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The spring rain season in the south of the Yangtze River often makes people think that the sky is broken, so the rain keeps leaking. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoNear noon, the originally clear sky turned overcast, and a thin spring rain began to fall.

In the wind and rain on the riverside, several soldiers were inspecting a charcoal-black wooden stake, one after the other, which stretched from the dock to the city, but not more than a kilometer away, and there were lines connecting the stakes.

This was China's first telegraph line, the telegraph line from Hanyang to Wuchang, and except for the Yangtze River, which was sunk to the bottom of the river according to the customary bottom line, the other lines were suspended in the air. With the efforts of more than 100 engineers working day and night, it took only two days to build this five-mile-long telegraph line, and of course it was also because of the simplicity of its equipment, only two rudimentary telegraph machines. As for the Wuchang Telegraph Office, it is just two houses on the street that look inconspicuous.

At about ten o'clock in the morning, the telegraph office was crowded with officials from all over the Governor's Palace, both civilian and uniformed, all looking at the rudimentary machine of copper wire, magnets, and so on.

"This is a machine that can travel thousands of miles?"

Although he has seen too many new things in the governor's mansion, Zhang Liangji is still attracted by this.

After all, clairvoyance, shunfeng ears, and scud are the most beautiful yearning of the Chinese, and once, that only belonged to the gods, belonged to the yearning in the novel, and now, clairvoyance has long become a fact, and the scuds that travel thousands of miles a day have also become a fact because of ships and trains, and now a new thing - the telegraph, has brought Shunfeng ears to them.

"Of course, sir, but it can't transmit sound thousands of miles, but it can transmit news thousands of miles away in an instant!"

When Zhang Liangji's words fell, the foreigner's words came, although Zhang Liangji didn't understand, but the translator next to him still translated the words. Antonio as a telegraph engineer? Mewucci, at this time, can no longer see a trace of the downfall of the United States. While working in a candle factory in the United States, he never imagined that he would one day become the chief engineer of the telegraph office.

"Of course, if you're interested, maybe you can invest in my invention, I have an idea......"

Just in Antonio? When Mewuqi took the opportunity to promote the invention of his "talking machine", he saw that with the arrival of a person, the surrounding officials dodged to both sides and bowed to him, and the officers even held their swords in their left hands and bowed slightly.

"Oh my God! Could this be the Han Governor, the emperor of the Han people, who is really too young, and the young one is like a ......?"

Xia Saibo, who was in the crowd, said in surprise to the chemist Wiseley next to him that the opening of the telegraph office was the first event they had attended since they came to Wuchang, because the welcome banquet would be held this evening. However, before he could finish his words, he was stopped by the gaze of a priest next to him, which was obviously disrespectful.

Like a teenager!

Veseley whispered to himself.

Yes, he was too young, as young as a teenager, but who would have thought that he could lead an elite army and liberate a territory larger than a few Italians?

Looking at this teenager in military uniform, Antonio? Another acquaintance came to Meuchi's mind, Giuseppe? Garibaldi, a soldier in exile, lived for three years at his home in Staten Island, New York, USA, and even replaced Meuchi in a candle factory. A few years earlier, he had returned to his homeland with his volunteer soldiers in an effort to reunify Italy, but his uprising had failed. How similar are the two of them......

Just in Antonio? When Mei Wuqi was thinking about it, Zhu Yifeng walked up to the American engineer with a smile and asked in English.

"Excuse me, can I send a telegram now?"

"Yes, yes, Your Excellency......"

Unlike a lot of Americans, Antonio, as an Italian? Mei Wuqi is extremely respectful of authority, especially in front of this Chinese who is said to have "the most noble blood" in his body, he is even more nervous, and it is precisely because of nervousness that his already unskilled English becomes even more stammering.

"Well, well, let's make a telegram now."

"Your Excellency, please write your first message!"

After pondering for a moment, Zhu Yifeng picked up a brush and wrote on paper.

"Expelle Hulu, restore China, establish discipline and Chen Gang, and relieve the people!"

This is the language from Zhu Yuanzhang's Northern Expedition, after these sixteen characters were written, Antonio, as a telegraph engineer? Mei Wuqi undoubtedly seemed to be looking at the book of heaven, he didn't understand Chinese at all, and Xu Shushan realized what the problem was, so he hurriedly went out and translated this sentence in English. Although the English he used was not very accurate, he still expressed the meaning of these sixteen words, but after such a fuss, it relieved the originally somewhat solemn atmosphere.

After the telegram replied by Hanyang was retracted and translated, Zhang Liangji, Luo Bingzhang and others all widened their eyes in surprise, and even before they knew why, the 16-character telegram was transmitted to the other side of the river, and then from the other side of the river. The soldiers who visited looked at the note with wide eyes, and their expressions were extremely solemn, as soldiers, they knew better than civilian officials the significance of telegrams in military operations.

