When Li Xuan saw these four words written on the message in his hand, he smiled!
The whole process seemed ordinary, and it seemed that there was only a wall between them, but Li Xuan knew that the signal had already traveled ten kilometers outside!
This successful test also means that Datang can directly build a large-scale telegraph network in the future, not just ten kilometers, but hundreds or even thousands of kilometers of telegraph lines.
In the future, information transfer will become instant messaging!
Well, calling it instant messaging is a bit too much. After all, the translation and sending of telegrams also take time.
But compared to the past, which relied on trains, ships, and horses to transmit information, it is also an era of progress!
If further development continues and submarine cables can be laid, then news from the Americas will be transmitted to the Tang Dynasty as soon as possible.
This was of great strategic significance to the empire's global domination.
Li Xuan passed the telegram to the prince, and then the prince read it and showed it to everyone else. At this time, Li Xuan said: "My dear friends, what do you think of this telegram?"
No one at the top of the empire is a fool. Although many people don't even understand electromagnetism, this does not prevent them from seeing the importance of telegraphs.
Wang Wenhua, who is already old, said immediately: "Congratulations, Your Majesty, congratulations, Your Majesty, in ancient times there were gods with clairvoyance and ears for the wind, but now we have telegrams from the Tang Dynasty that can telegraph thousands of miles in an instant. They are truly imperial artifacts!"
"With this artifact in the empire, global unification is within sight, and we can expect it for eternity!"
After that, he paused, took a deep breath, and then continued in a firm tone: "This is all the credit of Your Majesty. Without His Majesty's support for scientific development, there would be no such artifact. The Tang Dynasty has His Majesty, and the people of the world have
Your Majesty, you are truly blessed for three lifetimes!"
When Wang Wenhua was talking, other military and political officials consciously kept their mouths shut. Although everyone was good at flattering, it was better to be able to flatter Wang Wenhua anytime and anywhere, and to do so shamelessly.
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But after Wang Wenhua finished speaking, others also organized their words and followed up one after another, saying that Your Majesty, you are so awesome, you can even produce telegrams.
Even Professor He Shengzhong himself, although he has the reserve of a scientist, said that without His Majesty's guidance and care, they would not be able to produce a telegram even if they worked hard for another hundred and eighty years.
What he said was half truth and half flattery.
The fact is that Li Xuan did give them a lot of guidance, and the boast is that even without Li Xuan's guidance, given the current speed of scientific development in the Tang Dynasty, it would actually be a matter of time before the telegraph was developed, and it would not take a hundred years.
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If it really takes that long, a large group of electromagnetic professors at the Royal Institute of Technology can just collectively commit suicide by hitting the wall.
After all, previous electromagnetic research has been relatively complete, and generators and motors have been developed. Although they are not very easy to use and very primitive, they are there after all.
Things like batteries were invented several years ago.
Developing a telegraph on this basis is actually not too difficult.
The successful test of the telegraph made Li Xuanlong very happy. On the spot, He Shengzhong, the scientist who presided over the telegraph project, was conferred the title of earl and granted him the title of lord of Mindao, Luzon Province.
After hearing that He Shengzhong was vassaling Mian Laozhou, many military and political leaders present looked envious.
Today's Mindao State is a good place. It is the first island among the Nanyang Islands to be completely localized. Today, there are basically no indigenous people on the island, only the people of the empire. It is rich in various resources and is close to the empire.
, and one canonization is a state, and this wait is not something ordinary nobles can enjoy.
The empire's nobility canonization system generally follows two principles. One is that it will not directly canonize places that have completed localization and development, but will only canonize those places that have not yet been actually controlled.
Another principle is that they will never be canonized in mainland China.
Needless to say, the latter principle has already been made an iron rule by Li Xuan, not to mention ordinary ministers, even princes.
As for overseas territories, they are divided into many types according to their quality. The worst ones are those places where there are not many immigrants, there are natives everywhere, and there are few resources.
The best place for canonization is naturally close to the mainland, has completed localization, and is rich in resources.
Mindao Island barely belongs to this kind of place, with good resources and complete localization. After the canonization, you don’t have to do anything. You can just lie down and receive the fief salary. Moreover, you can also obtain a large piece of private land, and you can get rich income after hiring someone to develop it.
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After hearing this, He Shengzhong himself was so ecstatic that he knelt down and shouted long live!
And He Shengzhong’s canonization also attracted the envy of other scientific researchers!
In the eyes of outsiders, they are the proud and super geniuses. When they were young, they resolutely applied for the Royal Institute of Technology. After studying hard for many years, they graduated. They defeated a large number of competitors to obtain the qualifications to stay in the school. Then they worked in the laboratory every day for nothing.
Is it just to make research results and then be granted a noble title?
The aristocratic system of the Tang Empire resulted in two types of people being the most popular, one being generals and the other being scientists.
Because these two types of talents have a chance to be crowned nobles!
The nobles of the empire are not just nobles with empty names, they are nobles with real fiefdoms. Once they are canonized, in addition to the nominal fiefdoms, they can also own large tracts of private land.
