Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 218 Nuclear bombs in the communication field

"It's too expensive, one word costs 1 gold coin." In the lounge, an elf walked around excitedly. It was the first time he discovered that gold coins were so easy to earn.

Just now, they wrote a letter and sent it to Bunas. It cost them a total of 48 gold coins together with the punctuation marks, plus 50 gold coins for the service fee for sending the letter, and 2 gold coins for the personnel service fee. They spent just now A full 100 gold coins!
It's really a very regular number... In fact, normal consumption is not so expensive, but the recipients they want to deliver are really a bit special.

The telegram sent to Tang Mo was charged at the original price, but the work of sending the telegram was obviously not an easy task.In the end, the price given by the telegraph bureau was 50 gold coins. This price was to avoid encountering rich psychopaths, and sent two telegrams to Tang Mo to tease him if he had nothing to do.

"If this news can be delivered to Tang Mo 7 days in advance, it will be worth the money." The leader, Viscount Fitral, said as he crossed his hands and rubbed each other's palms.

He knew that the Yangmu Kingdom couldn't afford to delay, so it was nothing to spend an extra 100 gold coins to get the opponent to recall his battleship in advance.

Just when several people felt sorry for the 100 gold coins, he continued to ask an endless question helplessly: "Also, have you thought about it?"

"Huh?" The Deputy envoy who went south this time, that is, the man representing the interests of the Augustine family, and the two guards all made doubtful voices.

The leading envoy continued: "He has the technology, can... be able to convey what he wants to say far, far away! This technology...is the most terrifying!"

"Yeah..." The deputy envoy was taken aback for a moment, then nodded as if suddenly enlightened, and agreed with the other party's words.Compared with the steel battleship that forced them to go south this time, the information transmission equipment they see here is the real equipment against the sky!

Compared with the super battleship that allows the elves to rule the seven seas, and the modern guns that allow the elves to sweep the world, the telegraph in front of them is a more attractive equipment!

In the ancient kingdoms, the speed of information and intelligence transmission restricted the ability of the monarchs of all countries to effectively control the country.

The larger the country's territory, the weaker the king's power over the frontiers, so the ancient empires would be limited in terms of territory.

Due to the limitation of the speed of information transmission, the information obtained by the ruling class is very lagging behind, and it is impossible to convey its own orders and mobilize forces far away from the center.

However, this kind of problem was unknowingly solved by Tang Mo!Tang Mo's railway made the connection between the place and the king's city closer, Tang Mo's ship also made sea transportation more convenient, and Tang Mo's telegram made the transmission of orders faster and more effective.

With these things, a country has unprecedented control over its own territory, and the birth of an empire has obviously become possible.

This is something more important than guns!Because only guns are powerful, the monarch's control over the local army is actually weakened.

Only when communication is strengthened and transportation becomes more convenient, will the monarch's control over the region and the army become stronger, and his expansion ambitions will become sharper.

It is not an exaggeration to describe the invention of the telegraph as a nuclear bomb in communication, and the telephone system that can communicate instantly has directly detonated a hydrogen bomb in communication technology.

When the network and quantum communication technology appear in later generations, it will be the super weapon of the next generation, comparable to the two-way foil of the information world...

Such a metaphor may be exaggerated, but in terms of human progress, it is really a super terrifying technological progress.

The meaning of life is to pass on the knowledge you have learned, and exchanging your own knowledge, so that more people and more groups can get more knowledge, is the beginning of the telegraph system.

When people's communication becomes more frequent, human progress begins to advance rapidly.This is the horror of information exchange - it is the engine of human technological leaps, or at least it is one of the engines of human technological leaps!

Finding that almost everyone present has realized the crux of the problem, the elf in the head continued: "If we can have this thing in the poplar wood kingdom, then we can contact places faster and mobilize Army, to obtain intelligence more effectively..."

The viscount named Fittral finally regained his strength, and encouraged everyone: "So, this time, we come... Maybe we have to do more and more important things than we imagined."

"..." The deputy envoy representing the interests of the Augustine family became even more depressed at this time, standing there speechless looking at the compatriots who had regained their morale.

He was a little speechless, because the conflict that broke out in this war, or the reason, was that the Augustine family owed Datang Group 10 gold coins.

