On the third day of the second month, Denglai Institute of Technology!

Suddenly, a burst of cheers came from the telegram team, and the members of the telegram research team ran out of the house shouting, "It's done, it's done..."

Zhao Yan was watching the performance with the three girls of Yuan'er, Yan Yuyao and Shalena. Suddenly, Zhao Yan's guard captain Hong Furen walked in and said in Zhao Yan's ear: "Report to the general, the Academy of Sciences sent someone to say that the telegram research has been successful."

"Success?" Zhao Yan was stunned when he heard the news, and then showed a bright smile and nodded, "Let's go there later."

"Husband, what's wrong?" Yuan'er asked Zhao Yan, and Yan Yuyao said, "Looking at how happy your husband is smiling, there must be good news."

"Yes, the Academy of Sciences sent someone to report that the telegram was developed." Zhao Yan was very happy and reached out to hold his hand on the waists of the two women Yuan'er and Yan Yuyao.

"Telecom? Is it the one that can convey information quickly?" Shalena asked with her head stretched out, and Zhao Yan nodded and said, "That's right, with telegram, it will be much more convenient to convey information in the future."

"Husband, it seems that you will be busy with government affairs in the future." Yan Yuyao smiled. Yuan'er didn't understand very well. Yan Yuyao explained: "With the telegram, the information is transmitted so quickly. If there is anything you have, you can ask the central government for instructions at any time. Even if the local officials' request is thrown to others, they will ask the husband for instructions when they are fighting outside."

"Yeah! Yes!" Yuan'er nodded, "Then let's work hard!"

Zhao Yan smiled and said, "As soon as the telegram comes out, it is not only for administrative purposes. It is also very convenient for business. For example, if a certain product is at a certain place, you can know the news, what disasters occur in a place, and what prices will affect the prices of the products, and you can also quickly learn about it."

"Husband, you are such a wealthy lover." Yan Yuyao said mischievously.

"You are not a lover of money, but you can't afford to support your family~!"

"Oh! The "Loyalty for the Country" written by my husband is about to start singing." Yuan'er saw that the band had already walked on the stage and quickly reminded Zhao Yan quickly concentrated.

During this period, Zhao Yan produced a lot of musical instruments, and he had complete various performance instruments. After training in performance for several months, he was able to skillfully use new instruments.

Today, the song "Loyalty for the Country" was sung in the Opera House for the first time.

"The wolf smoke rises, the country looks north, the dragon rises, the horses are neighing, the sword energy is like frost, the heart is like the vast water of the Yellow River, who can fight each other for twenty years? Hate and desire are crazy, the sword is aimed at, how many loyal souls are buried in the foreign land, how to cherish the death of a hundred deaths to repay the family and country, bear to sigh, and even speechless, blood and tears are filled with eyes... The horse's hooves go south, people look north, grass is green and yellow dust is flying, I am willing to defend the territory and open the border again, China wants to let all directions... come to congratulate!"

The singer on the stage finished singing "Loyalty for the Country" in his loud and majestic voice. There was silence in the theater. After a while, an extremely warm applause suddenly sounded. The applause lasted for nearly half a minute before slowly stopping.

This is a patriotic song singing Yue Fei's deeds, and it opened a new chapter in the entertainment industry of the Ming Dynasty and created a new singing faction.

At the same time, the song "Loyalty for the Country" quickly spread throughout Zhaojiabao. People rushed to the opera house, and the opera house had to step up training of singers. Later, the song was widely circulated and spread to the entire Ming Dynasty by various art groups.

After listening to the songs he plagiarized, Zhao Yan was very satisfied with the level of plagiarism, which was in line with the artistic aesthetics of people in this era. He went to the Academy of Sciences with his three wives to visit the latest telegrams developed with his three wives.

After leaving the opera house, the guards pulled over the latest carriage made by Zhao Yan. It was a luxurious carriage. Although it was not inlaid with gold and silver, the carriage was made of sandalwood.

This carriage is not a traditional two-wheeled carriage, but a four-wheeled carriage. The outside of the carriage is painted purple, and there is a soft blanket in the place where you ride. This is a blanket wool made of Tibetan antelope wool. The seats of the carriage are two rows, and six people can sit. The one who pulls the carriage in front is three handsome tall white horses, the kind that doesn’t have a single hair.

In fact, this carriage didn't cost much. The raw materials sounded quite scary, but in fact they were very cheap. Rosewood was in stock in the Ming Dynasty. The wool of Tibetan antelope was ripped by Lu Xiangsheng when he was playing Tufan. As for those horses, there were already more than a dozen good horses in Zhao Yan's stable.

There is no technical name for four-wheeled carriages, and there is no technical gap between two-wheeled carriages in China. The popular two-wheeled carriages in China are because China has a complex terrain and two wheels are more practical. Europeans are popular with four-wheeled carriages because Europe is very flat and the four wheels will not be too bumpy.

Now that the transportation in Shandong has improved, there are many four-wheeled carriages. Most of the carriages produced by Shandong's carriage manufacturers now have four-wheeled carriages.

Zhao Yan and his three wives got on the carriage. The white horse in front pulled the carriage, and the horse's hooves stepped on the cement road and made a crisp sound of ticacies.

The sun was very bright. When passers-by saw the carriage coming, they saluted them one after another.

Zhao Yan sat in the carriage, feeling the slight shaking of the wheels driving on the road, and suddenly realized that he might be about to complete his goal during the journey.

It's soon, but it's still very long.

Even if science and technology are prosperous and the troops are strong, the nation still needs guidance, and the system is the most important thing.

When he arrived at the Academy of Sciences, Zhao Yan met the telegram developed.

The telegraph team excitedly demonstrated to Zhao Yan that a wire hundreds of meters long connected the telegraph at both ends. The telegraph team took out the codebook and compared it to the other side to shoot "Long live the Han people".

After a while, the telegrapher on the other side translated the information sent here based on the codebook.

"Long live the Han people!"

"It's very good, but how far can the signal of this telegram be transmitted now?" Zhao Yan asked the telegram team.

"Report to General, we haven't tried it yet."

"Yeah! Try it as soon as possible and find a way to enhance the signal."

"I wonder what revelation does the general have?"

"The mirror can reflect the sunlight." Zhao Yan just said casually. He really didn't understand the in-depth principle. He just saw that when he was reading the short story of telegram history, the British man set up the undersea cable. Finally, someone saw the mirror and suddenly a flash of inspiration. After that... he didn't know.

On this day, the Academy of Sciences held a carnival. Zhao Yan rewarded the telegraph group with 50,000 taels of silver. Journalists from various newspapers from Shandong came and reported on the telegraph.

Within a few days, the Institute of Science and Technology tested the strength of the telegram signal. With the current telegram technology, it is no problem to walk three or four thousand kilometers, but it is impossible to walk tens of thousands of kilometers.

According to the test transmission speed, it takes 25 minutes to transmit from Zhaojiabao to Xi'an.

"Well, it's okay to use telegrams in the local area now." Zhao Yan nodded after reading the report and said to Yan Yuyao: "I ordered the telegram team to start the telegram setting work. We must build a complete telegram network in the entire Ming Dynasty, and divide it into three systems: military, government and civilians."

Yan Yuyao nodded, picked up her pen and wrote the seal order, and then issued it.

After receiving the order, the telegraph team immediately began to organize the establishment of the telegraph network. The first ones were naturally military telegraph lines and administrative telegraph lines.

The production of telegraph wires was also put on the desk, and Denglai Bank immediately invested 100,000 taels to establish a telegraph manufacturing plant, and also manufactured telegraph wires.

As soon as the telegram appeared, all intellectuals in Shandong were excited.

Chongzhen was once again as if he was thrown into a cold palace. According to newspaper reports, as soon as the telegram appeared, the central government could directly control the local area.

It can also remotely control the battle situation.

Chongzhen felt a little disappointed when passing on information about war, if he had acted, would Zhaojiabao receive the news immediately?

As soon as Zhaojiabao received the news, he immediately issued an order by telegram and used a train to transfer the troops stationed elsewhere back within two or three days.

The more Chongzhen thought about it, the more disheartened he became. Empress Zhou comforted him, "Why should the emperor fight? Isn't the Ming Dynasty very good now?"

"This is the family business of our ancestors. Can't I fight?" Chongzhen said loudly, feeling a little excited for a moment. Empress Zhou hurriedly caressed Chongzhen's back and whispered: "Master, but we can't fight, we just want the eggs to meet stones, and the only one who suffers in the end is the eggs."

"I..." Chongzhen covered his chest, his breath was extremely unbearable. He sighed for a while and said, "It's all my fault that I didn't see through this traitor at the beginning."

"Emperor, if Zhao Yan was a traitor, I'm afraid we wouldn't have even had such a date." Empress Zhou sighed. He understood what her husband meant. He was an emperor who wanted to revitalize his ancestors' gloriousness, but his talent was not high, and the Ming Dynasty was already a mess when he ascended the throne.

"Am I just watching him take away the thousands of miles of land that my ancestors have built?"

"I may not want it." Queen Zhou said.

"What do you know, a woman? It was the first thing he did not want to do at the beginning. It does not mean that he did not want it in the future. If I don't fight, wouldn't I let it slaughter?" Chongzhen said angrily.

