Chapter 462 Blood Harbor, Good Night
Galahad was not surprised. Although he was also hot-tempered, he had been with this lord for a long time. When he thought of the oath which was the source of his power, he couldn't help but smile slightly.
"Okay, let's not talk about this. Galahad, what has Castel done recently?"
“They minted a batch of coins.”
"Coins? Are they going to build a factory to start minting coins?" This was somewhat beyond the prince's expectations. In this era, coins were still metal currencies, and minting coins was often a losing business. There was really no need for it.
"Well, no, those coins seem to have special uses and are not for circulation. The symbols on them are very strange. I even think they look like some kind of coat of arms."
Galahad took out a coin from his pocket and said, "They also gave us some. This is it."
The prince looked down and saw that the coin was larger than ordinary coins, and was printed with various letters and symbols. It was very delicate. Galahad was right. It did look a bit like a coat of arms, or the holy emblem of the church.
(Similar to this, except that the letters above are not English, but Imperial language.) Imperial language is a language written with letters. Different letters form words, and words form sentences and constitute speech.
This coin has all the letters of the Imperial language listed on it, both on the front and back.
On one side, each letter is followed by a pattern consisting of different numbers of dots and horizontal lines, while on the other side, there is a beautiful tree diagram with different branches pointing to different letters.
After playing with it for a while, the prince held it up and pointed at the coin and said, "There are letters, dots and dashes on it. Each letter is different. This should be some kind of comparison table. These dots and dashes should be a unique text."
After saying that, he frowned again.
"Why would a text formed with only two symbols be so long?"
Galahad also figured out the trick. He pointed excitedly at the other side of the coin, where a tree-like diagram was drawn. "Your Highness, I understand. The star in the middle is the starting point. If we add dots or horizontal lines along the line, we can spell out all the letters!"
The prince nodded. "Did they say what it was?"
"I told you. Well, this is the instruction manual!"
Galahad took out a booklet with a line of words written on it - The Hughes Code.
The two of them flipped through the book with great interest. Youan, who was standing aside, hesitated for a moment and then moved over.
He suddenly became curious about what the "power of knowledge" that his young master talked about was that could be so fascinating.
The three of them studied the "Seuss Code" for a while, and each of them showed a thoughtful expression.
“This thing.”
Galahad's expression became strange. He looked at the prince and said, "This thing looks a bit like the signal tower code invented by the Queen."
The prince's eye twitched.
The empire was vast and wars were fought everywhere, so how to transmit news from the border to the Rhine was always a big problem.
Generally speaking, the royal family will try to cooperate with the Vatican. Although the Candlelight Society's method of transmitting information through the Sea of Unconsciousness is costly and unreliable, it can indeed transmit information across long distances.
The Queen naturally did not want to be controlled by the Holy See even for the transmission of intelligence, so she devised an information transmission system that relied on signal towers.
A signal tower sounds nice, but in fact its function is similar to that of a beacon tower, except that a beacon tower can only convey two states: "beacon lit" and "beacon not lit", but a signal tower can convey many things.
This signal tower is a tall tower with several wooden poles on it, which represent different meanings through different placements.
Some of them look like ship's flag signals.
The distance between each two signal towers is far, and there are fixed telescopes on them that can look towards another signal tower.
Different arrangements of the poles correspond to different letters - yes, it's similar to the "Seuss code" on coins.
Then the message can be passed on this way.
(Many civilizations have similar ways of transmitting messages. The one shown above was used by France during the Napoleonic Wars.) This method of transmitting information is quite expensive. Enough signal towers must be built, and it has many limitations. At least it cannot be used at night - you can't see what is on it at all.
But it did work. One signal tower after another quickly transmitted news from the distant western battlefield to the Rhine, and then conveyed the Queen's orders to the battlefield.
The huge empire thus gained the ability to control its own body and laid the foundation for continued expansion.
The prince took a deep breath, his eyes full of excitement. "He must have had similar ideas. The symbols for transmitting messages are only dots and dashes, which means that this is probably not transmitted visually. If it is transmitted visually, more basic symbols can be used. If it is not transmitted visually, then... sound?"
The prince subconsciously looked towards the bell tower in the distance, where Josh and Zoe had first witnessed the huge body of "Mother", which had not been rebuilt since the last destruction.
Ringing the bell in the bell tower, the whole Blood Harbor can hear it, if it is used to convey messages. "No, it shouldn't be, it should be something more portable."
The prince felt as if ants were crawling on his body, and he wanted to run to Zeus immediately to ask for clarification.
You have to know that she spent a lot of effort in designing this signal tower system, and her hair fell out a lot. Now when she sees similar ideas, she can't suppress her curiosity at all.
"Prepare the horses! I'm going to find out now!" Regardless of the gradually darkening sky, the prince made the decision almost immediately.
The prince came to the window and was about to go out when he was suddenly stunned.
Not only the prince, but everyone in Blood Harbor stopped what they were doing at the same time and looked outside.
The literacy class had just ended, and the students were walking home, talking a lot on the road. Many people were watching with a coin in their hands.
In the sea, Nini, who was chasing a shark, raised her head from the water and tilted her ears.
The melodious sound of the whistle echoed throughout Blood Harbor.
First there was a long beep, then long and short sounds followed by some strange rhythm, like a chorus of steel in the sunset.
The prince rushed to the table, picked up a piece of paper and started writing. Galahad and Euan took out coins and spelled out the prince's notes with excitement on their faces.
The cooperation among the several people was extremely unfamiliar and they were a little flustered, but the whistle sounded not urgent. After a while, when the whistle stopped, a few words appeared on the white paper.
"Goodnight, Blood Harbor."
(End of this chapter)
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