Alien Arms Empire

 Chapter 218 218 Nuclear bombs in the field of communications

“This is too expensive, one word costs one gold coin.” In the lounge, an elf walked around excitedly. This was the first time he discovered that gold coins were so easy to earn.

Just now, they wrote a letter and sent it to Bunas. It cost them 48 gold coins in total including punctuation marks, plus 50 gold coins for the letter delivery service fee and 2 gold coins for the personnel service fee. They spent just now Got a full 100 gold coins!

　　It's really a very regular number... In fact, normal consumption is not so expensive, but the person they want to send the letter to is really a bit special.

 The telegram sent to Tang Mo was charged according to the original price, but the task of sending the telegram was obviously not an easy task. In the end, the price given by the telegraph office was 50 gold coins. This price was to avoid encountering a wealthy psychopath, so he sent two telegrams to Tang Mo to tease him.

“If this news can be delivered to Tang Mo seven days in advance, the money will be well spent.” The leader, Viscount Fitral, crossed his hands, rubbed his palms together, and said.

He knew that the Yangmu Kingdom could not afford to delay, so if he could ask the other party to recall his warships in advance, spending 100 more gold coins was actually nothing.

Just when several people were worried about the 100 gold coins, he reluctantly continued to ask a confusing question: "Besides, have you thought about it?"

"Huh?" This time the deputy envoy going south, the man who represented the interests of the Augustine family, and the two guards all made doubtful voices.

The special envoy headed by Υ continued: "He has technology and can... be able to convey what he wants to say to far, far away places! This kind of technology... is the most terrifying!"

"Yeah..." The deputy was stunned for a moment, then nodded as if he suddenly understood, and agreed with what the other party said. Compared with the steel battleship that forced them to go south this time, the information transmission equipment they see here now is truly heaven-defying equipment!

 Compared to the super battleship that allows the elves to rule the seven seas, and the modern guns that allow the elven troops to sweep across the world, the telegraph machine in front of us is a more attractive piece of equipment!

 In ancient kingdoms, the speed of information transmission restricted the ability of monarchs of all countries to effectively control their territories.

 The larger the country's territory, the weaker the king's control over the frontiers. Therefore, the territory of ancient empires was limited.

Due to the limitation of the speed of message transmission, the intelligence obtained by the ruling class is very lagging behind, and it is unable to convey its orders as quickly as possible and mobilize forces far away from the center.

 However, this kind of problem was solved by Tang Mo without knowing it! Tang Mo's railways made the connection between the local area and the royal city closer, Tang Mo's ships also made sea transportation more convenient, and Tang Mo's telegraphs made the transmission of orders faster and more effective.

 With these things, a country's control over its own territory has become unprecedentedly powerful, and the birth of an empire has obviously become possible.

 This is something more important than guns! Because only guns are powerful, the monarch's control over local armies is actually weakened.

 Only when communications are strengthened and transportation becomes more convenient, the monarch's control over local areas and the army will become stronger, and his expansion ambitions will become sharper.

 It is not an exaggeration to describe the invention of the telegraph as a nuclear bomb in communication, and the telephone system that enables instant communication directly detonated a hydrogen bomb in communication technology.

 When network and quantum communication technologies appear in later generations, they will be the next generation of super weapons, comparable to the two-way foil in the information world...

 This metaphor may be a bit exaggerated, but in terms of human progress, it is really a terrifying technological progress.

 The meaning of life is to pass on the knowledge you have learned, and to exchange your knowledge so that more people and groups have access to more knowledge. This started with the telegraph system.

 When people communicate more frequently, human progress begins to advance rapidly. This is the horror of information exchange—it is the engine of human technological leaps, or at least it is one of the engines of human technological leaps!

Finding that almost everyone present had realized the crux of the problem, the leading elf continued: "If we in the Yangmu Kingdom can also have this thing, then we can contact the place faster and mobilize faster. The military can obtain intelligence more effectively..."

The Viscount named Fitral finally regained his composure and encouraged everyone: "So, this time, what we are here to do...may be more and more important than imagined."

“…” The deputy ambassador, who represented the interests of the Augustine family, became even more depressed at this time. He stood there speechlessly looking at his compatriots who had regained their morale.

He was a little speechless because the conflict, or the reason, for the outbreak of the war this time was that the Augustine family owed the Datang Group 100,000 gold coins.

