Chapter 185: The Storm Rises (9) To be honest, although Li Zhen's reputation is getting more and more prosperous, after all, he has been away from the political center for so long, and he hasn't been back to Chang'an for five or six years.
This led to the fact that some people in the court dared to underestimate Li Zhen, and even what Li Zhen had done in recent years was denied by them one by one or directly skipped it, just seizing his shortcomings and attacking violently.
Although this kind of attack did not bring him much trouble, it was also like a fly, very responsive - many of them were newcomers to the throne after Li Zhen left Chang'an, but there were also many old courtiers who forgot the fear of being dominated by Li Zhen.
In order to avoid being embarrassed in Chang'an in the future, Li Zhen thought of the trick of strengthening the momentum - no matter what era it is, the credit is empty, if you don't have the strength, no matter how beautiful you were before, it was just a dream bubble, and only a big fist is the truth.
No matter how famous you are, it is better to show your muscles directly, this is the best way to deter the enemy, and it is also the most practical method.
Li Zhen can imagine that when the time comes, hundreds of main warships will swing there, and everyone will have to kneel, not to mention looking down on Li Zhen, I'm afraid they will have to spend a long time in panic in the future - worried about what if the crown prince becomes the emperor, what will happen to them?
Will Li Zhen hold a grudge against their previous attacks?
If they don't figure this out, they won't want to sleep soundly for at least a month.
"Then let's do it."
Li Zhen clapped his head and said.
"Yes, I'll arrange it." …… After another three or five days, all matters in Luzon were on the right track, and the imperial court also got the news of Li Zhen's attack, and the whole court was shocked, everyone was frightened by this news, Li Shimin was even more angry, and almost ordered the Qi army to kill Luzon, and Concubine Yan almost fainted.
Fortunately, it was explained that the enemy had been defeated and the crown prince was not harmed, which made Li Shimin angry, but even this shocked the imperial court - these days, really some crazy people have come out, and they actually dare to assassinate the crown prince of the dynasty.
Of course, some of these shocked people are really shocked, and the other part is pretended, and deep down they are not only not shocked, but also very disappointed - is this Li Zhen a cat?
Do they all have nine lives?
With so many fleets gathered in everything, they didn't kill him, this life is too big, right?
Looks like it's time to carry out the second plan......
But whether it is true shock or false shock, what is shown at this time is an attitude - that is, a thorough investigation, the culprit who attacked the prince must be found out, and then let them see the anger of the Tang Empire, only Li Shimin directly ordered Li Zhen not to stay in Nanyang, and ordered him to go north and return to Chang'an within half a month.
It was also under these circumstances that fleets from all over the South Seas sent petitions, requesting that fleets be sent to escort His Royal Highness the Crown Prince back to Beijing.
Of course, the imperial court would not allow such a request, especially the Ministry of War, which did not hesitate to reject their request, and only allowed the Dagang fleet and the Coconut Harbor fleet to each transfer a sub-fleet to form an escort formation with the Yuezhou fleet to escort Li Zhen back to Beijing - in their opinion, since Li Zhen can defeat so many enemy fleets, it shows that the combat effectiveness of the Quanzhou fleet is very strong, if it weren't for the precaution, they didn't even want the Coconut Harbor Fleet and the Dagang Fleet to make a move, Even the Quanzhou fleet, they didn't plan to let them all go north.
And this resolution is also very in line with the minds of those families, after all, they want to implement the second plan, so the fewer people around Li Zhen, the better, if they really bring all the fleets in the South Seas, then they don't want to play - at least at sea, they don't want to do anything.
But it's a pity that their hopes were disappointed, because this resolution of the Ministry of War was rejected by Li Shimin himself, and then crossed the three provinces and six departments, and directly issued his own holy decree, ordering the major fleets in the South Seas to send a detachment to Coconut Harbor to assemble and escort the prince back to Beijing - when he received this order, Li Zhen was very surprised, because he had not communicated with Li Shimin, but I have to say that the father and son were telepathic, and Li Zhen had just sent his proposal up, Over there, Li Shimin understood his plan, and gave the order along the river, which can be regarded as a great help to himself.
