I, Altria, only want to rule China.

After Liang Xiu De bowed and responded, Liya turned to Liu Ye and instructed: "You Jinyiwei should each dispatch some people to the Imperial Academy. Don't let these things be learned by telegraph by those foreigners.

Liu Ye immediately bowed his head and said, "Mr. Liang, you can prepare. First, lay telegraph lines in the capital of Chang'an and install some electric lights. I intend to see the actual effect."

It is definitely impossible to fully deploy electric lights in the Wu State, because using platinum wire to make lights is too extravagant. If it is deployed on a large scale, who knows how many rats will starve to death in the national treasury.

But there is no problem in making some first and seeing the effect in Chang'an City. It also allows Leah to experience the feeling of a city full of lights in her previous life.

By then, when those noble families see that there is business opportunity to be made, they might voluntarily pay for the installation of the devices for the people. Wouldn't that be much better than the Wu State paying for it itself?

What Liya didn't expect was that Liang Xiude first bowed and agreed, but then he started to complain with a sullen face: "Your Majesty, the copper in the Royal Academy is really not enough..."

"You don't know, this telegraph needs wires, and wires need copper, and other messy places also need copper..."

Leah suddenly felt that these words sounded familiar.

Last time... yes, it was last time, old fellow Liang Xiu De also had such a bitter face and said something about not having enough oil.

Chapter 248: The Steps Were Suddenly Bigger

With no other options, Liya could only say with a sour face: "I will find a way to solve the copper problem, so you don't have to worry about it."

Liang Xiude's face became better. With Liya's guarantee, everything would be fine.

Ignoring Liya's stinky face, Liang Xiu De smiled and said, "Your Majesty, there is also good news from the Steam Locomotive Branch. The speed of the steam locomotive has increased a bit, but recently someone in the steam locomotive department has been coveting the electric lights and motors from the Electrical Engineering College and has been clamoring to install the electric lights and motors on the steam locomotives."

Some people even thought about using electric motors to replace steam engines in cars. "

After hearing what Liang Xiu De said, Leah was immediately confused.

The speed of the steam locomotive increased a bit. Leah was not surprised. After all, there was a special steam engine academy with a lot of university scholars who liked to study steam engines. Leah's inner treasury and the imperial treasury had been pouring money into it over the years. It was normal to have some results. It would be wrong if there were no results.

The Steam Engine School and the Electrical Engineering School are both branches of the Royal Academy. It is normal for the Steam Engine School to know the situation at the Electrical Engineering School. It is also understandable that they want to install electric lights on steam locomotives.

The point is, what kind of operation is it to use an electric motor to replace a steam engine?

With Wu State's current technological level, it is already incredible that they can play with steam engines and electric lights and enter industrialization ahead of time.

To be frank, the current technological level of Wu State is at least 100 years ahead of the entire world.

However, this does not mean that Wuguo can play with electric locomotives!

That thing is not a matter of decades. Even with the existence of Liya, the Wu Kingdom cannot solve the problem of electric locomotives. It may not be possible without hundreds of years of research.

After thinking for a while, Liya said, "It's right to develop electric locomotives, but this road is too long and we won't see any results in a short time. It's better to find a way to develop internal combustion engines and make full use of oil first."

But Liang Xiude spread his hands and said, "Your Majesty, our Imperial Academy doesn't have much oil. I heard that Persia has a lot of oil. Why don't we trade more with Persia?"

Liya snorted coldly and said, "You should solve the problem of wires first! After that, we will lay the wires from the capital to the surrounding areas, and then from the surrounding areas to Sichuan, Myanmar, and Guangzhou. Finally, the whole country will be laid out."

After leaving the Royal Academy, Leah once again gathered Xiao Ran and other ministers together.

There are two problems facing the Wu State now.

The first is the problem of oil, which is relatively easy to solve. In her previous life, Leah knew where the most oil was.

Although Persia does have a lot of oil, it is not the world's largest oil producer. Venezuela is the place with the most oil.

Venezuela has proven oil reserves of 3040 billion barrels, or 17.8% of the world's total.

The second place is Saudi Arabia, with proven oil reserves of 2980 billion barrels, accounting for about 17.8% of the world's reserves.

The third place is Canada, with proven oil reserves of 1700 billion tons, accounting for 9.8% of the world's oil reserves.

The fourth place is Iran, with proven oil reserves of up to 1560 billion barrels, accounting for 9% of the world's oil reserves.

Fifth place is Iraq, with proven oil reserves of up to 1450 billion barrels, accounting for 8.4% of the world's total reserves.

Russia ranks sixth, with 1070 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, accounting for 6.2% of the world's reserves. In addition, Russia's reserves of natural gas, iron, nickel and tin are the largest in the world.

Excluding Russia, which has been occupied by her, the places that Wu State can now attack include Canada in North America and Venezuela in South America.

As long as she controls these two places, she will never have to worry about oil in the future. As for the oil in Wu State, Leah has never thought about exploiting it. After all, if she can use other people's oil, she will definitely use it first.

