1840Indian rebirth

Not long after, the Queen's Chinese translator came here. He was a tall and thin middle-aged man who looked elegant and had light blue pupils.

"Your Majesty the Queen," the translator saluted.

"I guess you know who this is." Queen Victoria smiled slightly and pointed to the horse whistle.

The translator glanced at the whistle: "Yes, Your Majesty. Now the whole of Britain knows this Indian scientist."

Queen Victoria added: "But you may not know that Ma Shao is also a linguist who is proficient in Chinese."

The translator was obviously surprised and couldn't help but glance at the whistle again: "Really?"

Victoria: "I didn't know either, so I called you here."

The translator nodded slowly, then turned to face the horse whistle, considered for a moment, and said in not-so-standard Chinese: "Do you really understand Chinese?"

Mashao also replied in Chinese: "Yes, a Chinese friend who did not tell me his name taught me their language."

Before he finished speaking, the translator couldn't help but widen his eyes, with a look of disbelief on his face: "This..."

Although his Chinese inevitably has a foreign accent, he knows what standard Chinese is like.

The Indian in front of him clearly spoke authentic and standard Chinese, at least much more authentic than him.

In a daze, he almost thought Ma Shao was a Chinese.

"I wonder if my Chinese is pretty good?" Ma Shao asked with a smile.

"I must admit that your Chinese is very standard, with almost no accent, and amazingly fluent... To be honest, I really doubt that you have a Chinese soul." The translator made a joke.

The horse whistle also smiled.

"I want to know, how long have you studied Chinese?" The translator still couldn't hide his surprise and couldn't help but ask again.

"I must have been studying on and off for a few months," Ma Shao said shamelessly.

"A few months!" The translator was so frightened this time that he blurted out a sentence in his native language.

If the Queen hadn't been here, he might even have had the national quintessence come out.

"What months?" Prince Albert asked curiously.

The translator stuttered and said, "He said...he has been studying Chinese for several months."

"So?" Prince Albert was a little confused. Apparently he couldn't understand the Chinese conversation that just happened between the horse whistle and the translator.

"Yet he is so proficient in Chinese!" the translator said, "I can't believe that people outside of East Asia can master Chinese to such an extent, and it only took a few months. This, this is incredible!"

Seeing the translator's exclamation, Queen Victoria couldn't help but be surprised: "It seems that you are indeed proficient in Chinese. What I'm curious about now is, how is your Chinese calligraphy? Chinese people attach great importance to calligraphy, and many Chinese people I have met are very good at it.

I can write beautiful Chinese characters - even though I can't understand what they mean."

"Unfortunately, Your Majesty the Queen, my Chinese ability is limited to spoken language and some reading, and I can't write any beautiful words." Ma Shao said.

His calligraphy is indeed not good, and it was like this in his previous life. In addition, since he has been away from Chinese characters for a long time now, naturally he can't write any good calligraphy. He often even forgets to pick up the pen and forgets to write, making many mistakes and omissions.

"Okay." The queen nodded, with a bit of admiration and admiration in her tone, "Nevertheless, this is still unbelievable. Chinese may be the most difficult language to learn in the world. I have to say, you are a miracle.

A man, a genius.”

Horse Whistle: "Thank you for your compliment, Your Majesty the Queen."

After showing some Chinese, he talked about science.

Considering the level of Victoria and Albert, the so-called "talking about science" is actually talking about the history of science and technology, or telling stories, which basically does not involve hard-core content such as formulas.

If there is one more formula, the audience's interest will be reduced by three points. Ma Shao knows this truth.

He himself also loves and is proficient in the history of science and technology. This thing is both science and history, and is full of attraction for every strong curiosity.

After a conversation, the couple couldn't help but admire Ma Shao's knowledge.

Ma Shao was not surprised by this.

Not to mention that in this nineteenth century, even in the twenty-first century, his understanding of the history of science and technology is often very good.

The conversation was very pleasant.

Under the deliberate guidance of Ma Shao, the topic unknowingly shifted to the telegram.

"...This is an era that belongs to the telegraph. The telegraph will profoundly change the human world, just like the steam engine, or even more." He said.

"Yes, every country wants to popularize telegraphy as soon as possible." Prince Albert nodded, "But this is not easy. Telegraphy is a complex technology."

Ma Shao considered: "If telegraph is to be popularized on a large scale, it still needs some theoretical improvements."

"Oh?" Albert's eyes moved, "Do you have any ideas?"

Mashao nodded: "I have thought about the problems that telegraph is facing. In fact, I think I have solved part of it... It's a pity that I have never been able to put my theory into practice."

"Can you tell me?" Prince Albert seemed to be looking forward to it.

"Of course." Ma Shao smiled slightly, "To put it simply, I put forward a set of theories about signal attenuation, as well as ideas about the transoceanic telegraph project, and also, I redesigned the English telegraph code."

The first two were things that would appear a few years later. In the original history, it was Kelvin who proposed this theory about signal attenuation, which then promoted the implementation of the transatlantic telegraph project.

As for redesigning the English code, it is the application of information theory.

Ma Shao does not intend to come up with information theory. This is a great theory comparable to the theory of relativity and has a huge impact. It is not suitable to publish it now, but it is still possible to use information theory to create some by-products.

With the help of information theory, he made some optimizations to Morse code to make it more efficient. Although it is not completely reborn, it should still be able to be experienced in actual use.

"Transoceanic telegraph!" Prince Albert was clearly fascinated by the concept.

To humans of this era, transoceanic telegraphs do sound a bit grand and sci-fi. They basically only exist in the fantasies of scientists and engineers, but have not been reflected in reality.

"Are you serious, Mashao? I mean, did you really design a transoceanic telegraph system?" the prince asked.

"I'm not a professional engineer." Ma Shao said slowly, "but I think my plan should be able to inspire engineers. In my opinion, transoceanic telegraphy is not as difficult as some people imagine."

"At least, what is certain is that after I discovered the law of signal attenuation, the difficulty of this project is no longer what it used to be." As he spoke, Ma Shao silently apologized in his heart.

Sorry, Baron Kelvin, I have to plagiarize your work again...