Villager of Daming

Chapter 875 Thinking about the future when the market is booming

When a businessman uses a certain tool to make money, other businessmen will naturally focus on that thing.

A phone call that usually only lasted two minutes, but only five days later, businessmen from six prefectures started queuing up.

In fact, it doesn't reach 720 people in one place a day, and there is still waiting time. This is even if they talk for two minutes at a time.

To put it bluntly, it takes an average of four minutes to have a normal call, and that counts as two minutes, so no extra charge will be made.

The calls to the six prefectures are made in pairs, with a maximum of three groups. However, Nanjing needs to be connected to other places, so it is basically a call to Nanjing.

"Yichang, make money, make money by phone. According to Nanjing calculation, you can earn about 360 guan a day.

We want to add lines and give more telephone lines to the convenience offices in Nanjing. There happen to be ready-made telephone poles, so the industrial zone can quickly get telephone lines.

Aren’t the current lines in groups of ten? Temporarily assigned to the five groups of the Convenience Department, so as not to delay our communication here. "

Zhu Yuanzhang came here when there were no festivals or holidays, and brought everyone in the harem with him.

And I came in the afternoon. It seemed that I planned to stay one night and then tomorrow...

"Zhu Lichang, we are here to see how everyone is preparing. We have to leave Nanjing soon, otherwise we won't be able to bring our things over in time."

Queen Ma explained the purpose of her visit. Obviously Zhu Yuanzhang was unwilling to express such emotions and found an excuse for the phone line.

The telephone line does not need to go through Xiaqiu Village, it can be done in the industrial zone. There is only a manual exchange here in Xiaqiu Village.

"Don't worry, Queen, everything is ready. Everyone will adjust their physical condition now and leave the day after tomorrow."

The chief explained the situation and added his forty-four people, but some of the twenty people were no longer the ones from before and were replaced by those who were getting married.

As soon as they left, twenty people from the woman's family came over to learn from them. When the team returned, they arranged the wedding together.

The people in my parents' home have agreed. In fact, they are from the village of Xuancheng County and the other two counties of Ningguo Prefecture.

It was easy in the village, and no one cared about betrothal gifts and dowries. The four families in the other two counties were a little bit worse, so they turned back to support them with some skills and necessary things.

For example, betrothal gifts, giving them large animals, or the use of steam engine equipment several times a year.

There is also a department store there, and the gift includes a 'membership card' for purchasing things. They can buy what they need themselves, which is the most affordable.

The traveling team included four princes, arranged in order of size: Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di, and Zhu Xi, two, three, four, and five.

The most anxious one is Zhu Fan. His fiefdom is in Taiyuan Mansion. King Wu Zhu Ji does not want the current fiefdom at all. It is his hometown and his father is the King of Wu.

The people from the four prefectures are also ready, waiting for the final arrangements in Xiaqiu Village to be made, and everyone is on their way.

Theoretically, there is nothing wrong with the Crown Princess. She has already given birth to a child, and it was very easy to give birth again unless there is a special disease.

"Okay, tell me everything you need, and provide enough guards. Four of them must go through at once."

Empress Ma felt sorry for her son. Before the eldest brother Zhu Biao went out, everyone was worried. Now there are four, all of whom are her biological children.

Zhu Yuanzhang had to say this: "It's mainly telegrams, reporting safety every day and telling the story.

We will arrange the phone calls ourselves. The cost of a day's phone call is enough for us to travel a long distance.

Sure enough, once it comes to business matters, things are easy to use and everyone accepts them.

I heard that the first caller made two hundred dollars, but there are no lotus roots in the area..."

Zhu Yuanzhang began to talk about the important phone calls these days. Merchants were buying and selling goods back and forth between these limited six prefectures. The profits of each kind of goods are high at the beginning, and then return to normal, that is, shipping costs are added to protect the capital, and they can no longer be bought or sold.

Some businessmen are clever and ask people from the prefectures with telephones to go to the neighboring prefectures without telephones. They go back and forth for four days to get information and buy things from the six prefectures, or send them over there to sell them.

It takes an average of four minutes to earn a regular phone bill, and that's just for a phone. Calculated on a regular basis, that's more than 130,000 dollars a year.

As telephone lines were spread farther and farther, coupled with wired telegraphs, telegraphs became cheaper, but it was impossible to speak directly directly.

It feels like one year's telephone and telegraph charges are higher than the imperial government's treasury income, and there are more jobs for people.

"Your Majesty, when the time comes we need to lower the phone bill and increase the number of manual exchanges. Our village will be unable to support it." The head of the village was ready to give this up.

"We still need our village to forward calls to the Imperial City, and I'll arrange people for calls from other places. There are some secrets that cannot be known to outsiders.

I guess some people will be careful and come up with code words or something, so don’t let us catch them, otherwise..."

Zhu Yuanzhang now thought about the communication problem between ministers. In the past, there were code words for writing letters, let alone making phone calls.

"What your Majesty said is absolutely true. Our village now has cryptography and specializes in this. It can be slightly improved in the next two or three years."

The chief expressed his understanding and support because Hanhan said that the telegram has encrypted communication.

It may be used in the future. For example, some people responsible for sending telegrams have been bribed, and wireless ones can intercept them and directly translate the plain words.

Climb up the telegraph wire that is attached to the telephone wire and connect it to the telegraph machine to receive the message.

If you know the situation, you can also call the telephone line, and even fool the people at the manual exchange to connect to other places.

In places where there is no manual switchboard, a telephone set on either side of the two places can be connected to a telephone pole, and calls can be made.

Then better technology will be needed to encrypt this line in the future, but it is not possible now because of the lack of parts.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded happily: "It's done! I'm troubling you again, that... we haven't eaten at noon and haven't eaten. I don't know what they eat. Are there any skewers? Sister..."

"We listen to Chongba." It was impossible for Empress Ma to veto Zhu Yuanzhang.

"Yes!" The village chief also nodded. There are all kinds of food in the village now. When the weather is hot, some people like to drink beer and eat skewers. The meat is always marinated, or they are put on skewers and continue to marinate. Keep chilled and eat as you go.

Vegetables are available freshly, including eggs and eggs. These must be cooked first, preferably in a high-pressure jar with brine, and then roasted to prevent bacterial infection.

It didn't take long for the food to be delivered and Hanhan was grilled. There were no ministers, so it was easy.

Zhu Yuanzhang first ate a bunch of dried tofu rolls with ham, cucumber, shredded green onions and coriander, and then drank a swig of beer.

"Oh! It's so refreshing! We are willing to come because we are actually enjoying life. Since we can eat such things here, we have an idea of ​​what the people will eat in the future.

There are also telephones. As people become rich, they can set up a special line to the nearest manual exchange. How much does it cost per month and how long does it take to make a call?

Most people wouldn’t think of this, right? We can think of it. In the future, it will be okay. Yes, Yichang said, there are lights and telephones upstairs and downstairs. "

Zhu Yuanzhang expressed his thoughts. He just wanted to see how far Xiaqiu Village could achieve.

Zhu Wentian had a silly smile on his face and wanted to say, no more, we don't even need wired phones anymore, that's not easy to use, satellite phones are the mainstream.

　No more today

　　

　

(End of this chapter)