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Chapter 909 Tokyo Telegraph Station

"The Dongfang is ready to dock! Everyone, please take your seats!" Sailors and some workers shouted busily on the pier of Tianjin Wei.

"I have long heard the fishermen who went out to sea say that there is a ship like a steel hill on the sea. I didn't believe it at the time, but now I believe it. It turns out that there is really such a big ship."

Dongfang, a 125-ton steam cable laying ship, slowly docked. The [-]-meter-long hull surprised the residents of Tianjin Wei.

Dongfang was a steam iron-clad ship manufactured in Dalian Port. After loading 3000 tons of submarine cables in Dalian Port, it went to Edo Castle to start laying.Dongfang has never appeared in Tianjin Wei, and it caused a huge sensation when it first appeared in Tianjin Wei.

When Nelson got off the Vostok, he looked back at the crane at the stern. As long as the last remaining cable on the deck of the Vostok was connected to the Tianjin Wei telegraph station, Edo Castle could be connected to the telegraph network in East Asia.

"Fortunately, the submarine cable did not break on the way, otherwise all previous efforts would have been wasted." Nelson was a little scared.

The 3000-ton submarine cable is expensive to manufacture and takes a long time to produce. If it breaks midway, it needs to be re-produced, which is very cumbersome.

"Your Excellency, welcome back to Tianjin Wei." The general soldier of Tianjin Wei knew Nelson, because the Zhili Fleet was stationed in Tianjin Wei to protect the safety of the capital.

"Walking on the sea for several months, I have already vomited the rough food. You prepare fresh water, fruits and vegetables for the crew." Nelson said.

Vostok was laid at a slow pace, and it really took several months.

"We have already prepared fresh water, fruits and vegetables, and fresh meals." Tianjin Wei Zongbing said.

"Is the mission from Britain in the capital now?" Nelson asked.

"Well, after they arrived in Tianjinwei that day, they took the train to the capital, and they probably met the military leader." The chief soldier replied.

"Inform the telegraph station to prepare for connection. The military lord may be eager to communicate with Edo Castle. With this telegram, the military lord's order can be sent to Edo Castle as soon as possible."

Nelson also didn't understand why Chu Yun was so obsessed with Edo Castle. He would rather suspend the construction of the telegraph line on land than lay the submarine cable to Edo Castle first, and forcibly merged the Edo Castle of the Tokugawa Shogunate. National Telegraph Network.

"Meals are ready for the general." A soldier came over and said.

"No, I'm going to take the train to the capital right away, and I'll ask the military commander to check whether the submarine cable can communicate normally." Nelson rubbed his hands, and he couldn't wait to see his grandson.

The staff of the Tianjin Satellite Telegraph Station arrived at the pier soon to do some final preparations before the connection.

After finally returning from the sea, Nelson returned to his residence, tidied up a little and headed to Tianjin Railway Station.

In the distant city of Edo, the Kyushu Army set up another functional facility after the Tokyo Branch in this city managed by the shogunate—the Tokyo Telegraph Station.

According to the additional terms of the "Edo Treaty" signed by the Kyushu Army and the Tokugawa Shogunate, the establishment of telegraph stations is also the prerogative of the Kyushu Army.

The establishment of the Tokyo Telegraph Station confused both Edo Castle and the Tokugawa Shogunate.They didn't know what the telegraph station was for.Secondly, I don't know why the Kyushu Army always likes to call Edo Castle Tokyo.

The Kyushu Army set up two telegraph stations in Dongying, the Tokyo Telegraph Station and the Yokohama Telegraph Station.

While Nelson led the laying of the submarine cable on the Vostok, the land line from the Yokohama Telegraph Station to Edo Castle was also being laid.

In order to control the submarine cable, the end point of the submarine cable is in Yokohama Port instead of Edo Castle.Then it is connected to Edo Castle through the road wire.

After the shogunate minister Sakai Tadakatsu was forced to resign due to the Dayuer incident, he almost stayed at his home and no longer appointed important official positions in the shogunate.

"Sakai-san, do you know that the Kyushu Army has set up a telegraph station in our Edo city. According to our information, this kind of thing can transmit sound for thousands of miles, and then translate it into Chinese characters based on these strange sounds." Abe, who succeeded Sakai Tadakatsu Zhongqiu came to visit him.

Abe Tadaaki has become a new generation leader of the shogunate reformers.

Sakai Tadakatsu is waving the brush in his hand and practicing calligraphy on rice paper.Even before the arrival of the Kyushu Army, the top officials of the shogunate were proud of being able to write beautiful Chinese characters, even their official characters were Chinese characters.Of course, some grammatical and lexical meanings have carried over here and have changed.

"This is too bad..." Tadakatsu Sakai put down his brush with a serious expression on his face, "Originally it took ten and a half months for the news from the Chinese mainland to reach us in Dongpu, but with the 'telegram', they can immediately Mobilize the Beiyang Fleet to take action, and the Beiyang Fleet can also transmit everything that happened here to their capital, so that they can make quick decisions there."

"The Kyushu Army can even invent things in mythology, how can we fight against them?" Abe Tadaaki took a sip of tea, chewed and swallowed the tea leaves together.

"That's not a myth, it's the power called 'science'. They have a technology that is more complicated than iron cannons. We can only look up to them." Said Tadakatsu Sakai.

"That means we can't fight against them?" Abe Tadaaki frowned.

"Don't think about confrontation. The only thing we can do is to bring the shogunate closer to them. We don't need to defeat them, we just need to make them feel that occupying us requires a huge cost." Sakai Tadakatsu said .

"I agree with you. It's very difficult to get close to them. If you can learn a little bit, just a little bit." Abe Tadaaki sighed.

The other party can even send telegrams across six thousand miles of sea, how could it be more than that...

"Miss, I heard that the cross-sea cable will be put into use soon, and we won't have to send letters back to the capital in the future." The staff of the Tokyo branch said to Da Yuer.

"You also think that it is too simple. The cost of sending a telegram is very expensive. It is charged by the word. You are willing to use your salary to send a telegram? Moreover, if you send some private words, the sender must know Except for urgent matters, it is really better to write a letter." Da Yuer said.

"The railway from Yokohama Port to Edo Castle will also be completed. When the time comes, miss, would you like to watch the opening ceremony with us?"

"The opening ceremony, I'll go and see it then." Da Yu'er thought that besides work, he didn't seem to have any special activities in Edo Castle, so he agreed.

(End of this chapter)