Chapter Ninety-Seven: Water Station, Road Station
In addition to building cities, building roads, and contracting some private work, the Ministry of Industry also set up post stations in the territory of the Chinese Empire according to the arrangements of Gaoyang Yajun and the prime minister.
The post station is a place in ancient China to provide people who transmit official documents and military information, or to and from officials to and from the place where they can eat and lodge, and change horses.
The post station has an extraordinary position and role in the ancient transportation of China, and in the case that the ancient means of communication are still very primitive, the post station is responsible for the information transmission tasks of various political, economic, cultural, military and other aspects of the imperial court.
Therefore, the post station is very important for a huge empire, in the past, when the Chinese Empire only had the land of Wanzhou, there was no need for a post station, but now the Chinese Empire has sat on most of the territory of Eastern Europe, at this time it is very important to set up a post station to maintain the rule of the country.
The post station of the Chinese Empire was established in accordance with the post station system of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, and the post station of Huaxia was divided into three parts: post, station and shop. The post station is the transportation organization for the government to receive guests and arrange government materials. The station is an organization that transmits important documents and military information, and is dedicated to the military system. The local, state and county governments are responsible for the delivery of official documents and letters.
Huaxia's post stations are not limited by administrative divisions, but are based on traffic conditions. It is used to deliver official documents. All official documents exchanged between states and counties are transmitted by shop. Meijing's shops are all over the country.
The post station of the Chinese Empire is divided into two kinds, namely the water post and the road post, the road post is generally built near the national highway, the post station building is like a miniature city, and the flag of a certain post in China is inserted around the city wall. The distance between the post stations is generally about 120 li, and the management is very tight, which is of a military nature.
The water post is a post station with the boat as the main means of transportation, and the means of transmission of the water post is the "horse boat".
In fact, the purpose and function of the water post are similar to those of the road post, which are to disseminate government decrees, communicate with each other, consolidate the country, and promote the development of commerce and trade and improve people's lives. The most important thing was to strengthen the ties between the central and local governments of the Chinese Empire and promote cultural exchanges between the people of various states and counties.
The post stations of the Chinese Empire were under the jurisdiction of the imperial court Zhongshu Province. The post house was supplied with food, lodging, carriages and horses for passing officials according to the standards set by the imperial court.
In fact, in this period, the post station was only called "post" alone, because Gaoyang Yajun got the post station system of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, so the "post" was officially named "post station" by Gaoyang Yajun.
The post stations of the Chinese Empire were equipped with post orders, post officers, and post captains. The post order is the head of the post station, and the post commander and the post lieutenant are respectively in charge of the civil and military affairs of the post station.
The post stations of the Chinese Empire were well-organized, hierarchical, and complete in formalities. Gaoyang Yajun and the imperial government relied on these post stations to maintain the central government's information collection for the local government, and the issuance and feedback of local instructions, so as to achieve the realization of Gaoyang Yajun's rule over the whole country and control of various prefectures and counties.
Due to the constraints of the conditions of this era, the level of scientific and technological development is very limited, so the speed of the post station is still incomparable with the number of Gaoyang Yajun's previous life in Huaxia, but in terms of the rigor of the organization of the Huaxia Imperial Post Station, the coverage rate of the Huaxia Imperial Post Station Transportation Information System is no less than that of Gaoyang Yajun's previous life.
It can be said that the achievements of the current Chinese Empire and the Tang Dynasty post station are also part of the foundation of modern Chinese civilization in Gaoyang Yajun's previous life.
Therefore, when Gao Yang Yajun announced to the civil and military officials of the imperial court that he would set up a post station, no one stood up to oppose it.
The officials in the court understood how important the post station was for the state to control the locality, and it was precisely because of the establishment of the post station of the Chinese Empire that the imperial court reform and customs decree was quickly transmitted to Luzhou and Luozhou.
In the apse of the temporary palace, a new week of pilgrimage has begun.
Gao Yang Yajun walked into the apse with his hands behind his back, walked straight to the dragon chair and sat down, and asked without raising his head:
"Ministry of Works, how is the construction of the post station of the Chinese Empire now?"
Li Shanglong, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, had bloodshot eyes, and he could be said to be unkempt today. Li Shanglong stood up and arched his hand and said:
"Tell Your Majesty, now the post station of my Chinese Empire in Wanzhou has been completely paved! Of the two prefectures of Luozhou and Luzhou, only a few counties in the west close to Wanzhou were the first to establish post stations, while the central and eastern parts are still under construction. ”
Gao Yang Yajun saw that Li Shanglong, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, seemed to have lost several kilograms, and there were two large dark circles around his eyes, and his originally black and thick hair also had a trace of white hair. Gao Yang Yajun raised his hand and pointed to the seat and said:
"Li Aiqing, although there are many affairs in the Huaxia Empire at present, you must also pay attention to rest! You can just sit and talk, you don't have to stand up. ”
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Li Shanglong was also not polite, since Gao Yang Yajun said it, then he also sat down.
After all, in the past two years, civil engineering has been built all over the country, and Li Shanglong has been busy, and his hair is almost gray.
"You too, just sit in your seat and say something later, you don't have to stand up. In the last two years, I've been busy, and you've been even busier. Gao Yang Yajun thoughtfully explained.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" The ministers sat down in their seats and bowed their hands.
Indeed, as Gao Yang Yajun said, in the past two years, all kinds of affairs in the imperial court need to be handled by them personally, and they have to deal with things quickly when they have something during the day, and then when they rest, they have to go to school to teach.
Therefore, none of them have much spirit, including Gao Yang Yajun.
If you want to ask them, who is the easiest person in the past year or two? Then they will definitely say that they are students, how good students are, just need to go to school.
Except for the students, no one in the Chinese Empire was relaxed, and even the prisoners in the prison were released to participate in the labor construction of the Chinese Empire.
Gao Yang Yajun called this kind of behavior labor reform, referred to as "labor reform".
Labor reform has indeed had an effect, and some prisoners have gradually found themselves and found the meaning of their existence in the work of building the country.
Gao Yang Yajun is still relatively merciful, and she did not make some obvious signs of these prisoners who were reformed through labor, saying that they were prisoners.
Therefore, when these prisoners followed the Ministry of Industry to the north and south, they would often receive eggs or steamed buns from the common people to treat them.
It is precisely because of this that they can regain their value as human beings.
At present, a quarter of the people in the Ministry of Industry are prisoners who have regained the meaning of their existence through labor reform.
The prisoners who joined the Ministry of Industry reformed themselves and became new people, following the Ministry of Industry to build roads, post stations and cities.
Li Xueru, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, also looked tired, he shook his head and sighed:
"Alas, some students often complain, but how can they know that we adults are more miserable than their students."