Wantong Post Station is more popular than Jiangxi imagined, and almost everyone sends letters to the county seat, and there are very few people who send letters to other places.

Because there were too many letters, Jiangxi, who was originally going to deliver them only once every three days, had to advance the time to once every two days. Maybe it's just opened, and everyone has never written a letter before, and they want to express that feeling, but also feel novel. After a long time, I believe it will not be so busy again.

If you want to say that the busiest person is not the little old man who writes, he said that his surname is Zhao, so everyone calls him Old Man Zhao.

There are many people who send letters, and most of the people in the town are illiterate, plus it only costs one or two pennies to write a letter, and everyone can afford it, even those who can write by themselves are given money to help write it, so as to save trouble and freshness.

Since the money collected is not much, the paper used in the shop is of the inferior kind, and the good rice paper will not be chosen.

In order to reduce the burden of Old Man Zhao, Jiangxi also asked Lianzi and their literate girls to come over to help, and Li Xuemei also volunteered.

Before the Li family went back last time, Jiang Xi agreed with his second aunt and second uncle to let Li Xuemei stay here. At first, Jiang Xi's uncle and aunt said that this was not good, but later it was Li who persuaded them.

Jiang Xi quietly asked the Li family after that, how did he persuade him, but he only heard the Li family say: "This is simple, I will tell them, Xuemei is not young, it's time to talk about people, there are only a few families in this village, and there are not many people in the town who are suitable for age, just go to the county town with us to have a look, maybe you will see the right eye." ”

Jiang Xi silently gave Li a thumbs up, and sure enough, they knew the adults best and knew where the other party's weakness was.

With the help of Li Xuemei and Lianzi, Old Man Zhao finally had a chance to breathe.

"I said you, our girls said at the beginning, recruit another person in, you have to do it alone, now you know that you are tired." Lianzi said to the old man while helping to write.

However, when Old Man Zhao heard this, he immediately retorted: "You girl is not right, your family said that you would recruit two people before, and it was also a turn to rest." If I'm unlucky, I won't be writing it alone in the past few days, so it makes no difference if I recruit a few. ”

"It's no wonder that there's no difference, our girl seems to be such a stupid person. These days are busy, of course, everyone is doing things together, and then it will be a turn when the busyness is over. ”

"Hehe, no matter how smart your girl is, it's not as smart as me. You see, I'm too busy to do it alone, so don't you two little girls help by the side? If you do recruit another one, you won't come to help, will you? ”

"Humph! If you do this again, then we won't help you! Lianzi was angry, but he couldn't say anything about Old Man Zhao, so he could only pout at him with an unhappy expression. The pen in his hand still hasn't stopped, and he's still writing hard.

Three days passed like this, and sometimes, Jiang Xi would come to the shop to help, but more time, she was checking the accounts.

In a few days, they will be on their way to the provincial capital. The accounts of some shops in this town must be checked.

The Jiang family now has a big business, and there are more people recruited, and there are also people who are treacherous and tricky.

Among the many accounts, the accounts of hot pot restaurants and fruit canning workshops are the most complex.

The hot pot restaurant is still the largest food restaurant in town, and even the roast duck restaurant has not taken away its luster, and the monthly income is still more than a dozen taels of silver. There are a lot of accounts in the fruit canning workshop, all of which are small accounts, and if you calculate them carefully, you will benefit from a hundred taels of silver a month. This is just the canned fruit in the town, and the provincial city is selling better now.

After checking the accounts here, the three-day opening time of the post station has also passed, and Jiangxi has to settle the accounts here.

It doesn't seem to be much money collected in the post station, it seems that it is just to protect the capital, and even in the eyes of some people, the Jiang family is going to lose money by doing this. However, after Jiang Xi finished the accounts, he found that in the past three days, he had made a net profit alone

On the first day, a total of 223 letters were written, and 256 were sent, which was 120814 yuan. Jiang Xi's own carriage ran down, and the horses needed to be fed with 30 yuan of material, and then the long-term workers had to bring more than 10 yuan of dry food. Even after removing the hard work of them and Old Man Zhao, as well as the money to buy paper, there are at least about one or two or five dollars left.

The next day, the number of people sending letters not decreased, but increased, and even some people from the next town came to send letters. This day was also a peak period, reaching more than 500 letters, and the Jiangxi family made a net profit of three taels or six dollars of silver on this day.

