"Your Majesty, the Dutch have made war against us, and the Dutch garrison in the city of Geranza has been thwarted by us in their attempts to snatch machine guns and Hehan-style rifles."

At noon, Xiao Ming, who was taking a nap, was awakened by Qian Dafu's voice, and then a telegram was delivered to him.

Receiving the telegram from Qian Dafu's hand, Xiao Ming looked at it carefully, his brows furrowed, "The fox finally showed its tail, and immediately sent a telegram to Yue Yun, asking him to immediately lead the fleet to destroy all the Dutch warships in the South Seas, and at the same time let Lei Ming attack Jakarta and Manila and completely control the Philippines and Indonesia." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Qian Dafu took the order and turned away.

Hurriedly put on his clothes, Xiao Ming went to the imperial study and called Cui Shangan over, this time the Dutch turned from a friend to an enemy, and he needed the staff to formulate a detailed plan to deal with this matter.

At the same time, he informed the Cabinet of Ministers, demanding that the Cabinet immediately cease trade with the Dutch and expel the Dutch embassy personnel.

After doing all this, Xiao Ming came to the world map hanging in the imperial study, and his eyes were set on the Philippines and Indonesia.

The Dutch rebellion did have some impact on the empire's trade, but the Dutch suffered a greater loss in comparison, because they lost Manila, the capital of the Philippines, and Jagda, the capital of Indonesia.

From now on, the two huge islands will officially belong to the Empire.

According to the information in the scientific and technological spar, the Philippines has 4.8 billion tons of copper reserves, 1 billion tons of nickel and 130 million tons of gold reserves, which can be described as very rich.

In addition, the Philippines is rich in dipterocarp, which is very popular in the West and was once monopolized by the Dutch and Spanish.

In contemporary times, whether in the East or the West, dipterocarp has always been regarded as a treasure, during the Tang and Song dynasties, Persia, which produced dipterosaur, the envoys of the Great Food Kingdom also specially gave borneol as a tribute to the emperor of China.

Compared with the Philippines, Indonesia is more abundant in resources, with nearly 60 billion tons of coal and nickel reserves, about 1.5 million carats of diamond resources, and many scarce metal resources.

With these two places in control, the empire will have more resources to use as it grows.

Therefore, he did not appear particularly angry about the Dutch's decision, and besides, he came from a contemporary era and was accustomed to the changing relations between friends and foes in the international community and the drama of changing the face of Western countries when they changed their faces.

Because of this, he has always harbored a sense of distrust of the Dutch, because this is a country with no great power potential.

Looking away from the Philippines and Manila, Xiao Ming looked at the French colony of East Indochina and the British colony of Burma.

The sudden change of tone of the Dutch is enough to see the attitude of the Europeans towards the rise of the Chinese Empire, since friction is inevitable, it is impossible to avoid all-out war, and after a century of decline, it is time for him to reshape the sphere of influence of the empire's glory days.

He was thinking about it, at this time, a person arrived outside the imperial study, but it was Lu Tong.

"Your Majesty!" Lu Tong had a smile on his face, as if there was something happy.

Xiao Ming turned to look at Lu Tong, what he liked the most was that Lu Tong and these people came to him, because often this meant a breakthrough in technology.

Sure enough, Lu Tong entered the imperial study and said mysteriously: "Your Majesty, the lower official sent you a treasure today." ”

"Oh? Take it out and take a look, if it's a real baby, I will also give you a baby. Xiao Ming said with a smile.

Lu Tong couldn't close his mouth when he heard this, and then he took out a cylindrical thing from the pocket of his clothes and put it on the table.

The moment he saw this thing, Xiao Ming gave a thumbs up, and he said, "Sure enough, it's a baby, I picked you up from the grassland back then." ”

Lu Tong said with a smile: "Or the emperor has a unique vision, does the emperor want to try this battery?"

What Lu Tong got was batteries, and after electricity became popular in Qingzhou, he asked Lu Tong to restore the battery technology in his spare time.

After intermittent research, he finally packed the laboratory's battery principle in this zinc bucket.

"Hey, you're getting poorer, come on, bring the light bulb." Xiao Ming stretched out his hand and took the light bulb with two threads from Lu Tong's hand, the positive and negative poles were docked, and the light bulb suddenly lit up.

In the slight light, Xiao Ming showed a relieved look, with the battery, this will solve the problem of many power equipment used in the field.

When Xiao Ming used the battery, Lu Tong explained: "Your Majesty, this battery is a zinc-manganese dry battery, and this battery technology is relatively easy to implement at present. ”

Xiao Ming nodded, the dry battery is a battery that is glued into a paste with wood chips or starch gelatin glue inside, and the battery liquid of this battery will not flow, so it is called a dry battery.

Flashlight and radio batteries belong to the category of dry batteries, and the structure of this zinc-manganese dry battery is not complicated, but a combination of carbon rods, zinc skin, manganese dioxide and binders, in the modern 1860s, this kind of dry battery was invented.

"Well, great, with this dry battery, there is no problem with the mobile radio." Xiao Ming said with a smile.

In addition, simple mobile lighting devices such as flashlights should also be manufactured and put into military and civilian use.

Lu Tong said when he heard this; "Your Majesty, it's also a coincidence, when the lower official came, he passed by the laboratory of the School of Physics, and heard the news that the electrode tube was manufactured, compared to this radio, there should be no problem."

Xiao Ming is not surprised by this, the industrial level has reached, and it is not difficult for these simple gadgets with ready-made technology to be manufactured.

In addition to the three technologies of telegraph, radio, and battery, he had already included telephones in his plans for preparation.

This plan was also in his plan to the cabinet, after all, the telegraph was too rigid, and if wired telephones could be popularized, the transmission of information would be more convenient.

And as the empire expanded, he also urgently needed effective regulation of every place.

"Yes, yes, the technological development of the empire is really thriving now, and now you don't need to ask, you can get the results out yourself." Xiao Ming said with a smile.

Lu Tong said; "Your Majesty, the students have been studying in the academy for more than ten years, if everything needs the emperor's personal guidance, is this different from waste? For some simple techniques, the emperor can just hand them over to us. ”

"That's what I'm happy to see." Xiao Ming was very relieved, everything was difficult at the beginning, but after being sad, it was logical.

In the past ten years, tens of thousands of talents have been cultivated by major academies, and these people have brought out a group of technicians, and so on, and now the technical talents of the empire are very sufficient.