For example, the area of Ho Sheng Zhong's private land will occupy one-fifteenth of the entire Mindao Island. This will be an extremely terrifying figure.
And these lands will become the family's eternal wealth. Even if the family declines and the title is revoked after becoming a Lord, these lands will still be their private wealth.
The nobles of the empire want political treatment, political treatment, and money!
Otherwise, there wouldn’t be so many young talents trying to apply for the Royal Institute of Technology or the Army Martial Arts Academy or the Navy Sea Academy every year.
As for entering politics, to be honest, it is not the first choice for top geniuses!
Because unless a civil servant reaches the level of a minister on duty in the imperial study room, he can't expect to be awarded a title, and even if he is awarded a title, it will be below the level of earl.
In addition to the group of civil servants and nobles conferred during the founding of the People's Republic of China, including high-level nobles such as counts, marquises, and dukes, the few dozens of civil servants and nobles conferred in the following twenty years were all below viscount, and many were only the lowest lords.
At present, the total number of nobles in the empire is nearly 3,000, but the number of civil servant nobles is only more than 300. Most of them were canonized during the founding of the country, and only a few dozen were canonized subsequently. Even
There are more scientific aristocrats than civil aristocrats.
After canonizing He Shengzhong, Li Xuan will naturally not forget the rewards for other scientific researchers. There is no knighthood, but there are other rewards, such as improved treatment, direct bonuses, etc.
After finishing the work, on the way back, Li Xuan had already called the Minister of State-owned Enterprises over and instructed him to immediately start preparing to establish a telegraph company to lay out a telegraph network.
Then there were instructions: Telegraph is an important weapon of the country, and it can only be run by the government and not by the private sector. All subsequent telegraph business can only be handled by this government-run telegraph company, and other official capital or private capital is not allowed to participate or interfere.
The telegraph, just like the ancient post system, is a weapon of the military state, and it is naturally impossible to allow it to develop indiscriminately.
It must be firmly in official hands.
The Ministry of State-owned Enterprises naturally agreed!
On that day, a high-level meeting was held within the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, with ministers, ministers, and directors of various departments all participating in order to discuss how to organize this telegraph company that the Holy Emperor personally ordered.
The difficulty in setting up a company is not technology. Anyway, the Royal Institute of Technology has already developed the telegraph technology, and ordinary people will not be able to understand such high-end things for a while. The Royal Institute of Technology will definitely need to continue to provide technical support in the future.
After many years, when there are more electromagnetic talents, we will be able to gradually control and develop research on our own.
Just like the previous steam engine-related technologies, it was initially developed by the Royal Institute of Technology and provided technical support. However, enterprises under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises and private-owned enterprises truly controlled the steam engine technology and made technological improvements. By the time of research and development, that was already
It was many years later.
The Royal Institute of Technology will definitely support the technology needed by the government-run telegraph company, so don't worry about that.
As for funds, there is no need to worry.
There is nothing in the state-owned enterprise sector, but there is a lot of money!
Because the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises does not represent itself, but the entire empire!
Do you dare to say that the Tang Empire has no money?
There is no need to apply for special loans or financial appropriations. The Ministry of State-owned Enterprises can directly allocate funds for investment through many enterprises affiliated to the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises.
I dare not say more, but it can be produced in millions of minutes!
Even if it is a huge sum of tens of millions, as long as there is such a need, the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises can provide it.
There are so many medium and large enterprises under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises. The big deal is that if one company invests a little bit and another invests a little bit, they can always make it together.
There are also managers. In many companies under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, there are many leaders of large-scale enterprises with outstanding abilities, from all walks of life. If this is not possible, you can directly hire professional managers with high salaries from the private sector.
The Ministry of State-owned Enterprises' management model of subordinate enterprises is quite special. For key enterprises related to people's livelihood, the person in charge and some senior executives are officials affiliated with the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises.
For example, in the Imperial Bank of Development and the three major arms companies, officials are generally limited to high-level officials, while ordinary people are included in the middle and lower levels.
There are also some less important non-defense and people's livelihood industries, such as Jiangnan Textile Company. The Ministry of State-owned Enterprises owns more than 70% of the shares of this company. In terms of scale, this company is already the largest textile company in the empire.
, employs more than 50,000 people in the empire itself, and also has many offices and employees abroad.
But for such a huge textile company, except for the financial director, who is an official dispatched by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, all other management members are professional managers.
For these enterprises, the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises controls them through the board of directors as an investor and generally does not directly interfere with their operations.
Otherwise, someone would have to be assigned to manage it directly, and the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises does not have that many officials.
The Ministry of State-owned Enterprises acted quickly. After receiving the instructions that day, they held a meeting that day and quickly decided to establish the Datang Telegraph Company to be responsible for the construction and operation of all telegraph services in the empire.
Although the Telegraph Company was established, it currently has nothing but a name, and it doesn't even have a management team.
The senior officials of the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises are also hesitant about the management personnel of the new telegraph company!