The Army Arms Hall and the Navy Arms Hall are next to each other, and they are also adjacent to the Ming Dynasty Capital University. It can be said that there is already a large area outside the capital city on the way to Tongzhou, which is already full of buildings.
Judging from this momentum, it is estimated that Tongzhou and Beijing will be connected in less than ten years.
At this time, the trainees of the third phase of the Navy Armed Forces Hall and the first phase of the Army Armed Forces Hall officially graduated. Emperor Chongzhen, who was the principal, personally participated in the graduation ceremony.
All he had to do was review the graduating students and give them a speech.
This time Emperor Chongzhen's speech was different from the previous emphasis on building a strong navy, but he stated the main purpose straightforwardly.
At this time, Emperor Chongzhen was on the general ordering stage in the school field. He came to a device in front of the stage that was about the same height as him. Then he turned to look at Zhang Mingwei and signaled with his eyes.
When Zhang Mingwei saw it, he smiled and nodded, indicating that this was it.
When Emperor Chongzhen saw it, he turned back, took a look at the thing as close as possible to his mouth, and then said: "Can you..."
As soon as he said these words, he heard his voice coming from all around the school grounds. Suddenly, the first unexpected feeling made him stop talking. He just stared at the thing in front of him curiously, and then I looked at the matching items in the distance again, feeling very curious.
Like Emperor Chongzhen, anyone who heard it for the first time, including the civil and military ministers brought by Emperor Chongzhen this time, as well as the army and navy cadets standing below, were all very surprised.
But after all, in front of the current emperor, no one dared to whisper to each other. At most, they looked surprised.
Of course, their performance is also related to the fact that there have been too many new things in the past few years. Anyway, they knew that the abnormality just now was definitely related to Duke Xingguo.
That's right, the anomaly just now was caused by Zhang Mingwei.
To be precise, he has not been idle in the past six months. He has been focusing on scientific research.
Wherever Ming Dynasty was weak, he would think about which problems to solve first.
In the past six months, apart from participating in the research and development of propeller warships and armored warships, his main focus has been tinkering with telephones.
Telephones and electric lights are two different branches of the electric power industry. If we want to talk about the difficulty of manufacturing these two things, the phone is actually simpler.
In the original history, if there was no time traveler like Zhang Mingwei, and the normal historical process evolved, the telephone would have appeared earlier than the electric light. Of course, this is not a strict sequential relationship.
In fact, if it is natural evolution, basically a thing will be developed by one or many people in different places after the technological level is sufficient, and it is likely to be a process of gradual improvement until the end It works.
For example, the origin of electric light can be traced back to 1854. Henry Goebel, a German watchmaker who immigrated to the United States, used a carbonized bamboo wire placed in a vacuum glass bottle to make the first practical electric light. It lit up for 400 hours, but he didn't apply for a patent in time.
In later textbooks, it is recognized as October 21, 1879. Invented by American inventor Edison. After a long period of trial and error, Edison finally lit the world's first practical electric light.
Compared with electric lights, the telephone is actually controversial. Previously, it was generally believed that the inventor of the telephone was Bell, but in the past few years it was revised to another Italian-American named Antonio. Meucci's.
The most influential statement is that on June 2, 1875, American Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. To this day, at the door of 109 Court Road, Boston, USA, there is still a bronze plaque engraved with: The telephone was born here on June 2, 1875.
Subsequently, on March 7, 1876, Bayi obtained a patent for the invention of the telephone. And on April 4, 1877, the first private telephone was installed between Charles Williams' office in Boston and his home in Massachusetts.
Of course, this is all original history.
In this plane that Zhang Mingwei traveled through, which one appears first, the telephone or the electric light, completely depends on Zhang Mingwei.
Therefore, electric light appeared first and was used in the palace. Now for the past six months, he has been tinkering with the phone. At this time, what was on the school field was an accessory of the Ting Ting telephone, which was the speaker.
A phone call can actually be divided into three main parts.
One is the component, which is called a microphone independently. The original meaning of microphone is a micro-sound amplifier.
One part of the phone that is indispensable but often overlooked is the bell.
The last one is the listening component. This thing is actually a reduced version of the speaker. When enlarged, it becomes a speaker. There is basically no difference in structure.
For this graduation ceremony, Zhang Mingwei installed the speakers on the school grounds. In this way, there is no need for the captain of the Jinyi Guards to deliver the message. This is inefficient and affects the speech.
At this time, after Emperor Chongzhen got used to the trumpet, he began to speak: "I can tell you clearly that after you leave Wu Beitang, you will rush to the battlefield to teach the Japanese a lesson for me and the Ming Dynasty..."
