Chapter 1065: The Light of Ming Dynasty's Technology (Second Update, Please Subscribe)

Just as Sanford and others said, by the time the world learned about the changes in Hawaii, at least ten or twenty days had passed.

In this era of wired telegraph, this was a normal thing in Hawaii where there were no telegraph lines, but... thanks to the invention of wireless telegraph, thanks to the high-power transmission tower of the Empire's Midway Island Naval Radio Telegraph Relay Station.

Just a few hours later, Emperor Zhu Da learned of the incident in Hawaii and he simply indicated "I know".

After more than ten years of patience, Hawaii was finally obtained. As for what to do next, both the Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Imperial Navy will implement them according to the corresponding plan.

What was the plan? It was nothing more than the Imperial Foreign Office engaging in a war of words with the Americans and the British in various diplomatic venues, while at the same time the Imperial Navy would send out a fleet to demonstrate its resolve.

Of course, at the same time, a series of methods such as appeals to the International Court of Justice will be used to demonstrate that the establishment of the Republic of Hawaii is legal and is the choice of local residents.

As for the Ming Empire, it was just helping the local people resist the American invasion and realize their wishes.

Hawaii is an independent country!

Of course, for the citizens of the empire on this day, they would not be able to see this news for at least the next half month. For the citizens of the empire, this was just an extremely ordinary day.

It was already past 11 o'clock in the evening when I left the school laboratory and returned to the apartment.

Shen Hongyu lived in an apartment that was renovated during the post-war reconstruction of Huizhou. Most of the people living here were of low-income European descent. There was a strange smell in the staircase. When he passed the second floor, he heard a young couple arguing. They lived downstairs from him.

"How can you say that?"

"You have accomplished nothing! You have accomplished nothing! If you could speak Chinese, you would have found a decent job long ago..."

They were speaking Italian, and Shen Hongyu could only understand a few words.

There was a slamming of a door and a baby crying. A family shouted out their protest from their balcony. This was the symphony of apartments every night, and it was normal in this neighborhood.

In fact, as a junior high school teacher, Shen Hongyu could have applied to live in an elegant residential area where the residents are workers, teachers and the like. The reason he did not live there is that it is only 200 meters away from the school, and he is not willing to ride a bicycle for half an hour every time for a good living environment.

I climbed up the stairs to the third floor and opened the door of my room. Because the balcony door was not closed, the breeze blew into the room, making the air in the room seem very fresh. This apartment has five rooms: a living room with a simple wooden dining table and chairs, all of which are very good old craftsmanship. Two bedrooms, a bathroom, and a small kitchen.

This house is a type of people's apartment that was built in large quantities according to standardized drawings during the reconstruction of Rio de Janeiro. The people's apartments were built to show the happy life of the Huizhou people under the rule of the empire. They were rebuilt by demolishing slums and have several apartment types, including 46 square meters, 70 square meters, and 79 square meters.

Before Shen Hongyu moved in here, this place belonged to a Portuguese couple. After they obtained work permits from other places, they left here, and then Shen Hongyu moved in.

Shen Hongyu stood on the balcony for a while, looking at the quiet streets outside the window. Then he walked into the living room and went to his office. The narrow room was filled with messy manuscripts and books, most of which were books on electromagnetism.

“…”

He stared at the manuscript in front of him. In the past few years, as a middle school physics teacher, he has been engaged in electromagnetism research in his spare time.

As we all know, the electromagnetism of the Ming Dynasty has always been at the forefront of the world, even far ahead of Europe and the United States. Without electromagnetism, there would be no modern electrical engineering, and there would be no modern civilization. In the past twelve years, scholars such as James Clerk Maxwell, who taught at the University of South China, have brought the electromagnetism of the Ming Dynasty to another level. As a result, many talented people have emerged in the academic community of electromagnetism.

Shen Hongyu, a junior high school teacher, has been studying the "electromagnetic waves" predicted by Maxwell because of his interest in electromagnetism. However, his predictions were calculated, and no one has verified the existence of electromagnetic waves through experiments.

What Shen Hongyu wants to prove is the existence of "electromagnetic waves"!

In fact, people's interest started completely by chance. Four years ago in the summer, Shen Hongyu, who was still in high school, went to the University of South China for a study tour during the summer vacation. He had the honor of listening to Maxwell's speech. He proposed a physics competition topic to the students, asking them to use experimental methods to verify the existence of electromagnetic waves in order to verify his theory.

"If any of you can prove it, the physics department of the University of South China will open its doors to you!"

From then on, Shen Hongyu started to conduct research in this area. That year, he was 18 years old and in his second year of high school.

His original intention was simple, that is, to enter Nanhua University, which was the highest temple in the hearts of all Ming Dynasty students. Although Maxwell died of illness shortly after that study tour, he did not give up his research in this area. Later, he was admitted to the provincial normal school, still studying physics. He studied physics teaching.

Two years ago, in the school laboratory, Shen Hongyu was doing a spark discharge experiment with a discharge coil and accidentally discovered that a spark jumped in an unclosed insulating coil nearby. From that day on, he keenly thought that this might be electromagnetic resonance. From then on until now, Shen Hongyu has been concentrating on conducting various experiments on the characteristics of electromagnetic waves. First, he repeatedly changed the shape of the conductor, the type of medium, the distance between the discharge coil and the induction coil, and finally confirmed the existence of electromagnetic waves. He used an unclosed circuit connected to the induction coil as a transmitter, and placed an unclosed loop nearby as a detector. When the induction coil generated a spark discharge, a spark jumped across the air gap of the detector.

Thousands of experiments convinced Shen Hongyu that he had confirmed the existence of electromagnetic waves. Excited, he began to write his thesis. In the narrow study, looking at the manuscript on the table, Shen Hongyu's expression seemed a little serious. He flipped through the paper again, and after checking it carefully over and over again, it was not until after four in the morning that he muttered to himself.

“Now, I can finally send it out.”

Early in the morning, facing the cool sea breeze, Shen Hongyu, who had not slept all night, rode his bicycle to school. When he passed a green mailing box, he took out a large envelope from his bag and checked the address on it for the last time.

“Nature Magazine, 276 Chang’an Avenue, Nanhua.”

When Shen Hongyu stuffed the envelope containing the paper into the mailbox, he did not leave immediately. He just rode his bicycle. Sitting on the seat, he took out a pack of cigarettes from his bag, smoked a cigarette, lit it, and then smoked silently, waiting for the postman to arrive.

Almost half an hour later, the postman came. He breathed a sigh of relief after watching the postman take away the big envelope and other letters...

I have set up a book club: 335260551. Everyone is welcome to join and discuss and deduce the plot together.

(End of this chapter)