At that time, Downing once asked Prime Minister Russell to build an office building opposite No. 10 Downing Street, and put the Communications Management Committee in it, but Prime Minister Russell thought that this mention was unnecessary, and the war has been fought until now, and the power of wireless telegraphy has been fully reflected, just look at the fate of the French army. The Prime Minister of Aberdeen not only placed the Communications Committee of the British Telegraph Company across from 10 Downing Street, but also made up almost half of the building, because they needed a large number of staff to keep the government in communication with the various agencies and colonial agencies, and this intelligence centre was the most lively in Downing Street, with constant messengers running around.

In 1569, Elizabeth I's English Secretary of State, Francis? Sir Walsingham created the British Secret Service, the agency responsible for Britain's foreign intelligence. The director of the Secrecy Bureau, Xiang Prime Minister, worked with the British Telegraph Company to monitor the international telegraph for real-time intelligence.

Downing had the capital to take advantage of it at this time, learn from Switzerland, implement a policy of permanent neutrality, and not participate in any country's spy war, even the British Prime Minister has nothing to do with him. However, he agreed to cooperate with the British government in monitoring telegraphs in Britain.

In other words, the cable telegraph is not dead, they have found an opportunity in the government and the military, where a high degree of secrecy is required, which is the only advantage of the cable telegraph, they also learned to use paper tape and typewriters to develop efficient transceiver institutions, after all these years of hard work, there has finally been progress, but qwerty's typewriter layout to be used legally has to pay patent fees to Downing, how many units they sold are in Downing's control, and they are temporarily unable to have an impact on the British telegraph company.

Lionel and Downing finally got the shareholders of the East India Company and a number of government officials one by one, and passed the bill that the Straits Settlements plantations could have private soldiers, and the maximum number could have 2,000 private soldiers with guns, and the specific number had to be reported to the colonial government and approved, which was exactly the lower limit that the Archduke of Hesse gave Downing to recruit every year, and the number of logistics was not limited, there was a lot to be done here, in fact, there was no limit to the number of people, because weapons could be hidden in the arsenal and used at any time, Logisticians can be trained soldiers.

Hearing this good news, Downing excitedly began to design firearms, preparing to build an arsenal in Belgium, with his current relationship with the Belgian government, it is a good choice to build an arsenal in this logistics center, and it can also avoid the Swiss government's restrictions on arms, and the Swiss base camp is specially used to supply smokeless propellants, which is one of his biggest core secrets.

Today's rifles are still mainly loaded with propellants and bullets separately, and combining them together into a "fixed modern rifle cartridge" will greatly improve the rate of fire and stability. The price of the installation is the extra weight of the shells carried. In the era of non-mechanization, the supply of ammunition was a big problem, so the rifle was not fired as fast as possible, and semi-automatic rifles that used recoil to self-load were not considered.

Not only that, but it is also necessary to limit the speed at which the rifle is fired, and the use of magazines to quickly switch is avoidable, because the magazine will increase the weight, and instead it is the "magazine", although the two statements are the same sound, but they are not the same, the magazine is just a simple and lightweight small tool used to assist the gunner to press a bullet into the magazine, which is lighter than the hairpin.

Downing's design was based on the Lee-Enfield rifle used by the British Army in World War II, which had two magazines, could hold ten bullets, and was one of the fastest manual rifles with a rotary pull-back manual loading, and a platoon of the British Army used it to fire rapidly in World War II, making the Germans think they had encountered machine gun suppression. I just said that the rate of fire should be limited, so when the pressure of the enemy is not very large, the Lee Enfield rifle has a magazine divider, which must be filled with a bullet every time it is fired, and the magazine is kept full until the enemy is approaching and needs a large amount of firepower, and the partition is removed under the order of the commander and fired with all his might, so that the enemy can taste the "machine-gun firepower".

Not only that, but Downing also had to make the most technologically advanced barrels, and his secret was the use of "numerical control machines". The numerical control capability of multi-axis linkage comes from the general-purpose computer qì invented by Babbage, of course, to be optimized and created to create the zào numerical control operation language, G-Code. The computer is huge and not fast, but it only needs to be optimized for the machine tool to complete a simple three-axis linkage, which will be Tangning's biggest secret in the field of machinery manufacturing. Cambridge University had a group of math masters who had just graduated, and Downing recruited all of them with high salaries.

Downing now brought these mathematicians to Brussels for training, but eventually he would send them to Zurich to form the "Swiss Precision Instrument Company".