Another seven days have passed, with the joint efforts of the military and civilians of the whole city, the traces of gunpowder smoke over Coconut Harbor have completely dissipated, and all the traces damaged by the war have been repaired, even more beautiful than the war thousand, I believe that after this war, the soldiers and civilians of Coconut Harbor will cherish this hard-won peace even more.
At this time, the fleets of the major fleets in the South Seas had also gathered in Coconut Harbor, but one fleet did not come......
"It seems that it was the Bori fleet that attacked us before."
Fang Yiai speculated.
When Li Zhen left Luzon for the first time, he was not only encircled and suppressed by the joint forces at sea, but also a fleet belonging to the Tang Navy came to increase the enemy's strength after the war, but was annihilated by Cheng Chuliang's command.
At that time, Li Zhen also ordered someone to find out which fleet was the one who did it, but because the time was still short, there was no news yet.
Now Li Zhen summoned the major naval fleets in Nanyang to escort the ship, and all the naval fleets came, but this Bori fleet did not come, so Fang Yiai deduced that it was this Bori fleet that shot at the beginning.
"I don't think so."
Cheng Chuliang raised an objection: "Don't forget, whose territory is Borneo?
That's Luo Zhe's place, do you think that with Luo Zhe's ability, there are forces against the prince on his own territory, he will not know?
Not to mention that this opponent is also the governor of a fleet?
” "Specifically, let's just send a report and ask, isn't it over?"
Sima Cuo next to him said casually, and after speaking, he said to Li Zhen with a look of reverence: "Your Highness, your subordinates really admire you, you have made this telegram really too powerful, thousands of miles away, the news sent can actually be sent in the morning and evening, this speed is too fast - the subordinates feel that with this telegram alone, we can expand the territory of the Tang Dynasty more than three times......
Perhaps, Your Highness, you are talking about opening up 100,000 miles of territory for the Tang Dynasty and unifying the whole world, this dream may not be unrealizable. ” "Of course, this wireless telegraph will be the most important tool for Datang to unify the world."
Li Zhen also said proudly.
As I said before, Datang is not without the ability to expand its territory, or that the Chinese nation has never lacked careerists who want to expand its territory, as long as the conditions are sufficient, then they can completely sweep the world.
The problem is that the transportation conditions limit the pace of conquest of the Chinese people, forcing the ancestors of the Chinese people to only fight to the Western Regions, and they can no longer continue to expand, and even the Western Regions have adopted a policy of restraint, and when the dynasty declined, this was the first object to be abandoned.
If you continue to fight abroad, it will be Central Asia, and it is really not worth fighting - it's not that it can't be beaten, but the question is what if it is defeated?
It's too far away from the Central Plains here, and the news transmission is slow to death, even if it is the fastest eight hundred miles to expedite, it will take at least a week to deliver the news to Chang'an from outside the Western Regions, and it will take half a month to go back and forth, if you still need to increase the number of troops, it will take longer, it is estimated that the reinforcements here have not yet arrived, and the rebellion over there is over.
Therefore, if you want to continue the conquest to the west, there are two prerequisites that must be addressed, that is, transportation conditions and communication conditions.
Among them, the steam engine has been developed, as long as the rubber is in place, it can be produced at any time, and with the steam engine, will the train be far away?
Therefore, the transportation problem has been solved, and even if it is too late to lay the railroad tracks, Li Zhen can design a small steam engine and install it on a giant horse-drawn carriage, which can also solve the transportation problem.
The traffic problem can be said to have been solved, and although transportation alone can rule Central Asia, but without fast and fast means of communication, it is still impossible to maintain local stability, after all, it is too far away from Datang, in case the town guard general rebels and becomes independent, it will not be fun, and it will cause a lot of trouble to Datang.
So the development of the telegraph was put on the agenda, and it was better to use wireless telegraphy, the restrictions of the wired telegraph were too great, and it was only necessary to destroy the wires, and then everything would be over.
