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.

Imagine that a few thousand miles away, a man would knock on the telegraph machine, and the news would be immediately uploaded to the capital, and then the same discussion would be passed back. It would be much faster than the 800 miles of urgent report. Even pigeons could not compare. When encountering disasters and wars, the time for reaction would be greatly shortened, and it would be even more amazing when fighting. Several armies could cooperate with each other at any time. What kind of enemies would be invincible?

When others were satisfied, Li Longji's thoughts flew to Xiaobao and Juanjuan in Jilizhou. When will he get the weapon that can be used to fight from Luzhou to Beijing? And intercept it?

Didi, drip... In a room on the north bank of the Nihe River, Wang Juan's hand was lit on something, and the sound of drip came from time to time.

Zhang Xiaobao sat aside, looked at the map in his hand, fell into deep thought, and recovered after a while and asked, "Are you finished? Just press and make a sound, send me a telegram after practicing, and said, "Thank you for your hard work today, have the road been repaired? If it is repaired, then don't worry, be steady and tell others that you can go to the next step, and wait for the next step to go, that is the moment of victory, for this..."

"Comrade Zhang Xiaobao, this is sending a telegram, not you call to chat, do you understand the conciseness?" Wang Juan was about to translate it into a telegram code. When he heard Zhang Xiaobao say a lot of nonsense, he stopped and complained dissatisfiedly.

"Oh, I just remembered it and fought, and then I took action." Zhang Xiaobao nodded and turned the pile of words just now into five words.

"Isn't this the end? It's so hard, do you think Li Longji will find that what we use is more advanced than what he sees? Then he curses?" Wang Juan was still a little basic about telegrams and quickly passed the news. If Li Longji saw the telegram machine she used, he would definitely scold them for hiding their own personal information.

There was no fish tank next to the telegraph machine, but a block-shaped thing that provided power to the telegraph machine. At the same time, the telegraph machine had no wires connected to other places, only a protruding antenna. This is the dry battery and wireless telegraph machine he was looking forward to making in the future. He would not have thought that Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan had already used it.

Zhang Xiaobao said with some uncertainty: "I guess it can't?"

"Can you not scold me or discover me?" Wang Juan asked again.

"As long as you can't find out, he will naturally not scold him." Zhang Xiaobao replied.

"That is, you put the consequences on the former."

"Yes, I really let him know. I will probably put on small shoes for us. This is a much different thing from the wired telegraph. It is a cross-age product. It uses electromagnetic technology and can be used to make a radio station in the future and then receive it in a box. This is People's Radio Station. What I am reporting to you now is that Emperor Li Longji of the Tang Dynasty knew that this technology appeared. He was not the first to see it. Will he get angry? Dear listeners, you can write your thoughts into a letter and mail it to..."

"Okay, don't be poor, and you're still angry. According to his previous personality, you should be beheaded for this crime, find ten thousand people to watch, and then use steamed buns to dip blood to treat tuberculosis."

"Is it good to use rami blocking for treating tuberculosis? The people in the medical school are so bad that they have not yet studied it. The same is true for antibiotics. At least, penicillin is done first to treat people's diseases. If you continue at this speed, when will you have to undergo heart bypass surgery?"

Zhang Xiaobao began to complain about the slow research speed in medical school.

Wang Juan said disapprovingly: "You think you are playing games and you want to be fast. That's a system problem. You also have heart bypass surgery. Why don't you say that you change DNA? Let humans not worry about breathing problems, they can absorb the spiritual energy between heaven and earth and soar in the universe."

"It's true, this is a new topic in the medical school. It's best to first demonstrate the balance between the five elements and yin and yang of traditional Chinese medicine. True qi goes through the meridians. Oh~! When we're going back, we will be assassinated tomorrow."

Zhang Xiaobao followed Wang Juan's words for a while before he remembered the story of the scriptures.

"Oh tomorrow? Will it be early tomorrow? Let's talk about it when the river starts to connect, otherwise problems will occur." Wang Juan thought for a while and put forward his own opinions.

