Technology is a bit like a tap water valve. As long as you open it with enough force, water will continue to flow out.

And what opens this valve is electricity!

Li Xiao discovered that in just ten years after the emergence of electricity, a series of things he had seen appeared one after another!

Especially in the past ten years, Ming Dynasty has continuously improved primary and secondary education. New things have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain!

The most recent achievement is that Jinzhou Radio Research Institute converts sound into electromagnetic signals.

Then, it was restored back through the receiver a hundred kilometers away.

Moreover, the electromagnetic signal is restored very accurately, and even the tone of voice of a person can be truly restored.

If it is a hundred kilometers away, a transmitter is also set up, and then a receiver is installed.

Then, two people can communicate a hundred kilometers apart. In the meantime, there is no transmission of telephone lines. Everything is done in the air and through radio waves.

When Xu Erjue excitedly rushed to report to Li Xiao, Li Xiao blinked. He felt that the walkie-talkie was about to appear.

But after seeing the real thing, Li Xiao became discouraged again.

To describe this thing in one word, it is big.

Li Xiao didn't understand that a semiconductor radio could be made so big. It occupied an area of ​​ten square meters, and with the machine cover outside, it would be conservatively estimated to be a ton.

Anyway, Li Xiao saw that adjusting the antenna required two strong men to work together. After sweating, he told Li Xiao with a red face that he was not tired.

Li Xiao discovered a problem, that is, it seemed that all the samples produced were stupid, big, and thick.

When the first radio transmitter was first successfully developed, it was necessary to build a signal tower more than 100 meters high on the ground.

That thing occupies an area no smaller than the thing in front of me.

After several years of continuous miniaturization, Ming researchers have successfully made the transmitter the size of a piano.

Considering the technological level of these years, this is already a miracle.

Li Xiao feels that if things continue to develop at this rate, he may be able to use a walkie-talkie in his lifetime.

But when he thought about it, the first computer developed by Americans was as big as a three-bedroom apartment. Li Xiao was relieved. Everyone came here this way.

The road must be walked step by step, and the meal must be eaten one bite at a time. If you eat in a hurry, you may choke, and if you take long steps, you may catch your eggs.

When it comes to the United States, Li Xiao hates it with itch.

In order to fight against the British, they supported the War of Independence in the North American territories. Although the Ming Dynasty gained a lot of gold, it also cultivated a strong competitor.

Li Xiao never imagined how a group of people like Washington, Franklin, and Jefferson could appear in the North American Territory.

It was a group of real managers, and the political system they designed was very simple and effective. In just ten years, the North American Territory changed from a place of constant war to a place where life was stable and the people gradually became prosperous.

Only two years after the war of independence, old Washington began to expand into the vast west.

The tragic fate of the Indians was thus doomed. As the railroad continued to extend, the Indians lost land one after another.

The original owners of the land, the Indians, could only survive on the land that the Anglo-Saxons did not want.

The Hebrews seemed to get along naturally with the Anglo-Saxons, and the North American territory was still expanding. The Anglo-Saxons were busy raising slaves and planting cotton, rubber and corn extensively.

Smart Hebrews have taken root in New York!

Only now did Li Xiao know that the so-called New York is actually a Chinese transliteration. The real meaning of New York is New York!

York is a city in southern England near Scotland. For nearly two thousand years, it was the capital of Northern England, with a status comparable to London today.

In the British Royal Navy, a battleship named Yorktown appeared more than once.

It turns out that the New York area in the North American territory was originally occupied by the Dutch. They named this natural harbor New Amsterdam to metaphorically describe it as being as good a place as Amsterdam.

Later, the British came, and the Anglo-Saxons didn't care about this. They defeated the Dutch in three rounds, five divided by two, and the British soldiers who missed their hometown named settlements in the New World after their hometown towns in England.

York is one of them.

In Li Xiao's memory, New York rose with the rise of the Grand Canal. But he never expected that there would be such magical things in the world.

This is the territory of North America that the world seems to particularly favor. Along the Hudson River, as long as a more than 20 kilometers long canal is dug, it can be connected to the Great Lakes region and then directly to the Jinshan Mountains on the west coast.

This is completely different from the Erie Canal, which required the construction of more than 500 kilometers in history. The technical difficulty and construction intensity have been greatly reduced.

The sensitive Rothschild family dug this canal, which is only 23 kilometers in length.

As a result, New York quickly connected to the Great Lakes. New York Harbor is also gradually expanding, becoming the largest port in North America.

The Rothschild family also enjoys collecting tolls.

The population has also grown explosively in the past ten years, from a seaport county with a population of just over 20,000 people to a medium-sized city with a population of no less than 300,000 and numerous factories of all kinds.

The latest information made Li Xiao very upset, because... New York has actually begun to build power plants and lay power lines.

Li Xiao has no doubt that with the wisdom of North American scientists and the continuous infiltration of industrial spies, Ming's advantage will be overtaken by others sooner or later.

When it comes to scientific research, standing on the shoulders of giants will get twice the result with half the effort. But if you are on the front line and overcome obstacles, it will be a lot more troublesome.

