Chapter 580.

Seeing Zhu still confused.

Zhang Anshi then had to smile bitterly and continue to explain, “Your Majesty, I am confident that I can shorten the transmission of messages from all over the world to less than an hour.”

Zhang Anshi understands Zhu, if you explain other terms to him, he may not understand, but if you talk about the effects of this stuff, Zhu can immediately get it all together.

Only, Zhu Di was still in shock at this point.

You know, in this era when you still need to rely on fast horses to deliver messages, what is the concept of delivering messages within an hour?

Even at the foot of the heavens, if you want to pass the news from the capital to the Jiangsu province in the southern Zhili, fast horseback, at least two days and a night time is needed.

For that matter, it’s still a relatively ideal situation; after all, manpower and horsepower, in the middle of the road, are subject to change at any time.

It could be a downpour or an unexpected situation that could lengthen that delivery.

This was still at the foot of the Son of Heaven, and if it was farther away, it would be even more so.

The so-called mountain high emperor far away, in fact, is the truth, not to mention the other, only from the capital to the Sichuan Buzhengji, fast horse needs half a month’s time, if it is round trip, it takes a month or two of time, once the Sichuan Buzhengji any special circumstances, the local government, need to wait for the court a month or two later to get instructions, and in the process, things may have long since started a new change.

It’s so fast and furious that no one knows what will come out of the back of the room!

Since the Qin, the world opened up the county, this successive dynasties of the territory, has been confined to the Han land, to some extent, both because, to the north is the polar region and the desert, to the south is the continuous primitive forests as well as 100,000 mountains, east of the sea, west of the Gobi as well as the desert.

That is to say, the ancestors had extended the frontier to all the places suitable for farming, and the rest of the desert and the great mountains and the ice fields were really not of much value.

But on the other hand, it is also because this bureaucracy, which has been refined and improved over the generations, has also reached its limits.

Do not think that bureaucracy is a derogatory term, in fact, in the thousands of years of agricultural society, this set of counties from the Qin Dynasty, the evolution of the county, the bureaucracy, from the court to the local, from the Ministry of the court to the local three departments, from the selection of talents in the imperial examinations, and then to the Chidao and the passing stage, this is almost a set of this era, this productivity, under the most sophisticated system of administration, this system of civil officials, is absolutely called the miracle of the period of agricultural civilization. This kind of civil government system is definitely a miracle in the period of agricultural civilization.

Just how sophisticated the system is, and how it can unite and operate a world of tens of thousands of miles and territories, does not mean that it has no limitations.

And that limitation is productivity.

Once there is a system where the post can be transmitted within an hour, then …… it is bound to be completely different.

If the railroad is the skeleton, then this thing, of necessity, is the nerves and veins of the whole body!

It ensures that, at any time, the imperial court can be informed of the situation in the states and counties of the world and respond quickly.

For the military, Zhu is more able to empathize, because Zhu knows better than anyone else that the essence of the military, the most test is precisely the ability to dispatch and rally.

Once the war starts, if the soldiers and horses of each ministry are like arms and legs, and the armies and horses of each road, which quickly get the order to assemble, can completely destroy each other directly before the other party has begun to mobilize.

Since ancient times, no one in the world has been better at soldiering than Han Xin, who once told Liu Bang that His Majesty would have no more than 100,000 soldiers, and when Liu Bang asked how many soldiers and horses he could command, Han Xin replied that more is better for me.

Thus, it left the idiom of Han Xin counting his troops for more and more.

Here, in fact, reveals the fundamental problem of military talent, under the current conditions of communication, in fact, any general, to lead a large army, is not easy, after all, 100,000 or even hundreds of thousands of troops, divided into towns in various parts of the country, it is impossible to crowd together.

To accomplish a meeting, then, a truly qualified general is necessarily in the midst of the drapery. To the maps, he communicates his orders to the various departments, where the vanguard is now, and where it should arrive in a few days. How many troops and horses are on the left road, when should they leave and when will they arrive at the predetermined position, as well as the rear road, the right road, and the center army and men in reserve, this is not a simple arithmetic problem.

Because once the order has been given, you don’t know if the message has been delivered, or, if their army, has set out, or, if they have encountered the enemy.

In fact, you don t know anything, you can only be in the tent, quietly waiting for the other side in a few days, to send the latest information, and you …… have to be under this various changes of circumstances, and then redeploy.

Just these deployments, may not be useful, because you may be in the process of deployment, the various road, in fact, has been a new change, you let the right road to attack, and when you make a good decision, may be the right road but the whole army has been wiped out.

The scary thing is that when your right has been overthrown and your flanks are completely exposed to the enemy, you are still oblivious to it, still pointing to the opinion map, in the delusion that your right army will launch an attack a few days later and everything will be fine.

It can be said that all military successes and failures are, in a sense, decided in the course of one message after another.

History, there are many cases, even if it is the Tumu Fort mutiny, the Warat people have been killed in front of, has been and many of the Ministry of the army, but in fact, is located in the center of the army of the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, is still ignorant, thinking that he was surrounded by countless military protection, and wait until the various armies to come from the news of the defeat, the center of the army want to run away, in fact, has been too late.

