Infrastructure masters in the red building

Before Shuangwen could react, the old emperor had already counted Jia Fang on the scene, and immediately called him in.

Only then did Shuangwen get a little bit of a taste: it was the emperor's lover Xiang Xiaoyuan who possessed this "supernatural power", and Jia Sanye was Xiang Xiaoyuan's biological son, so he also possessed "supernatural power".

She suddenly realized: as expected, Mr. Jia had to build this garden.

As soon as Jia Fang entered the house, he didn't bother to salute, but looked around first.He didn't find it in Shuangwen's hands, but soon his eyes lit up and he found it near the base of the wall.

Jia Fang hurried over, picked up the pistol carefully, examined it, and said to Shuangwen, "It's a good luck that you don't use this thing!"

"We also found this kind of firearm in the south, but there is a problem with the technology. After a few times of use, it will produce thin cracks, which will cause the chamber to explode. Not only will it not hurt others, but the user will be miserable. "

Shuangwen looked at Jia Fang, and his expression changed.

Now she has figured out that Hang Dezhou has good intentions, but she didn't expect him to be so malicious.

Jia Fang opened a box that he carried with him, put the pistol in it, put it on the table carefully, and said to Shuangwen: "Don't worry, I have asked the shopkeeper Ren to send him to Lingzu's place." It should be safe now."

Shuangwen lowered her head, but let out a long sigh of relief, letting go of the heaviest burden on her heart.

But the old emperor looked up at Jia Fang, and said angrily, "So you knew this girl had something on her mind early in the morning, but you let her come here to question me?"

Jia Fang scratched his head: "I... Chen, I didn't know that someone gave her such a terrifying weapon!"

"But this thing appeared in the south, and our spies managed to get one and sent it to me, so I remembered Shuangwen..."

His original intention was to let Shuangwen try to ask the questions in his heart in front of the emperor, but he never thought that others would give Shuangwen a gun and instigate her to assassinate.

"Did this girl from Shuangwen help you remember many things in the past?" Jia Fang said forcefully.

But the old emperor could only scold him with a stern face: "You monkey, but relying on my petting you, can you be lawless?"

This Ninth Five-Year Lord is really special, although he can indulge himself for the old feelings, and is willing to make troubles because he dotes on Jia Fang, but he still can't forget the affairs of the world.He heard that hand guns appeared in the south, and asked with concern: "How is the situation in the south?"

Jia Fang suddenly said with a sad face: "It's not good! The king of Nan'an has turned his back on him, and he even colluded with others to bring in the elephant soldiers from Nanyi..."

When the old emperor heard about this, he cursed immediately, and he scolded Nan'an King to the fullest, saying that he was a traitorous sinner through the ages.When the scolding was exhausted, His Majesty the Emperor remembered: "Didn't you and the boss be ordered to make preparations a long time ago, why... can't handle it?"

Shuang Wen listened to the side and realized: His Majesty the Emperor had earlier entrusted the Third Lord Jia as Pingnan Jiedu Envoy, and transferred the eldest prince to the south to rectify military affairs. He had foreseen this possibility long ago.

At this time, Jia Fang shook his head: "I didn't say I couldn't handle it, it's just that the elephant soldiers were an accident. Besides, heat, soldiers, and weapon wars caused more killings, and normal production and life in many places were affected... Of course, this is not considered a crime." Good thing."

The old emperor nodded, raised his long eyebrows, and said: "The one who should come will come. If you can beat your opponent hard this time until it can remember the pain, the south will be peaceful in the future."

Jia put it aside and listened, while nodding and saying yes, expressing that he remembered it.

After His Majesty gave a long "government scripture", Jia Fang cautiously reminded him, "I don't know why the discovery of the pistol made me a little worried about the safety of His Royal Highness. Come here today." , just want to remind Third Highness one or two."

Combining the information he got from the south with the experience of Shuangwen, he was able to roughly identify who the opponent was always hiding in the dark.Therefore, Jia Fang judged that the third prince who is currently in charge of supervising the country, but who is on the cusp of "brother killing", may be in crisis.

"Help me up." His Majesty the Emperor extended his hand to Jia Fang, but made a request, "Before I leave, I want to see my small garden."

Jia Fang scratched his head, he wasn't in Nuanxiangwu before, and he didn't hear the conversation between the emperor and Shuangwen, so he didn't understand the emperor's question at all.

