The one who came on stage to give a lecture on the third day was Bi Maokang, the Minister of Works of the Ming Dynasty. He talked a lot, and each of them were bombshell decisions!

Although these were basically introduced in the books that were published, after he spoke them in person, the representatives of the countries present were still excited to hear them.

Why do you say so? Because every decision made by the Ming Empire is enough to change the world pattern.

First, the Ming Empire decided to build a telegram network across Europe and Asia in the next five years.

Now, the telegram network of the Ming Empire has been connected to Kandahar, an important city in northwestern South Asia. Next, the Ming Empire is preparing to cross the Persian Safavi Empire to send telegrams to the Ottoman Empire. Then, a branch road goes north, through the Ottoman Empire, connect to the Holy Roman Empire, and a branch road goes south, cross the Eurasian Canal, pass through the North African colonies of the Ottoman Empire, cross the Strait of Gibraltar, connect to Spain and Portugal.

Once this telegram network is built, the Ming Empire will achieve real-time communication with the four continental allies. Think about it, I originally had to transmit information back and forth by sea. Even the ships of the Ming Empire would take about a month to go from the Ming Dynasty to the continental Europe. If you use the sailing ships of the four continental countries, you won’t even get a reply in two or three months!

After the telegram network is connected, whether it is Spain, Portugal or the Holy Roman Empire, a telegram can immediately reply, and it takes less than an hour to complete the Ming Empire!

The benefits of this communication speed are immeasurable. In the future, the five-nation alliance will be far ahead of the anti-Habsburg alliance, whether in the military or economic fields!

Then, the Ming Empire also decided to build the Eurasian Railway in the next ten years!

In other words, the Ming Empire wanted to build railways from Kandahar to the Mediterranean coast, to the Holy Roman Empire, and even to the North Sea coast of Europe!

This is even more amazing. You should know that the speed of the train is more than twice as fast as that of a steamer.

Moreover, trains are basically not affected by the weather. Unlike ships, they have to hide when encountering storms. Even a sea storm devours a fleet is very common in this era. It can be said that trains are much safer than ships.

Also, the construction speed of trains is much faster than that of ships. It is not a problem to build ten trains in the time of building one ship.

Once the railway across Eurasia is built, the economy of the Ottoman Empire and the Holy Roman Empire will make a huge leap, and Spain and Portugal will also benefit from it, because it does not take much time for them to cross the Mediterranean Sea. As long as the railway is built to the Mediterranean coast, they will also use it.

Of course, trains also have a flaw, that is, the transportation cost is much higher than that of ships. However, the coal in this era was not as valuable as later generations. The alliance of the Five Kingdoms occupies nearly half of the world's land, and there is as much coal as you want!

However, both the telegraph network and the railway must pass through the Persian Safavi Empire, which did not join the Five-Nation Alliance. Moreover, they have economic ties and military cooperation with Britain, France and the Netherlands. It can be said that they are countries that prefer anti-Habsburg alliances. Will they agree to the telegraph lines and railways of the Ming Empire?

Zhu Cijiu naturally considered this issue. Judging from the attitude of the Persian Safavi Empire, they did not want to intervene in the conflict between the Ming Dynasty and the anti-Habsburg Alliance. Moreover, they were a little afraid of the Ming Dynasty, because once the Ming Dynasty and the Ottoman Empire joined forces to attack, they could not stand it at all.

Therefore, Zhu Cijing was not worried about the attitude of the Persian Safavi Empire at all. He first sent an envoy to discuss whether they would like to let the Ming Dynasty's telegram lines and railways pass through.

If you want, you can help them, build a few train stations for them, and pull a few telegram branch lines. Hello, I, hello everyone.

If you don't want to, then fight. It may be a bit difficult to destroy the Persian Safavi Empire, which also has gunpowder weapons, but it is still very simple to seize the small piece of land between the South Asian border of the Ming Empire and the Ottoman Empire.

How would the Persian Safavi Empire choose? It's very simple. If you don't agree, you will be beaten. Will they fight against the Five Nations Alliance in support of the Anti-Habsburg Alliance?

This possibility basically does not exist. Their most likely choice is to remain neutral and not offend both sides, so that they can gain some benefits from it.

After telling the idea of ​​telegraph network and railways, Bi Maokang threw out another super heavy bomb: The Ming Empire will sell machine tools to European allies to help them establish a military system so that they can produce advanced muskets and artillery themselves!

This is not recorded in the book. As soon as Bi Maokang said this, representatives of European countries were blushing with excitement. Machine tools, advanced muskets and artillery were things they dreamed of. The Ming Empire now said that it would be open to them in full!

Is Zhu Cijing crazy? Once they have mastered the advanced weapon manufacturing technology, what if they turn against the Ming Dynasty one day, wouldn’t they shoot themselves in the foot!

In fact, Zhu Cijiu is not crazy at all because he has received a secret report from the continental region. The Netherlands and Britain and France have joined forces to overcome the technical difficulties of steam engines. In other words, they will soon be able to manufacture machine tools. With machine tools, they can also produce advanced weapons at this stage in large quantities!

In fact, Zhu Cijing had expected this, because even if he had not traveled through time and did not build the steam engine in advance, British and French scientists would build the steam engine in more than 20 years. In other words, they already have such a technical foundation, but it will take more than 20 years of exploration. Now he has directly provided people with a successful model, and it will only take them to build it sooner or later.

Fortunately, the development of precision machine tools in Daming has come to an end. As long as the precision machine tools are built, Daming will still be technologically ahead of them dozens or even hundreds of years.

As for selling machine tools to the four continental allies now, it is a helpless thing. If you don’t help them, you can master the production technology of advanced weapons as soon as possible. Once the anti-Habsburg alliance develops the machine tools, they will be done. You must know that Britain and France have a terrifying population base, and the Netherlands has terrifying manufacturing capabilities. Once these three countries break out, Spain, Portugal, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Ottoman Empire can’t stand it at all.

Once the four allies in the continent can no longer withstand it, the Ming Dynasty still has to take action and run so far to fight with others. It is better to train their allies to fight with them. In this way, the Ming Dynasty will not only not suffer huge losses, but also benefit from the fisherman. Why not do it?

To drive away tigers and swallow wolves is the current strategy of the Ming Dynasty. As for a country dominates the whole world and a country destroys the whole world, it is all delusion. The Mongol Yuan is a good example. They were so powerful at the beginning. They destroyed whoever they saw, it seemed that they wanted a country to defeat the whole world. In the end, they were defeated by Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding ancestor of the Ming Dynasty!
Chapter completed!