Li An thought seriously for a moment, combined all aspects of the factors, and determined the basic policy of the basic price within ten words, every time the number of words increases, the price increases by one percent, and if the number of words doubles, the price will also double.

"Within ten words, it is still the price just now, one more word plus one, a hundred words is ten times the price, and ten thousand words is a thousand times the price, so that the appearance of too many words of telegram can be prevented."

Li An said.

"Ten words, to convey urgent information, should be enough."

"That's right, that's right, ten words are enough for ordinary telegram transmission, but in this way, most of the telegrams in the future are estimated to be exactly ten words!"

"What I said is, since so much money has been spent, of course, the maximum number of words should be used, so that things can be explained more clearly."

"Ten words is ten words! It shouldn't be long before it happens. ”

"In the future, the telegraph will be popularized, the price can be changed, and the number of words can also be slightly modified, and it can be changed to the basic five words! Even a word and a price are fine. ”

"Telegraph transmission is so expensive, there is no emergency, no one will be willing to use it, but is this the same as the train, officials above the third grade can use it for free."

"Yes, yes, it should be like a train, you must always give me some benefits for the court officials!"

As the ministers spoke, they moved on to the train.

Their meaning is also very clear, as the officials of the imperial court, they should enjoy certain benefits, such as in the train, the officials above the third grade can take the first-class cockpit with a private room for free, and the officials of the fourth or fifth grade can also lie on the soft sleeper for free, and the six or seven grades are more aggrieved, but the free hard sleeper is also very good, if it is a short distance, change the soft sleeper and hard sleeper to a soft seat and a hard seat, which can also be more convenient.

As for the small officials below the seventh grade, because there are too many of them, and the official position is not large, it is naturally not suitable to take the train for free, however, if they are on business for the imperial court, they can enjoy free hard sleepers and hard seats, which must be satisfied, and the rest of the officials, even if they go out to travel by themselves, they can also be free, especially the officials above the third grade, you can comfortably enjoy the treatment of high-end private rooms, and you can even take your own family out to play together, but the private rooms can accommodate more than ten people at most, The large number of guards and slaves accompanying him probably had to buy tickets to go to the hard bed in the back.

The biggest difference between a private room and a soft sleeper is not a simple closure, but a more luxurious decoration, more comfortable facilities, and even the direction of the bed is parallel to the train, so that the configuration of the inside and outside can be realized.

The inner room has two beds, as well as a window by a movable open space, one side is an independent bathroom, the other side has a small sofa, in addition, there are six luxury leather stools with high comfort under the lower bunk, after pulling out, can sit six people, the side sofa can accommodate three people, two beds can sleep two people, so, an inner room can accommodate more than ten people, if these more than ten people are a large family, can coexist.

As for the outer room, there are no beds, only two rows of comfortable sofas, which can sit a dozen people, which are specially prepared for the servants of the officials and nobles, and, under normal circumstances, it is the maid who has such treatment, unless the servants are relatively few, so that the male and female servants can stay together, and if the nobles have something important to do in the inner room, such as popping or something, the family members must stay in the outer room, and the outer room can stay in the outer room when the position is sufficient, the maid can stay and serve, and the male servant can only run to the hard sleeper car to rest, after all, Family members such as concubines and valets are not allowed to share a room casually.

The free privilege of nobles and officials on the train is a benefit given to them by the imperial court, and now that the telegraph has also been invented, they guys naturally still think about welfare, after all, the price of sending a telegram is too expensive, and if it can be free, it can save a lot of money.

For this problem, Li An feels that there is nothing to do, after all, there are a few officials, and there is nothing wrong with enjoying a little welfare, which can reflect the importance and love of the imperial court for officials, but if officials occupy too much telegraph resources because of private affairs, it will cause great interference to the normal use of telegraphy, so a certain degree of restriction must be carried out, such as officials at different levels, can enjoy different levels of quotas.

