It is not a simple matter to cover the entire Ming Dynasty and even all vassal states. Wires, steam generators, wires and telegraph sending and receiving devices are just the most basic hardware configurations. There is also a venue for these things, someone needs to operate them, unified Chinese character encoding, etc., etc., which are all intricate.

As the emperor, Zhu Cijing naturally doesn't have to do everything himself. If you have to consider these issues alone, I'm afraid the head will want to blow up. He doesn't have to think about those details at all. As long as the matter is explained, someone will naturally do it for him.

If wires, steam generators, and wired telegram sending and receiving devices are the hardware basis of wired telegrams, then unified Chinese character encoding is the software basis of wired telegrams. With hardware and software, people can operate it, so Zhu Cijing is ready to solve the problem of Chinese character encoding first.

It is easy to say that Chinese character encoding is simple and simple. Anyway, if you arrange one character one by one, you can just number each character, but it is also very complicated. Chinese characters are profound and profound. If you list all the characters, there may be tens of thousands or even tens of thousands. There is no pinyin search and stroke search at this moment. If all telegram operators want to remember all Chinese characters and codes, it may not be enough for one year to train, so you must select the commonly used Chinese characters from the inside and only encode the commonly used Chinese characters. Put the uncommon ones aside.

The Hanlin Academy is naturally the only one who chooses commonly used Chinese characters. At that time in the Ming Dynasty, the Hanlin Academy was the authority of literature. It not only had the functions of secretary, a resident, a servant, etc., but also was responsible for the compilation of historical books and the management of works. It is correct to choose commonly used Chinese characters to find them.

This is the case when being an emperor. He only needs to continue an imperial edict and ask the Hanlin Academy to select 3,000 commonly used Chinese characters within a month, edit them into books, and hand them over. As for how they choose, whether it is counted according to the frequency of appearing in various books, sorted by the frequency of daily terms, or even fight and fight. Anyway, there will be a result in a month, so he doesn't have to worry about it at all.

As for coding, it is easier to just pick out the commonly used characters and give them to Xu Fuyuan and Xia Yunyi to edit them. The time for compiling three thousand words in a day may be a bit tight, and there is absolutely no problem within three days. Zhu Cijiu even set the format for them. Each character occupies a large square, and the large square is divided into three lines. The middle is a large Chinese character. The upper line is a fine Chinese character number, and the lower line is a fine binary code. Each page is divided into ten lines, each line is five grid, and three thousand characters and sixty pages are enough. It is a thin book, which is very convenient to read. He even asked Xu Fuyuan and Xia Yunyi to contact the printing workshop and prepare small lead characters and squares. At that time, just add the selected Chinese characters into it.

The problem of arranging Chinese character encoding is the next issue of the venue and personnel. It is a good idea to say that the site is not only not removed like the Chongzhen Dynasty, but has been improved into a post office. The post offices in various places are rebuilt, and it is not a problem to install steam generators and wired telegraph sending and receiving devices. However, this personnel is a big problem. If you want to be able to send newspapers, you must first know literacy, learn some simple circuit knowledge, and learn binary encoding. Not to mention circuit knowledge and binary encoding, it is amazing to be able to recognize all 3,000 commonly used Chinese characters!

There is no other way to do this problem. You can only select and select the post-school literacy, then concentrate on training and teach them relevant knowledge.

Now the post offices in various places, namely the post office, have been assigned to the Tongzheng Envoy Department. Zhu Cijing recruited the Tongzheng Envoy Wu Meicun for a while, and then issued an imperial edict: "Let the Ming Dynasty start to select postmen, requiring them to be flexible and able to read and read. Each Promotional Office Selected 10, each prefecture selects five, and each county town selects two, and the selected postmen are sent to the capital for training in batches. After passing the training, the food and salary will be doubled!"

Although this postman is not a popular item, he is still an iron rice bowl for eating imperial grain. Generally, the postman's food and salary are not a problem to support himself. Therefore, there are rumors that Li Zicheng lost his job as a postman and had no way to survive. Although this reason is a bit far-fetched, it at least proves that the professional treatment of postman in the Ming Dynasty was still acceptable.

The postman was originally a good job, but now he could double his food and salary. In other words, as long as he saves some money, he can even support his family. Ordinary people live for the rest of their lives just to support their families. If there is such an opportunity, everyone will naturally sharpen their heads and drill in. The postman instantly becomes a popular profession.

However, the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty has been almost completely rectified by Zhu Cijing. The officials in charge of various counties and towns, even the prefectures, basically did not dare to do anything. They all claimed that the governors had the ability to tamper with such trivial matters, but it was really worth it to mess with the emperor for this benefit, so the selection of postmen was quite fair. Not to mention the postmen selected, they all had the level of student level, at least they had learned the text of a thousand characters, and they could basically read and read.

