than ships, and it takes a ship time to build ten trains.

Once the railway across Europe and Asia is built, the Ottoman Empire and the Holy Roman Empire will make a huge economic leap forward, and Spain and Portugal will also benefit, because it will not take much time for them to cross the Mediterranean, as long as the railway is built on the Mediterranean coast, they will also use it.

Of course, trains also have a flaw, that is, the cost of transportation is much higher than that of ships, but coal in this era is not as valuable as in later generations, the five-nation alliance, occupying nearly half of the world's land, as much coal as you want!

However, both the telegraph network and the railway had to pass through the Persian Safavid Empire, and the Persian Safavid Empire did not join the Five Nations Alliance, and they had economic ties and military cooperation with Britain, France and the Netherlands, so to speak, they were biased towards the anti-Habsburg alliance, would they agree to the Ming Empire's telegraph lines and railway transit?

Zhu Cijiong naturally considered this question, judging from the attitude of the Persian Safavid Empire, they did not want to intervene in the conflict between the Ming Dynasty and the anti-Habsburg alliance, and they were still a little afraid of the Ming Empire, because once the Ming Empire and the Ottoman Empire joined forces, they would not be able to withstand it at all.

Therefore, Zhu Cijiong was not worried about the attitude of the Persian Safavid Empire, and first sent an envoy to talk to see if they were willing to let the Ming telegraph line and railway transit.

If you want, take them by the way, build them a few railway stations, pull a few telegraph branches, hello, hello, hello, everyone.

If you don't want to, then fight, it may be a bit difficult to destroy the Persian Safavid Empire, which also has gunpowder weapons, but it is still very simple to seize the small piece of land between the South Asian border of the Ming Empire and the Ottoman Empire.

What will the Persian Safavid Empire choose, it is very simple, if you don't agree, you will be beaten, will they fight desperately with the Five Nations Alliance in solidarity with the anti-Habsburg Alliance?

The possibility is largely non-existent, and their most likely option is to remain neutral and not offend either side, so that they can still get a little benefit from it.

After telling the idea of the telegraph network and the railway, Bi Maokang dropped another super bombshell: the Ming Empire will sell machine tools to the European allies to help them build a military industrial system, so that they can produce advanced muskets and artillery by themselves!

This point is not recorded in the book, as soon as Bi Maokang's words came out, the representatives of the European continent were all red with excitement, machine tools, advanced muskets and artillery, these are things they have dreamed of, and the Ming Empire is now saying that it will be fully open to them!

Is Zhu Cijiong crazy? Once they have mastered the manufacturing technology of advanced weapons, if they turn against Da Ming one day, it won't be a stone to shoot themselves in the foot!

In fact, Zhu Cijiong is not crazy at all, because he has received a secret report from the European continent that the Netherlands, Britain and France have joined forces to overcome the technical difficulties of the steam engine, that is to say, they will soon manufacture machine tools, with machine tools, they can also produce advanced weapons in large quantities at this stage!

In fact, Zhu Cijiong also expected this, because even if he did not cross and did not build the steam engine in advance, in more than 20 years, British and French scientists will also build the steam engine, that is to say, they now have such a technical foundation, but it still needs more than 20 years of exploration, and now he directly provides people with a successful model, and it is only a matter of time before they build it.

Fortunately, the development of precision machine tools has come to an end, as long as the precision machine tools are made, Ming is still dozens or even hundreds of years ahead of them in technology.

If you don't help them, let them master the production technology of advanced weapons as soon as possible, once the anti-Habsburg coalition develops the machine tool, they will be finished, you must know that Britain and France can have a terrifying population base, and the Netherlands has a terrifying manufacturing capacity, once these three countries break out, Spain, Portugal, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Ottoman Empire will not be able to withstand it at all.

Once the four allies of the European continent can't stand it, they still have to take action, and go so far to fight with others, it is better to train their allies to fight with them, so that the Ming will not only not suffer huge losses, but also benefit from the fisherman, why not?

Drive the tiger and devour the wolf, this is the current strategy of the Ming Dynasty, as for what country dominates the world, a country overthrows the whole world, it is all wishful thinking, Meng Yuan is a good example, how powerful they were at the beginning, seeing who destroyed whom, it seems that they just want a country to overturn the world, and in the end it was not overturned by Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty!