The inaugural voyage of the Great Eastern spread the prestige of the Duke of London all over the world, and as the discussion became more and more hot, King William III of the Netherlands was quite remorseful, knowing that he should not reject Downing's plan to establish a customs union with the Netherlands in exchange for the construction of a dock of the same class as the Crystal Shipyard in Amsterdam. He instructed the Dutch ambassador to Britain to warmly invite Downing to visit Amsterdam, but Downing was not very interested, and said politely that "it was not time" and that he was now interested in building a second shipyard in Singapore.

The completion of the Great Eastern meant that his journey with Singapore would be just over two months, and that he would have a comfortable ocean liner that would not be as painful as he had been when he arrived in London from Calcutta on a three-masted sailing battleship. He had instructed the Governor of Singapore, Mr. Reuters, to begin looking for a suitable place to build a dockyard. How excited Reuters was to carry out the instructions of the big boss, because it would be a great achievement, and it would be a great project to go down in the history of Singapore in the future, on the same level as the crystal dockyard that built the Great Eastern.

Wallace is obsessed with the East Indies, which is on a par with the Amazon in terms of biodiversity, and Downing said he would join him on a trip to Singapore. In the past few years, he has been wandering around Europe, and he really went back to the East to take a look, and even Calcutta misses it a little, not to mention Singapore, which is predominantly Chinese.

Lin Fei is from Singapore's International School Park, now she is 8 years old, from her adoptive father Faraday heard that Downing is going to Singapore, strongly asked to follow the "provincial relatives", Faraday and his wife are spoiled by this extremely smart and beautiful adopted daughter to the point of doting, and even agreed to the child's unreasonable request. But such a little girl has been away from home for so long, and the two of them are not at ease at all, even Tang Ning is not at ease with her, so they simply go on the road together. The old wife was skeptical, but Faraday said that he had taken the first voyage of the Great Eastern, and he was quite comfortable and not afraid.

As for delaying Linfeier's studies, the old couple have never been worried, this kid is too smart, now he is only 8 years old, and he has almost completed the course of secondary education, and the London International School Park has no restrictions on the curriculum of the little geniuses, as long as you can learn, you will enter the next stage, under the careful guidance of Faraday, can Linfield not progress quickly?

On this trip, Sissi's mother had a migraine again, and she missed her daughter, so Tang Ning asked Sissi to go back to her parents' house and set off with a huge team. The team was divided into two main groups, one consisting of engineers and technicians who built the shipyard and the other of 500 Hessian mercenaries. Shipbuilding engineers and technicians actually took away hundreds of them at once, this formation! There are also a large number of advanced machines and equipment that are not available in Singapore, and because of the lack of equipment, the only luxury item brought to Singapore - the two smarts can only be placed on the deck, and it takes a lot of effort to secure them.

This time, no one dared to check the Duke's ship, and the Great Eastern could probably be recognized by the coast guards all over the world who were accustomed to reading newspapers, even in black and white photos, because it was topped by a windmill that generated electricity, and there was only one chimney.

Among the 500 mercenaries, the 250 with the highest shooting level were fortunate enough to live in first class with the engineers, showing the Duke's respect for the soldiers, and Tangning often mingled with the soldiers, bragging about what was a "fixed rifle cartridge", which increased the confidence and sense of honor of his soldiers. Once manual rifles and custom rifle cartridges were invented, it would be tens of rounds per minute, and rifled barrels, what did that mean? The hunters all listened to their hearts, they are the world's best army.

Tang Ning is learning from Napoleon the Great, and establishing an emotional bond with the soldiers, so as not to listen to him when the soldiers start a war.

A soldier asked, "Your Excellency, can we work in your factory after we retire?" ”

This is obviously a matter of great concern to the soldiers, and they all show a look of attention, who wants to fight for the rest of their lives? Unless you have become a high-ranking officer, you don't have to rush up to fight a war.

Tang Ning: "I'm thinking about retiring!" It depends on the situation, if you run away after a fight, let alone enter the factory, I will shoot you on the spot! He first talked lightly, while thinking about how to answer.

