Master Yuan, start!

Having the guards wait outside, Yuan Xiangcheng walked into the factory as cautiously as possible and was not discovered until he got close.

"Master Yuan Yuan, how come you got here so quickly?"

The young Chinese student studying in the United States, who was lying on the table, and the telegraph expert Niu Shangzhou only then realized that someone was coming and quickly stood up.

"It's okay. I just couldn't hide my excitement, so I rushed south." Yuan Xiangcheng grabbed Niu Shangzhou's arm and calmed him down.

"What was the result?"

"Sir Yuan, please look!" When asked about his expertise, Niu Shangzhou was no longer so nervous and pointed to a wooden box with a crank handle.

"This is the idea of ​​wireless telegraphy which Your Excellency mentioned to me two years ago. Allow me to demonstrate it to Your Excellency."

"Brother Yaoru, do as I taught you before and quickly shake the handle in front of you!"

Niu Shangzhou's voice came from the other end, and Song Yaoru on the side immediately did as he was told.

Yuan Xiangcheng only heard a rhythmic crackling sound coming from the equipment in front of him, and then it became quiet.

After a while, Niu Shangzhou ran over from the other end of the factory with a piece of white paper in his hand with three big words "Year of Jiawu" written on it.

"Master Yuan, look!"

Niu Shangzhou handed the paper to Yuan Xiangcheng and said, "This is the telegram sent by radio!"

"It worked?!" Yuan Xiangcheng looked at the Morse code on the paper, still a little bit in disbelief.

As early as when he established the Beiyang University, Yuan Shikai had thought about bringing radio to market in advance.

At the end of the 19th century, when radio was just beginning, Marconi of Italy, Popov of Tsarist Russia, and Tesla of the United States all discovered the effect of wireless communication almost at the same time and conducted experiments independently.

Yuan Xiangcheng knew how powerful radio was on the military battlefield, so he naturally turned his attention to this "emerging industry"

Therefore, he specially selected Niu Shangzhou, who had studied telegraph and communications, from among the young Chinese students studying in the United States who were rushing to Korea. He told him about the vision of radio and asked him to conduct experimental research.

In addition, Yuan Xiangcheng did not think of working in isolation. Every month, he would send people to collect the latest radio-related science magazines in Europe and the United States and provide them to Niu Shangzhou for reference.

Fortunately, the earliest radio was not a high-tech product, otherwise it would not have been invented by scholars from different countries at the end of the 19th century.

Therefore, Niu Shangzhou, who had studied in Boston, finally invented a radio with a range of about 50 meters under the guidance of Yuan Xiangcheng.

"It's a pity that the radio range is only more than 10 meters, far from the hundreds or thousands of miles that Lord Yuan said." After the initial excitement, Niu Shangzhou began to calm down.

9. "It's okay. This is already a great achievement. What's left is just some adjustments and polishing!" Yuan Xiangcheng held Niu Shangzhou's hands tightly and encouraged him.

In his opinion, if there is one, there will be two. If it can communicate for 50 meters, it can communicate for 500 meters or 5000 meters.

It took only three years for Marconi, the father of the telegraph, to invent radio and for wireless telegraph to cross the 40-kilometer English Channel.

The Second Industrial Revolution has just begun, and China is now on the same starting line as them in these emerging industries.

A small radio was invented by Marconi who had never been to school. There is no reason why Chinese who had studied abroad could not do it!

3. "How could Lord Yuan Yuan be so certain?"

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Lingniu Shangzhou was a little frightened. When he was studying in the United States, he was often despised and was often insulted by white people as having a pig's brain. No one had ever encouraged him like this.

"Of course, Wenqing." Yuan Xiangcheng patted his shoulder and spoke cordially about a recent piece of news:

"The foreigners said that the Yalu River's iron currents were too fast to build a bridge, as it would be washed away if built.

But Minister Zhan didn't believe it and had already used the compressed air caisson method to drive the first pile into the ground. The whole project would be completed soon.

