Volume 4 is in the ascendant Chapter 514 Project Establishment
"Minister Pang, so the effect of this mental wave transmitter... is to allow two people to communicate silently?" Yu Fan looked at the two civil servants with hats connected together in front of him, who were communicating with each other using "mental power", and his face looked a little ugly.
Firstly, Yu Fan always had a frown and a bitter face, which was a standard expression. Secondly... just such a thing required the Ministry of Revenue to allocate a large amount of funds for research and production, which made Yu Fan very uncomfortable.
At this time, Bai Tu was convening a palace meeting, preparing to have Pang Tong's "precise report" approved at the court level first.
"The main effect is not the silence, but the distance... In theory, as long as we can connect to Jinglan as far away as possible, we can transmit information nearly synchronously within the same distance." Pang Tong said with a straight face.
As the head of the Ministry of Works, Pang Tong has never had a good impression of the stingy Ministry of Revenue!
Although Pang Tong did not enter the cabinet, in terms of status, he could be said to have reached a "transcendent" level in the State of Chu.
Pang Tong also had something else to say. Because there was no rubber, the durability of the fine cable was very poor, so it would have to be laid in small sections in the end.
"So, this method can be used to replace the original signal towers? No...if we can directly lay intercity 'precision cables', we won't even need signal towers, allowing major cities to communicate in real time? " Lu Su's eyes lit up when he heard this.
If this effect really happens, everyone present knows how important it will be to the State of Chu ...
Of course, we only "know" and we are still unable to fully understand what this way of information dissemination, which can bring about earth-shaking changes in the concept of "territorial territory", can bring!
"That's the theory, but the premise is that the fine cable is not damaged, so it's best not to be too long... but it's definitely much farther than the signal tower." Pang Tong said.
The "telegraph" system, which is similar to the "precision report", is a product of the mid-19th century in a history without the white rabbit effect.
It was also initially established in the form of "wired" until the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, when wireless telegraph began to appear. This is the device in various spy movies that looks small but can be used for various long-distance communications!
However, Pang Tong's "wired precise report" is still in its infancy...
First of all, the threshold for receiving and sending signals needs to be lowered - otherwise, does every signal station need to have an official with second-rate mental power?
Even the talent pool of the Chu State is not enough to deal with such disaster!
"In this case, I request that it be laid in Jinling Prefecture first to see the effect. If it is really so effective, we can then prepare to lay it between various prefectures and states according to priority." Lu Su suggested.
Lu Bu took the spiritual wave transmitter and examined it in his hand. Although he found nothing, he still said, "Isn't this similar to the transmitter on the battle armor? However, the transmitter on the battle armor does not need a wire... Minister Pang can refer to the battle armor."
"Envoy Lu's words make sense. In fact, I have observed this before... Unfortunately, I failed to detect the fluctuations of the communicator on the armor. Perhaps they are not the same." Pang Tong looked thoughtful when he heard this.
Indeed, this kind of effect cannot help but remind people of one of the functions of the armor - transmitting messages.
Within a certain range, a general can use the armor to send messages to other generals under his command. Of course... the armor's message transmission is wireless, and the transmission capacity is related to the general's own ability, and can be enhanced by the "General's Flag".
According to Pang Tong's experiment, this ability to transmit information should be fundamentally different from the "precision wave". It is not a problem of wired or wireless, but the fluctuation of information transmitted by the armor. Pang Tong is completely unable to discover it through existing experimental means. The only thing that can be confirmed is that when the military morale is unstable and the battle situation is chaotic, this communication ability will be weakened.
In other words... this signal will be affected by the "emotions" it emits, so can we deduce that this signal itself is also a fluctuation similar to "emotions"?
In comparison, this is closer to "telepathic communication"!
And it is pure mental communication. Pang Tong's "Jingbao" is ultimately converting mental fluctuations into "radio waves", or in other words, making mental power propagate in the electric field.
As for the mental power that spread out of thin air, let alone how to receive it, with the current means, Pang Tong couldn't even detect this kind of fluctuation!
And you have to know that the range of the armor's signal transmission is only related to the generals. As the middle and grassroots generals who receive the information, there are no mental requirements - of course, they cannot actively send information in the opposite direction.
Although it is not understandable for the time being, it did give Pang Tong some inspiration, such as the propagation of radio waves...
However, cable television is still in its infancy, so Pang Tong did not have any unrealistic ambitions .
Huang Chengyan thought about it again and again, and then specifically proposed: "If it can really be promoted, Jiangling and Xiangyang should be the first priority."
The internal situation of Chu was relatively harmonious, but there were also different voices.
After all, it is different from the time when it was just one place or one city. With the expansion of power, new interest groups continue to join in, and it is impossible to have no differences at all.
During the Three Kingdoms period, Wei, Shu, and Wu were all bloody in this regard - the Gaopingling Incident in Wei and the dispute between the two palaces in Wu were all major reshuffles in the court. Shu was relatively better, but... In the later period, Jiang Wei led troops outside and did not even dare to return to the capital, fearing that he would be detained by other treacherous officials. This also shows the internal chaos.