"This, this is the tailwind ear of the head in the fairy ......"

In the surprise of everyone, looking at the telegram translated from English code into Chinese, Zhu Yifeng said to Xu Shushan.

"Now, the biggest problem with the telegraph is not whether it can be used, after all, many countries in Europe have already built telegraph lines, and we must also repair them as soon as possible, at least the telegraph lines between Guangdong and Han......

The telegraph is one of the earliest and most reliable means of instant long-distance communication. Its military application could even turn the tide of war, and in the wars of the 19th century, the railroad and the telegraph were always two militaristic weapons that complemented each other. Especially for a large country like China, there is a greater need for railways and telegraphs, and it may take a long time to build a railway, but as long as the telegraph can be built as soon as possible, at least to some extent, Guangdong will be closely integrated with the two lakes.

"However, it's not that there are no problems, such as the ...... we use now Now we're using Morse code, right? ”

When Zhu Yifeng's words sounded, Xu Shushan, Mei Wuqi and the others all looked at him in surprise, this is indeed Morse code, but unless it is a person who is engaged in this profession, how many people know this code?

"This Morse code is English code, which is not suitable for sending Chinese telegrams, we can't translate Chinese characters into English and then send them, but it's impossible to use the long and short symbols of Morse code to directly send Chinese characters, so we must design a set of codes!"

Mentioning code, Zhu Yifeng naturally thought of the historical "Chinese code".

"I think the Chinese code meter can use four Arabic numerals as the code, from 0001 to 9999 in four-digit order, using four digits to represent up to 10,000 Chinese characters, letters and symbols, and among these 10,000 Chinese characters, you can find the dictionary, indeed the most commonly used 10,000 words, as for the arrangement of Chinese characters, you can first arrange by radical, and then by stroke. Letters and symbols are placed at the very end of the meter. If 10,000 Chinese characters are not enough to meet the requirements, then the second literal Chinese characters can also appear. In this case, the second character of the Chinese character will be filled with the character "1" at the beginning, and it will become a 5-digit encoded ......"

Because in another time and space, I have seen this kind of information, so this Zhu Yifeng mentioned the telegram, but it is also the way, and his suggestion made Xu Shushan's eyes shine, maybe Mei Wuqi and others do not know the meaning of this suggestion, but Xu Shushan knows that Han Du's proposal to use digital telegraph code fundamentally solves the problem of the use of telegraph in China.

"What Han Du said is very true! When he turned around, he ordered the work to be made. ”

When Xu Shushan, who had already been named as the Telegraph Office and the General Office of Military Engineers, responded to the call to handle the matter, Zhu Yifeng said to Lin Yuqing, the chief of staff of the Volunteer Army.

"Zhanda, now the General Staff has just been established, this codebook, the Telegraph Bureau is formulated by the civilian one, that is, the clear code, which is obviously not suitable for the army, your General Staff Department also has to set up a department, draw up a set of passwords suitable for the use of the army, to be able to prevent others from deciphering, as for the idea of this code, you can use your brains!"

The General Staff Department was established by direct order of Zhu Yifeng after the Spring Festival, but unlike the Prussian Army General Staff more than ten years later, the current General Staff Department is more of Zhu Yifeng's personal staff department, which is directly ordered by himself and set up in the Governor's Office to provide him with military advice.

"Yes, Grand Duke!"

When Lin Yuqing responded, Zhu Yifeng asked about the laying of telegraph lines, because the telegraph lines carried by the ship were only 100 miles in total, so the laying of the first telegraph line needed to be selected, and the first long-distance line chosen now was the line between Wuchang and Jiujiang, after all, Henan now has Zeng Lichang's Taiping army to block it, so naturally there is no need to consider safety issues, but Jiujiang is different, and now the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which has the name of "breaking Beijing", is in full swing. Even Zeng Guofan in Jiangxi was attacked by the Taiping army and could only support it, so in this case, it was natural to take strict precautions against it.

"Well, the telegraph line should be repaired as soon as possible, if the line is not enough, you can try to make the telegraph line by the work, and there is also the telegraph generator room......"

At present, the telegraph office is using a test battery, and the equipment in the motor room has not yet been installed. Speaking of the generator, Zhu Yifeng deliberately looked at the rear of the telegraph office, and when the generator was put into use, he could carry out a series of power tests in the governor's mansion at that time!

"It should also be made as soon as possible, and when it is put into use, a wire will be connected to the governor's mansion, and when the time comes, the governor will have other uses!" (To be continued.) )