We Chinese are no worse than foreigners!"

"Yes, Master Yuan!"

Niu Shangzhou had never been exposed to such a corny praise-style education before. He was so excited that he trembled all over and vowed to develop a radio that could communicate over hundreds of miles.

...

After the excitement, at the invitation of Song Yaoru, the president of Lushun University, the three of them strolled around the campus.

However, after walking only a few hundred meters, Yuan Xiangcheng saw a huge cubic stone pillar with a side length of 2 meters and a height of more than 10 meters standing in the center of the campus.

"Principal Song, what is this?"

Yuan Xiangcheng was a little puzzled.

Seeing this, Song Yaoru took a half step forward and explained, "Sir Yuan, this is a mixture of steel bars and cement. After drying, it will be as hard as stone."

Reinforced concrete? Yuan Xiangcheng hadn't expected to see a finished product so soon. In his mind, reinforced concrete urban jungles wouldn't appear on American streets until the 20s and 10s.

After he walked in and looked up, he found that the outer wall of the cubic stone pillar was bare, which seemed a little too simple.

"Principal Song, why did you build this stone pillar?"

"Mr. Yuan, you may not know that I am the director of Minghou Cement Factory." Song Yaoru lowered his head and explained the reason:

"Because the cement produced by Minghou before was too easy to crack, it was not selling well. In order to improve the quality, we hired scholars who studied in the United States to conduct research last year.

This person invented some kind of silicate cement and mixed it with the popular American reinforcement method. Sure enough, it did not fall down or crack.

Therefore, I had this pillar built in the academy, inviting merchants to view it and making it easier to sell to the north and south."

"I see."

Yuan Xiangcheng nodded and remembered the origin of cement.

He didn't have a deep understanding of the civil engineering industry. It was only in his previous life when he saw a short video introducing the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge that he learned about the difference between different cements.

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However, I only have a superficial understanding of two types of cement: silicate cement and alumina cement. The former was invented by the Japanese in 1893, and the latter was invented by the French before World War I.

Portland cement is the most common and is mostly used in civil construction, while alumina cement is mostly used in engineering emergency and military rescue due to its fast hardening and seawater corrosion resistance.

The latter is the most widely used on the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge.

"Besides that," Song Yaoru saw Yuan Xiangcheng was lost in thought and said after hesitating for a moment:

"The newly built Lushun University coincided with the invention of radio. Therefore, I would like to ask Lord Yuan to grant me a special gift of calligraphy. I will have it engraved on this stone pillar to highlight Lord Yuan's contribution to educating the people outside the Great Wall!"

Do you want the school name written in my own handwriting?

Song Yaoru is a bit too scheming! Yuan Xiangcheng thought of the experience of the man in front of him.

Song Yaoru, a young student studying in the United States, was a close friend of telegraph expert Niu Shangzhou.

In order to provide Niu Shangzhou with a good and unaffected scientific research environment, Yuan Shikai finally chose Song Yaoru as the president of Lushun University.

Of course, Song Yaoru's ability to maneuver and coordinate with many parties is also the reason why Yuan Shikai valued him.

However, the reason why he was appointed as the president of Port Arthur University was because Song Yaoru was an "acquaintance", which was why Yuan Shikai chose him among the many young children studying in the United States.

Thinking of this, Yuan Xiangcheng stared at Song Yaoru closely. In the middle of summer, he almost made his hair stand on end.

"This is a trivial matter. I will send someone to deliver the school name after I return to Shengjing."

Yuan Xiangcheng finally spoke, which made Song Yaoru breathe a sigh of relief.

"Thank you very much, Master Yuan."

Song Yaoru bowed and immediately led Yuan Shikai to move forward.

"I wonder if my children at home are in good health?" Yuan Xiangcheng suddenly asked as he walked across a green area.

"Our little daughter Ailing can already walk, and Qingling is still breastfeeding. They are both at home in Hainan." Song Yaoru thought Yuan Shikai was just chatting about family matters, so he replied seriously.