But Shuangwen said in a trembling voice: "It's hard...could this be..."

Jia Fang and the emperor raised their heads at the same time following her voice, and saw a different scene faintly appearing on the whitewashed walls of the cozy hut in Nuanxiangwu.

A man and a woman are walking out of a hut side by side, the man is handsome and the woman is charming.The man is about 30 years old, and his face is more or less vicissitudes; the woman is in her youth, and even wears her hair style when she was not married.

The picture is exquisite, but it is frozen at a perfect moment: the woman is stretching out her hand, as if inviting the man to appreciate the scene in front of her, while the man is looking down at the woman beside him, with deep attachment written in his eyes.This picture is lifelike, with all the details in it - in Jia Fang's view, it's not just a picture of carnival, it's an image like a photo, directly projected on the whitewashed wall of Nuanxiangwu.

Not only that - it's not even just a floor plan, Jia Fang noticed that the picture is extending along the whitewashed wall of Nuanxiangwu - it's like a 360° panorama, just right in this newly renovated small In the room, displayed on the four walls.

The old emperor was fascinated by it.

But Jia Fang and Shuangwen thought of going together, and they started together, reaching out to pick off the decorations and paintings on the wall.

Shuangwen carefully took off the "Picture of Concubine Ming" from the wall, rolled it up, pasted it on her heart, and then put the scroll down—this meant that for her, this matter had been turned over, and she had already Break free from the shackles of the past and move on.

Jia Fang purely wants to see the magic "Nuanxiangwu" that can present 360° memories without dead ends, and what are the sweetest and most important memories of his parents in this time and space.

As a result, a whole magnificent scene appeared on the whitewashed walls on all sides.

The men and women who are attached to each other are facing a magnificent pastoral scenery.

"Taoyuan Village!" Jia Fang couldn't help saying out.The old emperor gave a soft "hush", indicating that he wanted to enjoy it quietly by himself.

Yes, what this couple is facing is the Taoyuan Village that Jia Fang saw when he passed Daoxiang Village for the first time.In front of you is a large area of ​​rice fields, and there are high and low stilted buildings along the mountain.The men are working in the paddy fields, and the women are supposed to weave in the building.The setting sun is sinking, and the smoke is curling up—this is a picture of a quiet mountain village, a simple life of men farming and women weaving.

If Jia Fang's guess is correct, what appears here now should be the projection of the memory in the old emperor's mind at this moment. It may be because this memory is unforgettable, and the person concerned repeatedly chewed and reverberated in his heart. This scene is so detailed and vivid. vivid.

Jia felt relieved: So this is the life that the emperor's father yearned for the most. Together with his mother, he lived the simplest life in the mountains.

But the emperor's father finally chose to start a career, and made himself a loner again.

Many people are like this. This feeling can be regarded as a memory, but they refused to cherish it at the time.

The old emperor watched with fascination, but at this moment a discordant voice sounded: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, something happened, something serious happened."

It was the voice of Dai Quan, Chief Eunuch.

The old emperor frowned, with a look of regret on his face.

The pictures that once appeared on the wall of "Nuanxiangwu" began to fall apart as soon as the person involved was so distracted, and disappeared in a moment.

"Old Dai!"

The emperor called Dai Quan in.Dai Quan's face was full of panic, and he whispered a long string into the emperor's ear.

Jia Fang could only vaguely hear the words "Third Prince".

Sure enough, something happened to the third prince?

Surprise and pain appeared on the emperor's face, and he cursed in a low voice: "Young son, you idiot!" His eye circles were also a little red.

Jia put it aside and watched in amazement.

"Go!" The emperor ordered, "Go to the East Palace!"

Dai Quan hurriedly followed behind the emperor, and said loudly in his high-pitched voice: "His Majesty the Emperor is driving to the East Palace!"

Jia Daishan and others who had been waiting outside the door hurriedly dispersed to make way for the old emperor who was about to leave.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, a palace guard suddenly rushed forward.

Jia Daishan and others thought that the guard was helping His Majesty the Emperor, or that he was going to guard the door for His Majesty the Emperor.

Unexpectedly, the guard's sleeve revealed the black muzzle of a pistol.