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In fact, if it is just a telegraph, it is not difficult to design, the structure of the early telegraph is really simple, if you don't understand the principle, you will find it difficult to do, but once you know the principle, it is simpler than assembling a bicycle.
After all, Li Zhen is a high-achieving student majoring in mechanical design, although he is not a professional graduate of electronic communication, but mechanical design itself is inseparable from the electronics major, especially the early old-fashioned telegraph, which is more inclined to mechanical aspects.
It was too simple to design a telegraph with his ability, and the only difficulty was the semiconductor transistor, which was the cornerstone of the communications industry in later generations, and it can be said that without semiconductors, the information age would not have come at all.
And semiconductors are simple and easy to say, but difficult to say, because the material of semiconductors is silicon, and this thing is everywhere on the earth - that is, stones.
The difficulty is that these silicons exist in the form of compounds, there are no elemental silicon crystals on the earth, and if you want to purify elemental silicon from stones, in addition to the high energy required, there are also very strict means of operation.
This really stumped Li Zhen and the corresponding work team, as I said before, Li Zhen was not familiar with the chemical industry, and the alchemists under him were not even as good as him.
As a result, although Li Zhen took out the design drawings of the telegraph very early, because of the lack of the most important parts, the physical object could not be taken out.
They studied the purification of a silicon crystal for several years, and then they processed it into a finished transistor, and this was several years......
It is only recently that there has been a breakthrough in related technologies, although it is not yet possible to achieve industrial production, but at least it can be made in the laboratory.
Fortunately, Li Zhen doesn't need to pay too much attention to it now - there is no such thing as radio pollution in this era, and the only thing that can interfere with radio signals is the earth's magnetic field and some special terrain and landforms.
But these problems are not big, so the number of semiconductors on the telegraph is not much, and at present, it is enough to equip most of the entire Datang, for example, Nanyang only needs a few units to control the entire Nanyang, and only about ten units inside Datang can completely envelop Datang.
Besides, Li Zhen has not yet ascended the throne, as for the time when he stabilizes the situation in the DPRK and China and begins the road of conquest, it will be at least a year later, during this period of time, the production technology of semiconductors is likely to further develop, although it may not meet the requirements of industrial production, but even if it is produced in the laboratory, it should be enough to use in a short time.
It can be said that the appearance of this telegraph is too timely, you must know that when Li Zhen was attacked before, the ship was not equipped with this thing, otherwise Cheng Chuliang would not have used carrier pigeons to transmit news - that is to say, this thing was successfully produced in the last month, in fact, this telegraph was delivered to Li Zhen more than 20 days ago.
And the fact that he was able to get the news of the family's conspiracy so quickly was the information sent by telegraph, and the fleets stationed in various parts of Nanyang quickly sent the song to Chang'an, and then sent it back to Nanyang from Chang'an, which was also the credit of the telegram.
"Your Highness, this telegraph is so magical, could it be that it was also obtained from the Book of Heaven?"
Pei Xingjian next to him suddenly asked, he is also one of the people who returned to the court this time, originally according to the plan, Li Zhen was going to meet him in Chang'an, but this time Li Zhen had such a big thing, although he also knew that Li Zhen was not injured, but he was not relieved to take the escort warship this time to Coconut Harbor, and after seeing Li Zhen, he confirmed that he was indeed safe and sound, and then let go of the worries in his heart. “…… Of course, most of the money that this palace can have now is due to the Book of Heaven.
Li Zhen's face did not change, to be honest, Pei Xingjian's sudden exit this time almost caught Li Zhen off guard - as his power has become heavier over the years, no one dares to doubt Li Zhen's identity as the descendant of Zhenyuan Daxian, so that Li Zhen almost didn't react just now, but fortunately, his reaction speed was still good, and he didn't show any flaws.
"Let's not talk about this, let's continue to talk about the Boli fleet......"
Glaring at Pei Xingjian, Li Zhen changed the topic lightly.