When Yang Tong came out of the restaurant, the guards hidden in an alley came out surrounded by a gorgeous carriage, and the guards disguised themselves as ordinary attendants, and the carriage was also ordinary, no different from ordinary carriages.

When Yang Tong and Fang Xuanling got into the carriage one after another, the carriage started slowly, and Luo Shixin was guarding the side.

In the car, Yang Tong asked, "What do you think of this Shangguanyi?" ”

"Seeing the subtle knowledge, seeing the beginning and knowing the end, is a good seedling." Fang Xuanling replied temptingly:

"Want to rob someone?"

"Sort of." Fang Xuanling didn't deny it, he smiled and said, "Shangshu Province has ten departments: people, officials, rites, soldiers, criminals, workers, royals, academics, martial arts, and commerce, and there are several divisions under each of the ten departments, and there is a shortage of people, so every time the scientific examination is over, the scholars begin to rob people." Now that he has finally met a good talent, of course Weichen wants to take the lead. ”

"I can't give this to you."

"What is the Holy Lord's plan to arrange?"

"Shangguan Yi's talent is good, but he is too young, there is still a lot of room for growth, I don't want him to enter the office too early, stifle his potential in the busy government affairs, he still has a lot to learn, the future will be the pillar of my Great Sui, yes, I plan to send him to the local work for a period of time, to integrate the knowledge he has learned, to achieve the purpose of applying what he has learned. After that, go back to Luoyang Academy to continue studying and accumulate more knowledge. Yang Tong looked at Fang Xuanling: "Your family's legacy is also like this, you tell the truth, how is today's legacy compared to before?" ”

Fang Xuanling was stunned for a moment, and then seriously recalled what his eldest son did.

Fang Zhizhi first started from Luoyuan County, Honghua County, a remote county, and it took two years to govern the place quite effectively, and then, he returned to Tsinghua Academy to study for a year, and was arranged to go to the more remote and complex Changle County of Dunhuang, but in less than a year, he took care of all kinds of things in an orderly manner, especially the Han and Qiang ethnic issues, which were even more handy to solve.

"It's really a little bit better than before." Fang Xuanling said.

Yang Tong laughed, with Fang Xuanling's current ability, it is more than enough to be too guarded, but Fang Xuanling has always been modest, so naturally he will not praise his son, "Therefore, learning is quite important." In addition to your family widow and Shangguan Yi, there are also young people such as Yang Chanshi, Yang Sine, Yang Sijian, Yin Hongzhi, Liu Renliang, Ma Zhou, Lai Ji, and Du Wei, and I plan to arrange them like this. ”

"Holy Wisdom." Fang Xuanling's cheeks twitched, the person in front of him was younger than some so-called 'young people', and his feelings were to forget his age, of course, no one regarded him as a young man, just because everyone had to teach him like a student many times, and naturally regarded him as a peer.

However, he also heard that Yang Tong had great expectations for these potential teenagers and planned to do his best to cultivate them.

As Fang Xuanling's parents, Fang Xuanling is naturally happy to see it. Although the eldest son can inherit the title, what father does not want his son to have real talents? Blue out of blue and blue out of blue?

Yang Tong suddenly remembered that Shangguan Yi called himself 'the tallest of the short', and said to Fang Xuanling: "How is the popularity of the three schools? ”

The reason why the imperial court made a large number of stationery and lowered the price of books and paper was to make books affordable for more people, but without the school and teachers to bring them in, books and paper still could not produce knowledge.

After Yang Tong threw the school department to Kong Yingda, he paid less attention to education, and although Fang Xuanling was a secretary of the ministry, many things in the school department needed the cooperation of officials from all over the country, and he was no stranger to Dasui education.

Speaking of this, Fang Xuanling suddenly looked excited: "The situation is very good!" According to the original plan, every time we regain a place, the officials who go to the post will maintain public order, restore the people's livelihood, and build school houses at the same time, and the second school houses in the county and county have already been established. Then the township school was enlightened, the county school was solidified, and the county school began to be divided into disciplines to cultivate specialized students. Then he went from the county school entrance examination to the palace for further study, and received a more refined and higher level of education. ”

"What about the Master? Is it enough? ”

"Enough, due to the age limit of the scientific examination, the elderly scribes have no desire to enter the ranks, and when they return to the township, some elders with both talent and virtue are hired by the school department as the masters of the local township school and county school."