Empress Zhou hurriedly supported Chongzhen and calmed down his emotions. Empress Zhou then spoke, "Master, we can't fight now. If he wants to sit in this position, it's better to think of a way to have the best of both worlds."

"There is only one position, where can we get the best of both worlds?" Chongzhen said angrily.

"Emperor, Mom is already twelve years old and will get married in a few years. If he really has a mind about magical artifacts, it is better to marry Mom to him. This Ming Dynasty can be protected and the blood of his ancestors can be protected. Although Zhao Yan is a little bolder, at least he still has a bottom line for the emperor." Queen Zhou suddenly suggested.

"Let me be the emperor?" Chongzhen snorted coldly after hearing this: "I don't know who wins and who loses."

"The emperor said it." Empress Zhou saw that the emperor was not angry and knew that the emperor would eventually consider this retreat.

Chongzhen is indeed not a fool. Zhao Yan is like Zhongtian now. If he plays with forbearance, his life will not be longer than Zhao Yan. If he plays with force, Zhao Yan not only has more soldiers than him, but also has stronger than his. Now the train is here and the telegram is here. All kinds of incredible things are here.

Zhao Yan mastered these powerful tools, and he had less and less chance of winning.

"Maybe I should think about how to preserve the throne, instead of thinking about taking back the world." Chongzhen thought to himself at night, but he was unwilling to give up and quickly overturned this idea.

There is still a struggle, but we can't argue! At the worst, send your daughter out and give up the throne. The royal bloodline can still be preserved.

...Denglai Science and Technology Academy's research blossomed everywhere at the beginning of the year. First, the powerful yellow gunpowder was developed in terms of gunpowder and explosives, and then the birth of telegrams.

Soon the first thermal power plant was successfully built 20 miles south of Zhaojiabao.

Thermal power plants are not particularly complicated. They also use the principle of steam engines to make the turbine rotate, and then electricity is generated. Hydropower uses the potential energy of water to make the turbine rotate, thereby generating electricity.

The telephone poles soon appeared in Zhaojiabao, the wires were pulled to various streets, and the lights were also installed on various streets.

The demand for coal in Shandong is growing every day, and now the small coal mines in Shandong can no longer support it. Coal has begun to be transported from Handan, and the transportation method is still based on horse-drawn carriages. The cost of transporting by horse-drawn carriages is not too high. After all, there are more horses and more horse-drawn carriages.

The freight is that of horse materials and horse rushing fees. A groom can also get a lot of things if he gives him a salary of 2 taels of silver dollars a month.

Some coal is transported from North Korea, and North Korea also has a lot of coal. North Korea's coal is mainly anthracite, which is different from the coal production in Handan.

The steam engine uses bituminous coal, and anthracite is used to make fire and cook.

However, as the demand for coal continues to increase, transportation by horse-drawn carriages is obviously not the case, and the coal production in Handan cannot keep up.

Therefore, in the construction of the railway, the Zhaotai Railway from Shandong to Shaanxi has been focused on paving since the beginning of the year. The roadbed of this railway has been completed, so it is almost impossible to lay the rails.

The steel base in Handan has produced enough rails to pave the Zhaotai Railway. The rails required for the Jingpu Railway and the railways from North Korea to Shenyang and Shenyang to Jingcheng are still in production.

It is expected that these railways can be repaired this year. At that time, coal from Shanxi can be transported back to Shandong, Northeast China, and North Korea's livestock, soybeans, steel, coal mines and other resources can be transported to Shandong, or transported south to Pukou, and then shipped to the entire Yangtze River Basin.

...Outside the Institute of Science and Technology, many merchants come to the Institute of Science and Technology to apply for patent authorization.

Recently, when the telegram appeared, many merchants planned to open a telegram office, especially those business groups. They were jointly operated and did not value the profits of telegrams, but looked at the speed of transmission of messages. For a merchant, the speed of information transmission is very important.

And with telegrams, it is very convenient to conduct business.

Shandong Zhengfu allowed private telegraphs, but it was only within the Ming Dynasty, and it also severely warned merchants not to bring telegraph technology to other countries.

This harsh warning is not a joke. Those merchants will not be idle and send telegrams to other countries. It is enough to lay telegrams in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, which can achieve their goals.

A privately run telegraph bureau must be connected to the official telegraph bureau and must adopt the model of the official telegraph bureau. Of course, better services can be added, but the service items that the official telegraph bureau must have, and the information transmission is a service subject. If the service attitude is too poor, the qualification will be revoked.

This is a good way to save money.

At this time, the telegram was still wired. Although the cost investment was not too large, if the line was laid across the country, the cost would be relatively large.

If there are businessmen investing, there is no need to spend money on this aspect. In terms of investment, the investment will be part of the investment, and the private investment will be partly invested, and this telegram network can be established.
To be continued...