The effect of the telegraph on the Shu domain was too great.

It took them only four months to dig the ditch where the wires were to be laid, and two months to build the ditch into a square ditch the year before last, and in the process they burned the tiles according to the requirements of the officials sent by the imperial court.

The telegraph began to be built in Shudi, this new technology has been put into practical stage in the middle of the country, there is sufficient experience, people no longer demand fine and beautiful stone troughs to place the telegraph - the pottery is fired into two pieces of matching round tile Sheng wire, tile with two ears, the ear has a small hole plug a stone tenon fixed, buried outside the soil can also prevent insects and pests.

But it wasn't until last year that the imperial court sent a fleet from Huguang to send a series of tools such as wires and steamers, as well as talents who could use new tools, into Shuzhong, and the new tools that had swept half of the country were really known in Sichuan.

What is the biggest improvement?

Messages that used to take six months are now available in seven to thirteen days.

If the news comes from Shaanxi, it will be faster; If it came from the lake, it would have been a little slower, but it was still much faster than in the past.

In fact, Zhu Xuanqi, the king of Shu, did not receive the wind that Wanli let Xu Jue reveal at all, it was the king of Tang who told him, saying that the emperor was short of silver to build the railway, and the Shu domain was so rich, why not give the emperor some strength.

Zhu Xuanqi didn't know what the railway was in the mouth of King Tang, and he asked all the officials in the palace, but he didn't know anything, but fortunately, he understood the most important thing, the emperor was short of money.

Lack of money, 60,000 taels of gold should be enough, right?

Not enough yet.

The reason why I didn't give too much at once was that the Shu clan was completing the last instruction given by the emperor: to repair the school.

The emperor wanted to build a new primary school in Wanli, and the official schools that should be repaired in the past should be repaired, and the local social studies and township schools should all be under the unified control of the imperial court.

This is much more difficult than repairing telegraphs, and most of the local social schools and township schools were built under the auspices of merchants, squires and officials among the common people.

The rich social science is in charge of food and housing, and the poor social science is just a grass house, with a huge gap between each other, and the Shu domain is in a relatively independent geographical unit, and has been honed by road conditions and distant space to be good at figuring out the exclusive ability of the holy will across four thousand miles of rivers and mountains - the specifications should be unified.

The Shu clan has been busy repairing social studies in various places, and all social studies, township schools, and private schools around Chengdu Mansion have been raised to the level of official studies.

This requires buying land, hiring workers, building a school, building a husband's house, repairing a vegetable garden, and then building another house for the people who have occupied the land.

For the Shu Domain, this is their business - even if it is remote, it still makes the people feel that the emperor's grace is close at hand, which is the meaning of the existence of the Shu Domain for 200 years.

The royal family gave them too many rewards, their palace castle was the largest in the feudal kingdom, their palace walls were the highest in the feudal kingdom, their feudal king's tombs had royal rituals, and their daily use could use the royal specifications.

And what they did was worthy of the royal reward.

But this letter is later than the silver.

As soon as the silver was taken over by the household department, the official documents here were sent to the Beijing division along the telegram, and the household department had to mention it to the emperor, and the emperor had to ask: Your Majesty, do you want gold or silver?

But faith is different.

Although there was already a telegram, but the design of a lot of money, important letters, and the Shu domain did not have a direct access to the emperor's codebook, must be sent to Xi'an, there is a telegraph station garrisoned by Jinyiwei, in order to reach the palace in the form of ciphertext, there is no need to teach outsiders along the way to know.

As a result, the letter was delivered to the Forbidden City a little later, and Wanli had already planned where to go after the Shu domain was uprooted.

It must be Toyo.

The West is the worst place for the clan, the Nanyang is close to the imperial court, the business is convenient, and the environment is not good, while the East is the best place for the clan and the virtuous clan.

During the time when the letter traveled from Chengdu to Xi'an, Wanli also checked the past actions of the children of the Shu clan, and there were very few cases of committing adultery and committing crimes, and there were many meritorious contributions, which made him feel compassion.

Transfer the Shu domain to the outer ocean, and you can't go in your heart; But he was left in the middle of the river, and he couldn't get along with the silver.

What's more, it's not just silver, the Shu clan has too much land, they can guarantee that they will be virtuous from generation to generation, but it is difficult to guarantee that they will always be so virtuous in the future, as long as there is a bastard, it is enough to corrupt the virtues that the Shu clan has upheld for the past two hundred years.

But if you really want to seal them, Wanli really can't bear it, and I'm afraid that it will chill the heart of the clan.

The bastard's clan is sealed out, and the whole world can understand it, and the government and the opposition celebrate each other; The lower-level clans that were difficult to live were sealed out, and 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 Oriental Military Government, so they accepted it.

But the Shu Domain, which has been a virtuous, loyal and wealthy clan for generations, has been sealed out, and no matter where they are, they will not be able to live a better life than they are now.

Those who have meritorious deeds should be rewarded, and those who have faults should be punished.

Otherwise, he will become a faint king who does not distinguish between right and wrong.

This tangled mentality did not finally make him happy until the letter of the King of Shu reached Jingshi through the telegram of Jinyiwei.

The first thing the King of Shu mentioned in the letter was about the Tang King and others jointly signing the list to lift the ban on the domain, the entire Shu Domain did not support it, of course, they did not object, and they valued the opinions of the court or the emperor more, the Shu Domain has been adhering to the support of the royal family for so many years, in exchange for unparalleled trust and personal treatment, this time it is still the same, no matter what the emperor plans, the Shu Domain will still support the decision of the royal family.

It would be better if the Shu clan could send the prince to Beijing to meet the emperor, they hadn't seen the emperor for a long time.

And now everything is happening so fast outside Sichuan, they really need to meet the emperor and learn the latest things, such as what the telegraph is about, what the railway is going to be repaired by the emperor, and what is the Qinglong military column that others say.

The pampered life made the Shu Domain, the richest clan in the world, the first to know all new things, but this time they were an exception.

On the other hand, the king of Shu reported in his letter the results of their renovation of the township schools and social studies in Chengdu Prefecture and the surrounding prefectures and counties, and explained to the emperor that in the land where the Shu domain is located today, hundreds of township schools and social studies are ready to welcome new teachers to teach students to learn knowledge that is different from the past but beneficial to the world in the future, just waiting for the Son of Heaven to send them there.

In the end, the king of Shu did not know what was going on with the railway and the Qinglong military column, so he did not know how much silver taels the emperor needed to build the railway, if the emperor was still not enough in silver, send another telegram to Chengdu, as long as they had, the king of the thirteen side branches of the Shu domain would raise the silver taels and the required materials for the Son of Heaven in the shortest possible time.

A letter reads Wanli's heart is extremely comfortable...... As a vassal king, they deserve to be the richest in the world.