Chapter 166: The First Cable Telegraph
It is said that after Hua Niang moved to a river area, she could dream of the return of officials who went out to do business every night, and then the two of them fell in love together. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
In fact, she didn't love the businessman, especially after experiencing that "terrible" thing, she thought at first that the quiet master would do what to herself, okay, just suggested that she move out------ but soon after, she actually found out that she was pregnant!
She immediately wrote a letter to the official who was still doing business in Fuzhou City, telling the official that she had moved, and then told him a great happy event, although he had just been gone for less than two months, but because she dreamed of loving the official every night, she was really pregnant!
When the merchant received the letter, he was overjoyed, and it was sincere, heavenly, and touched the heavens!
He didn't care about doing business anymore, so he explained to his subordinates, and then hurried back, and the two of them were happy and lived a small life in harmony.
Let's not talk about it for now.
Liang Xiaobai carried a sharp blade, took a small servant, and sometimes secretly followed Wang Defa to the master's house.
The cost of the Badaohe area is really not low, but his Liang family is a big family in the Changzhou City area, and he is not afraid at all, and he can write back at any time to ask for the cost.
When he came, he told his family that he was going to Liuqiu Island to open a trade route.
Liang Gongzi had no hope in the imperial examination, and he had already broken his mind.
Previously, the Liang family also wanted to buy him a fame.
The Great Song Dynasty government often sold officials to meet its financial needs, and often sold officials when raising military expenses and providing relief and disaster relief.
Since some businessmen were wealthy but lacked social status, selling officials provided them with good opportunities to become officials.
In the third year of Zhezong Yuanfu, about 1100 years, the price of an official position was: 6,000 guan for service, 4,500 for borrowing, and 3,200 for Sailang.
Huizong's selling of officials reached a peak.
At that time, Shilang and others were issued on leave, which was dozens of times more than in previous years, and the people who bought officials could also shade their children and grandchildren, enrich the people and merchants, and donate tens of millions of money, so they could have three sons.
After the Great Song Dynasty crossed to the south, such rules still existed.
Liang Xiaobai Gongzi really doesn't care much about this, when can he buy it again when he has money? !
It is well known to everyone that the flow of goods is easy to sell, so it is reasonable to go there to find a business route, so the cost of money is not a matter.
At the same time, marriage is also a common method for businessmen to enter the government.
It was still in the time of Renzong, Ma Jiliang, a tea merchant in Weishi County, Kaifeng Prefecture, married the daughter of a relative of the official family, and awarded the Guanglu Temple Cheng, and was summoned by the official family of the Great Song Dynasty to test the museum position.
Well, marriage in the Great Song Dynasty was also about money, and everything looked at money.
The royal daughters should be married, and they are all rich families with surnames to take goods.
When there are a lot of women in the near clan, dozens of people in Zongzhengli's official media are in charge of marriage, and there is no limit to reading, and the rich room bribes the clan to propose, begging for an official, in order to shelter the door, and then introduce each other as relatives.
At this time, the phenomenon of the clan selling women to marry the people was common.
In fact, the marriage of merchants with the royal family and officials was also a good way to improve their social status.
Therefore, Liang Xiaobai Gongzi originally wanted to marry the daughter of a clan, which was not impossible, and it was easy to enter the office.
And that would not affect their own industry, and the Great Song government really openly encouraged officials to do business.
For example, Zhao Kuangyin of the Great Song Dynasty had a Zhao Puzhao brother named Banbu Analects to rule the world, he was the owner of the largest chain shopping mall in Kaifeng City at that time, and it is said that there were hundreds of them.
Moreover, the Great Song Dynasty did not object to the generals of the army doing business, generals like Zhang Jun and Yue Fei were all in business, and it was a very popular real estate industry------ of course, it was not as large as the current Lu Group.
Therefore, at the beginning, Liang Xiaobai Gongzi really didn't care about being rejected by Luo Niang.
However, I don't want Luo Niang, but you can't marry an outsider on Liuqiu Island, isn't this a slap in the face!
He sometimes saw Wang Defa's house walking in front of him, and he really had the heart to stab him in the ass with a dagger!
You slap me in the face, I poke your ass!
But I haven't been able to find a good opportunity, first, there are always too many people, and second, I am too fat to run.
His little guy once said that it was better to invite those good men on the rivers and lakes to do this, even if it cost some money.
Liang Xiao Bai Gongzi's fat face was flat, his eyes widened, and he said: "If you want to repay the hatred of taking your wife, how can you fake it?!" ”
Opportunity, he has been waiting for an opportunity!
Wang Defa's family really didn't know that he was being targeted by an inexplicable "rival in love" of the Great Song Dynasty.
He was bent on building the world's first cable telegraph, and he wanted to connect twelve rivers in series.
The knowledge of cable telegraphy, as mentioned above, is considered junior high school knowledge in that side of the world, and it is often talked about with electromagnetic effects, and it may be demonstrated by the physics teacher to help make a model.
Of course, you have to meet a physics teacher who is in charge.
The wired telegraph transmitter is mainly composed of electric keys, wires, and power supplies, and the first two things are not mentioned, and the power supply problem can be regarded as a preliminary solution.
At the moment, enough batteries have been made to fit a whole room.
At the beginning, Wang Defa's family wanted to use Morse code directly, and then convert it to Chinese pinyin------ but he felt that it took two times, the timeliness was too poor, and the possibility of mistranslation was great, so he directly used the Chinese character code of that time and space.
Chinese characters are composed of many radicals, complex structures, and a variety of fonts, each character has a "face", so it is better to use the method of representing one Chinese character by four Arabic numerals, referred to as "four-code telegram".
It just so happens that Liuqiu Island uses a lot of this number to calculate, and ordinary people have already known it.
There are as many as 60,000 Chinese characters in the Great Song Dynasty, and there are only 10,000 commonly used Chinese characters.
When sending an alarm, the operator can use the electric key to send the Chinese character code, and the length of the key time determines the connection time of the circuit, and then determines the dot or stroke to represent each number.
For the receiver, the structure may be simpler, and the close-range transmission and reception of the transmitter when the station is turned on, there is no signal amplification circuit at all.
After resistance calculation, the longest wired distance can reach 70 kilometers, which is enough for this time and space------ if you come to a few relay stations to transmit messages from the south to the north of Liuqiu Island, it will take less than an hour, you can do it.
That receiver consists of a relay, a prompt device, a wire, and a power supply.
As for the prompting equipment, Wang Defa's host directly used the paper tape type, so that the pencil could draw out symbols of different lengths on the paper tape moving at a constant speed, and the telegrapher recorded the character message.
Wang Defa's family did not start a multi-channel cable telegraph at the beginning, and it was not bad for technology or time, and it was a poor operator.
The simpler the equipment, the higher the requirements for manual technology.
Wang Defa's family can send newspapers, and he can also design Chinese character codebooks, but he can't be a newspaper operator himself, and it takes nearly a minute to type a word!
This speed is not good, and you can only slowly teach the ingenious Da Song teenagers.
Not only are the operators required to be smart, but they are also required to be patient.
Wang Defa's family has built a teaching line on both sides of the Badao River, which is only three kilometers away.
What he didn't expect was that such a short distance would make the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty crazy! (To be continued.) )