Chapter 1280 - 1200: Combo Strike
Sharp originally wanted to refute him, but after thinking for a long time, he couldn’t find a point to argue against.
Reduce seven fluorites to two, and then do binary encoding.
This increased the difficulty for the initial sender and final receiver, but greatly reduced the time for the transmission in between.
For a complete transmission, only one encoding and decoding is needed.
For example, a short message with 100 characters, the postal carriage would take 3 days.
Using the Brandon Signal Machine, it takes 7.5 minutes to send to the location, 50 minutes to receive, totaling almost an hour.
If transmitted twice, it would be two hours.
With the signal machine improved per Horn’s recommendation, it takes only a minute and a half to send to the location.
But the biggest improvement is that each signal with Horn’s system can operate in the shortest time of 2 seconds.
In other words, the smallest transmission time unit of the older Brandon Signal Machine was 30 seconds.
And because the operator adopts the mode of observing and operating at the same time, the transmission of a complete character overlaps.
The smallest time unit has been reduced to 2 seconds!
For 100 characters, possibly 200 to 400 signals, it takes about six and a half to thirteen and a half minutes to complete reception.
Adding the initial one and a half minutes, it only totals 15 minutes.
Send twice for confirmation, and it’s 30 minutes.
Moreover, with Horn’s encoding scheme, common letter signals can be made very short, possibly only around 4 seconds.
Unlike the seven fluorites transmission method, where every letter equally took 30 seconds.
In this way, the time can still be shortened.
Sharp casually composed a short message of 100 characters in his mind and calculated.
Holy Father above, the actual time taken is only estimated to be 10 minutes!
Looking at Horn, whose expression remained unchanged, Sharp broke into a sweat.
Did he just walk over, took a couple of glances, and within half an hour, created a new system that improved efficiency by more than 50%?
Is this even real?
Wait, could it be that the Saint’s Grandson is truly a genius?
After a brief silence, Sharp silently picked up a piece of graph paper from the side table and began to record.
At this time, Brandon, who had been puzzled all along, couldn’t help but ask: "Your Eminence, may I ask a small question?"
"Ask."
"This signal machine, transmitting just lottery information, should meet the current efficiency and level, right?"
"Your vision is still too narrow." With a hint of disappointment, Horn pushed open the window and pointed to the signal tower opposite, asking, "What’s that?"
"Signal tower..."
"Wrong, it’s a messenger that runs 15 kilometers in 10 seconds!" Horn leaned against the window, "I don’t need to tell you that the battlefield is ever-changing."
"Ah!" Brandon was immediately struck with delight, "Can it cooperate with the military?"
Cooperation with the military almost guarantees an iron rice bowl in the Holy Alliance.
"Not just the military." Horn looked further ahead, "Also exchanges in various places."
Currently, most exchanges in the Holy Alliance are concentrated in port or transportation hub areas.
Exchanges are not just for high-flying traders speculating on futures, but for smoothing out price fluctuations over the long term through centralized trading.
And the role of futures itself is not speculative but to lock in prices to avoid risks and establish authoritative pricing.
Now the Holy Alliance is often about high-flying people, partly due to the poor quality of the Imperial People themselves, their penchant for gambling and speculation, and the information gap caused by regional time differences.
Sometimes, the prices of certain commodities or stock price changes of certain companies need weekly updates.
Now it’s fine, a 200-kilometer distance with two confirmations, only takes 20 to 30 minutes.
This is a time that can make countless speculators cry out loud.
Considering the territory of the Holy Alliance and the issue of crowded transmission channels, long-distance commodities can be updated daily.
I’m sure banks and exchanges are all very willing to invest money.
"Oh oh oh oh——" Brandon’s eyes glittered with the light of money, "What about the subsequent construction progress..."
Seeing Brandon was either unaware or pretending not to understand, Petier stepped forward and lightly coughed.
"Mr. Brandon, such an important project, the waters are deep, can you handle it?"
Brandon immediately understood, although unwilling, he knew this was already the best result.
"For this project of the signal machine, I plan to set up a new company. Since the resources offered by the lottery company don’t match, I request to retain only the lottery transmission channel, and establish a new Shengyou company with the Holy Property Monitoring Bureau..."
Hearing this, Horn nodded, which is as it should be.
It must be said that initially, when Horn learned that it took 30 seconds per character, he felt a bit disappointed.
Because at that transmission speed, it completely did not meet his warfare needs.
But upon arriving at the site, he realized that with current productivity, they could do much better.
Reducing transmission time to a third of what it was, although still cramped, could already meet his requirements.
Horn even thought, since one tower only requires two fluorites.
Couldn’t one signal tower be equipped with several signal machines and more operators?
Could messages be sent in parallel? Or designated military routes set up?
As for distinguishing issues, can’t fluorites be dyed?
Horn even wondered if it might be possible to use spring machines if there was concern about false reporting rates.
As the current Brass Creed Bureau is trying to use necromancy on spring mechanisms.
If possible, even without saying anything else, given the ability of skeleton zombies to farm and mine independently, is it not feasible for them to discern left from right?
However, the energy problem can be substantiated with moon mercury, such low-energy operations, a can of moon mercury should last a week.
The reliance on vampire control is quite undesirable, though.
Such thoughts were far too advanced.
Besides, if spring machines existed, surely telegrams would be invented.
Currently, because the construction of these signal machines requires sufficient investment, to reduce expenses, parts need to be allocated for civilian use.
Horn only planned to provide three kinds of civilian services:
The first is to transmit stocks, prices, futures, and lotteries, the second is to transmit important local news and emergencies, the third is to transmit personal letters not exceeding 10 minutes in duration.
Of course, the priority must be military and governmental internal use, then the public.
Moreover, for military and governmental internal use, aside from the signal machine, postal carriage archival confirmation is still needed.
As long as heavy rain, snow, or fog doesn’t occur, 200-kilometer information transmission will only take about 10 minutes.
This means a conversation in the ry Court Barracks can be known in Xia Lvcheng, Black Snake Bay, and Silver Bay City within an hour.
Undoubtedly, the most important is to report military situations.
Because this transmission speed means that the Royal Court’s invasion of Shattered Stone Plain or the New Five Counties can be known by Horn in at most two hours.
Once the war starts, all civilian uses become militarized, and the most you’ll get is prices, forget about lotteries or stocks.
Then, in the signal machine transmission channels, there will only be war reports and military orders.
Orders to mobilize the Black Snake Bay battle group northward from the ry Court Barracks need not take three to five days, just three to five hours.
In such a communication scope, using the previous Gigi Kingdom with the Leia Army would be like having the fog of war fully lifted.
When Raffel suddenly attacked the first castle, Xia Lvcheng would know within half an hour, and reinforcements would start an hour later.
With the Holy Alliance’s mobilization speed and waterway transport, by the time Raffel besieges the city, there will already be six battle groups waiting to surround him.
In the future, if spring locomotives are promoted.
Only transporting soldiers, not materials, and using military sealed wagons.
In one go, half a battle group (2000 soldiers) could be transported over a 200-kilometer distance within half a day.
If divided into multiple trains on various routes, possibly transporting troops numbering tens of thousands in a day!
Once a stronghold is conquered, subsequently, busloads of soldiers come down to counterattack.
In the eyes of the Imperial Army, which marches 10 to dozens of kilometers a day, what is it like to have tens of thousands of troops crossing hundreds of kilometers to press on their doorstep in one day?
Once catching prisoners later, Horn must inquire about this.
"Signal Machine Company, later Catherine and Hilov will come to negotiate with you." Horn patted Brandon’s shoulder, "Rest assured, the Holy Alliance will not short-change you."