Although Li You didn't believe it at first, he saw that Jin Million was very sure, so he asked for advice. Jin Million asked rhetorically: "Dare to ask the virtuous son-in-law who is at a loss for this matter, what is the crux of the matter?" ”

Li You replied without hesitation: "First, the number is too large, and tens of thousands of copies need to be sent every other day; Second, the cost of hiring manpower is too high, and it cannot be used in any case. ”

Jin Million analyzed: "Not to mention the number of copies, just from the perspective of transportation, 10,000 newspapers is not very large, and it is only two feet high when stacked, as long as the corner of the carriage is enough to load." In fact, what the virtuous son-in-law wants to say is that there is too much accumulation, and the frequency of newspapers every other day is too high, and it is impossible to use manpower to send them to other places at any time. ”

Li You agreed: "That's exactly the reason. ”

"It's easy to solve, why send it every other day, it's too manpower-intensive. In fact, you can accumulate your official report and send it to other places once a month. Once a month, it is easier and more labor-saving than once a period. ”

Li You couldn't help but pat his forehead if he realized, and he fell into a traverser's thinking mistake!

In this era, it is normal for newspapers from other places to be delivered after two or three months, but I am thinking about how to deliver the newspapers as quickly as possible, and I also think that every issue of the newspaper will be sent to the other places immediately, which is completely unnecessary and very redundant and efficient.

As Jin Million said, it is enough to save a month of newspapers and send them to other places! This efficiency is completely within the acceptable range of people, and it is too advanced for oneself to consider.

Assuming that a newspaper is a horse-drawn cart, and a month-long newspaper is also a horse-drawn cart, if the time is not urgent, then why bother to dispatch once per issue and spend countless manpower and animal power?

When I was thinking about the problem myself, I made a mistake in operations research, which was corrected by Jin Million.

After Li You figured it out, he urged eagerly: "Old Taishan woke up the person in the dream with a word, please continue." ”

Jin Million smiled and said: "For the second question, with the meaning of the virtuous son-in-law, if the post station does not work, it will be difficult to find the manpower that can send official reports to various places regularly and steadily?" ”

Li You is really helpless about this, "This is the biggest difficulty, will the old Taishan plan be released?" ”

If you simply send something to a certain place, you can always find someone to do it. However, whether the official newspaper is sent once a month or every month, it is sent to all parts of the country on a regular basis, and the difficulty is thousands of times greater.

In other words, there are not so many people who do nothing else and are engaged in the business of transporting official newspapers to thousands of yamen across the country according to the time when the official newspaper is issued, and Li You cannot afford it.

Jin Million didn't sell Guan Zi again, "The solution to this problem will fall on the guild hall in Jingshi!" There are people from all over the city in Beijing, and there are also local guild halls, such as Huguang, and there is more than one guild hall in a large province such as Huguang. As long as you give the newspaper to the association and ask them to deliver it to their respective provinces once a month, it is not a big problem. ”

"Why?" Li You didn't understand the doorway for a while.

Jin Million explained: "There are many people who come to Beijing to do business or move around, and there are also businessmen who say goodbye to Beijing and return to their hometowns, so let these businessmen bring the official report with them when they go back." You don't have to worry about running out of manpower, there are always people returning to their hometowns in various provinces

This month, A will go back, and next month, B will go back, and he can take the official report back by the way.

There is no one who knows the most about the business contacts in the province than the provincial capitals. So all you have to do is talk to the association, drop the newspaper in the association, and then the association will see who is returning to their hometown this month, pick out the right person from among them, and entrust him to carry it. ”…,

Jin Million was afraid that Li You didn't understand, and further explained: "There are so many prefectures and counties in the world, how can you send them directly?" Just like we plan to transport salt, it is impossible to sell salt directly to the counties, so the solution is to divide the salt area, and we are only responsible for transporting it to this area. The official newspaper could have emulated this law and simply sent to the provincial capitals.