On the third day, there were fewer people than on the second day, but still much higher than on the second day, with nearly 400 or so letters, and all of them were written by them. Everyone is useless on weekdays, and it is a waste to buy it, and they are very happy to write a long letter for two pennies.

So, that's it. In three days, the Jiangxi family received several taels of silver, and when the Li family saw this result, they were also frightened.

"Xi'er, have we really made so much? Didn't we keep the price very low, how could we still make so much profit. Li felt very strange in his heart, when his family was poor in the past, it seemed that no matter what he did, he could not guarantee food and clothing. If Jiang Xi hadn't made that sour plum soup and sold the recipe for a big price, maybe their family would still be living in the mountains now.

However, once the family has money, everything becomes so easy that making money seems to be a simple thing. No matter what they do, even if their family doesn't have the intention of making money, they will still make money.

Take this time as an example, she felt that it was good not to lose money, but in the end, she made a few taels of silver, which was much more profitable than the tailor shops opened by their family.

Jiang Xi smiled proudly: "Mother, this post station is actually the same as our canned fruit profit method, focusing on small profits but quick turnover." And the post station has taken this to the extreme.

Our family's price is set low, even if we can only earn a penny by sending two or three letters, but our family has to send hundreds of letters a day, which is a lot. Because the price is low, there will not be too few people who come to send letters. Everyone thinks that they have earned it, and they will all come to take care of us in the future.

If in the future, our family can make this bigger and make it possible to send letters all over the country, then we will only rely on this money a day, and it is estimated that we will not be able to spend it all. ”

Jiang Xi looked into the distance, looking forward to that day in his heart. It's just that she knows that if there is such a day, the first thing to solve is the problem of access.

In the last life, the reason why express delivery can be carried out on such a large land in the country, and it can also be delivered to foreign countries, is because of the developed transportation, whether it is automobiles, high-speed rail, or airplanes, which are not available in this era.

Therefore, if you want to make such a big express delivery industry in this era, you must first overcome many problems.

"Mother, you say, is there anyone in this town who wants to go to the county seat?"

Jiangxi still remembers that in the past, when there was no carriage at home, he had to go out and charter a car, although those carriages were not too expensive, but ordinary people could not afford them anyway.

After all, that kind of carriage has been exploited through layers of exploitation. The owner of the carriage has to make money, the person who has a line between the owner of the carriage and the driver of the rental car also has to make money, and finally the coachman has to make money.

With these three layers of exploitation, especially the first two layers of appetite, the price of the carriage is naturally not affordable for ordinary people. If you can hire those coachmen and let them help run the county and town and become a regular shuttle, wouldn't it be slightly better?

It just so happens that the car that sends the letter can also carry people, so waste is avoided.

Hearing her ask, Li replied, "Of course some people are going to the county seat, but in fact, there are quite a few people who want to go." However, generally speaking, where the poor have the spare money to go, what they really want to go to is to bring enough dry food and walk there by themselves. Don't you see that none of the coachmen in our town have gone home to farm. ”

Well? Jiang Xi blinked, thinking about it in his mind. It seemed like yes, she hadn't noticed any of that before, and she didn't know how long the coachmen had been gone.

Of course, this situation is still conducive to her doing the next thing.

Those coachmen should all have good skills, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to eat that bowl of rice before. If I could hire them, they would be willing. After all, relying on the soil to eat, the family will live a tight life, and who doesn't want to go out to earn some other money.

"Xi'er, do you have any ideas again?" Li Shi saw Jiang Xi's eyes glow, and his heart moved.

Jiang Xi grinned: "Mother, I won't tell you first, I'll tell you when I'm done." ”

After saying that, she ran out of the Li family's house, and when she reached the stable, she saw how many carriages she still had.

If you want to say that their family's carriages, there are more in this town than in the county, mainly because they did business before, and there are two caravans running outside on the side of the workshop, so there are at least twenty or thirty carriages in the family, and the two caravans have taken some away, and there are still about ten left.

Jiangxi plans to divide these carriages into two wheels, one wheel of five, and make them into shuttle buses, which run around the county every day.

Then, she asked the long-term worker, who was familiar with the coachmen, to find five coachmen, and after inspecting the five coachmen, Jiang Xi finally decided to hire them.

In this regard, Jiang's station opened, although there are few cars now, and they can only go to some fewer places, but Jiangxi still believes that their post stations and stations will open more and more in the future.