Shuangwen, who was following the emperor, screamed "Ah!" She had seen how powerful this thing was.

At this moment, Shuangwen has long forgotten her entangled desire for revenge earlier.The conversation just now made her forget the real identity of the other party.In the eyes of Shuangwen, the old emperor lost the halo of the emperor and became an ordinary, nostalgic and weak old man.

But at the moment when Shuangwen reminded her, the emperor opened his arms and pushed Shuangwen aside.Sparks burst from the muzzle of the handgun, and there was a loud "bang".His Majesty's body fell back as if uncontrollably.

At this time, Shuangwen's exclamation was not over yet.

She saw countless lead pieces flying towards the old emperor's chest with her own eyes, and she finally fully understood that she was simply an insignificant pawn in Hang Dezhou's game. It doesn't matter if she doesn't come out, whether she is brave enough to attack, or she is timid and withdraws... In the end, the crime of regicide will be pinned on her head, and on Rongfu's head.

When she got into the sedan chair to find out the truth, even when the paintings of her father and grandfather slowly came out on the market, this killing game was already set up, and no one of them could escape——

Pingnan Camp.The eldest prince's tent for discussion.

Everyone looked at the sand table in front of them—this sand table was not only a three-dimensional map, but also a miniature model that accurately reproduced the terrain of various places.There is a row of "elephants" on the sand table, to be precise, a small green flag with the word "elephant" written on it.In addition, the rebels are marked with blue flags, and our side is marked with red flags.

Each flag represents 1000 people.

The starting point of the rebels and elephant soldiers was Nanzhong Prefecture, but now they are no longer on the border of Nanzhong Prefecture, and even the entire Yongping Prefecture has fallen.The defenders of Yongping Prefecture fled, and Zhizhou surrendered directly from the city.

The Pingnan Camp seems to be retreating steadily, but this is actually within the expectations of the First Prince and other generals—the infrastructure of Yongping Prefecture is not as good as that of Yongan Prefecture, and the road transportation is mainly ordinary roads, and the construction of rail transportation has not yet started.Unlike Yong'an Prefecture, where there is a first-mover advantage, all counties in the prefecture are connected by rail transit, and it is far away from Pingnan Camp, so the transportation of materials and supplies is much more difficult.

Therefore, the fall of Yongping Prefecture was actually a "arbitrary strategy" to deliberately confuse the rebels and elephant soldiers and let the opponents drive straight in.At the same time, the villages in Yongping prefecture followed the strategy of fortifying the walls and clearing the wilderness, and trying to cut off the opponent's food and grass supply line in the rear, which is equivalent to encircling the rebels and elephant soldiers in Yongping prefecture.

As soon as the elite soldiers from the Pingnan Camp came out, they would face off at the junction of Yongping Prefecture and Yong'an Prefecture, and decide the outcome in an upright manner.Relying on the support of Yong'an Prefecture's strong communication lines, the Pingnan Camp is bound to beat up the enemies who commit crimes in the future.

The plan is quite ingenious, and the prospects are bright.But at the moment, everyone in the big tent of the discussion has a serious expression, and it seems that they are not very optimistic.

The reason is naturally that Yongping Prefecture sent information about the entry of elephant soldiers.

For many years, the Sanguan and the two strongholds have guarded against danger, and never let the soldiers of Nanyi enter the territory of China for half a step.However, this time there was a civil strife, and our own people rioted and killed from the inside, and the elephant soldiers were able to enter the country.

That is to say, the officers and soldiers of the Pingnan Camp have never had the experience of directly fighting elephant soldiers.

Earlier, the two thousand officers and soldiers of the Pingnan Camp had a brief period of combat experience on the border between Nanzhong Prefecture and Yongping Prefecture, which directly refreshed everyone's understanding of the soldiers.

Originally, everyone thought that such giant beasts were slow-moving, docile, and huge in size, making it inconvenient to move and turn.Unexpectedly, when they met on the battlefield, they saw the group of elephants rushing towards them at an extremely fast speed. Although they were not comparable to war horses, they were no match for infantry.

These giant beasts have rough skin and thick flesh, making them invulnerable to weapons and weapons.But the giant elephant rushes forward, and with just a roll of its long trunk, it can overturn a person to the ground, and when the giant foot collapses, the person's bones will be broken and he will die without any resistance.

