Chapter 455: As before

The sudden appearance of Zhang's voice turned the eyes of all officials. They looked away from each other and met Deputy Prime Minister Li Yuanhong, a person who rarely speaks but always does practical things, suddenly appeared today to impeach Zhang's speech.

Zhang said that he was also puzzled. What did you do when you found Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan? Why did you, Li Yuanhong, come out? Could it be that those two people are close to you? Isn’t this a sweet heart for eating carrots?

When you were puzzled, you were more angry. You Li Yuanhong, you didn’t cause trouble for you. Now you are targeting me? Can you be bullied?

Just as he was about to question him, Li Longji spoke at this time.

"I have heard of what Li Qing said." When these words came out, Li Longji paused, and all the civil and military officials were shocked. Could it be that the emperor was going to attack Zhang Shuo?

"Of course." Li Longji said another word, and Zhang said relieved.

"Zhang Qing is the Minister of the Central Secretariat, commanding all officials. He needs to contact all officials himself. The court has insufficient time and it is not necessary to talk privately. He has spent his spare time. Do Zhang Qing agree?"

Li Longji narrowed his eyes and looked at Zhang, with a faint expression on his face, making it impossible to tell whether what he was saying was the truth.

As if he had caught a life-saving straw, Zhang Shuo nodded violently. The beard floated around with his body movements, slightly frosty, and combined with the weather, it made people see a sense of desolation.

Yuan Qianyao, who was standing opposite him, sighed softly, "Old, all old, time is unforgivable, no better than Zhang Xiaobao and Juanjuan. In this way, you can decide the affairs of the court at such age, and you can spend a lot of youth."

"That's right," Li Longji said casually, and then said: "I know that many ministers have no other ideas in their minds. It's just that when doing things, they are easy to misunderstand. Zhang Qing is like this. I hope that all the ministers can trust their colleagues around them more.

Don’t listen to the wind and rain, and don’t take a false thing to make sure that others have bad intentions and judge others by themselves. In Xiao Bei’s words, our Tang Dynasty is united and upright. Everyone thinks what I say is right?"

"Your Majesty, after hearing Your Majesty's words, I feel that Your Majesty's tolerance and trust will definitely live up to Your Majesty's trust." Yu Wen Rong said, and all the other ministers who stood in front came out to agree.

Zhang Shuo was no exception. After saying the flattering words, he realized that he had been wasting his efforts today. The emperor expressed his meaning very clearly. Don’t just find a false charge and just ask others for help. If others impeach yourself, and the emperor did not cause trouble for him, then I will mention the matter between Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan. Wouldn’t it be a playboy?

Alas! Why can they get such treatment? Zhang Shuo was dissatisfied and looked even more old-fashioned. He quietly retreated to his position and decided to endure it again.

The king and his ministers sang each other a few words in harmony, and returned to the quiet scene at the beginning. The wind was still blowing and the sky did not turn clear. I guess there would be a heavy rain when the morning court ended. I wonder if the emperor prepared an umbrella for him? It was still a distance from Hanyuan Palace to the office. I regret not carrying the portable folding umbrella sent by Zhang and Wang families on his body. I will learn lessons next time.

Li Longji settled Zhang and said, adjusted his mood, and finally returned to his original appearance.

He smiled and said to the ministers: "Since you have nothing important to you, I will talk about my recent events. This is what I suddenly remembered. By chance, someone came and brought my things up."

The ministers below didn't think they were suddenly remembered, otherwise they wouldn't have let others speak out early in the morning. Zhang Shuofei stood up and it should be.

It was naturally not too long for things to prepare. As Li Longji finished speaking, Gao Lishi waved his hand and a few eunuchs next to him moved the things to front of Li Longji. The ministers stretched their necks to see what the emperor was doing.

Li Longji coughed lightly, walked down from the soft chair rarely, stood in front of the thing placed on the ground, and smiled even more rarely, and took the thing from Gao Lishi who came over to squat and picked up something, waved it to the ministers, and asked, "Do you all know what this is?"

When the ministers saw it, they knew that the light bulb was not a strange thing. They had it at home. The Zhang and Wang families gave it to them. Any official with sufficient grades could get the benefits of the Zhang and Wang families. There were officials with very small official positions and would work hard for such benefits.

The rich people also bought it and placed it at home. Those with windmills are driven by windmills, while those without windmills find ways to get the waterwheel. If there is no two, people will rotate the generator. What will the emperor do today?

Li Linfu had a wink, stood up, showed an expression of uncertainty, and asked in a low voice: "Your Majesty, is this thing the legendary light bulb? The small and exquisite one that Your Majesty has made it himself?"

"Well, it's a light bulb, it's a good thing. Li Qing's eyesight is indeed great, you can tell at a glance." Li Longji still admired Li Linfu's statement, praised him, and shook his head, "It's not what I did. I'm afraid I'm hurt. I don't have the ability to blow the light bulb, and I won't pump the air."

"Your Majesty's dragon body is important." Li Linfu followed again.

Li Longji didn't answer this time, holding a small light bulb in one hand and pointing at another object on the ground with the other hand, and asked, "Can you know this object?"

