Villager of Daming

Chapter 872 Who is the reporting group facing?

The emergence of telegraphs made many people busy again. The troops staying in Yingtian Mansion began to select people to learn how to send and receive telegrams.

This difficulty is much greater than that of the telephone. The difficulty of the telephone is to manually exchange positions, while the telegraph is to send signals accurately.

Fortunately, no one can make the same telegraph machine. When learning, there is only clear code and no encryption is required.

But reading the code and writing down the numbers at the same time is quite challenging. You need to listen to the rhythm, but you don't need to memorize all the words.

When the ministers learned about it, they were surprised and had to code the Ming Dynasty's state capitals. By then, each county would have a telegraph machine. If there was anything going on at the local level or the court, the news would be conveyed through telegraphs.

Generals such as Xu Da, Tang He, and Lan Yu were considering the military aspect. They used telegrams to command and dispatch the troops. The enemy was waiting to enter encirclements one after another!

Even though the weapons are the same, when the scouts from both sides encounter each other, the enemy's scouts will run back to report the news, and their own will report on the spot.

When the enemy generals received the news from the scouts, their own formations were deployed.

Everyone was busy arranging telegraph machines and manpower training. Civil servants hoped that telegraph operators in local prefectures and counties would be staffed by civil servants. Otherwise, all military personnel would be involved.

Naturally, the army selects personnel. In addition, department stores also need to have their own telegraph machines. Generally, they need to prepare two, one for use and one for backup.

At that time, there won’t be one for each village, but only one for each county, or areas can be divided into several villages to have one department store.

It depends on the size of the village. If it's a big village, it's natural to arrange a department store. If it's too small, there won't be so many people, and no one will buy the things in the store.

"Let's think of something. If this telegraph machine is taken out, can ordinary people also use it? For example, people who come to work, if they have an emergency at home, they will send a message over there, and after receiving it here, they will pass the content to them, and they will Call me back."

It was still the same arrow tower. Zhu Yuanzhang and Queen Ma sat here again, looking at the market below through the glass window, and eating kebabs by the way.

He thought of the use of the telegraph to allow people to send messages to each other.

The accompanying chief took over: "Your Majesty, I think merchants will use it more. As long as merchants leave manpower in a certain place, if there is more demand for something, or if the output is high and the price is low, you can send a telegram to know in advance, and then immediately Organize the supply of goods to sell there, or buy them at a low price.

We should be the first to know, if only someone in charge of department stores paid attention to local prices.

In addition to some minor floods, earthquakes, droughts and other disasters, the court can respond quickly, let alone those who incite rebellion.

Telegraph can be used wherever messages need to be transmitted, and it is so easy to use that it can be used for a fee. "

Finally, the director emphasized that making money is calculated based on the number of words, and it is not clear how to price it.

It depends on how much the people use it. Generally, only immediate family members who are out of town will send telegrams to talk about things. Otherwise, due to road restrictions, they will basically not be able to go out of hundreds of miles.

Many families have never left the county in their lives, so they naturally don't need anyone to send telegrams to.

"How much is a word?" Zhu Yuanzhang also considered this. He liked to make money.

Empress Ma was the same as him: "It is best to calculate the money paid by merchants and ordinary people separately for sending newspapers. If it is lower, the merchants will take advantage of it, but if it is higher, the money will not be enough for the common people in emergencies."

"What did Biao'er say?" Zhu Yuanzhang looked at his eldest son.

"Father, I think that people rarely send telegrams and merchants make profits through telegrams, so the price of telegrams is set high.

People really need telegrams to see what happens when they are far away.

If someone in the family is seriously ill, dies, gets married, etc., subsidies may be provided.

You can know it through the content of the telegram, then send it first and then check it. If it is true, it will cost a penny for a few words, or even no money. If he lied, he would ask the other party to pay twice the price. If he had no money, he would be caught and worked to pay for it. "

Zhu Biao thought of a way. There were few people using it, and it was impossible for local officials to always report. If everything had to be reported to the superiors and reported every day, they should be dismissed.

Businessmen are also common people, and they should be treated equally. When businessmen encounter the same thing, they should also be subsidized. Only in this way can a bowl of water be treated equally.

The second eldest king of Qin, Zhu Xiang, then said: "Father, I think it can be used by the bank. Businessmen carrying large amounts of treasure banknotes are afraid of being robbed on the road, so I will issue a money order.

Wait for someone to take the money order to an outside branch to withdraw money or transfer it to someone else, and then send a telegram to check, and it will be confirmed.

In this way, you don't have to worry if you lose the money order. Others can't take it out. If the merchant takes it away, if someone robs it, he won't be able to grab anything. "

Zhu Xi felt that it should be used in an important place like a bank, where money orders are a fee-based service.

When there are deposits and withdrawals in other places in the future, there will also be fees. Basically, few people can use it. People only live in one place, and the county bank is enough for them to deposit and withdraw money.

Therefore, there is no rush to make deposits and withdrawals in other places. Money orders serve merchants and charge different handling fees according to different times.

Including the highest ratio and the lowest fee.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded: "Yes, even if the merchant will pass the money on to the buyer, we can't lose money. Ten cents a word is very cheap.

For example, wheat in Zhejiang Prefecture is expensive, costing 400 cash per stone, while in Nanjing it costs 300 cash. Since there is a canal, the freight is not high.

You can send a telegram and write: Wheat is four hundred, short of fifty thousand.

It means that fifty thousand stones are needed. Whoever gets the news first will organize the wheat to be sent there first.

The price difference of one stone and one hundred coins, fifty thousand stones is five thousand coins, which only requires sixty coins, plus the names of both parties, I think two hundred coins are enough.

What if wheat in Zhejiang Prefecture sells for 600 yuan? Then...it's impossible.

It was twice as different as Nanjing. It rose slowly. We had already noticed that something was wrong, and after reporting it there, we mobilized wheat to equalize the price. "

The example Zhu Yuanzhang gave is basically impossible. There is no need for merchants to take action first, and it is not like other commodities. The price of grain is so different that it must be stabilized.

As long as there is a price difference of more than 20% after including freight, it will not work. It must be suppressed and make money on the way. Just make a move to the normal position.

The Zhejiang government looks at whether wheat is planted or not. If it is not, it will be lucky. If it is, it will be Chang Pingcang.

If the price of silk goes up, don't worry about that, let the merchants handle it.

However, if the price of salt is too high, the court still needs to take action. It involves survival. If the price of salt is four cents per kilogram, which costs two cents, how can it be tolerated?

It’s not a question of two cents more. It’s doubled, and it’s not enough if you don’t eat.

"Father, in that way, every word of a hundred coins will be no problem. A merchant will definitely earn at least dozens of guan from one transaction. How can it be enough to use only one or two guan to send a telegram? We have given them additional opportunities to make money."

The fifth child, Zhu Ju, rolled his eyes, he raised the price ten times.

In his opinion, without telegraph, merchants would not be able to get news quickly. Telegraph is about using money to pay back more money.

(End of this chapter)