It is not a simple matter to cover the entire Ming Dynasty and even all the vassal states of the wire, steam generators, wired telegraph sending and receiving devices, these are just the most basic hardware configurations, and there is also a place to place these things, and someone needs to operate, and a unified Chinese character code is also needed, etc., etc.,

Zhu Cijiong, as the emperor, naturally doesn't have to do everything himself, if you have to think about these problems alone, I'm afraid that your head will want to blow up, he doesn't have to think about those details at all, as long as he explains things, someone will naturally handle it for him.

If wires, steam generators, and wired telegraph sending and receiving devices are the hardware basis of wired telegraphy, then the unified Chinese character code is the software basis of wired telegraph, and with hardware and software, people can operate, so Zhu Cijiong is ready to solve the problem of Chinese character encoding first.

Chinese character coding to say simple and simple, anyway, one word down a row, each word to give a number on the line, but to say that complex is also very complicated, Chinese characters are broad and profound, if all the words are listed, then I am afraid there are tens of thousands or even tens of thousands, there is no pinyin search and stroke retrieval, if you want to let all the telegraph operators remember all the Chinese characters and codes, I am afraid that one year of training is not enough, so we must pick out the commonly used Chinese characters from the inside, only to the commonly used Chinese characters code, not commonly used first put aside.

In the Ming Dynasty, the Hanlin Academy was an authority on literature, not only with the functions of secretary and supervisor, living room, housekeeper, etc., but also responsible for the compilation of historical books and the management of works.

When the emperor has this good, he only needs to go down with a holy decree, select 3,000 commonly used Chinese characters within a month of the Hanlin Academy, edit them into a book, and hand them in, and it will be done. As for how they choose, it doesn't matter how they appear in various books, or they are sorted by the frequency of daily expressions, or even fight and fight, anyway, there will be results in a month, and he doesn't have to worry about it at all.

As for the coding thing, it's simpler, as long as you pick out the commonly used words and hand them over to Xu Fuyuan and Xia Yunyi to make it up, the time for compiling 3,000 words a day may be a little tight, and there is absolutely no problem within three days, Zhu Cijiong even set the format for them, each word occupies a large square, the large square is divided into three lines, the middle is a big Chinese character, the upper line is a thin Chinese character number, the lower line is a thin binary code, each page is divided into ten lines, each line is five grids, 3,000 words and 60 pages are enough, just a thin oneIt's very easy to flip through. He even asked Xu Fuyuan and Xia Yunyi to contact the printing workshop and prepare small lead characters and squares, and when the time comes, they only need to add the selected Chinese characters to it.

The problem of arranging the Chinese character code, the next is the problem of the venue and personnel, this site is good to say, this post station not only did not be abolished like the Chongzhen Dynasty, but improved into a post office, the post office will be rebuilt, and it is not a problem to install a set of steam generators and cable telegraph transmission and receiving devices. However, this person is a big problem, to be able to send a report first to be literate, but also to learn some simple circuit knowledge, but also to learn binary coding, not to mention the circuit knowledge and binary coding, can recognize all 3,000 commonly used Chinese characters that are amazing!

There is no other way to deal with this problem than to select first, select the literate among the postmen, and then gather them to train and teach them relevant knowledge.

Now the post stations in various places, that is, the post office, have been assigned to the Ministry of General Affairs, Zhu Cijiong summoned Wu Meicun, the General Political Envoy, to discuss for a while, and then issued a holy decree: "Order all parts of the Ming Dynasty to begin to select post soldiers, requiring flexible minds, able to read and write, each Xuancheng political envoy selected ten, each state government selected five, each county selected two, the selected post guards were sent to the capital in batches for training, and the salary was doubled after passing the training!" ”

Although this post pawn is not a fragrant dumpling, but it is also an iron rice bowl that eats the emperor's grain, and it is not a problem for the general post pawn to feed himself, so it is rumored that Li Zicheng lost his job as a post pawn and had to rebel when he had no way to live, although this reason is a bit far-fetched, but at least it proves that the professional treatment of the post pawn in the Ming Dynasty was still okay.

The post pawn was originally a good job, but now it is possible to double the salary, that is to say, as long as you save a little flower, you can even feed a family, ordinary people live a lifetime is not to support their families, there is such an opportunity for everyone to sharpen their heads and drill in, this post pawn instantly became a popular profession.

But now the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty has been almost rectified by Zhu Cijiong, and the officials in charge of the county towns and even the state capitals basically dare not make any moths, and they claim that the political secretary is capable of doing something in this kind of trivial matter, but it is not worth it to provoke the emperor for the sake of this benefit, so the selection of the post guards is relatively fair, not to mention that the selected post guards have a student level, at least the thousand-character literature has been studied, and they can basically read and write.