Yang Tong bowed his head happily, this is almost the backbone of national education after the maturity of the imperial examination system.

But he still admonished: "The imperial examination can provide a steady stream of talents for the Great Sui, but our clan has a long history, and the culture not only has poetry, books, rituals and music, subsets of classics and history, but also agriculture, engineering, law, mathematics, gewu, astronomy, geography, yin and yang, the art of war, etc., should be set up in the county school, the county school should set up more disciplines, try to make every student learn in many aspects, the Great Sui will never need a nerd who can only die reading!" ”

"Our knowledge is dazzling, but in addition to the fact that the Legalists had to rely on the 'Confucian bones' to survive, and the Taoists preserved the inheritance because of their admiration for nature, the Mohists, the Yin-Yang families, the peasants, the miscellaneous families, the soldiers, the doctors, etc., were either excluded or suppressed, and all of them became unpopular doctrines, and even the classics that were handed down from generation to generation were gradually lost, which made me and other descendants sigh. Confucianism is good, but can Confucianism alone ensure development and progress? From the beginning of the establishment of the imperial examination, we must lay the tone for a hundred schools of thought to contend and advance in unison. ”

Fang Xuanling naturally knew Yang Tong's intentions, in order to let the students study in many aspects, he did not hesitate to add agriculture, law, arithmetic, history and other topics to the scientific examination questions, he smiled bitterly: "The ministers must do their best, but the saint also understands that there is a lot of resistance." ”

Yang Tong nodded slightly, and also understood where the resistance Fang Xuanling was referring to came from.

The imperial examination questions are mixed with other subject content, this is the emperor's will, and no one can change the fact that no candidate can change, they can only follow the examination paper to study, unless they don't want high scores.

However, the Confucian scholars, who compromised the emperor's tough attitude at the top, turned their heads and set up layers of fetters at the bottom, sparing no effort to suppress them. The "resistance" that Fang Xuanling refers to comes from the bottom.

"All schools are under the supervision of the government, the school, teachers, and funds are in the hands of the government, but Confucian scholars have great influence among the people, these pedantic people have countless old acquaintances, and there are many disciples and grandchildren. Make students feel disgusted... All kinds of chaos are not possible even if Confucius Shangshu, who is committed to restoring the true nature of Confucianism and advocating the development of Confucianism in competition. Fang Xuanling shook his head and smiled bitterly, sighing again and again.

Yang Tong pondered for a long time, "The three masters will also be included in the supervision scope of the Second Criminal Imperial Department, if anyone dares to disobey the yang and the yin, then remove the master from his position and give a certain punishment, and at the same time, he must be publicly criticized in the local area and designated as a misguided disciple." ”

Fang Xuanling's eyes lit up, and he immediately understood what Yang Tong meant, the county school and township scholar is almost a native of his hometown, and is deeply admired by the local people, and he also enjoys this kind of worship, if he is determined to be a misguided son of the people, and a person who cuts off the road to the rise of the people, then he will not only fall into the dust immediately, but also suffer from the rejection of the people every day, poking the backbone, and the consequences are even more uncomfortable than killing him.

"In addition, the master is not a lifelong profession, and if you can't do it yourself, you have to give way to those who are capable." Yang Tong glanced at Fang Xuanling and continued: "If the children learn for a few years and can't even understand the addition and subtraction within a hundred, it means that even if these masters are virtuous, they are talentless, and it is not a pity to dismiss them." ”

"Wechen understood." Fang Xuanling smiled slightly, if it is said that the master without virtue is to make it public, it is to take his name, then to dismiss him is to cut off his interests, and the court is in charge of his fame and fortune, and it must make some masters teach honestly and seriously.

Yang Tong asked again: "Do you have any other thoughts about the three studies?" ”

"Wechen has two suggestions." Fang Xuanling said.

"Please."

