The daily life of a science genius who travels through the book group

Chapter 511 Telegraph Specialist Training
Go back to a month ago.

Zhaoyue Primary School near the telegraph line site began posting notices for recruiting telegraph specialists and messengers.

Everyone knows what the messenger does. It is said that there is no fixed salary, and they will be paid according to the order. The requirement is to know more than words, and the other is to be fast.

As for the telegraph commissioner, although everyone doesn't know what this position does, the monthly salary of three taels of silver is understandable.

The notice also said that the three taels of silver is only the monthly salary of the first three months of the probationary period. After passing the probation period and becoming a regular, the monthly salary is three taels of five taels of silver per month. After passing a speed and accuracy test a year later, you can still be promoted As a senior telegraph operator, you can get four taels of silver every month!
As for the recruitment requirements, one must have a graduation certificate from Zhaoyue Elementary School, or a graduation certificate from a morning literacy class, but the graduation grades must be excellent.

After receiving the admission notice, the teachers of the elementary school will arrange for them to go to Taiyuan City to participate in a one-month unified training. During the training period, room and board are free.After the training is over, there will be three exams, and the telegraph station will admit students based on the total scores of the three exams.

Although it is only a telegraph line from the capital to Taiyuan, the laying of this line is very particular.

It is said that this laying plan was thought up by Li Zhao himself, and Song Qingyue called him a genius after seeing it.

First of all, the Jingshi station, or the telegraph station in the capital can be called the terminus. From the terminus, there are four lines directly connected to four first-level stations, namely Tianjin City, Taiyuan City, Baoding Fucheng and Zhending Fucheng.

Then lay a direct connection line from the first-level site to the third-level site under its jurisdiction. For example, the first-level site in Tianjin City connects Jinghai, Cangzhou, Xianxian, and Hengshui, four counties with a population of more than households, as the third-level site.

The first-level site of Taiyuan City is connected to the four second-level sites of Fenzhou Fucheng, Lu'an Mansion, Pingyang Mansion, and Datong Mansion. There are two state capitals, two in Lu'an Prefecture, and Pingyang Prefecture is relatively large, with six third-level sites.

According to statistics, there is one main station, four first-level sites, four second-level sites, and 26 third-level sites.

Each third-level site has five telegraph specialists and eight messengers; the second-level site has eight telegraph specialists and fifteen messengers; the first-level site has sixteen telegraph specialists and twenty messengers. The terminus recruited twenty telegraph specialists and thirty messengers.

So this time a total of 240 telegraph specialists were recruited.

This matter is not a big deal in Dafu City, but in those counties with tertiary sites, it is a big news that can make headlines.

All of a sudden, the neighbors and folks were telling the news that the graduates of Zhaoyue Primary School in the past took their graduation certificates and transcripts to the school to find their husbands to sign up, and some of them took their morning literacy class graduation certificates to sign up.

However, most of the students who participated in the morning literacy class had a loose attitude towards learning, and very few of them got "excellent". When they arrived at the place, they were told that only those who got "excellent" grades were eligible to be sent to Taiyuan this time. , everyone beat their chests and stamped their feet, and they would have been more serious when they knew they were studying!

Song Qingyue in Taiyuan soon received a report from the principals of Zhaoyue Primary School, saying that everyone was very enthusiastic about signing up and there were a lot of applicants, so she asked her what to do.

Song Qingyue replied in a unified way: Of course they sent them all.

If you come to Taiyuan by public carriage, all travel expenses will be borne by the palace.

The main reason is that these days, most of the people have never left their hometowns or traveled far in their entire lives. Song Qingyue encourages everyone to go out of their hometowns more and learn more.

In this way, more than 1000 graduates from Zhaoyue Primary School flocked to Taiyuan.The Wangfu arranged everyone's board and lodging in the second phase of the low-rent housing project that was just completed.

As for the training location, it is on the square near the low-rent housing.

