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Others also praised Lin Yuan full of praise. Lin Yuan signaled everyone to be quiet, and then said: "I don't know if everyone has considered it. Only by putting cultural relics in China can we truly protect your cultural relics."

The curator stood up and said: "Since your technology is so superb, I will hand over the paper and silk cultural relics in our collection to you for processing, and you will return our collection after the processing is completed."

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "If the things arrive in our country, do you think you can take them back?" But Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Very good, then send all the things to China."

Several curators of museums also proposed to send cultural relics to China for processing, but some people were unwilling, and Lin Yuan didn't care about them, because those cultural relics were not originally from China, and their value was not high.

After Lin Yuan finished dealing with this matter, he was about to go back. At this time, Elena quietly said to Lin Yuan: "I want to go to China, I wonder if it's okay?"

Lin Yuan asked: "Are you going to China? What are you doing in China?"

Elena said: "I want to learn those advanced technologies. More importantly, I don't want to stay at home anymore. It's too uncomfortable to stay here."

Lin Yuan said: "Yes, if you can convince your parents, I will agree to take you to China."

Elena nodded again and again, and said, "Don't worry, I already have a solution." Said happily and left, Lin Yuan returned to the post house, went to President Fall without stopping, and President Fall has already sent the receptionist Taking good care of Lin Yuan became the most important thing in France. Hearing that Lin Yuan was coming, he immediately put down his work to receive Lin Yuan.

As soon as Lin Yuan entered the door, he said bluntly: "Tell me, will our cultural relics be returned or not?"

Fore said: "I have already discussed with them, and we will return your cultural relics."

Lin Yuan smiled and said: "That's good, since you agree to return our cultural relics, then I will sell you the technology you are interested in."

Fore said: "Don't you have to wait until you return to your country to discuss with domestic companies before making a decision on the specific matters of the transaction? But our two countries are too far apart, and there is no way to communicate information directly."

Lin Yuan thought: "This is indeed a problem. Now the communication between China and Europe mainly depends on the telegraph line laid by the United Kingdom. This line enters China through the Russian territory in Central Asia and is mainly used by major Western news agencies in China. If we If you want to use it, not only will it be a problem to keep it secret, but the most important thing is that they will not let us use it! And even if they let me use it, it is not a long-term solution, because using other people's things is always controlled by others!"

Lin Yuan thought for a while and said, "Then let's set up a communication line between China and France."

Fall said: "It's very difficult. There are too many countries separated from us, and there are too many countries that need to be coordinated to do this!"

Lin Yuan said: "Who said we have to connect lines on land? We can definitely lay communication lines in the ocean!"

The laying of communication cables on the seabed is not a novelty in this era. As early as 1858, the United Kingdom laid a submarine communication cable between Europe and North America. In 1868, the United Kingdom and France. Submarine cable, Ke Fall said in surprise: "What did you say? Submarine cable?"

Lin Yuan said: "Yes, we will lay a communication line on the seabed."

Fore said: "But we are too far away from China, and if we want to lay cables between us, we have to go through the Suez Canal from the Mediterranean Sea. These places are different from the ocean, and the underwater environment is more complicated. Laying communication here Cable, I'm afraid it will be a bit difficult!"

Lin Yuan said: "You don't have to worry about these things. From the selection of the laying line to the laying construction, we can just leave it to us. You don't need to worry about it."

Fore said, "Okay then, I'll leave this matter to you!"

When Lin Yuan came back from Fore, he began to think about the submarine communication equipment. First of all, whether to use optical cables or electric cables. In Lin Yuan’s era, such long-distance communication lines used optical cables. Optical cables used lasers to transmit information. It is much larger than cables, but optical cable reception requires special equipment, which are not available in Western countries, and they can manufacture equipment and ship them there, but doing so will allow the West to learn about laser technology, and Lin Yuan does not want them to see such advanced technology. Technology.

So Lin Yuan decided that using communication cables and receiving equipment available in Western countries would make it less difficult. Then the next step is the problem of cable laying ships. It is not difficult for him to build such a ship, but the real difficulty The thing is: from which route will the cable be laid?

From France to China, there are two sea routes, one is to take the Atlantic Ocean, bypass the African continent, turn north from the Cape of Good Hope; the other is to take the Mediterranean Sea, and then pass through the Suez Canal, but these two routes are too far to reach China Guangzhou is more than [-] nautical miles away, not to mention the farther northeast.

Although these two routes are far away, they both pass through the coast of Africa. It is an excellent opportunity to pre-deploy forces in Africa. Lin Yuan was thinking about it, and his eyes fixed on another route. This route is more expensive than the previous two routes. Much closer, that is to go north from France, along the Arctic Circle north of Russian territory, and lay the cable all the way to Vladivostok.

The biggest advantage of this cable is that the starting point of the cable in China can be set at the northernmost Vladivostok, which makes the distance even closer. Lin Yuan found out the latitude and longitude of Paris and Vladivostok, and simply calculated the distance. Less than seven thousand nautical miles!

In this way, the laying time will be greatly reduced, but this line is close to the Arctic Circle, and ice floes often appear on the sea surface. The volume of ice floes on the sea surface sometimes has hundreds of thousands of cubic meters. If the deployment ship hits, the deployment ship will be dead!However, if you strengthen observation and lookout while sailing, the probability of hitting the ice is actually very small, so this route is feasible!

The advantage of one route is the short distance, and the advantage of the other is the deployment of forces into Africa. How should we choose?Just when he was hesitating, a flash of inspiration suddenly came to his mind, and he thought: "I can actually lay cables on both lines! One line in Russia meets the requirements for communication, while the other line in Africa meets the requirements for pre-deployment forces." .

Lin Yuan made up his mind, so he wrote this matter into a letter and sent it to Fore. After seeing this letter, Fore will definitely negotiate with the Russian side. As for the content of the negotiation, Fore will definitely The Russians had no choice but to agree to laying communication cables as a good thing for the benefit of the people.

Lin Yuan sent the letter. After thinking about it carefully, he felt that there was nothing to do in France. He just waited to sign a few documents and finalize the specific details of the return of the cultural relics before he could go to England to negotiate. Thinking of Russia, Lin Yuan gave the domestic A message was sent asking about the situation of Russia's military presence in the outer Northeast.

Lin Yuan was taken aback by the domestic reply. Originally, the main force of the Russian fleet in Vladivostok had already gone north. Because Vladivostok had too many large coastal defense artillery, they entered the Petropavlovsk naval port on the Kamchatka Peninsula. , and the military port there has begun to train a large number of local farmers, and seems to be ready to counterattack Vladivostok at any time.