For example, if the official newspaper of Henan distributed 1,000 copies, then only 1,000 copies of the newspaper were sent to the governor's yamen in Kaifeng City on a monthly basis. Subsequently, there were often officials in various provinces in Henan who went to the governor's yamen to run errands, and they could take the newspapers of their own houses with them on the way back. The official newspapers received in the lower counties can also be handled in this mode, but they are only brought back from the government office. ”

This idea sounds very feasible, and seeing that the problem is in sight, Li You can't help but be overjoyed: "This idea is good, Lao Taishan is worthy of being a veteran in the business world, and he can actually come up with such a method!" Do you think the clan and the merchants are willing to do this? ”

"Of course they do!" Jin Million must have arrived: "You can pay the transporter a certain amount of remuneration to the merchant who returns to his hometown, and if you have this little profit, you will not earn it in vain, and give him a few dozen taels for each batch, and someone will definitely be willing to do it." Secondly, the transport officer reported to the capital and was received by the governor yamen of the province, which was also a good opportunity to make friends with the governor's yamen, who would refuse a businessman with a little vision? Third, this matter is effortless, the guild is just a series of intermediaries, so why not serve the imperial court? ”

"Wonderful!" Li You praised that now he can finally let go of the biggest troubles of the past few days. If the official newspaper can be smoothly distributed to all yamen in the world, then it can justifiably let the household department collect the subscription money in the form of additional taxes and silver in various places, and completely get rid of the hat of running out of the national treasury.

I really didn't expect that Jin Million's words would open a door for him, a traverser who should have been surprisingly innovative.

Needless to say, there are people entering Beijing all the time, and there are people leaving Beijing to return to their hometowns all the time, and there are a large number of personnel exchanges with each province, and what is lacking is only organization and scheduling.

In the terminology of Li You's previous life, it is the field of operations research. If the guild hall can be used as the hub to do a good job of scheduling, and the other end only involves the provincial garbage area, the business opportunities are promising, and it is completely different from the transportation mode of the post station.

Thinking of this, Li You forcibly pressed down on his mind to let go, and secretly said that he couldn't chew too much, so he didn't want to be distracted at the moment, and it was better to do the official newspaper distribution first. However, if there is an opportunity in the future, I can explore the path in this area.

Weng's son-in-law talked happily, and simply chatted about a few words about the silver number, but saw that Aunt Jin sent someone to pass the word, and a banquet had been prepared in the side hall. So Li You invited Jin Million to the table, and Aunt Jin accompanied him and had a small reunion dinner.

Jin Million visited Li You today, and Gao Changjiang, who entered Beijing with Jin Million, went to visit his close friend, Lord Deng, the right attendant of the military department.

During the chat, he couldn't help but mention the encounter with the Chongwenmen tax customs yesterday, and Deng Shilang saw that Gao Changjiang seemed to be unhappy, so he persuaded in turn: "The virtuous brother doesn't know the situation of the Jingshi, and he doesn't know the affairs of the Chongwenmen tax department. First, the Chongwenmen tax silver is directly sent to the treasury of the Great Inner Heaven, which belongs to His Majesty, who can easily exempt it?

Second, the people who are on errand in the Chongwenmen Tax Division are all relatives of Jingshi Xun, and they have their own dependence, and they have always been very arrogant.

Third, although I am a third-grade person, I am in the military department, not the household department, and I can't control the Chongwenmen tax customs from anywhere. Therefore, it is normal that you carry me out on the spot, and for my brother, I can at most help you go to the household department afterwards to talk about the items and recover some fines and confiscations. ”

After listening to Deng Shilang's answer, Gao Changjiang said: "If according to what my brother said, the tax division envoy at that time heard the name of Li Xujiang, and immediately let us go, and never mentioned the matter of even sitting on the fine and confiscation, what is the reason?" ”

Deng Shilang smiled bitterly: "You asked well, Li Huoren is a special one." ”

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