Faced with such a fighting force, even if the battlefield was moved from Nanzhong Prefecture to the junction of Yongping Prefecture and Yong'an Prefecture, the officers and soldiers of Pingnan Camp would not benefit much.

In addition, these elephants wantonly trampled on crops and destroyed houses in Yongping Prefecture, doing all kinds of evil without scruple.This aroused a lot of public anger. The refugees who fled from Yongping Prefecture to Yong'an Prefecture invited literate gentry to jointly sign a petition to the First Prince, asking the First Prince to "eliminate harm for the people and defend the country against enemies".But when the generals in the tent mentioned the elephant soldiers, they really had no other choice but to be filled with righteous indignation.

The eldest prince couldn't help turning his gaze to Shui Xian beside him.

Now that Jia Fang is not here, Shui Xian is like Jia Fang's spokesperson.Sure enough, this guy had some thoughts, so he said lightly, "When you encounter such a powerful enemy, you need to despise it strategically and pay attention to it tactically."

The eldest prince thought for a moment: "It makes sense!"

Shui Xian added: "This is what Jia Fang said."

The eldest prince: "Don't tell Lao Liu that I praised him!"

Shui Xian was silent for a moment, then continued: "Since the elephant soldiers are powerful, we need to block the source, and we can't let the elephant soldiers continue to enter for reinforcements."

The eldest prince nodded: "This matter has already been arranged. One pass and one village that fell into the enemy's hands have been arranged to recover. Within ten days, there must be news."

Shui Xian nodded, looked intently at the sand table in front of him, and asked, "Are there any places between Yongping Prefecture and Yong'an Prefecture that are low-lying and humid, prone to forming mud, but not easy to see on the surface?"

The eldest prince raised his eyebrows, but he didn't know.But the generals of the Pingnan Camp under him have gone through this whole process of rectification, and they are no longer the same as before. At this time, someone immediately offered advice: "Yes, here is a place called Caoyinggu, which is close to the place that Prince Beijing said. kind of terrain."

The general pointed it out on the sand table: "Surrounded by mountains on three sides, here is a valley facing Yongping Prefecture, and there is only one narrow path to Yongan Prefecture..."

The eldest prince clapped his hands when he heard the terrain, and said: "Arrange immediately, and find a way for those who can contact us to bring these elephant soldiers into Caoying Valley properly."

"Yes--"

The spies from the Pingnan camp had already been infiltrated into King Nan'an's rebel army, and it would be possible to get them to contact the fake guides and real spies sent from here.

"Other things..." The eldest prince turned to Shui Xian.

Shui Xian still had an attitude of "strategic contempt", lightly flipping the tureen of the teacup in his hand, and said: "The one thousand firearms in the two villages of Shengli have been trained almost, and there is also one firearm in the camp" Qiying can handle it. It’s just to deal with Xiangbing... I have to think about it.”

With concern in his eyes, the First Prince said: "Brother Shui, I must ask you for this, don't think about it for too long!"

Shui Xian nodded silently, he was not as familiar with people as Jia Fang, on the contrary, he always had the posture of "stay away from strangers".Even the First Prince stretched out his hand in the air, but he didn't dare to pat him on the shoulder lightly.

"However, as long as you are close to Yong'an Prefecture, the news will be delivered much faster. Didn't Lao Liu engage in 'telegram'?"

The "telegram" is really brand-new, and it is unbelievable to say: a machine connected to a cable in the sending station, plus a telegrapher, can send the message with a "cipher code" Pass it out and pass it on to another sending station.It is said that it only takes a moment, which is much faster than those postal services that Mr. Jia used to preside over, such as six-hundred-mile and eight-hundred-mile expresses.

The news that the telegram can provide is much richer than the previous news of the wolf smoke.Now that the eldest prince is holding the report sent back from the border of Yongping Prefecture, he can almost imagine the hideous tattoos painted on the faces of the Nanyi soldiers riding on the elephant soldiers.

It's just that no one can understand the "cipher code" used to send the message. You can only find out what it means after the news is delivered to the ground, and the decoder at "Dicui Pavilion" can interpret it, which is guaranteed to a certain extent. message security.

In Yong'an Prefecture, all "telegrams" are transmitted through cables and belong to "wired telegrams".The cables are preset when the tracks are laid in various places.At that time, even the Faculty of Science of Xiaoxiang Academy hadn't invented the telegraph.

