Thousands of sparks

Chapter 185 Secret Letter
In Newsail, a letter of significance landed on the desk of Dusand's office.

The letter is short, only a few words.Even these few words make up only a short greeting.

But the letter itself was significant enough—it was the first wired telegram in the history of human civilization.

Looking at the telegram in front of him, Dusand couldn't help expressing emotion—this thing is really inconvenient.

In fact, the telegraph is not really a particularly fast method of message delivery if only based on the level of message delivery that Newsale has today.For example, if you want to send a government document from Upper Albion to Fien County... the time for the transmitter to transcode and send the code is enough time for postmen in green clothes to rush all the way from Du Sande's office to Upper Albion At the interstellar landing site, take a special postman shuttle to jump to the low-Earth orbit of Newsail, and then jump to the Fern County interstellar landing site.

The influence of the telegraph in this world is far less than that of Dusande's previous life. In fact, Dusande himself does not think that the telegraph is a very important invention.

His purpose of promoting the development of the telegraph is also very simple-Neusar needs to gain a huge advantage over the empire in certain areas, and this field must allow Niusal to gain an actual advantage over the empire.

The application of electricity is of great significance to the industrial sector.There are several industrial applications of electricity that Dusande himself knows - electrosmelting metals, electrolytic chemicals, electroplating processing and even electric welding... As long as these fields can be developed, they can provide extremely huge benefits to the industrial field of Newsail. s help.

The telegraph is a simple application of electricity by humans.This application example served as a motivator for the researchers at Newsale to realize that something that had first appeared to them could be used in so many ways.

The next thing Du Sande plans to promote is the manufacture and popularization of light bulbs.Difficult as it may be to manufacture, as fraught with obstacles as it may be to advance R&D...the light bulb is so important to society that Dusande has to use government authority and resources to advance it.

Light bulbs do not need to be burned to make light, which means there is no risk of fuel leaking.Although gas lamps have been widely used throughout the empire for nearly 60 years, many people still die of gas poisoning every year because the gas lamps are turned off at night.Portable flint lamps also have such dangers. Kerosene lamps used in coal mines are relatively safer, but there is still the risk of causing gas explosions.

On shuttle ships and battleships traveling through deep space, the role of light bulbs is even more important.Among the existing lighting equipment, some and only gas lamps equipped with blowing systems can be safely used on warships.In zero gravity, hot air doesn't float up.If there is no blowing system, the gas lamp will be extinguished by itself due to the carbon dioxide produced in a very short time.

What's more, providing lighting through combustion will inevitably lead to the generation of a large amount of exhaust gas and waste heat, and consume a large amount of extremely precious air on the ship.

The current imperial warships all use an air replacement system based on the high-pressure storage tank technology line.During a cruise, a large capital ship can carry about [-] times the air in all cabins of the entire ship.

If the gas lamps on the ship can be replaced with electric lights, the self-sustaining ability of the ships of the New Salle Fleet in deep space can be greatly improved.This can give the Nusaal Navy a huge advantage in the course of battle.

If the Imperial Fleet wants to break diplomatic relations or blockade operations around Niusal, it must send at least two Royal Guard Fleets to complete this combat goal.

And if Nuthar needs to do the same type of operations against Orin or other colonies, half the fleet can do all the work-if it is not for the need to rotate the navy soldiers to keep their bodies relatively healthy A quarter of the fleet can effectively complete the mission of breaking diplomatic relations.

Electric light is a power multiplier for naval operations.

The role of electricity is huge, and Dusand has no doubt that the large-scale use of electricity can bring about earth-shaking changes in Newsail.If the problem of energy storage can be solved, it may be possible to move the electromagnetic gun into the universe-the firing speed of this kind of shell can be adjusted, and even a salvo will not affect the accuracy due to the burning wind generated by the propellant burning and expanding.

In short, Dusand is trying to make all Newsale people realize that "electricity is a good thing", and hopes to use this consensus to promote Newsale's research on electricity.

"Your Excellency the Consul." Just as Dusand looked at the telegram in his hand, he was a little unsure whether he should lock this telegram into the database of Newsail Aika for future use when building a museum. , Ms. Tamara, the top person in charge of Aika, knocked on the open door of his office, "I have a letter from Central Teco, but it can't be decoded-the four sets of codes that Central Teco and we usually communicate with are all Decoding was unsuccessful."

