On the historical level, the first truly operational telegraph line appeared in 1839. The first submarine cable laid in the English Channel to connect the United Kingdom to the European continent appeared in 1850. But the real telegraph line that can communicate over long distances

Wireless telegraphy had to wait until 1895.

In Zhu Youdong's plane, wired telegraphy only appeared for five or six years. Although the time travelers all know that wireless telegraphy will be more practical in future telegraph communications, and they urge their respective scientists to work hard to develop wireless telegraphy. But on the one hand,

It is a technical problem that cannot be achieved just by political leaders saying they want it. It will take time. On the other hand, even with unlimited telegraph, wired telegraph still has its advantages in terms of security and stability. Therefore, regardless of China, Europe and Austria,

, at the moment, they are developing wireless telegraph while constantly building telegraph lines. Countries like Spain, which need oceans to connect their own interests, have put the laying of Atlantic submarine cables on the agenda.

However, that was it, because there was no wireless telegraphy. So after Ibrahim wrote a handwritten letter to Zhu Youdong in May, when Zhu Youdong saw it, it was already October 1642.

After reading Yi Praxin's letter, Zhu Youdong smiled softly, and then asked Fang Zhenghua to call Chen Zizhuang and Cui Chengxiu over.

"You all have a look at this. Huh, Osman's Chinese translation is not good. This Chinese version seems extremely stiff. Please help me look at the original version of this Turkic version."

"...Your Majesty, this should be the handwriting of Grand Vizier Ibrahim. In the early years, when I was on an envoy in Istanbul, I had many correspondence exchanges with this Grand Vizier. In addition, this person who asked for help was very pretentious.

It looks like it is indeed Ibrahim himself."

"Hahaha, it's true. Well, you have one minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and one minister of the Ministry of Commerce. What do you think? Is it feasible?"

"Your Majesty, I think it's feasible!" Cui Chengxiu stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, the three items of silk, porcelain and tea, when trade between China and Europe was smooth in the past, could bring a net income of at least 30 million silver dollars to the Ming Dynasty every year. Although the imperial court gained from it

The commercial tax of our country is only six to seven million. But after these 30 million silver dollars entered our market in Ming Dynasty, they were of great use in alleviating our money shortage. In recent years, with the severance of trade between China and Europe, the amount of silver dollars in our market in Ming Dynasty has been greatly reduced.

The silver dollar has a trend of appreciation again... Therefore, before the issuance of banknotes, it is very necessary to restart the Silk Road to alleviate the money shortage of the Ming Dynasty again. "

"What Cui Qing said is indeed true. In this case, I will leave this matter to you two. What I mean is that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs should have a serious discussion with the Ottomans. In addition to reopening the Silk Road, the final

It is good that both parties can build telegraph lines at the junction of each other's control areas. This will facilitate contact and allow timely communication if any problems arise."

"Yes, I will accept the order."

"You have come up with a specific plan for this matter, and it is the Chief Secretary of Xinjiang who will actually implement it. However, after all, this involves the security of trade routes. Therefore, you have to choose someone to be the captain of the Silk Road Guard. Do you have any candidates?"

After the two looked at each other for a moment, Chen Zizhuang raised his hands and said: "Your Majesty, I recommend Wu Sangui, director of the Public Security Department of the Greater Mongolia District, to take up this post. This person performed extremely well in the battle against the bandits in Xinjiang. He annihilated a large number of people.

In the case of enemy forces, the losses of its militia units were minimal."

"What? Wu Sangui? Well, okay, let Chen Qing ask for it. Fang Zhenghua, you will go to the Royal Horse Prison later and ask Liu Shimin to select 3,000 veterans who are about to retire and give them to Wu Sangui. In addition, ask the Ministry of Finance to build one for him.

You let Cao Sanxi take care of the account, annual administrative expenses and salary quota."

"This slave takes the order."

"Okay, let's stop talking about the reopening of the Silk Road. In addition, Cui Qing, how is the establishment of the trade routes in the Americas?"

"Your Majesty, the telegram sent from Nanjing to the Ministry of Commerce in Beijing stated that a transport ship departing from the Port of Lima in America more than four months ago, loaded with 300 tons of silver ingots and 12 tons of gold ingots, arrived at Nanjing Port the day before yesterday.

As for the Ming Dynasty, the Ministry of Commerce has recently received applications from twenty-seven chambers of commerce to operate American routes and conduct trade in the Americas."

"Hey, it's not easy. I have been investing in America for so many years, and finally I have seen decent output. Cui Qing, in addition to gold and silver, there should be many other specialties in America. Food, seafood, etc.

We can ask our businessmen to set up canneries there. As for the mines, in addition to gold, silver and copper mines, South America is also rich in coal, iron and saltpeter, especially saltpeter mines. The mining cost is much lower than that of our Daming...

In short, South America has a lot to offer!”