As for the oil in the Middle East, let other countries fight for it slowly. She can't occupy it all, right? By then, these countries may be so desperate as to fight with her Wu State in order to develop. That would be very bad.

Although Leah is not afraid, who doesn't want peace if the world can have it?

The second problem is a bunch of messy problems at the Royal Academy.

As long as the researchers at the Royal Academy work on it slowly, generators, batteries and the like will be invented sooner or later.

There is not much to say about the telegraph. Anyway, the telegraph was first invented by the Royal Academy of Wu State. By then, Morse code will probably become Leah code or something like that.

The only annoying thing is the wiring.

The Wu State treasury does have copper, but compared to the huge demand for electrical wires, the little copper in the Wu State treasury is probably not even enough to fill the gaps between teeth.

Then, after careful study, the ministers in the court came to a conclusion.

Wu State might be short of copper, but there are so many countries in the world, it is impossible that all of them are short of copper, right?

So, if the other great philanthropists have copper at home, then we will buy it. If any other small country has copper at home, then we will directly arrange for it.

But no one expected that before Leah and the ministers of Wu State could figure out who to target, there was another commotion in Tianzhu.

Liya casually threw the information on the table and sneered, "Look, they don't care about the chance to be human. This is the first time I have seen someone stupider than a bear."

Xiao Ranhe picked up the intelligence with a confused look on his face, and said as he looked at it: "Our Wu country's army in Tianzhu should be at least stronger than the Roman army, right?"

After Xiao Ranhe finished speaking, the other bigwigs all nodded in agreement.

The good thing about the Wu army is that no matter where they go, military discipline is always the top priority. The rule of not looting even if they starve to death, and not demolishing houses even if they freeze to death is almost an iron rule for all Wu soldiers.

Although sometimes they would kill many people in order to establish their authority, there were standards for killing people. Not everyone would be killed. At least those law-abiding people would not be treated badly.

Therefore, when people said that the army of Wu State had forced the people of Tianzhu to rebel, Xiao Ran and these ministers' first reaction was disbelief.

Liya chuckled and said, "This matter has nothing to do with the officials in the Ministry of Personnel who have not yet arrived in Tianzhu. It has a little to do with the army of Wu State."

Chapter 249: Tianzhu makes trouble

Hearing what Liya said, Minister of Personnel Lin Shao breathed a sigh of relief.

As long as it is not caused by those officials sent to India by the Ministry of Personnel, it doesn't matter how big the commotion in India is. The only thing to be afraid of is that this matter is related to the officials sent by the Ministry of Personnel.

According to the temperament of His Majesty, if the barbarians in India really rebelled because of the officials' reckless behavior, the barbarians in India would certainly not suffer any good consequences, and the officials who caused the trouble would most likely also suffer as well.

Just change your mind and Lin Shao can't figure it out.

What about military discipline?

Could it be that the army of Wu State was one way in Wu State, but became another way after leaving Wu State?

That's a bit unreasonable.

It is possible that the Wu army would do something extraordinary while fighting outside, but a lot of Tianzhu's territory has already belonged to the Wu State.

That place will be the territory of Wu State from now on. Even if those soldiers are bold and reckless, they won't do anything reckless on Wu State's territory, right?

Just when Lin Shao was confused, Xiao Ranhe, who had also read the intelligence, said gloomily: "These barbarians are really brave!"

Liu Ren took the information from Xiao Ranhe with a confused look on his face. After taking a few glances, he slapped his thigh and shouted, "Your Majesty, this is good news!"

Liya and Xiao Ranhe looked at Liu Ren in bewilderment, but Liu Ren directly handed the information to Lin Shao of the Ministry of Personnel, and then said with a grin, "Isn't it that our Wu Kingdom is in need of copper mines?"

"Since those barbarians are going to cause trouble, why not gather the soldiers stationed in Wu State together and send them directly to the copper mine to work as laborers, so as to save them from further trouble."

Lin Shao also took the information from Liu Ren with a confused look on his face. After looking at it carefully for a few times, he finally understood what was going on.

Didn’t Rome conquer a large area of ​​India before? Then Rome sold all this land to the Wu Kingdom, and Leo II gave orders to the Roman army.

They were asked to assemble and prepare to withdraw from Tianzhu. At the same time, people were sent to notify the Wu army, asking them to prepare to take over.

These operations are normal and there are no problems.

But they never expected that the way the Wu army treated the cows would anger the people of Tianzhu. The Wu army did not respect the sacred cows at all, but instead hunted and killed the sacred cows for meat!

According to the understanding of the Indian people, cows are sacred animals. Not to mention eating them, even cow dung is a gift from God. If a sacred cow blocks the road, they have to let it go first.

But how could the Wu army care about this?

If this was the working ox of the Indian people, it would be fine. At most, we could just return it to the people. Even if they really wanted to eat beef, they could buy it with money.

