"Your Majesty, I'll see you at Shimazu for a long time!"

In the Nanjing Imperial Palace, the attendants reported to Yang Feng. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Let him wait first!"

Yang Feng sat at the table and said.

In front of him was a strange-looking machine, very simple but very mysterious, with his right hand on a small brass lever, and in his left hand a piece of paper with dots and short lines on it, and his right hand constantly moving the brass lever on or on the ground. On the left side of the brass lever is a metal box with many parts, and a special device pulls the strip of paper from a wheel wrapped in strips of paper from behind, and at the same time leaves the same symbol on the strip of paper as the one in his hand, and a thin wire is pulled out of the machine and dragged into the opposite room.

And around him, a large group of people were looking at him with serious faces.

Almost at the same time, His Majesty the Emperor's confidant, the eunuch Gonggong Gui, excitedly rushed out of the opposite room and shouted: "Long live the lord, long live the lord, that thing moved by itself!" ”

Well, this is cable telegraph.

The territory of the Ming Empire is getting wider and wider, and the speed of information transmission has become more and more a headache for His Majesty the Emperor, the ancient way of using stagecoaches has not kept up with the times, what happened in Beijing, he can only know after at least four days in Nanjing, and what happened in Nanyang, he can only know at least ten days later, and the same is true for his order transmission, as for what happened in the distant Golden State, it is even more terrifying, he has to know more than half a year later, so this problem must be solved.

But wireless telegraphy was a little early.

With the current technical level of Daming to engage in wireless telegraphy, if he does not open the hanging, it is still hopeless, but there is no problem with cable telegraphy at all, the one in front of him is the principle and design ideas he proposed, and then the professors of Yingtian University made it for him, including the supporting battery. Yang Feng uses lead-acid batteries, which have no pressure at all on the current level of Daming technology, and the basic knowledge of electricity has also become an important course in the university, including some experiments, but it is limited to some elementary things.

It is still too early to fully enter the era of electricity, the Ming Empire is not ready for this, and the industrial base is far from reaching.

But playing with cable telegraph is enough.

This thing is not high-tech, it is nothing more than to control the length of the current contact time, the current of the battery is transmitted to the receiver through the intermittent key, the receiver drives the paper strip to punch according to the electromagnetic mechanical structure, according to the point and stroke of the punch to determine the corresponding number from one to ten, and then according to the number corresponding to the page line on the codebook to determine the word, so that the word is knocked out, and finally the information that needs to be transmitted, this thing is so simple, the power provided by a battery is not enough, then the indirect force one, The switch is also driven by electromagnetic force.

That's what Morse did.

As for the remaining copper wires, it is not worth mentioning, and the rubber insulation layer is not worth mentioning, and his rubber trees will be able to start tapping rubber in three or four years at most, and before that, it is a big deal to use something else to top it first, and in these three or four years the scale of his cable telegraph network will not be too large, even if he buys some from Hyundai, or buys some from South America through the Universal, which is being planned, that is, the company he partners with Sweden, it is a big deal to teach them the technology of smoking, drying and making tobacco chips.

As for the submarine cable, he can't reach that level for the time being, and there is no problem at all with the system on land, and his railway system scheduling is also indispensable for this kind of thing.

Soon the dots on the piece of paper were entered by him one by one, and then Xiao Guizi took out the punched note from the room where the receiver was located, and Shao Tingcai next to him took the note, and quickly determined the corresponding numbers represented by the dotted and dashed line group above, and then took out the codebook written by Yang Feng himself, a group of three numbers corresponding to the number of pages, one corresponding to the number of lines, and one corresponding to the number of words, and soon all the words were found and then made up into a sentence.

"It's amazing!"

Shao Tingcai took out the original text that Yang Feng had sealed in the envelope, and immediately exclaimed as soon as he compared it with the translated text.

"Decree, the formal establishment of the Ministry of Posts and Communications, including the post road system and the telegraph system are all under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Posts and Communications, and you will temporarily act as the secretary of the Ministry of Posts and Communications, and immediately begin to build two telegraph lines from Nanjing to Beijing and Xi'an at the same time!"

Yang Feng said to Shao Tingcai.

"Your Honor!"

Shao Tingcai hurriedly said.

"Let's go, let's go meet Shimazu Hisaji!"

Yang Feng stood up and said to Han Qi, the secretary of the Ministry of State Affairs.

Shimazu Kuji is Shimazu Tsunaki's retainer, in fact, his younger brother, and the lord of Kajiki, a small town in the Satsuma Domain, this time he came as Shimazu Tsunaki's envoy, he didn't pretend to be forced in front of Yang Feng, and honestly lay on the ground and saluted.

"Flat!"

Yang Feng said expressionlessly.

"Last time, your people did a good job of rescuing the merchant ships of Shangguo, and when I go back and tell you that the feudal lord will be careful about Shangguo in the future, I will naturally be indispensable for his reward."

Then he added.