What kind of person is Zhu Di, he knows very well that with such a thing, not only can he quickly know the situation of the various armies and horses, but he can also detect the enemy’s movements at any time according to the scouts of the various armies and horses.

This also means that the fog of war, thoroughly one-sided and transparent, and your control over the military horse has been greatly enhanced.

If this is true, then …… everyone can be Han Xin, the Soldier Immortal.

Even that punk Li Jinglong could be the God of War, Bai Qi.

Of course, not only this, above the battlefield, the vast majority of failures, in a sense, is that the various ministries of men and horses, at any time waiting for the commander-in-chief’s instructions to act. And once the news is not delivered in time, then the various ministries and horses, often do not dare to act rashly, for fear that perhaps their own recklessness, will destroy the whole situation.

But this …… precisely leads to, many of the war opportunities are missed, these rigid and sluggish soldiers and horses, even if there are 300,000, 500,000, 800,000, claiming to throw the whip to break the stream, in fact, it is only a useless number.

Historically, countless instances of battles fought with fewer men essentially stem from this; it is not the case that a large number of soldiers can be victorious; the more soldiers and horses there are, the higher the cost of organization and message delivery.

Those people in history like Bai Qi and Han Xin stand out simply because …… they have a very horrible control.

And such a person is simply not to be found, only one in a hundred years.

More than anyone else, Zhu Di, who is aware of the depths of this above, at this time, his heart could not help but carry a few points of excitement, he could not help but take a deep breath, his face reddened.

And that’s just for the court’s control of the world’s counties, and the huge advantage it can gain over the military.

And business ……

Yes, Zhang Anshi these days, in the exchange call the shots, if there really is such a thing, then Zhang Anshi really do not collude with the possibility of profit.

It is impossible, just because Zhang Anshi got the news faster than others, so …… say he is guilty, right?

This is simply bright, not to mention Zhu Di, even those merchants, if they knew about this situation, they would have absolutely nothing to say.

“Your Majesty, Your Majesty ……”

Seeing Zhu frowning out of concentration, Zhang Anshi couldn’t help but call out again and again.

Zhu Di, on the other hand, frowned distractedly, “Silence, I’ll think about it again.”

Zhang Anshi had to stand obediently without saying anything.

At this moment, only Zhu Di knew that countless thoughts, just like lightning, swept through Zhu Di’s mind.

After a long time, Zhu Di opened his eyes fiercely, with an unusually solemn expression, and said under his breath, “Is there such a divine object?”

Zhang Anshi, who was standing aside waiting for Zhu Di, immediately said with a firm voice, “Yes.”

Zhang Anshi replied with great certainty.

Zhu Di narrowed his eyes, and made a decision on the spot: “Set up a drive to the Song Wangfu, I want to personally verify, if the fruit is really so ……”

Speaking here, Zhu Di looked deeply at Zhang Anshi, and then slowly said, “Then, it is to give all the internal money to Zhang Qing, I also have no regrets.”

At this time, Zhu Di’s mind, care, is no longer the so-called internal money.

In his head, there are only four words that go around like a horse light, and that is …… a thousand generations.

Not bad, once that happens, then it really is a thousand years, which is simply unthinkable.

Such as the Fujian Provincial Government Department, if a rebellion, the court can be through such a post, quickly learn the news, and within one or two hours, decisively issued the order to quell the rebellion, and even within this time, can also mobilize the military, know all the information thousands of miles away.

What kind of rebellion is that?

Zhang Anshi said with a flattered face, “Your Majesty …… is overstated.”

Zhu said, “It’s still too early to say that words are too strong, let’s go, let’s leave now.”

Zhu Di appeared to be a bit anxious, and immediately, he led the crowd to depart.

Xie Jin and Hu Guang two people accompany the driver, of course, there are Zhang Ren and so on.

Along the way, Hu Guang slightly hung his head down with a few distractions, but from time to time, he secretly went to see his son Hu Mu.

Xie Jin walked right next to him, since his reaction in the eyes, so whispered: “Hu Gong do not have to worry, this time …… may not only can turn the danger into peace, and may …… even have a great merit. ”

Hu Guang froze, then said, “Is this …… this …… possible?”

He said a bit unconvincingly, “This clairvoyance and compliant ears are only found in the ancient times, right?”

Xie Jin face shows a few minutes of speechless color, can not help but spit out: “Don’t be silly, the ancient times, there is no, if there is, the world is still afraid of the three emperors and five emperors. This is the foundation of the foundation of the world, really have …… that’s still good?”

Hu Guang could not help but murmur, “Ten thousand generations of foundation ……”

On the contrary, Xie Jin, but at this time thought of something, if thoughtfully said, “If there really is such a thing, if …… can be in Java ……”

Xie Jin’s face looked shifty, he could no longer care about Hu Guang, his thoughts began to drift.

For Xie Jin, the decision to live in Java must be a huge risk.

But Xie Jin was not a peaceful person, he longed for, not just by the book.

He desperately pushed the New Deal in the court, in essence, it is actually clear that the survival of Java is closely related to the New Deal, and the survival of Java is the survival of the Xie family.