Downing's first arsenal eventually settled in Hersthal, Belgium, Belgium's industrial center city, and cooperated with the Belgian military. In view of the lessons learned by the previous prime minister, the new cabinet quickly agreed to the request to build an arsenal that would not only make weapons, but also export them without restrictions, only by reporting to the Ministry of Defence.

When Downing was roughly busy with the planning of the arsenal, the gramophone project that was being carried out at the same time was also in sight, and he already had a prototype and recording equipment. As soon as he was ready, Downing brought in Dupu, the creator of the La Traviata, to make his opera the world's first record. Dupu came to bring the actress of the Camellia Lady, Miss Violetta, and Downing had not been in contact with Violetta in order to avoid suspicion, this was the first time he had seen her in two months, and asked with a smile: "It's a miracle that neither of you have been burned to death!" "Tang Ning really admired Dupulai's ability to survive, if he hadn't had a particle beam gun to get the iron window, he would have died in the same year, month, and day as the big beauty.

Dupulai smiled bitterly: "I almost died, but fortunately I had a lot of strength, and I just squeezed it out, it's terrible." ”

It was time to play tricks, and Downing had brought them into his workshop, which he had bought a large estate in Brussels, and used it as another stronghold.

Dupulai and Violeta, who saw the dignified industrial design of red and black for the first time, were both calm, and Violetta forgot about her shyness and asked, "What is this?" ”

Tang Ning smiled slightly, pressed the play button, and the speaker hidden under the semi-transparent grid began to "speak", it was Tang Ning's own voice recorded at random, and there were some lines taken from the Lady of the Camellias, what "The pain you want to cause me is just a proof of your love for me" or something.

Violetta never expected this square box to be able to make a sound, and screamed in disappointment. Naturally, Dupulai is also dumbfounded.

Tang Ning was very satisfied with their reactions, and said, "Amazing, right? A magic box that can leave the sound and play it over and over again, I call it a gramophone. To sell it, you have to have content, and I couldn't think of anything I could do with it, so I could record the opera of La Traviata, and the two had the honor of being the first musicians in the world to go down in history on gramophones. ”

It was a big pie that fell and hit their heads, and both Dupulai and Violetta were thrilled. They would have to be even more excited if they knew that there was a royalty to be paid for recording records, which they would see later in the partnership contract.

The situation was kept secret, and Downing asked Dupu to recommend some famous musicians, and he directly asked Reuters, which was all over Europe, to send train tickets to these musicians, and invited them to come to Brussels to record records.

In April 1855, in the midst of the spring flowers, Downing finally rushed from Brussels to Munich with his gramophone to propose to his flower fairy, the little princess, like an amorous bee.

When he arrived in Munich, there was good news from General Dynamics, where the first prototype was nearing completion and was waiting to be reviewed by the boss. This prototype car is only 10 horsepower, only the driver alone when the maximum speed is close to 40 kilometers per hour, horsepower is insufficient, so the first fuel cell car can only camel two people, there is no doubt that this is a two-door two-seater miniature car, Downing guided the design is completely in accordance with the shape of smart, it is estimated that this car will really be called smart in the future.

Tang Ning drove the smart to the test site to try it out, and specially felt the original suspension system, which was quite comfortable due to the low speed. The most touching thing is that there is no noise of the internal combustion engine, yes, you can get it. So, good things come in pairs, Tang Ning made an appointment with Sissi, and tomorrow he will go to her house to propose, driving this white smart, the world's unparalleled fuel cell car, and the elf that will not be outdated in a hundred years.

The windy car quietly crosses the streets of Munich, and the pedestrians pay attention, and the rate of turning heads is 200 percent, because seeing it once is certainly not enough, it is the same feeling as seeing a UFO.

The Duke's home was in Sennhofen Castle, on the shores of Lake Stamber, the second largest freshwater lake in the German Confederation, just 30 km from Munich. It takes less than an hour for the elves to arrive at this beautiful castle built in the 16th century.

Princess Sissi's family had long expected that the pomp and circumstance of the big tyrant would come to propose, but they never thought that he would come by "driving", in this era when the car was not popular, they had at most seen the talented Munich engineer play with a car powered by a steam engine, and the huge and burly body reminded people all the time that this is a miniature version of the locomotive, and the shape of the tractor is completely incomparable with the round, streamlined, quiet and ghostly smart.

Stunning at UFO level.

Sissi's father, the wandering madman Max, also rushed back from the countryside today to attend his second daughter's engagement meeting, and he liked horseback riding the most, and he saw the vehicle that might allow him to transfer his enthusiasm from the BMW, and he didn't blink when he saw it. With this product, it seems that even if it is windy and rainy, it can run around!