Hearing this, almost all the graduating students of the navy and army couldn't help but be overjoyed.
They entered the Armed Forces Hall for further training and learned how to fight large-scale firearms warfare. The imaginary enemy was the Japanese. Whether it's a naval battle or a land battle, it can be said that each of them has something in mind.
Originally, the soldiers of the Ming army had a psychological advantage when facing the Japanese. Now that they have learned so much, their psychological advantage is even stronger. Coupled with the continuous victories of the imperial army, the emperor gave clear rewards and punishments, and awarded so many titles in the battle to regain Liaodong, which made countless soldiers jealous.
Now that we were finally going to fight again, and it was with the Japanese country, it was a military achievement, so they were naturally excited.
"...But I want to emphasize something here!" Emperor Chongzhen said this, scanning the faces of everyone below, and then said seriously, "After you get to the army, what you have learned must be passed on to the soldiers under you as soon as possible. , so that all Ming soldiers will understand how to fight a firearms war..."
He didn't speak for long before he ended his speech. To sum up, his speech actually means only one thing, and that is that you are about to participate in the war against Japan, so be prepared.
Later, in the lobby of the Army Armed Forces Hall, Emperor Chongzhen also held an imperial meeting at the level of the general army.
Zheng Hongkui, Gu Sanmazi, Sun Yingyuan, Li Laiheng, Li Dingguo and others were all there.
"The first war against the Japanese was mainly to fight against the Satsuma Domain, expel the Japanese from the Ryukyu Kingdom, and build a naval base in the Ryukyu Kingdom. Considering the logistics and food problems, the number of troops cannot be large!" Emperor Chongzhen explained to them, "If the Japanese reaction is very If you are not sure, if you use the strength of the whole country to counterattack, withdraw. I do not ask you to hold on!"
His words were all arrived at after prior discussion, especially Zhang Mingwei's opinion. Therefore, there was no face issue at all between what he said.
With Emperor Chongzhen's explanation, this battle became easier to fight. Gu Sanmazi, Sun Yingyuan and others were obviously much more relaxed.
Emperor Chongzhen continued to explain things, obviously bringing the values of later generations. Of course, they were all influenced by Zhang Mingwei. I just heard him say again: "The war against Japan is not only about helping the vassal states of the Ming Dynasty, but it must also be of practical benefit and cannot be a loss-making business..."
This was something that the previous Emperor Chongzhen would never have been able to say. A political factor alone was enough for him to start a war. If there are additional practical benefits, it is definitely Zhang Mingwei’s masterpiece.
"...And the Ryukyu Kingdom is too poor, and there is nothing that the Ming Dynasty can value!" Emperor Chongzhen turned into a carefree businessman at this time, and ordered his subordinates, "The only ones that can be used are the Japanese. If you can Prisoners, take as many prisoners as possible. If you capture them, send them to North Korea for mining. The most lacking thing there is miners. In addition, one of the goals this time is to capture the gold mine. As for the miners, leave them to the King of Ryukyu. , they can’t do nothing!”
Previously, the King of Ryukyu just wrote a letter in blood, asking Ming to work for him, and the promised gold mine was not his. How could such a good thing happen, at least in Zhang Mingwei's view, even if there were political factors? Not even thinking about it.
For this reason, the people who mine must be provided by the King of Ryukyu, and the King of Ryukyu must also try his best to provide food and fodder for the army.
It's not that Ming Dynasty doesn't want to solve our country in one go. The main reason is that its current strength is not enough. Unless the three major naval warships were gathered together, they all went to the Japanese country. But this thing is not realistic. Therefore, the goal is a little smaller and we will talk about it step by step.
Zheng Zhilong's second son Zheng Zongming, also known as Tagawa Nanzaemon, has returned to the country. According to the value of the intelligence he provided, he has joined the Kinyiwei as the general banner. This time he will also go on an expedition with the army. After all, he is most familiar with the situation in Japan.
After arranging these matters, Sun Yingyuan and others immediately rushed to the naval base in Shanghai. They had to train for a period of time and then set off for Ryukyu after the typhoon season passed.
As soon as Emperor Chongzhen finished this matter, he immediately asked Zhang Mingwei: "Sir, what kind of phone is this? How long will it take to invent it? I can't wait!"
In the past, whether it was a telegram or a phone call, he just listened to what Zhang Mingwei said, and at most he knew the general principles.
But regardless of whether he understood the principle or not, for him, it must have been a shock to actually experience the transmission of his voice, and it also made him more eager for Zhang Mingwei to realize the entire set of functions, that is, the phone.
In response, Zhang Mingwei smiled slightly.
