Clearly, those wealthy merchants and honored guests in the hotel, though seemingly influential, were not actually the ones in power. The truly powerful were already in Tang Mo's office.
The bearded envoy from Dorne to Brunas proudly assured Tang Mo, "Dorne's Fleet is ready, Lord Tang Mo. We can leave the port at any time and head to any location where you wish our warships to go. 20 first-rate warships, fully manned with sailors."
Upon learning that Tang Mo had canceled the banquet and declared that Great Tang Group's territory had been violated, he decisively sent a telegram back to his homeland.
The King of Dorne, upon receiving the telegram, naturally knew which side to take and immediately declared the Navy in a state of combat readiness.
At this moment, telecommunication demonstrated unprecedented power; less than an hour after receiving the message, a nation's king could order his troops to prepare for battle, something utterly unimaginable in the past.
The King of Dorne was fiercely proud, and after receiving the telegram reply from the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, he grasped the telegraph paper as if he held the universe in his hand.
The wonderful feeling of having everything under control made him feel almost light-headed; standing there, feeling his unprecedented strength, he resolved to invest even more energy into building telegraph offices and railways.
The young Navy Commander-in-Chief of Dorne, with a dandelion ring on his finger, naturally lived up to expectations and quickly mobilized forces, getting a full 20 warships ready to set sail.
At a single command, regardless if it came from Brunas or from Dorne's King City, he would lead the fleet to sea to eradicate any enemies who dared to provoke Great Tang Group.
"Our Fleet is also assembling. Give us three days, and we can deploy at least 22 first-rate warships," the envoy from Leite Kingdom in Brunas said hurriedly, fearing to be outdone.
Although as a seafaring weakling, Leite Kingdom's naval power wasn't all that impressive, they still managed to scrounge up a respectable number of warships—two more than seafaring weakling number two, Dorne Kingdom.
Telegraph also played a key role in this competition; he sent the news to King City at the first opportunity, and Leite VII reacted immediately.
The previous plans to go to war with the Poplar Kingdom on behalf of Great Tang Group, which ended precipitously when Poplar Kingdom backed down, didn't deter Leite VII from showing determined support this time as well.
After all, His Majesty King Leite VII's dream of becoming Emperor had not yet faded, so he still retained an innate excitement towards the prospect of declaring and entering war.
Meanwhile, the envoy from Suthers Kingdom in Brunas found it somewhat embarrassing to discuss naval fleets.
Because Suthers was a landlocked country, they truly had no Navy to contribute to the excitement.
Nevertheless, he did receive his King's orders to state Suthers Kingdom's stance and attitude regarding this incident.
"Sir, as you know, we are a landlocked country, we don't have a fleet, but we have already assembled two legions of soldiers, all equipped by Great Tang Group! If needed, they can help at any time," he said.
In Suthers, troops were categorized in two ways. One was called "Tang Armed Legions," the other "chickens"…
In times of peace, they were all legions, but in times of trouble, only the Tang Armed Legions were presentable.
The representative from Poplar Kingdom remained silent, his face etched with anxiety—he really wished he could boast loudly about Poplar Kingdom assembling a fleet to help or something like that.
But unfortunately, on one hand, Poplar Kingdom had just been disciplined by Great Tang Group and couldn't really muster a significant number of warships to show off.
On the other hand, Poplar Kingdom didn't have wireless telegrams, so he was simply unable to contact his homeland as promptly as the other three kingdoms could.
This situation clearly demonstrated just how revolutionary strong telecommunication capabilities were for the world.
To speak bluntly, in the future, those nations that were unable to keep up with Great Tang Group in terms of telecommunications would quickly be eliminated, becoming history in the grand scheme of the world, serving as mere backdrops in the power struggles of other great nations.
The representative from Songmu Kingdom also looked pained; his country too lacked the telegraph, and sending a message back would mean it arrived too late.
He was consumed with the idea of establishing a telegraph office back in Songmu Kingdom, hoping that, next time, his kingdom could grasp the latest intelligence in the world at the fastest speed.
Tang Mo, smiling, rejected the assistance from these kingdom representatives, because he had no wish for other forces to set their sights on Dragon Island.
Of course, this didn't mean that by accepting this help he had to give up his own interests, but he knew that favors, to some extent, always needed to be repaid.
