In a corner of the palace, Jingming Pavilion, and in the second-floor conference room, Empress Yuchi Chifan sat on her head, looking at the empty conference room, the empty conference table, the empty six seats, silent.

This is where she calls the concubines for meetings every month; this is where she knocks on the concubines; this is where the queen shows her majesty to the concubines; this is where the concubines surrender to the queen.

But from now on, it will never be the case again.

There will be no more monthly, quarterly, and annual meetings that are frequently reconciled; there will be no more scenes of concubines preparing various accounts and waiting for the queen to give a speech while lowering her head; there will be no more scenes of concubines making speeches to summarize and then waiting for the queen to comment.

The main room hits the side room an important place, and the building is empty.

As she thought about it, Yuchi Chifan felt sad from her heart. Yuwen Wen divided the family early and divided the royal property a lot, which made her lose the biggest reason and "system" to hit the concubines.

In fact, this kind of "system" is only available in their family. If it is an ordinary powerful family, the mistress has the final say in the property, so there is no room for the concubines to interrupt.

However, Yuchi Chifan adapted to this system and for decades, he has consolidated his status and majesty as a regular employee by supervising the industrial side office.

Now, this system has disappeared and the people of Jingming Pavilion are gone. How can she effectively attack the concubines?

Of course, my sister is not included.

Thinking of her sister, Yuchi Chifan was in a better mood. Her sister was a good helper, helping her stare at other concubines, and serving Yuwen Wen together to let her husband enjoy the fun.

This is very important. The concubines all pay attention to maintenance and insist on "shaping" in fitness. So let alone the youngest Chen Hua, the older Yang Lihua and Zhang, still maintain the capital of "attractive".

If there is a choice, Yuchi Chifan certainly hopes that Yuwen Wen will not take a concubine. Of course, the miserable sister is an exception, but how can a man not take a concubine? Facing the enchanting concubines, the main wife is under great pressure.

The main wife could also rely on checking the accounts to beat the concubine, but it would not work in the future. If the concubine could share the property, she would only become arrogant.

Yuchi Chifan sat alone speechlessly, staring at the empty conference table in a daze, and the maid stood aside with a sense of intimacy, trying not to make any noise as much as possible, so as not to make the queen unhappy.

Cuiyun, the female official who assisted the queen in managing the harem affairs, saw the mistress's figure a little desolate and wanted to persuade the queen to return to the palace to rest, but heard the rumor outside the palace saying that it seemed that the emperor had come.

Cuiyun whispered to remind the queen, but Yuchi Chifan didn't hear it because he was distracted. Soon the figure of the emperor appeared at the door. Seeing the emperor waved his hand, Cuiyun took his leave with the maids.

In this regard, Yuchi Chifan, who was distracted, still did not notice it. It was not until Yuwen Wen hummed, that he woke up from his thoughts: "Ah? Your Majesty... Erlang is here?"

"I've come early. I didn't disturb my wife when I saw Sanniang thinking about something." Yuwen Wen said with a smile, sat aside, looked at Yuchi Chifan again, and asked, "Why, I'm suffering from the right to the right syndrome?"

Yuchi Chifan could hear that Yuwen Wen was making fun of it, and shook his head with a wry smile, but never took over the conversation.

Yuwen Wen continued, "Hey, the whole world has a banquet. When the children grow up, they always have to move out and live their own lives. No matter how reluctant they are to be Yama, they have to accept it. The same is true for the industry to separate. Didn't I tell you a long time ago?"

"Oh, this is the truth. When it comes to reality, your heart is always empty..." Yuchi Chifan sighed, and Yuwen Wen decided to split up early and passed the qi with her in advance, and did not act arbitrarily.

Yuwen Wen continued to persuade: "How could it be? Dividing up is dividing up, but the divided industries are always part of them. The main industries are not still in your hands? Your workload has not decreased at all. Are you very idle?"

"Besides, hold a symposium with foreign women, discuss industry and cooperation. You and the concubines must participate. You and the concubines must not coordinate their positions in advance. This kind of coordination meeting is bound to be held. Aren't you going to set the tone at the meeting?"

Yuwen Wen said that even Yuchi Chifan understood it, but he couldn't let it go and could not accept the fact that Jingming Pavilion, which was once lively, is now "there are people left and the building is empty".

