In addition to the rapid development of the textile industry in the eight years of the Apocalypse, there is another industry that is developing rapidly, that is, the newspaper industry. Infrastructure investment in the newspaper industry is rapidly spreading across provinces, states and counties.

Telegraph lines were opened one after another, and the speed was faster than the 800-mile expedited at the post station.

These telegrams greatly increased the number of government affairs reports received by the imperial court every day, and Zhu Youxiao had to set up a new information processing system and set up a special communication department.

After these telegrams were sent to the capital, they were sorted and sorted by the Ministry of Communications, and then sent to various departments for processing. At present, in addition to the six ministries, the Supreme Command, the Coordination Department, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Forestry, the Ministry of Fisheries, the Ministry of Communications, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs have been established.

The number of departments is increasing, the division of labor is becoming more and more detailed, and each department follows a set line of governance, and flexibly handles the information reported by the local government.

Matters that are beyond the scope of authority and responsibility and do not have relevant policies are handed over to the cabinet, and then legislated with the emperor in those empty areas.

Today, the legislative power is in the hands of the cabinet, or the cabinet initiates legislation, which is finally approved by the emperor. After the promulgation of a new regulation, the following departments will be managed in accordance with the law.

As soon as the new policy was implemented, there were many things. Most of these officials in the imperial court are also people who do things, not as if everyone had nothing to do in the past.

With the laying of the telegram, the states and counties began to directly shoot telegrams to report the situation to the higher departments and the imperial court, and it only took a few minutes to receive the telegram, and if the road was far away, it was more than ten minutes.

At the same time, each department can also report directly to the higher departments of the central government. If you don't know who to send it to. Send it to the Ministry of Communications.

Telegram after telegram. The administrative convenience is immense.

In the past, when something happened in the local area, officials had to wait for several days to report to the imperial court, and when the information was sent back, it would take several days. Moreover, the 800-mile expedited delivery of people and horses on the way encounters bad weather, and it is easy to have problems.

Now that the telegram is sent, the capital will be able to give instructions on the same day. Especially in the event of an emergency.

If there is a popular uprising, rebellion, or something, the suppression force can go to suppress it on the same day. If you find bandits or something, you can quickly dispatch troops to encircle and suppress them.

In the event of a natural disaster, the imperial court can also provide relief immediately.

At the same time, after the advent of the telegraph, the post station did not have to spend so much manpower and material resources to transmit information urgently. Of course, the postman faced the problem of unemployment as a result.

Zhu Youxiao was still very concerned about the issue of the post station, and the cabinet came up with a post house placement measure early this morning.

"Your Majesty, you can transfer all post stations to state-owned enterprises, and allocate these resources through marketization. State-owned enterprises can operate postal services, passenger transportation, accommodation along the way, and so on. Shen Yan came up with the cabinet's plan. Let Zhu Youxiao look at it.

"That's a good plan, so let's do it!" Zhu Youxiao nodded in agreement. The current usefulness of the post station system to the Ming Dynasty began to decline. For example, after the advent of the telegraph, the post station lost this function, and the rest was the passenger transport system.

If the national passenger transport system is handed over to private capital, it is afraid that it will be messed up by private capital. The establishment of a state-owned transportation company just integrates these resources, not only transporting passengers, but also transporting letters and express delivery, so that the post station can become a logistics and passenger transport system.

In the future, once trains appear, the long-distance passenger transport system using horse-drawn carriages will gradually collapse, and only short-distance passenger transportation will have market space.

At present, this passenger transport system is needed.

With the economic development of the northern provinces, these post stations will become more and more lively, and it is indeed time to reorganize into state-owned enterprises to operate these resources.

After the post station was changed to a state-owned enterprise, it was first completely commercialized, and if the powerful wanted to eat and drink for nothing in the post station, there was no possibility, and it was impossible to blackmail the post man, and it was simply the rhythm of looking for death if they wanted to blackmail the head of the state-owned enterprise.

In addition, the price of passenger transportation can also be guaranteed, and it will not be ridiculously high.

"Your Majesty, according to the current speed of telegraph laying, the telegraph will be able to be laid to most provinces and regions of the Ming Dynasty in three years. The asset restructuring and integration of the post station can also be carried out according to the progress to avoid the restructuring speed being too fast, resulting in the failure of the government decree. The Minister of Communications said.

"Exactly." Zhu Youxiao nodded.

Three years later, the telegraph could be distributed throughout most of the Ming Dynasty. By the eighth year of the Apocalypse, the state-owned capital consortium had relied on the advantages of the telegraph to make a lot of huge profits in the market.

In this era, there is a difference in the price of goods from place to place.

With the telegraph, the state-owned capital consortium could know the market price as quickly as possible, and where the goods with lower prices were available, and then buy and ship the goods to the higher-priced areas as quickly as possible.

There is also some real-time information, which also contains business opportunities, and knowing this information in advance can make profits in the market.

This kind of speculation has been done in the past, but at that time it was using the post station system, and it was not so fast.

Now, with the advent of the telegraph and the continuous construction of the intelligence collection system of the state-owned capital consortium, the private capital has begun to lose ground in the transfer of goods, and it is difficult to compete with the businessmen of the state-owned capital consortium in the market.

Many large businessmen with private capital have become a thing of the past under the cruel market competition. However, the rise of small and medium-sized businessmen began to be large, and a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises that complemented the market began to bloom everywhere.

Especially for those areas with a relatively high degree of market digestion, although private capital is also developing rapidly, it is mostly dominated by small and medium-sized businessmen.

The state-owned capital consortium with the telegraph is almost like a hang-up.

Only the state-owned capital consortium that tasted the sweetness would draw up a plan to spread the telegraph to most of the Ming Dynasty within three years.

The cross-sea cable has already begun to be erected, and Taiwan, Nanyang, Indochina Peninsula, and Australia will successively erect submarine cables, so as to achieve the purpose of remote control of overseas colonial activities.

After these submarine cables are laid, even in very far away Australia, if there is any demand for goods, they can be notified immediately. At the same time, the production of goods in Australia can also be reported to the local area in a timely manner, which is of great significance to the current overseas trade of the Ming Dynasty.

Even at this time, Zhu Youxiao already felt that his control over the place had greatly increased, and what was going on below, as long as it was not concealed, the imperial court would know about it.

Of course, at this time, the officials in the New Deal area did not dare to conceal the information, and the consequences of being found out were very serious. (To be continued.) )