Prodigal Son of the Ming Dynasty

  Chapter 633 The Birth of a God

   Hiding in the Zhuangzi outside Tongzhou City is very boring, or in other words, Fang Jifan is anxious in his heart!

  In order to prevent being noticed by others, except for a few cronies, it is best not to go out for activities, otherwise, with the ability of the factory guard, it will be difficult not to be discovered.

Therefore, Fang Jifan and Zhu Houzhao have almost lost contact with the outside world, and they don't know how the war in Annan is going, let alone how His Majesty is currently. Phan may or may not be innocent.

  If this is the case, I can go back to Beijing in a fair and honest manner, and I can see my lovely disciples and grandchildren, and I can also eat Mr. Wen's meals. What a happy thing this is.

  When this thought came into his mind, Fang Jifan became even more impatient, and he returned home like an arrow.

Zhu Houzhao's situation was similar. He was in high spirits two days ago, but soon he couldn't stay here anymore, but he didn't dare to show his head, so he couldn't help complaining in front of Fang Jifan: "If there is any news in Beijing, It would be great to let Ben Gong know as soon as possible, and I don’t know what’s going on in Beijing.”

  Fang Jifan heard Zhu Houzhao's words, a thought flashed through his mind, and a strange feeling arose in his heart.

   Then, it was about to move!

  I, Fang Jifan, have been a man for two generations. I have been so lazy recently that I almost forgot about this episode.

   Now hiding here, idle is idle, Fang Jifan began to play the idea of ​​getting news as soon as possible.

  So in the following days, he simply locked himself in the room, and let Liu Jin secretly go shopping for some things.

   There are zinc rods, sulfuric acid, and copper rods. After these things are roughly prepared, put the sulfuric acid in a jar and seal it...

  Zhu Houzhao couldn't help being curious when he saw that Fang Jifan was staying behind closed doors, tossing about these things, and couldn't help but leaned forward and asked, "Old Fang, what are you doing?"

  Fang Jifan looked very serious, and just said: "Make batteries."

   "Electric...battery..." Zhu Houzhao said incredulously: "This is obviously a jar, so what does it have to do with electricity? Even if it has something to do with electricity, it should be called an electric can."

  Fang Jifan suddenly realized that it was a waste of time to explain this to Zhu Houzhao, but... he actually felt that what Xiao Zhu Xiucai said was very reasonable. The early batteries were just canned food?

  Fang Jifan nodded, and after a while, this rough 'electric tank' was made.

   This is a relatively primitive battery. It first appeared in the eighteenth century and was called a voltaic battery. It's just...in this era...uh, is it useful?

   Of course, it is useless.

  If you use it to make electric lights, it’s not impossible, but the cost is too high, and you only do such stupid things when you’re full, but...Fang Jifan thought of something else...

  Telegram…

   Needless to say the purpose of the telegram, this thing is simply a magic weapon for transmitting messages!

In today's world, the fastest way for people to deliver news is the carrier pigeon. Unfortunately, carrier pigeons are not safe. Besides, there is no way anymore.

  Secondly, since it is a fast horse, it will not only cost a lot of money, but also need to build a station system, and a lot of manpower and animal power will be wasted, and it is impossible to transmit messages at any time.

   But telegram is different!

  At this moment, Fang Jifan wants to know the news, and the next moment, the other end can send it. This is a magic weapon.

To manufacture a telegraph, the first thing to solve is the battery problem. The manufacture of voltaic batteries is very simple, especially this is the Ming Dynasty. At this time, the Ming Dynasty took the lead in refining zinc. This thing was called Japanese lead in this era. This is because most of the zinc in the Ming Dynasty was extracted from the silver imported into Daming by the Japanese.

With this, plus sulfuric acid and copper, roughly, a simple voltaic battery can be produced, so that the problem of the battery is solved, and the telegraph is even simpler, just find a wooden board, a Enameled wire, a long nail, a short nail, a copper sheet, and an armature are enough.

Fang Jifan first took the wooden board and laid it flat, nailed in long nails, and then stopped when the nails were two centimeters exposed from the wooden board. At that time, there was no copper wire drawing skill, but it is not too difficult to manufacture, as long as you are willing to spend the cost. The ancestors were able to draw wire on metal very early, so the gold wire and silver wire appeared. The braid, the copper wire, Fang Jifan spent a lot of work, and then connected the two poles of the battery to the 'telegraph', and this thing was almost finished.

   Next, copper wires were erected. There was no insulating rubber in this era, so people painted the wires, and when the paint dries, it is considered complete.

   After cutting down more than a dozen trees, Fang Jifan pulled the line from one end to the other, and the other end was a utility room. Zhu Houzhao followed Fang Jifan from the beginning to the end, watching all this curiously.

   After that, Fang Jifan began to teach Zhu Houzhao the code. He first found a book and used it as the parent book, and taught Zhu Houzhao word for word.

