Chapter 312: Xinglong Post Office
"Can mung beans still be used as sprouts? Aren't bean sprouts made in this season? Wu Shun obviously doesn't know much about this, in fact, Li Hao thinks that mung beans taste better than soybeans when made into bean sprouts, anyway, he doesn't eat soybean sprouts much. Moreover, in later generations, their families made their own bean sprouts, and they also used mung beans.
"Absolutely! You can make bean sprouts in any season, as long as the temperature and humidity are enough. Li Hao said with a smile after hearing this, he was just doing it for fun. Then I took a few of my children to play together, and now a few little ones can walk on their own, often following Li Hao's side.
Unlike other families, Li Hao is not so strict with children's education, and he does not start to let his children learn anything at this time. He usually takes the children to play, and then he will tell his children about some things when he comes across them.
This kind of education model is the same as what Li Hao taught his children in later generations, and now it is brought to Datang, and then popularized for his own children. With the conditions of the Li Mansion, these children of Li Hao will not have to do anything in the future and will be able to have no worries about food and clothing, and they don't need to worry about anything at all.
"Dad, will we go catch fish when we're done with the sprouts? There are a lot of fish in the pond over there! "The title of dad is not at this time, this is Li Hao let his child call it like this, there is no special meaning, I just feel that I am more used to it.
After staying on the side of the village for a while, Li Hao still returned to Chang'an City from the field when the academy started. At this time, Li Hao remembered the manufacturing process of phosphate fertilizer and some chemical fertilizers in later generations, and hesitated whether he should push these out and hand them over to the Tang Royal Academy, and let them organize students or study this by themselves.
If these things can be sorted out and the cultivated land obtained from the battles everywhere can be added, then there should not be a shortage of food in Datang in the future. After thinking about it carefully, I still sorted it out, although some things cannot be mass-produced without mature conditions, but it is still possible to give them a research direction.
After waiting for a few days, Li Hao sorted out all the inventory in his head, and then solemnly handed over this booklet to his printing house, printed some well, and then sent it to the Tang Royal Academy, and at the same time paid attention to keeping it secret to prevent leakage from those foreign spies with bad intentions, and it would be tragic to learn these techniques for them at that time.
Because of Li Hao, the current Tang court and the Tang people have a relatively strict control over these things. Except for those things of Confucianism and Taoism that can be passed on, other technologies are not in the outside world, including the art of war.
After Li Hao just handed these over to the printing hall, someone in the house reported that Hongmen had something to report, and Li Hao knew that it should be Brother Dao who had something to find him. I've been back here for a while, and now Li Hao will also go to find out about the things on the Hongmen side.
An organization that was unintentionally created at the beginning has now become the largest organization in Datang, with members all over Datang. Li Hao happened to have something to talk to him about, so he took a few guards to the Datang Nightclub to meet Brother Dao, which was the meeting place they had agreed.
Brother Dao has lived a very nourishing life since he became the master of Hongmen, but he has always taken care of Hongmen carefully with awe of Li Hao. With the help of Li Hao's people from the past, Hongmen now has more than 100,000 people, distributed in all the cities of the Tang Dynasty, from south to north, from east to west, there are his disciples everywhere.
And it has its own industry, not an ordinary underworld organization. To tell the truth, Li Hao himself put Hongmen out at the beginning, but he didn't expect it to develop into the scale it is now, this is already a behemoth. If this organization is exploited by those with good intentions, it will be a terrifying force.
Hongmen now has two industries, one is Xinglong Che Ma Xing, the other is Xinglong Dart Bureau, Xinglong Dart Bureau and Che Ma Fu are both external businesses. These two industries have also attracted Li Er's attention, if Li Hao didn't know it in time, find someone to let it pass, it is estimated that these two industries will be difficult to preserve.
The dart game is better, the main thing is the carriage and horse shop, Li Er is also a person with vision, he wants to make this an official office. It's just that he was persuaded by Li Hao to find a relationship, this is not because Li Hao is selfish, the main thing is that it is completely an emerging industry, if you don't try to verify its maturity, you will be afraid that it will become a matter of labor and money.
If you give it to the merchant to try it out first, the loss or anything is the loss of the merchant himself, and it can also allow the latecomers to absorb experience and continue to do it. In addition, it is also because of the influence of some things in later generations, commercial offices are cheaper than government offices to make money.
"My lord, what is this post office?" After meeting with Brother Dao, Li Hao gave him a new plan. Brother Dao is also a literate person now, and asked a little puzzled after reading the things on the plan.
