The framework of the Nanning Jinyiwei Hundred House Office was basically formed, and the civilian ships collected were in place. Zhao Peng planned to leave Nanning and go to Guangzhou. After arriving in Guangzhou, he would also build a Jinyiwei Thousand House Office in Guangzhou. There are two fast communication methods for communication between the Jinyiwei Thousand House Office and the Hundred House Office. In addition to the traditional flying pigeon letter transmission, Zhao Peng also invented the communication method for the transmission of the Kongming lanterns of the tower.

The speed of a flying pigeon is much faster than the method of expediting the fast horse. A well-trained excellent carrier pigeon can fly at a speed of about 110 kilometers per hour, and can fly ten to sixteen hours a day, which means it can fly 1,500 kilometers a day. It only takes less than two days to send the letter from Nanjing to Nanning. It will be released the morning of the first day and arrive at noon the next day.

But this is limited to well-trained excellent carrier pigeons. Such excellent carrier pigeons are valuable and are selected from many carrier pigeons. After training, they become excellent carrier pigeons. Moreover, in order to prevent the loss of letters, you must release more than a dozen or even dozens of such excellent carrier pigeons when flying out at one time.

Therefore, the cost of delivering letters from Fei Ge is not low, and the speed of encountering the most urgent thing is not that fast. In fact, in ancient times, the fastest way to transmit information was the beacon tower.

In ancient times, the transmission of beacon smoke signals was a beacon tower every eight to ten miles. The information transmission speed between the two beacon towers was simply the speed of light, and the speed of long-distance transmission of beacon signals mainly depends on the speed of soldiers igniting beacon fires. During the Tang Dynasty, the beacon fire transmission speed level could reach 7,000 miles a day. The enemy situation occurred at Yumen Pass, and Chang'an knew that that night.

During the Ming Dynasty, the Mongols came to attack Datong, and Yanjing would get information in one hour; the Jurchens attacked Shanhaiguan, and Yanjing would get news in one hour.

However, it is impossible to set up beacon towers everywhere in the Ming Dynasty, especially in the south where there is no foreign invasion. Therefore, Zhao Peng adopted the method of a high tower, setting up a high platform every ten kilometers, that is, twenty miles. The signal transmission does not rely on beacon smoke, but on Kongming lanterns.

Multiple Kongming lanterns of different colors can convey the required information. One end of the Kongming lantern is connected to the tower with a rope. After transmitting the signal conversion, the Kongming lantern can be recycled and used again next time, which greatly saves the cost of information transmission.

The Kongming lanterns of different colors are not the same color as each Kongming lantern, but each Kongming lantern may be a long string, with lanterns of different colors hanging below, forming a set of passwords. A communication tower emits the Kongming lanterns, and the next communication tower ten kilometers away sees the signal, immediately hangs a group of Kongming lanterns and transmits the signal to the next beacon tower.

This new style of Kongming lantern is a large Kongming lantern, with a string of lanterns hanging below. There are seven colors of lanterns, and a pair of Kongming lanterns can be hung with five lanterns. According to different arrangement orders, a password representing information is formed.

This kind of password is different from the number codes sent by Fei Ge. A string of lanterns hanging on a Kongming lantern cannot represent only a number, but represent a sentence. If a string of lanterns represents a word, how many pairs of lanterns have to be released at that time? As for the sentences represented, they are all commonly used sentences in military and espionage activities.

For example, one arrangement order is: the bandits are attacking; another card type method is to attack Jiannu, and then hang up another pair of Kongming lanterns. The arrangement order above represents the number of enemy soldiers.

With this communication method, two or three pairs of Kongming lanterns can be clearly explained.

According to the plan formulated by Zhao Peng, the Jinyiwei will build signal towers along the river for more than 1,200 miles from Nanning to Guangzhou. Every twenty miles, a brick-and-wood structure tower is 80 meters high. A total of 60 towers are needed from Nanning to Guangzhou, and 120 people are required to maintain the normal operation of the signal tower.

Zhao Peng has written the specific plan for building the signal tower in his notebook and handed it over to Cai Laoliu for implementation. After arriving in Guangzhou, he will build the Jinyiwei Thousand Household Office in Guangzhou, and a signal tower from Guangzhou to Fujian will also be built.

