The Jingzhao Telegraph Bureau is crowded with people, and those who are queuing up to handle telegraph services almost fill the awnings in the yard. The three-story "Telecom Building" is crowded with one and two floors.

On the first floor, there is the sending office of the civilian telegraph. People waiting to send the telegraph are filled with long benches in the waiting hall. They are the "running errands" of various businesses, cabinets, workshops, and workshops. They are sent by the owner to send telegraphs to the Telegraph Bureau.

After sending the telegram, go to the newspaper receipt next door to see if there is any telegram from your boss.

On the second floor, there is the sending office of the official telegram. The minor officials from various departments and offices took the official documents and entered the compartment of different numbers according to the order, handed over the official documents to the teller for registration. After confirming that the content is correct, they paid, received the receipt, and returned to the office to report.

Official telegraphs are also known as "official newspapers" and "tie slips". With the opening of telegraph lines between the two Beijings, the "official newspapers" of the Jingzhao Telegraph Bureau have become more and more frequent.

Now, when Chang'an and Guangling, Yangzhou can send and receive telegrams, the number of "official reports" sent and received by Jingzhao Telegraph Bureau every day has increased by nearly twenty times.

This is just the beginning. As official documents in the form of "electronics" become more and more common, and with the continuous "power-up" of various telegram lines in the future, the business volume of Jingzhao Telegraph Bureau will only increase.

The officials waiting for the telegram outside were sitting on a long bench, drinking the tea brought by the waiter, holding the "official bag" containing the official documents tightly, and chatting with others.

They were ordered to bring official documents here to send telegrams. Official documents must not be lost or leaked. Therefore, the topic of chatting with everyone is the "power-up" of the telegram line from Chang'an to Guangling.

This line is composed of the two Beijing lines, Luo (Yang) Ye (City) line, Yewan line, Wan'an line, Anhuang line, Guanghuang line, Huai River line, and Hangou line. It is said to be more than 3,000 miles long, but it can realize the instantaneous transmission of information.

As a result, the governments along the route were "strung" by this thin telegram line. The court has now asked the governments along the route to transmit all the general official documents by telegram, and the general official documents sent to governments in various places in the capital will also be transmitted by telegram.

Because the government also has to pay fees for sending ordinary official documents by telegrams, the court now requires local governments to strictly limit the number of words when issuing "official reports", and the content must be concise and concise, and no nonsense.

A "electronic letter style" was also formulated to allow local governments to "regulate the use of words".

Therefore, literary officials must now master a new style of official documents, that is, the "electronic document style".

The normal official documents are rewritten into "electronic documents" with concise sentences. After the superior reviews, he uses seals, and then takes the money to send a telegram to the Telegraph Bureau, then pays the fee, collects the receipt, and returns to the official office to report.

This is something that has never happened in thousands of years. The clerks looked at the busy "business hall" and sighed at the changes in the world.

"This is still a line. When the Yongji line is powered on, the Tongji line will be connected. With the official documents exchanges in Hebei and Henan, the Telegraph Bureau is afraid that it will be crowded."

"Don't forget the Hetao Line, the Hexi Line and the Jiannan Line! The telegram lines between Yizhou and Jiaozhou are also connected, and the telegram bureau will probably have to stay day and night!"

"That has nothing to do with us. After we finish the business here, when will this telegram be sent? It's the matter of the telegram bureau. So what if there are too many telegrams? You can work three shifts, and the factory is like this, so why are you tired?"

"It's worth it. I heard that the telegram mailer and receiver have at least two stakes a month's salary, so what if I'm tired?"

"The monthly salary is at least two cents? So much? Then I will ask my nephew to register at the Telegram School!"

Amid the discussion, everyone sighed at the magic of telegrams. In the past, in everyone's eyes, the distant Jiaozhou was the end of the world. Under normal circumstances, it took more than two months to travel from Chang'an to Jiaozhou.

If you walk back and forth between the two places, it will take about five months to pass.

Now, with steamships and convenient shipping, we will go from Chang'an to Jiaozhou Longbian. During this period, water and land alternate, and sea routes will be carried out. As long as the journey goes smoothly, the whole journey will only take one month.

If the telegram is sent in a few years, the official documents sent by Chang'an will be sent to the Dragon Edge on the same day.

The official documents of the Jiaozhou government can also be transmitted to Chang'an on the same day.

Unconsciously, the Jiaozhou Longbian thousands of miles away felt like a county town in the suburbs outside the city, like a neighbor next door.

