314. “Telegraph” experiments

Chapter 314 – The “Telegraph” Experiment

What a perilous time,” Paul thought as he took the boat back to the town of Lakewood.

Orcs, rebels,……, before he thought they were all far away from him, but with more and more people and things he touched, suddenly there is a feeling of being close at hand.

The highest building of the lake heart town, the lord s castle, appeared in front of his eyes, and then the whole town in its entirety …… Maybe it shouldn t be called a town anymore, all kinds of population kept pouring into the lake heart town, including local workers of Arda, resident merchants doing business, recruited from the south Various talents that came here as well as some of the stragglers that were placed here, the population of Lakeheart Town had already exceeded ten thousand.

The original island in Lake Wes naturally could not accommodate such a large number of people, so the south shore was undergoing a major construction, a piece of simple style housing was built, the lake island is not actually located in the center of Lake Wes, but closer to the south shore of Lake Wes, through a newly built joint-arched bridge connected to the land.

Further out on the southern shore, several new workshops are still under construction, and with the end of the Gulf War in the northwest and the resumption of trade routes, the Council of State has been able to increase the output of various commodities in a timely manner.

A small city is gradually taking shape, looking at the piece of new housing, Paul’s heart gradually calmed down, this is their own home in this world ah, no matter how shocking the waves outside, here is always their own harbor to avoid the wind.

This time returned to the lake town, only Schroeder accompanied him back, after discussion, the army left the second infantry battalion in Manda, the other troops will take the naval warships to return to Alda, will return to the militia recruited during the war, they will be disbanded to go home, and in the local auxiliary soldiers recruited also disbanded together.

The final size of the Alda army would be around 5,000 men, including six infantry battalions, an independent artillery company, an independent transport company, and a 1,000-strong naval force.

Old Chief Steward Ford led the men of the Council of State to greet him at the docks. After exchanging pleasantries with the crowd for a while, Betty came to him full of excitement.

“Paul! Paul!” She was the only one in the whole territory who called the lord by his first name.

“Seeing how excited you are, something good must have happened, right?”

“Yes, yes! I’m telling you ……”

Erin’s current expression was like that of a child who had gotten a perfect score on a test and was waiting for a parent to praise him, “Our first flag-raising signaling line was completed!”

“Oh! That’s great!”

This was really a pleasant surprise, since the war in the Northwest Gulf started for the second time, he hadn’t paid much attention to the construction of the [Chap Telegraph], and pushed it to Eileen and Old Ford in a brainstorming manner. Paul’s character belonged to the kind of three-minute fever, messing with the overall plan, the outline of the design is still okay, once specific to each part of the plan, the detailed steps of the implementation of the project, his enthusiasm immediately dropped.

According to the plan, the first communication line was [Fulan Harbor – Lake Town – Butua].

Paul eagerly asked, “Is it working well? Has it been used to deliver any messages?”

Irene lifted both sides of her skirt with both hands, bowed gently, and gave Paul a skirt lifting salute, and said with a smile, “We have tested it internally, but we still need to wait for you, the Earl Lord, to come back for a public demonstration.”

Paul rubbed his hands together and said joyfully, “Deep in my heart, deep in my heart.”

……

Two days later, a large group of people gathered on the small square outside the lord’s castle in Lake Heart Town, the people were notified that the lord of the lord was going to publicly experiment with a means of long-distance communication, using different signals to represent different words, and relaying them to the faraway places through a high tower.

At the same time, the area around a newly built tower near the town hall of Port Fullan was also crowded with people, the crowd included the town mayor Theodore, advisor Peter, naval commander Austin, as well as Todd, Gerdwin and other big merchants and workshop owners, all of whom were waiting for the first long-distance signaling communication experiment of the Northwest Gulf.

The signal tower in Lakewood was the one on the lord’s castle, and as the planned hub of the entire communication network, and in order to minimize the time consumed in obtaining urgent news, Paul of course kept the [base station] as close to him as possible. In the midst of all the attention, Paul walked out of the gate of the castle, stood on the steps and shouted out to the people, “I’m sure you all already know what we’re going to do next, and in order to test this new means of communication, I’ve made the following decision on the left and right–“

“It is for those present to suggest what message we should transmit-“

As soon as Paul’s words fell, the square was exploded with a bang, the first sentence of the long-distance communication experiment, the person who proposed it might be able to go down in history.

Everyone opened their brains, thinking hard about the most compelling words they could organize, the whole square was buzzing with discussion.

The attendant set out a table on which were placed feather quills, ink and white paper. Paul continued to shout, “The experiment goes like this, we first deliver the message to Port Fullan, and then it is delivered back unchanged from Port Fullan’s side, with the originator of the message confirming that the message that comes back differs from the original message or not. So, who is going to deliver the first message? Has anyone thought of it yet, and when you have, come over and put it on paper.”

To his surprise, the crowd in the square was muted.

After the excitement of the beginning passed, people thought that this was a meaningful experiment, what if they said something wrong and were blamed by the lord?
Hansel, who was on the sidelines, saluted Paul and suggested, “The Lord Earl’s position here is the highest, if you don’t write it yourself, then it should be written by the person you appointed ……”

Paul said, “All right, Hansel, then I’ll pick someone.”

He swept his eyes over and over the eating crowd, saw a familiar figure, and pointed forward, shouting, “Morrison! You do it!”

The abbey’s vice-president, who was huddled in the crowd of onlookers, froze and pointed a finger at his nose, “Me?”

Paul confirmed, “Yes! That’s you!”

The onlookers immediately shoved Morrison to the front of the table, and it was obvious that Mr. Vice Abbot was a little nervous.

What kind of sentence should be written? The sentence had to mean something, wouldn’t it be beneath him to just make something up? Morrison scratched his head.

Suddenly he had a flash of insight and picked up his pen to write a sentence.

Soon the piece of paper was delivered to the tower of the lord’s house, and the onlookers stared and held their breath, their eyes unblinking as they watched the signaling arm that stood so high in the tower, and which was successively placed in different shapes under the operation of the transmitter.

Finally, the signal arm stopped swinging, and the next step was to wait for another transmission back from Port Fullan – if the message that had been sent arrived without incident.

The square was once again abuzz with talk, as people began to speculate whether Morrison had written that one sentence, or whether the message would arrive as it was expected to parade.

About less than 20 minutes had passed since the signaling arm had stopped swinging, when a squire suddenly ran out of the castle’s gates, holding up a piece of paper and excitedly shouting, “It’s back! Back!”

The square buzzed with activity, then quickly fell silent again as the people silently listened to the squire read out the message on the paper:
“If successful, you will soon be bathed in sublime light!”

Morrison exclaimed, “Word for word!”

With a roar, the square boiled over. It was important to realize that running a round trip between Lakewood and Port Fullan would take almost a day’s time, even on horseback.

(End of chapter)