Zhao Jiaren's purpose in establishing the Communications Research Institute was very clear, that is, to establish the cable telegraph. Such a unit is full of elite soldiers, at least the capable personnel that Zhao Jiaren has been able to take out so far.

Liu Hongxia received a notification on the third day of registration, and her application was approved. This unit officially appeared in the sequence of schools. On the day of the establishment, the first thing everyone did was to change their uniforms. Since the military institution, both men and women have all changed into uniforms, that is, flying fish suits that are black on the outside and red on the inside.

Since it's a flying fish suit, there is a hat. Even without a hat's wings, that hat can be considered a kind of crown. Song Dynasty men are called weak crowns at the age of 20. At this time, the crown salute is put on, that is, the hat that indicates that he has become an adult, to show that he is an adult, but his body is still not strong, and he is still relatively young, so he is called "weak". Crown, hat, refers to adulthood. Later generations generally refer to the age of about 20 for men, and cannot be used for women.

However, Zhao Jiaren's troops don't care about this, everyone here has their own job, and both men and women have to use it officially. The uniforms were changed long ago, and the hats were awarded one by one by the person in charge. Liu Hongxia originally combed the woman's hairstyle, but at this time, she also pulled up her bun, solemnly put on her hat with other men and women, put the bun into the erected part behind the hat of the flying fish suit, and tied the hat band.

Zhao Jiaren came to watch the ceremony in person, and when he saw the heroic appearance of the young people who had finished dressing, he stood up with a smile and walked to the rostrum, and said loudly to the group of people below: "When a great cause is founded, everyone in it does not know what they are doing. If they knew, probably the vast majority of people would give up. Because a great cause requires an incomparably hard struggle. In hindsight, this hardship was simply incomprehensible. So, I would like to ask you one last time, are you willing to persevere and continue to work hard? ”

"Yes!" The young people shouted in unison. Zhao Jiaren's words sounded more like an urging than an intimidation to them.

"Good!" Zhao Jiaren nodded with satisfaction, "Then our first task is to build a telegraph line from Mawei Port to Fuzhou City, including a transmission line from the reservoir on Mawei Mountain." In two months, the rainy day will begin, and there is not much good weather for us to be able to work freely. And even on rainy days, you have to constantly repair and solve possible problems. I hope that you will create a new era of communication research through your own efforts. ”

These young people got the call of the principal, and naturally they were full of spirit and devoted themselves to their work. Zhao Jiaren also handed over these tasks to them, because Zuo Prime Minister Jia Xianggong wrote a letter to him this time with great respect for Zhao Jiaren. It can be seen that the previous dispute between Zhao Jiaren and Jia Nidao played a role, and Jia Nidao hoped in the letter that Zhao Jiaren could serve as the governor of Qingyuan Prefecture after his term of office in Fuzhou Governor expired. Jia Rudao hoped that after Zhao Jiaren took over as the governor of Qingyuan Prefecture, he would be able to expand the cotton area here, and change the money handed over every month from 100,000 guan to 200,000 guan.

After reading such a request, Zhao Jiaren wanted to reply to Jia Yidao immediately. Write four big words on the letter: 'Wishful thinking'!

When the Great Song Dynasty played the reward, it was not necessary to run through, but to use text. For example, after the Battle of Ezhou, Zhao Jiaren was rewarded with 500,000 yuan, that is, 500,000 copper coins. According to the usual practice of 770 yuan, 500,000 yuan is 700 copper coins. According to the current ratio of copper coins to silver, it is about 200 taels of silver.

If Zhao Jiaren really handed over 200,000 copper coins every month, he could say that he would pay 154 million yuan to the imperial court every month and 1.848 billion yuan a year.

Zhao Jiaren is very sure that Jia Yidao is now completely hanging on this money. With Jia Nidao's current status, he thinks about how to get this huge financial resource from Zhao Jiaren in his hands about three times a day, so Zhao Jiaren doesn't think that Jia Nidao's request this time is a hot nonsense in his brain, maybe a precursor to what Jia Nidao is going to do.

However, if there is no investigation, there is no right to speak, Zhao Jiaren suppressed the letter first, and he ordered his subordinates to go to Qingyuan Mansion next to Jiaxing Mansion to investigate, whether there was something wrong there, so that Jia Yidao wanted to do this. In fact, if Jia Rudao was willing to let Zhao Jiaren serve as the governor of Yangzhou and the pacification envoy of Lianghuai, he might be tempted.

Historically, the growth of cotton in Lianghuai is obviously better than that of Songjiang, and there are too many contents that can be opened up in Lianghuai, Zhao Jiaren has obtained more than 3 million acres of land in Lianghuai in the past two years, and the effect of intensive management is not generally good, but very good!

After the order was issued, Zhao Jiaren began to feel that the construction of the Communications Research Institute might be a little late. If there was a telegraph, there would be no need to run around so hard. From Fuzhou to Qingyuanfu, if you send a report on the same day, you can get an accurate call back within about three days. And in three days, the ship has not yet run to Qingyuan Mansion.

But this kind of complaining is useless, Zhao Jiaren can only wait. Fortunately, Jia Nidao also has to wait, and Zhao Jiaren can also use the long distance as an excuse to ignore Jia Nidao's request.

After more than half a month, the news finally came back to Fuzhou. It doesn't seem that there is anything major in Qingyuan Mansion, but there is a big thing in the reform of Gongtian! When Zhao Jiaren opposed the reform of Gongtian, he said that the Great Song Dynasty did not have such a strong bureaucratic team to achieve the purpose of Gongtian reform.

As far as Zhao Jiaren knows, the scale of land reform in New China is much larger than that of the public land reform, but it will be changed nationwide. Moreover, the purpose of reform can be basically achieved. Without such a strong organization, Jia's reforms soon ran into problems.

In the process of buying back public land, although the landless or landless peasants were less implicated, they also suffered greatly from the public land law in the later management of official land. In order to receive a reward for meritorious service, the official in charge either overreported the number of fields bought, or overreported the rank of the public land. When the official fields were actually in operation, this kind of 'pompous style' of inviting merit encountered problems, and they could not receive enough grain.

And the response of the bureaucrats is not to find a way to do a good job, because they are not capable of running in the first place, and the petty officials below only have the intention of making profits from it. As a result, the shortfall in the books caused by these hands can only be made up by the peasants who lease and undertake the tenants.

At the beginning of the implementation of the Public Land Law, it was stipulated that the original rent of one stone of public land, as a policy preference, was now rented only eight buckets, but in practice, regardless of the original amount and the barren soil, even the original public land that could only harvest three or four buckets a year was also collected eight buckets. Although the Gongtian Law expressly prohibits over-collecting noodles, when the actual rent is collected, it is still levied in large buckets, and it is regarded as a practice for a bucket to receive one bucket and three liters, and it is even as high as one bucket and six liters in Danyang County. Originally, only brown rice was required to pay rent, but in the course of public land management, tenant farmers were forced to switch to white rice, with an additional bucket of brown grain and eight liters per stone. The tenants could not bear the layers of exploitation of the official land, and could not pay the high rent of rice, and many official fields were abandoned.

"I see." Zhao Jiaren somewhat understood Jia Nidao's request, if from the perspective of goodwill, Jia Nidao really seemed to be unbearable.