Chapter 34: Invite
In fact, this postal system is also one of the products of Emperor Qing's new policy, which is basically the product of the newspaper run by the Inner Court at the same time.
As unattended as the Inner Court newspaper.
Because the price is too expensive, just sending a letter costs a full tael of silver.
No one buys a newspaper for a tael of silver, and naturally few people buy and sell this letter for a tael of silver.
So far, only some of the children of the eunuchs have used this postal system for correspondence.
For example, Fan Xian and Fan Ruoruo have been like this all these years.
But even if they are the children of official eunuchs, ordinary officials of low grade are afraid that they can't afford to use the mailing service of one or two silvers.
Naturally, the income is very small, but its investment is more than several times greater than that of the Inner Court Newspaper.
The cost of the post stations built in the towns alone was extremely expensive, and the postmen in the post stations were basically relatives of officials, and their bloated features were almost no less than the increasingly large bureaucratic system of Qingguo, and it is conceivable that the monthly expenditure on the postal system was definitely not low.
Horses and daily wear and tear are also a significant expense.
To put it mildly, Qingguo's investment in the postal system was almost enough for Li Chengqian to set up almost 100 newspapers.
And every year it has to be thrown in, like a bottomless pit.
Even because of the huge postal system, more and more officials have been involved, so that Emperor Qing's desire to abolish this matter will become extremely resistant.
After all, who doesn't have a few lazy relatives who can't hold up the wall in the mud?
Throw it into any post station, not to mention the lack of work, and there is also a fortune, and you can usually eat and drink at the post station.
The officials are worry-free, and those relatives are also happy, and the only unhappy thing is probably Emperor Qing, who only sees input but no output.
But this is what Ye Qingmei once said, Emperor Qing felt that he did what she said, no matter whether he earned money or not, he was comforted in his heart anyway, even if he had to invest some silver, wouldn't there still be an inner library?
As long as the inner library can hold up, everything is not a problem.
What's more, it's no longer easy to act rashly now, so let's do it for now, anyway, when the world is unified, there will naturally be a time to settle accounts after the autumn.
He compromised the first time, the second time, and even countless times.
After all, everything is for the ultimate hegemony.
Of course, Emperor Qing also realized that many of the actions of his new policy not only did not solve the problems of Qingguo itself, but created one new problem after another.
This is also the fundamental reason why he has been moving less and less over the years.
Li Chengqian felt that Emperor Qing was his son after all, and as a son, he naturally had to solve the problem for Lao Tzu.
The postal route has many problems, but it is also a valuable asset.
At least, if he wants to really promote the newspapers printed by the Fuyao Newspaper to the world, he can hardly do without the help of the postal system.
Of course, it's not impossible for him to build it himself.
But the construction of the postal route system requires a large number of personnel and horses, he is the prince after all, if he does it, someone will definitely impeach him, and the recruitment of troops and horses all over the world is to rebel or not?
Therefore, the best way for him is to cooperate with the official postal system of Qingguo.
Of course, he didn't think about borrowing chickens to lay eggs and use the official mail system to build a team loyal to him.
He even had the idea of using this team as the prototype of his future intelligence organization.
The importance of intelligence is beyond doubt.
Whether it is the Supervision Yuan of Nanqing, the inner court of Emperor Qing, or the Jinyiwei of Northern Qi, they all have a decisive force in many events.
In the future disputes, if he does not have a strong enough intelligence organization, his actions will inevitably be restricted everywhere.
But he is not very good at telling the truth about these things, and he occasionally knew some from the Internet in his previous life.
So he mainly thought about interfering in the mail route or completing other events, and extracted a master related to intelligence to help him deal with all this.
But the randomness of the draw was too great, and he wasn't sure what he would get in the future.
In short, now he is also taking one step at a time, and there is no anxiety in his heart.
A strong force is his greatest confidence, and the rest is to be done as a business cultivation game.
It's good to be successful, but it's harmless if it doesn't work.
Just like Li Yunrui's backstab on the day of the court meeting, he had no fear.
How it should be on weekdays or how it is.
But after all, Li Yunrui acted at a loss, and after some tugging, in private, Li Yunrui made a lot of concessions on the things that he had resisted before.
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It was another court meeting, and since Li Chengqian already had a draft, he naturally saw the opportunity and said loudly: "Your Majesty, Erchen has been idle in the East Palace for nearly half a year now, and he is very quiet, so I want to ask Your Majesty to give Erchen an errand to do." ”
He said it bluntly, and it didn't make sense.
Although everyone knows that Fuyao Newspaper is the one who runs it behind it.
But after the last court meeting, the nominal owner of the Fuyao Newspaper has become the now famous Luo Guanzhong and Fan Sizhe, the son of Fan Jian, the household servant, and basically has nothing to do with him in name.
Luo Guanzhong doesn't need to say that he is the one who said the words on the bright side of the Fuyao Newspaper Museum.
As for Fan Sizhe.
Although he signed the so-called transfer deed, he only owned half of the shares of Wenbao.
Moreover, in the final analysis, this half of the shares is not considered to be owned by him.
Because when he signed the contract, he also automatically acquiesced in the huge amount of money owed to the Fuyao newspaper hall of 5,000 taels of silver.
And these 5,000 taels are also the sum of money that Fuyao Newspaper Hall returned to the inner library.
Fan Sizhen naturally has no money, so in the final analysis, the five thousand taels are still paid by the Fuyao Newspaper Hall itself.
It's just that if the Fuyao Newspaper directly repays it by itself, the inner library can also use the name of investment dividends to deny this arrears.
But adding Fan Sizhen to a new hand is equivalent to Fan Sizhen personally giving 5,000 taels to the inner treasury, so as to buy half of the shares of Wenbao.
And Versace was saddled with a huge debt of five thousand taels of silver.
However, he also received a fixed dividend of 100 taels of silver per month from the Fuyao Newspaper.
The reason why he could only get fifty taels was because the other fifty taels were used to pay off debts.
The principal plus interest, the contract is clearly written, and it can be paid off in ten years.
In other words, Fan Sizhen doesn't have to pay a penny, not to mention fifty taels a month, and ten years later, he can really own half of Wenbao's shares.
Fan Sizhen is a little genius who settles accounts, if he doesn't calculate the problems on the silver money clearly, although he is stupid, he will not sign easily.
Of course, the specific impact behind it is something that he can't count and can't figure out.
This also led to the fact that after Fan Jian returned home that day, he was so angry that he beat him half to death.
After learning about this, I don't know why, Li Chengqian ate two more bowls of rice at that time.