"Now they lend you a sailboat, and in the future, they might expect a battleship in return—such a thing isn't impossible."
So Tang Mo shook his head and expressed his gratitude to those present, "Thank you all for your generous assistance, but in fact, we actually have the capability to deal with this trouble on our own."
"The reason I've called you here today is because there is another matter I wish to discuss. Previously, wireless radio equipment was under the control of Great Tang Group, and the frequency bands you all use were designed by us, so there were no conflicts between them."
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"But now, things have changed. In the future, each Kingdom will establish their own radio network, and the frequency bands will naturally conflict with each other."
"Therefore, I've called you here in hopes that we can clearly divide the usage bands of our respective wireless radios so they don't interfere with each other during use…"
"If no one minds, please take a look at this frequency division plan… The red parts are the reserved frequencies of Great Tang Group, where I wish to see no wireless signals whatsoever…"
"Understood… Understood!" The envoy from Leite Kingdom was not a technical person; he could only give a firm affirmative response as per Tang Mo's request.
To speak frankly, wireless radio signals were still a mysterious concept to this world, and no one had conducted any research on them. All personnel related to this technology were employed at Great Tang Group.
Some of these individuals were there for the salary, others for their ideals, and every technician was acutely aware that their field of study represented the future of this world.
Hence, they were irreplaceable by other groups because they knew that they would become indistinguishable from the average person and accomplish nothing if they left the team.
Because only Great Tang Group could provide the best technical research environment and only Great Tang Group could guide them in the direction of their research.
In return, these talents helped Great Tang Group accumulate experimental data and completed the part of education that Tang Mo's mind could not calculate through a computer.
A single technician cannot propel an entire era forward; it takes many technicians working together to popularize a great technology.
Great Tang Group never hoarded their knowledge; they always sought ways to disseminate their technology. It was precisely because of this open approach that Great Tang Group effortlessly surpassed Shireck and achieved a stunning reversal of fortunes in a short time.
"I don't understand this aspect of technology, so Mr. Tang, just divide it however you see fit," said another envoy, this time from Dorne, stationed in Brunas.
To talk about dividing cake, they might understand, but dividing invisible wireless radio frequencies, they were even less knowledgeable than the primary school students under the Tang Army's military academy.
At least those primary school students knew what wireless radio was. At least the teachers that the Tang technical department had drafted to explain to them could make them understand theories such as beamforming.
"Are you really not worried about the situation on Dragon Island? Isn't there an enemy that has already landed?" The special envoy from Songmu Kingdom kindly reminded, "It's not easy to deal with Taren Kingdom; they have a strong desire for expansion."
"Would you worry about a bunch of savages rushing into Dorne's King City?" Tang Mo asked with a smile, "Do you know how many people Shireck lost the last time they charged my machine gun emplacements?"
"Hahaha!" The Leite envoy who knew the whole story couldn't help but laugh out loud, then he began to enlighten the envoy from Songmu Kingdom, "In one charge, Shireck lost several hundred men, an entire regiment was crippled, completely losing their combat effectiveness."
"This…" The envoy from Songmu Kingdom, who had never seen a heavy machine gun, widened his eyes in disbelief. He truly did not know that the weapons Great Tang Group had agreed to sell his Kingdom were so powerful.
"If you don't want those 10 G1 heavy machine guns, you can sell them to us, we can pay 1,000 more Gold Coins," said the envoy from Leite Kingdom as he extended a finger and confidently asserted.
"So your Leite Kingdom is rich, huh? 1,500 Gold Coins! Sell them all to me! We can pay in cash!" Seeing money about to leave his pocket, the bearded envoy from Dorne spoke with undeniable sincerity.
To show his commitment, he had just exchanged 3,000 "notes" worth of Gold Coins at Tang Mo's Great Tang Bank, and at the moment of payment, he instantly appreciated the convenience of paper money.
"Gulp…" The envoy from Songmu Kingdom finally understood what a hot commodity was… The heavy machine gun, which he perceived as outrageously expensive, was suddenly being sought after at a higher price… This world was becoming more and more incomprehensible to him.
"Just kidding… we… we'd better keep them for ourselves," said the envoy, glancing at the envoy from Poplar Kingdom with a strange expression and awkwardly gestured his refusal with a laugh.