"Your Majesty, Foreign Minister!"

Shimazu Jiuji hurriedly lay there and said, only after finishing speaking, he stood up, stood aside with his head down, and at the same time Xiao Guizi sent the watch he was holding in his hand to Yang Feng. By the way, he also exposed and reported Tokugawa Tsunayoshi for being tyrannical and domineering, insulting the kingdom, colluding with the Tartars, and accommodating the Dutch, all in all, he listed a bunch of crimes, and righteously expressed that he was willing to crusade against this criminal minister for the heavenly kingdom, but hoped to get the help of the Ming navy, and also hoped that Emperor Yang could support a batch of arms, and after he defeated Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, he would be loyal to the Ming Dynasty and stand a good guard in the east for the Ming Dynasty.

Anyway, that's what it is.

Although Fang Heng hadn't come back at this time, Shimazu Tsunayoshi already knew that Tokugawa Tsunayoshi was going to switch, and he had purchased arms from Yang Feng on a large scale, he had killed Tokugawa's people before, and the latter would definitely not give up, but now he was just not ready, once Tokugawa Tsunayoshi obtained a large number of new arms, he was designated to do something to him, and cutting his fief was the lowest, not to mention that after the switch, he could no longer enjoy the exclusive benefits of smuggling, the financial route was broken, and the military advantage was gone, At that time, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi only needed a little time to play him to death.

If you don't want to be played to death, you can either clamp your tail and be a man, or simply give it a go.

And before he gives it a go, he needs to solve two problems, the first is to unite the other feudal domains on Kyushu Island, which he is already doing, but it will take a little time, after all, they are not good neighbors, and the second is to figure out Yang Feng's attitude, if Yang Feng helps Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, then he will wash and sleep, the Ming army fleet can kill him with a cannon, but if Yang Feng is neutral, then he has the strength to give it a go, if he can pull Yang Feng to his side, then he can basically go back to set off firecrackers, That's why this time it's so low-profile.

"I'm not interested in anything between you."

Yang Feng said very directly.

"I have four requirements for Tokugawa Tsunyoshi, and he has now completed two points, the Beiyang Fleet is loading the Dutch in Nagasaki, and his compensation has been paid, and there is still one month left to open all the ports along the coast, and in the other two months, Asahin will send his son to apologize, and as long as Tokugawa Tsunayoshi completes these two more things, I have no other requirements for him. As for the affairs between you, I will not interfere in this matter, if you have the ability, you will go to Luo to establish your own shogunate, and if you don't have the ability, you will wait for the destruction of Tokugawa Tsunyoshi, this has nothing to do with me, the Ming Dynasty has no obligation to meddle in the internal affairs of the subject country, no matter which of you is in charge of the Wa country, as long as you maintain deference to me. ”

Yang Feng then said.

"What if the foreign minister continues to buy weapons from the kingdom?"

Shimazu asked tentatively.

"I've made it very clear, as long as you keep your deference to me."

Yang Feng said.

Well, Shimazu Hisaki understands, as long as he pretends to be a grandson in front of him, he can buy whatever weapons and ammunition he wants, which means that Yang Feng will not interfere in their war with Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, and he will not stop selling all kinds of arms to them because of this, of course, His Majesty the Emperor is estimated to sell to Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, but the premise is that Tokugawa Tsunayoshi has to complete the remaining two.

Open ports.

And let the emperor send the prince to apologize!

If it can't be done, then the Ming army will continue to beat Tokugawa Tsunayoshi.

Well, Shimazu Kuki also understands what the Shimazu family should do next, as long as the emperor is not allowed to apologize, and this doesn't seem to be too difficult!

Yang Feng looked at this guy sinisterly.

He was digging a pit, a pit that pushed the Wa Kingdom into the abyss of civil war, and the southwestern feudal clans led by the Satsuma Domain, because they purchased a large number of new arms from him, and their combined strength had surpassed that of the Shogunate, and the Shimazu family itself hired retired officers of the Ming Army to train an iron artillery team of 3,000 people, which was comparable to the European army at this time, and the Satsuma, Kumamoto, Fukuoka, and Choshu feudal clans combined could even make up a European standard infantry division, which was enough to sweep the Wa Kingdom.

It's just that they're not cornered yet.

But now it's about the same.

Once all the ports were opened, the southwestern feudal domains would not be able to monopolize the benefits of the Ming and Japanese trades, and their financial routes would be cut off, and they would no longer be able to expand their armies.

However, after Tokugawa Tsunayoshi established friendly relations with the Ming Dynasty, he could buy a large amount of arms from this side, and then form a new army like the southwestern feudal clans had done before, and it would not take a few years to overwhelm the southwestern feudal domains again. Others don't say it, Shimazu Tsunamo, who has already killed his subordinates, can't run first, and all this is inevitable, it just takes a little time, and this time is Shimazu Tsunaki's only chance.

Get started.

At this time, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi was the weakest. (To be continued.) )