For the time being, it is not realistic to spread the telephone to thousands of households.
Without him, the installation fee of the telephone alone is not acceptable to ordinary people, let alone the monthly rental fee and communication fee.
The installation fee is fifty taels of silver, the monthly rent is one tael of silver, and the telephone fee is sixty yuan per five minutes, and less than five minutes are counted as five minutes.
Ren Baqian knew that this was a trend, and the future was not far away, at most twenty or thirty years.
For the time being, though, the main targets of the calls were courts and merchants.
At the same time, there is another point, that is, the public telephone.
Ren Baqian plans to lay public telephones throughout the Dayao area, including Izumo and Tianjing, and use the coin-operated telephones to collect copper coins.
As for the cables needed to lay the telephone lines, Ren Baqian also made a lot of preparations for this.
As early as a year ago, Ren Baqian introduced a new coin, a copper-clad steel alloy coin with a face value equivalent to five copper coins.
Although countless steel rails are used to lay the railway, the price of steel is even higher than that of copper among the people.
In addition, a new decree was promulgated that no one could refuse to accept new coins, and those who were reported would be fined or punished with whips. Therefore, after a little confusion, this beautifully made new currency was promoted.
Taking this opportunity, Ren Baqian recovered a large amount of copper coins in the market and remelted them into cables.
However, there are still a large number of copper coins circulating in the market, and even as he recycled a large number of copper coins, the price of copper coins has risen.
In the next step, Ren Baqian planned to use the coin-operated telephone to exchange the copper coins on the market for aluminum-magnesium alloy coins, completely replacing the old coins with new ones.
No way, what is more serious now than iron deficiency is copper deficiency.
At present, the two largest copper mines are in Daxia, and they are in the north. Since Ren Baqian had no interest in Daxia, the location of the two copper mines also determined that it was impossible for Dayao to send troops to directly occupy the copper mines.
As for the copper mine in Izumo, the output is still insufficient for Ren Baqian's demand, and cables are currently the largest copper consumer.
Ren Baqian could only temporarily set his sights on the copper coins in the market to relieve his urgent needs.
After demonstrating the phone to many ministers in the court, Ren Baqian first gave each of you adults a phone, including installation.
Of course, the monthly rent and communication fees still need to be paid by themselves.
Then, under the empress's signal, Hubu directly ordered 1,000 telephones from Ren Baqian's imperial communication company, and connected all the cities and most important departments in the entire Dayao area except for the Izumo area.
With the help of the empress, another order was given to Yun, that every department in every city must install a telephone.
In fact, the money is not much. There are only more than 3,000 telephones in total, and more than a hundred thousand taels of silver.
But it pushed the phone directly in front of the world.
With this incident, Ren Baqian felt that he and the empress were the biggest example of collusion between officials and businessmen.
Of course, as soon as the order was issued, except for Tobu's Tuwan nodding on the spot, the Izumo area did not respond yet. But no one would refute the empress' face in this matter.
And the importance of the telephone is indeed unparalleled, as important and meaningful as the introduction of the tractor, or even greater.
Ren Baqian officially opened the corner of the gate of the communication age.
After the demonstration in the hall, Ren Baqian began to publicize while having someone lay a telephone line from Lancheng to Izumo.
At the same time, the personnel recruited from Tianjing Land are also undergoing intensive training.
After Tianjing Land recruited a large number of laborers to build a new city, Ren Baqian finally began to use a large amount of manpower in Tianjing Land.
Between Lancheng and Tianjing Land, Ren Baqian also built a new city.
The so-called new city is nothing but a patch of brick houses and factories without fences.
Of course, this is also the standard for cities in the future. There is no city wall, not to mention saving a lot of manpower and material resources, and it is also easy to expand.
This new city is currently mainly responsible for the production of telephones, electric wires and telephone lines.
It saves seven or eight hundred miles to send rubber here from the vicinity of Chen State compared to Lancheng.
Moreover, Ren Baqian is already preparing to plan a new factory near the Southeast Duhufu, which will be specially responsible for processing rubber.
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"Mist and mist are heavy today, and the mountains and rivers are deep here.
The sound of the beach is more urgent in autumn, and the air in the gorge is bright and cloudy.
Looking at the sky, the clouds cover the eyes, and the homesickness raindrops the heart.
How will you comfort you alone? Rely on this North Window Qin. "
"The emotion overflows with the scenery, touching the heart; the sentences are neat and natural! I don't know who wrote this poem, but it can be regarded as everyone's name!" In the restaurant, several scholars sat around the table, and some people held fans and applauded road.
"Indeed! It should have been written by Prince Zhao. He is not from the ancient tribe. He is in a foreign land. It is not surprising that he wrote such a poem."
"He has beauty in his arms and power in his hands, I'm afraid he is enjoying it!" Someone chuckled lightly.
"Beauty in my arms? That's not necessarily true. That Your Majesty, is it just ordinary soft and fragrant soft jade?" Someone looked around and laughed in a low voice.
"It's better not to talk about these things." An old man said calmly, watching his surroundings.
Talking about the emperor in private, if it spreads to other people's ears, there will be a catastrophe immediately!
"I have long heard that Prince Zhao is good at natural crafts and miscellaneous arts, but I didn't expect that he is also proficient in poetry!"
"The way of poetry is only to cultivate one's temperament, it is useless to govern the country." Someone shook his head. "It's the phone, what do you guys think?"
What everyone is talking about is a poem that has been circulated in the city recently.
And there is another sentence behind this poem
"Homesick? Call home!"
A poem, a sentence, will directly introduce the new thing of telephone to everyone.
Both the poem and the sentence are printed on a piece of paper with a picture of a telephone underneath.
On the back of the paper, there is a brief introduction of the telephone and the locations of the imperial telephone business offices in various cities in Izumo.
As soon as this advertising leaflet appeared, it immediately detonated the entire Izumo.
"It's unbelievable that you can use this thing to talk instantly from thousands of miles away, and I don't know if it's true or not!" Someone said.
"It can't be fake. This matter has been spread all over Izumo, if it is false, it will become a laughing stock! How can Prince Zhao act so unwisely?"
"Also, it is said that the city magistrate has ordered the installation of the telephone. Calculate the time, and it will be installed in five to seven days. The details will be known at that time."
"If it's true as said on that piece of paper, this phone call is amazing. No matter what happens anywhere in the future, Lancheng will know immediately, and orders can be issued immediately. It's scary to think about it."
"You don't know something." A young man said in a low voice: "Do you think this kind of thing exists? In fact, it has existed for a long time. I heard from my uncle that there was a city order that went to the court to go to the Northeast Protectorate. There was a reply within a quarter of an hour! A few days later, the city order received exactly the same order."
"Even if you don't talk about this, you can now study the movements of the troops of the Northeast Protectorate during the wars in the past few years..."
"Stop it!" Someone stopped him. "It's useless to talk about this matter. I shouldn't wait to discuss it. Be careful that it will cause disaster!"
"Brother Zhu, you are too careful. As long as you have the heart, you can detect this matter, and can you block the world's population?" The scholar said disapprovingly.
"However, this call is also good for us. If we go out for a trip in the future, it would be more convenient to call home to inquire about the recent situation."
"It's true!"
"Traveling is nothing more than gaining knowledge and knowledge, and in the end it still has to be sold to the emperor's family.
Now that Izumo is gone, and the big exam is gone, I don’t know where the way out is for me! " someone sighed.
As soon as this remark came out, everyone immediately fell silent.