Chapter 440 What a good opportunity!

@@@@@@@@@@ "Is it too much for you to do this?"

"Don't say command, I didn't even participate."

In the new garden at night, a huge white curtain was pulled up. A photographer next to the tripod behind shook the projector. Du Dazhuang gathered a bunch of guards and maids with big eyes and proudly explained to everyone what a movie was. As for the four princes and princesses, they were holding small benches and staring curiously. The flashing picture on the white curtain screamed from time to time, especially when Li Mo was standing on the warship, holding a telescope pointing at the figure in front of her. The two princesses, Le Ning and Lexi, ran over, shaking Li Mo's arms left and right, and her young and pretty face turned red with shouting.

"Father, look, it's you! It's you!"

"I see my father."

"Yes, yes, I saw it."

"Stop, if I shake it again, I will be stunned by you."

Li Mo said dizzy, but he was not to mention how happy he was. For a traveler, family and children mean that he is still living in reality, otherwise I'm afraid that everyone will be tortured by reality and illusory problems.

Although the children are very noisy, they still make him very happy. Unlike the boudoir family education these days, Li Mo does not like to restrain their children. In his opinion, they should have room for personal growth.

This does not mean that he does not attach importance to education. On the contrary, as a later generation, he attaches great importance to this and even personally guides him from time to time. However, he did not follow the ancient court education methods. The eldest son Li Rong (the previous chapter was written as the crown prince, here is an apology) and the eldest princess Li Lening were sent to the ordinary Mongolian school outside. The classes are quietly sent by the guards dressed as writers, and only a few people in the school know the identity of the two. This method seems to be a little tedious and ridiculous, but the children like it very much, because they find that they can live a normal life. What's more, he doesn't like to raise the children in the boudoir compound, otherwise they are afraid of this Life is ruined, and the child's childhood also needs friends and partners.

In addition to the education of children, after the abolition of the eight-part and imperial examination system in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Li Mo also immediately implemented free education for all. As a guest of later generations, he knows very well how good the education of people's surnames and morality in traditional Sinology education is. To put it bluntly, it is the backbone edified by thousands of years. Later generations are because of these things. The lack of the West made the country fall into a situation of impetuousness and lack of traditional morality, so he not only adopted Western education, but also strengthened traditional Sinology education. However, at that time, this was almost overwhelmed him with the huge expenditure. With the boom of electricity in various countries over the years, he transferred Tesla to him. All the benefits brought by the AC patent were invested in education, and some were collected from other projects, which barely maintained the situation.

It's just that he didn't expect that the first benefit of doing this was that Tesla came to him for the first time after learning the news and said thank you, which almost made him think that the awesome man was leaving.

Tesla is a very strange person. He doesn't like to develop weapons, so he basically doesn't take over Li Mo's research projects related to military industry. He only likes to study what he likes. Li Mo can't do anything about this, and there has always been a pimple in Tesla's heart, that is, he thinks that Li Mo will use the AC power he provided. After making money, he went to the army. It was not until he found that Li Mo had devoted himself to education that he untied this knot. He really calmed down to contribute to the Xinhua Academy of Sciences, and even took the initiative to say that he could go to Yanjing University as a guest professor.

The second benefit is that Li Mo didn't expect that the children who got the opportunity to go to school for free, especially the children of the poor, were sent to school by many parents who shouted "Long live the emperor" with tears, and all of them actually thought that they were students of the emperor, which made Li Mo's prestige among the people has increased a lot. Even many old scholars transferred from private schools are punishing students for beating their palms with one sentence: "As a student of the emperor, it is a blessing for the emperor to pay tuition for you to study on your behalf, but you don't study hard and don't want to be loyal to the king to serve the country. It's time!"

A few boards. Although it hurts, it has a huge prestige of the royal family, which is really unexpected.

So Li Mo did not consider continuing to strengthen the royal family and his own prestige in the people, but Li Enfu and Chen Ping did not think so. In their opinion, the appeal was obviously not enough to rely on the newspaper's long-term publicity of the emperor's contribution to the country and education, so this edited and recorded the West. In the silent film of the Battle of Bilu Island, he actually cut several pictures of himself watching the battle on the Honolulu to a series of scenes of warships being sunk, as if he were under the command of his own wise command, and then sank a Russian [***] ship, and finally ushered in victory.

These pictures make Li Mo laugh and cry. Isn't this cheating?

"Your Majesty, this is not a joke, and you did watch the whole process of the naval battle on the Honolulu at that time. Besides, if it weren't for your overall layout, there would be no victory for us, so this credit should belong to you." Li Enfu said with a straight face.

"Have you ever thought about it? What will the soldiers think when they see it?"

"We have thought about this. Although it was Long Guozhang who commanded the battle at the beginning, you were indeed on the Honolulu at that time. Not only would they not feel strange when the movie was released, but they would think that you had been commanding on the side. They just didn't want to cause psychological pressure on the soldiers, so they deliberately distanced themselves." Chen Ping also had a straight face and did not mean to let Li Mo refuse at all. He continued, "As for those officers, I have already explained them, not to mention that they themselves said that they were your officers and fleets. If you hadn't built a new battleship, they would not have won't win, so the greatest credit is It's yours!"

