Steel Dynasty - Chapter 1046

[Chapter 1037 Dry Battery]

“Your Majesty, the Dutch have launched a war against us. The Dutch garrison in the city of Relandia tried to seize machine guns and Han-style rifles but we were defeated.”

At noon, Xiao Ming was awakened from his nap by Qian Dafu’s voice, and then a The telegram was sent to him.

Taking the telegram from Qian Dafu, Xiao Ming looked at it carefully and frowned, “The fox finally showed its tail. Immediately send a telegram to Yue Yun, asking him to immediately lead the fleet to destroy all the Dutch warships in Nanyang, and at the same time let Lei Ming attacked Jakarta and Manila and completely controlled the Philippines and Indonesia. “

Yes, Your Majesty!” Qian Dafu took the order and turned around.

After hurriedly putting on his clothes, Xiao Ming went to the royal study and called Cui Shangan over. This time the Dutch had turned from friends to enemies, and he needed the staff to formulate a detailed plan to deal with this incident.

At the same time, he notified the cabinet and asked the cabinet to immediately stop trade with the Dutch and expel the Dutch embassy personnel.

After doing all this, Xiao Ming came to the world map hanging in the imperial study room, and set his sights on the Philippines and Indonesia.

This time the Dutch’s rebellion did have some impact on the empire’s trade, but in comparison, the Dutch suffered greater losses, because they lost Manila, the capital of the Philippines, and Jagota, the capital of Indonesia.

From then on, these two huge island groups will officially belong to the empire.

According to information in Science and Technology Crystal, the Philippines has 4.8 billion tons of copper reserves, 1 billion tons of nickel, and 130 million tons of gold reserves. These three resources can be said to be very abundant.

In addition, the Philippines is very rich in dipterocarp resources. This spice is very popular in the West and was once monopolized by the Dutch and Spanish.

In contemporary times, whether in the East or the West, dipterocarp has always been regarded as a treasure. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, the envoys of Persia, which produced dipterocarp, specially sent dipterocarp as a tribute to the emperor of China.

Compared with the Philippines, Indonesia is richer in resources, with nearly 60 billion tons of coal reserves and nickel reserves, and about 1.5 million carats of diamond resources. In addition, there are many scarce metal resources.

By controlling these two places, the empire will have more resources to utilize for its development.

Therefore, he does not seem particularly angry about the Dutch decision. Furthermore, he comes from the contemporary era and is used to the changes in the relationship between enemies and friends in the international community and the drama of Western countries changing their faces when they change their leadership.

Because of this, he has always had a sense of distrust towards the Dutch, because this is a country with no great power potential.

Looking away from the Philippines and Manila, Xiao Ming looked at the French East Indochina colony and the British Burmese colony.

The Dutch’s sudden change of tone this time is enough to show the Europeans’ attitude towards the rise of the Chinese Empire. Since friction is inevitable, an all-out war cannot be avoided. After a century of decline, it is time for him to reshape the sphere of influence that existed during the empire’s glory days.

Just as he was thinking about it, a man arrived outside the imperial study room, but it was Lu Tong.

“Your Majesty!” Lu Tong had a smile on his face, as if he was about to celebrate something.

Xiao Ming turned around and looked at Lu Tong. What he liked most was that people like Lu Tong came to him, because this often meant a technological breakthrough.

Sure enough, Lu Tong entered the imperial study and said mysteriously: “Your Majesty, I have sent you a treasure today.”

“Oh? Take it out and have a look. If it is a real treasure, I will also give you a treasure.” Xiao Ming said with a smile.

Lu Tong was so happy that he couldn’t open his mouth from ear to ear. He took out a cylindrical object from his pocket and placed it on the table.

The moment he saw this thing, Xiao Ming gave a thumbs up and said: “It is indeed a treasure. I picked you up right when I picked you up from the grassland.”

Lu Tong said with a smile: “Your Majesty is so discerning. Do you want to try this battery?”

What Lu Tong brought was a battery. After electricity became popular in Qingzhou, he asked Lu Tong to restore the battery technology in his spare time.

After intermittent research, he finally installed the laboratory’s battery principle in this zinc barrel.

“Hey, you are getting more and more talkative. Come on, bring the light bulb.” Xiao Ming reached out and took the light bulb with two threads from Lu Tong’s hand. The positive and negative poles were connected, and the light bulb suddenly lit up.

In the faint light, Xiao Ming looked pleased. With batteries, this will solve many problems of using electrical equipment in the wild.

When Xiao Ming was using the battery, Lu Tong explained: “Your Majesty, this battery is a zinc-manganese dry battery. At present, this battery technology is relatively easy to implement.”

Xiao Ming nodded. The dry battery uses wood chips or starch internally. A battery with gelatin glue glued into a paste. The battery fluid of this battery will not flow, so it is called a dry battery.

Batteries for flashlights and radios are all dry batteries. The structure of this zinc-manganese dry battery is actually not complicated. It is just a combination of carbon rods, zinc sheets, manganese dioxide and adhesives. In the contemporary 1860s, this kind of dry battery was invented.

“Well, great. With this dry battery, there will be no problems with mobile radios.” Xiao Ming said with a smile.

In addition, simple mobile lighting equipment such as flashlights should also be manufactured and put into use by the military and civilians.

Lu Tong heard this and said, “Your Majesty, it’s a coincidence. When I came here, I passed by the laboratory of the School of Physics and heard the news that the electrode tube was manufactured. Compared with this radio, there should be no problem.”

Xiao Ming was not satisfied with this .

Not surprising, now that the industrial level has been reached, it is not difficult to manufacture these simple gadgets with ready-made technology.

In addition to the three technologies of telegraph, radio, and battery, he has also included the telephone in his preparation plan.

This plan was also included in his plan for the cabinet. After all, the telegraph was too rigid. If wired telephones could be popularized, the transmission of messages would be more convenient.

And as the empire expanded, he urgently needed to implement effective supervision in every place.

“Yes, yes, the technological development of the empire is really booming now. You don’t need me to interfere now, you have achieved the results yourself.” Xiao Ming said with a smile.

Lu Tong said, “Your Majesty, the students have been studying in the academy for more than ten years. If everything requires the Emperor’s personal guidance, is this any different from waste? For some simple techniques, the Emperor can just leave them to us.”

“Of course I am happy to see this.” Xiao Ming was very happy. Everything was difficult at the beginning, but after the sadness, it became a matter of course.

In the past ten years, tens of thousands of talents have been trained by various major colleges, and these people have brought out a group of technical personnel. This cycle repeats, and now the empire has a sufficient number of technical talents.

(End of chapter)