In the face of such a 'clever plan' of the rebel army, Zhu Cijiong just wanted to say: Great, it's finally here! He has been waiting for this day for a long time, and he has connived at the rebels for a few years, isn't it just to borrow his hand to get rid of the gang of moths in the clan, and now that the rebels have finally made a move on the biggest moths, he is naturally too happy to do it.

Of course, these can only be thought about in his heart, on the surface, when he received the news, it was called a panic, 'hurriedly' issued countless holy decrees, and jumped and shouted that he wanted to go to the army to clean up the gang of thieves.

What made Zheng Zhilong, the king of Zhennan, immediately mobilize most of the troops and horses of Nanzhili to defend Fengyang, the central capital, if he loses Fengyang, he will be punished by the nine clans;

What ordered Sun Chuanting, the governor of the five provinces, to defend Xi'an, if he lost Xi'an, he would also be punished by the nine clans;

What ordered the Korean army to immediately go to Liaodong to take over the defense of the Dingliao army, the Dingliao army was ready to rise at any time, and as soon as the Korean army arrived, it immediately came to the capital to assemble;

What ordered the Dongying First Army to immediately go to Beidaying to take over the defense of the Tianxiong Army, and the Tianxiong Army was also ready to pull out at any time, as soon as the Dongying First Army arrived, they immediately came to the capital to assemble;

What ordered the Beiyang Naval Division to immediately go ashore to take over the defense of the Eastern Battalion, and the Second Army of the Praetorian Guard Army was also ready to rise at any time, and as soon as the Beiyang Naval Division arrived, it immediately came to the capital to assemble.

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This holy decree was sent in a hurry, as if Zhu Cijiong was eager to mobilize all the soldiers and horses that could be mobilized to accompany him to the imperial expedition, to solve the danger of Fengyang and Xi'an, the central capital, and to save his elders King Fu and King Xiang, but in fact, he was delaying time!

If you really force him to be in a hurry, he can directly bring the Tianxiong Army and the Praetorian Guard to fight the righteous army all over the place, and the reason why he is moving the army back and forth like this is to consume King Fu and King Xiang to death! The mobilization of hundreds of thousands of troops cannot be completed in a day or two, and it will take ten days and half a month just for the holy decree to be transmitted, and when the army is ready to be pulled out, I am afraid that a month will pass.

What's even more amazing is that Zhu Cijiong actually transferred the Korean Army and the Dongying First Army to take over the defense of the Dingliao Army and the Tianxiong Army respectively, not to mention how troublesome this handover of defense is, it will take at least a month for the Korean Army and the Dongying First Army to rush to Liaodong and Beidaying, and when they take over the defense of the two places, Luoyang and Xiangyang may have been captured by the righteous army long ago.

In other words, Zhu Cijiong is playing with fire like this, isn't he afraid that the righteous army will break through Xi'an or Fengyang, occupy a large area of land in the northwest, and dig up the ancestral grave of his old Zhu family?

Of course he wasn't afraid, in fact, he had already received the news as early as when the rebels had just gathered in Xingyang to prepare for a meeting, of course he knew that the rebels would attack Fengyang, the capital of the city, which was a big thing in the history books, could he not prepare early?

He had already issued a secret decree, asking Zheng Zhilong, the king of Zhennan, to mobilize 100,000 defenders from Nanzhili to garrison Wupingwei and Yingchuan Wei in Fengyang Mansion, plus the 50,000 horses under the original Fengyang guard general Huang Degong, Fengyang Mansion had gathered 150,000 troops, even if all the rebels rushed over and didn't want to attack it, he didn't have to worry about it at all.

As for Xi'an, Gao Yingxiang is purely looking for death, in history, he was caught by Sun Chuanting in a sneak attack on Xi'an, and finally escorted to the capital Lingchi to be executed, I don't know if he will use his stupid 'Meridian Valley Scheme' this time, if he dares to use it, then he will not die!

