Chapter 100 Solving Siam by Force Karaoke came out ahead of schedule

The Fenzhou warship left the Dacheng Wharf, went down the river, bypassed the Strait of Malacca, came to the Western Ocean (Indian Ocean), and went up the Dajinsha River to the Yaogang Military Port.

Fan Chengkun and Zheng Zhilong greeted him warmly on the dock. Arrange him in a military port guest house. Mu Yi led the fleet and set off to support Qin Peng and fight against the Mughal Empire.

In fact, Fan Chengkun had already learned about Fan Jingwen's unsuccessful peace talks from the telegram at home, and he still listened carefully to Fan Jingwen's introduction.

Fan Chengkun said to Fan Jingwen: "Lord Fan's trip, although he failed to persuade the Siamese people, the emperor's benevolent intentions have been conveyed. The rest is for us soldiers to solve! ”

Fan Jingwen said helplessly: "Alas! I could have not used the sword. I didn't expect it to happen like this! ”

Zheng Zhilong said: "Master Fan doesn't have to be like this, in fact, everything is bad and good!" After we solve the problem by force, it will be easier for us to deal with it in the future, which is conducive to long-term peace and stability! Just look here in Myanmar and you'll understand! ”

"Yes! Master Fan doesn't have to worry too much. We immediately ordered the Fenzhou to set sail, and together with the Fuzhou, blockade the Straits of Manchurian (Malacca) and not let go of the rich men of Siam. King Li Chuang and the others received information that many people in Siam were ready to send away their family property by boat. We have quite a few cannons in Manchurka (Malacca). Send two more ships to block there, and they don't want to leave! King Li Chuang, they can't wait to clean them up! However, our advice is to wait until the Mughal Empire has been defeated before moving to Siam. Fan Chengkun said.

"Good! With strong military strength as the backing, I have a strong confidence in Siam! Fan Jingwen said with emotion.

After Fan Jingwen and the others left Siam, everyone in Siam knew that a big war was inevitable. The big families and powerful ministers all followed the advice of the Xiyi people and wanted to send their family property and family to England first. They often hire a large boat to leave the city with their families and belongings. But they didn't expect that such ships would be intercepted by the warships of the Yaogang people and sent to the military port of Yaogang in Burma. Of course, the property was confiscated, and the personnel still arranged a place to live, and then dealt with them after dealing with Siam.

After a long time of not using troops against Siam, Li Zicheng and they were all in a hurry.

Li Zicheng's hundreds of thousands of troops, after the replenishment of materials and equipment by the Yaogang people, as well as the training of some of their officers by the Yaogang people, were equipped with many muskets, and their combat effectiveness improved very quickly. Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance, and a group of other civil servants also fully studied the governance strategy of the Yaogang people, and according to the actual situation of Annan, they adopted a strategy that was more suitable for the specific situation of Annan. First of all, it is necessary to adopt drastic measures, and resolutely not be soft on those who resist and disagree. Then, according to Zhang Zhimu's suggestion, they adopted the strategy of using razing to defeat razing, and hired and supported some Annan people who cooperated with them to help manage Annan.

One of the good things about Nan'an is that they have always used Chinese characters, and many scholars take pride in being able to read Chinese classics by heart. Li Zicheng proposed to Zhang Zhimu to send cadres to Annan, and Zhang Zhimu agreed without hesitation. Li Zicheng was very relieved and boldly used these cadres, so that the situation in Annan was quickly stabilized. In fact, the people are basically like this, and whoever can make them live a stable life, they obey whomever they manage.

However, what made Li Zicheng uneasy was that his hundreds of thousands of troops were very difficult to manage without fighting. His army, most of which were uneducated, were even more reluctant to participate in local administration. Later, they found out that Siam, west of Annam, was a country of great interest to them, and it was very wealthy. When Li Zicheng's soldiers were fine, they always provoked the Siamese soldiers on the border. The Siamese soldiers did not want to be their enemies, and as long as Li Zicheng's soldiers crossed the line, they could bear to ignore them.

