Chapter 743: Dongying Situation

Drip ......! The sound is crisp and pleasant, making people feel drunken and dizzy. Chen Fan's research took a shortcut, and the report he handed in was packed into several boxes, very simple things, and it took nearly two years to complete the copy. The technical principle is completely thorough, not simply able to use, you must know that Wu Qi brought a hand-cranked phone, but did not bring a telegraph.

A copy is sent to the table, and the Arabic numerals correspond to the words on the Shuowen Jie Zi. Because I had to look through it word by word, the translation process was a bit slow, and Chen Xie had the idea for this detail, and waited for them to translate it quietly. Chen Fan took the translated telegram and handed it over: "After the translation, it is two sentences from a Tang poem." Chen Xie took it and took a look, two yellow orioles were singing weeping willows, and a line of egrets was in the sky.

"Send a message over there, congratulations on success, you have created an era! This great initiative of the new era shines on the history of the development of science and technology of the Chinese nation and will be remembered in the annals of history! -- Chen Xiezhi rights researcher! When Chen Fan heard this, he banged, and blood rushed to his brain. It's the first time I've grown so big and received such a high degree of recognition from my father!

Trembling hands, recording this text, Chen Fan personally stepped forward, asked the dispatcher to get up, sat down himself, calmed down after taking a deep breath, first compiled the text into numbers, and then hit it with trembling hands. After the telegram was sent, after waiting for less than ten minutes, the call back came, and after the translation was completed, Chen Fan read in a trembling tone: "Long live the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!" ”

With just such a statement, Chen Xie knew that at least one person over there was a member of the Fuxing Society. Shi yàn succeeded, Chen Xie smiled and raised his hands to applaud. Now everyone is following, and the applause is thunderous! In a few moments, the applause stopped! Chen Xie walked to the middle. The crowd held their breath and waited for him to speak.

"From the military wharf at the mouth of Dagu to here, it is about thirty miles. It takes half an hour to get the news from the fastest horse. Just now, I witnessed a great moment, in the blink of an eye. The delivery of the message is complete. I think everybody knows what that means. Congratulations to Chen Fan and his companions! You have created history and started the journey of replacing miracles with the light of science and technology! ……。 ”

The sea breeze is blowing, and it is rare for the father and son to walk side by side, and the hard ground on the side of the railway is walking slowly. The extension of the railway is the end of the line of sight, and after standing still, Chen Xie suddenly turned around and smiled: "Son, I'm proud of you!" Chen Fan's reaction was like that of a drunk. He laughed dumbly. Chen Xie stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder and said, "Let's get ready to do a big job, starting from Liaodong, and paving the telegraph line." You're going to bring out a team, not a dozen people fighting like it is now. By the way, there are more advanced telegraph technology materials in the study, and I hope you can study wireless telegraphy on the basis of cable telegraphy. ”

Chen Fan nodded vigorously: "This is my son's lifelong goal!" Chen Xie smiled. He walked forward with his hands behind his back for a while before he said, "I just thought that you were translating the code. It is necessary to use "Shuo Wen Jie Zi". I have a small suggestion, I might as well select some commonly used words and compile them into a special codebook, which can improve the speed of translating messages. ”

Chen Fan nodded vigorously again, and even took out a small notebook from his pocket and quickly recorded it. I glanced at the traditional Chinese characters. Chen Xie frowned slightly, and said in his heart that he would make a simplified Chinese character and promote it in overseas alliances?

At this moment, Chen Zilong hurried over, after a whisper. Chen Xie nodded and said, "I know, I'll come." ”

Chen Zilong left, Chen Xie turned back to Chen Fan and said, "Look, I can't talk to you for a while, there are too many things." After you go back, don't rush to lay the line. Make a plan and arrange the entire development route as a whole. The first is the cultivation of talents, and everything is inseparable from people. At the same time, it is possible to start the preparation of planning routes and funds. I build yì you, laying lines along the railway is the best way, so that the railway group is in a bit of a hurry, and you have to take care of your business. For the problem of funds, you go to your eldest brother. The second is the question of the specific work and how to operate. Finally, I can tell you for sure that this is a profitable deal. ”

Seeing off Chen Fan, who was full of agitation, when Chen Xie returned to the special train, Tokugawa's envoy Masayuki Hoshina was already waiting here, and when he saw Chen Xie coming, he stepped forward quickly, and knelt down three steps away, saying: "Masayuki Baoke has seen Grandpa Chen and His Excellency the Speaker of the Parliament!" ”

Chen Xie stood silently in place, didn't say anything about helping him up, and stared quietly for a while before walking into the car, looking very rude. Baoke Masashi didn't dare to make any moves, kept a posture on the ground, and waited until Chen Xie got into the car before daring to raise his head slightly. Chen Zilong saw clearly on the side, Mr. Sihua is not rude, is this the so-called Huayi? Don't you have to give these foreign ministers a good face? After counting the events of the previous dynasty, whether it is Dongying or Goryeo, they all have respectful expressions and seek a corner of peace, and the so-called tributes are all made and go back.

