C622 telegraph line (1/2)
There was a door on the left and right sides of the Supreme Harmony Palace plaza, and the left wing led to the Sanyuansi, while the right wing led to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which was an extremely busy door in the imperial palace.
Weng Tonghe stood at the entrance of the left wing, looking at the few New Army soldiers adjusting their telegraph on the table, he felt extremely furious. He raised his head to take a look at the situation at the right wing's entrance, but they were blocked by the three-storey, eight-metre high platform of the Supreme Harmony Hall.
”Master Weng, the telegraph has been prepared. Please write a sentence.” Forces nouvelles soldiers pushed the brush, ink and paper over.
Weng Tonghe looked at the telegraph in front of him in anger, then at the bald new troop that was even angrier, and then at the giggling Xiao Letian on the Tai He Temple's base seat, he was even more angered.
The Hall of Martial Spirits' Grand Scholar raised his pen and furiously wrote 'The Devil, the Devil.' When he was done writing, he threw the brush to the side.
The two New Army soldiers were stunned, the ink in their stomachs could not compare to Weng Tonghe's. They did not even know what the first four words meant, and what the last four did not understand.
The meaning behind Weng Tonghe's words was clear, it came from ”Three Years of the Left Announcement”, which implied that they were evil spirits. People could not predict when they would appear to harm people, but the truth was that they were implying that Xiao Letian and the New Army were all evil spirits, and would not spit vulgarities even if they wanted to.
But you, Weng Tonghe, just think about it. Don't you think that these new recruits can understand? The word evil is not the common word of the people.
”Lord …” Can you put it another way? We don't recognize any of these words, and there's no way these four characters can be coded into the codebook. We can't send that! ”
”What?” You can't even send such a simple sentence, and you're still bragging about how powerful the telegraphic technique are? You are deceiving the imperial government! ”
”Ahh, my lord, you have to be reasonable when you speak. This telegram is used to transmit urgent information, not to post articles. You don't have to write about these things in your life, let alone fighting! ”
”That's right. You even wasted your telegraph resources when you were clearly useless. Isn't that enough to fill your stomach? In my opinion, you just don't know how to say nice words properly. You just need to get some acid, fake, and vinegar stuff to show off your high standards! ”
”You …” Weng Tonghe was so angry that his face turned red. They never thought that the two newbies would dare to teach him a lesson.
”Is my lord still sending the telegram? We can wait. Do you still want the emperor and the empress dowager to blow cold air on such a cold day? ”
When Weng Tonghe heard this, he immediately shut off the fire. He picked up the pen and casually wrote a few lines of ancient poem 'Li Yuan Yuan Grass, one year old one year old one year old one year old', and then roared angrily: ”Do you know each other now? ”Don't tell me you don't know this either!”
”Haha, please, my lord …”
Ta ta … Ta ta … At the same time, the telegraph on the right side of the gate suddenly spat out a small slip of paper, and Morse code appeared on it.
”It's out, the note is out …” Prince Kung and a bunch of Qing Liu watched in amazement as the machine spat out the paper slip, but no one could recognize the little dots on it.
”Found it! This is an ancient poem. It's from the beginning of time, one year old!”
With a bang, everyone rushed out. The eunuch shouted in the square, ”The translator has been translated! The grass on the ground is now only one year old, but it is still one year old and has become one year old!” Master Weng wrote an ancient poem! ”
In that moment, Weng Tonghe's mind buzzed like thunder, ”How can that be? How could this be possible!? You must be cheating! ”
Weng Tonghe started to write another ancient poem, and before even two minutes had passed, he translated it out. The eunuch then shouted, ”I translated it again!
This time, Weng Tonghe was completely mad, he jumped up and shouted, ”Cheating, it must be cheating, they must be using hand signals, sign language, or an evil technique or demonic technique!”
Xiao Letian curled his lips: ”The facts are already in front of you, but you're still as stubborn as a cooked duck. You, Qing Liu, only have this much potential.”
”Your Majesty, this subject asks that the telegraph line be extended. We will retreat into the Sanyuansi and let the other side retreat into the Ministry of Internal Affairs. This way, we won't need to worry about our hand signals, right …”
”Alright, let's do it!” Weng Tonghe nodded.
The telegraph line began to lengthen again. Eastern Head Weng Tonghe dragged them all the way to the Nine Dragons Wall in front of Sanyuansi. Prince Kung and the others directly retreated to the courtyard of Ministry of Internal Affairs.