Coming out of the palace of the king, Zhong Xian and the others were already preparing the horses outside, Zhu Gaoxu turned over and got on the horse, drove, galloping all the way, and several Wang uncles also followed behind by Wen Xun.

They are now going to a new place, and today another institution of Daming was born.

Daming Royal Newspaper is affiliated to the Ministry of Education and Technology.

By the time Zhu Gaoxu arrived, the scene was almost ready, and there were still many civil and military officials coming from all over Beijing.

A lot of fireworks were placed at the door, and banners were also pulled, Zhu Gaoxu first communicated with the cabinet for a while, and when it was a quarter of noon, the horns crackled, and the scene was full of fireworks.

Then Zhu Gaoxu lifted the banner, and the words 'Daming Royal Newspaper' appeared.

A moment later, a team of elite horsemen appeared from the corner of the street, and the officials all looked at it with curiosity.

The riders wore green uniforms, all identical, with a large 'newspaper' on the left side of the saddle.

On the right there are the words 'Da Ming'.

This is the equivalent of postmen in later generations.

Zhu Gaoxu said loudly at this time: "Today is the day when the first issue of Daming Daily is released. ”

"The imperial court used 800 miles of expedited and waterways to send them to all parts of the country."

With his voice, bang, someone not far away slapped at the sky.

"Drive." This group of elite horsemen, numbering in the hundreds, rushed out of the city.

Many officials couldn't see it clearly, so a few princes who came with them were also inexplicable.

But someone at the scene immediately came out to distribute newspapers, and some people shouted while posting.

"Look at the newspaper and read the newspaper, the imperial army occupies Shache, and Shache has built a sand car guard."

"Shanxi iron merchants emigrated with their families, bringing 200,000 catties of iron materials, shocking the world."

"The death row prisoner turned into a security chief, made great contributions, and left a name in history."

"Daming Daily is expedited for 800 miles, and it will arrive in Cochin in six days at the earliest."

"Daming Bank is about to be launched, deposits are guaranteed, and interest can be earned." People who shouted all kinds of slogans were dizzy.

The newspaper was quickly distributed to everyone, and King Ning hurriedly took it and read it.

There are a few big characters on the front, Daming Daily, it seems to be Zhu Gaoxu's handwriting, that word is really, it is difficult to say, King Ning secretly despises it.

And then there is a news on it, and it is divided into sections.

The left side of the front is the domestic of the Ming Dynasty, the right side is foreign, the left side of the back is military, and the right side of the back actually has a continuous planting, as well as an advertising space, of course, this will Ning Wang does not know that it is an advertising space.

At this time, some people were already asking the emperor, how to get to Jiaozhi in six days?

From Jingshi to Jiaozhi, it is nearly 4,000 miles by land, and it takes more than a month for the sea ship to travel downwind.

In ancient times, all dynasties had 800 miles of urgency, in fact, of course, it was impossible to reach the speed of 800 miles a day, when An Lushan raised troops in Fanyang, more than 3,000 miles away from Tang Xuanzong, Tang Xuanzong received news in six days, up to 500 miles a day, which should be the fastest batch of 800 miles in history.

Zhu Gaoxu's Ming Dynasty, on the main official road leading to the provinces, an average of about 20 miles of a post station, on the secondary road, about 40 miles of a post station, in the past few years, Zhu Gaochu has been constantly reforming, increasing the number of people and horses in the post station.

From today onwards, whether it is an urgent report from the imperial court or a newspaper from the Ming Dynasty, it will be 800 miles to expedite, and the newly established postal department under the Ministry of Education and Science and Technology will be in charge.

The way is slightly different from before, in the past, one person and one horse ran to the post station to change horses, and then continued to run.

Now Zhu Gaoxu requires a person to run 80 miles quickly, about four post stations, every 20 miles, one post station to change horses, every 80 miles to change people.

The next man then ran 80 miles, 24 hours a day.

Horses are changed every 20 miles, and people are changed every 80 miles.

Eighty miles with a fast horse run, about an hour or so, if the road conditions are good, not even an hour, of course, according to the terrain, day and night are different, there will be fast and slow, especially at night to run up the speed dropped a lot, if there is no moonlight, even can only rest, but the person who runs that day, as long as he goes to work for about an hour during the day, and runs a post station at night, regardless of people and horses, can get the best rest time.

At such a test speed, it can run more than 700 miles per day at the earliest, and infinitely close to 800 miles.

The green-clad couriers of the imperial court, riding horses with dozens of newspapers, can run to Jiaozhi in six days, there are also newspaper branches in Jiaozhi, some of them are sent to local officials, and then immediately survey and print, the fastest Jiaozhi in seven days, can be copied in large quantities, ten days can be sent to all parts of Jiaozhi, this efficiency in this situation, quite high.