In the laughter of the soldiers, Tang Ning finally thought about it and said: "If you know how to fight, fight hard, don't think about retiring all day long, don't forget that our Hessian Chasseur will be the best army in the world!" Well, otherwise, during the service period, each person can recommend a place to work in the factory. You can recommend your girlfriend or good friend to work. ”

In this way, it seems that they can unite the soldiers and give them peace of mind to be soldiers.

The GI who asked the question seemed to be relentless: "Can I recommend myself?" I mean, after a few years in the army. ”

Well, Downing said: "A few years, well, three years or five years, I'll think about it again, of course there is a chance, and those who are not officers can go to the factory for training." "He still didn't say anything, look, maybe you will only fight, and the training may not be qualified.

In order to boost morale, Tang Ning said: "Look at the car on the deck, do you want to have one?" ”

The GIs perked up: "Of course I want to, but...... £500 per annum, alas, kill me! ”

Tang Ning: "Hehe, in the future, as long as you have been on the battlefield and are qualified, you will be rewarded with a smart, 10 years!" ”

Isn't that a huge prize of £5,000? Wow, Tarzan's jackpot. That's the living expenses of a rich family for ten years. However, the GIs thought too much, as production increased and technology and supply chain improved, smart's rent would drop dramatically, and it was only fitting to use this seemingly amazing prize to boost morale.

After more than a month of fighting, Downing felt that the German he spoke had a Hessian accent, and the GIs were getting more and more used to the existence of the famous Duke of London. ”

Tang Ning: "It's okay, just ask." ”

The question the daredevils asked was, "Are you...... Is there that with his fiancée, Princess Elizabeth? ”

The soldiers who heard it next to him all laughed.

The Duke really slapped the daredevils to death, and replied very sincerely but humiliatingly: "No, once she was almost scared, and kicked me under the bed, but it didn't work out." ”

This "almost" was said in German with a Hessian accent, and the hormonal GIs were extremely automatic in their brains to make up all kinds of sultry scenes of the glamorous duke's fiancée, and a certain duke saw their unbearable expressions and had to sigh secretly.

When the GIs made fun of the Duke's lack of manhood, the Duke thought, "My skill in fooling around with a soldier seems to be on par with that of Napoleon the Great." Yes, he now remembered the names of the 250 huntsmen who were excellent at shooting, and whenever he called them by name, the GIs stood in silence, never believing that their Duke would live up to their expectations, whether in battle or in retirement.

Getting closer and closer to the East, Tang Ning suddenly wondered why Japan was moving so quickly to modernize and change so easily, while the Westernization Movement of the Great Qing Kingdom was very remnant.

China has been opened by foreigners since 1840, and the time of the Black Ship Incident is 1853, and the time of Japan's founding is 1854, only a year ago, it seems that the Qing Dynasty has more time, of course, more resources, and before the First Sino-Japanese War, the financial resources of the Great Qing Dynasty are extremely frightening to the Japanese army. Could it be that half of the country's officials from the Japanese went to Europe to investigate the key? If so, then it will be easy to do, it is not a matter of minutes to use the Great Eastern to pull a thousand officials to Europe?

It seems that it is not so simple, the Qing Dynasty has inherited the prestige of the Celestial Empire, and I am afraid that it is unwilling to admit that it is backward if it is not disabled. Alas, it seems that only the fate of being crippled in the Qing Dynasty can I be ashamed and brave, the truth is too cruel.

Regardless of whether I would be crippled or not, enlightenment was a must, and Tangning began to sketch the design of the Chinese typewriter. It's really cool to be a European over the years, and I have actually been a high-ranking official of the Duke of London, and only now do I think of making some contributions to the Chinese world, alas, ashamed.

Downing remembers that the first version of the Chinese character computer encoded had more than 6,000 characters, which was a huge challenge for mechanical typewriters, how to efficiently present these more than 6,000 characters? Historically, there have been designs that stack thousands of words together and use small pliers to clip them out and then tap them onto the paper, which is not only extremely slow, but also super difficult to master, and making such a design is not Downing's style at all.

This design can be improved by using an electrical method, and the use comfort is a little higher, but it is still not an ideal solution.

