Chapter 156: Post Road Innovation
Wang Yangxi left, but he heard Qian Bangxin say that he was very unhappy, according to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, officials can eat and drink for nothing along the way.
Along the way, not only can you use the post coaches, horses, and houses along the way for free, but also have to pay filial piety to the locality.
The great tourist Xu Xiake once relied on such an official document to levy labor along the way, not only to let him carry a sedan chair for himself, but also to provide him with food.
In times of peace and prosperity, when an official such as the governor came to a certain county, the county would raise thousands of taels of silver as a ritual.
When Hai Rui was the magistrate of the county, the son of Hu Zongxian, the governor of Nanzhili, passed by and was hanged and beaten without giving the Yiyi envoy.
This time is good, when Wang Yangxi and the others left Shunqing Mansion, Yang Lin just arranged for people to live in the post stations along the way, and after the end, they settled the bill in a unified manner, without sending any rituals.
This can make Qian Bangxin, Fan Wenguang and others frightened, and they vigorously explained that now all counties have twice the amount of honest silver, and the etiquette is completely canceled in the jurisdiction.
At present, each county has set up a corresponding post office to manage the post stations and their property under their jurisdiction.
In order to prevent the expansion of local separatist forces, the rulers of successive dynasties established an ancient highway network to ensure the normal operation of these highway networks, and established post stations in the major states and counties through which they passed, just like the modern local transportation bureaus, to manage the local roads.
Since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the restoration of post stations in various places 22 days after being called emperor, and re-established the national transportation network, and the post road in China in the Ming Dynasty was more than 100,000 kilometers long, which was longer than the contemporary high-speed railway.
The Ming Dynasty has two capitals and thirteen provinces, just like the previous life with Beijing as the center to establish a highway network, railway network, and aviation network in all directions, and the Ming Dynasty has established a number of highways with Beijing and Nanjing as the center.
The Ming Dynasty took Beijing as the center, and built such eight expressways, one of which was related to Sichuan, which was through the north of Baoding Mansion (now Baoding City, Hebei), Zhending Mansion (now Zhengding County, Hebei), Shunde Mansion (now Xingtai City, Hebei), Henan Zhangde Mansion (now Anyang City, Henan), Weihui Mansion (now Ji County, Hebei), Huaiqing Mansion (now Qinyang County, Henan), Henan Fu (now Luoyang City, Henan), Shaanzhou (now Sanmenxia City, Henan), Shaanxi Huazhou (now Huaxian County, Shaanxi), Xi'an Jingzhaoyi ( present-day southeast of Xi'an City, Shaanxi), Qizhouyi of Fengxiang Prefecture (in Qishan County, Shaanxi), Chencangyi of Baoji County (in Baoji County, Shaanxi), Shunzhengyi of Chuxian County (present-day Xilaocheng, Mianxian County, Shaanxi), Wenjinyi of Guangyuan County, Sichuan (in Guangyuan County), Jinpingyi of Baoning Prefecture (in the east of present-day Langzhong County, Sichuan), Huanghuayi of Tongchuan Prefecture (in present-day Santai County, Sichuan), and Jinguanyi (in present-day CD City).
There are not only these national highways, but also provincial highways, in the Ming Dynasty Sichuan there are such six highways, five of which are centered on CD, respectively, to A. land to Songpanwei (now Songpan County, Sichuan);
B. The waterway passes through Meizhou (now Meishan County, Sichuan), Jiading Prefecture (now Leshan County, Sichuan), Xuzhou Mansion (now Yibin City, Sichuan), Mahu Mansion (now Pingshan County, Sichuan), Luzhou (now Luzhou City, Sichuan), Chongqing Mansion (now Chongqing City, Sichuan), Kuizhou Mansion (now Fengjie County, Sichuan), and connects to Huguangyi Road;
C. Overland to Long'an Mansion (now Pingwu County, Sichuan), north to Wenxian County, Shaanxi;
D. Overland to Huichuanwei (now Huili County, Sichuan);
E. Land to Chongqing Province.
In addition, there is also a post road between Chongqing Prefecture and Tongchuan Prefecture (now Santai County).
In the plains, many dirt roads have been changed to stone roads, and in the remote provinces of Boryeong and Thuan Khanh, "salty slate land".
There is the information of the Qing Dynasty post in Mo County, Shandong, and the county has a general delivery division, 4 Northeast Road Shops, 5 West Road Shops, 7 Northwest Road Shops, and 71 soldiers.
After the reduction in the Tongzhi years, there were 29 soldiers in the county, with an annual labor and food silver of 158 taels and 4 yuan and 8 cents, 2.7 Lijia horsemen, 34 taels of labor and food silver, 6 white husbands, and 47 taels of food and silver and 5 cents and 3 cents and 3 cents.
Although the imperial court abolished some post stations in the early years of Chongzhen, the ancient post stations were just like the modern railway stations and bus stations, but just like the Moxian post stations of the Qing Dynasty were reduced during the Tongzhi period, they were only reduced by the soldiers.
Just as in modern times, each county has a post office and a telecommunications office, and although Thuan Gyeong Province is not on the national highway or provincial highway, there are post stations in each county, which are run by post offices.
In the past, the yamen allocated hundreds of taels of silver to support these post men and soldiers, and in the past, officials passed through Shizhi County and did three escorts (Hai Rui once said this) and sent Cheng Yi.
When Yang Lin saw it, of course, he found out that the reason was that the county post stations were restructured three months ago.