Looking at the flashing picture, Li Mo was also a little moved by their words. To be honest, he was not a person without selfishness, otherwise he would not choose to be an emperor. He did not want the royal family to be overthrown after his death, so he specified various legal restrictions, and compared with the long-standing European royal family, the Xinhua royal family is almost It has only been more than ten years since he rose to the ground, and there is basically no foundation. According to jokes, the most important thing he should do now is to raise his son desperately, and then open branches and leaves to strengthen his influence.

Of course, raising a son is not something that can be raised, and some auxiliary means must be adopted, so strengthening the education of the national monarch is a long-term process, and his biggest advantage is that at least the people around him are absolute confidants at present and can think of him everywhere, but the problem is that Li Enfu clearly knows that he has He will step down in five years. Who is the next prime minister? Whether we can continue to support the royal family is a question.

"Your Majesty, this is not a joke!"

After Li Enfu finished talking word by word, he looked at Li Mo with a very serious expression. As the first Prime Minister and followed Li Mo for so long, he knew very well that the ability of this young emperor. The gold and a large number of treasures in his hands alone were enough for him to do anything! So since Li Mo chose the constitutional monarchy, he knew that the young emperor was selfish, but Li Mo could say it frankly, which just confirmed that he never concealed his selfishness. This is the most rare place. After all, no one in the world dares to say that he had no intention for himself, so he was not worried about Li Mo after he left office. I can't control the situation, but I'm worried that the successor will not know how to force Li Mo to a Jedi. If such a newly stabilized country will fall into a turbulence again.

This is absolutely unacceptable to him, who loves this country and nation deeply.

That's why he supports strengthening the education of the monarch. It has been five years, and it will take another five years to continue to be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. In addition, he has also made the idea of choosing a better successor.

Li Enfu and Chen Ping's solemn expressions, even if Li Mo saw them for the first time, suddenly realized that they were not only for themselves, but also for the country. In their hearts, there may have been a long-term strategy, that is, to try their best to ensure the stability of the new state power when they are in power.

As long as the country prospers, and until a few decades later, the country is full of truly proud people who have been educated and grateful because of Li Mo, and when the king's power is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so that the people of the country think that there is nothing wrong with having an emperor with a symbolic surname, then the country will be truly stable.

The firm eyes of the two made Li Mo couldn't help but be moved. They gently patted the head of the youngest Princess Lexi. After letting her play by herself, she said softly, "Thank you."

A word of thanks settled the hearts of the king and ministers. Chen Ping and Li Enfu looked at each other and smiled, and they all let go of their minds.

In order to relieve the dullness just now, Li Mo smiled and pointed to the movie and asked, "Yuanshou, how much have you prepared for this?"

"No, I didn't prepare this." After putting down the biggest pimple in his heart, Chen Ping also recovered and smiled, "Your Majesty, you should ask the Prime Minister."

"Oh?" After turning his head, Li Enfu had already raised a finger with a smile. Li Mo was surprised and said, "One hundred copies? So much!"

"Your Majesty, this is not like your style. Haven't you always been a master? Enfu has naturally learned something with you over the years, so this time I have prepared a thousand to screen them on the National Day in a few days. Li Enfu laughed.

"A thousand copies!"

Emperor Li couldn't help but be stunned. Unexpectedly, Li Enfu was really willing to spend money for his glorious image. The price of film these days is not low, and Xinhua can't produce it by itself at present. It is definitely a high-end luxury.

"Ha ha, this time the emperor, you are ignorant." Chen Ping introduced with a smile: "There is a businessman named Song Jiashu in Shanghai. He used to live in the United States with his father. After returning, he has been doing business. When he returned to the United States the year before last, he actually bought all the film and camera film production technology and then returned to Shanghai to open a factory. However, there is still little use in this area in China, so there is a lack of inquiry. The camp is not good."

"It happens that we have to support a group of domestic businessmen and give him all the orders of the army and political axes, so this batch of film is provided by him, which is 30% lower than the import price of the United States."

"Song Jiashu?" Li Mo always felt that he had heard the name, but after thinking about it for a long time, he gave up. After all, he had met many celebrities when he came back, and he didn't care about listening to more. He immediately said, "Well, the film industry is very important. Not only should we support it well, but it's better to contact Chang Lin to send someone to study it. It's better to do it. If it is colored, it can also be installed on the plane to shoot automatically.

Color didn't think about it, but the installation of the plane moved Chen Ping's heart. He also felt that this method was very good. In this way, as long as he sent the plane to fly around the enemy, the situation was clear after he came back, so he immediately responded.

Afraid that Chen Ping and Li Enfu would not take it seriously, Li Mo said a few more words. You should know that the reconnaissance satellites of future generations need to use this thing, so the small film is definitely a high-end thing. It was not until both of them understood the important surname that he smiled and asked, "Yes, I heard that Europe is lively again?"