Li Zicheng knew that without Zhang Zhimu's consent, they could not go to war against a country. This is not like attacking from one place to another in the Ming Dynasty. Siam is a country. Since Li Zicheng learned that Zhang Zhimu had the determination to unify the Indochina Peninsula, Li Zicheng and the others began to prepare for the use of troops against Siam. Song Xiance also collected information about Siam by bribing merchants.

Originally, Li Zicheng thought that Qin Peng would clean up Siam with them after they cleaned up Burma, but Li Zicheng asked Yaogang several times to attack Siam, and even proposed that they attack Siam alone. However, Yaogang did not agree for a long time, until Fan Jingwen's persuasion failed, Qin Peng and they annihilated the Mughal Empire's army of one million people, and Li Zicheng and they couldn't wait. Once again, I implore to send troops to Siam, and now not only Li Zicheng is anxious, but Liu Zhongmin and their generals are all crazy.

When Li Zicheng and the others received the order to agree that they wanted to attack Siam, they were overjoyed.

When Li Zicheng convened a meeting to inform them, he told them that Yaogang had sent two flat-bottomed warships into the Chao Phraya River to assist them in the battle. The generals had to be willing to listen to this, and they knew that the power of the cannons on the ships was too great. With warships, the place covered by artillery fire along the coast is basically its own world. However, Li Zicheng also stressed the need to ensure the safety of the King of Siam and his family. The generals didn't want to hear this.

Liu Zhongmin said: "Mr. Zhang is really, he sent people to persuade them not to surrender, why do you keep them?" ”

Song Xiance said: "General Quan! Mr. Zhang's idea is right, we captured King Annam alive, and with him coming forward to cooperate, many things will be much easier for us to do! If we can capture the King of Siam alive, the matter of Siam can be twice as effective with half the effort! ”

Niu Jinxing seemed to have a higher realm, "After all, our Ming Dynasty has been friendly with Siam for nearly a thousand years!" We still have to save some face for them! ”

Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He were not worried about Li Zicheng and them solving Siam alone, they just didn't want Li Zicheng to develop too much on their own. However, Zhang Zhimu was not particularly worried about this, his opinion was that after the Indochina Peninsula was stabilized, Li Zicheng would be invited back, or at Li Zicheng's request, their troops could be sent to the Australian side. At that time, I knew whether Li Zicheng had ambitions. If you have ambitions, it's too late to find a way.

Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He both agreed with Zhang Zhimu's idea.

At present, Zhang Zhimu and Li Yan are busy preparing for the National People's Congress to be held in the spring of next year. In the second half of this year, Zhang Zhimu asked Yan Xing to notify officials at all levels in various localities to start preparing for this matter. The principle of representation is that the number of seats in each state is proportional to the number of people in each state capital. Try to let the people elect their own representatives. Since the conditions for a thorough universal suffrage are not yet fully met, it is necessary to appoint a number of deputies according to various sectors. This is a very big deal, Li Yan and they have a strict election process. Together with Yan Xing and them, a lot of propaganda work was carried out very early. Radio and newspapers have also done a lot of publicity and solicited the opinions of people from all walks of life.

Zhang Zhimu knew that this was a congress, and it had a bearing on the success of the democratic process in the future, as well as on how the people could view democracy from the bottom of their hearts. Therefore, Zhang Zhimu and the officials of the kiln gang did not dare to slack off in this matter.

Zhang Zhimu and Li Yan also solicited the opinions of several elders of the Senate on the agenda and procedures of the meeting. He also asked Emperor Chongzhen for advice. Emperor Chongzhen also took this matter very seriously, and carefully asked about the purpose of the meeting and the problems to be solved.

Zhang Zhimu and Li Yan also answered one by one. Emperor Chongzhen nodded and said that he was very supportive of this matter.

