Chapter 283: The King's Highway
A witch is a witch, and fighting a war is what excites Linfield the most, and this time, she thinks that the Windsor Empire has great hope of conquering the whole of America. The United States is a cooked duck that flew away from the hands of the British Empire, and if Downing catches the duck from the air again, it will be much more powerful than the British Empire, and Linfield will be happy for Downing when he thinks about it.
Tang Ning was speechless about this female devil who was afraid that the world would not be chaotic, but he liked it very much! Taking advantage of the beastly spirit, he said to Linfell, "You also have a chance to fight." ”
Linfil was overjoyed: "Really? What's wrong? ”
Tang Ning called back: "I can appoint you as the governor of Korea of the East India Company, responsible for taking over the entire Korean Peninsula, driving away the Qing and the Japanese with all their evil intentions, and letting your heart develop Korea, and not letting your Korean language learn in vain." ”
That night, Governor Lin was so excited that he rolled around on the sheets and couldn't sleep, oh my God, I actually had a chance to be the Governor of Korea!
The soldiers of the East India Company were left to her choice, but she chose the British, Indians, and Malays. Korea is closed to the rest of the country, but there are many ethnic Koreans in the Qing Dynasty and Japan, and she thinks that the development of Korea depends on these people who are dedicated to Korea, and the girl loves beauty, so she decided to change the name of Korea back to "Goryeo".
After the arrangements were made, the East India Company Security Committee announced the appointment of the female governor, saying in the appointment letter that the new governor was proficient in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Chinese, and would make irreplaceable contributions to promoting the peaceful and friendly development of the three countries.
The East India Company prepared for the Goryeo Military Region a complete military force of land, sea and air, with two King-class cruisers, eight White-class cruisers, 56 combat vehicles, and 14 UH64 multi-purpose helicopters. 2,400 in the Navy, 600 in the Marines, 140 in naval aviation, 2,000 in logistics, a total of 5,140 people.
The Governor of Goryeo was also the commander-in-chief of the three armed forces of the Goryeo Military Region, at the same level as the Governor of Malaya, the Viceroy of India, and the Viceroy of Brazil. The female governor attacked strongly, and China and Japan had to withdraw their troops, and it is said that there was a large amount of military compensation to China and Japan. The lack of resources in the Japanese-occupied South Peninsula has greatly disappointed the Japanese, so it is good that they can withdraw with dignity.
Li Hongzhang's government was a little reluctant, but the compensation of the East India Company was quite generous, which was equivalent to snatching a fortune from North Korea, and it was indeed a very decent withdrawal. On the Internet, Governor Lin is known as the "first beauty of the Qing Dynasty", and she became the leader of North Korea, which is equivalent to the Qing people occupying the area, so the people of the Great Qing Dynasty did not have a strong reaction.
The four-party talks started again, and the Soviet Union also came to participate, of course, they came to play soy sauce, and Boss Tang was only responsible for clapping his hands and supporting the façade for the new governor, indicating that the new country had been recognized by all the surrounding countries.
As if he was afraid that Tang Ning would be "unemployed" after stepping down as president of the German Confederation, after reaching a consensus in the four-party talks, Governor Lin gave Tang Ning the title of King of Goryeo, and Tang Ning could not refrain from resigning on the grounds that he did not know Korean at all. I had to get a job early.
It doesn't matter if you don't know Korean, Linfeld has recognized Korean as the official language of the country and vigorously promoted foreign language education, with Chinese, English, Japanese and Russian all focused. The Windsor Freemasons have spent a lot of money to set up Chinese schools, and since elementary school they have cultivated bilingual Koreans, natural Chinese is the top priority.
China, Japan, and Korea all have the habit of using Chinese characters, and the unification of Chinese characters will help the three countries communicate better.
Some things are better if they are not transparent, and Governor Hayashi learned from the discussions of the framers of the U.S. Constitution in strict secrecy, and formulated a tight-lipped policy for the "Chinese Character Committee", that is, the future introduction of the Three Kingdoms unified Chinese character standards, and the outside world will never know which ones were proposed by scholars of the Great Qing Dynasty, which were proposed by Japanese scholars, and which were proposed by Korean scholars.
