With the development of electromagnetism, the telegraph came into being in the Ming Dynasty, but at this time, the coding of the electrical signal into a text signal is not called Morse code but Jiao's code, so it is created by a Ming scientific researcher surnamed Jiao.

Fortunately, thanks to the advent of the telegraph, the Ming Dynasty is now able to efficiently manage this super empire, otherwise, relying on traditional post guards and horses alone can really support the circulation of information of the entire empire.

However, the current telegraph technology of the Ming Dynasty is not yet mature, the transmission distance is still relatively short, the application range is not wide, and there is no encryption technology and advanced codebook.

Fortunately, in this era, there is no country that has not even figured out what electricity is, so there is no need to worry about whether it will leak secrets and so on.

Zhu Youxiao has now set up a chamber of attendants, and Nailiu is in charge of the overall responsibility, which is responsible for sending telegrams to the imperial cabinet and various departments, and will also issue Zhu Youxiao's instructions.

Although the attendant room nominally belongs to the internal officials in the 24th yamen of the Ming Dynasty, it is not under the supervision of the internal officials, and Liu Ru is directly responsible to Zhu Youxiao, so the power is also quite heavy.

After Zhu Youxiao gave the order, Liu Ru straightened his full chest and walked into the attendant's room, and casually ordered a messenger from Bapin: "Beijing, the military department!" ”

After speaking, Liu Ru began to read the words, the content of the expression is not long, it must be as concise as possible, and sometimes there are no coherent sentences, let alone any modifiers, only a few key words are piled up, so that the receiver can understand the meaning.

Not long after, the Ministry of War replied with a telegram message, and the message was: "Yang Sichang of the Ministry of War looks, and Lushan will be a saint in two months."

Although only a few words were transmitted on the telegram, it was very busy underneath.

It is not a trivial matter that His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty suddenly wants to discuss the conquest of Europa, and after learning the news, the Ministry of War will inform the cabinet again, and it must be prepared immediately.

The staff department in charge of the staff must formulate various plans as soon as possible according to the various objectives of the conquest of Europa, the military selection department must determine the best general candidates according to the current situation of the various armies of the Ming Dynasty, and the arsenal department must also immediately allocate wartime equipment and rear money and food, and cannot wait for the war to start raising, which will delay the war.

When all the officials of the Ministry of War were well prepared and all took the newly opened steam train of the Beijing-Baozhou Railway, preparing to go to Baoding first and going to Lushan by boat, Zhu Youxiao had already entered Jiangxi at this time and was preparing to go to Lushan to escape the summer.

Every summer, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River are as hot as a furnace, so most of the powerful people in Nanjing and Hangzhou will go to the mountains to escape the heat at this time, the climate is warm, and the Lushan Mountain is the best choice in all seasons.

Gu Meisheng, the boss of Meisheng Company, also has his own courtyard here, and Zhu Youxiao naturally lives in her annex this time.

But for the outside world, not many people know the whereabouts of His Majesty today.

Zhu Youxiao may be older now, after all, he likes a peaceful environment and is unwilling to appear in front of the public's field of vision, at this time he is just wearing an ordinary tulle coat, climbing the stone steps step by step with a cane, and walking up.

Liu Ru, who was dressed in military uniform, accompanied Gu Meisheng behind, and Zhu Youlang, who had been transferred back to Zhu Youxiao's side as a guard officer, looked around vigilantly, and the gun in his hand never left his side.

In later generations, Lushan really became a gathering place for dignitaries and dignitaries after the end of the Qing Dynasty, and it was even more famous during the Republic of China, and now it has only just been targeted by the magnates of the Ming Dynasty, so it is relatively quiet.

But even so, the city of Lucheng on the top of Lushan has gradually taken shape, and the imperial court, cabinets, ministers, ministers, scholars, ministers, local governors, and heads of major royal capital companies all have their own villas here.

Therefore, when a group of people from the military department came, they didn't have to worry about where they didn't live.

Gu Meisheng's villa on Lushan is a house made of terrazzo bricks, which is integrated with the surrounding mountains and stones, and the interior is just seasonal flowers and plants, but it is extremely quiet and elegant, and it can be regarded as a natural carving.

There is a large auditorium in the Gu family's garden, and the auditorium is where Zhu Youxiao often meets officials at all levels.

However, Zhu Youxiao has not convened officials here more than three times, so he doesn't know much.

Before the officials of the Ministry of War came, Gu Meisheng had already arranged this place, arranged more potted plants around the auditorium, hung a map of the European situation in the auditorium, as well as the Europa trade overview and resource exploration map used by the Meisheng Company internally, and even prepared a document for everyone in advance, a piece of information about the trade between the Meisheng Company and Europa, for the reference of the bigwigs of the Ministry of War.

Yang Sichang is now seventy-nine years old, although he is full of energy, but in the end he is a little old, and he can only walk up with the help of three or four people when he climbs Lushan.

And although Lu Xiangsheng is also close to old age, he is more powerful than Yang Sichang, and walked directly in front and said with a joke: "I said that the son is weak, look at how old you are, but a few hundred steps, you have to serve several people, you are still from the military department, why don't you let the grandsons of the school department laugh to death." ”

Lu Xiangsheng and Yang Sichang have been in charge of the military department for more than 20 years unconsciously, and they can be regarded as quite tacit, and the relationship is extraordinary, different from the incompatibility of the previous life.

Among them, Lu Xiangsheng was born in a place, experienced actual combat, and was good at making decisions, while Yang Sichang was familiar with military books, good at calculation, and could often think big about problems, full of strategies, Zhu Youxiao asked these two people to be the first assistant and the secretary, and the other to be the second assistant and the waiter, in order to let these two people give full play to their talents as much as possible.

Yang Sichang was not angry because of Lu Xiangsheng's ridicule, now in the Manchu Dynasty, especially in the cabinet, as far as the two of them are still old ministers ten years ago in the Apocalypse, and they are the only ones who can talk to him Yang Sichang and are still his bosses now, he naturally didn't dare to be angry, just sighed and said: "I don't know what Your Majesty thinks, but I want to have a meeting on this, but I am tired of my old bones!" ”

"Come on, this official is supporting you, look at your delicate appearance, and complain about Your Majesty, where did you go when you traveled across the ocean to Europa to sign the London Treaty, and now you are just complaining about the last Lushan, whether you went to the army for training and training, it is also related to your own life, I heard that you brought back several orchids from Europa, singing every night, you say you can be worthy?"

Lu Xiangsheng said with a smile.

"Nonsense! It's because of these orchids that I can survive now, you don't understand, besides, I gave the most stunning ones to Your Majesty, you see Your Majesty is still alive and well, what does this mean?"

Yang Sichang smiled at Lu Xiangsheng as he spoke: "Lord Shoufu, after this fight Europa, do you want to instruct the people below to arrest a few noble women of Europa for you, I heard that these noble women of Europa are very rippling." ”