"Let's take them to the border." Yuan Xiangcheng thought about it and said, "Even if it's cold in the Northeast, we can put them in the southern part of Korea, which is closer."

"My wife had this in mind earlier. Now that Lord Yuan has spoken, I will write home soon to urge them to go north."

"Okay." Yuan Xiangcheng turned his back and put the matter of the three Song sisters behind him.

In this life, there will be no more "Da Qiao of the Republic of China"

Chapter 203 From East Asia to West Asia

In 1894, the sun was still in the northern hemisphere. The Jiawu year in this time and space was far more lively than that in the parallel time and space.

In East Asia, China, which has been divided for three years, seems to have ushered in the dawn of unification. Whether it is the unification of the South and the North, or the unification of the North and the South, it seems to be the responsibility of all Chinese people.

Even though Yang Changjun of the "Chu faction" entrenched in the northwest, and Liu Bingzhang of the "Chuanhuai faction" occupying the southwest remained silent, everyone in the world understood that they were simply raising prices and waiting to be won over.

The situation is on the verge of breaking out, and many people abroad are paying attention to this operation.

In Southeast Asia, after Vietnam "fell" into the hands of the French, resistance throughout the country never stopped.

Although the Black Flag Army stranded on the Sino-Vietnamese border was still fighting guerrilla warfare tenaciously with the secret support of Li Hongzhang, the French rule in major cities such as Hanoi, Da Nang and Saigon was becoming increasingly solid.

Seeing that independence was hopeless, many Vietnamese scholars chose to join the French.

Studying in Paris became the first choice for wealthy southern Vietnamese business families because they had benefited from their contacts with the French decades ago, and some even converted to Catholicism.

In order to show their "kindness" and demonstrate the greatness of the Gallic rooster, the French welcome all Vietnamese who choose to study in Paris.

When some people surrender, others will choose to resist.

When Vietnam was a vassal state of China, some people may not have much respect for this great country in the north, but as the saying goes, you only know how to cherish something after you lose it.

Compared with France's colonial practices of capturing people for mining and oppression, many people deeply miss China's vassal relationship that only cares about status and not actual benefits.

Therefore, many traditional scholars in northern Vietnam who were deeply influenced by Confucian culture did not choose to follow the French path.

In the following period, they went north one after another. Some went to Li Hongzhang, some went to Liu Kunyi, and some even traveled thousands of miles from the tropics to the northeast, hoping to seek ways to save the country from Yuan Shikai.

The National Defense Force's southward advance touched the hearts of many Vietnamese people.

On the west side of the South China Sea, in addition to Vietnam, there is another country that cannot be ignored.

At this time, Siam was in the reign of King Chulalongkorn, the most famous monarch in history.

Decades earlier, Britain had already encroached on Myanmar through two Anglo-Burmese Wars, and Siam was already facing crises to the west.

The British also established the "Straits Settlements" on the Malacca Peninsula in the south. With one sea and one land, the Siamese had opened their country's doors.

If we add the Laos and Cambodia regions to the east of Siam, which had become French colonies, Britain and France would have formed a three-way sandwich on Siam.

At this time, Chulalongkorn was struggling between Britain and France, trying to find a glimmer of hope for Siam.

On the east side of the South China Sea, the story of what happened in the Philippines spread throughout the Southeast Asia. This was the first time in decades that the local forces in East Asia had fought head-on and defeated the European colonists.

Therefore, for the first time, Chulalongkorn began to pay attention to the distant and unfamiliar "China" in the north, which he had only seen in the family tree.

It is impossible to expect Britain and France to voluntarily give up their covetousness for Siamese land. The Governor-General of Guangdong and Guangxi of the Qing Dynasty was able to send troops to defeat the Spanish colonial fleet even when the country was in a state of division. This seems to prove that it is not impossible to defeat the colonizers by relying on the strength of East Asians themselves.