Zuo Yude and the bachelors were both from the five grades, but the Hanlin Academy belonged to the emperor's secretary team according to the system, and the Zhan Shifu system was an institution that taught the prince to learn governance. Although it seems that the status of the Hanlin Academy is higher, it also depends on who it is for.

Gao Pragmatic is the same age as the prince, and it is obvious that the emperor has cultivated an auxiliary talent for the prince in advance, which can be seen by anyone.

Although in Daming, whether you can really assist the prince in the future, the first condition is that Gao Pragmatic should be able to be named on the gold list, but since the advent of "Longwen Whip Shadow", most people are optimistic about it.

In this way, Gao Pragmatic, a close minister of the prince, can basically guarantee that he will be a close minister of the Son of Heaven in the future, so it is better to call him Gao Yude now than Gao Shiyu - it can better reflect his special relationship with His Royal Highness the Prince.

However, Gao Pragmatic himself is very open to this, anyway, whether it is a bachelor or Zuo Yude, they are all temporary names, and they are not real officials.

In the future, even if he is admitted to the Jinshi, he still has to strive for the entrance examination first, enter the Hanlin Academy for a period of time, and improve his qualifications, but he still has to start from the seventh or eighth grade petty officials.

Of course, just because a false name is a false name doesn't mean it's useless at all. At least, with this temporary official position in his body, he can do many things that he can't do.

For example, the top sparse.

On the second day of the sixth month of the fifth year of Longqing, the prince accompanied the study, the fake Hanlin Academy served as a bachelor, and the Zhan Shifu Zuo Chunfang Zuo Yu Degao pragmatically went to the imperial court to "relieve the post road", and the full name was "Please rectify the post station to relieve the post road in order to comply with the original intention of the ancestors".

At the beginning of Shuwen, it is to blow a wave of "since ancient times". It is said that my Celestial Empire has been a vast country since ancient times, "the east is gradually in the sea, the west is in the quicksand, Shuonan is, and the sound is taught in the four seas."

And my Ming Dynasty is a vast land, a vast territory, "from North Korea in the east, Bao Annan in the south, and the desert in the north", and even the South China Sea's "thousands of miles of Changsha, thousands of miles of stone ponds", also into the territory, east and west 11,750 miles, north and south 10,904 miles, and "non-ordered officials, Hou Wei fetters, not among them." - This figure is actually accurate, but I am afraid that he is the only one in the Ming court who knows so accurately.

Of course, no fool will jump out and say that his data is wrong, after all, no one has measured it.

Then Gao pragmatic began to review the way in which various dynasties ruled such a vast territory from ancient times to the present, that is, the way information was disseminated. "Build beacons and set off wolf smoke; Riding horses and oxen, running on foot; renovate the roads, set up post stations", and so on, without repeating them.

Then lead to the theme, saying that in this variety, different forms of information transmission, the role played by the post station is particularly worthy of attention, he said in the text that "the post road, the context of the country, can not be stagnant", and said that "the postal life, such as the blood of the human body, can not be abolished in a day", it can be seen that it plays a pivotal role in the issuance of government decrees. Finally, it is pointed out that all the dynasties of China have built post roads extending in all directions with Beijing as the center, and set up a large number of post stations with complete functions on them, and there are post guards in order to effectively transmit political, economic, military and other information.

Shuwen then began to talk about this dynasty, saying that since Taizu's "mixed district apartment", in order to consolidate his rule, the post station was the most urgent thing for the military aircraft. Since the day he ascended the throne, he has controlled water, opened mountains, built roads, built bridges, prepared horses, set up vehicles and ships, and "placed water and horses everywhere".

Horse post refers to a land post, "using horses, donkeys, carts, and men" for mail, rushing to important places "or set up eighty, sixty, thirty horses", "the rest of the non-important, also on the road, or set up thirty, ten, five horses";

The water post is based on boats, "passing through the main road, or setting up 20, 15, or 10 boats", and the rest of the branches are deviating, "also setting up 7 boats, 5". It can be seen that according to the location of the post road, the number of pedestrians, the number of water, horses, cars, boats, boats, and horses in the post road varies. The post guards are generally "ten people on the road, five or four people on the remote road".

Then it was explained that the postal agencies of this dynasty, in addition to the post stations, also have delivery offices and express delivery shops, but compared with the latter two, the post stations are not only all over the abdomen, but also widely distributed in Liaodong, Gansu, Duogan, Wusizang, Songfan, Sichuan, Yunnan-Guizhou, Guangdong and other remote areas. By the 28th year of Jiajing, there were as many as 1,295 water and horse posts of various types across the country.

Obviously, Daming Post Station "spreads one after another", all over the country, can be described as the main artery of waterway transportation and information dissemination, and it is precisely because of the ubiquitous post station that it has created a national transportation network.

The post station is full-time "delivering messengers, flying military affairs, and transporting military supplies", which is busy with affairs, has a wide range of uses, and has the heaviest load, so it bears a great responsibility and plays a huge role in communicating with various places in politics, economy, culture, and military affairs. Therefore, the post station naturally became the main channel for the dissemination of official information in the Ming Dynasty.

After talking about the importance of the post station and the great importance that Taizu attaches to the post station, Gao pragmatic turned his pen and began to talk about the current problems.

Gao pragmatic said in the article: "The laws of the Taizu post station are all appropriate, but the time has passed, and the hundred systems have been abolished." ”

Then he began to enumerate: for example, the post road of the present dynasty, the distance between the stations is generally sixty to eighty miles apart, which is the distance that the post man travels in one day, so as to ensure a quick round trip, and not to lead to overwork and "the horse collapses".

In addition, because most of the documents transmitted by the post station are related to national security, the post guards work under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War, and the post pass management regulations are also correspondingly included in the relevant criminal law volume of the "Da Ming Law" to show the importance of the post station and the particularity of the post guard work.

Although the law of the law is very severe on the courier for delaying the day, the courier can waive or reduce the penalty if the trip is delayed due to a flood or an incorrect address. At the same time, the law strictly prohibits officials from abusing the post station, scolding and whipping the post man. On the other hand, if the post guard uses the post station for personal gain, he will be punished twice.

These systems are not only strict, but also fully take into account rationality and feasibility, and are very appropriate. However, according to Gao Pragmatism, "I returned to my hometown a few times ago, passed through dozens of stations, went deep into the post station, and asked all the officials to know that his situation was wrong. ”

Gao Pragmatic not only gave examples of the post stations he passed by, how many post stations were in disrepair, how many post stations were insufficient, and how many post men were short, but also pointed out that many post guards used the public for personal gain, and some court officials (in fact, the vast majority, Gao Pragmatism did not dare to say) used and used post stations indiscriminately, and the private use of post stations was repeatedly prohibited, making the post stations overloaded and in a semi-paralyzed state. This in turn led to the inability of the political and military situation to be transmitted in a timely manner, and the administration of the imperial court fell into a vicious circle.

"If the post road is passed, the country will be strong; If the post road is stagnant, the country will be weak", so Gao Pragmatic shouted in the sparse text, the disorder, disorder, and decay of the post system are seriously contrary to the original intention of Taizu's ancestral teachings!