Obviously, the Yangmu Kingdom can stay out of the matter completely, because it was the Marquis Augustin Leibert who offended the Datang Group.

If the Datang Group has so many new technologies that the Yangmu Kingdom did not have, then the Augustine family will be even more passive...

What offended the Datang Group was that the Augustine family was not the Yangmu Kingdom. Yangmu XI could completely leave Augustine Leibert behind and seek deeper cooperation with the Datang Group.

Obviously, just looking at the telegraph system in front of me is more important than needle guns and steel battleships, and it is ten times and a hundred times more important!
However, as a confidant of the Augustine family, he has his own position - he must restore the cooperation between the Augustine family and the Datang Group and make them closer.

Fortunately, before coming, the Marquis of Augustine, that is, Mr. Leibert, sent someone to tell him that he was not alone in Bunas.

Because as early as when they were in debt, the Augustine family had placed a family member in the Datang Group.Augustine John has been at Burners, and when he gets to Burners, he just has to go to John.

For the face of the family, John will definitely influence the decision-making of Datang Group, and he will definitely influence the decision-making of the top management of Datang Group.

After all, what John took away back then was not only a warship, but also a map about Heilong Island!
Just thinking about these deputy envoys, the special envoy next to him, Viscount Fitral, suddenly spoke again.I only heard Fitrall sigh with some regret: "How could the Marquis Augustin get into such a big trouble... They are much more terrifying than Cyric."

The deputy envoy did not hide his position, and explained: "Master Marquis also considered for the kingdom. If he had paid 10 gold coins at that time, then the development of the factory would have lagged behind, and we would not be able to suddenly obtain gold coins near the Seine River." A glorious victory over the Kingdom of Galles."

Indeed, saving 10 gold coins allowed the Augustine family to take the lead in developing the factory in the early stage. This is a fact that has to be admitted.

But if we go deeper, this is an opportunity for the rise of the Augustine family, so the arrears are actually the "early development funds" of Datang Group that the Augustine family stole.

Therefore, Fitlar sighed depressedly, and said, "It's all right now, in one year, the other party will probably ask us for 200,000 gold coins, or even more..."

The debt owed by Augustine back then, now the entire poplar kingdom has to help repay, which in itself is a kind of helplessness.

No way, when John of the Augustine family brought back the drawings of the needle gun and the steam engine, the entire poplar kingdom was the beneficiary.

Therefore, the deputy envoy could only bite the bullet and emphasize Augustine's contribution: "However, we have the money to pay back now, don't we? As long as he is willing to withdraw the warship, and then sell us this... what kind of telegraph... ..."

Special envoy Fittral said with a sad face: "It doesn't look easy, they seem to be running this telegraph by themselves..."

"That's right, if we have mastered such a technology, we must manage it ourselves." The deputy envoy also felt that this matter was very difficult.

Fittral seemed to be quite capable, and he immediately saw the disadvantages of this matter: "But if we hand over all our information to them for transmission, then for them, what secrets do we have? "

The deputy envoy nodded and agreed with him: "...you are right."

He also felt that such a national weapon related to communications should naturally not be in the hands of others.

"So, we still have to find a way to bring this technology over and operate it ourselves..." Fitelal has already begun to be ambitious and is preparing to launch this diplomatic operation.

The deputy envoy was also full of ambition, with a face full of determination: "That's right."

Fitlar looked at his deputy and asked, "So, how much do you think we should pay for this technology?"

"Fifty thousand gold coins?" The deputy envoy was taken aback for a moment, then asked tentatively and cautiously.

Fitlar was taken aback for a moment, then asked with a sneer: "...[-]? [-] gold coins to ask them to repair such a telegraph office in Nanshui Port, they may not be willing."

"How much does that cost?" The deputy envoy felt that his understanding of the value of gold coins seemed to have been revised today.Sending a message costs 100 gold coins, and buying a set of equipment with [-] gold coins can't stop it...

"It seems that the money we have to pay is estimated to be as much as hundreds of thousands..." Fitlar said depressingly.

Hearing such a large number, the Deputy Envoy was so surprised that he even stuttered: "Fuck, what are you kidding? So many?"

"How much? If they agree to this price, let's have some fun together! Tang Mo, this name will surely resound throughout the world..." Fitlar shook his head and sighed.
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