Daming Town Haiwang

"Sell the newspaper! Sell the newspaper!"

"Daming Telecom Commercial Bank officially opened the telephone service. Even if they are thousands of miles away, they can talk in real time and hear the voices of their relatives in their hometown."

"Sell the newspaper, sell the newspaper!"

"Kuang Xiong, the inventor of the telegraph, was awarded an earl, and he will be hereditary!"

With the beginning of a new day, newsboys kept yelling in the streets and alleys of the capital, and soon a large number of people emerged from the streets and alleys, snapping up all the newspapers in the hands of the newsboys.

"Does anyone know what this call is?"

"Yeah, what's the difference with this telegram?"

In the teahouse, the old and young men in the capital who had morning tea were reading the newspaper, full of curiosity about the phone call.

"This phone is actually a very popular thing recently. It is similar to the telegraph, and it can realize communication over a long distance."

"However, it is different from the telegram in that it can be directly and face-to-face conversation, and you can hear the voice instead of the telegram that needs to be translated before you can understand it."

"I heard that the main departments of the imperial palace and the court, the cabinet elders of the court and the six ministers have installed this phone in their homes. Now all the big families in the capital are applying for the installation of this phone."

"It's very convenient to have this phone. For example, if you want to ask Zhang San if he can go out for a drink, you can directly call Zhang San's home and ask about Zhang San's situation."

"For another example, if you have business in Tianjin, you can also call Tianjin to inquire about the situation in Tianjin. There is no need for anyone to make a trip."

"Isn't this similar to a telegram?"

"It's almost the same, but the difference is that you can hear the other person's voice directly, just like a phonograph."

"It's still very good to be able to hear the other party's voice directly!"

"Isn't it? The emperor also praised this invention, so he directly rewarded the inventor Kuang Xiong with an earl's iron job."

"How much does it cost to install this phone?"

"I think it's quite convenient. If there is a telephone in this house, it will be very useful."

"Pull it down, do you know how expensive this phone is now?"

"There is a rich old Li in the courtyard of our community, so he went to install a phone. Did you know that? He was scared back."

"I heard that just for the installation fee, the line fee will cost more than 100 taels of silver. In addition, it will cost more than ten taels of silver to buy a phone. In addition, whether the phone is used or not, you need to pay several taels of silver every month."

"After all these miscellaneous calculations, more than 200 taels of silver will be gone. The key is that we will have to pay several taels of silver every month in the future. This is a fixed expense. It is necessary to install the phone, regardless of whether it is used or not.

For ordinary families, this expenditure is too large, and they are not willing to spend money to install telephones.

Of course, when this phone first came out, it was not for ordinary people, but for rich people, and the most important thing in this place in Beijing is rich people.

Here at Daming Telecom Firm, along with Daming Son and various departments in the court, all the princes in the court have used the phone, and the elders in the court have also felt the convenience of the phone, which naturally also needs to be installed in their homes. There is one. …

In addition, the Beijing-Tianjin region of the Ming Dynasty is now extremely prosperous in business and trade, and the demand for various trade exchanges is also very hot, and there is also a huge demand for telephones.

All of a sudden, there was a long queue in the entire Daming Telecom Firm, and all of them came to handle the phone installation business.

Although it is very expensive to install and use a telephone now, there are still so many rich people in the capital.

Don't you just want money.

The men in the capital are not short of money, what they want is face, what they want is fashion.

The Son of Heaven and the main ministers in the DPRK are all using the phone. If I don’t have a phone in my house, it’s a shame. It seems that I have no strength, not to mention, when I go out to chat with my friends, I will be ashamed.

Not to mention that it is just a question of more than 200 taels of silver, even if it costs 2000 taels of silver, there are still a lot in this capital, and a lot of people can afford it.

"My master is Li Hanlin of the Imperial Academy, can you give priority to my master's installation?"

"Everything is first come, first served. Whoever pays and registers first, we will arrange to install it first. It's not just your master who is waiting in line, even the six servants are still waiting in line."

Hearing the other party's words, the staff of the telecom firm also said it was not surprising.

If you want to talk about the officials who are big and small, if you throw a brick down in this capital, you will also drop a third-rank official. A small Hanlin is a ball.

Hearing this, the other party immediately had nothing to say, and could only register honestly, pay the money, and then go home and wait.

The business hall of the entire telecommunications firm was very busy, there were too many people who came to register and install the phone, and the cash register also suffered hand cramps.