Princess Sissi herself probably loved horseback riding no less than her father, and despite the presence of her family, she forgot the strangeness of her lover, who had not been seen for nearly two years, and cried out happily: "Take me for a ride!" ”

When Tang Ning came out of the smart with a smile and had just said hello to his future father-in-law, mother-in-law, and brother-in-law, Sissi, who was born to be useful and self-taught, had already rushed over and opened the car door, looking at the mysterious interior space of the car.

What kind of engagement and what etiquette have long been forgotten by the father and daughter, and Max also excitedly watched the car.

The little Duke Theodore paid the most attention to the technical details, asking: "How fast can this car go?" ”

Downing: "It's the fastest, almost 40 kilometers, 10 horsepower, two people, and then put some goods, then slow down." It uses a hydrogen fuel cell, which can run 600 kilometers at a time when fully filled with hydrogen. ”

The Little Duke and the Grand Duke are both Germans who have been interested in machinery since childhood, and when they hear it, they know that this little car is extraordinary, and I will go, 600 kilometers, from Munich in South Germany to Berlin in North Germany.

Seeing that Tang Ning was still chatting with his father and younger brother, Sissi pulled his sleeve and said, "Take me for a run!" ”

It was really rude, the Duchess glared at the little girl, but Sissi saw nothing.

I haven't seen her for two years, Sissi is getting more and more beautiful, she stared at Tang Ning with beautiful big eyes and looked at how Tang Ning drove, only to see him press the start button on the right hand, the dashboard lit up, the soles of his feet were placed in a place similar to the "throttle", and when he stepped on it lightly, the body slowly moved, to be honest, this only has a small power lead-acid battery to support the start of the drive mechanism to start a little meaty, but compared to the steam engine, it is already a world of difference. Now, people of Sissi's age will be very satisfied with the starting speed of such meat.

Obviously, smart was going to give the gramophone, but now the whole family thinks that this little baby is the big gift for the proposal. Downing was busy teaching Sissi and her father to drive.

Anyway, there was more than one prototype, and since Smart made them so excited, let's give it to them as well.

In the eyes of Princess Ludovica, Sissi is still a little girl who has not grown up, really, fortunately, Tangning seems to like little girls, and the eldest princess spoke: "Look at your excitement, you go for a ride with Tangning, come back early, don't exceed half an hour, we are all waiting for you." ”

So, Downing took the little princess for a ride along Lake Stemberg. As soon as Princess Ludovica's words came out, it was almost equivalent to affirming his identity as a son-in-law, otherwise how could he let his daughter go to play with unrelated men and widows, even if it was only half an hour, a lot of things could happen......

She was almost eighteen years old, and the little princess was not a little girl who knew nothing, and when she was far away from Senthofen Castle and drove more and more remotely on the forest path, the little princess's face became redder and redder.

The little princess is like a flower blooming in April, and the little earl can already smell the sweet smell of nectar. （http：／／）。

The Count stopped the car, and the little princess didn't ask anything, nor did she turn her head, but only made her face redder.

The low-speed prototype car, without a seat belt, allowed him to turn his head lightly and kiss the princess on the cheek silently and gently.

The enclosed space in the car gives the little princess the courage to have an endless first kiss, otherwise her heart would beat violently out of her chest. This small space has become a nest of their affectionate love, and their bonds and entanglements in this life begin with two pairs of warm lips and two flamboyant tongues.

The Count kissed the little princess tirelessly, indulging in her soft body and the bitter orange and rosemary of Cologne's perfume, which in Victorian England represented loyal love, and the little princess was very deliberate in her mother's instructions to dress herself up like a bride-to-be.

When the little princess was intoxicated with the love and honey, she suddenly remembered the beautiful melody of the accordion, and her first reaction was that she had hallucinated, and there was no one here, only fishing boats in the distance, and it was almost impossible to see clearly, how could anyone play the accordion?

Wrong! She awoke from her hallucinations, and Downing smiled mischievously at her, revealing that he had found an accordion master recommended by Violetta and recorded a second record, which he loved.

The hydrogen fuel cell itself is a small power station, and naturally there will be no shortage of electricity to play the gramophone.

Tang Ning said softly: "My dear, this is the gift I want to give you, a magic box that can be played!" ”

Sure enough, there was a magic box, which provoked the little princess to get drunk and fall into the arms of the devil's apostle.