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Chapter 264 The First Telegram in History

Gaizhou City, this little-known city has become an experimental site one after another. First, trains, and then new things such as telegraphs were born here.

The construction of the telegraph route was only known to those inside the Fuliao Army, so this attempt to receive the first telegram did not cause a sensation during the train test run.But this time the first telegram was witnessed by officers and officials within the Fuliao Army, and the quality was even more exaggerated than that of the train test run.

As the pioneer of this technology, Chu Yun must of course personally witness another important moment in history.

The transmitter and receiver are placed at Gaizhou Station and Tieshan Station.This time, people from the Academy of Sciences sent electricity to Gaizhou Station from Tieshan.This section of the telegraph line was not very long, so it was easy to set up.

"The structure of Chinese characters is relatively complicated, and it is impossible for each Chinese character to correspond to a telegram. So we proposed an alternative plan, a Chinese character corresponds to a group of 4-digit Arabic numerals, and then converts it into a telegram and sends it out. The telegram that received the signal Officers decode the codes in a similar order."

"Of course, in the field of railway communication, we have not considered the issue of encryption. But in the next construction of the military telegraph, we will use encryption technology to encrypt the telegram to prevent others from stealing information after understanding the principle of the telegraph." Manufacturing Transmitter The former American scientist Morse introduced the principle of the generator to Chu Yun.

"Military telegraph lines do need to be encrypted." Chu Yun nodded.

The rest of the officers and officials of the Liao Army did not understand the principle of the telegraph, but they generally knew what the telegraph was.

"It's a bit like teleportation. We can know the news hundreds of miles away without beacons or pigeons."

"Having such a convenient thing can really solve a lot of our troubles. In the future, the Ministry of the Interior will not need to spend several days to notify the personnel transfer, and any urgent matters in various places can be reported to the superior as soon as possible."

Some internal affairs officials present were whispering to each other, all looking forward to the future of the telegraph.The next thing to do is to wait quietly for the telegram from the transmitter at Tieshan Station.

"The artist is ready to record this historic moment truthfully."

Several Ming painters and Western painters were summoned to record the important moment of receiving the first telegram with ink and oil paintings respectively.How can such an important moment not leave some traces.The sullen Chu Yun thought.This time I am the protagonist.

Although Chu Yun has not turned on the camera technology now, besides photos, paintings are also a form of recording. In the future, these paintings will definitely be worth tens of thousands of dollars.

The hourglass on the table is passing by little by little, and the painter is carefully turning the scene into a picture on the canvas.

"Beep beep beep", suddenly, the telegraph machine rang, and the telegraph operator concentrated on distinguishing the sound, and copied the paper on the paper with the brush in his hand.

Here comes the telegram!Everyone present held their breath, nervously watching the operator's movements, not daring to disturb him.

The telegraph operator was a little nervous under the eyes of so many people, but he still accurately recorded "dots", "dashes" and other simple but very complicated telegrams on the paper.

The telegraph operator then flipped through a pamphlet at hand to decode it.

"Report to the military commander, Tieshan Station has sent a telegram, 'The train has left Tieshan Station with 54 people on board'!" The telegram receiver saluted Chu Yun and reported the contents of the telegram.

Wow!A group of officers and officials of the Liao Army were in an uproar.It only takes one or two minutes to receive and decode, and you can get information dozens of miles away!What an incredible thing this is!
"Okay, thank you for your hard work!" Chu Yun's body trembled slightly, and he was also Mo Ming excited.

With the telegram, various orders will be conveyed in the future, and the destination will be reached in an instant.And the combination of telegram and train can even transfer the army to any place in Liaodong or Liaonan within two or three days!
"Master, our Ministry of the Army must have this telegram!" The army officers were hysterical, with greedy eyes.

The existence of Telegram is an unimaginable benefit for them!The term "soldiers are expensive and fast" is not just casually. With telegrams, what does it mean to the army!Even if they have never thought that there is such a thing in the world, they can understand its value in an instant!
"I propose that the power supply bureau should set up civilian telegraph lines in addition to military telegraph lines and internal affairs telegraph lines." Some businessmen who were invited by the Liao army also became crazy. They once again keenly sensed business opportunities and asked for more attention. civil telegraph lines.

The business opportunities of civilian telegraph lines are not much better than those of military telegraph lines.

"Everyone, please don't worry. Whether it is military, internal affairs, or civilian telegraph lines, they will be laid in Liaodong and Liaonan in the next year, and the telegraph network connecting major cities will be basically completed. And in the next three to five years , will form a more dense telegraph network." Chu Yun said, "Telegraph lines for civilian use can be sent as long as merchants and residents pay a certain fee for sending messages."

Chu Yun is quite confident about the construction of the telegraph line. Compared with the long construction period of the railway, the construction of the relatively simple telegraph is relatively fast, mainly laying lines and supplying power.

Hearing Chu Yun's telegraph line construction plan, the military, administrative officials, and businessmen were all relieved.These vested interest groups can benefit from technological progress and will be more supportive of their own telegraph development plans.

Seeing that everyone's faces were full of hope, Chu Yun was also very satisfied.

"Zhan Tianyou, how is your construction of the Liaodong-Liaonan Railway?" Chu Yun caught a glimpse of Zhan Tianyou, one of the two officials leading the "Liaodong-Liaonan" railway, among the officials who were watching at the same time, so he asked earnestly road.

"The exploration work has basically been completed, and more detailed construction blueprints and manpower need to be drawn up. However, when we were exploring the route, the smelter had already produced a large number of rails. As long as it is finalized, the construction work will be carried out immediately." Zhan Tianyou replied.

"Huh? The exploration progress of the Liaodong-Liaonan Railway is a month ahead of schedule, right? Hasn't the quality been neglected because of the progress?" Chu Yun asked.

"Master, please rest assured that the advance progress is not caused by ignoring quality, but by the increase of skilled technicians and engineers, who can take care of themselves a little bit and share a lot of our work." Zhan Tianyou said.

"That's good. How about this, since the exploration of the Liaodong-Liaonan Railway is completed, it will be handed over to Stephenson and the others to supervise the construction, and you will be in charge of surveying the new large railway - a railway across the prairie, starting from Liaodong City and arriving at Guihua City, and even the Hetao Plain, connect Liaodong, Liaonan, and the prairie!"

(End of this chapter)