It costs more than 200 taels to install a telephone, and there are hundreds of thousands of taels in this capital city, so you can get tens of millions of taels for this sum of money alone.

For rich people, they need to install telephones in their homes, and there may be more than one telephone, and there may be multiple telephones. In addition, the place of work must have a telephone, and the family's property also needs to install telephones.

In short, there are many places that need telephones. There are so many yamen, factories, commercial firms, etc. in the capital. There are too many telephones that need to be installed.

At this moment, Kuang Xiong, the general manager of the telecommunication firm, was too busy to go around. There were many people who found Kuang Xiong directly, and they just wanted Kuang Xiong to give priority to installing the phone or something.

But this is not the main thing, it can be dealt with as it should be dealt with.

What really troubled Kuang Xiong was the expansion of Daming Telecom Firm in Daming.

According to Liu Jin's request, the telecommunications company should basically set up telephone lines covering most of the mainland provinces of Ming Dynasty within half a year, and set up telephone services in major large and medium cities.

At the same time, in order to popularize and facilitate people's information exchanges, the telecommunications companies are also required to establish telephone halls in the main public areas established in major cities in Ming Dynasty, so that those who have no money to handle telephones but need to use telephones can use telephones.

Liu Jin's requirements have always been extremely high, and this is undoubtedly a huge test for Kuang Xiong. …

This phone has just started to be launched on the market, and Liu Jin is already thinking about the overall layout. The people who work below are naturally troubled and run off their legs.

"Manager, we are seriously short of manpower!"

"If you don't have enough, then recruit people. If the salary is higher, I don't believe that we can't recruit people. I also go to universities and colleges to recruit more technical personnel. Mr. Liu has very high requirements for us. We must keep pace with the times. Innovate technology as soon as possible and continue to promote our telephone business."

"Yes!"

"Manager, the Tianjin branch is calling. Their business is very busy and there is a serious shortage of manpower. They request the headquarters to send more manpower."

"Tell them to recruit people yourself, and now there is a shortage of people everywhere in the headquarters."

"Manager, our wires have been installed in Songhu, and the Songhu line has been officially opened. The establishment of the Songhu branch will also be put on the agenda immediately."

"I see. Send Xiao Chen to Songhu to set up a branch in Songhu."

"Manager, is this okay? Xiao Chen only graduated at the end of last year and joined the firm, and he is still very young."

"It can't be done, but it must be done. There is a serious shortage of manpower now. I don't need this person who understands technology and graduated from a prestigious school. Who should I use. I will send him to Songhu to set up Songhu Commercial Bank."

"Yes!"

Kuang Xiong never stopped, he was too busy.

The business of the telephone company is very hot. The key is to seize the current advantages and opportunities, take the lead in laying the basic lines nationwide, and then use the basic lines as the backbone to continuously cover a wider area, and finally cover the entire Daming .

As long as this layout is completed, it will be very difficult for other people to come in to get a share of the pie, because everyone is used to using Daming Telecom, and their services are better and wider.

Others who just want to enter this field are far behind, and in the end they will be able to firmly control the entire telecommunications business in their own hands.

This is a huge piece of cake, as long as it is a basic service, there are huge benefits in it, and it can also continuously bring abundant cash flow.

"Hey, I'm so exhausted, I've been busy all day, and I don't even have time to drink my saliva."

Kuang Xiong rested on his chair for a while. It is much more difficult to manage than to do research. He is much more tired. Thinking about it, it is more comfortable to concentrate on research in the laboratory.

But this is also a new challenge. There are many people who have transferred from technology to management in the factories and commercial banks in Daming. As long as they study hard, they can also adapt quickly.

What's more, the current income is much higher than that in school. The annual salary alone is several thousand taels of silver. At the end of the year, when the dividends and rewards are calculated, earning tens of thousands of taels of silver a year is There is no problem at all, this kind of income is enough to live a prosperous life in a place like the capital.

"It takes half a year to cover the main provinces and major cities of Ming Dynasty."

"In the second half of the year, we will also cover the main identities outside the customs, and we will open overseas next year, and we will also open telephone booths in major public areas in major cities. This is a busy one."

Thinking of what he was going to do next, Kuang Xiong felt dizzy for a while, there were too many things to do, and he was really busy with work.

But there is no way, now is the period of rapid development of the telephone business, only by expanding as soon as possible and continuously improving the business can the telephone truly enter thousands of households.