Such changes only make people want to say: the world changes.

Outside the Telegraph Bureau, pedestrians passing by were attracted by the bustling scenes in the Telegraph Bureau. They couldn't help but stop and watch, but there were a large number of soldiers standing guard at the door and did not dare to go forward to find out.

Chang'an and Luoyang had telegraph lines before, and the Jingzhao Telegraph Bureau was established later, so residents in Chang'an City were not unfamiliar with the Telegraph Bureau.

Telegrams are very magical. They are said to be able to be transmitted thousands of miles away in an instant. Everyone does not know the specific principle, but they know that telegrams are very expensive. A word in the telegram is said to cost ten cents, and ordinary people cannot afford it.

Only the government and rich people are the customers of this telegram.

For example, after the two Beijing lines are connected, the government mainly uses telegrams to transmit general official documents, which is called "official newspaper", also known as "tel letters".

In addition, only those rich families of officials and merchants will come to the Telegram Bureau to send telegrams and contact relatives and friends from afar.

However, since the emergence of new telegraph technology, everything has become different. Since the end of last year, the popularity of the Telegraph Bureau has become increasingly popular. Now, because it is said that Chang'an can send telegrams directly to Guangling, the threshold of the Telegraph Bureau is almost broken.

"It is more than 2,000 miles away from Chang'an to Guangling. In the past, it will take more than a month to take a one-way trip. If the postman rushes his horse and travels 600 miles a day, he will have to go for four days. But now, the official documents will be delivered in an instant, and the power of the telegram is vast, which can be seen."

In the tea shop across the street, a tea shop was talking loudly and talked about this magical "telegram" with other tea shops.

While drinking tea, everyone looked at the bustling telegraph office like a market, and sighed at the vast power of "telegraph".

Everyone doesn't know how the "telegram" works, but only says that the government has supernatural powers. As for the supernatural powers that are Buddhas and Taos, there are many different opinions. At this time, the tea chef was expressing his own opinions.

"In the past, when the emperor was invading his residence, he was alone in guarding Xuanhu. He was surrounded by hundreds of thousands of enemy troops and was completely displaced. The enemy and us had a huge gap in strength. Seeing that the lonely city was in danger, the emperor got the help of a king."

"The Taoist master has great magical powers, high magic, can sprinkle beans into soldiers, cut paper, help the emperor to repel the enemy's attacks one after another, and keep the entire Xuanhu."

"I heard that when I was guarding the city, the Taoist priest Wang used magical powers, called "the art of shrinking the earth."

"This technique is very magical. The wind drives the sun and the moon, shrinks the ground and walks the mountains and rivers. Even if it is thousands of miles apart, it will arrive in an instant. Master Wang's method can make countless siege rushers disappear instantly and then appear thousands of miles away."

"There is also the technique of paper geese. You can write on paper and then fold it into paper geese. You can fly thousands of miles away on the same day to convey military information to the emperor..."

"After the enemy's rescue, Master Wang bid farewell to the emperor and floated away, saying that he wanted to travel overseas, and no one knew his trace from then on."

"So, I think this telegram must be a Taoist magic, just like the 'paper goose technique', which can instantly transmit information thousands of miles away."

People believe in ghosts and gods, and when the emperor was invading his residence, he did stand alone in guarding Xuanhu. This is well known, so no one can refute the statement of this tea lover, which also gave the tea lovers an idea:

This telegram must be some kind of Taoist spell.

There is also the steamship, which is said to be able to travel thousands of miles a day, which is naturally the Taoist "reducing the ground technique"!

Once you use supernatural powers and magic to explain things that you cannot understand, everyone finally "suddenly realizes".

Therefore, everyone thinks that the world must be peaceful. The capable people and strangers living in seclusion from all over the country came out to share the worries of the emperor and serve the court, so that so many magical machines and the means of "passing letters from thousands of miles away" were found.

Telegrams are said to cost ten words per word, which is very expensive, so if you have something to tell your relatives and friends from afar, it is better to write a letter, after all, postal services are becoming more and more convenient now.

But the telegraph is so magical. Guangling, more than two thousand miles away, was connected to the telegraph line, as if it was much closer to Chang'an.

It takes several days for residents in Chang'an City to visit relatives in the surrounding prefectures and counties to go back and forth (walking). The news about Guangling reached Chang'an, which was "an arrival in an instant."

It gives people the feeling that Guangling and Chang'an are separated by a wall, like neighbors.
Chapter completed!