"Ah? Could it be the legendary fish tank?" Li Linfu saw a box made of glass, which was not much different from the fish tank. The only difference was that there were no fish in the water inside, but wires were connected.

"No, guess again." Li Longji was like a child at this moment.

"Your Majesty also asks you to make it clear. I really can't guess it. I only now know that my knowledge is indeed not as broad as Your Majesty." Li Linfu asked for advice in distress. This time it was not nonsense. He really didn't know that other ministers were also puzzled when they saw the fish tank near.

Li Longji looked down from the distance and waved to him, "Come on, I'll demonstrate it to you."

The fifth-rank official who was farthest away looked at others and saw someone moving, he followed him forward. When he got closer, he was really a fish tank, just like Li Linfu said, without fish.

After everyone else was confused, Li Longji continued to the next step, picked up the two lines in the fish tank, one wrapped around the bottom of the light bulb, and the other was placed on the smallest point. The two lines had just been connected, and the light bulb suddenly lit up.

"Ah? Your Majesty, why is it lit up?" Gao Lishi screamed in surprise. His eyes were wide open, making people worried that the eyes inside could fall off at any time.

Li Longji had an unfathomable expression on his face, moving back and forth so that all the people around him could see clearly. After the ministers were puzzled, he slowly said: "Do you think it's magical? You don't use wind or water, and you never have someone to kick the generator."

"Your Majesty, why is it bright?" Zhang Jiuling walked forward again, looked carefully, but still couldn't see the way, and asked humbly.

"This question is good, why did it light up? I believe everyone has this doubt in their hearts. This is the wet battery I participated in. With the battery, I don't have to be as tired as I used to do. I can use the battery to light the light anytime, anywhere."

Li Longji left the wire and pressed it on again, and repeated it several times to make people see it clearly and introduce it happily.

"Your Majesty is really amazing." An official from the fifth grade exclaimed sincerely.

Li Longji smiled and shook his head, "Don't think that this is my original intention. If you can only let the lights turn on, that's nothing. Let's take a look at another thing."

Putting down the light bulb, Li Longji pointed his finger at another thing in front of him. To be precise, it was two identical things, and a large bundle of wires, which made the ministers not sure about why.

This time, no one needs to cooperate with the inquiry, Li Longji took the initiative to introduce, "This is a wired telegraph machine. Someone will ask, what is this thing for? Is it?"

Some of the ministers complained in vain, isn’t this nonsense? You just let others see it. Who doesn’t have such an idea without knowing it?

"I will let you wait for the know, come and carry the other one away." Li Longji could not hear the voice of others and had no evidence to punish him. He gave an order, and immediately a eunuch came over, carrying one of them, and walked down the line until the bundle of wires was used up, and stopped and waited for the next instructions.

Someone else carried a fish tank over and stood beside him and looked at Li Longji together.

Li Longji looked around and Gao Lishi quickly made a gesture to a distance. A group of people came over there, all wearing the same style of work clothes, swaying one by one, but if you look closely, you will find that some of the people in the crowd were injured.

When the group of people approached, Li Longji waved, one ran to the front, and the other ran to the distance, each taking out a small notebook and a pencil from his body, ready.

Li Longji looked at the ministers in confusion and introduced: "The function of the telegraph machine is to send messages quickly. Once there is a movement, you can receive it here immediately. The length of the wire is, the telegraph machine can communicate with each other at the distance."

The ministers nodded, showing that they understood. Even if they had doubts in their hearts, they would not dare to show it if they didn't believe it.

"I know you don't believe it, it's okay. This will make you understand, Zhang Qing, please tell me, let this person pass the message over and see if another telegraph machine opposite can receive it. At such a long distance, you whisper, you can't hear it there, right?"

Li Longji shouted Zhang Shu out and asked him to speak.

Zhang said, "I can't hear it. It's more than twenty feet away from here. Your Majesty asked me to say, "I've really said it, yes, I just said that it will rain today."

"Send a report." Li Longji ordered the people who came over him.

The man quickly took out a thicker notebook from his arms, searched it a few times, and wrote and painted it on the notebook just now with a pencil. Then he pressed a place on the telegraph machine with his hand. Someone else helped to connect the thread in the fish tank, and the same was true on the opposite side.

Everything was ready, and the man began to press that place.

Didi...dip~dip...dip...dip...with a crisp sound, it didn't take long for the man to raise his hand and signaled it to finish.

The ministers immediately turned their eyes to the person below, and saw that the person had just finished writing and drawing on the notebook. Then they also opened another thick notebook and searched it. After a moment, a person came from that place and said to Li Longji: "Your Majesty, after receiving it, the content will rain today."

"Yeah?" Many ministers made a puzzled voice, thinking it was very magical. How could you tell me what the message was conveying? This is much more useful than the beacon tower.

"What else can I try?" Li Longji's smile even more.

"Your Majesty, I'm here." Lu Yanzuo, who was unbelieving evil, stood up, pressed his ears to the person who sent the newspaper, and said in a voice that others could not hear: "I don't believe it is true, send it."