In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang set up a delivery station, and the main functions of the post station included three functions: the arrival of officials, the rapid delivery of official letters, and the transportation of official materials.
The reduction of officials ushered in the delivery function, and all officials could not use the post station for free (the increase in Yulu was counted in Yulu).
The rapid delivery of official letters and the transportation of official materials continue to be guaranteed, but they are converted into a certain amount of money and grain according to a certain standard, and they are converted every month.
Most of the buildings belonging to the post station were converted into hotels for merchants to live in, and anyone who stayed in them needed to pay the corresponding rent.
The business of the Civil Credit Bureau has been developed since the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, due to the development of the commodity economy, many large businessmen needed a kind of business contact, and more importantly, the distribution of goods and the exchange of funds needed to be undertaken by a kind of joint venture.
Carry out the function of mailing letters, such as mailing letters, 1 point in the county, 2 points in other counties, and 3 points in other prefectures
Dart business, transportation of goods in the jurisdiction
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A simple change, in the past, each county had to pay more than 100 taels of silver to the soldiers, but now, each county can collect hundreds of taels of silver in taxes and hundreds of taels of silver in profits from the post stations under its jurisdiction.
After Wang Yangxi and others left, Yang Lin began to think about the future development direction.
Influenced by Lao Mao's protracted war, or the experience of his previous life, any incident mostly goes through the stage of defense, stalemate, and strategic counterattack.
The defeat of Zhang Dingguo's Onishi Army announced that the Volunteers had temporarily gained a foothold in northern Sichuan, and what they had to do now was to accumulate strength to meet the more fierce attack of the Onishi regime, or the future strategic counteroffensive.
Taking advantage of the opportunity of being promoted to participate in politics and deputy general in northern Sichuan, Yang Lin convened the general assistant of all prefectures and counties and battalions under his jurisdiction, and everyone held a meeting to negotiate.
Although everyone knows that this deputy general who participated in politics spent 8,000 loads of food, the victory on the battlefield was real, and in addition, everyone understood the truth that the rising tide lifted all boats, and they had not yet sat down to congratulate them.
But after everyone sat down, one by one is not like this, unlike other places, most of the parents and officials of the local states and counties are friends in previous years, or former classmates, the Ming Dynasty is not like the Barbarian Qing Dynasty, as a friend one by one put forward their own melancholy.
As the implementers of specific policies, although everyone understands the benefits of the new policy, the Ming scholars have the leading power of public opinion, and everyone is tempted to talk about the examples of their ancestors.
Since ancient times, the imperial court has implemented the co-governance of the officials and gentry, established the township office, and directly expropriated the business taxes by the appointed officials, which damaged the rights and interests of many local officials and gentry, and the officials and gentry whose interests were damaged and some Sven scum took the ancestral examples to talk about things, thinking that it violated the laws of the Ming Dynasty and that it was incompatible with the law.
Sichuan Xie Yuan and Zou Jianchen of Nanchong Zhixian County said that they were depressed, and some of the readers were currently in tandem, and some even threatened that if they did not change their ways, everyone would make trouble in the Confucius Festival and not allow Yang Lin to enter. (Just as Taiwan still retains the traditional ritual of sacrificing holes, in ancient times, the ritual of sacrificing holes can be said to be a grand meeting of scholars.) )
As Zhao Sixuan summed it up, the naggers nag for a day are nothing more than the following:
The establishment of a township office is inconsistent with the law of the Ming Dynasty.
The government's direct collection of commercial taxes is inconsistent with the Ming law.
The levy of salt and mineral income is inconsistent with the law of the Ming Dynasty.
The government claimed that the three salaries would be exempted, but the grain collected after the re-liquidation was much less than the additional three salaries in previous years.
It was claimed that the three salaries were exempted, but the levyed commercial and customs taxes were equal to 30% of the field endowments.
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Some shook their heads again and again, and some loudly expressed their dissatisfaction, how can these people be so shameless, and the common people are waiting to be fed, do they still have to levy three salaries as in the past, and forcibly apportionment them as in the past?
Yang Lin was quite annoyed, his brows tightened, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he explained with a laugh: "Everyone, there are those who are not conducive to the people of Li, and there are those who are not conducive to local autonomy, not to mention these talents who are full of poetry and books, even those women in the countryside and mountains also know a thing or two.
Now that everyone knows, why are these scholars actually being clamored to attack the New Deal? ”
Everyone was puzzled, could it be that these readers did it intentionally and used the topic to play one by one?
Yang Lin touched his chin and continued to explain that since ancient times, the biggest ideal of a scholar is nothing more than the title of the gold list.
But now that the world is in turmoil, the emperor is covered with dust, and the local officials of the imperial court no longer have the energy to preside over the imperial examination, these scholars can't bear the loneliness, and some are even bribed, so they are generous in society and attack the new policy.
Everyone suddenly realized that Qian Bangxin, Zhao Sixuan and others held county and government exams in various places, and they must not break the thoughts of these readers.
However, Yang Lin has long advocated the gradual abolition of private school education and the establishment of school education in various places.
As a traversal clan, of course, he knows the importance of school education and civilian education, and in the face of the private schools all over the city, and in the face of the family private schools all over the countryside, Yang Lin began to compile teaching materials when he entered the city of Shunqing, and began to prepare for the establishment of a public school.
Now some scholars are making trouble for no reason, and the plan is only to select teachers in advance, pass the government examination, and become the first batch of public school teachers after layer by layer training.