Some people in Kochi believe that the expansion of the Renaissance Army in recent years has brought a lot of benefits to the local area.
Instead of raising taxes, people's living standards are getting higher and higher.
This proved that this line was correct, so they fully supported the war.
The so-called "militancy" is criticized because war places a huge burden on the people.
There were also a large number of soldiers who lost their lives.
But if these are not available, then it is not considered militarism.
Others are artificial, the moon waxes and wanes, and the water overflows.
The Renaissance Army's previous expansion was indeed successful, but it only occupied some marginal and cold places.
The previous opponents were not that strong.
However, the conflict with Tsarist Russia has not yet been resolved, and there is a war with the superpower Great Empire. This may bring the country into a dangerous situation.
You must know that resorting to militarism is a common criticism among literati of all dynasties.
Especially those old literati who were heavily influenced by Confucianism.
These people have accepted many new ideas in recent years, but deep down they have returned to their original thinking habits.
Such people still make up the majority of the intellectual class.
Many of the officials of the Renaissance Army, including many of them, were born as such old scholars.
Based on the information collected by Ji Mingshan.
The FNA's own officials are now ideologically divided and antagonistic.
This can be seen from the uneven implementation of cabinet decisions in various places.
For example, during this western tour, Dong Shuheng himself discovered that local officials had different attitudes towards immigration and the development of local industry. This was the reason for a deeper analysis.
To be honest, Dong Shuheng doesn't have the ability to unify everyone's thoughts.
He can only try his best to ensure that the thoughts of some people at the top are unified with his own.
As for local conflicts, perhaps we can only wait until the conflicts break out, let the conflicts run into each other, and finally reach a balance in a game state.
This may be why emperors in the past dynasties had to learn the art of kingship and strike a balance among their ministers.
Maybe this is the way to solve conflicts. Just like Dayu controlled the floods, it is better to remove them than to block them, so that conflicts can break out in the most gentle way, instead.
With the war against the Great Empire this time, the conflicts between the Kochis tended to break out.
Some people believe that this will drag the country into endless war.
This issue was even raised publicly at the Renaissance Army's year-end meeting.
This is the first time that Dong Shuheng's decision has been publicly opposed.
However, according to the Presidential Act of the Renaissance Army, the power to launch war is still in the hands of Dong Shuheng.
Everyone just raised their own doubts, but could not change this reality.
Some people also secretly pointed out that the bill should be amended to limit the president's power to launch war.
At least there should be a constraint on this power.
Perhaps due to Dong Shuheng's deliberate connivance, some of Europa's enlightenment ideas can now be spread freely under the rule of the Renaissance Army.
Some people even study these ideas together with the ideas of hundreds of schools of thought in the pre-Qin period and assimilate them into our own ideas.
The restrictions on power have long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people through the game between royal power and ministerial power for thousands of years.
The favorite thing that ancient literati and officials liked to do was fight with the emperor.
The main content of this struggle is to limit the imperial power and expand the power of ministers.
So they all played very well with this set of things.
Now they were finally about to put the restraint belt on Dong Shuheng.
This incident really made some people at the top feel a little nervous. It seemed that the Renaissance Army was going to split.
However, the person involved, Dong Shuheng, seemed not to care.
As usual, Dong Shuheng spent most of his time in various research institutes, and occasionally took some time to care about some wars in Southeast Asia.
In the last few days before the Spring Festival, he visited almost all key research institutes.
The most mysterious Laboratory No. 1 has accomplished nothing so far. Dong Shuheng can only comfort them kindly and cannot even bear to criticize.
This research is so rare that even Europa has not been involved in it.
Dong Shuheng talked to them about the importance of basic course studies. Don't rush to produce results, but accumulate basic research first.
In the No. 2 Electric Power Laboratory, Dong Shuheng visited various electrical equipment developed in the laboratory.
Some of them are things he remembers, and some are things he has never seen in his memory.
Therefore, the imagination of scientists determines the upper limit of research.
At present, the core of the electric power laboratory still revolves around motors.
Research on generators has produced many results, and there are a wide range of generators with various principles to meet the power generation needs of various situations.
From the beginning, the Electric Power Laboratory took many fewer detours than elsewhere.
Now Fuxing Army can produce various power generation equipment using wind energy, water energy, and thermal energy.
And it has developed very well in both miniaturization and giantization.