There are now two capitals and thirteen provinces in the Ming Dynasty and one Fengtian Zhili Prefecture. The number of postmen selected is quite large, with more than one hundred at the provincial level, at least five or six hundred at the provincial level, and at least two or three thousand at the county level, and at least three thousand at the county level. Moreover, this is only local. The military is the key unit for equipped telegraph machines. Each legion must be equipped with at least hundreds of correspondents, as well as the command and command offices of each capital, and the garrison, and there are more than three thousand at the total. It is definitely impossible to train one time, and training in batches is imperative.

Wires, steam generators, and wired telegraph sending and receiving devices can not be produced in a single moment. Zhu Cijing estimated that it would be good to equip each of the Promotional and Commander Divisions, and each of the Promotional and Commander Divisions and the Legions next year, so he planned to start two classes first, with Xu Fuyuan and Xia Yunyi in charge of the professors, and each of the Promotional and Commander Divisions selected a class of about 20 people. Each of the Legions first selected 20 people to form a class, and about 20 people. He recruited several larger lecture professors at the Daming Institute of Technology. After these professors were finished, they were from each prefecture and garrison. Finally, the communication issues of each county were considered.

Xu Fuyuan and Xia Yunyi were really scared when they heard that they wanted to be a teacher and taught more than 200 students at a time. Although they also attended a private school, an old man in a private school brought at most ten students at a time. Even at the current Daming Institute of Science and Technology, a man brought at most twenty or thirty students. How could he teach this?

Fortunately, Zhu Cijing went to university and had experience in this area. He had two or three hundred students in college at a time. The entire staircase classroom was enough. There was no need for blackboards. Anyway, for these postmen and military correspondents, cultural courses were just to learn the three thousand commonly used words, remember their coding, and read the big words written with a brush more clearly.

As for the textbook, it is very simple. Just use the newly compiled "Common Chinese Character Encoding Collection". It has numbers and codes. As long as you teach them the binary code, there will be no problem of not understanding it. Moreover, this book will be a reference book that they must use in the future. The earlier they come into contact, the better. They do not require them to remember all Chinese characters at once, but at least they must remember the approximate number of encodings, otherwise they will not be able to read it at that time, which will delay things.

In fact, the most troublesome thing is the experimental class. The main job of these postmen and correspondents in the future is to receive and send telegrams. The actual hands-on ability is the top priority, so they must prepare sufficient experimental equipment so that each of them can practice sending and receiving telegrams every day. Otherwise, it would be useless even if the "Common Chinese Character Encoding Collection" can be memorized like a stream.

It took about a month for the local government to select postmen and military correspondents. During this period, the Ministry of Works was also working hard to develop wire drawing machines. Although it has not been successful yet, the main body's extrusion part has been almost done, and it can barely squeeze out pieces of copper wire. These copper wires are as long as several meter long as a few feet short or even inches. If they are to be used to produce formal steam generators and wired telegraph sending and receiving devices, it will definitely not work, and even laying lines is even worse, but it is still enough to be used as experimental equipment.

It just so happened that Zhu Cijiu was going to let Xu Fuyuan and Xia Yunyi learn to make steam generators and wired telegraph sending and receiving devices. He simply drew out the sketches of these two things and explained them a little, allowing them to figure out how to use existing things to build experimental equipment. In the future, if the wires are finished, how to produce formal steam generators and wired telegraph sending and receiving devices.

If we say that Xu Fuyuan and Xia Yunyi really chose the right choice, they are the kind of geniuses in science and engineering. Zhu Cijiu explained the sketch to them. After fiddling for a few days, they really made the experimental model, but they could only be used purely for experiments and could not be put into practicality.

For example, steam generators, bearings and steam pistons are ready-made, so there is no need to say more about this. The shell is also very simple. There are many skilled craftsmen in Daming. As long as you describe it, they can cast them for you even if you want to cast a flower. It’s okay to say the rotor, just process the magnet. The only troublesome thing is the stator coil. Now that the insulation material has not been retrieved, let alone the enameled wire. Without the insulation layer, you cannot let the wire and wire and the shell come into contact. Xu Fuyuan and Xia Yunyi thought of a way to directly wrap the wire around the wooden column, wrap it around the thin spot, and prevent the wire and the wire from contacting, and then put a wooden shell outside, otherwise the wire and the shell come into contact. This is done, but the electricity, voltage and current emitted are very small. It is OK to do a close experiment. Once it is lost from a long distance, the current will be so weak that the thin iron sheet can’t be absorbed, so it cannot be put into practical use.

The wired telegram sending and receiving device can be strong, and the sending device is a switch button with shrapnel. The structure is very simple and the receiving device can be complicated. It is mainly a problem of signal display. At this moment, it will definitely not be able to print paper, nor does it have a photodiode, and it can only transmit signals by sound. This requires a set of precision sounding devices. This part is also time-consuming and can only be replaced by bells first.

After the experimental equipment was finalized, Zhu Cijing immediately ordered that the postmen and corps selected by the Administrative Office and the Commander Office of the Commissioner and the Corps of the Commissioner of the Commissioner of the Commissioner of the Commissioner of the Commissioner of the People first select correspondents to Beijing and start learning telegram communication. As for the insufficient experimental equipment, they could learn and do it, which made them more impressive.
Chapter completed!