"Attaching importance to education and broadening the scope of righteous learning is a move that benefits the country and the people, but education is different from fighting a war, and it is not a matter of a few years or ten years to reap the fruits of victory. It will take at least 20 or even 100 years for the seeds planted by the Holy Saint to become big trees, and this is the case with 10 years of trees and 100 years of people. Therefore, there is no urgency. ”

Yang Tong nodded: "There are too few literate people now, and I also understand that there is a long way to go in education, and I still have this patience." Please go on. ”

"Wei Chen's second suggestion is the imperial examination and official courses, if cheap stationery, school houses are to make more people afford to read, have a place to read seeds and soil, the master is to raise seedlings and old farmers, then a more perfect imperial examination system, as well as the three education courses, is sunshine and water, only when the number is complete, the seeds can take root and sprout, strive to grow, and eventually become a towering tree."

……

At this time, the carriage had slowly stopped in front of the official residence of Shangshu Province, and the two got out of the carriage and met Yang Shanhui head-on.

Yang Shanhui greeted him with a happy face, and saluted: "Weichen see the saint." ”

"Excuse me!" Yang Tong saw him holding a stack of manuscripts, so he smiled and said, "It seems that I have thrown myself into the net." ”

Yang Shanhui also smiled: "Weichen is having something important to report to the saint, and it is about the military department. ”

"Talk about it inside."

"Whoa."

When a few people arrived at the main residence, they found that Yang Gongren, Wei Yunqi, Yang Shidao, Wei Zheng, Kong Yingda, Ling Jing, and Pei Renji were arguing passionately, one with a red face and a thick neck.

"Don't you have swords? Since there is no dispute, simply go head-to-head to win, and whoever persists to the end will win. Yang Tong walked inside and said jokingly.

"Ahem!"

The faces of everyone who stood up to greet him darkened.

This makes everyone seem to be a gangster.

Yang Tong sat on the long-reserved main seat, put away the joke, and asked: "Why do they all have a stinky face, where is the accident?" ”

"It's the military department!" Yang Shanhui smiled bitterly: "The driving department under the Ministry of War is very important, but it has been losing huge amounts of money year after year, and this loss is increasing year by year, and everyone is very distressed." ”

"The right servant is talking about the post station under the driver's department?" Yang Tong asked.

The post station has been in place since Qin, and its tasks are all-encompassing, not only for the delivery of state official documents, but also for the transmission of urgent military information, but also for the transportation of officials, Huairou ethnic minorities, quelling civil strife, chasing criminals, comforting and escorting prisoners in disaster areas, and sometimes managing the transportation of tribute and other small items.

There are three kinds of post stations: land station, water post and land and water merger, like a large network of dense traffic roads. Each post station is equipped with post house, post ding, post horse, post donkey, post boat and post field, etc., the existing water post 220, land post 1,100, there are more than 20,000 members specializing in post service, according to the different levels of post station, the number of post staff is also different.

"It's the station." Yang Shanhui said: "The post station only plays a role when it has a task, and it is almost idle in normal times, but it cannot be left unset, so it needs to spend a lot of money every year to maintain." Now "Da Sui Half Moon Talk" is also transmitted by it, that is to say, the national post station has to move 24 times a year, if you add the special issue printed by irregular periodicals, the number of times will be more, which also means that the loss of the post station will only increase, in the long run, how to get it? ”

"The post station not only shoulders the mission of transmitting military information, official documents, and half-moon talks, but also is responsible for the food and accommodation of officials." Yang Shanhui also said: "The food and lodging of officials is a unified standard, and the expenses are not large, but the maintenance of horses, carriages, and boats is extremely expensive, so the accumulation of expenses is a lot of consumption." ”

"That's what you're fighting about?" Yang Tong's face darkened.

Yang Shidao smiled bitterly: "Yes, although the imperial court can afford it, it can't stand the long-term consumption of the post station, this thing is completely a pixiu that only enters and can't leave, and all it eats is money and grain, and there are a lot of them." ”

"Then let it turn around." Yang Tong shook his head, the ancients' brains were too rigid, and they were not changeable overnight.

