Become the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Chongzhen!

Chapter 655
Incense bathing is the most basic.

It is best to fast for three days before that.

Since the electrical part of the production process involves chemistry, among the people involved in the production are recruited Taoist priests involved in alchemy, so the religious atmosphere must be sufficient.

From the beginning of production, a group of producers have a clear idea of ​​what the things they make are used for.

After all, the original drawings given by Zhu Youjian must be carefully observed by all the participants. There are no other references, and they cannot be copied. If they are confused, they can only go to check the original drawings.

Originally, although the principle of production was not written, it did include the functions of some important components and some matters that need to be strictly observed during the production process, so as to avoid making a cable telegraph and causing accidents.

Therefore, when the craftsman who made it raised his eyes, he could see that the things he made were 'used to generate electricity by hand', 'used to conduct electricity', 'used to store electricity' and so on.

Just a word of electricity is enough to make these craftsmen's brains buzz.

Zhu Cijiong is no exception.

Putting on a Taoist robe, he kowtowed in the direction of Zhu Youjian before entering the door. The boy beside him held incense and recited Lei Zubao's instructions to lead the way. He carefully entered the basement accompanied by sticky guards.

It was Zhao Bai who was in charge of supervising the making of the telegram.

And the basement where the telegraph was built was also one of the prisons before.

After Zhu Cijiong went in, he felt that the basement was dimly lit and filled with an unknown fragrance. Zhao Bai came out of the light and incense smoke with a smile on his pale face that lacked sunlight.

"Your Highness, Qianli Voice Transmission is ready."

When he said this, a circle of workers surrounded him, but they just knelt down to greet Zhu Cijiong.

The atmosphere in the entire basement became even more eerie for a while.

Zhu Cijiong was also very nervous.

After all, my father took it out, and it was called such a name.

"lead the way."

Saying two words seems to be out of breath.

When everyone got out of the way, Zhao Bai brought Zhu Cijiong to a small compartment deep in the huge basement. The interior layout was very well-proportioned, and the telegraph station with an extremely fine overall structure made him at a loss on the spot.

It's not the same as the 'Thousand-mile Voice Transmission' he thought.

But also incomprehensible.

"This, this is?"

"Return to Your Highness, this is Thousand Miles Voice Transmission."

When Zhao Bai replied, he picked up a booklet on the side of the telegraph station: "And this is the method of sound transmission, also called the method of operation of the 'telegraph machine'. This is what your highnesses will learn from now on. , and His Majesty has left a code book exclusively for the use of several His Majesties and His Majesty, and after the study is completed, the code book will be handed over to several Highnesses at the sticky stick."

Seeing the codebook, Zhu Cijiong hurriedly asked, "But it's similar to 'Express'?"

I want to understand the telegram with the things I know.

It's a pity that Zhao Bai shook his head: "Big difference."

A moment later, Zhu Cijiong sat up from the chair with a horrified expression.

He learned very fast, and quickly passed the wave band coming from the opposite side, found the corresponding words in the code book in front of him, and then pieced together a sentence.

After getting up, he was a little at a loss, and reached out his hand to fumble and pat the telegraph station in front of him twice, and then realized that his behavior of trying to find the person opposite was really ridiculous.

Then he turned around and asked Zhao Bai, "Is it really two hundred miles away?"

"Every time a message is sent and received at the sticky pole, it will definitely send a fast horse to and from it, and there will be no mistakes."

"This this!?"

After Zhu Cijiong went back, he didn't fall asleep for several nights.

The same goes for Aimee Zhu who followed closely behind.

The sound transmission is two hundred miles.

In fact, the telegraph line has been laid for more than [-] miles, and the tests of sending and receiving messages at multiple stations in the middle are continuous, and the results are all compiled into a booklet and sent to Edo Castle.

After all, telegraphs cannot be mass-produced, but circuit production is still no problem.

But compared to the telegraph network that Zhu Youjian wanted, this area of ​​[-] miles is still not enough to see, even the Shanhaiguan Pass is not covered, and I don’t know how long it will be before reaching Shengjing in Liaodong and even Jiamusi Black Flag City.

After the paving is finished here, the ones in the pass still need to be paved.

Zhu Youjian is most concerned about portable models that can be applied to the battlefield.

So after Zhao Bo showed the telegraph station to the two flag owners, he took the telegraph and rushed to Xi'an under the escort of sticky guards.

One is to show Zhu Cihong and let him learn.

Then there is the first actual combat use experiment.

"Will we be able to use it then? It feels very helpful to what we have to do."

"I'm afraid it won't work."

Qiuhu gradually faded away.

Pei Wu and Liang Yu are now eating in Zhongjiang County under Tongchuan Mansion, feeling the hotness of the Bashu area, while chatting about the telegram on the way.

I'm looking forward to the 'Thousand Miles of Sound'.

"The top secret, currently only Zhao Bai and a few His Highnesses who are in charge of this can access it. In theory, we can get in touch with it, but it is impossible to use it."

"That's right, those people in the city are not worthy of using thousands of miles of sound transmission."

Zhongjiang County, where the two are located, is only about a hundred miles away from Chengdu.

They can have a leisurely meal here, and after eating, they still scold the cook for making it so spicy, because the front line has already advanced to the city of Chengdu.

The Black and Yellow Banner made rapid progress after the increase in troops.

The weapons that had been prepared for a long time were all piled up, and the Great Western Army, which was bombarded with cannons and gunpowder, did not have much chance to confront the black and yellow banner soldiers head-on.

Even if there is, the strength of the melee equipment of both sides is not at the same level.

The technology of many industrial production lines serving the war in Black Banner has been improving day by day, and has been able to form an absolute crushing situation against the Great Western Army.

It's just because of the unwritten regulations reached with the Ming army before.

Before both sides arrive at the city of Chengdu, they cannot attack Chengdu.

We have to wait until both sides are in place before we can negotiate the ownership of the Bashu regions under the city.

Although it is unwritten.

But in the current war, both sides are playing by the rules.

Zhu Cihong didn't want to have too many armed conflicts with Daming, but felt that the matter between the Black Banner Daqing and Daming was caused by his father Zhu Youjian, and it was a family affair of the old Zhu family.

Daming knew very well that he could not beat the black and yellow flag.

Sitting behind in the imperial city of Nanjing, the master and even Emperor Longwu may have hoped for the superiority in the number of hundreds of thousands of troops on the front line, but Zheng Chenggong, Mu Tianbo and other major generals who really led the troops on the front line in Bashu clearly knew the difference between the two armies. difference.

There is simply no way to make up for it in numbers.

But the two armies obviously didn't think much about the feelings of the Daxi Army, especially the Daxi Emperor Zhang Xianzhong.

The attitude of the two families was determined to defeat Daxi, which made him and many Daxi generals extremely aggrieved.

So that when the black flag besieged the northern part of Chengdu but failed to attack, Zhang Xianzhong appeared, picked up a loudspeaker on the city wall, and yelled endlessly at the black and yellow flag troops in the distance for more than half an hour.

(End of this chapter)