In the first class, the teacher will tell everyone what the telegraph is and why it is used; in the second class, the teacher will send you a booklet of text code conversion, and inform you about the conversion between the telegraph signal and text Principle; In the third class, the teacher will introduce the structure of the existing civil telegraph network, and ask everyone to memorize the place names of the prefectures and counties along the telegraph network, as well as the classification and code of each station.

The fourth class starts with the Chinese class. The teacher will explain how to simplify the text without reducing the key information points.

Of course, the teaching speed will be very fast. There will only be half a month of class, and for the remaining half month, everyone will practice by themselves in the dormitory.

In late July, there will be three opportunities to actually operate the simulator.

July th, th, and th, for three consecutive days.The results will be released on the second day of August, and the admission list will be announced.

The exam is an open-book exam, which is divided into two parts: sending telegrams and receiving telegrams.

First of all, everyone must accurately find a suitable receiving site, and write the communication code of the site proficiently and accurately.

Next, the teacher will read an article of about words and ask everyone to dictate the article first, then reduce it to less than words and send it out. Finally, the teacher will translate a telegram code into text and correct it. Fallacies due to code errors.

The score is determined by several indicators: whether all important information points are included after the abbreviation, the total time spent sending and receiving telegrams, and accuracy.

However, if the sending address is wrong, you will get zero points, so it is the most important thing to ensure that the communication code is written correctly.

It can be said that becoming a qualified telegraph commissioner is by no means an easy task.

After the exam at the end of July, Song Qingyue took a big bag of pine nut candy to the telegraph operator's student dormitory.After a month of hard work, I want to reward everyone and comfort everyone's emotions by the way. Don't be sad even if you are not selected this time.

In the future, the demand for telegraph operators will increase, and more telegraph operators will be recruited.

Therefore, everyone must keep the "training certificate" this time, and more telegraph operators will be recruited in the future.

On the way back to the palace, Nanny Bai nags Song Qingyue with the expense bill for this training, saying that she is doing stupid things again and wasting money, but in fact, the principals from all over the world can help screen them in advance.

More than 1000 people live and eat in Taiyuan for a month!

Song Qingyue just waved her hand indifferently: "I would like to pay you to go out of your hometown to learn more."

For example, after the announcement of the recruitment list on the second day of August, only about 600 people returned home.

More than 200 people decided to stay and look for job opportunities after seeing the prosperity of Taiyuan City.

Thanks to the efforts of Prince Jin's Mansion, the industry and commerce in Taiyuan City have developed rapidly in the past few years, and there are particularly many job opportunities.

The notice boards at the gates of various cities, vegetable markets, and government offices are covered with large and small recruitment advertisements.

Song Qingyue spent money to invite everyone to come to Taiyuan to see the world, isn't it just for this reason.
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Wangfu.

After Song Qingyue made a suggestion about setting up a "communication department" in the palace meeting hall, Li Zhao quickly sent a telegram to the capital to form a "communication department", and also said that he wanted to go to the capital to discuss with his father face to face.

In addition, Yue'er hadn't seen Akun for almost a year, and she was very worried, so she asked her father to allow them to go back to the capital.

The emperor hadn't seen Li Zhao for two or three years, and he was planning to invite him back to Beijing for a reunion.

The Prince's Mansion in Taiyuan suddenly became lively, and everyone began to prepare for returning to Beijing. Some of the women in the backyard were born in the capital, and they could also go home to visit their relatives.

Another important thing is that Li Fugui has finally decided on his real name. It is called Li Heng. It was chosen from the words the emperor specially left for Li Zhao's children. This time he will return to Beijing and it will be officially written on the royal jade plate. , like the word Kun, also means beautiful jade.

The trial operation of the civilian telegraph line was not delayed.

Song Qingyue decided that, except for the two lines contracted to her own bank and the Royal Bank, the rest of the telegraph network will be operated for free for two months, so that the new telegraph specialists can practice their skills.

It is also for people who have never been in contact with telegrams to try it out and feel the thrill of the letter arriving in seconds. After two months, when the communications department is completed, they will start collecting money.

(End of this chapter)