Chapter 1218 The Empire’s sugar-coated bullets (Second update, please subscribe)
Author: Xiaoyu’s Destiny
Chapter 1218 The Empire’s sugar-coated bullets (Second update, please subscribe)
What is civilization?
How does human civilization progress?
It is difficult to give a standard explanation for the former, but the latter is easy to answer - the progress of human civilization is based on communication.
Just as the exchanges between Eastern and Western civilizations led to the Chinese civilization and the Europa civilization. The Mayan civilization and the Inca civilization, which had no exchanges with other civilizations, and of course the Bohemian civilization, remained in the Stone Age until they came into contact with modern civilization.
For the progress and development of civilization, communication is the basic prerequisite for progress.
In the face of completely different civilizations, whether a civilization can learn with an open mind directly determines the future of this civilization. This is also the reason why some civilizations are still in a state of humility until the 21st century.
Youdao means that the sea is open to all rivers and has tolerance, so it is great.
If a civilization is like a clay pot that is not filled with water, greedily absorbing supplies from all sides, then its future will naturally be unlimited. If a civilization sets a boundary for it, no matter how exquisite and gorgeous it is,
A porcelain jar will always overflow when it is filled with water, and its future will naturally have many limitations.
There are only two ways to keep the jar filled with new water. One is to pour out part of the old water in the jar and then fill it with new water; the other is to change the jar to a larger jar to hold the water. The former is to cure the symptoms.
The solution is to treat the root cause.
If civilization wants to develop, it must constantly add new content and inject fresh blood.
As the ruler, Emperor Zhu Da certainly hoped that the bigger the Ming jar, the better. However, it was not the will of the ruler but the "human heart" that determined the volume of the jar.
The ruler may use his power to break the jar, but there is no guarantee that the new jar will be larger than the old jar. Perhaps the ruler can add a layer of gorgeous enamel to the outside of the pot, but it may not change its boundaries.
Only with an open mind can we accept the essence of other civilizations. However, the subtleties of the human heart cannot be easily controlled by power.
Fortunately, the Ming Dynasty, which was founded in the New World, is a country without the burden of history.
Not many of its first-generation immigrants were educated. After all, after the Taiping Army attacked the city, the first wave of people to be killed were scholars.
The immigrants who came to the New World were mostly just ordinary people.
The rules, customs, traditional concepts, dogmas, norms and restraints accumulated over the five thousand years of China's rich history are so vulnerable in the face of this survival.
At the same time, in order to survive, as early as the Nanhua era, a large amount of European intellectual resources—that is, modern scientific and technological civilization—began to be introduced.
The impact of civilization may have impacted the immigrants, but in the face of such impact, without the constraints of conservatism and the constraints of heavy history, modern Western industrial civilization quickly integrated with Chinese civilization on this land.
Moreover, the empire has always introduced European and American intellectual resources with an open mind that embraces all rivers.
The simplest number can prove this. There are now more than 50,000 experts and scholars from Europe and the United States living in the Ming Dynasty. They are either teachers and professors teaching in universities or colleges, or engineers in factories and mines.
In order to be able to "cut leeks", Daming invested in the introduction of these talents regardless of cost!
Are these people "leeks"?
No, they are the seeds of civilization, and their arrival enriches the connotation of imperial civilization.
The territory of the empire has boundaries, and the civilization of the empire has no boundaries. Whether he is Chinese or European, as long as he has talent, he will be able to succeed.
In the 16th year of Shengde, the most famous scientist in the entire Ming Dynasty was not a Chinese scientist, but Tesla, who was a naturalized citizen.
He became famous for inventing radio broadcasting and the radio.
"Radio broadcasting is undoubtedly one of the greatest inventions of this century. It uses sound carried by radio waves to spread at least thousands of miles through electronic machinery..."
After the radio was demonstrated in public for the first time, and everyone was shocked by it, and when people were surprised that radio waves could carry sound, Tesla, as an inventor, finally stood in front of the emperor again. The last time
, when he won the Young Scholar Award.