However, Zhang Zhimu could see that Emperor Chongzhen had not yet come out of the joy of Qin Peng and them annihilating nearly a million Mughal Empire troops on the southern front, and he asked: "When will the Qin generals in the south march to the Mughal Empire?" ”

"General Qin has just had a big battle and needs to take a break. Besides, the main force of the Mughal Empire's army has almost been wiped out by us, and we are not in a hurry to let the Mughal Empire have some internal chaos. We need to be fully prepared to attack a big country like the Mughal Empire. Now there are different opinions on how we should deal with the Mughal Empire, which needs to be studied. ”

Zhang Zhimu knew that it was easy to solve the Mughal Empire militarily, but how to deal with the Mughal Empire was still a troublesome matter. He did not want to completely annex such a big country, just a Womor Empire itself The relations between various nationalities and religions are very complicated, and Yaogang sent people to manage such a country, which can be like the British for a while, but it is never possible to transform them all into Chinese, Zhang Zhimu knows this. It is not possible to let the occupied areas have the identity of a country, and it is likely that they will become independent when they have the opportunity, and it is better to let them become independent and find other ways to control them. But Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He didn't seem to care about this. It was also difficult to convince them of this, and Zhang Zhimu didn't want to argue with them. For the time being, it's put down.

Emperor Chongzhen asked again: "How is the matter of our Persians on the Western Front handled?" ”

"The Western Front is still very complicated," Mr. Zhang said, "and the Ottoman Empire has sent people to our General Ningde to get weapons." Now their men are being trained in the barracks. However, the Ottoman Empire sent people back on fast horses and asked the Ottoman Sultan to send envoys to Persia on our behalf, and explain to the Persian Sultan that we do not want to be their enemy! I don't know what the situation will be. However, Jiang Pai and their artillery convoy had already gone south, and now they had reached Ningde. We're not afraid to fight, but now is not the time to do so. We hope that the Ottoman and Russian empires will go to war after they have finished fighting. Now that we are fighting with the Persian Empire, exposing our strength, I am afraid that the whole West will be afraid of us. And their fighting with each other will cease. It is not conducive to achieving our strategic goals. ”

"It seems that this year the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire will not be able to fight!" Emperor Chongzhen said.

"Yes! Originally, the Russian Empire was preparing for war with the Ottoman Empire this year, but their vanguard army stopped when it crossed the Greater Caucasus Mountains. It is estimated that Jiang Ji leaked it to them, and the Ottoman Empire bought muskets worked! Jiang Jian just came with a telegram saying that the Russian Empire would buy a thousand muskets more! ”

"Huh! Arms are so lucrative! Emperor Chongzhen said, "However, the business of the Ottoman Empire is due to me!" ”

"Haha!" Zhang Zhimu laughed out loud and asked, "It seems that the emperor is going to share the spoils with us on the spot?" ”

"No, no," Emperor Chongzhen said with some embarrassment. "Hey! I don't have enough money like you, and I don't have enough money to spend! The kiln is full of money! ”

"Come on, Your Majesty, is one million enough for this matter?" Zhang Zhimu looked at the emperor and asked, wanting to see how much appetite the emperor had.

"Oops! Where is all this silver! Emperor Chongzhen was taken aback by one million taels of silver. He didn't know that Zhang Zhimu and they exchanged the old robbery for more than 10 million taels of silver.

"Your Majesty, I also said this million taels, just one million taels. Actually, I don't want the emperor to say that he is in a hurry! Zhang Zhimu said and took out a check for 10 million yuan of kiln gang coins, and took out a pen to sign his name.

Emperor Chongzhen took the check handed over by Zhang Zhimu and said, "I'm the emperor!" I never felt that there was plenty of money. After glancing at the check, he said to Zhang Zhimu, "Zhang Dongjia, we have sold too many muskets, is it a threat to us in the future?" ”

"It's fine!" Zhang Zhimu said, "Such a musket is not much stronger than a bow and arrow in front of us!" And with their money, we can build the western road and even the railway. Next year, we can dig the canal over there. With this silver, we have enough confidence! This is not the money that was taken out of our old book! ”

The second-generation VCR came out, and the size was much smaller than the original, but it still took two people to lift it. Now Xiaohu seems to be particularly interested in electronic technology, and he has begun to assemble the radio himself under the guidance of his teacher. I'm also thinking about assembling a TV set myself. This made Zhang Zhimu very happy, radio is his own housekeeping ability.

