Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 559 Lu Xiangsheng and Yang Sichang

With the development of electromagnetism, such things as the telegraph came into being in Daming. However, at this time, the encoding that converts electrical signals into text signals is not called Morse encoding but Jiao's encoding. It was created by a scientific researcher named Jiao in Ming Dynasty.

Thanks to the emergence of the telegraph, Daming is now able to efficiently manage this super-large empire. Otherwise, the traditional postmen and horses alone can support the circulation of information of the entire empire.

However, Daming's current telegraph technology is still immature, the transmission distance is relatively short, the application range is not limited, and there is no secret security technology and advanced code book.

Fortunately, in this era, there is no country that has not even figured out what electricity is, so there is no need to worry about whether it will leak secrets and so on.

An attendant's office has been set up beside Zhu Youxiao, and Nai Liu Rushi is in charge of it. He is specifically responsible for sending and receiving telegrams between the court cabinet and various departments, and at the same time issuing Zhu Youxiao's orders.

Although the attendant's room is nominally under the supervision of the internal officials in the 24 yamen of the Ming Dynasty, it is not supervised by the internal officials. Liu Rushi is directly responsible to Zhu Youxiao, so the authority is quite heavy.

After Zhu Youxiao gave the order, Liu Rushi straightened his full chest and walked into the attendant's room, and casually ordered a dispatcher from the eighth rank: "Beijing, Ministry of War!"

After speaking, Liu Rushi began to read the words. The content of the expression was not long, and it had to be as concise as possible. Sometimes there was no coherent sentence, and it was impossible to have any modifiers. Those who understand the meaning can.

It didn't take long for the Ministry of War to reply with a telegram message, and the message was just: "Yang Sichang of the Ministry of War looks at it, and Lushan will face the saint in two months."

Although only a few words were transmitted on the telegram, the people underneath were extremely busy.

It is not a trivial matter that His Majesty the current emperor of Ming Dynasty suddenly wants to discuss the conquest of Europa. After hearing the news, the Ministry of War has to notify the cabinet and make preparations immediately.

The staff department in charge of the staff has to formulate various plans as soon as possible according to the various purposes of conquest of Europa. The military selection department has to determine the best general candidates according to the current situation of the Ming armies, and the arsenal department must also immediately deploy wartime equipment and rear troops. Money and food cannot be raised until the war starts, as that will delay the war.

And when all the officials of the Ministry of War were ready and were sitting on the steam train of the newly opened Jingbao Railway, they were about to go to Baoding first and take a boat to Lushan, Zhu Youxiao had already entered Jiangxi at this time, and was going to Lushan to escape the summer heat.

Every summer, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River are as sultry as a stove. Therefore, most of the dignitaries in Nanjing and Hangzhou will go to the mountains to escape the heat at this time. The climate is warm and cool, and Lushan Mountain is the best choice.

Gu Meisheng, the boss of Meisheng Company, also has his own courtyard here, so Zhu Youxiao will naturally live in her courtyard this time.

But for the outside world, not many people know the whereabouts of His Majesty today.

Zhu Youxiao may be old now, and after all, he likes a peaceful environment and does not want to appear in front of the public's sight. At this time, he is only wearing an ordinary tulle dress, and he climbs the stone steps step by step with a cane ,going up.

Liu Rushi and Gu Meisheng, who were dressed in military uniform, accompanied him, and Zhu Youlang, who had been transferred back to Zhu Youxiao's side as a guard, looked around vigilantly, with the gun in his hand never leaving his side.

In later generations, Mount Lushan became a gathering place for high-ranking officials and dignitaries after the end of the Qing Dynasty, and it was even more famous during the Republic of China, but now it has only just been targeted by the dignitaries of the Ming Dynasty, so it is relatively quiet.

But even so, Lucheng on the top of Lushan Mountain has gradually taken shape. The imperial court cabinet ministers, ministers, ministers, local governors, and heads of major royal capital companies all have their own gardens here.

Therefore, when a group of people from the Ministry of War arrives, there is no need to worry about not having a place to live.

Gu Meisheng's Bieyuan on Lushan Mountain is built of all-water-milled brick houses, which are integrated with the surrounding rocks, and the interior is only filled with seasonal flowers and plants, but it is extremely quiet and elegant, and can be regarded as a natural decoration.

There is a large auditorium in Gu's Bieyuan, where Zhu Youxiao often meets officials at all levels.

However, Zhu Youxiao didn't convene officials here more than three times, so he didn't know much about it.

Before the officials from the Ministry of War came, Gu Meisheng had arranged for the place, arranged more potted plants around the auditorium, hung a map of the European situation in the auditorium, and Europa trade overview and resource exploration for internal use of Meisheng Company For the picture, a document was even prepared for each person in advance, a document about Meisheng Company's trade with Europa, for the reference of all the big men in the Ministry of War.

Yang Sichang is now 79 years old. Although he is full of energy, he is a bit old after all. When he climbed Lushan Mountain, he could only walk up with the help of three or four people.

Although Lu Xiangsheng is almost seventy years old, he is stronger than Yang Sichang. He walked in front and joked: "I said you are weak, look at how old you are, but for a few hundred steps, you need several people to serve you." , Fortunately, you are still from the Ministry of War, so why not let the grandchildren of the Ministry of Education laugh at you to death."

Lu Xiangsheng and Yang Sichang have been in charge of the military department for more than [-] years without knowing it, and they have a tacit understanding. With his planning, he expanded to the vicinity of the Caspian Sea in such a short period of time, and he can be regarded as an outstanding minister of the Ming Dynasty.

Among them, Lu Xiangsheng was born in a local area, has experienced actual combat, and is good at making decisions, while Yang Sichang is familiar with military books and is good at calculating. The purpose of being a secondary assistant and servant is to allow these two people to display their talents as much as possible.

Yang Sichang was not angry because of Lu Xiangsheng's ridicule. Now in the court, especially in the cabinet, he is the only two old ministers who were veterans of Tianqi ten years ago, and he is the only one who can talk to Yang Sichang and is still his boss now Naturally, he didn't dare to get angry, and just sighed: "I don't know what His Majesty thinks, but I want to come to the meeting here, but my old bones are exhausted!"

"Come on, I will help you, look at your delicate appearance, and complain about your Majesty, where is the energy that went to Europe to sign the Treaty of London, and now you just go to Lushan and you are complaining, what is it?" Not going to the army for training is also related to your own self-sacrifice, I heard people say that you brought back several orchids from Europa, singing and singing every night, do you think you can live up to it?"

Lu Xiangsheng laughed.

"Nonsense! I can survive now because of the good service of these orchids. Do you understand? Besides, I gave the most stunning ones to Your Majesty. You see, Your Majesty is still alive and well. What does this mean?" .

Yang Sichang said with a smile to Lu Xiangsheng: "My lord, after defeating Europa this time, do you want to order the people below to arrest you a few noble women of Europa, I heard that these noble women of Europa are very swaying. "

(End of this chapter)