But these inexplicable divine cows blocked the road. They could lie down or move as they pleased, and they were all fat and strong...so the quartermasters of the Wu army were delighted.

How much does a bullet cost? How much does a cow cost? Now you can get a cow in exchange for just one bullet. Where else in the world can you find such a good deal?

Then there was a conflict.

To be honest, Lin Shao couldn't understand why the people of India respected the sacred cow so much. No matter how sacred a cow was, it was still a cow, wasn't it?

If the cows were used for plowing, it would be understandable. However, the cows in India do not plow the fields. They are just fed and well-fed. In India, cows have become a disaster. The saying "people are worse than cows" is exactly what it means to be in this place.

After casually passing the information to others, Lin Shaocai said, "Your Majesty, I think it is not appropriate to send officials to Tianzhu at this time."

Leah said, "Why?"

Lin Shao said: "Your Majesty, I think that if we send officials over now to rectify the government, these barbarians will become a headache."

"After all, Tianzhu has not been influenced by the Central Plains for a long time, and those barbarians may not necessarily be on the side of Wu State. Therefore, I think it would be better to send another army to Tianzhu and recruit those barbarians as laborers."

At this point, Lin Shao turned his gaze to Liu Ren and Gongsun Zhi: "Your Majesty said before that our Wu Kingdom needs a lot of copper. Isn't there a copper mine in Tianzhu?"

"If we move people from Wu State there, I'm afraid we won't have enough manpower to mine the copper mines in Tianzhu. But if we just recruit the Tianzhu barbarians as laborers..."

Gongsun Zhi's eyes lit up immediately: "Your Majesty, I think what Minister Lin said is absolutely right!"

Liu Ren also echoed, "Your Majesty, it was the barbarians who started this matter. According to the Wu Kingdom Law, provoking the army is a serious crime. Since the barbarians are unwilling to walk on the road, it is better to let them continue to be animals."

"Also, look at what they said? They want the people of our Wu country to be equal to the Kshatriyas after they arrive in India? This is simply outrageous!"

"If what they say is true, wouldn't the people of Wu Country become second-class people after arriving in India?"

Lin Shao also shouted: "I ask your Majesty to issue an order to punish the Indian barbarians. If the people of our Wu Kingdom are equal to the Kshatriyas, then who are their Brahmins equal to?"

This is truly a heart-breaking statement.

The rule in China since ancient times is that officials and common people belong to the same level. Although the status of officials is higher than that of common people, in front of the emperor, officials and common people are of the same level.

Or in other words, in the whole world, only the emperor and the empress are higher in rank than others and are the masters of the world. Except for the emperor and the empress, everyone else is on the same level and at most they are in different positions.

So, you Indian barbarians regard the people of Wu as second-class Kshatriyas, then what about you first-class Brahmins?

On the same level as His Majesty of our Wu Kingdom?

Isn't this fucking funny.

Not to mention India, which was originally colonized by Rome, even the King of Rome, Leo II, had to bow down in front of Lea, the Emperor of the Wu Kingdom.

Let’s not talk about anything else, just talk about the positions in the United Nations. The main seat is always the Emperor of Wu. People like Leo II, Nanali, Clovis I and Long Luxin all sit in the second seat.

All the ministers in the Wu Kingdom's court nodded in agreement with Lin Shao's statement.

Xiao Ranhe bowed and said, "Your Majesty, I think what Minister Lin said is absolutely right. As the saying goes, there is no order without rules. If we let the Indian barbarians do whatever they want, won't the rules be disrupted?"

Before Liya could figure out who said that there is no order without rules, Liu Ren also echoed: "Your Majesty, I think what Minister Lin said is very true."

Chapter 250: Sneaking Out

"Your Majesty is the father of all people. If the people of Wu State all become second-class Kshatriyas, wouldn't their Brahmins be on par with Your Majesty? I ask Your Majesty to issue an order to send troops to severely punish these people who have no king and no father, and to take over their mines for Wu State!"

"..."

For a moment, Leah didn't know what to say about the people below expressing their opinions.

If it weren't for the last sentence about taking the mines and making them the property of our Wu State, Leah would have been quite touched. But after adding this sentence, Leah felt a little uncomfortable. This completely changed the meaning.

You guys are basically eyeing their copper mines, right?

We also took over the mines and made them ours. If we don't take them over, will they no longer belong to us?

After secretly complaining for a while, Liya turned her eyes to Li Lin and said, "Do you know what to do?"

Li Lin immediately understood what Liya meant and replied, "Your Majesty, I plan to go to Tianzhu myself."

Liya nodded and said, "That's right, I also plan to go to Tianzhu."

After Liya said this, Xiao Ran and other ministers were unwilling.

How long has it been since Your Majesty went to Jiangnan to travel? Now you're thinking of traveling to Tianzhu?

What a joke! Li Lin is the head of the Ministry of War. He went to Tianzhu to lead troops to fight. He was personally on the front line of the battlefield. Why did you, the Emperor of Wu, go along to join in the fun?