Yang Shanhui frowned and said, "But how to make the post station profitable?" Can't you let it do business? ”

"It can't be regarded as a business, but a long-idle post station is used for the convenience of everyone in the world." Yang Tong is like Huang Rong, who has long been accustomed to everyone's rigidity, and now he is neither anxious nor impatient.

Fang Xuanling had a flash of inspiration and asked, "The Holy Lord plans to let the post station deliver letters to the wanderer?" ”

"Not bad." Yang Tong said: "For border soldiers, wanderers, officials who take up positions in other places, and business travelers who travel all over the world, the most reassuring thing is the relatives who stay in their hometowns, and conversely, their relatives are also worried about their relatives abroad. However, for such people who are far away from their hometowns, it is a fluke to meet their hometowns, but some hometowners do not necessarily return to their hometowns immediately, and even if they do, it will be a matter of months later, and the people entrusted with the delivery of letters sometimes return home, and the letters are still on the way. ”

Everyone nodded silently, as high-ranking officials of the Great Sui, they could naturally have some privileges, but it was too difficult for ordinary soldiers and ordinary people to communicate with their relatives in distant places.

"The mission of the post station is to convey official documents and military information, and before the appearance of "Half Moon Talk", many post stations were rarely used several times a year. It's so empty, it's better to let it spread the word to everyone. With this large and well-established network of post stations, as long as there is an accurate address, the letter can be delivered to the destination, and the sender only needs to spend a small amount of money. ”

Yang Tong said with a smile, "According to the way of mutual transmission, from Daxing to Jiaozhou, it takes only ten days, if you encounter an emergency, you can use six hundred miles of expedited express, which is a great attraction for strangers." You say, do you want to do this convenient business? ”

"Yes, of course." Yang Shanhui said categorically, "Take the military department as an example, every year a large number of soldiers leave their hometowns and go to various border passes to serve, if the post station can transmit messages for the soldiers of the whole army, so that they and their relatives can exchange letters and report to each other, it can achieve the effect of stabilizing the morale of the army, so that the soldiers can rest assured that the town borders." ”

"Yes, there are officials who are officials in other places, and they also need such convenience." Fang Xuanling also said: "In addition to soldiers, officials, and students who go to other places to study, every time they get good grades, they want their relatives to share their likes together. ”

Kong Yingda agreed: "Such a feat that benefits the world, even if the post station loses more, it must be done." ”

"I can't afford to lose!" Yang Tong said, "In terms of the huge population base of my Great Sui, even if each person communicates half a year and has 20 million letters a year, it is calculated according to the standard of a letter and a penny, that is, 20,000 yuan, of course, this is only a 300-mile ordinary letter, if it is 600 miles expedited, the cost is naturally higher, in addition, different charging standards can be set according to the weight, I dare not say to make money, but it should not be a problem to maintain the balance of income and expenditure of the post station." ”

The 800-mile rush is too manpower and horsepower, and Yang Tong does not plan to open it to the people, so it can continue to be used exclusively for the official.

"In this case, I am afraid that there will not be enough manpower at the post station."

"As long as the post station has income, it is completely possible to recruit retired wounded soldiers who do not affect horseback riding." Yang Tong said.

"Holy Wisdom!" Yang Shanhui agreed: "The person who delivers the letter needs to know how to ride a horse and drive, not to mention that delivering a letter is not a physical job, and the wounded soldiers are completely competent, and it can be regarded as a long-term livelihood for the soldiers." ”

"Holy!" Wei Zheng arched his hand and said: "Whenever money is involved, it is necessary to prevent corruption from happening, how many letters are exchanged only the people at the post station know, if there are lawbreakers who send away a thousand letters, but only report one letter, wouldn't the court be a big loss?" Therefore, Weichen thinks that a more detailed charter needs to be formulated. ”

"It is only necessary to imitate the silver ticket and print a beautiful picture with the amount of money in lieu of money, and when the people send a letter, they need to buy a picture from the post station and affix it to the envelope, and then the post station will stamp it. In this way, if there are no pictures, you can't send letters, and you can send as many pictures as you want to the post station, and how much money you collect to get back, so as to avoid corruption in the post stations everywhere. This image can be called a postage stamp. ”

"Secondly, in order to prevent the post man from neglecting the government, each transfer must be recorded in detail number, each transfer must be printed with the local post station seal, in case the letter is lost, when the letter reaches the recipient's hand, let it sign or print the fingerprint on the receipt, keep it for future verification, in case the post man is lazy, but also as a basis for rewarding the post man."

