Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2126, The Industrialization Plan of the Ottoman Empire
The Royal Palace of the Ottoman Empire is located on the hillside of Istanbul. From the walls of the Royal Palace, you can overlook the entire city of Istanbul and have a panoramic view of all the scenery.

As night fell, darkness enveloped the earth, and lights began to light up everywhere in the palace.

The young Suleiman the Great stood on the city wall overlooking Istanbul in front of him, and Ibrahim stood beside him.

"You said that in the city of Daming, the lights are brightly lit at night, is it true?"

Suleiman the Magnificent looked at the city of Istanbul in front of him. As the night fell, it was almost completely dark, only a few places had faint fire lights.

There is no beauty to speak of at night, there is nothing to see except looking up at the stars in the sky.

"Yes, great sultan!"

"In the city of Daming, because they basically have to go to work during the day, they don't have time to go out to play, but at night, there are bright lights everywhere. Their electric lights have become very popular, and there are even The special street lamps are paid for by the government to provide lighting.”

"At night, the lights of thousands of households are turned on, and there are so many high-rise buildings, so it looks very spectacular and beautiful."

"They even held the football match at night. A football match attracted tens of thousands of people to watch, and there were no seats left."

"There are also theaters that are the busiest at night. When the singing is exciting, countless silver dollars are rewarded from the audience to the stage."

"The commercial street is crowded with people, and the lights in each store are fully turned on, brighter than during the day."

Ibrahim replied solemnly.

Only by going to the Ming Empire in person will you truly feel the prosperity, affiliation and advancement of the Ming Empire, just like this night.

The capital of the Ottoman Empire was completely dark, but even many small counties in the Ming Empire were electrified, and they were bustling and lively at night.

Just in this aspect, we can see how huge the difference between the Ottoman Empire and the Ming Empire is.

"Turn on the lights."

Suleiman remained silent, and he didn't know whether he didn't believe Ibrahim's words or he was unwilling to accept the huge difference between the Ottoman Empire and the Ming Empire.

After thinking about it, Suleiman also wanted to see for himself how magical and bright this electric light is.

"Yes!"

Ibrahim nodded back, then nodded to the people around him.

At this time, in the palace behind him, a high-grade glazed lamp has been hung on the top of the palace, the wiring has been connected, and a series of small lights of various colors have been arranged everywhere.

In the palace, many important ministers and nobles of the Ottoman Empire were already waiting.

Few people have seen electric lights, and most people have never seen electric lights. Although they have heard of the magic and brightness of electric lights, everyone has always thought that they are similar to oil lamps.

"start!"

Following Ibrahim's order.

The two Ottoman Hercules also started to spin the hand-cranked generator.

This kind of hand-operated generator is the first generator specially manufactured by Daming Electric Co., Ltd., and it is specially used to distribute some places that have not yet been powered on but need electricity.

In addition, it can also be used as a backup power source for hospitals, schools, etc. Of course, a generator driven by an internal combustion engine has been developed. However, considering the problem of buying gasoline around the world, this old-fashioned hand-operated generator is also equipped for everyone. .

"Whoo~"

As the two giants began to turn the hand-operated generator, the magnetic field continued to cut, and a steady stream of electricity began to be produced.

The originally dark palace suddenly brightened.

The glazed chandelier above everyone's head is extremely luxurious and beautiful in design, especially when the light is on, the glazed lamp shines brightly, piercing the surrounding darkness at once.

"Wow~"

Many ministers of the Ottoman Empire opened their mouths wide in surprise, and looked up at the glazed lamp above their heads. Such a bright light was far beyond the comparison of candlelight and oil lamps.

Look at the many colorful decorative lamps around, there are all kinds of colors, they look very beautiful and gorgeous, the original ordinary pillars look like treasures at this moment,
"This is the lamp!"

"I always thought that electric lamps and oil lamps are similar, but I didn't expect it to be so bright."

"Yeah, it can have a variety of colors, how is this possible?"

"It's amazing!"

Many ministers of the Ottoman Empire kept discussing, lamenting the magic and brightness of electric lights.

