My life skills in Daming Liver

Yu Zongyuan didn't know that his two men were preparing another "surprise" for him.

At the beginning of the year, Yu Zongyuan received a strange order from the Governor's Palace. Su Ze wrote to him personally, hoping that he could collect magnets with powerful magnetism.

Yu Zongyuan carried out the orders of the Governor's Office to the letter, and he immediately asked his stores to purchase magnets.

Magnets are not a rare thing, but naturally strong magnets are still very rare. Yu Zongyuan has only collected one box so far.

After collecting a box of magnets, Yu Zongyuan personally took a boat north from Hangzhou and went to Nanjing to escort the magnets.

Due to the typhoon this year, the sea in Hangzhou Bay was not calm. Yu Zongyuan was bumpy on the ship for several days before landing at the port of Songjiang.

At this time, Second Young Master Yu had vomited and was about to faint. He got off the boat with the help of the old housekeeper.

"Damn typhoon, it's too uncomfortable to ride on a sea ship!"

Yu Zongyuan's feet stepped on the ground, and he finally regained a little bit of vitality. It was the feeling of having his feet on the ground that was better.

He took the railway from Songjiang to Suzhou, and then transferred to a carriage to arrive in Nanjing. It was much better now than before, but Yu Zongyuan, who had always been pampered and well-off, was also very tired.

When he arrived at the Governor's Mansion, Su Ze was waiting for him at the door.

"Brother Yu!"

Su Ze pulled Yu Zongyuan towards the door. Yu Zongyuan originally wanted to learn opera and kowtow to Su Ze to correct his "kingdom and ministership", but Su Ze held him with both hands, and Yu Zongyuan's The flattering words were stuck in my throat and I couldn't say a word.

Yu Zongyuan first saw Su Ze's son. He immediately took out a pure gold longevity lock from his arms and put it on Su Ze's son. After a few words of greeting, Su Ze took him to the backyard.

Su Ze's Governor's Mansion was the house where Fang Wanghai served as the Minister of Household Affairs in Nanjing.

At that time, Fang Wanghai was an official in Nanjing and Su Ze was running team training in Shanghai, so he helped his father-in-law buy a house with money.

It's just that Su Ze didn't have much money at that time, so the house was not that big.

The area around Hubu Street was originally the place where officials from the six Ministries of Nanjing of the Ming Dynasty gathered. Nowadays, high-level officials in the southeast also live around Su Ze's Governor's Mansion. The price of land here is very high.

The cabinet once proposed the expansion of the Governor's Palace, but Su Ze rejected it because it was disturbing the people.

In front is where Su Ze lives and works, and beyond the backyard is Su Ze’s workshop.

Because there was not enough space, after the steam engine and glass were developed, the related equipment was moved to Tiangong Academy. Now the workshop is filled with copper wires and various metal parts. Because the workshop is too narrow, Yu Zongyuan Not even a place to stay.

Seeing such a crowded workshop, Yu Zongyuan said: "Grand Governor, I heard that there is also a house for sale on Hubu Street. Let me buy it for the Grand Governor to use as a workshop?"

Su Ze quickly said: "Thank you, Brother Yu. I also have a workshop in Tiangong Academy. Isn't it because I don't want to go out these days so I tinker with it at home? If Brother Yu wants to move to Nanjing, you can buy it." If you want to buy it as a gift to me when you get down to that house, then there is no need. Bribery in the southeast of our country is punishable by law, but you bribed the governor in person!"

Su Ze was joking, but Yu Zongyuan was frightened.

Naturally, dealing with the government is indispensable in doing business. Yu Zongyuan thought that Su Ze was trying to knock him down, so he quickly said: "The governor's office, the common people have taken note of it."

Su Ze pulled Yu Zongyuan and said, "Why don't you just call me Ru Lin?"

Yu Zongyuan was pulled by Su Ze, but he did not dare to call Su Ze by his first name. The two came to the workshop.

Su Ze took out a strange device and said, "Brother Yu, this is the motor I made recently."

Su Ze started to shake the motor and saw blue lightning appearing between the two metal hands.

This frightened Yu Zongyuan half to death, and he almost knelt down in front of Su Ze.

Folks say that Su Ze is an immortal descended to earth. Now that he has seen Su Ze summon thunder with his own eyes, Yu Zongyuan is even more frightened!

He carefully thought about whether he had done anything harmful to the world over the years, and he even confessed to the bad things he did when he was a child.

Su Ze looked helplessly at Yu Zongyuan, who was about to kneel down, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Electromagnetism is still a bit too advanced for this era. When he demonstrated electromagnetic power generation in Tiangong Academy, the doctors from Tiangong Academy This is also the reaction.

