The air force's surprise attack was successful, but it could not occupy it.
The next siege of the city will still require the troops of King Ning to execute it.
Uzang's army was already miserable. After this battle, they suffered heavy casualties. King Lianchanhua also died in the melee. Those who survived either begged for surrender or fled in all directions without any resistance.
King Ning's troops easily penetrated deep into the hinterland of the plateau. From then on, Uzang was completely within the territory of the Ming Dynasty, rather than a territory that did not live up to its name.
Yu Qian, the Academy of Sciences and others have returned to the capital to return the imperial edict.
Zhu Qizhen was overjoyed and immediately gave Mei Chun the rank of third-grade Yulin Guard Commander.
These days, he has thought clearly about merging the Habayashi Zuowei, Yulin Right Guards and Habayashi Vanguard into Yulin Ying, and changing the Kongming Lantern Research Institute of the Academy of Sciences into the Aerodynamics Research Institute and returning it to Yulin Ying.
From then on, Ming Dynasty's first air force was established.
Bei Lin and others also rewarded each one based on their merits. All the researchers who went on the expedition were each rewarded with a flying fish suit.
"Your Majesty, why are you so happy?"
When Empress Qian saw Zhu Qizhen grinning widely, she knew there must be something happy.
"Ha ha ha ha……"
Zhu Qizhen smiled even more happily, and then said: "A small sky lantern is worth thousands of troops!"
Queen Qian was a little confused and asked: "What...Kongming Lantern?"
"The Queen is unaware that the Academy of Sciences has made extraordinary achievements, which is really a blessing to the Ming Dynasty!"
Queen Qian still didn't understand, but she didn't ask any more questions, but ordered: "Zhen'er, go and bring the ginseng soup."
"Yes, Queen!"
Wan Zhen'er carefully brought a bowl of ginseng soup over and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, this is the ginseng soup made by the empress herself."
Zhu Qizhen took it, looked at Wan Zhen'er, seemed to have thought of something, and said: "Your two brothers..."
Plop!
Before she finished speaking, Wan Zhen'er had already knelt on the ground and leaned over and said: "I beg your Majesty to forgive me!"
"Don't worry, there's nothing wrong with the two of them. They've all been checked out."
Wan Zhen'er's two younger brothers bought some saltpeter and sulfur privately. Although these items are controlled, they are not strictly controlled by the private sector, and large transactions are only prohibited.
For example, medicine shops have sulfur, and as for saltpeter, there are many stone factories.
Jin Yiwei investigated the ins and outs of the matter and found that the Wan family brothers did not have any special channels. They just heard from their sister that His Highness the Crown Prince needed this thing, so they tried every means to get it.
As for what His Highness the Prince is using it for, they have no idea at all.
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness. Thank you, Your Majesty..."
Wan Zhen'er was surprised and happy, and couldn't help wiping her tears.
"Why are you crying? I just want to tell you that everything is fine. Get up!"
Zhu Qizhen waved his hand, and Wan Zhener slowly stood up.
"Tell me, how is the Queen's health these days?"
Wan Zhen'er wiped away her tears and said: "Back to the Emperor, the Queen's health is recovering smoothly. However, the decoction from the Imperial Hospital must be continued for a while to prevent the recurrence of old diseases."
Zhu Qizhen nodded, looked at Queen Qian again, and asked, "What does the Queen think?"
Empress Qian smiled sweetly and said, "I feel very relaxed. I had my period yesterday, but I no longer feel abdominal pain."
"Really, that's great!"
Zhu Qizhen had a smile on his face again and said: "Queen, please rest early!"
"I...I am inconvenienced, why not..."
Queen Qian hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Let Zhen'er serve the emperor to bed."
Upon hearing this, Wan Zhen'er blushed to the root of her neck and lowered her head, not knowing what to do.
Zhu Qizhen smiled and shook his head, saying: "I'm a little tired today, so I'm going to bed first."
Speaking of which, Wan Zhen'er's birth can be regarded as beautiful, but this woman...
For some reason it doesn't fit...
Early the next morning, Bei Lin and Tong Xuan arrived in a hurry.
"Your Majesty, the phone number you mentioned has been found!"
"Really? Where is it? Let me see!"
Zhu Qizhen suddenly became interested. When Tong Xuan tinkered with the electric light, he drew a drawing of a telephone. Unexpectedly, it was completed so quickly.
Tong Xuan took a bag from behind and said, "I brought the things!"
After opening, there are two cylinders inside, connected with copper wires in the middle.
Zhu Qizhen took a rough look and found that it was almost the same as he imagined.
"Let's go, let's give it a try!"
The monarch and his ministers came to the imperial study room and left one microphone inside. Then Tong Xuan took the other one and walked out and closed the door.
In fact, this thing is not really a telephone, at best it is a microphone.
When Tong Xuan got the drawings, he was also confused. Why did he call the phone if there was no answer?
In fact, Zhu Qizhen was used to calling, and the telephone was designed based on the principle of a microphone.
Just when Tong Xuan was in a daze holding the drawings, a student from the Electric Power Research Institute suddenly said, isn't this the Tingweng in Mozi's book?
When Tong Xuan heard this, he immediately went to find Mozi's book. After flipping through it, he found relevant records in the "Acupoint Preparation Chapter".
It is roughly a kind of jar with a large mouth and a small belly. When in use, it is buried in the ground and the mouth of the jar is covered with a thin layer of leather. When detection is needed, you can listen to the surrounding movement by leaning your ear on it.
If necessary, professional intelligence personnel can even be asked to sit in the urn and listen to the sounds.
Sometimes, in order to reduce intelligence errors, blind people are often trained to perform tasks. Because the hearing of blind people is often stronger than that of ordinary people, movements within a radius of dozens of miles can be heard through listening urns.
Tong Xuan was inspired and continued to browse ancient books. Soon, he saw similar records in "Mengxi Bi Tan" written by Shen Kuo of the Song Dynasty. However, it was no longer called Tingweng, but Yafu.
This is a special quiver, mainly used to detect enemy situations on the battlefield.
When you need to eavesdrop, take out an arrow, blow enough air, and put it under your head at night. The sound of people and horses can be heard within a few miles.
In addition, similar devices commonly used in the folk include "listening tubes", which is how the so-called "walls have ears" comes from.
It's just that these devices are all separate, and no one has ever thought of connecting two listening tubes.
After Tong Xuan compiled the ancient records and based on the drawings provided by Zhu Qizhen, he quickly made the first microphone.
The two earpieces are connected with a copper wire. Copper has a very strong sound-conducting ability and can be heard clearly from a long distance.
Zhu Qizhen patted the microphone, and then put it to his ear. After a while, Tong Xuan's voice came: "Your Majesty, can you hear me?"
"Hear, can you hear?"
"I can hear it too!"
"Very good, come back!"
Tong Xuan returned to the imperial study with the microphone, and then saw Zhu Qizhen pull out a drawing.
"This is a real phone call!"
Beilin only glanced at it and then frowned.
Tong Xuan was puzzled. He took two steps forward and saw the densely packed parts and markings on the drawing.
Looking at the "phone" in my hand, it seems... it's not the same thing at all!