After hearing what Chen Datou said, Kou Qing's smile did not change. Instead, he took two steps forward, got in front of Chen Datou, and said with a smile: "Chen Wengweng, aren't you following my grandfather?"
Chen Datou looked at Kou Qing with a half-smile but said, "What? Are you afraid that your grandfather is nearby?"
Kou Qing smiled and said: "My grandfather has always had a method for doing things. He said that if he wants to visit the Southern Wilderness in the next few years, he will definitely stay in the Southern Wilderness. I'm just wondering why you don't accompany my grandfather in the Southern Wilderness.
Instead, it appeared in the Northern Wasteland."
Chen Datou said with a smile: "You do understand the old emperor."
Kou Qing said hurriedly: "I am his grandson, so of course I understand him."
Chen Datou smiled and nodded, and suddenly said: "What if I say that the old lady is in the Linhai Governor's Mansion?"
The smile on Kou Qing's face froze.
Zhao Yao's face on the side also didn't look good.
When Chen Datou saw this, he laughed loudly, "Two little guys, don't be scared..."
When Kou Qing and Zhao Yao heard this, they realized that they had been tricked and could only look at Chen Datou dumbfounded.
Chen Datou said with a smile: "Your father developed something called a telegram before. There were some questions in it, so he sent someone to deliver it to the old prince. Let the old prince take a look. In his spare time, the old prince
Just tidied it up.
Now that thing called a telegraph can be used.
Just what lines to lay.
I don't understand either.
The old prince gave me a document and asked me to come to the Governor of Linhai Governor's Office and let Linhai Governor's Office try it out first. If there is no problem with the Linhai Governor's Office's trial, then the old prince plans to promote it with all his strength."
"telegraph?"
Kou Qing looked shocked.
He had heard of telegraphs and had seen his father study them.
The method of making telegraphs originated from Baishilou, and it is said to be a product derived from the fusion of Western culture and Song Dynasty culture.
It's just that the description of this object in the files stored in Baishi Tower is too shocking.
He didn't really believe it, so he didn't pay attention to this thing. He didn't expect that it would actually be researched.
Chen Datou nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, telegram... Speaking of which, your father has not been idle these years as the leader of the country. He first created an iron ship, then an iron cart, and later he took control of it.
Thunder and lightning created lamps that glowed at night.
Nowadays, this kind of telegraph has been developed that can send messages thousands of miles.
The old prince said that it would take at least three to four hundred years for outsiders to learn the things your father created."
Speaking of this, Chen Datou sighed, "It's been three or four hundred years, and I still don't know what it has become."
Kou Qing still couldn't believe it, he asked: "Is it really a telegram?"
Chen Datou stared, "How can I lie to you?"
Kou Qing smiled dryly and said: "That's definitely not the case. It's just that the telegram is too shocking."
Chen Datou said with emotion: "I didn't believe it at first. But after the old emperor got the telegram sent by your father and had people lay a long line of more than ten miles, he really got the news from one end of the line.
passed to the other end.
After Emperor Zhao saw the thing, he was extremely pleasantly surprised and said that he would send telegrams to all parts of the Song Dynasty.
Emperor Zhao said that with the telegraph, news from various places in the Song Dynasty would not have to wait for a long time to be sent to Beijing.
It is said that the Song Dynasty's rule over local areas will be strengthened, and the sufferings of the people can no longer be hidden from the court.
If any natural disaster occurs, the imperial court will know it as soon as possible."
Kou Qing said solemnly: "If it can really achieve the effect of transmitting sounds thousands of miles away, then what my imperial grandfather said is right."
Chen Datou chuckled, "The old emperor doesn't think so. The old emperor said that the Song Dynasty shouldn't ask for good things, and it would be useless if he did.
Fifteen years ago, when your father built that big iron ship, Emperor Zhao took the forging method from the old emperor through hard work. Until now, the Song Dynasty can barely forge some ships that can carry no more than a thousand people.
Five boats.
Thirteen years ago, when your father invented the iron car with rails, Emperor Zhao was very hard-pressed and wanted to use the forging method.
The result? Officials of the Song Dynasty said that building that thing would waste people and money.
He forcefully stuffed the good things into Longtuge and offered them to him.
In the end, your father finished laying the railway tracks in the Qing Dynasty and built the railway cars. The officials of the Song Dynasty saw the benefits of the railway cars with their own eyes, but they were still hesitant.
Your grandmother finally couldn't stand it anymore, so she and your aunt teamed up to build railway tracks in the Song Dynasty.
A railway track was built from Shengjing City to Qingdu.
Transporting goods and people every day makes a lot of money every day.
Only when officials in the Song Dynasty saw the cash did they see the benefits of building railroad tracks.
They just started building the railway track, and they also tried to use their meager money to take away the railway track built by your grandmother and your aunt.
It made your grandmother and your aunt almost kill those people.
Emperor Zhao almost died of anger.
Just write to your uncle to get rid of all those idiots in the supervision department.
Old Man Fan also lost his official position.
Five years ago, your father came up with an electric light, and Emperor Zhao shamelessly begged for it. The old emperor gave Song a huge sum of money before selling it to them.
Emperor Zhao originally thought that after paying a large price, the officials of the Song Dynasty would take it seriously.
Unexpectedly, when officials of the Song Dynasty heard that they were going to lay electric wires throughout the Song Dynasty, they backed down.
Up to now, almost all people in Qing Dynasty have used electric lights.
In the Song Dynasty, only Shengjing City had electric lights.
Emperor Zhao asked for a telegram this time, and the old emperor used the three previous incidents to humiliate Emperor Zhao.
Emperor Zhao was so angry that he almost led his troops to fight back, intending to cut down all those people in the Great Song Dynasty Hall."
Kou Qing sighed and said: "The group of people who followed my grandfather in innovating in the past are old. Not only are they old, but their brains are also old."
Chen Datou said disdainfully: "I think they are just misers. In the past, when the Song Dynasty had no money, how generous was it? To pay compensation to the Liao Kingdom, it was three million yuan."
Now that the state treasury and the Song Dynasty Bank are full of money, they are becoming stingy."
Zhao Yao defended his father in a low voice, "The Song Dynasty is not stingy, it is just that the Song Dynasty is too big and many places have not yet developed. Although Shengjing City is prosperous, many people in the border areas have barely learned to speak Han.
Just words.
Most of the money in the Song Dynasty should be reserved for the education of the people in the border areas."
Chen Datou said disdainfully: "You can only make money if you are willing to spend money. You can only get in but not get out, you can only rob. The old prince has spent more money on Qingguo in these years than he has saved in the Song Dynasty bank."
Not only did the Qingguo treasury not continue to dry up, but the tax revenue doubled every year.
In the past, there were still people who applied patches in Qingguo.
If you go to Qingguo now and see, who still wears patched clothes?
The people of Qing State are now too embarrassed to go out to meet people without wearing decent clothes."
Zhao Yao rolled his eyes.
Qing State is a small country with few people, so it is naturally easy to govern.
His grandfather smashed it with hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the effect was obviously obvious.
In addition, the Qing State had long ago sent their criminal records to Beihai Mansion to work as miners and coolies, and then forcibly threw the lazy people in the Qing State to the Beihuang to open up wasteland.
I don’t know how many people support the people of Qingguo, and the people of Qingguo naturally live a prosperous life.