In comparison, the State of Chu does not have many problems now. The most acute disagreement is the dispute between Jing and Yang, or the dispute between the gentry of Nanjun and the gentry of Jiangdong.
After all, the two sides had been in a state of confrontation for a long time before the establishment of the State of Chu. At the beginning of the establishment of the State of Chu, the Jiangdong gentry used their understanding of workshop construction and took advantage of the initial stage of industrialization in Jingzhou to reap the benefits. Now many workshops in Jingzhou were established by the Jiangdong gentry!
Bai Tu did not try to stop this. After all, the Jiangdong gentry were the original foundation of the Chu State. It was already very kind of them to treat the Jingyang gentry equally. Did Bai Tu have to suppress his own confidants and support those who surrendered reluctantly?
Moreover, when it comes to laws and regulations, it is obvious that the Jiangdong gentry have a deeper understanding, and when the matter really comes to the authorities, it is often the Jingzhou gentry that suffers.
The State of Chu also took the opportunity to support a group of second-rate aristocratic families in Jingzhou to "dilute" the prestige of the original families in Nanjun.
Of course, compared with the rule of other princes, the degree of the dispute between Jing and Yang can even be described as "positive energy".
After all, in other aspects - whether it is the opening of official offices or the appointment of officials, Bai Tu still tries to be "as fair as possible", especially in terms of infrastructure... The Han River Weir is in Jingzhou!
Just based on this point, no one dares to say that Chu is partial to Jingzhou...
At this time, Huang Chengyan proposed to first incorporate Xiangyang and Jiangling into the information network to be formed in the future, which was obviously also to further narrow the "distance" between Jingzhou and the center.
The more convenient the communication, the weaker the barriers.
Jia Xu asked: "If it is deep in the mountains or under the sea, will it be easy to lay it?"
"Construction in the deep mountains is somewhat difficult, but considering that it is sparsely populated, it is not easily damaged, so we can consider laying it in a shallow layer. In theory, laying it in the sea is actually the simplest, but it requires the determination to suffer losses and some luck... as well as better and more corrosion-resistant insulating materials." Pang Tong replied.
Jia Xu didn't say anything else, but everyone understood that he wanted to talk about overseas places such as Yizhou, Danzhou, and Zhouhu, as well as the southern part of Jingyang where the forests were dense and the roads were difficult to build!
It’s just that Jia Xu wouldn’t explain it so clearly, and he would have to wait for others to bring it up later.
In comparison, Lu Su and others obviously have more confidence in the deep mountains and old forests. After all... as for the ocean, even the current Chu State would not dare to say "understand".
In their imagination, laying this kind of "fine cable" in the sea, spanning thousands of miles without any transit, is more difficult than laying it in the deep mountains and forests.
Although Pang Tong mentioned "the simplest", he also talked about luck, determination, and the mysterious "insulator" and so on. Obviously, it is not something that can be accomplished now, right?
In fact, from this point of view, the laying of submarine cables is far less difficult than they imagined, especially this kind of cable that only transmits signals rather than transmits high-power electrical energy!
Historically, not long after the telegraph appeared, some people began to try to lay it across the ocean, and it was declared a success a dozen years later, also in the mid-19th century...
The principle is very simple. It does not require any underwater operations. Just prepare a sufficiently long cable on the ship, and then use a winch to lower it little by little during the voyage. It will be successful when the ship reaches the destination.
When the first transoceanic cable was laid in history, the only "technological upgrade" along the way was to upgrade from one ship crossing the Atlantic to two ships, each carrying half of the cable. After meeting in the center of the Atlantic, the cables were connected and then sailed to their destinations at both ends.
It sounds very childish, as if it were as simple as digging an underwater tunnel in the United States, as if two people carrying hoes could dig it...
However, the first transoceanic cable was successfully laid in this way!
Of course, behind every success, there are also many sorrows and setbacks. As Pang Tong said, this requires "luck" - Cyrus West Field, the builder of the transoceanic cable, only succeeded after many failures.
Every failure not only meant that the huge amount of navigation expenditure was not rewarded, but also... the cables were wasted!
More importantly, people at that time thought this matter was too difficult, so they had doubts about it in their hearts. After the failure, both the public and shareholders began to doubt whether this matter was reliable.
If it weren't for Field's persistence, it would probably take an unknown amount of time for the simple-principle submarine cable to appear.
It was only after the success that everyone discovered that submarine cables actually have much lower costs for the same length. After all, they only need to be sunk to the bottom of the sea, without having to be buried deep or raised!
However, the error tolerance rate is extremely low during the laying process. If a storm occurs during the laying process, even if the ship is fine, the cable will most likely be ruined...
However, for the current Chu State, there is a big problem with submarine cables - the insulation layer!
The Chu State, which had not yet introduced rubber, had always been weak in industrial sealing.
The insulation layer of the current "fine cable" is a "painted insulation + thick oilcloth waterproof" model. If you want to build it over a long distance, you can only choose to bury it underground. It has very poor durability and cannot withstand wind and rain. As for the seabed... forget it!
Although everyone still cannot understand the miraculous construction of submarine precision cables, the Ministry of Industry's "Precision Wave Transmission" still received support from the palace and was officially approved...
