I want to be emperor

Chapter 1117 Telephone and manual time travel

The invention of wireless telegraphy in the spring of 1952 had a profound impact, especially its role in stabilizing the empire's global rule, even more than a series of new technologies such as cars and even airplanes.

Without new industrial products such as cars and airplanes, the army of the Chu Empire could still rely on artillery, machine guns, and rifles to suppress all dissent... It does not require fighter jets, bombers, armored vehicles, or tanks to suppress the resistance of indigenous peoples in various countries. …These things are, at least for now, the icing on the cake.

But radio is different. Radio plays a huge role in the Jinling side of the Da Chu Empire... The key point is Jinling, or specifically the Luo royal family, the ruling class of the Da Chu Empire with the emperor Luo Zhixue as the core, not the empire as a whole.

The empire and the empire's ruling class are two different things... Although the public opinion propaganda led by the empire's Ministry of Ethics often equates the two directly, in fact the two are two different things...

The Da Chu Empire as a whole and the imperial ruling class are relatively independent, and their interests are actually contradictory or even conflicting in many cases.

When you understand this, you can understand why the empire's top leaders are still actively developing various advanced technologies, especially military technologies, after dominating the world... The army of the Da Chu Empire is obviously invincible, but it is still actively pursuing the top Battleships, armored vehicles, aircraft and other new military equipment.

In addition to further raising the technical threshold, creating a greater generation gap, and making the indigenous people desperate and unable to resist.

It is also because the Dachu army is not only used for external purposes... to a large extent it is also used for internal purposes, and most of the time it is used for internal purposes... The empire has more than one million regular troops, most of which are Stationed in mainland East Asia.

The regular troops stationed overseas are just a small number of troops that rotate regularly... They mainly serve as a deterrent and do not actually participate in sporadic battles with the Tu indigenous resistance forces on a daily basis.

Those who actually fight against the indigenous resistance on a daily basis are mainly the Foreign Legion. This is why the Foreign Legion is relatively large and currently has more than one million people.

Even if the empire's military power is used externally... most of the time it is for internal purposes.

Why did the empire expand? In the early years, the purpose was to expand externally, plunder overseas interests, and then replenish internal losses, and immigrate the bottom people who could not survive to calm the rising internal conflicts in the local area...

Even the current global colonial system is designed to exploit the indigenous people of various countries and deprive them of the surplus value of their labor in order to feed the more than 700 million ordinary people in the empire, so that many ordinary people do not have enough to eat and clothing to keep them warm... and not having enough to eat and not keeping warm will It is easy to cause turmoil... Countless dynasties in history have collapsed because they squeezed the people too hard.

In addition, by the way, it will give many ordinary people a little sense of superiority, so that they can feel that they are superiors when facing the natives, so that they will not be dissatisfied with the imperial ruling class every day, and even appear uncontrollably. What a rebellious and evil thought.

These measures were excellently reflected in the United States in the original time and space, and to some extent they were also reflected in the caste system in India... Most people have lower-level targets who can be exploited, and there are even profitable ones. With a sense of superiority, they tend not to participate in rebellions... and those at the bottom who are exploited are unable to resist even if they want to because they are small in number and weak in strength.

In the contemporary earth system dominated by the Chu Empire, the indigenous people of various countries are the ones at the bottom who are squeezed and unable to resist!

This constitutes a fairly perfect human social structure of rugby... By the way, the caste system in India is also a rugby structure.

Judging from the historical experience of the United States and India, this social structure is more stable than the traditional pyramid structure. Without external forces to forcefully break it, it can run stably for a very long time.

The ruling class of the empire does all the above with only one core purpose: to maintain rule!

Even if Luo Zhixue has broken away from the traditional rulers to some extent, and his behavior is even more inclined to serve the world... In human history, including the future, I am afraid that no ruler will be like Luo Zhixue , giving so many opportunities to the middle and lower levels, we have not hesitated to formulate corresponding basic national policies for this purpose.

However, in the early stage of all this, the foundation of rule is still stable.

After having this foundation, Luo Zhixue's mentality will be so peaceful, and he will even tend to give his position to the people at the bottom, and everything he does will start to follow the path of a saint... The empire has become invincible, and his own rule has also Extremely stable, there are not many things Luo Zhixue can actually pursue... only some inexplicable self-satisfaction is left.

