"You can build some more important information nodes first. For example, with the capital as the center, select four cities in the surrounding areas, and send the information here first, and then pass it on step by step."
"This will form a structure like a spider web. As long as you can build these things, I have a good thing that can help you deliver the news of the day to any corner of the Zhou Dynasty as quickly as possible! "
Chen Rou looked at Zhao Feng in disbelief, although she knew that Zhao Feng was very talented, and the businesses in her family were all born because of Zhao Feng's inventions.
But what Zhao Feng said was too far-fetched.
Even from the capital to the relatively nearby Youzhou, it takes two days. This is still based on the expedited speed of 800 miles, let alone other places.
The capital of the Zhou Dynasty was in the Central Plains. If you go to a place farther south, you have to walk for at least ten days. If you have to expedite 800 miles to deliver the letter, this consumption is really too much!
After all, if the cost of expedited delivery of a letter over 800 miles is very low, this method will not be used only to deliver some very important information during special periods of war.
The newspaper they want to build often publishes news. If there is no way to send this information in a simple and cheap way, the newspaper's income will not be able to make up for it, even if it is filled with advertisements!
Zhao Feng would not do loss-making business, so Chen Rou looked at Zhao Feng very curiously.
"Husband, what on earth can deliver letters at such a fast speed? Please tell me quickly!"
Zhao Feng smiled and said nothing. In fact, there are many ways to send information quickly, and the simplest one is the telegraph.
The principle of the telegraph is very simple. Dots and horizontal lines are combined to form characters one after another, and then the electrical signal from the transmitter is transmitted through the wire. On the other side, you only need to pull up the wire and install a telegraph receiver. .
Through the electromagnetic effect, when the current is passed through the coil, it will generate magnetism, which will attract the iron objects placed in the coil, and the collected signals can be converted into dots and horizontal lines for interpretation.
This is also the most basic usage of Morse code and those telegrams of later generations!
It is no exaggeration to say that anyone in the future who has attended high school can make a simple transmitter at home. All they need is a battery, copper wire, and a magnet.
These things can be easily manufactured in this era, but the most difficult thing is actually something that no one has thought of, and that is wires.
If you want to ensure the accuracy of telegraph information, the wires must be covered with insulation. After all, the weather changes in different places. It is impossible for information to be lost due to rain, right?
Before the era of synthetic rubber, people used natural rubber to make insulating things. However, Zhao Feng is not sure whether there were rubber trees in the Zhou Dynasty. After all, the rubber trees in later generations were introduced from the American continent. Came here.
What was originally the simplest thing in later generations has become the most difficult, so Zhao Feng could only think of other ways.
But the principle of the transmitter and receiver will not change. Zhao Feng soon thought of something that was widely used during the war, and that was a radio station.
Through radio frequency, according to the principle of telegraph transceiver, radio stations can also be used to transmit information.
Moreover, radio stations are not affected by the propagation medium and can only be received within a certain distance. However, this requires them to build a very refined network, so Zhao Feng asked Chen Rou to do this first.
Seeing Chen Rou's disbelieving look, Zhao Feng smiled slightly without explaining too much.
"You go ahead and do it first. If you really want to develop the newspaper, build communication nodes everywhere first."
"After you build this communication node, I will definitely come up with something that allows you to send and receive messages at the lowest cost!"
Chen Rou nodded doubtfully, and Zhao Feng took a deep breath, stretched out and said.
"Is there nothing else to do now? Eat!"
Chen Rou and Shen Chuchu looked at each other, then laughed and ate with Zhao Feng.
Zhao Feng was thinking in his mind while eating. In fact, the principles of many things in later generations are not complicated, and they can be easily copied even with the science and technology of this era.
And it’s not that the later something appears, the more precise the structure inside it and the harder it is to copy. There are many things that appear later, which are actually very simple and crude. For example, the electric motor appeared later than the steam engine and the internal combustion engine. thing, but actually making an electric motor is simpler than making an internal combustion engine and a steam engine.
Zhao Feng thought about it and couldn't help but sigh slightly. He didn't know when the power technology would be revealed. If power could really be developed, the Zhou Dynasty would definitely develop by leaps and bounds!
After eating, Zhao Feng went to Zhongshu Provincial Yamen.
Although it has been half a year since I returned to Zhongshu Provincial Yamen, the people in the Yamen have not changed much. Those people were a little surprised to see Zhao Feng come back. They had already acquiesced that Zhao Feng was not in the court. , but I didn’t expect that Zhao Feng would come back this time.
Zhao Feng had no time to deal with them, but simply dealt with the accumulated work.
Seeing that Zhao Feng was handling work there, which was no different from before, some people from Zhongshu Province looked at each other and secretly passed on the news of Zhao Feng's return.
The four major families have long wanted to eradicate Zhao Feng. They just had no chance to do it before. After all, Zhao Feng has been sent out. As long as Zhao Feng is not in the court, the threat to them can be said to be zero. .
But Zhao Feng's return at such a very sensitive juncture made many officials of the four major families feel in danger.
Zhao Feng was deeply trusted by Zhou Zhen and had deep connections with the eldest prince Zhou Rui and the fourth prince Zhou Kang. Although Zhao Feng's previous reforms failed, they knew Zhao Feng's talents well and allowed Zhao Feng to stay in the court. , is equivalent to arranging a very unstable time bomb for the court.
Therefore, these four major families also made up their minds and planned to take action against Zhao Feng!
Zhao Feng had no idea about the changes in the capital. Under the calm surface of the capital, there were already undercurrents.