When the second-generation VCR came out, Zhang Zhimu bought one back. I also got a character overlay machine for TV stations. If I have time in the evening, I will tinker with Xiaohu about these. After a while, I came up with karaoke from my previous life! However, Zhang Zhimu knew that it could not be called a karaoke machine now, and if it was called so, Zhang Zhimu would have to spend a lot of time explaining. Now it's called a jukebox.

Zhang Zhimu and Xiaohu made several big speakers by themselves at home. Today's microphones are made of field effect tubes and films, and the sensitivity and dynamic range are very large, and the high-fidelity effect is also very good. The feeling of singing karaoke at home made Zhang Zhimu seem to have returned to his previous life.

For a few days, Xiaohu and Zhang Zhimu came up with more than a dozen songs.

When Xiao Hongyu heard about this, she also ran over to see the excitement. Seeing Zhang Zhimu singing like he was drunk, he couldn't help but sing too. This singing is addictive, and there are too few songs.

Zhang Zhimu said: "You go back, organize your film and television center, and you can start making singing tapes!" I immediately asked Yang Chang to arrange the production of this record player! ”

Xiaohu suddenly asked: "Does this patent also have a share of mine?" ”

Zhang Zhimu was stunned for a moment and said, "That's right! This matter has to apply for patents, and all patents are Xiaohu's! If Yang Chang produces them, they will give Xiaohu a patent fee! This can also be publicized to encourage everyone to innovate! Let everyone know that innovation can make a fortune! ”

Zhang Zhimu helped Xiaohu write a patent application, not to mention, the record player was "snatched" away by Xiao Hongyu. Their film and television center, after getting this record player, the whole machine can't be idle, and they all rush to sing. Xiao Hongyu aroused everyone's appetite and began to organize people to make singing tapes.

This kind of thing, along with the patent application, was publicized by newspapers, radio and television stations. In fact, it also made a good advertisement for the record player.

Zhang Zhimu asked Yang Chang to put a record player in the back building of the Yaogang Hotel first. As a result, these private rooms are full every day. In this way, the karaoke singing activity began in advance in the Ming Dynasty.

Those who have long been dissatisfied with eating and drinking are now eager to sing and lyricalize.

Li Yunhe, who has never come to see Zhang Zhimu, came over, but he didn't care about the most fashionable thing in Yaogang, singing and entertainment, he came to tell Zhang Zhimu that the third-generation aircraft was about to take a test flight!

Hearing the news of Li Yunhe, Zhang Zhimu happily forgot everything at once.

Zhang Zhimu said: "It's really not easy, it's been more than two years!" It's not easy! ”

Li Yunhe said: "We just set the standard too high all of a sudden! A lot of things had to be started from scratch, and this time we not only built two experimental planes, but also understood how to build airplanes. Many things were calculated by Lu Bingyi's students using mathematics. There are also various experimental testing equipment, which is really a lot of breakthroughs! ”

Li Yunhe said that he would build two experimental planes, one of which actually did not fly, that is, to do static tests. See how much static force each part of the aircraft can withstand! One is meant to fly.

On the way to the airport, Li Yunhe said: "There is one thing that we thought about for a while and did not do what you said. The landing gear of our aircraft was not hydraulic. We are afraid that the weather will be complicated after the sky, and we are afraid that the hydraulic pressure will be unreliable. I still think the mechanics are more reliable. Our landing gear is available in both electric and manual ways. ”

"Okay! As long as it's reliable! Zhang Zhimu said. Zhang Zhimu was even more satisfied with their own ideas. "If, the current plane, really achieves what we expected. Soon we will organize production. Our Air Force is also going to be officially established! ”

"Now, fortunately, we have trained a group of people, and the pilots who test flew are also very experienced. After this kind of aircraft is put into production, we will immediately concentrate manpower on the kind of twin-engine aircraft you mentioned. Those people who are engaged in double hair are not idle, I asked, and they are also very thoughtful! I estimate that it won't take us two years to get a twin-engine plane. Now our foundation is different! ”

When Zhang Zhimu and Li Yunhe's car entered the airport, many people at the airport gathered around the plane on the runway.

As soon as he saw this plane, Zhang Zhimu couldn't help but say: "By the way, this is the plane!" ”