Self-satisfaction is relatively illusory...and it is difficult to come to an accurate conclusion.

However, even Luo Zhixue, who pursued self-satisfaction, was very happy after learning that the radio was successfully developed and rewarded the main researchers. Since then, another group of people have been knighted for scientific research.

At the same time, the Radio Laboratory of the Royal Institute of Technology and the Telegraph Bureau of the Dachu Empire reached a relevant cooperation agreement.

Based on the sensitivity and huge military role of wireless telegraphy technology, the Royal Institute of Technology only authorized the related technologies of wireless telegraphy to three electrical companies directly under the Ministry of Industry, namely Songjiang Electric, Xuzhou Electric, Yingtian Electric... These three companies It is also the current R&D and manufacturer of wired telegraph systems.

The Imperial Ministry of Justice also promptly promulgated relevant radio management rules and regulations, standardized the management of radios, and strictly managed the possession and use of wireless telegraph machines by individuals and institutions. Special applications were also required for purchase and use.

The commercial application of wireless telegraphy was authorized to the Telegraph General Administration just like wired telegraphy... Communication was too sensitive, so the empire continued to maintain a monopoly on these sensitive technologies.

After obtaining the exclusive authorization for commercial operation of wireless telegraphy, the General Administration of Telegraph and Telegraph began to solicit bids for corresponding wireless telegraphy systems from the three major domestic electrical companies.

The three major electrical companies in the Dachu Empire did not disappoint the Telegraph Corporation. They quickly came up with relevant wireless telegraph equipment. Among them, the wireless telegraph system provided by Songjiang Electric Company was relatively excellent.

According to their tests, the transmission distance can even reach more than three thousand kilometers...and this is still not its limit. Its improved models may even reach longer transmission distances.

This large-scale wireless telegraph system already has the ability to communicate across states, but the current technology is still a little behind, and signal interference is serious.

Soon, the General Administration of Telegraph and Telegraph began to place orders for large-scale procurement of wireless telegraph systems. These telegraph systems purchased by the General Administration of Telegraph and Telegraph will mainly be used for commercial communications!

However, the General Office of Telegraph and Telegraph was not the first user of wireless telegraphy. In fact, it was not even among the top three users.

Prior to this, the military had successively placed orders for wireless systems from the three major electrical companies, and at the same time, the government affairs system also ordered wireless telegraph systems.

In the Jinling Palace, a wireless telegraph room has been set up outside the wired telegraph room for communication between the center and various places.

This is the great willingness of wireless telegraphy to maintain rule... This has given the imperial center and Luo Zhixue a brand-new, rapid and timely communication channel to contact the local area and the military.

Compared with commercial applications, the empire's top officials value this more.

The combination of wired telegraphy and wireless telegraphy allows the imperial center to greatly strengthen its control over various places and armies.

In addition to these two telegraph technologies, there is another communication technology that also serves as an important supplement, and that is telephone technology!

Telephone technology is actually not difficult. It appeared in the 1940s of the Chu Empire, when electrification was developing rapidly. Telephone technology was also developed by the Royal Institute of Technology. The technical principle of this thing is actually relatively simple, that is, it is a long-distance communication technology that combines sound vibration and electromagnetic technology.

The Chu people discovered the relevant technical principles early on. The phonograph appeared in the laboratory in the early 1940s, and the telephone was also developed early.

It’s just that the early telephones were purely laboratory toys and had little practicality. Because they were still simple magnet telephones, some early applications were basically concentrated in the government affairs and military fields.

For example, it is used to set up communication channels in the palace and the Guards camp.

It was not until the past two years that the Royal Institute of Technology developed a common-type telephone, and small-scale experimental applications began, but it was still limited to government affairs and military fields.

The main reason is that the telephone communication technology at this stage is still relatively backward, and at the same time it is relatively high-end... In human terms, it is too expensive and ordinary people cannot afford it.

And if the telephone cannot form a relatively large-scale network, ordinary people will not be able to use it...it can only be used in specific institutions.

As for the current generation of customers who have a hard need for telephones and can afford them, the only ones are government agencies and military systems.

This is also the reason why the general public doesn’t know much about telephones, or even most of them don’t know about it...because ordinary people don’t have access to it.

But no matter what, telephone technology has gradually matured and begun to be used in practical applications.