No wonder those Daming businessmen have been praising their Daming lamps all the time. Everyone still thinks that these Daming people know how to brag.

It was only now that I realized that it was not that the people of Daming were bragging, but that everyone had never seen the world, so they felt that others were bragging.

After seeing the electric light for real, everyone realized that this Daming man was not bragging at all. The electric light is really very bright.

Emperor Suleiman looked at the bright palace in front of him, then at the glazed lamp above his head, and the small lamps around his head. At this moment, he understood that Ibrahim was not lying.

If there were such electric lights everywhere in the city of the Ming people, then the whole city could indeed be brightly lit, as bright as day.

"Our Ottoman Empire must start its own industrialization path!"

Emperor Suleiman soon had a decision in his mind.

"Guys, what do you think of this lamp?"

Suleiman came to his throne, sat down slowly, looked at the ministers and asked.

"Great Sultan~"

"This electric light is very magical, just like the day, it is really amazing!"

"Yeah, we should buy more electric lights from Daming people to decorate our great Istanbul and make the whole city brighter."

The ministers also expressed their thoughts one after another.

"Ibrahim came back from Daming, and he told me that every city in Daming is brightly lit at night, just like daytime."

"I didn't believe it at first, but now I believe it!"

"Look at our Istanbul, it's dark at night, can you imagine the brightly lit scene in the imperial capital of Ming Dynasty at night?"

"Ibrahim told me that the automobile factory of the Ming people can produce a car every five minutes; one of their steel factories produces more steel in one month than our entire country produces in a year. Much, much; one of their mills spins more cloth in a month than our entire country produces in a year."

"One of their shipyards can launch hundreds of ships a month; one of their farmers can cultivate thousands of acres or even tens of thousands of acres of land, and the grain they produce is even better than our grain even if it is shipped to our country." Cheaper and better quality."

"I don't know how you feel, but for me, all I see is despair, just like the outside world, the future of our Ottoman Empire is dark, with no light in sight."

"We always say that we want to take revenge on the Ming people and take back the lost land and glory!"

"But who among you can really know the huge gap between our Ottoman Empire and the Ming Empire?"

Suleiman the Great stood up and told everyone present in a very serious manner as he walked.

After all, he is still too young, and he has only been enthroned for a few years, and the power has not yet been fully grasped, so he needs to discuss with these ministers to get their support for what he wants to do.

Hearing Suleiman's words, everyone fell silent.

How big is the gap with the Ming Empire?
I am afraid that only the Lord knows this.

"Everyone, our Ottoman Empire can no longer continue to be muddled like before!"

"We must learn from the Ming Empire, learn from the industrialization and mechanization of the Ming people. Only when we have the same strong production capacity and advanced technology as the Ming people, can we have the opportunity to compete with the Ming people."

Suleiman looked at the crowd and said his plan.

"Great Sultan, I don't know how you want to learn from the Ming people?"

Pasha stood up and asked.

"We have to learn from the people of Ming Dynasty in an all-round way. For weaving, we have to learn from people of Ming Dynasty to use textile machines to weave cloth. To make steel, we also have to learn from people of Ming Dynasty. We should use the technology of people of Ming Dynasty to make steel and build steel factories."

"We still need to build our own cement factory, build a large number of cement roads, railways and trains like the people of Ming Dynasty; Electric lights are away from lighting our own cities."

"In a word, wherever the Ming people are strong, we should learn from them. We must catch up with the development trend of this era, otherwise the gap between us and the Ming Empire will only grow wider and wider."

Suleiman thought for a while and said very firmly.

"We in the Ottoman Empire plan to achieve initial industrialization in about ten years. In the next ten years, we will devote all our energy to this, including financial, material and human resources. "

"We first learn from Daming people, imitate Daming people, and then integrate and innovate ourselves, and finally achieve the goal of surpassing Daming people."

Listening to Suleiman's grand plan, the officials of the Ottoman Empire were all excited.

If this could surpass the Great Ming Empire, how powerful would it be?

But after thinking about it carefully, many people also feel that it may be very, very difficult to achieve this goal.

(End of this chapter)