The telegraph line is around the core area in other places, except for overseas has basically been connected to the capitals, state capitals, county offices, and important garrison locations of the various frontiers, among which the lines of each important garrison site are the same as the borders of the core area and important cities, priority is laid, three lines, all the imperial examination personnel of the Ministry of Industry, the imperial examination scholars in the past ten years, some old craftsmen of the engineering department, craftsmen, as well as some workers of large domestic engineering and construction companies and the use of the nearby lines on the state, governor, government, All the skilled craftsmen of the county government gave priority to the laying of telegraph lines.

The telegraph lines in the core area were like a net, densely packed along these built skeletons, separated by dozens of engineering teams, connecting all the state capitals that were not on these lines, and then subcontracted to the engineering teams of the prefectures and counties.

Of course, the rudimentary and rudimentary telegraph system established in this way, although it greatly improved the speed of information transmission and the level of science and technology of the Chinese Empire, but also made the financial expenditure of the Chinese Empire overrun again.

Although the national project will definitely lose, in comparison, this construction model of the Chinese Empire still fattens private businessmen and loses the country, so Zhang Qiang will have to consider how to rationally use financial expenditures in the future.

In recent years, with the trade of Turkey, Russia, the Qing Dynasty, and the Arshav Dynasty of Iran, as well as the trade with Sweden in the West, the trade of British merchants, and the trade of Spanish merchants, the materials and commodities of the Chinese Empire were exported to the West and Europe in large quantities, and a lot of income was obtained. Profitability has become less and less over time.

The debts owed by the empire have been growing, and the subsidy of profits can only slowly repay the arrears, but the arrears cannot be completely repaid, which makes the Chinese dollar currency of the Chinese Empire have a slight expansion, there were trillions of Chinese dollars to be repaid, and now with the annual profits, there are now only 800 billion Chinese dollars to be repaid, and the annual profits are more than 100 billion, but the debts that need to be repaid to the Chinese people have not seen much reduction, and they are only more than 10 billion reductions per year. And the annual profit can be used to repay only three or four billion yuan, and sometimes two or three billion yuan of debt needs to be added, which makes the heaviest annual debt of Huaxia actually more than 10 billion, sometimes billions.

For this reason, Zhang Qiang had a headache, but the telegraph system had to be developed, and now the important thing is the telegraph system in Central Asia and the Western Regions, and tens of billions of dollars had to be invested in the construction, where the road is far away, and the terrain is complex, which is more complicated than the states in Southeast Asia.

And Zhang Qiang thought of building a telegraph system in overseas territories, first let them connect on their own territory, and then stationed sailors at some telegraph points, and the sailors and clippers could ensure that the sails and steam engines could be sent at least 12 knots per hour, and the fastest speed of 17 knots would send the news out and send it to the next message transmission point, and after several transmissions, the farthest Australia and the second farthest Strait of Malacca would only take seven days to send the telegram to the coast of the core area, and then from the county-level telegraph station on the coast to the state capital telegraph stationThe state then directly delivered to the next state telegraph station, and transmitted it three times in a row, at most ten days, the telegram could be transmitted from Australia more than 10,000 kilometers away to Beijing.

This speed, compared to the cargo ships of later generations, is slower, compared to the aircraft is a lot slower, a lot, but compared to the Chinese Empire in this era, to be precise, the Chinese Empire's flying clipper battleship frigate transmits messages, well, the flying clippers, specially improved frigates used to transmit messages, in addition to the basic military equipment, is to increase the speed, but the average speed is fifteen knots, and the cruising speed is only twelve knots, the fastest seventeen knots, sometimes downwind, plus the help of the steam engine, a little more than seventeen verses.

Such a speed from Darwin Port to Yanjing of the Chinese Empire, it takes twenty-three days, the fastest speed, the slowest speed takes more than thirty days, nearly two months, saving at least one-third to two-quarters of the time, which is the fastest.

After all, a ship is needed to convey the message, and then the telegraph system on the island conveys the message, leaving those sea voyages around the island in the middle, and then the other news clipper ship on the island, and the communication ship receives the telegram with a delay of at least half an hour to three hours, if you want to report, at least half a day's delay, if there are other circumstances, it is at least half a day's delay or a day's delay, so this is the fastest message transmission speed that the Chinese Empire can achieve now, if it is a telegraph system on land, there is no need for it, After several telegraph transmissions between states, the interval of 10,000 miles was only two or three days, or even a little more than a day, of course, if there was a delay, it would be transmitted to Beijing in a little more than three to five days.

However, for the development of the Chinese Empire, Zhang Qiang does not mind spending more money now to improve the speed of message transmission, so 40,000 kilometers of telegraph lines have been built at present, and it is still a key line with two lines, one incoming call, one outgoing call, and staggered lines.

On the primary telegraph line, a telegraph line can only communicate one message, can only be transmitted in one direction, and cannot be transmitted back and forth, because it is too simple, the Taixue Research Institute of the Chinese Empire is speeding up the research of a new upgraded version of the telegraph line and message transmission method.

The use of telegraph transmission mode of the railway steam engine train has made great progress in vehicle scheduling, the train schedule can be adjusted at any time, and something happens in the middle, if the train exceeds the time, you can send a telegram to the station along the way to ask, and then send the nearest man to investigate, greatly reducing the occurrence of accidents, at the same time, for some faulty cars, quickly drag to the nearby station for repair, so that the efficiency of the train has increased by at least 30 percent, and the time along the road has increased by 15 percent. At the same time, the speed of the train has been increased by 10 percent, and 10 percent may not be anything in the short distance, but in the long-distance view, thousands of miles away, it takes more than 70 days to arrive, so this time is increased by about 8 days, and these eight days or so can make the short-distance train run hundreds of kilometers more.

In short, the telegraph not only minimizes military movements, the chances of rebellion in various places, and other contingencies, but also can mobilize nearby troops to suppress the rebellion at any time.

Moreover, the speed of money number reconciliation and improvement of the circulation of the currency of the Chinese Empire has also been greatly improved.

With the formation of the main line railway, the trunk railway erected the skeleton, and the branch lines became more and more, and the Chinese Empire was connected by the railway network, and at the same time by the telegraph network.

The telegraph network was spreading to the Viceroyalty on land.

(End of chapter)