Is it possible to implement Pinyin input method in this era? Let's take a look at what kind of process the pinyin input method is:First of all,Pinyin of a Chinese character composed of several letters,After knocking the space bar, the pinyin will be converted into a digital signal,Accordingly, from more than 6000 lead words, the matching homophone is selected,Presented to the user in a comfortable way,Then the user selects the final Chinese character through the guò number key,Finish。

Question: How do you remember the combinations that make up pinyin? There are quite a lot of homophones in Chinese characters, even if you play one more tone, there are still a lot, let's say there are 5, it will be hard enough to take out one of the 6000 lead words, and come 5 times, enough to choke, right? The comfortable presentation means that the 5 words extracted from the 6,000 lead words are gathered from all directions, which is a rather time-consuming process. It seems that if you use a mechanical way to achieve pinyin input, the structure will be extremely complex, and it is estimated that one word a minute, it is better to write it by hand!

If you can't use the mechanical one, you can only use the electronic one! After some thought, as long as one thing is invented, most of the above problems can be solved - liquid crystal random storage and display mode.

You may have heard of liquid crystal display, but you have not heard of liquid crystal storage. Think about it, can it be randomly displayed, can't it be stored randomly? Historically, the William tube used cathode ray CRT to act as a memory. The cathode ray emits an electron, which can be deflected by an electric field, and the entire stored information can be obtained by detecting the direction of the electron.

Note that this is random storage, which is a leap forward for sequential storage like vinyl, making possible two of the most important parts of a computer - memory and CPU registers, and of course, liquid crystals, making displays possible.

Liquid crystal is a peculiar substance, and without applying voltage, light will advance along the gap between liquid crystal molecules and turn 90 degrees, so light can pass through guò. However, when voltage is added, the light travels in a straight line along the gap between the liquid crystal molecules, so the light is blocked by the filter.

Liquid crystal is a substance with flow characteristics, so only a very small force can be applied to make the liquid crystal molecules move, taking the most common and common nematic liquid crystal as an example, the liquid crystal molecules can be easily turned by the electric field, because the optical axis of the liquid crystal is quite consistent with its molecular axis, so it can produce an optical effect, and when the electric field added to the liquid crystal is removed and disappears, the liquid crystal will be very quickly withdrawn to the state before the electric field is added by its own elasticity and viscosity.

More than 6000 lead words are indeed very large and bloated, but all converted into liquid crystal dots, it is nothing, each lead word can be replaced by 100 LCD dots, the entire Chinese character system only needs more than 600,000 dots to complete the entire process from storage to display.

Random storage is also quite useful for address automatic switches for wireless telegraph systems, and now his team is using vacuum triodes, a bulky, power-hungry way to act as storage units. （http:／/.)。

Can the LCD display, will you still use the lead word to hit the ribbon? Of course, it will not be so inconsistent, and the next breakthrough is in the field of printing technology.

Since the discovery of static electricity, it has been put aside for a long time and I don't know what it is used for, in fact, it can be used for printing. The toner is polarized, and the toner can be drawn onto the paper with a small drum with an opposite charge, and the toner will be shaped on the paper at high temperature and pressure. The arrangement of the charge on the "developing drum" is naturally read from the liquid crystal random memory, each row of 35 words, when the user hits "enter" when the 35 words are typed, the developing drum will roll around on the paper under the transparent glass cover, and the 35 words will be printed on the paper. The next generation of electrostatic printers is just a little bit like this.

The Chinese typewriter, which uses a vacuum triode as a logic circuit, a liquid crystal as a random storage and display, and a developing drum as a printing unit, will be a high-tech product that no one can replicate for an estimated decade, and Tangning is ready to produce it under the name of IBM's Singapore factory. It will have a significant impact on the economic development of Singapore, a free port that has become a high-tech center in the East.

Tax-free Singapore does not need to collect taxes at all, this printer technology can maintain the operation of the entire government with profits from zào, just imagine how a monopoly on Asian secretarial equipment enterprises, if Asia is not good, this goods can also be changed into various languages and exported to Europe, the Americas, this is the next generation of printers, that is, the next generation of telegraphs, the first provider of British telegraph companies how can not make money? Downing had to deliberately maintain Singapore's tax-free policy in order to force the government to become smaller and smaller, relying heavily on capitalists like Downing to play a role in important matters, including defense.