If we take one month as an example, senior officials of the third rank or above can send 500 words of telegrams for free, 200 words for the fourth and fifth grades, and five crosses for the sixth and seventh grades, which can be regarded as a kind of welfare, and the resources occupied are limited, and will not have much impact on the normal use of the telegraph.

When Li An said his thoughts, many ministers around him, all nodded very approvingly, the highest-ranking official, has the right to use 500 words of telegrams for a month for free, this is really a lot, according to the calculation of sending ten words at a time, you can send fifty telegrams, only thirty days a month, so that you can send nearly two telegrams every day.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we have been discussing here for a long time, but the final amount still has to be decided by Your Majesty, and the price of the telegram must be sent by Your Majesty."

A minister spoke.

"Your Majesty has arrived."

As soon as the emperor was mentioned, the emperor came.

After a salute, everyone took their seats, and many ministers hurriedly carried their benches back to their seats.

In later generations, the celebration banquet was a group of people sitting at a table, but in the era of the Tang Dynasty, the tables of the celebration banquet were all separate cases, and all the people participating in the banquet had independent food, which was actually more reasonable.

First of all, from the perspective of hygiene, eating like this is the cleanest and hygienic, and if a large group of people sit around to eat, the saliva will pollute each other, if you meet people who talk loudly and spit stars, it will be even more sad, after the chopsticks are put in the mouth, they must be contaminated with the saliva in the mouth, and then put the chopsticks into the dish and stir, so that the saliva will enter the dish, and when someone else picks up the dish, they will eat your saliva, which must be very unhygienic. Splitting the meals can completely avoid this.

Ang Lee's official position is not the largest, but Ang Lee's seat is ranked first, closest to the emperor, and the rest of the subordinate officials, all of whom are relatively low-level, but they are also ranked in the front, but they are in the two rows behind Ang Lee, not the first row on both sides of the road.

This arrangement is naturally because the telegraph was developed by Li An and many of his subordinates, and they sat closer to the emperor, which was also convenient for the emperor's questioning, and could better reflect the recognition of their merits.

After three cups and two lamps, the polite words and high-sounding words were almost said, everyone's topic was all led to the telegraph, and the telegraph became a topic of common concern to everyone, although Li An explained everything that should be explained, so that the ministers of the dynasty understood the basic principles of the telegraph, but there were always some things they did not understand, and there were some problems, each of them had different opinions, and even, in terms of the welfare of officials, they also had different requirements, Some felt that the free quota every month was too small, and some felt that the officials of the sixth and seventh grades should not enjoy the free telegram quota, which was a waste of the resources of the imperial court.

In order to make the ministers more intuitively feel the important role of the telegraph, there was a telegraph in the main hall of the banquet, and the other was transported to the imperial dining room, which was not close to the main hall, and the emperor did this for demonstration, and at the same time, it was also convenient to give orders to the imperial dining room directly to deliver food.

"Ladies and gentlemen, a few days ago, Yangzhou sent thirty special groupers, each of which is more than 100 catties, all of which are large groupers, today's telegraph machine has been successfully developed, it is a day worth celebrating, first make three tails for you Aiqing to try, come on! Immediately send a report to the imperial dining room and make a three-tailed grouper. ”

Li Longji opened his mouth and ordered.

When the technical personnel heard this, they immediately began to send a report, because the content was not much, and with a tick-tock sound, the emperor's will was conveyed to the past, and soon, the imperial dining room conveyed the feedback, just two words, obey the order.

"It's so convenient, Your Majesty's will passed in an instant."

"It's convenient, it's so convenient, after there are more telegraphs in the future, each yamen in the capital can be equipped with one, and you can send a report directly if you have anything, and you don't have to send someone to deliver the news anymore."

"In a few decades, there will be more and more such telegraphs, and will ordinary people have one at home?"

