At the beginning of the civil castle, the Ming God of War was a little panicked

Chapter 409 New Inventions

The Air Force's surprise attack was successful, but it could not be occupied.

The next siege of the city still needs King Ning's soldiers and horses to carry it out.

Uzang's army was already miserable. After this battle, they suffered heavy casualties, and even King Lian Chanhua died in the melee. Those who survived by chance either begged for surrender on the spot or fled in all directions without any resistance.

King Ning's soldiers and horses easily penetrated into the hinterland of the plateau. Since then, Uzang has completely covered the territory of the Ming Dynasty, rather than a territory that does not deserve the name.

Yu Qian and the Academy of Sciences and others have returned to the capital to return the imperial decree.

Zhu Qizhen was overjoyed, and immediately appointed Mei Chun a third-rank commander of the Habayashi Guard.

These days, he has considered clearly, merging Habayashi Zuowei, Habayashi Right Guard, and Habayashi Qianwei into Habayashi Ying, and changing the Kongming Lantern Research Institute of the Academy of Sciences to the Aerodynamics Research Institute, which belongs to Yubayashi Ying.

Since then, the first air force of Ming Dynasty was established.

Belin and the others also rewarded each other for their merits, and all the researchers on the expedition were rewarded with a flying fish suit.

"Your Majesty, why are you so happy?"

Seeing Zhu Qizhen grinning and laughing non-stop, Empress Qian knew that there must be some happy event.

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Zhu Qizhen laughed even more happily, and then said: "A small Kongming lantern is worth thousands of troops!"

Empress Qian didn't understand, and asked, "What... Kongming Lantern?"

"The queen doesn't know something. The Academy of Sciences has made extraordinary achievements this time, which is really a blessing to Ming Dynasty!"

Empress Qian still didn't understand, but she didn't ask any more questions, but ordered: "Zhen'er, go and bring the ginseng soup."

"Yes, empress!"

Wan Zhen'er came over with a bowl of ginseng soup carefully, and said respectfully, "Your Majesty, this is ginseng soup made by your mother."

Zhu Qizhen took it, looked at Wan Zhen'er, seemed to think of something, and said, "Your two younger brothers..."

Pfft!
Before the words finished, Wan Zhen'er had already knelt down on the ground, leaned over and said, "I implore the emperor to forgive me!"

"Don't worry, the two of them...in fact, there's nothing wrong with them, they've all been found out."

Wan Zhen'er's two younger brothers bought some saltpeter and sulfur in private. Although these things are controlled, they are not strictly controlled among the people, and only large transactions are prohibited.

For example, there are sulfur in medicine shops, and as for saltpeter, there are many stone factories.

Jin Yiwei checked the ins and outs of the matter, and found that the Wanjia brothers didn't have any special channels, they just heard from their sister that His Royal Highness needed this thing, so they tried their best to get it.

As for what His Royal Highness is using it for, they have no idea at all.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness, thank you, Your Majesty..."

Wan Zhen'er was both surprised and happy, and couldn't help wiping away tears.

"Why are you crying? I'm just telling you that I'm fine. Get up!"

Zhu Qizhen waved his hand, and Wan Zhen'er slowly got up.

"Tell me, how is the Queen's health these days?"

Wan Zhen'er wiped away her tears, and said: "Back to the emperor, the empress's body is recovering smoothly, but the decoction from the Tai Hospital still needs to be taken for a while to prevent the relapse of the old disease."

Zhu Qizhen nodded, looked at Queen Qian again, and asked, "What does the Queen think?"

Empress Qian smiled sweetly, and said: "I also feel very relaxed. I had my period yesterday, but I don't feel any abdominal pain anymore."

"Yeah, that's great!"

Zhu Qizhen smiled again, and said: "The queen should rest earlier!"

"My concubine's body...is inconvenient, why not..."

Empress Qian hesitated for a moment, then said: "Let Zhen'er serve the emperor to bed."

Wan Zhen'er blushed to the base of her neck when she heard this, she lowered her head and didn't know what to do.

Zhu Qizhen shook his head with a smile, and said, "I'm a little tired today, so I'm going to sleep first."

Speaking of which, Wan Zhen'er was born with a pretty face, but this woman...

For some reason, it doesn't fit...

Early the next morning, Beilin and Tong Xuan arrived in a hurry.

"Your Majesty, the phone you mentioned has already been made!"

"Really, where is it, let me see!"

Zhu Qizhen suddenly became interested. Back when Tong Xuan was tinkering with electric lights, he drew a blueprint for a telephone. Unexpectedly, he made it so soon.

Tong Xuan took a bag from behind and said, "I brought the things here!"

After opening, there are two cylinders inside, connected with a copper wire in the middle.

Zhu Qizhen took a rough look, and it was similar to what he imagined.

"Go, let's try!"

The monarch and his subjects came to the imperial study room and left a microphone inside, then Tong Xuan walked out with the other and closed the door.

In fact, this thing is not really a telephone, at best it is called a microphone.

Tong Xuan was also puzzled when he got the blueprint, since he didn't answer the call, why did he call?
In fact, Zhu Qizhen is used to calling, and the phone is designed according to the principle of the microphone.

When Tong Xuan was holding the drawing in a daze, a student from the Electric Power Research Institute suddenly said, isn't this the Ting Weng in Mozi's book?

Hearing this, Tong Xuan immediately went to find Mozi's book, after flipping through it, he found relevant records in "Preparing Acupuncture Points".

It is roughly a kind of pot with a big mouth and a small belly. When in use, it is buried in the ground, and a thin layer of leather is covered on the mouth of the urn. When detection is needed, you can put your ear on it to hear the surrounding movement.

If necessary, professional intelligence personnel can even sit in the urn and listen to the sound.

Sometimes, in order to reduce intelligence errors, blind people are often trained to perform tasks.Because the hearing of blind people is often better than that of ordinary people, movements within tens of miles can be heard through listening urns.

Tong Xuan was inspired and continued to read ancient books. Soon, he also saw similar records in Shen Kuo's "Mengxi Bi Tan" in the Song Dynasty. However, it was no longer called Ting Weng, but Yafu.

This is a special quiver, mainly used for scouting the enemy on the battlefield.

When you need to eavesdrop, take out your arrows, blow enough air, and put your pillow under your head at night, you can hear the sound of people and horses within a few miles.

In addition, there are similar devices commonly used by the people and "listening tubes", which is how the so-called "walls have ears".

It's just that these devices are all separate, and no one has ever thought of connecting two listening tubes.

After Tong Xuan sorted out the records of the ancients, and based on the drawings provided by Zhu Qizhen, he quickly made the first microphone.

The two earpieces are connected by copper wires. The copper has a very strong sound guiding ability, and it can be heard clearly from a long distance.

Zhu Qizhen patted the microphone, and then it was next to his ear, and after a while, Tong Xuan's voice came: "Your Majesty, can you hear me?"

"Hear, can you hear?"

"The minister can hear it too!"

"Very well, come back!"

Tong Xuan returned to the imperial study with the microphone, and then saw Zhu Qizhen pull out a blueprint.

"This is the real phone!"

Belin only glanced at it, then frowned.

Puzzled, Tong Xuan took two steps forward, and then saw the densely packed parts and markings on the drawing.

Looking at the "phone" in my hand again, it seems... It's not the same thing at all!
(End of this chapter)