Laying telephones in thousands of households is not realistic for the time being.

Without him, the installation fee of the phone alone is not acceptable to ordinary people, not to mention the monthly fee and communication fee.

The installation fee is 50 taels of silver, the monthly rent is 1 tael of silver, and the telephone fee is 60 taels per 5 minutes, and less than 5 minutes will be counted as 5 minutes.

Ren Baqian knows that this is the trend, and this future is not far away, at most twenty or thirty years.

For the time being, though, the main targets of the call were the imperial court and merchants.

At the same time, there is also the point of public telephone.

Ren Hachizen plans to spread the public telephone to the entire Daiyao area, including Izumo and the Land of Sky View, and use the coin of the public telephone to recover the copper coins.

As for the cables needed to lay telephone lines, Ren Baqian also made a lot of preparations for this.

As early as a year earlier, Ren Baqian had introduced a new coin, a copper-clad steel-alloy coin with a face value equivalent to five copper coins.

Although countless steel rails were used to lay the railway, the price of steel was even higher than that of copper in the private sector.

Coupled with a new decree that no one could refuse to accept the new coin, and those who reported it were fined or flogged, so after a little confusion, the beautifully crafted new coin was put to life.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ren Baqian recovered a large number of copper coins on the market and re-smelted them into cables.

However, there are still a large number of copper coins circulating in the market, and even as he recycles a large number of copper coins, the price of copper coins has increased.

In the next step, Ren Baqian planned to use the coin-operated telephone to exchange the copper coins on the market for aluminum-magnesium alloy coins, and completely replace the old coins with new coins.

No way, now what is worse than the lack of iron is the lack of copper.

The two largest copper mines are in Bactria and are in the north. Ren Baqian did not have any interest in Great Xia, and the location of the two copper mines also determined that it was impossible for Da Yao to send troops to directly occupy the copper mines.

As for Izumo's copper mines, the output is still insufficient for the demand of Ren Yachi, and cables are currently the largest copper consumers.

Ren Baqian could only temporarily put the target on the copper coins on the market to solve the urgent need.

After demonstrating the telephone number to many ministers in the court, Ren Baqian first sent each of the adults a telephone, including the installation.

Of course, they still need to pay for the monthly rent and communication fees.

Later, at the suggestion of the empress, Tobe ordered 1,000 telephones directly from the Imperial Communications Company of the 8000 people, and all the castles and most important departments in the entire Daiyao region were connected to telephones, except for the Izumo region.

Through the empress's order, every department in every city must install a telephone.

In fact, the money is not much, adding up to a total of more than 3,000 telephones and more than 100,000 taels of silver.

But it pushed the phone directly in front of the world.

Through this incident, Ren Baqian felt that he and the empress were the biggest examples of collusion between officials and businessmen.

Of course, as soon as the order went down, except for Tobe's Tuwan nodding on the spot, the Izumo region did not react. But no one will refute the empress's face in this matter.

And the importance of the telephone is really incomparable, and its importance and significance are in no way weaker than the advent of the tractor, if not greater.

Ren Baqian officially opened the corner of the door to the era of communication.

After the demonstration in the court, Ren Hachizen began to promote the telephone line from Arashiki to Izumo while having people lay out the telephone line.

At the same time, the personnel recruited from the Land of Sky View are also in the midst of intense training.

After recruiting a large number of laborers to build a new city in the Land of Skyview, Ren Baqian finally began to use a large number of manpower in the Land of Skyview.

Between Arashi City and the Land of Heavenly View, Ren Baqian also built a new city.

The so-called new city is nothing more than a cluster of brick houses and factories, and there is not even a fence.

Of course, this is also the standard of the city in the future, there is no city wall, not to mention saving a lot of manpower and material resources, but also convenient for expansion.

At present, the new city is mainly responsible for the production of telephones, wires and telephone lines.

The rubber was sent here from near Chenguo compared to sending it to Lancheng, saving seven or eight hundred miles.

Moreover, Ren Baqian is already preparing to plan a new factory near the southeast capital to be responsible for processing rubber.

......

"The fog is heavy today, and the rivers and mountains are deep here.

The sound of the beach is more urgent, and the gorge is cloudy.

Looking at the clouds and covering the eyes, homesick raindrops.

What will be the comfort of the lonely and lonely? ”

"The emotions are overflowing in the scenery, touching the heart, the sentence structure is neat, and it is natural! I don't know who this poem is from, but it deserves to be everyone's name!" In the restaurant, several scholars sat around the table, and some people held fans and high-fived in admiration.

"It's really good! It should be from the hand of Prince Nazhao, he is not from the ancient tribe, and it is not surprising that he wrote such a poem in a foreign country. ”

"He's beautiful and powerful, I'm afraid he's having fun!" someone chuckled.

"Beauty is in the arms? That Your Majesty, how can it be ordinary warm fragrant nephrite?" someone looked around and chuckled.

"It's better to talk about these things less. "There is an old man who keeps a steady eye on the surrounding road.

If the emperor is discussed in private, if it reaches the ears of others, it will immediately be in great trouble!

"I have long heard that Prince Nazhao is good at heavenly miscellaneous arts, but I didn't expect that he is also proficient in the way of poetry!"

"The way of poetry is only to cultivate temperament, and it is not beneficial to govern the country. Someone shook his head. "But the telephone, I don't know what you think?"

The people were talking about a poem that had recently been circulated in the city.

And there is another sentence at the end of this poem -

"Homesick, call home!"

A poem, a sentence, will lead the new thing of the telephone directly to everyone.

Both the poem and the phrase are printed on a piece of paper, with a drawing of a telephone underneath.

On the back of the paper, there is a brief introduction to the telephone number and the location of the Imperial Household Telephone Office in Izumo Castle.

As soon as this advertising flyer appeared, it immediately detonated the entire Izumo.

"It's incredible that you can use this thing to talk instantly from thousands of miles away, and I don't know if it's true or not!"

"It can't be fake. This has already spread all over Izumo, and if it is a lie, it will become a laughing stock! How could Prince Zhao act so unwisely?"

"And it is said that the Seongreifu has booked the installation of the telephone, and the time will be calculated, and it will be installed in five to seven days. We'll find out when the time comes. ”

"If it's true to what it says on that piece of paper, this phone call is amazing. No matter what happens anywhere in the future, Arashiro will know it immediately, and the order can be issued immediately, which is terrifying to think about. ”

"You don't know. A young man whispered, "You think this kind of thing exists, but it has already existed." I heard from my uncle that once the city order went to the imperial court for something to do with the northeast capital, but a reply came from within a quarter of an hour! A few days later, the city order received the exact same order. ”

"Even if you don't talk about this, you can now study the movements of the armies of the Northeast Protectorate during the war a few years ago, and you can ......."

"Say no more!" someone stopped him. "It's useless to talk too much about this matter, we shouldn't talk about it, be careful of inviting trouble!"

"Brother Zhu, you are too careful. As long as you have a heart, you can detect this matter, and can you still block the population of the world?" said the scholar disapprovingly.

"However, this phone call is also good for us, and if we go out to travel in the future, it is very convenient to call home to ask about the recent situation. ”

"It's true!"

"Traveling only grows and sees, and eventually it still has to be sold to the emperor's family.

Now that Izumo is gone, and the big exam is gone, I don't know where I am waiting for a way out!" someone sighed.

As soon as these words came out, everyone immediately fell silent.