My Daming New Empire

However, just installing telephone lines is a time-consuming and labor-intensive task.No matter how rich the Ming court was, it needed manpower and material resources to produce telephone lines, erect lines, establish switching centers, and train enough personnel.

According to Zhu Zhanji's prediction, it will take at least five years to install telephone lines to several major corners of the empire, and it will take at least ten years to popularize telephones.

And the role of the wireless telegraph is not weaker than the telephone, because Ming is not a continental country, but a global country.

The territory of the Ming Dynasty occupies more than half of the world. The Americas, Australia, southern Africa, and Southeast Asia in later generations are all the territory of the Ming Dynasty. In these areas, it is impossible to set up telephone lines, and the role of wireless telegraphy will be more important than that of telephones.

Phones and phone calls are related to the long-term stability of Ming Dynasty, and naturally they are more important than a non-threatening Europe.

However, compared with the development of the telephone, the receiving system of the electromagnetic resonance response of the wireless telegraph has become a difficulty.

When Zhu Zhanji was in Africa in his previous life, he learned about the configuration of the wireless receiving device when he was studying the principle of the walkie-talkie.

The basic facts of the radio telegraph sending and receiving communication system are composed of some small parts such as resistors, diodes, buzzers and battery boxes.

Even if Zhu Zhanji knew this and gave Ma Dian an idea, it still needs countless experiments to make the diode.

Ma Dian invented capacitors when he was a teenager. The working principles of capacitors and resistors are just opposite, which is not a problem for him.

However, the research and development of vacuum diodes took dozens of people and several months of experiments, and the progress is still slow.

Because Zhu Zhanji only understands that diodes pass current in one direction and act as a rectifier, but they don't know anything about the working principle.

Without a clear research direction, technicians can only experiment a little bit, and then try to make these devices achieve the purpose of wireless reception.

Such tests, from the R&D test of accessories to the overall function test, may take thousands or tens of thousands of times, and there is no rush.

From wired to wireless, this is not just the reduction of wires, but the leap of the entire industrial age.

And if this problem is solved, Ming's rule will be correspondingly much more stable.

Compared with the stability of Ming Dynasty, Europe is not even considered as ringworm, at most it can only be regarded as a potential threat.

And this potential threat is now overwhelmed and on the verge of collapse.

The far west of Central Continent.Nizhny Novgorod.

This city, established 200 years ago, has always been the most important trade center on the boundary between Asia and Europe.Since it was annexed by the Principality of Moscow 70 years ago, Nizhny Novgorod has become an important cultural center where the East meets the West.

The Novgorod people of the Slavic race have always been the pioneers of the Slavic expansion to the east.

Although the entire area here still belongs to the Golden Horde, the White Horde has already taken power in the Golden Horde. Whether it is the Mongols or the Persians, they all surrendered under the force of the Slavs.

However, since 40 years ago, the power of Ming Dynasty has crossed the Ural Mountains, and the life of Nizhny Novgorod has become more and more difficult.

The Tatars in Kazan, the Bashkirs in the southeast, and the Uzbeks in the south all succumbed to Ming's rule, and they no longer allowed the Slavs to do whatever they wanted.

Therefore, even though the people of Novgorod knew that Daming was extremely powerful, they still stood at the forefront of resisting the three cities of Tanglin.

However, their strength is too weak. Twenty years ago, Lin San led an army of 20, and directly used the advantage of muskets to occupy their capital.

And after they first learned steelmaking technology in Europe and imitated muskets, they immediately launched a counterattack.

Relying solely on the strength of the Principality of Moscow, they did not have the ability to fight against the three cities of Tanglin. At this time, a large area of ​​iron mines was discovered in the Donetsk area of ​​​​the Principality of Kiev.

Europe is a mineral-deficient continent, except for a small amount of coal and iron, and is very deficient in various other metals.

However, coal and iron in Europe are only in the hands of a few big countries. In most countries, even the iron tools used by serfs to farm the land are considered luxury goods.

