Chapter 226: The far-sighted Sima Yi

Liu Hou and Sima Yi chatted while eating, chatting and chatting, Sima Yi talked about the information transmission problem of the Shu army, and couldn't help but sigh again, and said: "Your Majesty, I have seen our army's methods of transmitting information some time ago, and I think these methods are really ingenious, and the speed of transmitting information is breathtaking.

Curious, he deliberately went to the people in the herald department to understand the situation, and then he learned that every word we use in our daily life has been compiled into various codes such as flags, lights, and fireworks. Chen Bai has lived for decades, and now he knows that there is such a whimsical method in the world, which, in the past, Chen could not imagine no matter what, this can be called a fairy method.

Chen thought that since there is such a good set of means of transmitting information, we should make good use of it. Why not use this method of information transmission in all prefectures, prefectures, counties, and especially on the border, so that whatever is happening in all parts of the country, the news can be transmitted to the capital in a very short time and reported to Your Majesty.

Your Majesty, think about it, from now on, wherever there are border troubles in all parts of the country, where there are thieves who rebel, and where there are floods and droughts, the imperial court can immediately receive the news. You will be able to respond as soon as possible. There are many things, as long as they are dealt with in a timely manner, they will not cause irreparable damage.

Many catastrophes and turmoil are often just scabies at the beginning, just like the Yellow Turban Rebellion that swept the world, when it first started, the scale was not large, if the imperial court could respond quickly and send a large army to encircle and suppress, it might be destroyed in an instant.

However, because of the long distance and inconvenient transportation, when the news spreads to the capital, the emperor will convene the ministers to discuss countermeasures, and then pay homage to the generals.

Therefore, the speed of information transmission is very important, please consider it carefully, if this set of rapid information transmission methods is arranged throughout the country, it is equivalent to an invisible line that connects all counties and counties in the country, and binds them together, and at that time, the country of Your Majesty will really become an iron system, and you will no longer have to worry about someone overturning the world. ”

After listening to Sima Yi's words, Liu Hou was amazed, this Sima Yi really has a long-term vision, and he can actually see the benefits of information network construction. It is not easy for an ancient person to see this, especially Sima Yi didn't even know what an information transmission network was, but he knew that there were great benefits to doing so.

According to his mention, it is to use an invisible information network to connect all parts of the country, each county is a node in this network, or a terminal, and the center of this network is the imperial court, that is, the central government, the information of the whole world can be collected to the imperial court, and the imperial court can also directly release information to various terminals.

This can undoubtedly greatly improve administrative efficiency and greatly speed up the response speed of the imperial court. If this information network is built well, it will certainly greatly affect the social development process of Dahan in the future, and this disruptive technology will even bring earth-shaking impact to society.

Sima Yi, a wise man, has only been in contact with this information transmission system for a short time, and he can keenly perceive the future development prospects of this set of things and capture the great impact that this set of things will have on society.

"Hahaha, Zhongda is really talented, I am very relieved, I am very relieved. I have long had the idea of laying out an information transmission network all over the country, and at that time, not only the military and the government can use this information transmission system, but also the common people who need it. ”

"Oh? If it is used by the people, I am afraid that this set of things will be overwhelmed. Sima Yi was worried.

"Hehe, of course, this method will be overwhelmed now, and the cost of construction is too great. Zhong Da tried to imagine that a hot air balloon would be set up every dozens of miles to relay information, and how many hot air balloons would it take to use it?

The manufacturing cost of hot air balloons is not low, you see, there are only about 20 hot air balloons in our army, which is still a scale after several years of accumulation. If you want to wait until the day when hot air balloons are full of hot air balloons all over the country, I'm afraid you and I will be dying. ”

Hearing this, Sima Yi couldn't help but be embarrassed, he saw the benefits of this information transmission system, his head was hot for a while, and he didn't think so much about the emperor's nationwide construction, completely ignoring the cost problem, and now he knows that this is an impossible task at all, and this time he is really embarrassed.

"I wanted to build another way that was easier and faster. If Zhongda is interested, you can find a researcher from the Institute of Information Research to find out. I remember a few of the researchers who went with the army.

This method is not yet mature, but I believe that they will soon be able to study and improve it, and then the information from thousands of miles away will be transmitted in an instant, and there is no need to use hot air balloons to relay one by one, and the speed will be increased by a thousand times. Liu Hou said again.

"Oh? Is there a faster way in the world than the current hot air balloon method of transmitting information? Is there really the legendary clairvoyance and the fairy method of the wind ear? Sima Yi said excitedly.

"Of course, Zuo Ci Zuo Xian Weng has long made short-distance transmission tests, but the long-distance transmission problem has not been solved, and I believe that these problems will be solved in three or five years." Liu Houdao.

The method that Liu Hou said is actually the telegraph, the principle of the telegraph is very simple, nothing more than pressing the button at this end, after the power is on, an electrical pulse signal will appear at the end of the wire. And this electrical pulse signal can be long or short depending on the length of time the button is pressed.

Of course, it's not so simple to say simple, in this era of nothing, these things are actually quite difficult to get, otherwise Zuo Ci and the people of the Information Research Institute would not have studied for several years and still failed to complete success.

The problem of power supply is not big, with sulfuric acid and lead, the battery was pounded out by Zuo Ci very early, the keys are also very easy to solve, the handle part is made of insulated wood, and the place of the electric door is made of two separate copper sheets, plus a spring automatically pops open two copper sheets, which is very simple.

The wire is still made of copper wire, painted with a layer of paint on the outside, and then wrapped with leather, and a primitive wire is completed. Of course, the cost of such wires is very high, but Liu Hou has invested a lot of money in these research institutes, and they can still afford this money.

The smelting technology of the "Ministry of Industry" has also developed, copper sheets, springs, copper wires, these things are not a problem, the most troublesome is the receiving end, which needs a receiver to "translate" the electrical pulse signal transmitted from the sending end, or "display" it in some form, and turn it into something that can be seen or heard by human beings.