If the Xie Clan wants to obtain the capital to continue its lineage for ten million years, everything depends on it.

In the midst of the crowd’s varying minds, the Song Wangfu, soon arrived.

Zhu went in first.

This Song Wang Fu, is not just a feudal king’s residence, in essence, according to the system of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Fu also assumed the function of dealing with political affairs, it is divided into the Royal Palace of the inner garden and the front hall, the front hall is a variety of vassal vassal vassal officials Yamen and institutions.

Plus, the Song King’s domain has a lot of affairs, so there are various government offices, and the flow of officials coming and going, is also endless.

When they saw Zhu Di wearing a winged crown, he came in a tiger’s stride, followed by Zhang Anshi and others, they never thought that His Majesty would suddenly come here, so they all sidestepped to the side of the road to salute.

Zhu walked quickly, striding with his head held high, and in a short while, he arrived at a courtyard.

In this courtyard, it is very strange, but there is a stake set up, and on top of it there is a rope hanging.

Looking closely over the head, there are only a few houses here, very silent and unobtrusive.

It didn’t take long for Zhu Di to pace into a room with Zhang Anshi leading the way.

When he saw it first, he saw a man who was actually sitting on a strange pedal.

The man stepped on the pedal, which brought up the gears, which were now purring and whirring.

With this rotating pedal, a wire is connected, this wire is connected to a box, and in another part of the box, another wire is pulled out. It was connected to a large piece of machinery not far away.

A few people are burying their heads in this machinery.

But there didn’t seem to be any sending or receiving of newspapers at the moment, so these young men, all with their heads down, were looking at a book, all wasted.

Zhu looked directly confused.

Of course, he does not know that this is actually the transmitter and receiver that has come out of nowhere in the world today.

Instead of using a wireless telegraphic device, Zhang Anshi adopted the simpler structure of wired telegraphy.

The reason for this choice, one of the structure is simple, more suitable for promotion, wireless telegraphy, after all, temporarily beyond the understanding of the people of the time, of course, in fact, Zhang Anshi only know the principle, but do not know the reason.

And even if this wireless telegraph built out, right now the transmission distance of this telegraph, I’m afraid only a few hundred meters to a few miles range, right now is obviously not applicable.

Above all, for Zhang Anshi, wired telegraphy, though costly, had its great advantages.

This cable telegraph, the industry chain can bring is huge, need a lot of cable, and cable with the railroad to lay, just can use the railroad department to come to the maintenance.

And once the wire business is booming, then …… the ensuing research into battery devices, and power generation, can become more intensive.

Any industry, are not a pavilion in the air, relying on countless white flowers of silver, and countless rely on the survival of the inventors, theorists, mechanics, craftsmen, labor to maintain, once this thing, can not give people to bring income, then …… such a so-called skills, in fact, but also just a flash in the pan.

The transmitter needs electricity, and electricity, at the moment, can only rely on pedal power generation, so power generation is very primitive. And the battery used to save electricity, is also simple, unusual people look, only to see a tank filled with inexplicable liquid.

And both the transmitter and the receiver are in fact simple, but made of wooden boards, and copper wire covered with lacquer, and a few long screws, a few segmental screws, and pieces of copper, armatures, and the like.

The so-called electromagnet is really just a lacquered wire wrapped around a long screw.

Of course, the receiver is a little more complicated, because where the copper piece is attached, a structure is made with charcoal pencils as well as long strips of padded paper, so that once a message is sent from a transmitter thousands of miles away, the copper piece begins to rise and fall, and the charcoal pencils attached to the copper piece begin to rise and fall on the paper as well, jotting down codes of either length on the pad of paper.

This thing, not to mention the steam engine, there are some waterwheels of this era that may have a more complex structure than it.

But it is precisely something so ridiculously simple in structure that is connected by wiring that works incredibly well.

All this in front of me, for Zhu Di, are from no contact, Zhu Di’s eyes are full of novelty, he looked very seriously, up and down the end of the scrutiny, and see these several senders in the hands of each holding a book to see, they can not help but say: “What is this thing?”

“Your Majesty, here is the translation of the telegram, look ……”

Zhang Anshi, who was following along, made a demonstration, and on the transmitter, knocked a few times, and after that, on this transmitter, there was a long or short clicking sound.

Zhang Anshi continued, “Once the button is pressed on this side, the other end will also receive it, and then they turn it into an electric code according to the length of this ringing, short, it will represent the number 1, two strikes in a row, it will be 2, and so on, and if it is long, it will be equivalent to a space ……”

Zhu watched in disbelief and nodded his head in seeming understanding.

Zhang Anshi then continued, “After receiving the numbers of these codes, we will then translate the text according to this translation, such as 343, 463, 445. For example, 343, 463, 445. every four numbers, it represents the number of pages of the translation, if it is 3, then it is the third page, the second number represents the vertical column of the translation, if it is 4, then it means that it is in the 4th line, the third, it represents the horizontal column, if it is 3, then it means that it is the fourth. Your Majesty look at ……”

Zhang Anshi, at that moment, found the number 343, directly in the translation, and then pointed to the character on it and said, “This character, is the character for ‘money’.”

Chu: “……”