"Yes, Your Majesty. I have long understood the abundance of natural resources in South America from the books of Wang Zhizhong and Xu Xiake. But when I communicated with the merchants below, they all had doubts about setting up factories and mining in South America. It's not that I'm afraid of it.

The Indians are difficult to get along with, but they think that the Ming Dynasty... uh, forgive me, Your Majesty, they have no confidence in the military superiority of the Ming Dynasty in South America. After all, in recent years, the battles between our country and the Western bandits in South America have not occupied

Definitely the upper hand.”

"Well, you don't have to worry too much. It won't be long before good news comes from South America. By then, people who want to make a fortune in South America will fill your desk with application reports!"

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October 15, 1642, Lima, South America.

This place was retaken by the Ming Dynasty and the Indians. Nearly two years have passed. In addition to the Baroque-style buildings left by the Spanish, there are also some Chinese-style buildings with cornices and brackets in the city. In the center of the city, there is a building that is ten meters high and has three-story eaves.

The traditional Chinese-style building stands majestically. Although there are still many workers working in many places in this building. But the flow of people coming and going through the gates has fully demonstrated that this is the center of Ming Dynasty's rule in South America.

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In the southeast corner of this building, there is a conference room that is full of the atmosphere of a time traveler - in other words, the decoration style of this room is very similar to the lecture theaters that are common in many domestic universities in the 21st century.

Now, there are about two hundred strong men sitting in this lecture theater: they are wearing uniforms of light green Ming Army standard uniforms, and wearing shoulder insignias of various ranks ranging from captain to general. Wei Er and ordinary Ming army officers

The difference is that the skin color of this group of people is generally darker than that of the Ming Dynasty officers, and their facial contours are more three-dimensional. Then there is the parallelogram shape of the collar badges on the collars of their military uniforms, which is similar to the rectangular shape of ordinary army officers.

There is an obvious difference. The pattern of a microphone and a pen on the collar badge is also obviously different from the two rifles of the Army.

This group of people were the battalion-level and above-level political commissars of the ten Indian divisions that the Ming Dynasty established in South America in the name of the Inca Kingdom's National Defense Force.

At this time, standing on the rostrum at the bottom of the entire lecture theater was naturally His Highness Zhu Ciyi, the eldest son of the Emperor of the Ming Empire and the General Political Commissar of the American Armed Forces.

"Dear political commissars and instructors, in one month at most, the Battle of Bogota between the Ming Dynasty and the Inca Kingdom will begin. If we can win this battle, we can drive the Spanish main force out of the South American continent, and the Inca Kingdom will

We will be able to completely gain a foothold. And if we fail, we will not only lose Quito, but also Lima will not be able to hold on. Who knows, we will be beaten back to the Andes. Therefore, the purpose of this battle is

The importance cannot be overstated.

However, before the start of this important battle, which can be said to determine the fate of the Indians, there were some inexplicable rumors among the ten Indian divisions. It was very detrimental to pre-war unity and seriously affected our preparations. Therefore, today's call for

We are all meeting together to make these rumors clear to you. After you return to the army, you will be responsible for helping our soldiers unify their thoughts and strengthen their beliefs in their respective divisions, regiments, and battalions... That, the Third Inca Division

Is the Commissar Dances with Wolves coming?"

"Report to the General Political Commissar, the Third Division Political Commissar Zhu Xiaozhong is here."

Yes, in order to respect the Indians, Zhu Ciyi, Sun Chuanting and others greeted the locals by their Indian names. But for some Indian officers who had accepted Han culture and had a certain degree of loyalty to the Ming Dynasty, when they introduced themselves

, prefers to use his Chinese name.

Zhu Ciyi also has an Indian name here. It is different from Li Zicheng holding a torch high and Zhang Xianzhong breathing fragrance. His Indian name is very concise and extremely noble: Shuguang. Sun Chuanting's Indian name is also similar to Zhu Ciyi's: Hope.

"Dances with Wolves, tell me, what are the recent rumors in your division?"

"Yes, General Political Commissar. In the third division with a humble position, soldiers have been talking in recent months, saying that the Spanish came to the Americas and took away the gold and silver from the Americas. Now, the Ming Dynasty is also taking away the gold from our Americas.

Silver. From this point of view, there is no difference between the Ming Dynasty and Spain. In this case, why do we have to make such a big sacrifice, keep dying, drive away one tyrant, and usher in the next tyrant?"

"Everyone, there are almost all such rumors in your respective troops, right?"

"Yes."

"Very good." After nodding with a smile, Zhu Ciyi said: "First of all, what I want to say is that this rumor with the same content can be widely circulated among the ten Indian divisions in just one or two months.

It is impossible for the enemy to cause harm. Therefore, after all political commissars and instructors return, they need to conduct an internal investigation. See who else in our respective troops has illusions about the Spaniards, or who has no will in the first place.

Determined, he is basically a spy sent by the Spaniards.

Of course, it is necessary to track down spies. But more importantly, we must let our soldiers fundamentally understand the difference between our Ming Dynasty and Spain.

