Villager of Daming

Chapter 1216: Thousand Miles of Sound Transmission and Fishing

Tu Yajie didn’t understand the terms, what market, what administration?
"It's just letting people do whatever they want, it's called a market economy, and administrative intervention is the same as before, you have to do whatever you're told to do.

However, the difference lies in that administrative intervention is achieved by understanding the situation in various places and then making changes through subsidies and additional taxes.

When you ask someone to do something, you generally don’t mean that they must do it, for example…”

Zhu Fugui explained the terms and continued to give examples.

The administration intervenes in farming. As long as a certain crop is planted and this crop is handed over, other crops will be exempt from land tax.

Now we need perilla leaves. If you hand in 100 jin of dried perilla leaves, the land tax for 20 mu of land will be exempted.

If more people grow perilla, the subsidy will be eliminated and the tax on perilla will be increased. If you are willing to sell it, you can pay the tax. If you don’t want to sell it, just keep it for yourself!
Through such administrative adjustments, we can dare to promote market economic behavior and achieve the goal of balancing the resources of the Ming Dynasty.

This includes smelting and coal mining, and coal mines are not necessarily all managed by the government.

In some open-pit mines, there is not much coal underneath, so large-scale mining is not cost-effective. Citizens can mine if they want, as long as they pay attention to safety. We will not provide them with explosives.

When many people go to mine coal and produce it individually, the price of coal is suppressed by the government.

When the people saw that it wasn't working, not only did they not make money, but it also delayed other things and caused losses, they naturally stopped doing it.

"Ah! Ah! Oh! Yes! Uh..."

Tu Yajie listened and nodded continuously, thinking it made sense. Suddenly, he thought of a situation: "How does our court know whether there is more or less of something?"

"Do you think I know where the main force is? And the other troops in our front army.

There are 6,000 people coming out of the First Industrial Works of the former army. We have more than 1,000 of them and are the elite. We run the fastest, and there are still 5,000 people behind us.

They will arrive in the evening, so we have to bring out their food when we prepare the dishes.

The dry rations for the march are delicious, but we can’t bear to eat them because they are too expensive. They are all good stuff.

Our thousand men dispersed again to hunt in more distant places, including finding people to catch fish in the water.

Yes, let's go and see how they catch fish. It's a bit cruel, and they would never take any special measures under normal circumstances."

Zhu Fugui said as he walked towards the river, where people were collecting fish so they could cook them in the evening.

Tu Yajie's eyes widened: "Do you know who is where? There are five thousand people coming at night, so how can you one thousand people get there?"

"Hurry as fast as you can! They are elite troops! We in the Ming Dynasty have telegraphs. We don't need to worry about how they are made. Just imagine that there is thunder and lightning in the sky. In the blink of an eye, they can run away...several...thousands of miles. Just think of it as a few thousand miles.

We encountered a situation here, so we used that thing to send a message to the central army, and the central army also sent a message to us.

There are also some in the front army, which can be connected all the way to the imperial city of Yingtianfu. If there is a need, His Majesty will personally give the order..."

Zhu Fugui used the most straightforward and simple language to explain the matter of the telegraph, and each team in the team carried a telegraph machine.

Including teams going to rescue other small tribes, they will report immediately once they discover any situation.

They were even divided into small teams, each team consisting of 200 people, with telegraph machines for communication between the two sides.

Have you discovered the enemy? Which tribe are you waiting for? Where the enemy may appear?

In this regard, they tortured Raqiya Khan, the second strongest militarily powerful person in the tribe, for information, while others were more than happy to tell where their troops had gone.

"Thousands of miles of sound transmission?" Tu Yajie didn't need to know more terms, nor did he care about the operating principle. He just needed to know the content. From what Zhu Fugui said, it was naturally a conversation between the two parties at a great distance, which he thought was a conversation.

"It's not transmission...right! Transmission of sound over a thousand miles."

Zhu Fugui wanted to correct it, but finally gave up.

The tool for transmitting sound over long distances is the telephone! From Xiaqiu Village next to the imperial city, you can call Xiaqiu Village in the original place, and then continue to lay the line to Xuancheng County in Ningguo Prefecture.

It has also been paved in Taiping Prefecture. If people in Ma'anshan need to communicate by voice, it is more convenient than telegram, but it consumes telephone lines.

The reason why copper wire is not affordable is that people are afraid to use it. What if it is stolen?

Now we use iron, the spacing is short, and electricity is needed. The shaking method of generating electricity is not easy to use.

That was already the most advanced thing, a telephone that could transmit sound over thousands of miles.

Hanhan said that when new things are developed in the future, they will be able to talk over short distances. Twenty miles or more will be no problem, but any further will not work.

First, I'll carry something on my back. It's used for power supply and signal sending and receiving. It's like a telephone and a telegraph combined into one.

Tu Yajie took a deep breath and said, "This is amazing! If we have such a thing, and the scouts find the enemy ahead, can we quickly mobilize the army according to the enemy's situation?"

“It’s available during the war, but usually in department stores. Ask about the situation here, what we need, what we have, and how much it costs.

In this way, the news can be spread to other places, so that we can know the demand and supply of certain things in certain places.

Tu Yajie: If you discover a gold or silver mine, tell the department store, and the department store will tell the imperial city.

The imperial city will send someone over, and once it is confirmed, you will be rewarded with a large sum of money.

If you know he is going to rebel, you can tell him in advance, and that will work..."

Zhu Fugui kept instilling in Tu Yajie things about interests, saying that they had just met each other and everything else was fake, only interests were real, what he said naively.

Tu Yajie and other tribal leaders who wanted to get along well with the Ming Dynasty began to sweat. Fortunately, they chose the Ming Dynasty.

It turns out that the Ming army not only had good weapons and a telescope that could see very far, but also a magical artifact that could transmit messages over even longer distances.

The Northern Yuan Dynasty is still the same as before. How can it fight against the Ming Dynasty? The consequences of standing on the wrong side are very serious!

Everyone was talking, mainly Zhu Fugui, and the others were asking questions, all the way to the river.

Zhu Wentian didn't even know about this river, and there was no record of it. It was a tributary of the Hunhe River.

If there is no county annals, how can there be a county annals here? It was not until 1450, when Zhu Di started, that this place was really arranged clearly.

The county annals only recorded part of the content, and the river is probably gone.

In fact, there is no county annals here, or maybe there was...

"Boom~~Boom..." An explosion sounded dull as it came from a tributary of the Hun River, which could not be found in the county annals.

Yes, some people in the team were frying fish. No matter whether the fish were big or small, they would all float up once they were frying and could be caught with a net.

There was no other choice. There were no good fishing nets and no boats coming, so we had to fry the fish. Now we had enough fish to eat.

(End of this chapter)