Because there are still many problems in grid-connected power generation that have not been solved. Currently, small and medium-sized power generation equipment is still the main focus.
Generate electricity nearby and use it nearby, so that electricity can be popularized as soon as possible.
Especially in the southwest region, the terrain is complex and the local power resources are relatively abundant, especially hydropower.
Local small hydropower projects can be launched on a large scale first.
These hydropower can effectively promote the development of local industries, such as the smelting industry of non-ferrous metals, processing industry, etc.
Another direction is giantization. This kind of generator is mainly used in large hydropower stations and thermal power stations.
They are mainly built around large cities or industrial areas.
Replacing steam engines with electric motors has become a trend under the promotion of Dong Shuheng.
In order to promote promotion, Dong Shuheng provides government subsidies to companies that replace motors.
These companies have also discovered the improvements in production efficiency brought about by electrification.
According to statistics from the statistics department, the cost of textile factories under the Renaissance Army is already lower than that of industrial powers such as the Empire of Great Britain and France.
On the one hand, because the Fuxing Army has raw materials supplied in its own country, it saves a lot of transportation costs.
On the other hand, electrification transformation can reduce equipment energy consumption costs.
Dong Shuheng did not allocate the cost of power plants and other costs into the electricity price, which made the cost of using electricity lower than directly using coal.
In addition, the motor also has the characteristics of low noise, small occupancy, strong stability and safety.
No wonder scientists in China are worried about the lagging electrification of their country.
In addition to the Baath Army, Prussia was the second country to benefit from the electrification reform.
Prussia's industrial production already ranks third in Europe, only one step away from second-place France.
In terms of the use of electricity, the Renaissance Army has also made great innovations.
Unlike fossil fuels, electricity cannot be stored in large quantities.
The electricity generated must be used in time.
Therefore, it is not only necessary to generate electricity, but also to use it.
Like a hydropower station, when the water storage reaches a certain level, it must be released even if no one uses the electricity.
Then it will be empty.
How to use electricity? In this era, no one knows it better than Dong Shuheng.
After all, he comes from an era when it was impossible to live a normal life without electricity.
He can't handle TV sets, computers, and cell phones.
But the principles of electric fans, lights, refrigerators, air conditioners, trams...these things are not complicated.
Some people even wrote articles criticizing Xu Shou for accompanying the president to create things for people to enjoy.
On the surface, he was criticizing Xu Shou, but in fact, he was insinuating that Dong Shuheng was not doing his job properly.
However, when these people sat reading under the electric lamp, they found that it was so bright and there was no smell of oil smoke, and they also enjoyed it very much.
When they sit in the air-conditioned office in the summer, they will also feel comfortable.
When they eat fresh deep-sea fish that has been frozen, they will also be full of praise.
At this time, who would say that these things are strange and strange?
There are more and more trams on the streets of Xinjing, and their speeds are getting faster and faster.
More and more people choose trams to travel.
Many roads in the city have begun to be renovated to adapt to the needs of trams.
The street lights were changed to bright electric lights.
An electrified railway from Xinjingcheng to Dagukou has been renovated.
The locomotive driven by an electric motor is also extremely powerful and does not make so much noise or billowing black smoke, giving people a different riding experience.
When Dong Shuheng came to the Electric Power Research Institute this time, what he really paid attention to was not these gadgets, but a large iron tower erected on the West Mountain.
Dong Shuheng and Xu Shou have been tinkering with radio communications for some time.
Ever since Xu Shou figured out the principle of radio, he devoted his main energy to it.
Facts have proved that when a scientific genius devotes himself to one thing, he can always surprise people.
This time, the equipment on this tower was used to complete communication experiments with Tamna Island, a thousand kilometers away, Taiwan Island, three thousand kilometers away, and Guam, five thousand kilometers away.
It proves that radio waves can already propagate up to 5,000 kilometers, and if research continues, its propagation distance will be even further.
Dong Shuheng could finally communicate freely with Amelia.
With wireless connections, the entire Greater China Circle is truly closely connected.
In order to roll out the radio network as soon as possible, Dong Shuheng immediately decided to form a radio company and began to build base stations and lay out the network along the Pacific Ocean.
Cable telegraphy will eventually gradually withdraw from the market.
Because time was tight, Dong Shuheng also allowed the state-owned company to issue part of its shares to the public to obtain funds faster.