Daming now has two capitals and thirteen provinces and a Fengtian Zhili Mansion, the number of selected post guards is quite a lot, the provincial level is more than 100, the state level is at least five or six hundred, the county level is two or three thousand, adding up to at least 3,000 people, and this is only local, the military is the key unit equipped with telegraphs, each corps must be equipped with at least 100 messengers, as well as each command of the embassy, each guard station, there are more than 3,000 people, it is definitely impossible to train it at one time, It is imperative to train in batches.

Wires, steam generators, and wired telegraph transmission and receiving devices are not something that can be produced at once, and Zhu Cijiong estimates that it will be good to be able to equip the various Xuancheng political envoys, the various command envoys, and the legions next year, so he plans to open two classes first, Xu Fuyuan and Xia Yunyi are in charge of the professors, and the one class selected by the Xuancheng political envoys and the various commanders and envoys is about 200 people, and each legion will first select 20 people to form a class, which is probably more than 200 people. The Daming Institute of Technology will recruit a few large lecture hall professors, and when these professors are finished, they will be from the state capitals and health centers, and finally consider the communication problems of each county.

Xu Fuyuan and Xia Yunyi were really scared when they heard that they wanted to be a gentleman, and they had to teach more than 200 protégés at a time, although they also went to private school, but an old gentleman in a private school will bring more than a dozen students at most at a time, even if it is the current Daming Institute of Technology, a gentleman will bring more than twenty or thirty students at most, how can there be more than two hundred at this time, how to teach it!

Fortunately, Zhu Cijiong has gone to college and has experience in this area, and there are not two or three hundred people in several classes in a big class in the university, and the entire lecture hall is enough, as for the blackboard or something, there is no need, anyway, for these post guards and military correspondents, the cultural class is to learn the 3,000 commonly used words, remember their codes, and read the big characters written with a brush more clearly.

As for the textbook, it is also very simple, just use the new "Encyclopedia of Common Chinese Character Coding", there are numbers, and there are codings, as long as the binary code is taught to them, there is no problem of not being able to understand. And this book will also be a tool book that they must use in the future, the sooner they get in touch, the better, they are not required to memorize all the codes of Chinese characters at once, but at least they must remember clearly what the code is, otherwise they will not be able to turn it when the time comes, and it will be a delay.

In fact, the most troublesome thing is the experimental class, the main job of these post guards and correspondents in the future is to receive and send telegrams, and the practical hands-on ability is the most important, so they must prepare sufficient experimental equipment, so that each of them can practice sending and receiving telegrams every day, otherwise it is useless even if the "Encyclopedia of Common Chinese Character Coding" can be memorized backwards.

It took about a month for the local selection of post guards and the military to select correspondents, during this time the Ministry of Industry was also desperately developing wire drawing machines, although it has not yet succeeded, but the extrusion part of the main body has been almost done, and it can barely squeeze out a piece of copper wire, these copper wires are a few zhang long, a few feet or even a few inches, if it is to be used to produce formal steam generators and wired telegraph transmission and receiving devices, it is definitely not possible to lay lines, but it is enough to make experimental equipment.

It just so happened that Zhu Cijiong also wanted Xu Fuyuan and Xia Yunyi to learn how to make steam generators and wired telegraph transmitting and receiving devices, so he simply drew sketches of these two things and explained them to them, so that they could figure out how to use the existing things to build experimental equipment, and how to produce formal steam generators and wired telegraph transmitting and receiving devices in the future when they had finished wires.

To say that Xu Fuyuan and Xia Yunyi really chose the right one, they are the kind of geniuses in science and engineering, Zhu Cijiong explained the sketch to them, and they really made the experimental model after a few days of tinkering, but it can only be used purely for experiments, and it cannot be put into practice.

For example, steam generators, bearings and steam pistons are ready-made, which goes without saying. The shell is also very simple, there are more skilled craftsmen in this area of the Ming Dynasty, as long as you describe it to them, even if you want to cast a flower, they can cast it for you. The rotor is also easy to say, as long as the magnet is processed. The only trouble is the stator coil. At this time, even the insulating material has not been recovered, let alone the enameled wire, without the insulation layer, the wire and the wire and the shell can not be contacted, Xu Fuyuan and Xia Yunyi came up with the solution is to directly wrap the wire on the wooden column, around the thin point, do not let the line and the line contact, and then put a wooden shell outside, otherwise the wire and the shell contact, this is done, but the electricity, voltage and current are very small, it is okay to do an experiment at close range, a loss at a long distance, the current is so weak that the thin iron sheet can not be absorbed, So it can't be put into practice yet.

The wired telegraph transmitting and receiving device can be stronger, the sending device is a switch button with shrapnel anyway, the structure is very simple, the receiving device can be complex, the main problem is the signal display, this will definitely not be able to do the paper strip printing, there is no photodiode, can only rely on sound to transmit the signal, which must have a set of precision sound device, this part is also more time-consuming, can only be replaced by a bell first.

After the experimental equipment was finalized, Zhu Cijiong immediately ordered that the post guards and regiments selected by the Xuancheng Political Envoy Department and the Command Envoy Division should first select correspondents to Beijing and begin to study telegraph communications.