"Yes." When Li Enfu was about to speak, he happened to see another shot of the main gun in the movie. He immediately pointed to it and said, "It's all your fault. After Britain saw the power of the new battleship, Britain felt that the current Intrepid and five Lord Nelson-classes could not completely suppress us and the four German ships. Class and the Rhine, so the construction plan of three new battleships was added.

"Oh? Do you have any information?" As the BB Party, Li Mo is naturally well aware of Britain's strategy, that is, if Germany builds one, Britain must have two ships. However, after its own appearance, he does not know what new things Britain can take out after turning the Lord Nelson-class, which should have been only two, into five Lord Nelson-class dreadnaughtless ships.

"Yes, but it's not very detailed." Chen Ping was about to shake his head when he suddenly remembered a voice behind him. Before everyone looked back, Princess Le Ning had already cheered and rushed over.

"Euncle, have you brought me a new toy!" Le Ning almost hooked the comer's arm and almost leaned on him.

Duan Fei is the only one who can be called uncle by Le Ning. The intelligence officer, who is always cold-looking, completely changed his appearance when he saw his sister's daughter. With a smile, he took out a chessboard-like chessboard and a small cloth bag from behind him, and said dotingly, "Here, this is the most popular toy in France, called reading diamond. Shi, I have written the gameplay on it. Let's see who wins first.

"Oh! Thank you, uncle."

In the cheers, the four children roared like birds and grabbed the toys and rushed to study. Their cheering appearance made the four women who were obsessed with the glorious image of Emperor Li sneer.

"Your Majesty, Prime Minister, Chief of Staff." After greeting the three people one by one, Duan Fei took over the stool that Du Dazhuang had moved. He took out the information he had just received from the delivery bag and said, "I haven't got the details yet, but according to the preliminary display, it is likely to be Lord Nelson's improved version, because the information said that although I only saw a glance of the drawings, the layout of the naval gun and nothing The fear is basically similar to the Lord Nelson level.

"Or the old arrangement?" Li Mo sighed, which was really incredible for the stubbornness and conservatism of the British. If he could not achieve his skills, he would rather wait first. Anyway, with the speed and ability of British shipbuilding, he can come up with a battleship similar to Jilin-class battleships in a year at most. Why is it so urgent?

"So what's the reaction of other countries?" Duan Fei asked.

"Not yet, but the intelligence says that Germany has also learned about Britain's plan to add three ships, so we think they will follow up soon, but the exact model is not clear at present. In addition, France and Italy also have plans, and I heard that Austria-Hungary also have them." Duan Fei replied quickly.

"What about the United States?" After being messed up by himself, especially after the four first-generation Iahua class were inserted in the middle, Li Mo was also a little confused about the current total number of battleships in the United States, so he asked a question.

"Included in the construction, the United States currently has a total of eight classes, with a total of 26 battleships, including two in the Indiana class, three in the Iowa class, three in the Illinois class, two in the Chilsarge class, three in the Maine class, five in the Virginia class, six in the Connecticut class, and two in the Mississippi class, including Connecticut. The first three of the six G-class ships have been put into service, the last three are under construction, and the two Mississippi-class ships have been half completed, and are expected to be in service by early 1907 at the latest.

"In addition, in the past few years, they have also built about 12 first-class armored cruisers, with a main gun caliber of more than 203 mm, of which four Tennessee-class first-class armored cruisers are the strongest, with a displacement of 14,000 tons, but also two double 254 mm main guns and 16 152 The millimeter secondary gun and 22 76mm secondary guns also reached a speed of 22 knots.

"And the U.S. Congress recently passed the budget for two battleships, and we estimate that they may imitate the Jilin class."

The data provided by Duan Fei made Li Enfu take a breath first. He usually doesn't care much about these, and to be honest with the warships, he is completely a layman, but when he heard that the United States now has 21 battleships that can be taken out, he was still shocked.

Seeing this, Chen Ping frowned slightly and said, "Prime Minister, don't worry too much. The United States are all old-fashioned battleships, and 16 of them are in the Atlantic Ocean. It will take half a year to come over. However, the industrial strength of the United States is much stronger than that of Russia. If you really want to fight, I'm afraid that the battleships will double in three years. It's not a problem."

Li Mo was not very surprised after listening to it. After all, except for the three extra first-generation Yi Ahua class, he is familiar with everything else, but Chen Ping's words are good. The industrial capacity of the United States is too strong. It is really reckless. It is estimated that no country in the world can compare, but as just said, the biggest defect of the United States is shipbuilding. The industry is basically concentrated in the east, and the main force of the navy is also there. It bypasses the Magellan Strait from the east coast and reaches the west coast. The voyage is about 15,000 nautical miles. No matter how powerful the fleet travels such a long distance, it is not much better than Russia, so it is extremely critical to hold the Panama Canal!

Looking at the scene playing in the movie, Sa Zhenbing led Fengtian to single-handedly challenge two fast-level pictures, and the corners of his mouth evoked a sneer.

What a great opportunity! ......

(to be continued)