After Tesla walked into the palace with awe, to his surprise, the emperor discussed with him more topics related to his invention.
"...At present, the cost price of each radio is about 180 yuan, and the market price is about 250 yuan. However, according to the company's estimates, after the annual production and sales reach 10,000 units, the cost can be reduced by about 20%."
"Even if it drops by 20%, it's still too expensive!"
Emperor Zhu Da said directly.
"What we need is a cheap radio, say 90% cheaper than now!"
"What? How is it possible to reduce it by 90%? One of our electronic tubes requires several pieces!"
Tesla was surprised.
In fact, he was able to invent the radio entirely thanks to another invention of the empire-the vacuum tube!
As early as more than ten years ago, the world's first electronic diode was born in the Imperial Central Laboratory. It has a detecting function. This is the earliest vacuum tube, that is, an electron tube, and it is used in radio stations.
However, due to confidentiality and other reasons, the electron tube has not been further developed. It is only produced through the laboratory and used to manufacture radio transceiver equipment. After Tesla entered the Imperial Central Laboratory, he came into contact with vacuum diode tubes due to work.
, when developing a radio broadcasting system, he added a pole - a "grid" - to the vacuum diode tube. After repeated trials, he finally invented the vacuum triode tube. From the perspective of future generations, the electronic triode
The invention can be called the real starting point of the electronic industry. It can not only amplify weak signals, but also integrates the three functions of detection, amplification and oscillation.
This is also the basic electronic component for his invention of the radio.
"Electronic tubes are not complicated. They are essentially the same as light bulbs. How much does a light bulb cost? The current high price is still due to production problems. As long as the production volume increases, the price will naturally go down."
Emperor Zhu Da waved his hand and said.
"You have to know that a cheap car now only costs about 700 yuan, and a second-hand car can be bought for only two to three hundred yuan. You can buy a radio at a price no cheaper than a second-hand car. Ordinary families will definitely not be able to afford such luxury goods.
Yes, I believe that radio will be the most common household appliance in the future, and every family will have one."
"Every home has a radio?"
Tesla was surprised.
"This, how is this possible?"
"It is definitely impossible for a rich person's toys to be made, but what if its price drops from the current few hundred yuan to more than ten or twenty yuan?"
Who was the first person in history to lower the price of radios?
That’s San Dezi. The reason why San Dezi attaches so much importance to the promotion of radio is because they discovered the propaganda potential of radio. With such a convenient platform, ordinary people can also easily listen to the speeches of the head of state and the policies and ideas of San Dezi.
publicity.
Therefore, Santoku tried every means to turn radios, a rich man's toy costing a hundred marks, into ordinary electrical appliances costing 30 marks, and eventually penetrated into thousands of homes.
San Dezi needs other people's propaganda function, and Emperor Zhu Da also needs its propaganda function. Of course, it is not so that "with the national radio, everyone can hear the voice of the head of state," but so that everyone can hear the Ming Dynasty.
sound!
Ming Dynasty needs to spread its voice to the world and tell the story of Ming Dynasty well. As long as the story of Ming Dynasty is told well, not only inventors like Tesla from all over the world will come to Ming Dynasty, but also ordinary people will come to Ming Dynasty like
, fascinated by the Ming Dynasty!
Looking at the guy in front of him who is second only to Edison in fame in history, now that Edison died in an accident, what about him?
Tesla was the Edison of the Ming Empire. As long as he could achieve corresponding achievements, Emperor Zhu Da did not mind praising him as the greatest inventor of the empire.
Uh... It seems that the greatest inventor of the empire is still myself...
Thinking of this, Emperor Zhu Da couldn't help but feel a little melancholy. However, the price of this tube radio was a bit too high, which was not conducive to Ming Dynasty's propaganda war.
The competition between civilizations, in addition to scientific competition and military competition, is more important than propaganda!
Now that we have the magic weapon of radio broadcasting, we must of course maximize its role.
No, you have to think of a way to maximize its value...
(End of chapter)
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