But no one was surprised by Jia Fang's "foresight", after all, everyone has become accustomed to Jia Fang's "advance thinking".

As long as the news about the rebels and elephant soldiers can reach Yong'an Prefecture, it can reach the location of the Pingnan Camp as quickly as possible.The eldest prince has experienced battles for a long time, so of course he understands what unimpeded news means to the victory or defeat of a war.

"How's the news with Beijing?" the First Prince asked.

Shui Xian put the teacup in his hand on the table, and said lightly, "Don't worry."

But in fact, he was still quite worried.

In this world right now, the wired "telegraph" has established more than a dozen sending stations, which are distributed in various key points in Ping'an Prefecture.But according to what Jia Fang said, there are only three "wireless" transmitters in this world:

Originally there were only two sets, but when Gui Xiaxue went to Beijing, he brought some materials and a code table, and went directly to Gewu College.Jia Fang predicted that he could build one in Gewu College.

Now of these three, one is in Taoyuanzhai, one is in the Grand View Garden of Jia Mansion, and the other is in Gewu College, but it is not known whether they have been successfully manufactured.

The reason why Jia Fang placed the two radio transmitters in Taoyuanzhai and Daguanyuan was because he had tried "shrinking the ground whip" to amplify the sound waves.Therefore, he believes that electromagnetic waves can also be transmitted without loss in the "ground whip".

Everyone experimented a bit later and found that it worked.In this way, even if Jia Fang has no free time to run around at both ends of the "Shrinking Ground Whip", the news can be transmitted conveniently and quickly. In this way, there is a message transmission channel between the capital and the south that is independent of Jia Fang. .

But after His Majesty the Emperor was assassinated, the Rong Mansion was completely surrounded.Although Jia Daishan, the Duke of Rongguo, went out in person and sang the empty city plan, the people from the Beijing camp garrison and the five city soldiers and horses did not dare to rush into Jia's mansion, but the people from Jia's mansion couldn't get out, and they even had to rely on Daoxiang Village in Daguanyuan for food and water. supply.Naturally, a word of the news could not be delivered.

If Gui Xia got stuck somewhere when he was learning to make the transmitter, or if he lacked some materials and couldn't get it in Gewu Academy, then the communication between the south and Beijing would be completely interrupted.

Capital, Taixue.It was late at night, and there was a lamp like a bean in Gewu College.

Gui Xiaxue lay in front of a square box-like machine, listening to the movements inside the box with his ears open, stopping from time to time to adjust a button that could be rotated.

"It shouldn't be!" Gui Xiaxue frowned, "That's how I made the last one."

The fourth prince was right next to Gui Yaxue, waiting to be bored, reaching out to fiddle with the two long metal rods that Gui Yaxue put on and took off, and asked fluently: "What are these used for?"

Unexpectedly, a little noise suddenly appeared in the box.Gui Xiaxue was overwhelmed with surprise, and immediately commanded the fourth prince: "Quick, quick!"

The fourth prince stared: what are you doing?

Gui Xiaxue: "Your Highness, please help me raise these two 'antennas' a little higher and farther away." His voice was extremely excited, although his words were a little more polite, he was still directing a prince Help him raise the antenna and receive the signal manually.

I only heard a clear "didi" sound from the box, which may be long or short, with occasional pauses.

It's like in the silent and dark night, when a piece of cloud drifts away, a little starlight finally appears above the head; it's like on a vast and boundless ocean, a lone sail suddenly sees another star among the distant waves. With the shadow of a boat.

Gui Xiaxue rushed forward in ecstasy, held the box and listened for a long time, and indeed heard the sound of "didi" coming out of the box, repeating it over and over again, he reached out and took a pen to record, by the way Get out a book.The fourth prince leaned over to look, and saw "New Telegraph Book" written on the cover of the book.

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Notes:

① "Telegraph New Book" refers to the year 1873. S. A. Viguer, a French resident in China, referred to the radical arrangement method of "Kangxi Dictionary", selected more than 6800 commonly used Chinese characters, and compiled the first volume The Chinese character code book is called "New Book of Telegram".Later, Zheng Guanying of our country adapted it into "New Edition of China Telegraph".This is the earliest Chinese character codebook in China.