It is easy to set standards, and it is not easy for the three governments to jointly implement and promote them in primary education, which is an almost impossible task. Downing is the most experienced in this area, as he has extended the almost impossible right-hand traffic rule to the world.
First of all, the big countries should have the demeanor of a great power, take the initiative to make concessions, so that the unique Chinese characters of Japan and South Korea have a slight upper hand, obviously, the Great Qing State gave a little concession, the Japanese State also gave a little concession, and finally the unique Chinese characters of the Goryeo Kingdom appeared in large numbers in the standard, so that the citizens of the small countries would not have so much resistance.
Second, there must be a very strong cultural monopoly responsible for promoting this standard, and this opportunity has just been born in the Internet. With the spread of the influence of the Internet, the bright future of "standard Chinese characters" is undoubtedly determined.
In order to help her complete this almost impossible task, Boss Tang will organize the "New Chinese Character Art Festival", inviting Chinese characters and calligraphy from the Qing Dynasty, Japan, Vietnam, Ryukyu, Siam, Myanmar, Malaya and other countries to participate, and transportation and accommodation are free. The key is to set up a pavilion in each country's largest cultural city, and the calligraphy works on display must contain at least one new Chinese character that is inconsistent with the original writing habits of the country.
The greater temptation is that calligraphers from all over the world have the opportunity to make their own electronic fonts, which can be used for the Internet, publishing, and art, not to mention making their own commercial fonts, and the fonts that are photographed by IBM will receive huge royalties every year, just like the original calligraphers in Singapore and Hong Kong made a lot of money for Chinese typewriters and telegraph typewriters.
The legend of the young painter Wu Changshuo's overnight riches due to his cooperation with the Windsor Foundation is still vivid, which shows how luring the new Chinese character art exhibition is.
In fact, many calligraphers have contributed to the development of standards, because the beauty of new Chinese characters is also an important indicator.
Most of the meetings of the Hanja Committee were held in Seoul, the capital of Goryeo, and now "Seoul" lives up to its name. Since it was the "Emperor Taishang" who decided to do it, the Japanese government held a hearing, and the Faculty decided to support the new kanji plan. The Great Qing State was not so easy to speak, and Li Hongzhang also held a hearing in the Great Qing Kingdom, and there were many opposing voices, so he did not implement the new standards.
The Qing Dynasty still had the mentality of the Heavenly Empire, and was unwilling to change its writing habits. Beijing was the cultural center of the Qing Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty's New Chinese Character Art Exhibition was held in Beijing, and many celebrities who could write well participated in the art exhibition, including Zeng Guofan, a member of the House of Lords, and Guo Songtao, a former auxiliary minister. Li Hongzhang has never been a rigid person, in order to be close to the people, and in order to ease the relationship with the Windsor Freemasonry, he also symbolically wrote a few words.
Surprisingly, Mr. Li's characters have attracted a lot of attention and become a big hit in the art exhibition. His handwriting is not bad, but the biggest reason for his popularity is that he was the first democratically elected governor and prime minister of the Qing Dynasty. In order to achieve the goal, Governor Lin has always been jealous of conspiracy, and she quietly set up the person in charge of the font of the company to make the font of Lord Li, which is useful.
As a result, Li Hongzhang received an invitation from IBM, and the specific content is that IBM has decided to make his characters into fonts, and if you are interested, please ask Mr. Li to write the commonly used new Chinese characters if he is fine, and his own relevant personnel will follow up, and then he will settle the royalties to Mr. Li every month according to the situation of the font being used.
To put it mildly, this is a bribe in disguise. After Li Hongzhang received the invitation telegram, he hesitated again and again, and the shadow of Wu Changshuo, the richest man in Hangzhou, was always flickering in front of him. Since the election of the people, it has become more and more difficult for officials to make money, and it is quite tempting for Li to have such an opportunity.
In the end, Master Li still gave up, anti-Windsor is his archway, and the archway must not be overturned. Unfortunately, the fish did not take the bait, and the Freemasons had to force the new Chinese characters on their own, and the Daqing Shimbun became the first newspaper to fully use the new Chinese characters, causing its sales to plummet, and the people were not used to this font, and it was uncomfortable to look at.
Downing is not in a hurry, the historical trend is mighty and unstoppable, the sales of newspapers will decline, and the growth will not slow down, right?
