The weapon tycoon who traveled to Daqin

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Shangwen also felt that the war was too tense. A person like him is actually connected with the war. He developed a large number of weapons. These weapons also need a large number of civilian foundations. Without these civilian foundations, it would be difficult to develop these weapons.

Military use and civilian use have begun to blur, and no one can distinguish them specifically

Just when Shang Wen also fell asleep, a naval signaler in Luoyang handed over a top-secret report to the local garrison and asked them to send it to the staff by telegram.

The content of the telegram is top-secret encrypted and then translated and sent. Encryption means that the numbers must be encrypted and decrypted in a certain agreed way, such as simple addition or slightly more difficult multiplication.

The use of machinery, especially after using a punching machine, automatically accepts punching and non-punching two ways to record points according to a set of digital points. This machine was originally used for the transmission of stock futures news because stocks have a lot of information. Communication needs an automatic device to record stock information

However, it is a pity that the complexity of Qin's characters prevented typewriters from appearing for a long time, which led to a sharp increase in the demand for female civil servants in Qin's society. Copying documents and making various forms required manual completion, which was very inconvenient. Although some uniform styles were invented. Forms, but still can not meet their needs, especially in order to prevent document forgery, some forms need to be printed out by a machine instead of hand-written

However, it is difficult to make up for the limitations of the characters in time. As more and more characters are used, a simple language is being popularized. A dictionary has also appeared. Although its content is not very standardized, it contains the characters of the Qin Dynasty after all.

The order of strokes of characters is also specified, which is convenient for mechanical printing and recognition, which are all required by industrialization.

However, the content of the telegram was still sent out. This telegram reported the specific situation of the previous incident where the Chu army sank the destroyer of the Qin State Navy.

The Communication Department of the General Staff is busier than the command room here. There is a telephone area and a telegraph area. The two areas gather different communication information and transmit it according to the time urgency.

The sound of "da da" in the telegraph area keeps sending and receiving commands, the sound of punching machines, but busy people don't care about this, they need to quickly collect information

Suddenly, a female code operator raised her hand and the inspector immediately came over to take the telegram and signed it to the decoder. The decoder decrypted it and then handed it over to the communication officer on duty to deliver the order.

"It's Navy information," the duty communications officer asked.

"Yes, from Luoyang," the female civil servant told the other party

"Immediately send it to the chief of staff, or I will send it myself" Because the navy had a big problem, no one dares to handle the navy documents at will

The navy telegram will reach Wang Jian soon enough

"Sir Navy Telegram" A senior sergeant major put the telegram on Wang Jian's desk

"Navy Telegram" Wang Jian asked in disbelief

"Yes sir, that's just been received," replied the senior sergeant major

"Oh" Wang Jian put down his handbag and opened the telegram to see

Just after reading one line of the content, Wang Jian felt that the matter was a little serious and the handling was very serious.

A destroyer of the Navy was sunk and a frigate was seriously damaged. In total, 52 people were killed and 37 were injured, 12 of whom were seriously injured.

The cause of the incident is unknown, but the opponent is very clear that Chu's navy did it

"You go out first." Wang Jian signaled the senior sergeant to go out

"Yes sir" the senior sergeant major salutes and leaves

"Is the Chu army crazy? It's actually going to war with the Qin army at this time?" Wang Jian couldn't believe the fact that this had happened.

Wang Jian, who regained his composure, answered the phone and asked someone to call Yang Duanhe to say something important. Wang Jian is the officer on duty today, and then Wang Jian connected the phone in Xianyang Palace.

"Your Majesty has already fallen asleep. I see. My Majesty wakes up. Please forget about it. I will send someone to deliver a document." Wang Jian changed his mind and King Qin will understand when he sees the document.

Then he called the Guowei Mansion. The Guowei Mansion already knew about this matter. According to the procedure, the telegram should be sent to the Guowei Mansion first, because the Guowei Mansion has the right to handle military affairs.

But I don't know why this telegram was sent to the staff. Maybe it's the traditional sense of generals, because most generals are still not used to civilian management of the army. This is because civilian officials are one-sidedly understood as lacking prestige

What kind of distrust is there between civil servants and generals, but the relationship between the two is harmonious at present, Wang Jian is still the highest general of the army in name, but the Guowei Mansion can manage all kinds of peacetime military affairs, and the two have a very good personal relationship, which is also beneficial to both. relationship promotion

"I have already informed the prime minister about this matter. I don't know what the prime minister thinks. This matter is very difficult to handle," Wei Liao said on the phone.

"It is true that if the war is fully fought, our economy can bear it all at once, and the war in the west has reached a critical moment. We cannot withdraw our troops at will, otherwise it will be very bad for us. Tens of millions of gold will be invested in vain," Wang Jian said. arrive

"What I mean is that if we start a war, the combat area will only be on both sides of the Yangtze River Basin. I guess such a war will be very beneficial to us. It's not the time for a total war," Wei Liao said on the phone.

"But how can we control the scale of the war? We don't want to start a war on the road." Wang Jian also meant the same thing. If the two sides put the war on land to resolve the surface war, the Qin army can indeed use the land advantage to win the war, but it needs to mobilize more troops. Although the North has to defend against the Huns and the Huns, although it is difficult to achieve success, the ideas given by Shang Wen, especially the suggestion of the National Security Advisor Fan Zeng, are really terrible. He even asked the army to completely solve the problem of the Huns and Hus, especially after Shang Wen told some geographical things to the north. The ocean will be the northern end of Eurasia, which is enough to prompt a bolder strategy to strike north and level the land. In other words, the Qin army will always push the latitude to the [-]th parallel north latitude, so as to solve the problem. The advantage is that there will be no disasters in the north, and the Qin army can expand westward with all its strength.