"Listen to you, it's getting late. Madam, why don't we go and rest." Zhang Xiaobao said with a longing look on his face.

"If you dare to touch me while I'm asleep, I'll chop off your salty hands."

"You were the ones who were hit on me."

"Then chop it down."

After receiving the orders from the young master and the young lady, the people in Zhengzheng Building work faster and did not stop at night. They lit torches to light them and continued to direct the people in Silla to work hard to build roads.

After this period of time, the road on one side of Silla is about to be paved, and the place where the tariffs are collected is also well built. Anyone who pays the tariffs will be released when passing this road, and if they do not pay the money, it will block the other side.

Silla merchants were looking forward to the benefits they received after the tariffs arrived, and Silla royal staff also counted on using the money to build a place.

Two more days passed, and the last section of the repaired road was watering. When it was dry, take away the moistened grass mats on it, and the road could extend to the farthest point.

Another day, Li Dong listened to the firecrackers and stood happily at the place where the tariffs were collected. The caravan that was waiting for the arrival of the Tang Dynasty to send the money to the voluntarily. The information sent back by the people from the Tang Dynasty showed that a caravan of considerable size had already arrived. An Li said that he could arrive last night, but unexpectedly, he had not come yet.

While waiting anxiously, the sun reached the sky. Just when Li Dong and the Silla merchants were waiting for him, a large amount of dust rippled with the wind on the distance.

"Here you come, be ready. Be careful when checking the goods later. You can't charge more money or less. Remember 20% of the tariff."

Seeing the approaching team, Li Dong hurriedly gave instructions to the person responsible for collecting the Tang Dynasty tariffs.

The group of people agreed unevenly, staring at the caravan with their eyes fixed on the caravan, and their minds were full of the sound of money.

The more anxious the time passes, the slower the time passes. Just when Li Dong and others can't wait, the caravan finally slowly arrived at the tax checkpoint, looking at the person in front of them blankly, looking at the situation that he was unclear.

Li Dong, the main leader, knew it was time to go on stage, so he stood up and asked the caravan: "Where is your boss? According to the agreement between Silla and Datang, you need to pay 20% of the tariffs to sell goods in Silla, that is, 20%. If you pay the money, you can pass."

"When did it happen? 20%? It's too much." After Li Dong's words fell for a while, a man stood up from the caravan and asked in confusion.

"It took a short time to make a comeback from Zhang Xiaobao, the Tang Dynasty. Not more than 20%. Don't you know how much your goods can be sold in Silla. If you can't get the money out of the line, you can use 20% of the goods instead."

Li Dong said this, but he had other thoughts in his heart, that is, any businessmen who came here did not have to be good at their attitude towards them. As long as they had questions, they would immediately push them to Zhang Xiaobao, which would intensify the conflict between Zhang Xiaobao and other businessmen.

The caravan obviously felt that there were too many people, and the man asked again, "What if I don't get a friend?"

"If you don't hand over, don't go here." Li Dong was not anxious at all.

"That's all, go, go back." The leader of the caravan became even more straightforward. With a wave of his hand, the team turned around roaring and leaving at a speed many times faster than when he came.

Li Dong looked at the caravan that was gradually disappearing from his sight. He wanted to stop him, but he found that he was on the land of the Tang Dynasty and he did not have the qualifications.

After waiting for the last wisp of smoke to disappear, Li Dong gritted his teeth and said depressedly: "These merchants from the Tang Dynasty are treacherous, iron roosters, and they will not let go of a penny. Let me take a look so that they will not secretly pass by in the darkness."

The Silla people, who were also disappointed, were indignant and agreed to Li Dong's words, swearing to guard the place well and never give any chance to the merchants of the Tang Dynasty.

This time, it was at night. The moon was hanging high in the sky, and the moon that was missing on one side made the stars around dim. Li Dong, who was still not asleep, kept dozing off. He drank cups of tea and no effect when he came to his hands. He directly applied his eyelids to the lower eyelids.