Obviously, the Yangmu Kingdom can actually stay out of the matter, because the person who offended the Datang Group was Marquis Augustine Leibert.

If Datang Group has so many new technologies, technologies that the Yangmu Kingdom does not possess, then the Augustine family will be even more passive...

 It was the Augustine family, not the Yangmu Kingdom, that offended the Datang Group. Yangmu XI could completely leave Augustine Leibert behind and seek deeper cooperation with the Datang Group. Obviously, just looking at the telegraph system in front of us is more important than needle guns and steel battleships, and it is ten times and a hundred times more important!

 As a close confidant of the Augustine family, he has his own position—he must restore the cooperation between the Augustine family and Datang Group and make them closer.

Fortunately, before arriving, Marquis Augustine, Lord Leibert, sent someone to tell him that he was not alone in Bunas.

 Because as early as when they were in debt, the Augustine family had placed a family member in the Datang Group. Augustine John has been in Bunas. When he arrives in Bunas, he can just go to John.

For the sake of the family, John will definitely influence the decisions of Datang Group and influence the decisions of the senior management of Datang Group.

 After all, what John took away back then was not only a warship, but also a map of Black Dragon Island!

Just as the deputy envoy was thinking about this, the special envoy next to him, Viscount Fitral, suddenly spoke again. I heard Fitral lament with some regret: "How could Lord Augustine get into such a big trouble... They are much more terrifying than Cyric."

The deputy envoy did not hide his position and explained: "The Marquis also considered it for the sake of the kingdom. If 100,000 gold coins had been paid at that time, the development of the factory would have lagged behind, and we would not have been able to suddenly acquire a new plant near the Seine River. A glorious victory over the Kingdom of Gales."

 Indeed, saving 100,000 gold coins gave the Augustine family a head start in developing the factory in the early stages. This is a fact that has to be admitted.

  But if we dig deeper, this is an opportunity for the rise of the Augustine family, so the debts are actually the "early development funds" of the Datang Group that the Augustine family embezzled.

 So, Fetral sighed depressedly and said, "Okay now, in one year's time, the other party will probably ask us for 200,000 gold coins, or even more..."

The entire Yangmu Kingdom now has to help repay the debt owed by Augustine, which is a kind of helplessness in itself.

 There is no way, when John of the Augustine family brought back the blueprints of the needle gun and the steam engine, the entire Poplar Kingdom was the beneficiary.

Therefore, the deputy envoy could only bite the bullet and emphasize Augustine's contribution: "However, we now have the money to repay it, don't we? As long as he is willing to withdraw the warship, and then sell us this... some telegraph machine..."

Special envoy Fitral looked sad: "It doesn't look easy. They seem to be running the telegraph machine themselves..."

"Yes, if we master such technology, we will definitely run it ourselves." The deputy envoy also found this matter very difficult.

Fitral seemed to have some skills, and he immediately saw the disadvantages of this matter: "But if all our information is handed over to them for transmission, then what secrets do we have for them? "

 The deputy envoy nodded and agreed with him: "...You are right."

He also felt that such an important national weapon related to communications should naturally not be in the hands of others.

"So, we still have to find a way to get this technology and operate it ourselves..." Fitral has already begun to be ambitious and ready to launch this diplomatic operation.

The deputy envoy was also very ambitious, with a look of determination on his face: "That's right."

Fitral looked at his deputy and asked, "So, how much do you think we should spend on this set of technology?"

 “Fifty thousand gold coins?” The deputy envoy was stunned for a moment, then asked tentatively and cautiously.

Fitral was stunned for a moment, and then asked with a sneer: "...50,000? If you ask them to go to Nanshui Port to build such a telegraph office with 50,000 gold coins, they may not be willing."

 “How much is that?” The deputy envoy felt that his understanding of the value of gold coins seemed to have been revised today. It costs 100 gold coins to deliver a message, and even 50,000 gold coins to buy a set of equipment...

"It seems that the money we have to pay is estimated to be hundreds of thousands..." Fitral said depressedly.

Hearing such a big number, the deputy was so surprised that he even stuttered: "Are you kidding me? So many?"

"How much? If they agree to the price, the two of us can have some fun! Tang Mo, this name will definitely be resounding throughout the world..." Fitral shook his head and sighed.

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 (End of this chapter)