Telegraph technology was the first Western technology introduced in the Qing Dynasty. It was a product of the late period of the first industrial revolution and was a huge revolution in communication technology for mankind!
From ancient times to the present, human beings have dreamed of transmitting messages thousands of miles away, dreaming of messages being able to cross mountains and rivers and arrive instantly! Technology has finally achieved this, and this technology has profoundly changed the human world.
Qing Sanye of the Qing Dynasty has been engaged in telegraph construction for several years. Nowadays, except for sparsely populated remote areas in the southwest, northwest and far north of the Qing Dynasty, all counties and cities in the Qing Dynasty have been guaranteed to have telegraph connections as long as they have a similar population.
And the area where the telegraph line passed through was even more accessible, which provided great convenience for the imperial court to govern local areas!
But it is a pity that many conservative officials in the imperial court still feel that although the telegraph line is somewhat useful, it is not of much use.
Traditional concepts still rule the hearts of the people!
But the heavy snowstorm in the Year of the Rat suddenly changed the views of all the officials in the court on telegraph technology. Everyone looked at the bizarre disaster relief scene in surprise, and they couldn't calm down for a long time!
If there were military satellites in this era, then humans would be able to overlook our earth from space. The huge snow disaster area in the north would be as if God had directly placed a puddle of pure milk ice cream on the earth!
The mountains, rivers and land are all white, and human beings are as tiny as bacteria from this angle!
But just on this huge ice-covered snowfield, there was a tiny electric light flashing. This electric light was so weak that no mortal eyes could detect it, but this electric light profoundly changed the pattern of the disaster.
In just one day, the huge frozen area was divided by telegraph lines. The telegraph network was as fine as a spider web, connecting the grids of each place. These most basic maintenance postmen suddenly became a group of people wandering in the disaster area. An active electron!
An edict was issued in the Forbidden City in the morning, telegrams were sent to the disaster area before noon, and in the afternoon many villages had received the news! In the evening, human fireworks suddenly appeared in the Wanli disaster area!
The villages closer to the telegraph network were also the first to survive. The firewood burning in the kitchen stoves boiled pots and pots of rice soup. The food not only saved lives, but even gave those villages smoke. and warmth!
The little light that shines through the narrow windows and thresholds of every house is the indomitable will of human beings who are still struggling to survive!
The villages emitting faint firelight are so clearly distinguishable in the eyes of the gods!
Bright! All the villages along the telegraph lines in the disaster-stricken areas in the northern part of the Qing Dynasty lit up. Although it was only a small glimmer of light, tens of thousands of villages were connected together. This was a clear signal that the disaster situation was reversed!
The officials of the imperial court in the Middle Ages would never have imagined that there was such an efficient means of administrative governance in the world. It was a miracle that an imperial decree could be issued in the morning and actions could be taken in the village in the afternoon!
What a miracle! For the first time in thousands of years, China's administrative system has achieved such efficiency. What is this if not a miracle?
The villages along the telegraph line lit up. From space, it looked like bright orange strips dividing the disaster area!
The areas far away from the telegraph lines are still dark, with no sign of human existence! On this cold winter night, no one can tell whether a thousand or ten thousand people will die of cold and hunger!
But what is foreseeable is that if the electric light ignites a line, it will immediately ignite a surface!
Tomorrow, the number of villages that have regained vitality and popularity will definitely continue to increase, and many landowners and squires who know the news will join in!
What a magical moment! The essence of China's Confucianism for thousands of years actually used the advanced Western telegraph technology to create a miracle in a disaster at this moment!
Confucian morality inspires people's hearts, and success in the imperial examinations encourages countless wealthy landowners and gentry to pick out food that is their lifeblood to save the people!
But these actions must rely on the Qing Dynasty General Post Office system of the Third Master Fuqing, the telegraph network built with painstaking efforts in the past few years, and the maintenance postmen trained hard by the Third Master!
At this moment, these people actually completely bypassed the local governance system of the Qing Dynasty. There was no need for the capital to send documents to Baoding Prefecture. Baoding Prefecture issued orders to Cangzhou County, and then notified them in each township and village!
What's even more amazing is that the half-day relief has already begun, and in those counties blocked by ice and snow, the county magistrates have just received telegrams from the capital!
The county magistrate's servants have not yet thought about how to notify the villages below and how to benefit from this disaster relief. Unexpectedly, the villages below have already lit bonfires and smoke is floating!
It was a successful overhead operation! It was this emergency disaster relief operation that suddenly made many far-sighted people in the Qing Dynasty suddenly realize!
"It turns out...it turns out that we can skip these corrupt, backward and inefficient government offices?"
"We can actually do many, many things without relying on these local officials. It turns out that the so-called 'officials' are not that important!"
This ray of lightning really shook the cracks in the hearts of the people at the bottom of the Qing Dynasty. The moment the people began to reflect, it was doomed that the society with declining traditions had reached the end of its life!
But all these changes still take time! In the eyes of the gods, a hundred years is just a blink of an eye, but for ordinary mortals, a speck of dust falling from the era of great changes is like a big mountain hitting their shoulders!
The snow that has been raging in the north for more than a month has finally stopped. The sky is filled with stars and not a single cloud, but the wind is still strong and cold!
In the dark village, the hungry people who were unable to move had hallucinations in their eyes. They looked outside the windows at the end of the distant crop fields, and there seemed to be light!
"This... this is the direction of Sunjiazhuang... Am I going to die... Why do I see lights in Sunjiazhuang..."
"Haha... Grandpa and grandma are here to pick me up... There are so many delicious foods. Grandpa and grandma wait for me... Give me a steamed bun, I'm hungry... I'm hungry..."
The old man leaning in front of the window has already turned pale. He has not had enough water and rice for several days and has reached the moment when his oil is exhausted!
He had stopped eating anything since six days ago. Zisun Xiaojing wanted to give him the last bit of corn noodles, but how could he open his mouth?
That is his grandson’s life-giving food! Maybe my grandson can survive this disaster just by relying on this morsel of food!