The day when Zhao Peng left Nanning was coming, there were gongs and drums on the pier by the Yongjiang River. More than 200 newly-engraved Jinyiwei wore brand new big red mandarin duck battle jackets and goose yellow fan hats. They arranged neatly and neatly arranged on the pier to send Zhao Peng and his group on board.

Amid the sound of firecrackers, teams of Jinyiwei in front of them wearing black flying fish suits, six-petaled iron helmets or wingless black gauze hats arranged neatly and walked towards the ships parked by the river. In the middle of the team, Zhao Peng, wearing purple flying fish suits and wingless black gauze hats, walked towards the large ship parked on the dock under a group of Jinyiwei in big red flying fish suits and wingless black gauze hats. Behind Zhao Peng and others, a team of Jinyiwei was driving two prison vans, and two guys in python robes were installed.

These two gorgeously dressed prisoners are King Gui Zhu Youlang and King Lu Zhu Changqing. Although they are already under prison, they are the princes of the Ming Dynasty. Except for His Majesty the Emperor and the Sect Mansion, the Jinyiwei has no right to deal with them. Therefore, Zhao Peng did not take off their python robes and put them in prison uniforms. Instead, he let them wear python robes and ride in the prison car. However, the wing crown on his head was taken off, his hair was untied, and his hair was stuffed into the prison car with disheveled hair.

As the conch roared, sails rose from ships of all sizes. The boatmen on the ship pushed the boat off the shore with bamboo poles and slowly entered the middle of the river. The sails of ships of all sizes were full of the wind and went downstream.

The fleet sails toward the east, and it is the season when the southeast wind is blowing, and it is not a good wind. However, the sails turn at a certain angle so that the ship can move forward in crosswinds or even against the wind. As long as it is not facing the headwinds and has a little angle, the sails can sail with the help of wind.

The fleet sailed on the river surface. After a whole day of sailing, the fleet passed Hengzhou and entered the wide Xijiang River. From here, you can reach Wuzhou. After passing Wuzhou, it was Zhaoqing. The Governor's Office of Guangdong and Guangxi was not in Guangzhou, but in Zhaoqing.

However, Zhao Peng did not intend to establish a Jinyiwei Qianhu Office in Zhaoqing. He only planned to establish a Jinyiwei Qianhu Office in Wuzhou and Zhaoqing. After all, Zhaoqing is not the central city of South China. The central city in South China is Guangzhou. It has a new Jinyiwei Qianhu Office in Guangzhou, which governs ten Jinyiwei Qianhu Offices, including Zhaoqing, Wuzhou, Nanning, Liucheng, Guilin, Shaozhou, Chaozhou, Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, Fuzhou, etc.

Wuchang and Hangzhou also set up a Jinyiwei Thousand Household Office. Wuchang Jinyiwei Thousand Household Office is under the jurisdiction of Nanchang, Jiujiang, Yuezhou, Changsha, Hengzhou, Ganzhou and other Jinyiwei Thousand Household Office; Hangzhou Jinyiwei Thousand Household Office is under the jurisdiction of Shaoxing, Ningbo, Jinhua, Wenzhou and other Jinyiwei Thousand Household Office is under the jurisdiction of Nanjing Jinyiwei.

To the north of the Yangtze River, except for Yangzhou, Huaian and Xuzhou, each set up a Jinyiwei Hundred House, the rest of the cities did not set up official Jinyiwei Hundred Houses, but instead used scattered Jinyiwei spies to operate in various places. After all, in places where the enemy and our forces intersect, Jinyiwei is a secret agent organization.

The cages that imprisoned King Gui Zhu Youlang and King Lu Zhu Changqing were placed on Zhao Peng's boat. As the ship went downstream, it was getting closer and closer to Guangzhou, and the two kings were uneasy.

After nightfall, Zhao Peng asked someone to open the cage and invited Zhu Youlang and Zhu Changqing to his cockpit to drink.

"Two princes, please." Zhao Peng asked the two to sit down.

"Xiao Wang doesn't dare." Zhu Youlang and Zhu Changqing bowed respectfully to the ground and said in unison.

"You two, after all, are the princes of the Zhu family of the Ming Dynasty. I have no right to deal with you. Please sit down and have a few drinks." Zhao Peng said with a smile.
Chapter completed!