Of course, I know for sure that a considerable amount of gold and silver was shipped back to the mainland from Lima more than four months ago. In a few days, another batch of gold and silver is expected to be shipped. Everyone has returned to the army, and there is no need to hide this.

But you need to tell the soldiers clearly what Ming Dynasty brought to America before transporting gold and silver from America. What will I bring to America after transporting gold and silver away!

In the second year of the Apocalypse, Ming Dynasty first landed in South America. Twenty-two years later, Ming Dynasty took away hundreds of rubber trees in South America, as well as hundreds of tons of gold and silver four months ago. But we gave

What about America? Two rebel leaders, one of whom has become your current queen. Countless guns and ammunition, so that you no longer have to face the Spanish with bare hands. Sixty-eight factories of various types allow the Indians to have their own

Primary industry and mature political system have freed you from the category of clans and tribes. Advanced medical technology has freed you from the threats of smallpox, influenza and even syphilis. Common language and writing have allowed you, the Native Americans, to truly become a whole.

Instead of the hundreds of scattered tribes before...

Over the past 22 years, a total of nearly 90,000 Han people have come to America. More than 10,000 Han people have rested here forever for the cause of Indian independence. These more than 90,000 Han people have never killed an Indian without reason.

, at most it was just a fight with a local boy because he fell in love with the same girl. Speaking of this, well, in order to get Rama, I had a fight with one of you, and he was still there.

There is a gash in my chest."

"Hahahaha~" Amidst the laughter of the crowd, a tall Indian man stood up with a blushing face: "Shuguang, don't talk about this matter here. You almost cut off my right hand with that knife!"

"Sit down, the wind blows." He waved his hands with a smile: "You all know that I am the eldest son of the Ming Dynasty, and you also know that your weapons are provided by the Ming Dynasty. Logically speaking, if I fall in love with any Indian girl, I will directly

Wouldn't it be enough to use power and rob by force? But I didn't. Not only did I not, but all the Ming Dynasty's aid personnel, when they have personal conflicts with you locals, will not use power to overwhelm others. They are all willing to respect you.

Get used to it and solve problems in a way that you think is traditional and fair. Isn’t that right?”

"yes!"

"Then let's go back and see how the Spanish treated the Americas. 150 years ago, Columbus arrived in the Americas with a group of Spanish sailors who were suffering from septicemia and were about to die of illness and starvation. He got help from the local tribes.

He survived. But when he came to America for the second time, he raped a nine-year-old Indian girl that night and massacred the Indian tribe who rescued them. After that, wherever he went, he acted shamelessly

The pedophiles, massacres and diseases brought there...

In more than a hundred years, the Spaniards took away more than two million kilograms of gold and more than 100 million kilograms of silver from the Americas. But what did they bring to the Americas? Death. In these more than a hundred years, the number of Indians

Directly reduced by 90%! Diseases, such as smallpox, influenza, pneumonia, cholera, plague... Painful, in more than a hundred years, countless Indians have been devastated, lost their original land and relatives, and lost the happiness they should have enjoyed.

Everything. Over the past hundred years, countless gold mines, silver mines, and copper mines have been filled with bones, as well as Indian miners who worked hard all day long under the shackles of leather whips...

Everyone, Spain only took from the Americas without giving. And when taking, it never asked the Indians who were taken from how they felt. Because the thinking of white people is a typical zero-sum thinking. In this kind of thinking, giving

If you have more, I will get less. For my happiness, I must let you get nothing.

And our Ming Dynasty does not have zero-sum thinking. What we emphasize on common development is win-win cooperation. Of course our Ming Dynasty needs gold and silver from the Americas, because our domestic development has been too fast in recent years, and the growth rate of the things we produce has exceeded

The annual increase in gold and silver has led to deflation, which is more terrifying economically than inflation. Therefore, transporting gold and silver from the Americas to the Ming Dynasty is a life-saving thing for us.

However, while we are taking away gold and silver, we must also return more things to the Americas. In this way, the Ming Dynasty and the Incas can go hand in hand and develop together.

Many of you have been hunters before, and you should all know that in order to survive, we have to hunt some animals. But when hunting animals, we usually avoid spring, because at that time, many animals are pregnant.

Even if we have to hunt animals in spring, we will try to kill as few animals as possible, or kill males. On this point, we Ming Dynasty and you Indians have a consensus. But the white people in Europe are not like this.

For a piece of skin, it doesn’t matter the season or whether this species will become extinct in the future... This is the difference between typical zero-sum thinking and common development thinking...

Everyone, do you still have any doubts in your mind now?"

"Report to the General Political Commissar, no more!"

"When you return to the army, can you make your soldiers understand the difference between our Ming Dynasty and Spain?"

"Report to the General Political Commissar, we can!"

"Can you inspire the soldiers to fight bravely in the upcoming Battle of Bogotá, which will determine whether America will move towards a glorious revival or complete destruction?"
Chapter completed!