Datang: What's wrong with my fief being a billion points larger?

Chapter 133: Information Transmission Issues

Li Yuanji looked at Xi Junmai and now he had no choice but to believe it. Now that he had a basic understanding of the affairs here, he arranged for two civil servants to go there together. No matter what happened in Jiaozhou, it would gradually begin to develop.

The only problem is that the army is now a little nervous, and Li Yuanji is helpless. He can't move Feng Ang and Tan Dian's army now, otherwise what will others think?
However, it is now very difficult to replenish the army. Not only do we need enough young and strong people, but we also need military equipment. Now Yang Shu's 5,000 people are not counted in the army, but are counted separately, because the equipment of Yang Shu's 5,000 people has not yet been completed.

Without equipment, what kind of army is it? They can only do the work of auxiliary soldiers, and forget about charging into battle. If they really go to the battlefield and encounter an army with complete armor and weapons, an army without armor will just be killed.

After hearing this, Xi Junmai's face became extremely solemn. Li Yuanji's arrangement for him could be said to have given him great power, but also great pressure.

Even so, Xi Junmai did not back down, nor would he be allowed to back down. He had said that he would die for Li Yuanji, and that was what he had to do.

"Please rest assured, my king. I will take care of the affairs of Jiaozhou and the surrounding areas. If the Linyi army dares to invade, I will lead the army to destroy Linyi!"

Seeing Xi Junmai agree, Li Yuanji smiled with relief. As for conquering Linyi, he didn't take it seriously at all. There were only 10,000 troops, so unless he added a zero, he could just forget about it.

"Okay, go down and prepare. This time we are going to Jiaozhou by water. I will use the navy's large ships to transport your army there. After you go down, be ready."

Xi Jun went down to prepare, leaving Xie Shufang alone. Seeing that Li Yuanji had no new instructions, Xie Shufang also withdrew.

Li Yuanji was alone, thinking quietly. Now that these things had been arranged, he was thinking about the problem of intelligence transmission mentioned by Yu Minghe. Nowadays, Lingnan was restricted by roads, and the transmission of intelligence was indeed slow. Even if it was transmitted by water, because of the sailing speed of the ship, it would be faster, but not much faster.

Even if he built a sea ship later, he couldn't transfer all the information from land to water, right? Doing so would also be extremely time-consuming.

After thinking for a while, Li Yuanji decided to call Yu Daorong to try first. He was also very curious about taming the goshawk to deliver messages.

"Shufang, go and invite Yu Daorong over."

After a while, Yu Daorong arrived with fishing gear.

"See you, Your Majesty."

Looking at Yu Daorong's expression, Li Yuanji also smiled.

"Are you going fishing again? You have a really good life now. I envy you."

Yu Daorong put down his fishing gear, but the smile on his face never disappeared.

"Your Majesty, little do you know how many people envy you. Everyone is different and has a different life. Your Majesty carries the people of Lingnan on his shoulders, while I only have myself on my shoulders. I can only go fishing and can't do anything else.

Your Majesty, are you here to train hawks to transmit intelligence on the grasslands?"

Listening to Yu Daorong getting to the point, Li Yuanji stopped smiling.

"Yes, I am very curious about using goshawks to transmit information. I have also fought with the Turks, but I have never found out how to tame the goshawks." Yu Daorong's expression darkened when he heard this.

"Your Majesty, I also know about this matter. I heard about it before. Someone on the grassland raised a goshawk since it was young. After getting along with it for a long time, the goshawk gradually understood some basic habits and movements of the person who raised it.

Gradually, it began to be used to send letters to relatives, and gradually the Turks knew about it. When it was used on the battlefield, it was our army that discovered the wandering goshawk and shot it with a powerful crossbow. Later, it was accidentally discovered that the goshawk was actually delivering information to the Turks.

We tried it later, but failed. Some of them flew away and never came back, and a few flew into the air and circled for a while before flying back. They were unable to transmit any information at all.

Even the Turks never appeared again, and no one remembered them anymore.

I had told Minghe about this before, and I didn't expect that he still remembered it and told the king.

But I really don't know how to tame birds and let them deliver information to us. I just know that there is such a precedent, and I can't help you with your worries. Please forgive me."

Li Yuanji was in deep thought, and after Yu Daorong finished speaking, he could only sigh helplessly.

"It's not your fault, but it's really amazing that someone can actually tame a goshawk to transmit information. I know about this, so I won't disturb you from fishing. Go ahead."

After Yu Daorong confessed his crime, he retreated. Li Yuanji then began to ponder. He really couldn't tame the goshawk, and there were no such birds here. However, he knew that there was another kind of bird that actually appeared and was used to transmit information.

What Li Yuanji thought of was carrier pigeons. These were specially bred and were completely different from ordinary pigeons. Although there was no difference in appearance, this pigeon was capable of transmitting information thousands of miles away. Compared to manpower, the transmission speed was undoubtedly much faster in an emergency.

But Li Yuanji then became helpless again. He didn't know how to tame homing pigeons. As for pigeons, there were almost none here, let alone homing pigeons.

At this time, the only method Li Yuanji could think of to quickly transmit information was the carrier pigeon. As for telephones and telegraphs, those things were just something he could think of.

Not to mention that the exchange requires a large number of contribution points. Even if it is exchanged, it cannot be produced, especially the telegraph machine. Today's technology cannot meet the requirements at all. Even if it is produced, it cannot be used. This is very embarrassing.

Before the electricity problem is solved and the basic industry is developed, forget about those things. To build a complete technological chain, Li Yuanji didn't even dare to think about how many contribution points it would take, otherwise he wouldn't understand these things, and people of this era would understand them even less.

Afterwards, Li Yuanji also looked at the system and searched for a long time before finally finding the exchange for carrier pigeons. After looking carefully, he realized that pigeons and carrier pigeons were of different species, and pigeons could not be trained into carrier pigeons.

Li Yuanji looked at the contribution points needed to exchange for a carrier pigeon. One carrier pigeon cost fifty contribution points. They were ready-made, plus instructions for use. Li Yuanji felt distressed. One carrier pigeon cost fifty points. Just this thing could make him bankrupt.

Even if he exchanges them now as an emergency measure, Li Yuanji does not have the ability to do so. He only has so many contribution points. He can exchange six of them tomorrow, but after the exchange, the time for his ship to come out will be postponed again.

Li Yuanji had no choice but to close the exchange column. He could only think about the carrier pigeon later. For now, he could forget about it. The most important thing now was the ship.

(End of this chapter)