After several electromagnetic experiments, Su Ze's [Electromagnetism] finally reached Level 10, and he gained a blue passive skill.

[Blue Don't Move: Electrical Signal, obtain the blueprint "Telegraph", and the level of the electronic equipment produced will be +1].

Su Ze worked hard in the workshop for half a year, and the final result was two telegraph machines.

In fact, the principle of the telegraph is not complicated. It uses the high and low current as a signal to transmit messages.

The principle is simple, but it is difficult to implement.

Transmitting wireless signals requires semiconductor technology, which cannot be manufactured at the current industrial level, so Su Ze plans to study wired telegraphy.

Telegraph machines connected to each other through wires transmit messages by monitoring the level of current, and then restore the message into text. This is the principle of telegraphy.

The wires pulled out from the back of Su Ze's workshop were connected to the telegraph room in the cabinet. The signals he typed could be quickly transmitted to the cabinet, and short messages from the cabinet could also be transmitted to Su Ze's backyard through the telegraph machine.

The attitude of cabinet ministers towards this kind of machine is that the future is promising.

The cost of a telegraph machine was huge, and it only took a few minutes for a small official to send a message between the governor's office and the cabinet. Moreover, the telegraph could carry very little information and could only convey very simple messages.

And suppose telegraph lines between cities? How to lay such a long line? Everyone in the cabinet felt that this was just a little toy of the Governor.

After Su Ze demonstrated the telegraph, Yu Zongyuan's eyes lit up.

"Brother Su, how much does this telegraph machine cost?"

Su Ze said: "The production cost of a telegraph machine is not high, but the cost of telegraph wires is very high, and professionals who can translate telegraph codes are needed."

"Then what would be the cost of setting up a telegraph line between Nanjing and Hangzhou?"

Su Ze thought for a while and said, "The cost is probably beyond imagination. The Ministry of Industry estimates that even setting up a telegraph between Nanjing and Suzhou will cost tens of thousands of silver dollars."

Even Yu Zongyuan frowned at this number.

Su Ze also frowned. Of course everyone in the cabinet knew what a device like the telegraph meant for instant communication. It could even be said to be a great invention that could change everything.

But everything has to discuss cost.

Telegraph wires require copper wires, which need to be wrapped with insulating material to prevent signal interference, and wooden poles are needed to hang the wires in the air.

The cost of building a telegraph line from Nanjing to Suzhou is about the same as building a highway.

What kind of information is worth such a high transmission cost?

Military news?

When fighting on the front line, it was impossible to lay telegraph lines at any time, and temporarily laid lines were easily cut off. This problem was not solved until the invention of stable radio.

Without a telegraph network connecting major cities, the messages that telegraphs could convey were limited.

If the value of telegraph cannot be proven, no one will be willing to invest in building a nationwide telegraph network.

Su Ze can certainly use the authority of the Governor to promote the construction of the telegraph network, but there are many places in the southeast that need to spend money.

Compared with telegraph, the Southeast government has more places to spend money.

Yu Zongyuan looked at Su Ze's worried look and said:

Seeing Su Ze looking so worried, Yu Zongyuan immediately came up with ideas.

Anyway, I have a lot of money. Since the governor is worried and the ministers are not optimistic about the effectiveness of the telegram, doesn't that mean that the telegram is a loss-making business?

Since it is a loss-making business and it is something that the Governor wants to build, I can definitely invest a lot of it!

So Yu Zongyuan immediately said:

"Grand Governor, if you are willing to authorize it, I am willing to fund the construction of a telegraph company!"

"You want to start a telegraph company?"

Su Ze looked at Yu Zongyuan. He did not expect that the first person to support him was the businessman Yu Zongyuan.

Yu Zongyuan's words opened up Su Ze's thinking!

Yes, I only thought about the military and political uses of telegraphs, and forgot about the commercial uses of telegraphs!

Su Ze heard that businessmen in Songjiang Prefecture would spend a lot of money to send people to the Shanghai Securities Center to inquire about the real-time prices of stocks and bonds at the Securities Center that day.

Donghai Trading Company's stock has become the most popular speculative product in the Southeast.

Businessmen from all over the world will trade based on Shanghai's stock prices.

The stock craze even spread to the entire Nanjing, so much so that Su Ze was worried whether the East China Sea Trading Company's stock would become a bubble like the British South China Sea trade in history.

Fortunately, Pang Xinyue of the Securities Center is a prudent person, and he spares no effort to combat speculation. To this end, he has also introduced regulations to limit the frequency of stock transactions, and has stepped up efforts to crack down on financial scams.

Maybe it's really feasible to promote the telegraph company with a business model first?