  It's just... what the **** is Lao Fang up to? Zhu Houzhao still couldn't understand.

   Next, Zhu Houzhao was asked to stay in another room hundreds of feet away, where there was also a transmitter.

  Zhu Houzhao looked at this 'vulgar' machine, it was really rough, any gadget in the palace was much finer than it, Zhu Houzhao didn't take it seriously!

   But he knows he'll have the answer soon enough, so sit tight!

  Suddenly, there was a clicking sound from the transceiver.

  Zhu Houzhao screamed.

  Damn it.

  He was about to jump up in fright.

  The electromagnet surrounded by the copper wire just now... obviously shook, and made a sound.

  Behind him, Liu Jin ate fried soybeans calmly, disapprovingly.

   It seems that apart from hunger, there is nothing in the world that can frighten Liu Jin.

  Zhu Houzhao yelled with some horror: "Liu Banban, Liu Banban, did you hear that, I heard the sound of clicking, this thing can move by itself."

   "Your Highness, this servant heard it and saw it move." Liu Jin's voice was calm and calm.

   "It's scary!" Zhu Houzhao approached the transceiver curiously.

   Liu Jin grabbed a bean, stuffed it into his mouth, and looked at it with a relaxed face.

  The next moment, I saw that the electromagnet vibrated again, this time it was the third sound, click...

   Zhu Hou took care of it. After the electromagnet vibrated, it hit the short nail on the wooden board, making a crashing sound.

  Zhu Houzhao widened his eyes and said, "It moved again."

   "Your servant saw it!" Liu Jin said calmly, "My servant remembers that the captain asked His Highness to take notes."

  Zhu Houzhao suddenly slapped his forehead: "Yes, I'm so patronizing, I forgot about this."

   So he quickly picked up his pen and wrote down a two and a three.

   Then, the transceiver vibrated continuously.

  Zhu Houzhao memorized more than a dozen groups of numbers, each group of four numbers.

  Zhu Houzhao finally got used to it, calmed down a lot, and said, "Where... the female parent?"

  Liu Jin took out the female parent.

   This is the most common "Spring and Autumn".

  Holding the mother copy, Zhu Houzhao began to translate the first group of numbers according to Fang Jifan's method.

  Two three nine four.

  Zhu Houzhao held the numbers and murmured: "Page 23, column nine, the fourth word...Huh? This is the word 'Dian'."

  Zhu Hou's photo was a surprise to discover something new, and he was happy: "Haha, it's interesting."

   Next, he translated the second word and the third word.

  Finally these words are strung together.

   "Your Highness, are you hungry? Come back quickly!" Zhu Houzhao wrote the number of translated words on the paper.

  Zhu Houzhao immediately beamed with joy.

  Patting the copy, said with a smile: "Haha, that's interesting, look, Lao Fang asked me if I was hungry..."

   As he spoke, he took the note he had translated and ran back to Zhuangzi panting.

  In Zhuangzi, Fang Jifan was sitting in front of the transceiver with a serious face, looking very serious.

   Then Zhu Houzhao yelled: "Old Fang, Lao Fang..."

  Fang Jifan felt like a Japanese dog, and agreed that we would communicate by code.

   "Your Highness..."

  Zhu Houzhao excitedly said: "I'm here to tell you, I'm hungry, what shall we have for lunch?"

  Fang Jifan pulled his face down: "Your Highness, you should return to me over there."

  Zhu Houzhao was a little dizzy, what happened?

  He remembered again, and patted his forehead again: "Oh, I forgot, forgot, just wait, I will go back to you."

  So he ran back to his hut panting again, and sat down hastily!

   On the transceiver, there is a small copper key, which is connected to the battery of the pottery urn. He first took out the mother copy, first found the word he wanted to say, and turned it into a number, seven three six five.

   Then, he pressed the copper key seven times in a row, and each time the electric current passed through the transceiver, it made a clicking sound.

  He replied, I am hungry, what should we eat at noon.

  He wanted to say, what shall we eat. It's a pity that in the female version of "Spring and Autumn", although the character for me is found, the character for us is not found, and the character for 'what' is naturally absent.

  This transceiver, thanks to the parent book "Spring and Autumn", is relatively advanced, so even the communication has to be refined.

   Fortunately, there are not many words in the Book of Songs. If the Book of Songs is used as the mother version, it will be more advanced.

After sending out the code, Zhu Houzhao began to wait patiently. His temper was impatient, his eyes widened. Seeing that there was no sound from the transceiver, he wished to eat it. He even wanted to find Fang Jifan along the line and urge him a bit.

  Finally, Fang Jifan responded.

   "Your Highness, I think that we will have no food at noon."

  Zhu Houzhao was stunned, no food, what do you mean, there is no rice in the tank?

  He replied: "Why?"

  Fang Jifan responded word by word: "Eunuch Xiao is at the gate of the minister."

   "..." Zhu Houzhao... was scared to pee.

  (end of this chapter)