A large iron mine stretching hundreds of miles directly touches Lithuania, Poland, and the G point of the Holy Roman Empire.

Except for Hungary, this nation that was expelled from the East to the West, they have always considered themselves as Easterners. The difference between them and Westerners is that their surnames come first and their first names follow. This is unique among Westerners.

When resisting the Ottoman Empire, they have always been the strong shield of Europe, but when facing the Ming Dynasty, they retreated.

What's more, the Hungarian plain they occupy is not only the granary of Europe, but also the mines of Romania.

Without Hungary, the coalition forces still put together nearly 50 troops. They traveled all the way east, relying on the advantage of numbers, and finally took back the Donetsk area that originally belonged to the Principality of Kiev, and took the world's largest railway that stretched for hundreds of miles. Mine, occupied down.

In the north, they also concentrated their superior forces, recaptured Nizhny Novgorod, and even fought the front all the way to the Volga River, occupying a large pasture.

But the good times didn't last long, and no one could believe that Daming had a more powerful weapon. This kind of continuous shooting gun with a range three times that of the original musket became a nightmare for the coalition forces.

Nearly 50 people, facing less than 7 people, they were completely defeated and had no chance to fight back.

The coalition army was completely maimed, and a large number of soldiers fled in a panic. The weapons in their hands could not be used against the Ming army, but they were very effective against their own people.

Those Poles, Lithuanians, and Germans don't care about the lives of the people in Moscow and Kiev.

Having lost their luggage, they turned from patron saints to predators. The Principality of Moscow and the Principality of Kiev, as long as there are remnants of troops passing by, have become hell on earth.

However, Tang Sai'er did not chase the enemy. She did not even cross the Volga River to occupy the city of Yaroslavl, which was on the verge of collapse. Instead, she took the initiative to retreat to Nizhny Novgorod.

It's not because Tang Sai'er doesn't like the wealth ahead, it's because she has too few troops.

A total of less than [-] troops, only half of which are elite, and the straight-line distance from Tanglin City to Nizhny Novgorod exceeds two thousand miles.

It is simply not something she can do if she wants to occupy millions of square kilometers of land with tens of thousands of people.

Instead of setting up defenses everywhere and being invincible, it is better to shrink the troops and occupy only a few main strongholds.

At the end of September, the second batch of continuous-fire guns delivered by the imperial court arrived in Tanglin City.

After Tang Sai'er got the news, he stationed himself in Nizhny Novgorod, but let Lin Hanlun and the others return to Tanglin City to receive the batch of repeating guns and retrain the new army.

This time, the dressing training went faster, because even though the soldiers in the joint operation did not get the repeating gun, they also saw the effect of the repeating gun.

After the entire army has accepted the new tactics, the remaining soldiers only need a little training to become qualified soldiers.

In early November, after two heavy snowfalls, Lin Hanlun led an army of [-] from Kazan to Nizhny Novgorod.

With an army of [-] approaching, the Principality of Moscow panicked, and they already had the idea of ​​moving the capital.

The [-] troops under his command were equipped with repeating guns, which gave Tang Sai'er even greater ambitions.

She is 65 years old this year, and she still wants to take advantage of her body to move and lay a bigger world for her children and grandchildren.

Now that her son is married to a princess, and she is getting older, she is not afraid that the royal family will taboo her.

She even thought that she would go back to the old path of the Mongolian Yuan Empire and fight all the way to the heartland of Europa.

As long as he makes meritorious service in one battle and defeats the opponent, not only can the marquis of the family become a duke, but he can also strive for at least one or two hundred years of peace for his descendants.

Moreover, the soldiers under his command have just experienced a big victory, and now they have all changed into repeating guns, and their morale is booming.

The only thing that made her feel a little worried was that there were more and more cities going west, and they now lacked the artillery to attack the city, let alone the tools to transport the artillery.

"Han Lun, grandma wants you to go to Yingtian Mansion with your mother again. You take the gold and silver we seized this time to find His Majesty, buy cars and artillery from him, and lay a piece of land for our Lin family while grandma is still able to move." A huge territory."