Governor Lim believed that the core of the development of the Goryeo Kingdom was the popularization of education, but also the construction of infrastructure, and there was no better place to do this than the "Sky Train", which was built quickly and cheaply, and was most suitable for a backward country like the Korean Peninsula. In addition to this rapidly built artery, capillary-like feeder roads were to be built, which were designed to facilitate flexible ground transportation, such as cars, motorcycles, bicycles, and unicycles.
Governor Lim had always been reliable, but she finally made a huge mistake, believing that a large number of hired laborers to build roads would suddenly increase employment in North Korea, which would be very beneficial to the economic development. Ms. Tang told her that this was a mistake that everyone usually makes, thinking that replacing machinery with manpower would increase employment and then drive the economy. If so, wouldn't the economy before the Industrial Revolution be stronger than it is now?
Contrary to intuitive common sense, the more mechanized it is, the better the economy, because it improves efficiency, and the service industry, which is beyond the reach of mechanization, is a good place to promote labor-intensive. Mechanization will free up labor, which will lead to more people in the service industry and a better society.
Deeply ashamed, Governor Lim was deeply ashamed and asked the new king of Goryeo to personally design the highest mechanized road construction project for the peninsula. Tang Ning had never personally dealt with the side path before, so he wouldn't worry about such a trivial matter personally, but in order to show his support for Governor Lin, he was actually interested.
After some thought, he realized that the most time-consuming part of the road construction process was leveling the land. So he decided to start here, and the solution was to use an airship to survey the route along the road, and use echo scanning to automatically map the entire road digitally, adapting the components of the road to the terrain.
For example, if there is a large rock on the road, which is likely to be a corner of a boulder that has been buried deeply, and it is very difficult to deal with, one possible treatment is to raise the road component as a whole and leave a cavity in it that is just enough to hold the stone, so that the road can be paved directly with custom-made components without having to deal with the stone.
Originally, the length of the prefabricated component was 8 meters wide and 3 meters long, so as to facilitate the transportation of two brick-moving wheelbarrows connected together, but if there is a large ravine in front, the component can be lengthened to 8 meters for it, and then the bridge will be erected. All the bridges along the line are also measured, unless it is particularly exaggerated, the factory can make dozens of tons of iron bridges, directly with airship cranes to the construction site, without the slightest delay in the construction period.
The naturally proud Goryeo highway network is full of "smart roads", and this is the first time in the world that smart roads have been deployed to so many small towns and even villages. The villagers had an extra program in the evening, which was to pass by to see the fluorescent highway that did not stop all night. There are also milestones every kilometer, all of which are fluorescent instead of stone monuments, with inscriptions such as "Pyongyang, 50 kilometers".
In recognition of the great achievements of His Majesty the King, the Governor of Goryeo called all the new roads built in this way the King's Highway, and digitized them according to the rules of the North and South and the East and West, such as King Highway No. 18.
There are almost no cars on the Korean Peninsula right now, and starting from scratch, the Peninsula will become the first car in the world where all cars must be self-driving in the I series, and the Governor-General's dream is to build the Peninsula into a fairytale country with zero traffic accidents. (http://)。
The people of the peninsula will soon discover that the Windsor Consortium was so committed to building the Goryeo Kingdom that they were so strong that they were so grateful that even Governor Lim felt that it was a bit excessive. She may think that this is because Master Tang is too fond of her, but in fact...... Another reason is that the Global Exploration Company has discovered rare earth metal ore in North Korea during this period of time, and its reserves are several times more than that of the Qing Dynasty, which was already the world's first, and Tangning suddenly raised the plan to develop Goryeo to a strategic position.
The role of rare earth in the development of high-tech is too great, such as: scandium can be used to make light high-temperature alloys, used in aerospace equipment, is aerospace, not aviation. One of the most desired raw materials for Master Tang, who is developing a satellite system. Lanthanum, for example, can be used to make glass with a high refractive index, and with it, Leica will remain one of the world's best cameras.
Praseodymium and neodymium are the most magnetic raw materials that can be used to make rare earth magnets, and they are the most magnetic, and they are the much-needed raw materials for Master Tang, who has been expanding the capacity of the suspended logistics pipeline in Fengniao City. There are also a large number of rare earth elements that can be used to make high-grade lasers and computer memory. Rare earth minerals are simply worth more than oil.