Just when he was about to fall asleep, someone rushed in from outside and reported anxiously: "Li Dongjia, it's not good. The caravan of the Tang Dynasty bypassed us and entered Silla from another place."

"What? Go in? Why don't you stop it?" Li Dong's worry finally happened. The businessmen did not care about the system and would never give out a little more if they could pay less.

"I stopped it, but the place was too big and we didn't have enough staff. The caravans of the Tang Dynasty were divided into countless small teams, coming to Silla from various places. Anyone who was blocked by us said that Ye Hei had gone the wrong way. He turned around and returned, and more than 100 people sent out to stop thirty small teams. But judging from its size, 70% of the Tang Dynasty teams were not stopped, and that was 70% of the goods had entered Silla."

The person who came looked depressed, as if he was complaining about the people of the Tang Dynasty, and also seemed to complain that there were few people on his side.

Listening to the person coming, Li Dong's brows frowned deeply, and a Sichuan character formed on his nose. He looked at the person waiting there and asked, "Brothers, what are the best solutions?"

"Yes, one is to send additional personnel to completely stop the land area, at least 5,000 people familiar with it." The visitor replied.

Li Dong looked at a place and stood still. After a while, he said, "Okay, then after discussing with others tomorrow, send 5,000 people to stop the caravans of the Tang Dynasty. You can't let them pass by as easily as possible, otherwise who would give the money?"

"Yes." The visitor agreed to leave in a hurry.

The next day, it was noon again, and the weather was so hot that it made people feel depressed. Fortunately, another team from Datang arrived at the place and also inquired about tax issues. It was just like the previous one and turned around and left.

The five thousand people that Silla finally found were divided into places according to distance, waiting for the Tang Dynasty people to come secretly to block them at night.

But this time, before the sky was completely dark, someone ran over to find Li Dong when the sun set.

"Li Dong's family, it's not good. The merchants of the Tang Dynasty crossed the narrow place of Nihe River. They actually brought rafts with them. I think they were prepared for it. Li Dong's family, think of a solution?"

Li Dong was completely confused now. He could send 5,000 people to the land for ***, but even water routes were included, let alone 5,000 people, even 50,000 people could not stop them. The place was too big. There were many places in Nihe River where the rivers were relatively narrow, so it was very easy to pass after thinking about it.

Could it be that the tariffs are really not collected? So what else do you need to do in this place? It cost a million yuan, but it was wasted?

The more I thought about it, the more uncomfortable I felt. Li Dong really had no choice but to come to the third floor of Changfeng Pavilion again and asked other merchants to discuss, hoping that someone could come up with a better idea.

"I heard from Li Dongjia that the land route connecting my Silla and Datang is too wide, and there are many narrow rivers on the two rivers? Can you think of a way to make the river wider so that their rafts cannot be easily crossed, and then make the connection place narrower from the road?"

A partner businessman thought of the key points of the problem and proposed a thought.

Other businessmen also nodded in agreement.

"How to make the river wider and narrower the land?" Li Dong muttered and thought hard.

The other merchants were also thinking about this problem. Suddenly, a merchant's eyes lit up and he said excitedly: "I thought of a good idea, which is to connect the two rivers. In this way, the water flow will increase, and the river channel will naturally be widened. Moreover, the raised land that was not flooded by water will form reefs once it is flooded, and it is easy to get into trouble.

Then find another place, for example, when we connect the road, we build a bridge there, so that all the merchants who came from the Tang Dynasty could pass through the bridge. In this way, it would be difficult for them to take a detour. If they really overturned a few ships, they would lose more than 20% of the tariffs. The value of the goods was transported to Silla. In addition to human life, I think it would be possible to solve this problem."

"Yes." Another businessman slapped his thigh and expressed his approval, and suddenly showed a confused look, saying, "Why am I so familiar with this idea?"

Li Dong thought quickly and said, "Of course, it's familiar. That was the method Zhang Xiaobao first proposed. Wasn't it disturbed by us and others? He even fought a lot with the hired people.

