When a merchant makes money with a certain tool, it is natural for other businessmen to look at that thing.

It was a two- or two-minute phone call, and after only five days, businessmen in six provinces began to line up.

In fact, it can't reach 720 people in one place a day, and there is still waiting time, even if they talk for two minutes at a time.

To put it bluntly, it takes an average of four minutes to have a normal call, which is also counted as two minutes, and you don't charge much money.

The calls of the six governments are called back and forth, belonging to two and two, up to three groups, but Nanjing needs to be connected to other places, so it is basically a call to see Nanjing.

"Yichang, make money, make money by phone, according to Nanjing's calculation, about three hundred and sixty yuan a day.

We want to add lines and give more telephones to the convenience offices in Nanjing, and there are ready-made telephone poles, so that the industrial zone can quickly get telephone lines.

Isn't the current line a group of ten? Temporarily assigned to the five groups of the convenience department, so as not to delay our communication here. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang came over when there were no festivals and respending, and took all the people in the harem with him.

And I came in the afternoon, and it looks like I'm going to stay overnight and then ...... tomorrow

"Zhu Lichang, let's come over to see how everyone is preparing, and we are about to leave Nanjing, otherwise we won't have time to bring things over."

Queen Ma explained her intentions, obviously Zhu Yuanzhang was unwilling to express this emotion and find a reason for a phone line.

The telephone line does not need to go through Xiaqiu Village, the industrial zone can do it, and Xiaqiu Village only has a manual exchange here.

"Rest assured, the queen is ready, everyone adjusts their physical condition now and leaves the day after tomorrow."

The lieutenant governor explained the situation and added him forty-four people, but some of those twenty people were not the same as before, and they were replaced by those who wanted to get married.

As soon as they left, twenty people from the woman's family came over to study here, and when the team returned, the wedding was arranged, collectively.

The people in my mother's house said that it was actually from the village of Xuancheng County and the other two counties of Ningguofu.

The village is easy to do, everyone doesn't care about the bride price and dowry, and the four families in the other two counties, they are a little bit worse, and they go back to support them with some skills and needs.

For example, the bride price, giving them large animals, or the use of the steam engine equipment several times a year.

And there are also department stores, and the bride price includes a 'membership card' for the purchase of things, and they can buy what they need, which is the most affordable.

The traveling procession included four princes, arranged according to the size of Zhu Zhang, Zhu Li, Zhu Di, Zhu Hu, two, three, four, five.

The most anxious is Zhu Li, his fief is in Taiyuan Mansion, Wu King Zhu Hu doesn't want the current fief at all, that is his hometown, and his father is King Wu.

The people from the four prefectures are also ready, just waiting for the final arrangements here in Xiaqiu Village, and everyone is on their way.

The crown princess is theoretically fine, she has already given birth to a child, and it is very easy to give birth and regenerate, unless there is a special disease.

"Okay, you need to say everything, and the guards have to be enough, and you must go through four at a time."

Queen Ma felt sorry for her son, before the boss Zhu Biao went out, everyone was worried, and now there are four, all of them are her own.

Zhu Yuanzhang had to say about it: "The main thing is to send a telegram, and I have to report my safety every day and tell the story."

We arrange the phone by ourselves, and the cost of a day's call is enough for us to spread a long distance.

Sure enough, once it comes to business things, things are easy to use, and everyone accepts them.

I heard that the first one to call earned 200 yuan, but there is still no lotus root in the local area......"

Zhu Yuanzhang began to talk about the important telephone situation these days, and the merchants were buying and selling goods back and forth between the limited six prefectures.

Each kind of goods has a high profit at the beginning, and then returns to normal, that is, it can no longer be bought and sold with the addition of freight.

Some businessmen are smart enough to let people from the government that has a phone over there go to the state capital next to the city where there is no phone, and spend four days running back and forth to inquire about the news, buy things from the six state capitals, or send them over there to sell.

On average, four minutes earn a consistent phone bill, and it is only a telephone, which is more than 130,000 yuan a year according to perennial calculations.

As the telephone lines spread farther and farther, coupled with the wired telegraph, the telegraph could be cheaper, and it was necessary to speak directly normally.

I feel that the annual telephone and telegraph bills are higher than the treasury income of the imperial court, and then there are more jobs.

"Your Majesty, when the time comes, we need to reduce the telephone bill and increase the manual exchange at the same time, which will be difficult for our village to support." The lieutenant was ready to let this out.

"The phone call in the imperial city still needs to be transferred from our village, and in other places, we will arrange people, and some secrets cannot be known to outsiders.

It is estimated that some people will be cautious and make a code word or something by themselves, don't let us catch it, otherwise ......"

Zhu Yuanzhang now thought about the communication between the ministers, and they used to write letters with code words, let alone make phone calls.

"What Your Majesty said is very much, our village now has cryptography, specializing in this, and we can improve it a little in the next two or three years."

The lieutenant said that he understood and supported it, because Han Han said that the telegram had encrypted communication.

It may be used in the future, for example, some of the people who are responsible for sending telegrams have been bought, and the wireless ones can be intercepted, and the words in clear code can be translated directly.

If you climb up to a telegraph line and connect it to a telegraph machine, you can receive information.

Telephone lines, if you know the situation, you can also call, and even deceive the people of the artificial exchange to connect to other places.

In places where there is no manual exchange, a telephone set on one side of the two places can be connected to a telephone pole to make a conversation.

Then in the future, better technology will be needed to encrypt this line, not yet, less parts.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded happily: "It's done!" I'm bothering you again, that ...... We haven't eaten at noon, we haven't eaten, we don't know what they eat, and do they still have skewers? Girl ......"

"Let's listen to Chongba." Queen Ma can't veto Zhu Yuanzhang.

"Yes!" The chief also nodded, there is everything to eat in the village now, when it is hot, some people like to drink beer and eat skewers, the meat is always pickled, or after the pickling is put on skewers and continue to pickle, there is ice, eat and take.

Vegetables can be worn in time, including hairy eggs and shone eggs, which must be cooked first, preferably in a high-pressure jar of marinated things, and then roasted, so that there is no bacterial infection.

It didn't take long for the things to be delivered, and they were roasted by Hanhan, and there were no ministers, so it saved trouble.

Zhu Yuanzhang first ate a bunch of dried tofu rolls of ham, cucumbers, shredded green onions, and shredded coriander, and then drank a big sip of beer.

"Oops! Readily! If we are willing to come, in fact, we are enjoying life, and since we can eat such things here, we have an idea of what the people will eat in the future.

There are also telephones, and when the people are rich, they can pull a special line to the nearest artificial exchange, how much money is charged per month, and how long to call.

This is something that ordinary people can't imagine, right? We can think of it, in the future, there is a little bit of it that we can think, yes, Yi Chang said, upstairs and downstairs, electric lights and telephones. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said what he thought, he just wanted to see how far Xiaqiu Village could go.

Zhu Wentian smiled there, and wanted to say, no, there is no need for a wired phone, that is not easy to use, satellite phones are the mainstream.

Not today

(End of chapter)