On the surface, Zhu Cijiong jumped up and down, urging everyone from all walks of life to hurry up, hurry up, hurry up, in fact, in his heart, he was already happy, Jinyiwei's secret agents are not vegetarians, they have long been mixed into the rebels from all walks of life, the current situation in the northwest can be said to be well understood, everything is developing according to his expectations, he is in a hurry.

If the Manchu Dynasty civil and military knew that the emperor was thinking this, I am afraid that he would faint in shock, this time the rebel army attacked in four directions, but it really scared the Ming Dynasty and the opposition a lot, and the anti-thieves have developed to five or six hundred thousand, this is still enough! A group of ministers said one after another: The emperor hurriedly transferred all the soldiers and horses north of Liaodong and the capital to encircle and suppress, let them continue to develop, and the Ming Dynasty will be over!

Zhu Cijiong simply scoffed at these ministers' admonitions, what is the righteous army, Houjin is the real henchman, Huang Taiji is called a cunning, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong are not even as good as primary school students in front of him, Chongzhen Dynasty was not the rebel army for more than ten years, there were no less than one million casualties before and after, and finally captured the capital and destroyed the Ming Dynasty, as a result, the Houjin died and injured less than 100,000, and Li Zicheng was destroyed as soon as he rushed over, and the great rivers and mountains in North China were simply given away!

Do you want him to abandon the defense of Liaodong and the Great Wall to deal with the rebels with all his might? If he really did this, he was a pig, not only did he not give up the defense of Liaodong and the Great Wall, but secretly ordered Sun Chengzong to strengthen the defense, and at the same time pay close attention to the movement of the Monan grassland, once Huang Taiji wanted to fish in troubled waters, he immediately concentrated all his strength to clean him up, even if the northwest was lost, he would kill this old fox.

There was no movement on Huang Taiji's side, but Shi Vera was back, he could be said to have returned with a full load this time, he brought back tens of thousands of rubber tree seeds, thousands of Indians and black slaves who planted rubber trees, and special products from all over the Americas, he brought a few boats, but he only brought back a few thousand catties of raw rubber.

Along the way, Shi Weila was very worried, the emperor needed 100,000 or even millions of catties of raw rubber, but he desperately searched Ruoslan to find these thousands of catties, although this thing is more valuable, it also has to be made of small objects sold to make money, how much raw rubber can be used for a small object, it is enough to prepare a few thousand catties, so Ruoslan did not desperately collect, although he has asked Ruoslan to arrange thousands of black slaves to go to the primeval forest to find rubber trees, also signed a contract with him to supply at least 10,000 catties of raw rubber every month, but there is only so much he can bring back this time, I don't know if the emperor will scold him for being incompetent!

Zhu Cijiong did not blame Shi Weila, he also knew that rubber products are not used in all walks of life now, who has nothing to do with people to collect hundreds of thousands or millions of catties of rubber, if it is purely used to make some small objects like tea coasters, hundreds of thousands of catties may not be used up in a few lifetimes.

He encouraged Shi Weila, let him arrange for those Indian technicians and black slaves to go to Ceylon to plant rubber trees as soon as possible, and then he gathered a group of cronies of the Ministry of Industry to discuss the issue of trial production of a formal telegraph system, this time to go to the northwest to exterminate the anti-thieves is a good opportunity, just to establish the army communication system, with this system, the Ming army's ability to coordinate operations is much stronger, whether it is hundreds of thousands or millions of troops, no matter how far away you are, you can unify the command and coordinate operations, there is no need to worry about a large number of people, If you are far away, you will not be able to command.

During this time, the Ministry of Industry and the gang of bigwigs are working overtime, forgetting to sleep and eating, and the wire drawing machine has long been developed by them, and even the coarse copper wire and fine copper wire have been pulled out a lot, and the coating machine covering the insulating layer has also been done, and even the crusher for the manufacture of rubber particles has been made.