This also means that today, in the 52nd year of Chengshun, the Great Chu Empire already has three long-distance communication methods that utilize electromagnetic technology: telephone, wired telegraph, and wireless telegraph!

However, except for wired telegraphy, which is relatively popular, the other two are still in small-scale experimental applications and will most likely not be popular for many years to come.

For example, although the General Administration of Telegraph and Telegraph, the organization responsible for managing and operating commercial communications, has the relevant monopoly authorization for commercial operations, it is still very difficult to promote it on a large scale due to issues such as immature technology and high costs. of.

This is also directly related to the development and popularization of the overall electrification technology in the Da Chu Empire... In the contemporary era, many cities have not even built large-scale power grids, and even electric lights have not been widely popularized... Telephones, etc. There is still a long way to go before a series of electrical products can enter the homes of ordinary people.

Well, I think it is very simple to popularize this thing. You can carefully recall when you installed a landline phone in your home...

Electrification is actually not difficult to invent or even apply on a small scale... but it is very difficult to popularize it on a large scale.

This is also a major feature of the second industrial revolution...that is, it seems that some technologies have been iterated for many generations, but it is difficult to be widely used on a large scale.

Trivia: Even in the 1920s of the 21st century, there were still hundreds of millions of people on the earth who did not have access to the most basic electric lighting!

During this period, human history has experienced three industrial revolutions, and some even say that it has begun the fourth industrial revolution, or even the fifth or sixth industrial revolution... But there are still people who do not have access to electric lights. And not one or two, but hundreds of millions of people.

On Earth in the 21st century, some people live in a modern society with advanced technology, while some people still live in a primitive society...

If you don’t believe it, just recall when your rural hometown got electricity...

However, don’t think that developed countries in Europe and the United States have fully popularized electricity applications early. Even in the 1930s, just before World War II, only about three-thirds of households in the United States had access to electric lights. It was not until after World War II that electric lights were fully popularized. thing.

The complete electrification of China is only thirty or forty years behind. The gap is actually not too big. On the contrary, it can be said that the country is catching up very quickly.

Using the application and popularization speed of electricity in two major countries in the original time and space as examples is to illustrate that the second industrial revolution, with electricity application as its core, is more complex and difficult than ordinary people imagine.

This thing is not something you can just build a light bulb and then claim that you have entered the second industrial revolution... you have to apply it on a large scale, greatly improve production efficiency, and improve people's living standards.

From this perspective, the second industrial revolution is not easy... Few countries in later generations dare to say that they have completely completed the second industrial revolution. If you don't believe it, let them build a battleship independently...

But at the same time, some countries have reached the third industrial revolution and even started the fourth industrial revolution.

However, these third industrial revolution and fourth industrial revolution are actually, strictly speaking, an in-depth continuation of the application of electricity... to a certain extent, they are also a continuation of the second industrial revolution.

The reason for this situation is that more than a hundred years have passed, and human beings are still relying on the various basic theories developed in the 19th and early 20th centuries... Almost a hundred years have passed, and there is nothing. Theoretical innovations of great significance, especially theoretical breakthroughs in basic physics.

Specifically, just look at the weapons used by humans to fight... Weapons basically use the most advanced cutting-edge technology of humans. However, after the 21st century, humans are still using firearms, tanks, artillery, aircraft, and battleships. Rocket missile wars...are not fundamentally different from World War I and World War II, except that the weapons are more advanced...

In some modern regional conflicts, some countries or forces even use weapons from the World War II era, and they are quite easy to use...

Various firearms and artillery during World War II are very useful in modern times. The development of weapons has stagnated, let alone others.

Therefore, many things you think are new are actually not that new...

For example, electric cars, which emerged in later generations, existed in the late 19th century and were still very popular for a time...but they were eventually overturned by cars.

Therefore, the industrial revolution is not so easy to break through. As for the Chu Empire, it may be in the stage of the second industrial revolution for a long time in the future, even decades or hundreds of years.

But for Luo Zhixue, this movie is enough. He can't consider things that are too far in the future. All he can do is do a good job at the current stage.

Promoting electrification and the development of internal combustion engines is the most important thing he is doing now.

If he continues like this, Luo Zhixue estimates that although he will not be able to see modern society in the true sense before he dies, there is still some hope that the scientific and technological level and social conditions will reach the level during the interwar period and even during World War II in some fields.

In this way, it can be regarded as manually traveling back to modern civilized society.