Telegrams have a great effect on Shufan.

They dug the ditches that were preparing to lay the wires in just four months two months ago, and built the ditches into square canals two months ago. During this process, they kept burning tiles according to the requirements of the Ministry of Works sent by the court.

Telegrams began to be built in Shu, and this new technology has been put into practical stages in half of the river and mountain. With sufficient experience, people no longer demanded fine and beautiful stone troughs to place telegrams to burn the pottery into two fitting round tiles to hold wires. The tile has two ears, and the ears have small holes and a stone tenon to fix it. The soil buried outside can also prevent insects and damage.

But it was not until last year that the court sent a fleet from Huguang to send a series of tools such as wires, steamers, and talents who could use new tools into Sichuan. The new tools that had swept half of the country were truly known in Sichuan.

What is the biggest improvement?

The news that has been received in the past six months can now be known in just seven to thirteen days.

If the news comes from Shaanxi, it will be faster; if it comes from Huguang, it will be slower, but it will be much faster than in the past.

In fact, Zhu Xuanqi, the King of Shu, did not receive the wind that was revealed by Xu Jue in Wanli. It was the King of Tang who told him that the emperor had no money to build railways. The Shu vassal was so rich and noble, why not give some efforts to the emperor?

Zhu Xuanqi had no idea what the railway was mentioned in the Tang Dynasty, and asked all the officials of the royal palace, but he didn't know it all. Fortunately, he understood the most important thing, the emperor was short of money.

I’m short of money, 60,000 taels of gold should be enough, right?

Not enough.

The reason why I gave too much is that Shufan was completing the previous instruction issued by the emperor: to study the school.

The emperor wanted to run the Wanli New Primary School. In the past, the official schools that should be repaired must be repaired, and local social schools and rural schools must also be unified under the jurisdiction of the court.

This is much more difficult than repairing telegraphs. Most of the local community schools were built by merchants, gentry and officials among the people. Although it is owned by every community, the financial resources of each party are different, so the construction specifications are naturally different.

The wealthy society controls food and accommodation, while the poor society controls food and accommodation, and the poor society is just a thatched cottage, with huge gaps between them. Shufan is in a relatively independent geographical unit, and is tempered by road conditions and distant spaces to achieve exclusive skills and specifications that are good at judging the will of the sacred people four thousand miles apart.

Shufan was busy repairing various social schools, elevating all social schools, rural schools and private schools around Chengdu Prefecture to the level of official schools.

This requires buying land, asking workers, building schools, building a house, and building a vegetable garden. Then building a new house for the occupied people. In the end, the road conditions in some places are too poor, so you have to build a road and build a bridge to facilitate students' classes.

For Shufan, this is their duty, even if they are in a remote location, they still make the people feel that the emperor's grace is so close. This is the significance of the existence of Shufan for two hundred years.

The royal family gave them too many rewards. Their palace city was the largest among the vassal states, their palace walls were the highest among the vassal states, and their tombs of the vassal kings had royal rituals, and their daily usage could use royal specifications.

And what they did was worthy of the royal reward.

But this letter was later than the silver.

As soon as the banknotes took over, the official documents here entered the capital with the telegram. The Ministry of Revenue had to provide them to the emperor, and he had to ask the emperor: Your Majesty, do you want gold or silver?

But the belief is different.

Although there were telegrams, many letters of money and major events were designed, and Shufan did not have a password book that directly reached the emperor. He had to send it to Xi'an, where there was a telegram station stationed by the Jinyiwei to reach the palace in the form of a secret text, without having to teach outsiders along the way to know it.

In this way, the letter was delivered to the Forbidden City a little late. Wanli had already planned where to go after the Shufan was uprooted.

It must be Dongyang.

The West is the worst place for the royal family. The Southeast Asian family is close to the court and the environment is not good. The East Asian family is the best place for the common people and the virtuous family members of the royal family.

During the time when the letters were traveling from Chengdu to Xi'an, Wanli also carefully investigated the past actions of the children of the Shufan royal family. It was indeed rare to commit crimes and many of them made meritorious, which made him feel compassion.

If you transfer Shufan to foreign countries, you will feel bad; but if you leave him in Sichuan, you will feel bad about Yinzi.

What's more, it's not just about money. The Shufan enjoys too much land. They can guarantee that they will be virtuous and virtuous from generation to generation until today, but it's difficult to guarantee that they will always be so virtuous in the future. As long as a bastard is a enough to destroy all the virtues that Shufan has upheld for the past two hundred years.

But if Wanli really wanted to seal them, he really couldn't bear it and was afraid that the clan's heart would be cold.

The world can understand the banned royal family and the government and the government celebrated each other; the lower-class royal family that was difficult to survive was sealed. Although people were puzzled at the time, they looked back and saw that they were indeed living a good life under the rule of the Eastern Military Palace, so they accepted it.

But if the royal family like Shufan was sealed out from generation to generation, they would not be able to live a better life no matter where they were.

Those who have made merits should be rewarded, and those who have made mistakes should be punished.

Otherwise, he will become a foolish monarch who cannot distinguish right from wrong.

This entangled mentality finally made him happy until the King of Shu’s letter was sent to the capital through the telegram of the Jinyiwei.

The first thing the King of Shu mentioned in the letter was about the release of the ban on the vassal of the King of Tang and others. The entire Shu vassal did not support it. Of course, they did not object, and they valued the opinions of the court or the emperor. The Shu vassal has been adhering to the support of the royal family for so many years, in exchange for unparalleled trust and kindness. This time it was the same. No matter what the emperor planned, the Shu vassals would still support the decision of the royal family.

It would be even better if Shufan could send his crown prince to Beijing to meet the emperor. They hadn't seen the emperor for a long time.

And now everything outside Sichuan is happening too quickly. They really need to see the emperor and learn the latest things, such as what the telegram is going on, what the emperor wants to build, and what the Qinglong Army is saying as others say.

The pampered life made the Shu vassals, the richest vassals in the world, know everything new, but this time they were exceptional.

On the other hand, the King of Shu reported in his letter that they had repaired the village and social schools in Chengdu Prefecture and the surrounding counties, and told the emperor that on the land where Shufan is now located, hundreds of village and social schools are ready to welcome new teachers to teach students what is different from the past but is beneficial to the world in the future, and only wait for the emperor to send them to him.

Finally, the King of Shu didn't know what was going on with the railway and the Qinglong Army, so he didn't know how much silver the emperor needed to build the railway. If the emperor was still not enough in terms of money, he would send another telegram to Chengdu. As long as they had it, the princes of the thirteen branches of the Shufan would raise silver and materials for the emperor in the shortest time.
Chapter completed!