"No matter how many telegraphs there are, it is impossible for ordinary people to equip them with one at home! Telegraphing is a technical job, and people who do not have a lot of time training are not capable of sending telegraphs. It is impossible for all ordinary people to learn to send telegrams! It was also unnecessary, as long as a few telegraphs per county were sufficient. ”

"There are thousands of county towns in Datang, two units per county, and three or five thousand units are also needed, which is in great demand!"

"Now it has just been developed, and it is almost the same to equip the capital and several surrounding cities, and when the wireless research is out, it is not too late to equip more cities, by the way, there are machines that can talk directly, which will be even more powerful."

The ministers unconsciously began to discuss it automatically, and the heated scene was not controlled by the scene at all, as if they had forgotten that the emperor was still here?

"Your Majesty, the successful development of the telegraph is all the credit of Li Shilang, by the way, and the credit of all craftsmen, Your Majesty should reward Li Shilang and all the meritorious craftsmen."

Yang Guozhong suddenly got up and spoke.

"Haha! I want to reward something, but Li Aiqing doesn't lack anything! Even if it is a reward of 10,000 taels of gold, in Li Aiqing's eyes, I am afraid it is only a drop in the dime! It's better to wait for the development of the telephone and reward it together, and the rest of the people will naturally be rewarded. ”

Li Longji opened his mouth and said.

The feeling is not going to reward Li An, but Li An has everything, and there is really nothing missing, and even, there are many things that the emperor does not have, only Li An has, so the emperor really rewards any items, and it can't arouse Li An's excitement, unless the concubine is rewarded to Li An, maybe Li An can be excited for some time, but this is obviously unlikely, and other rewards really don't have much meaning.

Since the emperor said that he would not be rewarded, what else could Li An say, he could only admit it, and he didn't want any reward anyway.

"Your Majesty, Wechen's greatest wish is to continue to research more and better machines, as long as Your Majesty can meet Wechen's wish and give enough support, this is the greatest reward, as for gold, silver and jade, beautiful food, as Your Majesty said, Wechen is not lacking at all."

Ang Lee said loudly with great interest.

has his own glass industry and has huge wealth, which is enough for Ang Lee to enjoy inexhaustible, the emperor's reward is a drop in the bucket compared to the money he earns, and there is no comparison at all, so these conventional rewards are not interesting to Ang Lee, and Ang Lee's credit is so great, even the high reward is not enough to show Ang Lee's great credit.

"Haha! Li Aiqing's request, I must agree! In the future, if the research and development of the machine is needed, you must not obstruct it, and we must give priority to the funds and materials needed for the research and development of the machine, if anyone refuses to cooperate, I will not agree. ”

Li Longji looked at all the ministers present and asked.

"Your Majesty, rest assured, we will definitely fully support Li Shilang, and everything in the R&D center will be given priority in the future, and there will definitely be no prevarication and delay."

Yang Guozhong first expressed his attitude.

"Your Majesty, the ministers will definitely urge the people below to give priority to the things in the R&D center, if they can't deal with it, the ministers will deal with it personally, and they will definitely not delay things."

Chen Xilie also expressed his position.

"Your Majesty, the ministers will definitely not delay the affairs of the R&D center, and they will definitely give priority."

All the ministers expressed their positions one after another, so that they couldn't tell which sentence was said by whom, and they made a statement together.

"Hahaha! Okay, with the full support of me and all of you, Li Aiqing, what else do you have to worry about? ”

Li Longji looked at Li An and asked.

Li An happily replied: "With the support of His Majesty and the ministers, Weichen has nothing to worry about, I believe that it will not be long before more and better machines can be developed, and at this time next year, if we are still feasting here, maybe we can talk directly to the people in Luoyang City, and besides, we can judge who it is from the voice." ”

For the invention of the telephone, Li Ang is full of confidence, now the tuning fork and other parts have entered the final adjustment stage, from the development of the telephone is not far away, this time next year, Li An has enough confidence to invent the telephone.