Ming Dynasty's science and technology would not have made the progress it has today if Li Xiao hadn't encouraged it.

In fact, Li Xiao doesn't know how to do many things. The key is that Li Xiao knows the direction of technological development. It's like a ship on a sea full of fog, there is always a lighthouse to guide the way forward.

Although there will be some detours such as reefs during the voyage, at least the goal is clear.

The North American territory became a thorn in Li Xiao's heart. It is now the paradise of the Anglo-Saxons and Hebrews.

In some states near the south, hundreds of thousands of black slaves were raised. They forced these black slaves to grow cotton and rubber every day.

Perhaps because of the place of origin of these things, rubber trees are produced very well here. The quality of the rubber extracted is also better than that of rubber from Southeast Asia and Yizhou.

As for cotton, it was grown unscrupulously. In addition to supporting the textile industry in North America, it could also be exported to Europe.

Almost 70% of the raw materials for British cotton textile mills come from North American territories.

These cotton cloths have become Ming Dynasty's strong rivals in Europe. Today's Ming Dynasty businessmen are taking advantage of the first-mover advantage.

They keep lowering prices in an attempt to squeeze out European cotton textile mills. But the results are not good!

Because while Ming Dynasty was suppressing prices, British, French, and German cotton textile mills were desperately squeezing workers.

In the Ming Dynasty cotton textile enterprise, workers' wages are two to three times that of Europe. Every ten days, there are two days of rest and rest.

In the European textile industry, it is almost common to employ female workers and child labor. The wages of female workers are extremely low, barely enough to make ends meet.

As for child labor, in many places they are just in charge of food. They are given a small amount of change every month, which is regarded as wages.

And all this money is only enough to buy a few pieces of candy in a place like London.

There was no way, successive years of war had depleted the country's finances. Coupled with the continuous dumping of Ming Dynasty's industrial products, European countries fell into widespread poverty.

Those colonies that were robbed with guns and cannons also continued to shrink under the coercion of the Ming Dynasty Marine Corps.

The UK is the worst!

First, they competed with the Ming Dynasty for Southeast Asia, but they lost miserably. Then, after a desperate struggle, the largest colony, India, was taken away by the Ming Dynasty.

Next is Egypt, Libya! Finally, Gibraltar!

Now Britain only has some territories in barren black Africa, which can barely provide some of the resources needed by British industry!

Without these colonies, Britain's national power was declining at a speed visible to the naked eye. So much so that the British royal family, which was originally very hostile to the Ming Dynasty, began to extend an olive branch to the Ming Dynasty.

The warm invitation to Zheng Sen and Tagawa Shichizaemon to London was an invitation personally issued by the Queen of England despite the pressure from the public.

The Queen's behavior once again illustrates that even if the public opposes it, politicians will choose what they think is right.

Politicians are all profit animals without emotions.

Prussia, on the other hand, maintained its relationship with the Ming Dynasty on the surface. They still wanted to use the Ming Dynasty's technology and funds to quickly enhance Prussia's national power.

Like England, people are full of all kinds of disparagement of the Ming Dynasty. It is said that the Ming Dynasty products occupied the market and took away the jobs of workers.

It is said that the people of the Ming Dynasty ate a variety of wild animals, which directly led to the spread of germs. The influenza epidemic in the past few years was caused by the people of the Ming Dynasty.

Various unreliable rumors spread wildly, and there were even more outrageous rumors. It was said that the Ming Dynasty moved the mountains of Prussia and sucked away the air of Prussia.

To a certain extent, the common people in Prussia are not much different from the common people in the Ming Dynasty. They are keen to spread all kinds of rumors and add fuel to them according to their own imagination.

With these unreliable remarks, don't expect ordinary people to have a good impression of the Ming people.

In addition, some Ming merchants did not do things properly, which gave Prussia more evidence.

Although the Ming Dynasty Embassy in Berlin knew that these rumors were spread by people hired by the Hebrews, there was nothing they could do!

The newspapers were in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, and young students and professors also yearned for the Ming Dynasty.

In various newspapers, there are endless articles all day long advocating the various achievements and prosperity of the Ming Dynasty. Since the advent of cameras, pictures and texts have been introduced to introduce the advancement of the Ming Dynasty.

But the rumors among the people say that these are all false, and they are all deceptions created by the people of Ming Dynasty.

The people of the Ming Dynasty tried their best, but they still couldn't change public opinion. The problem they couldn't help was similar to that of the Ming Dynasty. The Prussian people also had too many illiterates.

They don't read the newspaper at all! Well... or they can't read the newspaper. They are expected to believe what is in the newspaper, and they don't even show it.

Relatively speaking, the Hebrews have many advantages. After hundreds of years of preparation, they have inextricably linked with the Prussian high-level officials.

The wealth of the Hebrews also made them the envy of ordinary Prussians. The last time the Ming Dynasty encouraged the Prussians to attack the Hebrews, they used the magic weapon of hating the rich.

However, the attack on the Hebrews was short-lived, because the Prussian high-level officials did not cooperate at all.
To be continued...