Zhang Xiaobao, Zhang Xiaobao, Zhang Xiaobao, you can, I understand. This is a different way to connect the river. I admire it, so that I can clearly know that I am frustrated and have to do it. If I don’t do it, there will be no 20% of the tariffs. The superiors can no longer bear the pressure, and we have also earned a million guan."

The other merchants were not stupid either. They understood as soon as they heard it. They looked at each other and saw deep worries in the eyes of others. Zhang Xiaobao finally got to the forefront. Without contacting him directly, he really couldn't understand his ability. After a long round, the river that should be opened and the bridge that should be built needs to be built.

Li Dong was helpless and sighed: "Let's discuss it, go and discuss it with Zhang Tie from Zhengzheng Construction Group. I'll send someone to send a letter tomorrow. Remember, be careful. Zhang Xiaobao has to consider everything he proposes. Don't be fooled again. I know why Li Longji sent him here, he is a savage."

Everyone nodded and agreed.

The news that Silla wanted to cooperate with the Tang Dynasty to connect two rivers and build bridges soon reached the Chang'an capital of the Tang Dynasty.

When Li Longji was in the morning, he discussed with his ministers about how more merchants would go overseas to explore new places and bring good things back to the Tang Dynasty to collect fees, Gao Lishi was sent to the young eunuch to win the letter.

After seeing the letter from Gao Lishi who had gone hurriedly and returned hurriedly, Li Longji was stunned for a moment and suddenly burst into laughter, "Hahahaha, Xiaobao, Xiaobao, it really didn't disappoint me. This circle is surrounded by the way to deal with me on Silla. Okay, I feel so comforted. Come and read it all."

The matter discussed in the morning court was suspended, and the letter was sent to Zhang Shuo first. He was the most important official and finished reading the letter that was not too many and passing it to the next person. Zhang Shuo was silent.

Another way to overthrow the way he said just now. When he talked about collecting goods tax from merchants who had returned from sea, he proposed to take the coast guard team in Luzhou into the hands of the court, which was really under the control of the court, rather than Luzhou, to take back the power of the Zhang and Wang families in disguise.

That is a team that makes money. Whoever controls it will be able to gain both power and wealth. There will definitely be no fewer people begging to come here to do business.

But after reading the content of the letter sent back from Jilizhou, he was a little scared, afraid that Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan would know that with Zhang Xiaobao's calculations, he would put his energy into him a little, would the consequences be unbearable?

The officials looked one by one, and they looked very quickly. Everyone who read the letter had a different expression. Some were nervous, some were relieved, some were confused, and some were thought deeply.

When they were about to go back to Gao Lishi's hands, all officials had different opinions on the issue of belonging to the Luzhou coast guard team just now.

Li Longji was still excited and said to his ministers: "Xiaobao is really reassuring. If all local officials are omnipotent, then what else do I have to worry about? Unfortunately, Xiaobao and Juanjuan are only one pair, so it is hard to find them anymore. When Xiaobei and the others grow up and see where they are talking about it? Zhang Qing said that the control of the Coast Guard was to be taken back to the Central Secretariat Order, what should I do specifically?"

Li Longji sighed, remembered what happened just now again, and looked at Zhang Shuo to ask.

Zhang said, looked at the person who was gloating in the row opposite, and replied calmly: "Your Majesty, I thought about it again. I still don't know enough about the place in Luzhou. Why not send more people there to see, learn, and then discuss it again, so as not to make a deviation by acting in a hurry."

"Oh? You're not in a hurry to accept it? Everyone else will say it." Li Longji asked deliberately. He didn't want the Zhongshu Ling to take too much control, so the power would be too great, and it would be more reassuring for Xiaobao and Juanjuan.

"I'm asking." The person who was just helping Zhang Sao talk quickly changed his words.

With his words, others would not offend Zhang Xiaobao, who had just planned to plot against Silla, and expressed their approval.
Chapter completed!