The Resurrection of the South Seas of the Ming Dynasty

However, after listening to Wang An's words, Zhu Hongyu's eyes lit up and he spoke.

"The research institute has come up with a plan, ready to set up a telegraph line from Nanjing to the capital cities of the provinces under the Ming Dynasty!"

"Plan accordingly!"

"The higher the cost, the higher the cost, but the information is priceless!"

Zhu Hongyu doesn't care about the cost, what he really cares about is the timeliness of news dissemination.

Imagine if Zhu Hongyu was in Nanjing and there was a rebellion in Guangdong and Guangxi.

If the message is delivered in the traditional way, even if it is urgently needed at eight hundred miles, it will take at least ten days and a half a month.

The news can be spread from Guangdong and Guangxi to Nanjing!
Zhu Hongyu ordered from Nanjing to mobilize troops from all over the country to gather together to suppress the rebellion, and the news was passed back and forth. At least it would take another ten days and a half months.

And if the message is delivered by telegram!
From Guangdong and Guangxi to Nanjing, news of the rebellion can be reached in an instant.

Zhu Hongyu's order to garrison the local army can be reached in an instant.

Come and go, at least it can save a month of time.

The news can be passed as soon as one month, and the rebellion can be suppressed one month in advance. How much loss can it reduce for Daming?

This is the importance of information timeliness!
In terms of electric lights, Zhu Hongyu's plan is to install them at his residence and the offices of Ming officials first.

Then he took advantage of the advertising effect that comes with him, the Great Ming Supervisor, to advertise and install electric lights for some big businessmen for a fee.

As for the cost!

I know everything!

It is a normal operation to add a few zeros after the cost as the selling price.

After all, it is the same style as the royal family, so it is reasonable to be a little more expensive, right?
Coupled with the supporting generators and wires, the cost of installing a lighting system is estimated to be an astronomical figure.

This is what Zhu Hongyu wants to see.

The research results produced by the research institute must have their own profitability.

At the very least, this profit figure must exceed the investment in research and development costs.

Otherwise, if the research institute has been only supported by the government's appropriation, it will definitely not work for a long time.

The reason why Zhu Hongyu set the price of electric lamps so high was because of this idea, to use this method to recover the cost invested by the research institute in the research and development of electric lamps.

As for whether the price is too high, will it make it impossible to popularize electric lights?

In fact, this matter is not important!
Because electric lights are an absolute luxury in this era.

It cannot be promoted!
No matter how popular it is, it can only be used in a small area.

The audience that the electric light is staring at are those big landowners and businessmen who are incomparably rich.

Even small and medium landlords are no longer on the audience list.

For these people, they don't care about money in order to pursue novelty and to pursue the style of using the same items as the royal family.

Regardless of whether Zhu Hongyu adds one zero to the cost price or sells it with two zeros, they will still use it as they should.

Just like Zheng Chenggong, after seeing how easy to use the electric light, would he care how much it costs to install it?
How the hell are you insulting me, Mr. Zheng? …

In the same way, even if Zhu Hongyu sells the lamp at cost price, people who are not on the audience list will not be able to use it or not.

Even Zhu Hongyu had an idea to earn out the cost of installing telegraph wires for Daming on electric lights.

Thinking about these messes, Zhu Hongyu opened his mouth and signaled Wang An to continue.

Wang An pondered for a while, then spoke.

"There is also a third aspect, which is that the research institute has made breakthroughs in materials science!"

"The exploration of various alloy materials is undergoing a large number of experiments, and now several special steels with different characteristics have been produced."

"For example, special rails for laying railways, such as special steels that can be used for steam engine cylinders..."

In fact, including the research and development of new gunpowder in the arsenal, great efforts have also been made in materials science.

While listening to Wang An's report, Zhu Hongyu casually flipped through the report in hand, with a smile on his face all the time.

It can be seen that Daming's technology has been improving recently!
The researchers of the research institute did not have a vegetarian meal, and under the premise that Zhu Hongyu invested a lot of manpower and material resources every year, their research and development results were equally gratifying.

But what surprised Zhu Hongyu even more was that the researcher filled in the underlying logic of Ming science.

Zhu Hongyu's memory is very good, but after copying the textbooks from his previous life and throwing them to the research institute, he asked them to use them as textbooks to study by themselves.

Because, Zhu Hongyu himself is a scumbag, except for the benefits brought by time travel to improve his memory, his grades before time travel are really mediocre.

Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to pass the college entrance examination and go to school to serve as a soldier!
Therefore, what Zhu Hongyu gave them was just a framework.

There are many formulas and detailed theorems in it, and they need to study and do it by themselves.

Go fill the frame, let the frame become flesh and blood!

It is also one of the important tasks of the Institute.

So far, they've done pretty well.

The Institute has completed the improvement of the underlying logic of science in the junior high school stage, and has begun to make breakthroughs in the high school stage.

Regardless of the initial middle school stage, it seems to be quite low.

But what you need to know is that the knowledge of physical chemistry in junior high school is enough to promote the development of the first industrial revolution.

Even in the second industrial revolution, many technologies did not exceed the relevant scope of the junior high school stage.

Generally speaking, the current Ming Dynasty is indeed gradually transforming into an industrial country!

After Wang An reported this, he withdrew, and Zhu Hongyu continued to deal with official duties.

……

After Wang An left, the person in charge of the research and development department of the arsenal came in to report the news to Zhu Hongyu.

"Your Highness, the research and development department of our arsenal has recently made some breakthroughs in the research and development of new weapons."

"The first is the research and development of Thundermercury. The research department has produced a finished product. Although it cannot be mass-produced, it has already started to conduct related performance experiments."

Zhu Hongyu still attaches great importance to Lei Mercury.

Because, with Thunder Mercury, he can engage in rear-loading guns!
The reason why the development process of weapons in this world is slow is not that the technology cannot be achieved, but that there is no development direction, and everything needs to be explored, so the update iteration of weapons seems very slow.

But in Zhu Hongyu's case, there is no such situation.

Because, no one knows the direction of future weapon development better than him!
For example, flintlocks will replace matchlocks, rifled guns will replace smoothbore guns, breech-loading guns will replace front-loading guns, and metal fixed bullets will replace paper shell fixed bullets...

For people in this era, the direction of development needs to be explored.

But Zhu Hongyu is different, he doesn't need to explore, because the future is in his mind!

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