As the telephones were gradually installed in the residences of the warlords of the Yun Nation, the originally vague veil over this new thing was finally lifted.
There was no limit to the distance. They could talk at any time from hundreds of kilometers to thousands of kilometers away.
They could clearly hear the other party's voice.
The two warlords could even use it to chat about their daily lives.
There was no need for the various departments to send people for anything. They only needed to make a phone call.
Soon, everything about telephones swept through the entire Yun Nation like a storm.
Whether it was on the streets or in the alleys, in the brothels or restaurants, people were discussing telephones.
Coupled with the advertisement, "Make a phone call if you miss home," it was in the limelight for a while.
Ren Baqian's reputation also rose, and the name "Tian Gong" quickly replaced the original names "Poison Warrior" and "Stinky King."
Ren Baqian was happy to see this because he finally didn't have to carry those two names on his back anymore.
The name "Poison Warrior" was fine, but the name "Stinky King" would occasionally reach his ears through the Rearguard Commandery, making him feel inexplicably sad every time.
It was as if he had become a stink bug crossing the street.
What followed was a large number of orders from the people.
In particular, the families and chambers of commerce didn't have a problem with the high installation cost and monthly rent of the telephones. The benefits of timely communication were innumerable.
In just half a month, more than 40 royal communication stores throughout the Yun Nation received more than 7,000 orders for the installation of telephones. A total of more than 40,000 telephones needed to be installed.
On average, six telephones were installed for each order. Many chambers of commerce and families had installed one in each of the cities in their area of activity.
This was ten times the number of telephones installed in the Yun Nation's imperial court and cities.
This showed the affluence of the people of the Yun Nation and their enthusiasm for telephones.
With Ren Baqian's current manpower, he could install more than 300 telephones a day. It would take more than three months to install more than 40,000 telephones.
In addition to the installation of telephones in the southern cities of Dayao and Tianjing Basin, they would be fully booked for at least half a year.
In addition to the public telephones that were expected to cover all of Dayao's cities, it was estimated that it would take at least another year.
A month later, Ren Baqian received a special telephone installation request.
"Your Highness, you can't possibly refuse such a small request, right? Don't forget that we are still … partners! "Qing Lian looked at Ren Baqian with a smile.
Well, she had read the term "partner" from a book that Ren Baqian gave her.
"You want me to lay telephone lines in Great Xia?" Ren Baqian smiled faintly and asked, "Do you know how much it costs to lay these cables?"
Qing Lian smiled at him and slowly said, "Your Highness, you call that a telephone cable, right? His Royal Highness used 20 pairs of telephone cables, which required 15.1 kilograms of copper per kilometer, which contained 51% copper. In other words, one kilometer required 7.7 kilograms of copper and 7.4 kilograms of insulating material.
The distance from Iron Suo Pass to Little Jade Capital is 2,400 kilometers, and we need to go to Long Chuan, Jiang Yin, Qi Bei, Du Yao, Shen Dong, Sheng Long, Sheng Qing, and Wu Road Pass. There are eight routes, a total of 6,300 kilometers.
Including the previous 2,400 kilometers, there was a total of 8,700 kilometers.
Since the weight of a copper coin is four to five grams, we will count it as five grams. One tael of silver was equivalent to 1200 copper, which was equivalent to six kilograms. I also roughly estimated the price of rubber. One kilogram wouldn't exceed 100 coppers, which is half the price of copper.
Thus, excluding manpower, the cost of one kilometer was 2,180 copper coins.
Based on the calculation of two taels of silver, the total cost would be 17,400 taels of silver.
We can offer 200,000 taels of silver.
Of course, I also know that this amount of silver isn't much to Your Highness, but Great Xia is vast and only you have the telephone technology. In the future, the entire Great Xia will have to rely on you in this aspect.
These eight routes are just the beginning, or it could be said that Your Highness did it out of convenience.
However, His Highness's convenience is of great use to us! All of us are extremely grateful to Your Highness! "
Ren Baqian looked at Qing Lian's confident face and felt that it was a pity that such a talent was wasted on fighting and killing.
Scientific research should be her home.
The sea of stars should be her goal.
"You should continue to study at the academy!"
"Are those sword masters doing well here with Your Highness?" Qing Lian asked with a smile. "After this is over, I might have to join them and seek shelter under Your Highness!"
"I do owe you a favor for this! I can't forget, so you don't have to remind me! "Ren Baqian knocked on the table.
"It's not that I can't agree to this." Ren Baqian thought about whether he should take this opportunity to get them to give him a tax-free agreement to set up a telecommunications company in Great Xia in the future.
Merchants in this world had to pay taxes, and the same was true for telecommunications companies.
This was especially true in 10 to 20 years when everything in Great Xia was stable. Given the population of Great Xia, it wasn't impossible for a few intelligent people to imitate and research telephones and switchboards.
There weren't any before, but no one thought of it.
10 to 20 years would be enough for them to study the principles based on the real thing.
At that time, this agreement would give the royal telecommunications company a great advantage in the market.
However, after thinking about it carefully, it wasn't very meaningful for him to have these little ideas with these people.
This wasn't Earth, and it wasn't a world where everything was linked to economics.
His goals were to explore the foreign races outside of the land of exile and explore this world.
Qing Lian looked at Ren Baqian and waited for a moment before asking, "What other requests do you have, Your Highness?"
"Forget it, there's nothing else. However, it would not be possible in a short period of time. They did not have enough manpower. It should be at least a year later! "Ren Baqian calculated the time in his mind.
"Although I don't know what you were thinking about just now, I think that you gave up on a request that was beneficial to you. Thank you very much, Your Highness!" Qing Lian was very clever. Looking at Ren Baqian's expression, she could roughly guess some things, but didn't know the specifics.
"You!" Ren Baqian pointed at her and said, "It's good that you know it. Don't act like you've gotten something good!"
Qing Lian chuckled and said again, "I don't think the laying of the circuit is complicated, and we can complete most of it ourselves. You only need to send a small number of people to assist. I believe that you can still send such a small number of people. "
Once again, Ren Baqian felt that it was a pity for Qing Lian to follow those rebels to fight and kill.
Even if such a talent wasn't sent to the research institute, she would still be a capable person in the imperial court!
Currently, among the few students that he favored in the academy, none of them could compare to her in terms of knowledge or mind.
What a pity!
"That's settled then. I'll send 10 people to assist you!" Ren Baqian nodded.
"Thank you, Your Highness!" Qing Lian didn't look happy even though this trip was a success.
In fact, she had never worried about this matter.
Therefore, after the negotiation, Qing Lian said, "Previously, it was official business. Now that it's done, I would like to congratulate Your Highness and the empress of Dayao on the birth of a child!"
If it were anyone else, she would naturally try to get closer to them before talking about official business.
In Qing Lian's mind, there was no need to do so.
"I've obtained several ancient scrolls recently, and I've brought them with me as a congratulatory gift for the little princess!"
Ren Baqian subconsciously asked, "Did you dig up graves?"
Qing Lian covered her mouth and chuckled. "Your Highness, you guessed it right!"
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