High efficiency, of course, the cost of investment is also high, in the early Ming Dynasty to Hongxi ten years, Zhu Gaoxu built 2,000 post stations across the country, the number of personnel is close to 60,000, the team is huge, and the expenses are also huge.

But Zhu Gaoxu had to invest, because as the territory of the Ming Dynasty became larger and larger, he needed the fastest time to put the orders of the Jingshi throughout the country, so as to consolidate his rule, publicize his achievements, and at the same time get the latest and fastest information from all over the country.

King Ning looked at it for a moment, and then began to look at each other again, every time everyone saw something new, they only had one thought, how long did Zhu Gaoxu's head grow, there were always all kinds of different things to come up with.

This postal office has just come out, and the bank is going online again.

Half a month later, King Ning's family was ready, with more than 30 carriages, and the imperial court specially sent a team of 100 elite horsemen to escort them on the road.

The Daming Shazhou Governor's Mansion has been formally established, King Ning is the governor, the governor is Jiang Zhonglong, and the general army is Qu Neng, Qu Neng has not yet set off, and will take the second batch of 50,000 steps to the west in the first year of next year, and is gathering materials and soldiers recently.

Shazhou has ten guards and 50,000 troops, and there is no capital division, and the functions of the capital division are directly in the general military office.

However, there are judges, political envoys, and they are all responsible to the governor.

For this reason, this year, the Ming Dynasty deliberately recruited an additional 100,000 recruits, because the imperial court wanted to deploy troops for the places to be occupied in the future.

This is the first time that Zhu Gaoxu has added 100,000 new recruits after 10 years of continuous disarmament and layoff.

King Ning walked relatively slowly, walking about sixty miles a day.

Along the provincial official road, stop at every three post stations.

Daming is now a lot more post stations than before, each post station about 20 people, basically retired veterans over the years, superb riding skills, can ride and fight.

When King Ning went to the first post station to rest, he found that the area was quite large, but there were not many people, and there were fifty horses in it.

In order to prevent the post station from being used indiscriminately by officials, there were clear regulations, but the implementation was still not in place in history.

Zhu Gaoxu's Hongxi Dynasty had special regulations, and no officials and nobles could use it, only 800 miles of express and postal newspapers, as well as the Imperial Court Tang Newspaper.

Whether an official takes office, is transferred, or returns to his hometown to visit relatives, he is not allowed to use it, and he is not qualified to use it.

But there is an exception, that is, you can use it at your own expense.

So King Ning paid for himself all the way.

This cost is not small, his whole family plus more than 100 escorts and horses, just living in the post station is barely enough, no matter how many people there are, they can't live, and some people even have to sleep in the car.

Only the accommodation fee, I paid 200 wen per person on the same day, which is quite expensive, more expensive than the average inn.

But you use the imperial court special post station, it's so expensive.

The post station does not provide food, you have to be responsible for eating, of course, if the post station is not busy, you can cook for you, of course, you have to add money.

The post station was not busy that day, and it was to see King Ning's face, and he was willing to help them cook, and the meals of more than 100 people were still charged according to the capitation, 100 wen per person, and blood was expensive.

King Ning was bleeding profusely, and he spent dozens of taels on food and accommodation on the first night.

During this period, he chatted with the post station staff and learned that from the post man to the post man, they were all retired soldiers of the imperial court, and all of them could shoot and fight.

If you run an expedited meal and send a postal newspaper, you will be subsidized according to the mileage, and you will have to pay 100 wen per 100 miles.

The money that comes to consume like King Ning just subsidizes themselves.

King Ning heard that there are 60,000 post men in the country, each of whom has more than two guan per month, and the annual expenditure is millions of guan.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, some people couldn't stand it and laid off employees directly, which led to a rebellion.

But at this time, this amount of money is really nothing.

But so many post houses are paid a small amount of money, and the focus is on maintenance, including the maintenance of horses.

In short, as far as Zhu Gaoxu got it like this, the post station alone is estimated to invest 5 million yuan a year.

After eating in the evening, King Ning said to his eldest son Zhu Panxuan: "I am not convinced by Gao Xu's other skills, that is, the ability to make money, I am the most convinced." ”

When you let Zhu Di be the emperor, spend five million a year on the post station? Zhu Di was about to go bankrupt immediately.

At this time, he looked at the moonlight from afar, and suddenly was full of hope for the future, the Ming Dynasty was really thriving under the rule of Zhu Gaoxu, far surpassing the previous dynasty.