Chapter 1040: Dry cell

"My lord, the Dutch are at war against us. The Dutch garrison in Geranzio tried to machine guns and Japanese-style rifles but we were defeated."
At noon, Xiao Ming who was taking a nap was awakened by Qian Dafu's voice, and then a telegram was sent to him.
Receiving the telegram from Qian Dafu, Xiao Ming took a closer look and frowned, "The fox finally revealed its tail, and immediately sent a telegram to Yue Yun, asking him to immediately lead the fleet to destroy all the Dutch warships in Nanyang, and at the same time let him Thunder attacked Jakarta and Manila and completely controlled the Philippines and Indonesia."
"Yes, the emperor!" Qian Dafu turned around with orders.
Putting on his clothes in a hurry, Xiao Ming went to the Imperial Study Room and called Cui Shangan over. This time the Dutch turned from a friend to an enemy, and he needed the staff to work out a detailed plan to deal with this matter.
At the same time, he notified the cabinet and asked the cabinet to immediately stop commerce with the Dutch and expel the Dutch embassy personnel.
After doing all this, Xiao Ming came to the world map hung in the Imperial Study Room, his eyes turned to the Philippines and Indonesia.
The Dutch reversal did have some impact on the empire’s trade, but the Dutch suffered a greater loss in comparison, because they lost the capital of the Philippines, Manila, and the capital of Indonesia, Jagheda.
From then on, these two huge island groups will officially belong to the Empire.
According to the data in the scientific spar, the Philippines has 4.8 billion tons of copper reserves, 1 billion tons of nickel content, and 130 million tons of gold reserves. These three resources are very rich.
In addition, the Philippines has rich resources of dipterocarp, which is very popular in the West and was once monopolized by the Dutch and the Spanish.
In modern times, both in the East and the West, Dipterocarpaceae has always been regarded as a treasure. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, Persia, where Dipterocarp was produced, and the envoys of the Great Food Kingdom also gave Dipterocarp as a tribute to the Chinese emperor.
Compared with the Philippines, Indonesia is richer in resources, with nearly 60 billion tons of coal reserves and nickel reserves, about 1.5 million carats of diamond resources, in addition to many scarce metal resources.
With control of these two places, more resources will be available for the development of the empire.
Therefore, he does not seem particularly angry about the Dutch decision. Moreover, he comes from the contemporary era and is accustomed to the change in the relationship between friends and enemies in the international society and the changing face of the Western countries.
Because of this, he has always had a sense of distrust of the Dutch, because this is a country without the potential of a great power.
Looking away from the Philippines and Manila, Xiao Ming looked at the French colony of East Indochina and the British colony of Burma.
This sudden change of tone by the Dutch is enough to see the European attitude towards the rise of the Chinese Empire. Since friction is inevitable, it is impossible to avoid a full-scale war. After a hundred years of decline, it is time for him to reshape the sphere of influence of the empire during its glorious period.
He was thinking that at this time, it was Lu Tong who arrived outside the Imperial Study Room alone.
"The emperor!" Lu Tong's face was smiling, and there seemed to be something happy.
Xiao Ming turned around and looked at Xiang Lu Tong. What he liked most was that people like Lu Tong came to him, because it often meant a technological breakthrough.
Sure enough, Lu Tong entered the imperial study room and said mysteriously: "The emperor, the next official sent you a baby here today."
"Oh? Take it out and have a look. If it's a real baby, I will give you a baby too." Xiao Ming said with a smile.
When Lu Tong heard the words, he couldn't close his mouth happily. He took out a cylindrical object from his clothes pocket and put it on the table.
The moment he saw this thing, Xiao Ming gave a thumbs up, and he said, "It really is a treasure. Back then, I picked you up from the grassland and it was right."
Lu Tong smiled and said, "The emperor is still very discerning. Would the emperor try this battery?"
What Lu Tong brought was the battery. After the electricity became popular in Qingzhou, he let Lu Tong restore the battery technology in his spare time.
After intermittent research, he finally installed the laboratory battery principle in this zinc bucket.
"Hey, you're getting more and more boring. Come and get the light bulb." Xiao Ming reached out and took the light bulb with two threaded ends from Lu Tong. The positive and negative poles were connected, and the light bulb suddenly lit up.
In the faint light, Xiao Ming showed a relieved look. With the battery, this will solve many problems in the field use of electric equipment.
When Xiao Ming used the battery, Lu Tong explained: "The emperor, this battery is a zinc-manganese dry battery. Currently, this battery technology is relatively easy to implement."
Xiao Ming nodded. The dry battery he was doing was a battery made of wood chips or starch gelatin glue inside. The battery fluid of this kind of battery does not flow, so it is called a dry battery.
Batteries for flashlights and radios belong to the category of dry batteries. The structure of this zinc-manganese dry battery is actually not complicated, but a combination of carbon rods, zinc skin, manganese dioxide and a binder. In the contemporary 1860s, this dry battery It was invented.
"Well, great. With this dry battery, there is no problem with the mobile radio." Xiao Ming said with a smile.
In addition, simple mobile lighting equipment such as flashlights should also be manufactured for military and civilian use.
Lu Tong heard the words and said, "The emperor, it's also a coincidence. When he came to the office, he passed by the laboratory of the School of Physics and was hearing the news that the electrode tube was made. There should be no problem compared to this radio.
Xiao Ming is not surprised at this, the industrial level has reached, these simple things with ready-made technology are not difficult to manufacture.
In addition to the three technologies of telegraph ~EbookFREE.me~radio and battery, he has also included the telephone in the preparation plan.
This plan is also in his plan to the cabinet. After all, the telegraph is too rigid. If wired telephones can be popularized, the transmission of messages will be more convenient.
And with the expansion of the empire, he also urgently needs to implement effective supervision of every place.
"Yes, yes, the technological development of the empire is really prospering. Now you don't need me to intervene, you will get the results yourself." Xiao Ming said with a smile.
Lu Tong said, "The emperor, the students have been studying at the academy for more than ten years. If everything needs the emperor's personal guidance, is this different from waste? For some simple techniques, the emperor can just leave it to us."
"This is naturally my opinion." Xiao Ming is very pleased. Everything is difficult at the beginning, but after being sad, it is logical.
Tens of thousands of talents have been cultivated by various colleges and universities in more than ten years, and these people have brought out a group of technical personnel. With such a cycle, now the empire's technical personnel is very sufficient.