The man nodded, looked through the book a few more times, finished writing and drawing, and began to press the key on the telegraph machine. With the sound of a sensation, the other side began to receive it. It also took a very short time. A person came from the other side and said to everyone: "I don't believe it is true when I received the content."

Lu Yanzuo was stunned, looked up at the distance, swallowed his saliva and said to the emperor, "Your Majesty, it's so amazing. If this thing pulls the thread across the country and transmits information back and forth in the future, the speed is really unthinkable."

Li Longji smiled and nodded.

At this time, Zhang said that he started pouring cold water on him again.

"Your Majesty, I think it's inappropriate. How long does it take to pull the wires across the country? How many wires will it take? This is nothing."

Li Longji's happy mood just now was changed by Zhang, and she glared at Zhang and said, "Why don't you take any pot without opening any pot?

Fortunately, he was prepared. Seeing that some of the ministers showed the same idea, he coughed and said, "It's just a test. This is called wired telegraph. Now the Ministry of Industry is studying dry batteries and wireless telegraphs. After researching it, it is easier to carry batteries. The telegraph machine no longer needs wire connection. Isn't this a waste?"

"Your Majesty's wiseness." Gao Lishi followed suit and said.

The faces of the ministers also changed, and they naturally knew how fast the message would be transmitted in the future if they could have something called a battery that was convenient to carry, and coupled with a telegraph machine that was not connected with wires.

But the news came too suddenly, and it was so sudden that it was not ready at all.

Yuan Qianyao said excitedly: "Your Majesty, when did my Tang Dynasty have such advanced things? According to Your Majesty, wouldn't it be a blink of an eye to send the news from the farthest place to the capital?"

"That may not be the case. Xiaobao and Juanjuan said that it would take several transfers, otherwise the distance would not be enough. You can arrange a special frequency band for receiving telegrams. Is it advanced? Well, it is advanced, at least leading the neighboring countries. Without the struggle of more than 100,000 craftsmen in the Tang Dynasty, there would be no advanced technology today. They have paid a lot."

Li Longji spoke, his happy expression on his face calmed down, and he looked at the group of craftsmen standing a few steps away, and introduced to the ministers: "These are the researchers of batteries and telegraphs, Liu Liang."

"Your Majesty." As Li Longji called out his name in the crowd, he stood up alone. There were white cloth wrapped around several parts of the man's body. The ministers knew that he was injured. This is the classic packaging cloth for Deyi Hospital today.

Li Longji looked at Liu Liang softly. Liu Liang seemed very excited, swallowing his saliva and his legs were trembling.

"Rolle up the sleeve of your right arm." Li Longji ordered.

Liu Liang did not dare to hesitate at all, and rolled up the right sleeve with his left hand little by little, revealing the arm. When the ministers saw it, they took a breath of cold air at the same time.

I saw that the arm was bumpy, the skin was wrinkled together, and the arms were small and thin, as if they were burned by fire.

"Liu Liang's arm was burned by sulfuric acid during his research, but he still determined the ratio of sulfuric acid. Without his persistence, there would be no current wet battery. I have named him the founding Count, Zhao Cheng, and left the list."

Li Longji introduced Liu Liang, then shouted to the crowd, and another one-eyed man stood up and said, "Your Majesty."

"This is Zhao Cheng, who has always been responsible for the production of telegraph machines. When welding, he blinded one of his eyes, but with one eye, he also completed the initial telegraph machine welding task. I named him the founding marquis of the country, Zhao Gong, and left the list... Zhao Gong was Zhao Cheng's younger brother, and he followed his brother to do experiments. Originally, Zhao Gong was a juren, but gave up the opportunity to take the imperial examination and was willing to take over his brother's heavy responsibility. I named him the same Jinshi, Zhang Yan, leave the list..."

Li Longji called out the people one by one. Every time he called out one, he would tell what the person had done and reward him. There were thirty-two people in total, without any missing.

Anyone who was called up had his chest raised and his eyes were full of excitement when Li Longji introduced him. The ministers also listened one by one. If someone had stood up before and opposed the emperor's reward so much, but today is an exception.

It is really a whim to know that His Majesty gave such a reward to those craftsmen of more than 100,000. The craftsmen who had never valued them before actually made such a magical thing.

Li Longji squatted, touched the telegraph machine, and said, "I hope everyone knows that my Tang Dynasty craftsmen are not of a low status. I understand that when you are enjoying good things, someone is bleeding and sacrificing for it. Everything is filled with the hard work of my Tang Dynasty craftsmen. We should cherish it."

"I remember." Gao Lishi spoke first, and then all the ministers responded together.

"Well, please go back. The most important thing is to study things, you can do everything. Remember to keep it confidential and discuss matters." Li Longji let the ministers see the power of the craftsmen and re-engage in the morning court. The first thing he proposed was to allocate money to the Ministry of Works, a large sum of money.

The ministers now understood that the emperor did this to clear the obstacles for Zhang Zhong. If there was no telegraph machine, he would give the Ministry of Works a lot of money in vain. Someone would object. Now he said it again, thinking about the advanced tools that can deliver messages from a distance, no one would not support it anymore. It was really scary.
To be continued...