Iron Dynasty

Your Majesty, the Dutch are at war with us, and the Dutch garrison in Geranja tried to snatch the machine guns and Chinese-style rifles, but we were thwarted.

At noon, Xiao Ming, who was taking a nap, was awakened by Qian Dafu's voice, and then a telegram was sent to him.

Taking the telegram from Qian Dafu, Xiao Ming took a close look and frowned, The fox finally showed its tail, immediately send a telegram to Yue Yun, and let him immediately lead the fleet to destroy all the Dutch battleships in the South China Sea, and at the same time let the Thunder attack Jakarta and Manila and take complete control of the Philippines and Indonesia.

Yes, Your Majesty! Qian Dafu took the lead and turned away.

Putting on his clothes in a hurry, Xiao Ming went to the imperial study and called Cui Shangan over. This time the Dutch had changed from friends to enemies, and he needed the staff to make detailed plans to deal with this.

At the same time, he also notified the cabinet, asking the cabinet to immediately stop trade with the Dutch and expel the Dutch embassy staff.

After doing all this, Xiao Ming came to the world map hanging in the imperial study, and his eyes turned to the Philippines and Indonesia.

The Dutch rebellion did have some impact on the empire's trade, but the Dutch suffered relatively large losses because they lost Manila, the capital of the Philippines, and Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia.

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

According to the data in the Science and Technology Spar, the copper reserves in the Philippines are 4.8 billion tons, the nickel content is 1 billion tons, and the gold reserves are 130 million tons. These three resources can be said to be very rich.

In addition, the Philippines is very rich in Dipterocarp, a spice that is very popular in the West and was once monopolized by the Dutch and Spaniards.

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

Compared with the Philippines, Indonesia has more abundant resources, with nearly 60 billion tons of coal reserves and nickel reserves, diamond resources of about 1.5 million carats, and many scarce metal resources.

With these two places under control, the development of the empire will have more resources to use.

Therefore, he does not seem particularly angry at the decision of the Dutch. Moreover, he is from the contemporary era and is used to seeing 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 ranks.

Because of this, he has always harbored distrust of the Dutch, because this is a country without the potential of a great power.

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

The sudden change of tone by the Dutch this time is enough to see the attitude of Europeans towards the rise of the Chinese Empire. Since friction is inevitable, a full-scale war cannot be avoided. After a century of decline, it is time for him to reshape the sphere of influence in the glorious period of the empire.

He was thinking that at this time, he was alone outside the imperial study, but it was Lu Tong.

Your Majesty! Lu Tong had a smile on his face, as if there was a happy event.

Xiao Ming turned around and looked at Lu Tong. What he liked most was that people like Lu Tong came to him, because it often means a breakthrough in technology.

Sure enough, Lu Tong entered the imperial study and said mysteriously, Your Majesty, the lower official brought you a treasure today.

Oh? Take it out and take a look. If it's a real treasure, I will also give you a treasure. Xiao Ming said with a smile.

Lu Tong couldn't close his mouth when he heard the words. At this time, he took out a cylindrical object from the pocket of his clothes and put it on the table.

The moment he saw this thing, Xiao Ming gave a thumbs up and said, It really is a treasure. I picked you up from the grassland back then.

Lu Tong said with a smile: It's still the emperor's discerning eye, does the emperor want to try this battery?

The thing that Lu Tong brought was the battery. After electricity became popular in Qingzhou, he let Lu Tong restore the battery technology in his spare time.

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

Hey, you are becoming more and more sloppy. Come, bring the light bulb. Xiao Ming stretched out his hand and took the light bulb with two wire ends from Lu Tong's hand.

In the faint light, Xiao Ming showed a relieved look. With the battery, it will solve many problems of using electric equipment in the field.

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 was made of wood chips or starch gelatin glued into a paste inside. The battery fluid of this kind of battery does not flow, so it is called a dry battery.

Flashlights and radio batteries belong to the category of dry batteries, and the structure of this zinc-manganese dry battery is actually not complicated, but a combination of carbon rods, zinc skin, manganese dioxide and adhesives. In the contemporary 1860s, this dry battery was invented.

Well, that's great. With this dry battery, there is no problem with the mobile radio. Xiao Ming said with a smile.

In addition, simple mobile lighting equipment such as flashlights should also be manufactured for military and civilian use.

Lu Tong heard the words and said, Your Majesty, it's a coincidence. When Xiaguan came, he 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 is not surprised by this, the industrial level has reached, and it is not difficult to manufacture these simple things with ready-made technology.

In addition to the telegraph, the radio, and the battery, he has included the telephone in his plans.

This plan is also in the plan he gave to the cabinet. After all, the telegraph is too rigid. If wired telephones can be popularized, the transmission of information will be more convenient.

And as the empire expanded, he was in desperate need of effective regulation everywhere.

Yes, yes, the technological development of the empire is really booming now, and now you don't need to ask me, you have made 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 needs the Emperor's personal guidance, is this different from a waste? For some simple techniques, the Emperor can just leave it to us.

This is naturally what I would like to see. Xiao Ming is very pleased, everything is difficult at the beginning, but after the sadness, it is logical.

Over the past ten years, tens of thousands of talents have been trained by major colleges, and these people have brought out a group of technical personnel. This cycle goes on and on, and now the empire has enough technical talents.