In the past, foreign policy has always been the focus of Chen Xie's opposition, and in the past, when he wanted to make a name for himself, Chen Xie's situation has become a focus on practical interests. In the past, the practice of taking the state's money in exchange for the praise of some foreign vassals no longer exists. After experiencing the years when the country was poor in Chongzhen, a considerable number of Ming officials became very pragmatic.

Of course, Baoke Masayuki would not go to Beijing to meet those Wenchen, his goal was very clear, that is, to come to Chen Xie.

As the mastermind behind Japan's civil strife, how could Chen Xie not know the situation in Japan, it can be said that he knows everything about it.

Chen Zilong helped Baoke Masayuki up, and said in a complaining tone: "The shogunate is too uncompetitive, in the past ten years, it has borrowed millions of silver yuan and purchased countless ordnance, but it has not been able to quell the civil strife. And the shitty emperor of Japan, who dares to be called the emperor in a place with a big palm, is really a frog at the bottom of the well. Daming has his own affairs, and it is not good to interfere too much in Dongying's internal affairs, and he expected General Tokugawa to solve the famous and deceitful generation, but he never thought that it would be like this now. ”

Japan has been in the midst of a civil war all these years, and this is Chen Xie's established policy. After the bombardment of Edo, Chen Xie judged that the time was not yet ripe to solve the Japanese problem. After all, it is a long-closed country with its own culture and customs. There is always a certain rejection of foreign things, and if the Japanese problem is solved by force at that time, a lot of energy will inevitably be expended in Japan, which is full of vitality. This undoubtedly slowed down Chen Xie's overseas expansion, so he adopted a strategy to drain Japan's vitality. The Emperor of Japan, with the support of the powerful feudal clans led by the Choshu Domain and the Satsuma Domain, fled from Edo and raised the banner to exterminate the Buchen.

Tokugawa sent troops to suppress it, and the two armies fought fiercely many times, winning and losing each other, but they were helpless against each other, forming a stalemate situation. In this way, the shogunate was not the most powerful force in history to control the whole country, and after the Satsuma clan captured Nagasaki, it opened an account for trade with the Ming Dynasty, thereby obtaining funds and arms. As a result of the civil strife, a large number of Japanese civilians fled their homes and embarked on the road to Nanyang to survive. The two factions in Japan, which were poor in resources, kept borrowing, constantly mortgaging, and constantly purchasing arms, and the result was a hunchback, which became heavier and heavier. In the case of Cheung Chau and Satsuma, everything that could be sold was sold, and the most important foreign trade was not what was the product, but the population. Naturally, the population came from in the shogunate's territory, and many of the people who fled were sold.

Because of the long-term civil war, the people's livelihood in Japan withered, the people were displaced, and the burden on the civilian population was heavy. The result is that the two sides are getting poorer and poorer and the population is getting smaller and smaller. In the last two years, the tide of the war has changed dramatically, and the shogunate army has lost large swathes of territory after successive defeats on the battlefield. Speaking of which, the emperor is still marketable in Japan, and under the banner of the emperor, the powerful people from all walks of life led by the Nagasu and Satsuma feudal clans have continued to advance, and now they have hit the vicinity of Edo.

Tokugawa Iemitsu was not stupid at all, and knew that the role played by the Ming Dynasty was ill-intentioned, so he was reluctant to ask the Ming to send troops to intervene. It's a pity that he can't take care of so much now, and the hundred miles outside Edo Castle are the vanguard of the alliance forces of the various domains. Therefore, he urgently sent Baoke Zhengzhi to Daming, asked to see Chen Xie, and asked Daming to send troops to intervene in the Japanese civil war.

Seeing the female ninja at the door, Masayuki Hoshina's mood eased a little, indicating that Chen Xie still had the intention of supporting the shogunate. Otherwise, how could you keep these female ninjas sent by the shogunate by your side? Speaking of Tokugawa, the general's nest, in order to borrow money to suppress the rebels in the country over the years, everything that can be mortgaged has been mortgaged, and the human trade has also reached the point where it will not continue, otherwise the Japanese population will be sold out to him. Over the years, the shogunate alone has sold 2 million people, all of whom are young men and women. How many people is there in Japan? What is the proportion of young men and women? In today's Japan, there are no more people and less land, but many places are deserted.

What is the concept of a country like Japan where a large area of land is barren? This means that one-third of the Japanese population has fled the country, and most of these fleeing people are young and able, and the rest are children, and the proportion of the elderly is very small. This is a terrible thing, and it can be said that Japan is now in the terminal stage of cancer.

Chen caused a lot of harm to Japan, and he also put on an angry face. Bao Kezheng knew it, but he could only pinch his nose and bend his head, and when he saw Chen Xie, he had to kneel down and plead: "Your Excellency, please agree to the request of the next one, otherwise you will not be able to complete the task, and you will have to apologize for your guilt." (To be continued......)