"Sanniang, don't be sad. In a few days, when the telephone line is pulled up, Jingming Pavilion will be lively again."

Yuchi Chifan asked after hearing this: "Phone line? The phone sound quality is distorted and there are many noises. The longer the line, the louder the noise. Isn't it said that the line is long to a certain distance, and the noise can drown out the voice? Is it useful to pull it up?"

"Of course it's useful. The telephone technology is not mature, but it does not mean it cannot be used in a specific area, such as dedicated lines within a small range."

When it comes to technology, Yuwen Wen was excited to explain the application of the telephone system to Yuchi Chifan.

One of the application scenarios, exchange.

For example, when a customer conducts futures trading, he must be off-market and communicate with the trader in the trading pool by handwriting orders. Then, as long as he pulls up the dedicated line, the customer can communicate directly with the trader in voice.

Because it is a dedicated line (only there is a dedicated line phone in a large room), even if the phone sound quality is distorted (changing tone), both parties to the call can determine the other party's identity (the customer can see the situation in the transaction pool).

The second application scenario is the office space of various types of officials and civil institutions.

The telephone system built in these places is known to the offices that open the telephone with the "telephone connection station" as the core. When one of the telephones is "powered" and connects to the telephone connection station, the telephone operator connects the target telephone according to the requirements of dialing in the telephone.

Whether it is dialing in or accepting, the location of the phone is known, so even if the call sound quality is poor and the tone is changed, it is OK to say something non-confidential on the phone, because this kind of dedicated line can default to the identity of both parties on the call without any errors.

In this way, the efficiency of work can be greatly improved. Sometimes things can be explained clearly in a few words, and the matter can be finished just by calling is not required to get together to communicate in person.

For example, the coordination of various departments in the port area, such as the dispatch of trains in the station, such as the communication of various cabins in the steamer ship, etc.

The telephone system is very useful for office spaces where a lot of frequent communication is required and the conversation does not involve confidential content.

Therefore, even if the sound quality of the phone is poor (changing tone makes it impossible to hear who the speaker is), even if the noise is very loud and even if the decent long-distance calls are not possible, the current telephone technology still has room for effect.

"The palace also needs to install a telephone. It is an intra-palace telephone system. All of our respective bedrooms will answer the phone. If you have any trivial matters, just call me. As for the connector, it is set up in Jingming Pavilion. The operator works three shifts to ensure that the telephone system is running normally at any time."

Yuchi Chifan still didn't believe in the phone: "Then, how did I know that the person talking on the other end of the phone was Erlang or someone else? Instead of a eunuch or maid?"

"Erlang, this kind of phone number is of no practical use. It is impossible to confirm the identity of both parties. Who would like to use it?"

"After all, the phone sound quality is too poor, and you can't even hear the man or woman talking to each other. If this problem is not solved, who dares to use the phone?"

Faced with Yuchi Chifan's series of doubts, Yuwen Wen did not avoid: "This is indeed a problem, but it will be improved in the future."

Yuchi Chifan heard that Yu Wen Wen was not confident enough and asked without hesitation: "Erlang, to be honest, is it too expensive to develop a telephone, so he plans to forcibly promote this telephone system in order to make a comeback?"

This sentence was so sharp that Yuwen Wen changed the subject with a shameless face: "Ahhaha, the weather is really good today... Let's go and have a walk with me to the Imperial Garden."

"Erlang, don't avoid this question..."

"Oh, I really want to forget something, just go..."

Before Yuchi Chifan could finish his words, Yuwen Wen immediately made an excuse to let go. Anyway, the telephone system must be forcibly promoted on a small scale.

But it's not all about money.

The telephone technology that has been researching has been delayed in solving the two major problems of distortion of sound quality and excessive noise, so this technology that can transmit sound for thousands of miles cannot be practical.

Seeing that there was no progress in the development, the technical team had nothing to do, and the team was disbanded and the laboratories were empty, Yu Wen Wen had no choice but to carry out "small-scale promotion" with shamelessness.

It’s not that he can’t afford the consumption of experiments, but that he has to find a way to maintain the existence of a technical team, so that the team can do something, and make the confident technicians feel accomplished and morale.

Make some money by the way to make up for scientific research expenses.
Chapter completed!