"Third, letters are very easy to get wet, and the messenger carriage and package need to be well sealed and waterproof."

"Fourth, the content of the letter is a private matter, and no one wants their inner words to be seen by outsiders, so the envelope is made of flexible and durable paper by the imperial court, which is the income of the post station."

"Fifth ......"

Yang Tong sprinkled with enthusiasm, and directly brought the various measures of postal and express delivery together, and everyone who listened was enlightened and dumbfounded.

They can't even find the problem, but Yang Tong even has the problem and the solution, and then everyone just needs to do it.

At this moment, everyone was hit again.

Ling Jing said: "Holy Lord, a letter has to travel thousands of miles, which is also a huge expense. Just a little money from stamps and envelopes, how can it be enough? If every letter loses money, the loss will be even greater, and how can this break even? ”

"It's good to add it back from other places, such as "Half Moon Talk", after arriving in a different place, the price has skyrocketed several times. In this case, we simply handed it over to the post station to double the sale, and the court only collected half of the money, and the other half was owned by the post station. ”

"How do you get beautiful stamps?" Yang Shanhui's head is as big as a fight, and the post station is under the management of the Driving Department of the Ministry of War, and now Shangshu Li Jing and Zuo Shilang Qin Qiong are not there, so he can only manage it.

"Leave it to me." Yang Tong suddenly had an idea: "The stamps were drawn by me and handed over to the Shaofu Supervisor for mold printing, and the pattern is the portrait of the King of the Great Sui County and the Duke of the Kingdom." ”

Swish!

Everyone was so excited that their faces turned red.

In the whole world, only Yang Tong and the eldest grandson Wujian and Lu Qinghua can paint human-like character paintings.

The characters of the three of them are all lifelike, which is no secret in the court. If you use your portraits as stamps, your portraits will be spread all over the world along with the letters.

What is it?

Glory.

Great glory.

Seeing everyone's expressions, Yang Tong was happy.

There is one thing to say.

The ancients were simply unable to extricate themselves from fame, fame, and fame.

However, it is good to hope for a good name, as long as it is not to gain fame and fortune by means that harm others and self-interest, it should be encouraged and appreciated.

If a dynasty doesn't care about good or bad reputation, that's the most terrible thing in the world.

"As long as any household collects a complete set of used stamps, stamped and dated for the current year." Yang Tong smiled and said widely: "You can be tax-free for one year." ”

Every household wants to be tax-free, so naturally they will not give used stamps to others, even if someone gathers them, it is very few, which has a large population of the Great Sui Dynasty, the impact is not great.

When the trend of philately rises, some people will buy a whole set of collections, which is one of the benefits of the station.

Yang Tong couldn't help but praise his own method, which can not only make the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs satisfied, happy, and excited, encourage everyone to work hard and work hard, but also use their avatars to sell money and alleviate financial losses, which is really a double thing.

Rumble!

The crowd was even more uneasy.

……

At this moment, the guards outside the door reported: "Qiqi Sheng, Princess Lujiang urgently asks to see." ”

"Please let her in!" Yang Tong said.

"Whoa."

After a while, Yang Qinfang held a red eagle letter in his hand, hurriedly walked in, and saluted: "The last general will see the saint." ”

"Where did you send this?" Asked.

Yang Qinfang presented the eagle letter to Yang Tong: "It was Yizhou who sent urgent information. ”

Yang Tong took a look and said gloatingly: "Dugu Wudu has been quiet for so long, I thought he had broken up. Unexpectedly, this guy actually hid in Daba Mountain, and now he avoids the truth and is false, with the remnants of the Guanlong nobles, and suddenly killed Shu County, where the pseudo-Tang Xindu is located, Li Yuan is afraid that he will not have a good New Year. ”

"Beautiful!"

The crowd was overjoyed, and the moment they had been waiting for for a long time had finally arrived.