The initial investment in communication towers is quite large, but the returns are also high.
With the advent of wireless communication technology, things like broadcasting will naturally become a monk.
Maybe Dong Shuheng will soon be able to enjoy afternoon tea while listening to the news on the radio.
This new media model can allow many illiterate people to understand the country's major policies, which will change the perception of the entire public and the management model of the entire society.
In layman's terms, it will be increasingly difficult for local officials to fool the people who have listened to the radio in the future.
This will also strengthen the power of the center, because part of the power to control public opinion will be taken away.
It used to be said that imperial power did not go to the countryside. In fact, the voice of the central government could not reach the local areas.
Most of the people are illiterate and can only understand the outside world through sight and hearing.
Only the landowners and gentry in the local area had access to news from the outside world, so public opinion was controlled by these people.
But think about the lives of later generations. The channels for people to obtain information have become wider, and people are still as easy to fool as the ancients.
Dong Shuheng decided to use half a year to connect the wireless telegraph between Canada and Donghua.
This matter is very urgent because it is related to an important deployment of his future.
The uninhabited islands previously controlled by the Renaissance Army in the Pacific can now finally be put to use.
From Guam to the east are the Marshall Islands, and further east are the Hawaiian Islands. The base stations in the Hawaiian Islands can already be connected to the Amelia Mainland.
In fact, the number of signal towers that need to be established just to establish a connection is not very large.
The Renaissance Army has actually had the ability to lay submarine cables for a long time, but they have not done so just to wait for the advent of wireless telegraphy.
You must know that laying cables on the Pacific Ocean is a big project, and Dong Shuheng does not want to undertake such a big project that can only be used for a few years.
However, there was one thing that almost shocked Dong Shuheng's eyes.
Xu Shou actually told him that he wanted to study the transmission of electricity through radio waves.
Hold the grass~Tesla coil?
The principle of radio is that the radio waves emitted by a high-power coil are received.
Then the received weak electrical signal is amplified to transmit the information through the designed code.
This process is actually the transmission of electricity.
Dong Shuheng had to sigh that Xu Shou was really a scientific genius.
As the number one investor in the Electric Power Laboratory, Dong Shuheng naturally gave his full support.
No matter what Xu Shou wants to study, there is no need to consider the issue of funding.
The income from the electrical appliance factory they established alone was enough for him to spend.
Nowadays, Yuan-style air conditioners, refrigerators and other items produced by electrical appliance factories are considered luxury goods.
The nobles and wealthy Chinese businessmen in hot areas such as Southeast Asia and India are the main consumer groups.
There was no electricity in the area, so people from the electrical appliance company helped them build small power plants.
Therefore, electrical appliances are sold in complete sets. Once the set is built, it cannot be built without spending eighteen thousand taels.
But as long as one person has these things, people around him will want to do something for themselves after seeing it.
It’s not that people living in tropical areas are not afraid of heat, they don’t like it either.
In that hot environment, even the experience of "playing poker" with the wives and concubines at home will be greatly reduced.
Perhaps the most popular salesman in Nanyang currently belongs to Xinhua Electrical Appliance Company.
The emergence of electrification has also changed the offshore fishing industry.
The original ocean fishing was actually whaling, because whale oil could be processed and stored directly on the ship.
As for the meat, it was basically wasted because it was difficult to preserve.
But after the emergence of ice machines and freezers.
Some large-scale fishing vessels of the Renaissance Army have begun to install cold storage rooms so that fish caught in distant oceans can be transported back to the port and transported to various places using cold chains.
Don’t underestimate this small change. You must know that there are a large number of fish farms in the entire Pacific region, many of which have not been developed until now. For example, the Beihai fish farm and Donghua fish farm.
How much more food sources can this provide for people?
Soon another important industry will appear in the Donghua Empire - fishery.
It can be said that among all the laboratories, Dong Shuheng spends the most energy here.
Xu Shou was responsible for figuring out the principles, and he was responsible for coming up with ideas.
Although he is not a professional, he only needs to tell the general principles of some things he has remembered.
This genius inventor can make real objects very quickly.
This collaboration between the two rarely fails.
Dong Shuheng was shocked by Xu Shou's hands-on and practical ability.
Xu Shou also always lamented that the president had so many things to do every day, why did he still have so many fantastic ideas in his mind?
How many brains does he have? Otherwise, how could he think of so many things?