Geographical maps, especially the use of latitude and longitude, have led to rapid expansionism. Relying on the connection between Eurasia and Asia, we have been expanding westward. If Shang Wen knew this, he would definitely not talk about so many geographical things, especially the old man Fan Zeng. too extreme

"I think the prime minister should have an idea about this matter. This is a national economic problem and a big problem for the future development of Qin State. Qin State has developed into such a situation that has exceeded our expectations. Our opponents come from two directions. We are caught in the middle and can only continue Appease one side before you can concentrate on solving the other side. This situation existed from the beginning, but now the prime minister has revealed it to us. I admire the prime minister's knowledge and experience. His knowledge is more than the sum of the two of us." Wei Liao broke away. topic

"Old man, if you and I retire one day, let's go to the outside world together to see what the prime minister said, there are a group of people like black charcoal on a mysterious land." Wei Liao is obviously not worried about the current situation

"Hey, I'm not as free as you, I'd better look up the information, my lord, it will be useful tomorrow." Wang Jian declined until the two ended their phone conversation

It was only at this time that Shangwen learned of this shocking news.

"Shangwen is not good, something happened to the navy." Shangwen is still sleeping on the sofa. There is a news from the project in the south. Should the project pass through today's Wudang Mountains or go around? A section of the railway will be placed near the border between Qin and Chu

Shangwen is integrating various factors in his dream. The relationship between the construction of the Southern Railway. The Qin State Navy went to sea and flew to develop the significance of improving the important value of the Yangtze River waterway. From this perspective, this railway is no less than the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in history. It connects the north and the south. one of the important measures

From this point of view, although the detour is a bit far away, it can speed up the construction progress. If necessary, it can be solved by connecting a branch line. And from the perspective of national defense, the construction of the railway can be regarded as the key point of defense for the concentration and transportation of troops in the unification war of Qin State in the future. The problem is that as long as the armored train on the railway is used for mobile defense deployment, it can be deployed along the railway, and it also solves the problem of troop transportation and material supply.

"Wake up, wake up, something big happened" Shang Wen was woken up by Meng Yi

"Oh, what a big deal" Shangwen suddenly couldn't remember what was going on in his dream

"A destroyer of the navy was sunk!" Meng Yi shouted loudly

"What?" Shangwen shouted loudly, it was too sudden

"Say it again" Shangwen suddenly woke up for eight minutes

"The Navy was sunk, a destroyer was killed and 52 people were killed, and the Chu State Navy did it for no reason," Meng Yi said simply.

"What's going on here?" Shang Wen was stunned, he didn't know why exactly what happened

"Wash your face first and wake up, someone will send the documents later." Meng Yi said when he saw Shangwen's messy hair

"Oh" Shangwen went next door to wash his face

Shangwen was washing his face while thinking about this question. What happened to the navy? It’s such a big deal. The last time people chased them to play, and now a warship is sunk by the other party. In fact, the warship is a bit reluctant, at most it’s a big wooden ship, but the navy I like to call it a warship because a warship is bigger than a ship but now the warship is sunk and the navy has no face

What caught Shangwen a little off guard was that the army war just started and the southern engineering project also started. The war broke out all of a sudden, which made Shangwen feel that Qin was not well prepared, especially the navy. According to previous reports, the navy lacks the number of excellent sailors and artillery. It is also very little. The navy spends a lot of military expenditure on building shipyards and building ships. This is the trouble of the technical military. Without technical equipment, it is difficult to form an army. With technical equipment, a large number of skilled and cooperative personnel are needed.

The current situation of the navy is not enough to meet these requirements. The navy’s funds are also insufficient. Building a large navy requires a lot of money, and there is a basis for spending this money. This basis is the economy of the Yangtze River waters and overseas economic foundations, both of which Qin’s navy does not occupy.

The south has no economic need to maintain a navy. It seems that there is nothing except starting from the Yangtze River and marching downstream. Pure military purposes are not enough to support a huge naval construction.

After the last incident, Shangwen thought about how to solve the navy problem. He believed that the only way to improve the navy is a large inflow of overseas resources, but this problem is like a sophistry like the chicken or the egg. Thinking of this, Shangwen had to take a step back and concentrate his energy The goal shifted to the development of the Yangtze River waterway in the south. In this regard, Qin State stimulated the development of Chu State's lower waterway.

Tea, silk, rice in Wuyue region, oranges in Huainan, various non-ferrous metal ores in Jiujiang region, these two regions of Chu State have developed greatly, especially the dependence on the Yangtze River waterway has increased, and these raw materials must rely on boats to cross the river. On the contrary, Qin China occupies the upper reaches of the Yangtze River but is too dependent on the economic development of Chu State

The upstream bamboo and wood need to be transported to Chu State by water, but only a small amount of these raw materials are transported to the Guanzhong area of ​​Qin State. The reason for this phenomenon is the traffic problem. Water transport is much cheaper than the mountain road across the Qinling Mountains, which is exactly the case. The report revealed that Shang Wencai made up his mind to build the southern railway and expressway network

The purpose of this is very simple. These raw materials in the south need to be handed over several times before they can reach the Qin factory. They are concentrated in the hands of various people. They rely on the original ox cart to transport them to the vicinity of South Korea, and then how to change the car to reach the administrative office in Xinzheng. The logistics and manpower costs for Koreans to arrive at the Qin factory or stay in the middle of the Korean factory are very high. The factory can lower the price, but if the pressure is too high, it will have a negative effect, and the factory is not limited to Qin, for example, there are Korean factories.