Communications between Central Teco and Newsail is the top priority of the entire Teco operation.As a special worker of Niusal who is hanging out and going deep behind enemy lines, only by maintaining a safe and reliable communication line can Niusal know what the situation at Central Teco is like.

This line is very important, which can also be seen from the four sets of ciphers specially prepared by Niusale-the secret letter of the Central Teco will randomly select one of the four sets of ciphers for encryption.

Four sets of passwords are randomly encrypted, so as to effectively guarantee the life of the password book.Even if the empire suddenly begins to deploy operations against the Central Special Branch, under the random encryption protection of the four sets of passwords, unless the empire obtains the codebook, the ciphertext cannot be decrypted.

Now, suddenly such a strange ciphertext came from Central Teco, and Dusand suddenly became nervous.

"Show me." Du Sande took the ciphertext, and then looked at the content on it, a little confused. This ciphertext is indeed not a conventional encrypted content.

It is Pinyin.

Du Sande, who has been Lorraine's "private tutor" for several years, will occasionally teach Lorraine a few words of Chinese as a break.What he told Lorraine was that the language was a language he had made up himself.

Because Chinese writing is too troublesome, Lorraine did not learn too many square characters in the end.But she still learned the pronunciation of many Chinese characters, and also learned the basic usage of pinyin.

This secret letter that cannot be decoded by code was written by Lorraine in pinyin.

"I'll study this letter." Dusand nodded towards Ms. Tamara, and then began to read the specific content of the letter. "All active contact with the Central Special Branch will be interrupted first, and I will inform you of the specific recovery time."

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The translation of the letter was not particularly smooth, and Dussande struggled to read the pinyin himself.He hasn't spoken his mother tongue for almost 20 years. If he wants to understand Lorraine's letters, he has to read a sentence three or five times by himself.And Lorraine's Chinese proficiency has also deteriorated seriously - it's perfectly normal to not understand.But fortunately, in this universe, he and Lorraine are probably the only two people who can understand Chinese. Even if they shout loudly, they are not afraid that others will overhear the content.

[Olym conflict, we did not do it. ] The first sentence of the translated secret letter made Du Sande feel that he probably made a mistake—conflict?What conflict?The Central Special Branch has not reported it before.

[Schultz was recognized, and he decided to protect us. 】

The smile on Dusand's face suddenly froze.

[There will be tens of thousands of people coming home, they are safe. 】

[I'll be careful, go to bed first. 】

Then, nothing more.

Dusande put his translated papyrus aside, and after a moment of silence, he took out his locked diary from the safe beside him.

Turning a page, Du Sande wrote a sentence.

[If I knew this earlier, I should have taught her Chinese well. 】

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Intelligence means more than what it says.Sometimes, intelligence itself means many things.

For example, the secret letter sent by Lorraine this time.

There is no question that something is wrong inside Newsale.The problem was so great that Lorraine had to write letters to herself in pinyin.It's so big that she thinks that random encryption with four ciphers still can't ensure the safe delivery of information.

It is also because of this that Dusand chose to write a diary first instead of trying to find a way to re-establish contact with Central Teco.He had to calm himself down before he could figure out how to deal with this wonderful hidden mole.

When trying to catch a venomous snake lurking around you, it is the worst strategy to immediately startle the snake—at least you must first determine the possible location of the snake, and make deployments and precautions before you can consider taking the initiative to "startle the snake".

According to the analysis of the secret letter sent by Lorraine, the empire obviously already knew the existence of Central Teco.And I am very sure that Central Teco is related to Newsaal and diplomat Schultz.

After learning that he has been exposed, Schultz's "decision to protect us" is not difficult to understand-he will definitely choose to cut with Central Teco.It may even make it more obvious to expose yourself, and attract the malicious eyes from the empire for Central Teco.

Schultz and the power he can master will serve as a cover for Central Teko, and he may even become an "abandon" when necessary.

In order to make Schultz's sacrifice not in vain, Central Teko must immediately enter a dormant state.They should avoid being exposed again as much as possible, so as to complete the shift and replacement of sight.

So... I am in Nusaar, should I find a way to cooperate with the shift of sight?
Dusand frowned, unable to decide what to do for a moment.

(End of this chapter)