"This is similar to the consignment of your carriage and horse shop, and those who need to bring letters or things to distant places in the future can take this passage, and your carriage and horse shop can just sort and bring mail from each place to the past, and then distribute it."
Li Hao asked Hongmen to reorganize the post office, which was still based on the Xinglong Dart Bureau and the carriage and horse shop. Not everyone is escorted by a dart board, and not everything needs a dart board and a carriage and horse shop.
The Xinglong Post Office is built in all cities of Datang with its own helpers, and then has its own fleet of vehicles, as well as its own dart bureaus and cement roads that are now being built in various places. Then some small items or letters need to be sent to distant relatives can be completely handed over to the Xinglong Post Office to handle, after the letter is delivered to the recipient, the post office will also take back a receipt from the recipient to the sender for verification, in order to prove that the number of letters is correct.
roughly told Brother Dao about the content, and Li Hao's students would also take Hongmen to arrange specific things, so Li Hao didn't need to bother. In fact, Li Hao doesn't know much about the post office, so he can only grope around.
Soon after the opening of the Xinglong Post Office, it was loved by merchants and wanderers who were on the go, and they did not have to wait until they met fellow villagers or people passing by in other places to bring news and things to their homes.
They just need to go to a certain place, find the local Xinglong post office, and explain the things to be mailed and the addressee of the mailing address to pay a certain fee. And the efficiency of this post office is much faster and more convenient than the previous ones, and if there is an accident or something on the way, you can get the news in time.
As for the distribution of the Southern Weekly, as well as some industries such as printing and other businesses in the Li Mansion, Li Hao simply asked Wu Shun to hand them over to the Xinglong Post Office to send them to various channels, and the booksellers in various places only need to pay the money in one lump sum, and each issue of the newspaper can arrive, although it is slightly delayed, so as to save the merchants from going back and forth.
Similarly, Li Hao's suppliers from other industries around the country are also taking this channel, of course, these are also based on the integrity and mutual trust of businessmen and everyone in this era, otherwise who would dare to do this?
The staff of Xinglong Post Office are their own gangsters, and everyone knows the details very clearly, and most of the money is transported separately, but even this is still risky, and these can only rely on the person's own morality.
The operation of the Xinglong Post Office was modeled after the structure of the courier companies and post offices of later generations, and the establishment of this post office took Li Hao a lot of thought, for which he even sent two disciples and a few bookkeepers to assist Hongmen in managing them.
Of course, the task of these two disciples is definitely not only to assist in the management of these. They also have to analyze the operation of the postal system, make statistics, check and fill in the gaps, and at the same time institutionalize the operation of the post office and organize these into files.
Another thing that is being done at the same time is the preparation for the establishment of the bank, which is also a big job, and according to the experience gained by the Southern Development Bank, the banks in the north are now much more proficient.
Li Hao has done a lot of work in the promotion of Arabic numerals, the application of abacus and the establishment of financial majors, and the development experience of the Southern Development Bank for several years, and has also cultivated some qualified talents.
This matter was originally intended for Xiao Wu to do, and Xiao Wu had also done a lot of work to prepare for the establishment of the bank before. It's just that I didn't expect such a thing to happen, so I put it off until now. And Li Hao was in Chang'an at this time, just enough to organize this matter.
Li Hao is not going to do this thing alone, but like the Southern Development Bank, it is composed of the magnates of Chang'an and some businessmen. The use of the Southern Development Bank is slightly different from that of the Southern Development Bank, and it is roughly the same as that of the North. However, the banknotes of the two banks will be common and registered with each other.
Li Hao still handed over the specific things to his students at the Southern Development Bank, who after several years of study and work experience, they also have deep experience in dealing with some of the original loopholes and other things.
After putting up the shelves of the bank, the news of Li Er's victory in the eastern expedition had already come at this time. The entire Chang'an City was boiling, and when Comrade Lao Yang conquered Goguryeo three times, he not only lost money and labor, but also caused many soldiers to die there.
Moreover, the Goguryeo people also built a Jingguan on the Liaodong side, and it is said that Li Er was furious when he saw this thing, and asked the accompanying soldiers to put away all the bodies of those people, and then cremated them together and brought them over.
This also made Li Er's disgust and hatred for Goguryeo deeper, and the three-way army attacked Goguryeo at the same time, all the way, invincible. Finally, he stopped in front of a big city, and under this city, Li Er led his army to fight a beautiful battle again.