Bi Maokang, Wang Zheng and others have basically not rested much in the past few months, although they are clean and neatly dressed, but the deep-set eyes and tired look can not be concealed, Zhu Cijiong looked at them standing there respectfully in a strong spirit, and his heart couldn't help but be moved inexplicably, he thought about it, and then beckoned Cao Huachun over, whispered, and soon, a team of eunuchs carried a few high-backed chairs and bowed in, put a handful behind each official of the Ministry of Industry, and then bowed and retreated.

Zhu Cijiong smiled and said, "Everyone Aiqing has worked hard, sit down." ”

Everyone didn't dare to sit down, just kidding, there were a few people in front of the emperor who dared to sit, except for Bi Maokang, who was barely qualified, everyone else was far behind.

Zhu Cijiong said undoubtedly: "Those who can enter this study are all close to me, I have decided, no matter what happens outside, in the future, everyone will sit here to discuss matters, and if you don't want to resist the decree, sit down." ”

Seeing that the emperor was so resolute, everyone had to sit down with a thousand thanks, straighten their bodies, and listen to the hadith.

Is this like a meeting, Zhu Cijiong nodded with satisfaction, and asked Bi Maokang: "Meng Hou, how much copper wire is made?" ”

Bi Maokang replied respectfully: "If you go back to the emperor, the two-centimeter thick copper wire has been made of 50,000 zhang, the five-centimeter thick copper wire has been made of 30,000 zhang, and the three-centimeter thick copper wire has been made of 20,000 zhang. ”

Two cents is the line of six square meters in later generations, which is used to lay the telegraph network, five centimeters is equivalent to 1.5 square lines, which is used to connect the loop, and three centimeters is equivalent to one square of wires used to wind generators and electromagnetic coils, and 50 zhang is almost 160 meters, all of which were set by Zhu Cijiong according to the standards of later generations.

It has only been more than a month to pull out so many copper wires, and this production speed is already considered fast, Zhu Cijiong nodded with satisfaction, and instructed: "Well, stop and listen to the two points first, mainly do five centimeters and three centimeters, and now the northwest side is in an emergency, and the matter of laying the telegraph network of the two capitals and thirteen provinces can only be pushed back." ”

This matter spread throughout the government and the opposition, Bi Maokang naturally knew, he nodded solemnly, and replied: "Weichen understands. ”

Zhu Cijiong asked Wang Zheng again: "Liangfu, have the coating machine and the crusher been tried?" ”

Wang Zheng hurriedly arched his hand and said, "Back to the emperor, I have already tried it." ”

Zhu Cijiong nodded, and asked Song Yingxing again: "Chang Gung, you organize people to try the coating effect as soon as possible, just use five centimeters and three centimeters of copper wire to try, five centimeters of copper wire wrapping thicker, just wrap five centimeters thick, three centimeters of copper wire wrapping a little thinner, almost one centimeter thick, don't pay attention to the appearance when wrapping, it doesn't matter if it's ugly, you must ensure that there is no opening, there can be no gap, you know?" ”

Song Yingxing didn't say a word, and immediately nodded: "Weichen understands." ”

Zhu Cijiong also instructed Xu Fuyuan and Xia Yunyi: "Fu Zhai and Yi Zhong, you will each select ten outstanding students to prepare for the trial production of a formal telegraph system, this time first make five steam generators, hand-cranked generators and telegraph sending and receiving devices can do as much as they want, I will try the military communication system first, and then you will take all the students with me to go on the expedition." ”

Xu Fuyuan and Xia Yunyi hurriedly nodded in response, but everyone's faces began to become solemn, and the emperor wanted to drive the expedition again, and it seemed that the northwest side was really chaotic.

Of course, the matter is not as serious as they thought, Zhu Cijiong just wanted to personally try the effect of the army's communication system, and if they knew that the emperor was driving the expedition for this matter, I am afraid that their jaws would drop in shock!