China is an ancient big country, but also an old-fashioned big country, since Qin Shi Huang unified the world, has experienced more than ten generations of dynasty changes, but no matter how it changes, it is basically a new bottle of old wine, in essence is the same, whether this dynasty is the implementation of the prime minister system or the cabinet system, in fact, to put it bluntly, there is not much difference at all - as long as it is an imperial dynasty, as long as it is not a faint monarch, then the military and political power of the country is always highly concentrated in the hands of the emperor or the emperor as the core, All political systems are designed to serve the needs of the ruling class.

In the Qing Dynasty, the feudal political system has developed to the extreme, any small adjustment may have a huge impact on the entire system, not to mention that the innovation advocated by Yinzuo is not small, the impact on the entire political system is even stronger, the first to be impacted is the financial system, and then the tax system, now as soon as the newspaper is issued, the post station system is frequently urgent, and it is hard to be in charge of the work of the post station Zhou Yongcheng is so anxious that he is restless.

The inaugural issue of the first issue of the "Jingshi Chronicle" not only has the name of the newspaper inscribed by the emperor Yinzuo, but also the signed articles of today's writers and important ministers such as Fang Bao, Zhang Tingyu, Li Guangdi, Wang Shichen, etc., and there are also comments on the scholars of the Hanlin Academy, the luxury of the lineup is jaw-dropping, coupled with some news such as the Beijing division and officialdom lace carefully compiled by Wu Sidao, it is impossible for this newspaper not to be popular, and it is not surprising that Luoyang paper is expensive. The inaugural issue of the newspaper announced that it was soliciting articles from all over the country to debate the "Book of Ten Thousand Words", and it also specially stated that the speaker was not guilty, and once he was elected, he would have a considerable amount of money to be paid for polishing his pen, and it mobilized the hearts of all the scholars in the whole country, not only the scholars. Even officials from all over the country submitted articles one after another, and all kinds of papers like snowflakes were thrown like locusts to dozens of printing bureaus that were the transfer printing centers.

According to Yinzuo's original newspaper and periodical distribution system -- after the first printing by the Beijing Division, the newspaper samples were reprinted by the post station in the form of 600 miles to dozens of printing bureaus (most of which were the real estate of the Eight Banners firms) that were entrusted with the printing task of printing all over the country, and the newspapermen sold them on the street, and the manuscripts were collected by the local printing bureaus, and were uniformly forwarded from the post station to the Beijing Newspaper Bureau, and after being reviewed and proofread by the review team led by Wu Sidao, they were handed over to the Information Bureau of the Military Aircraft Department for final approval and inspection by Yinzuo before they could be printed. The whole newspaper distribution process seemed to be no big problem, but when it came to trial operation, it was found that the existing post station system could not withstand such heavy pressure.

The post office was the prototype of the modern post office. It has a very long history in China, and there have been post stations since the Tang Dynasty. According to the function of the post station, it can be divided into three parts: post, station and shop. The post station is the organization for the government to receive guests and arrange the transportation of government materials, and the station is an organization for transmitting important documents and military information, which is dedicated to the military system. The shop is led by the local department, the state and county governments, and is responsible for the transmission of official documents and letters. The vouchers used by the post station are the survey and the fire card - all the need to transport official documents and articles to the post station for cars, horses, and people must look at the "postage", and the government uses it with the survey; The military department uses the fire card when it is used. There are extremely strict rules for the use of "postage symbols": there are specific tasks for transit. send troops to protect; Horses handed over official documents, all added fire tickets to the Ministry of War, so that if the delivery of each post station along the way was to arrive in the capital from outside or pass to each other outside, it was necessary to fill in the company list. Official documents are limited to 300 miles per day for "immediate delivery", and urgent documents are marked with the words 400 miles, 500 miles, or 600 miles. Delivered within the required time limit, provided that the words are not indiscriminately filled.

The management of the post station has been perfected in the Qing Dynasty, and the management is extremely strict, violating the regulations. All of them must be punished, and not everyone can use the post land. According to the Qing system, the post station was originally under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War, and after the military reform of Yinzuo, the jurisdiction of the post station was assigned to the name of the General Logistics Department, but the jurisdiction was changed, and everything else was still handled as before. Although the reform of the financial system and tax system in Touqian is cumbersome, there are many official exchanges. However, because the General Logistics Department had already received the relevant instructions, there had never been any mistakes, and this time the distribution of newspapers and periodicals was considered to be smooth, but after the collection of manuscripts arrived, the post station system, which was already running at full capacity, finally could not hold up -- the manuscripts submitted by scholars from all over the country with great enthusiasm were dozens of bags of hemp every day in each printing office, and it was almost an impossible task to send these manuscripts to Beijing in an expedited manner of 600 miles according to the predetermined plan.

Zhou Yongcheng has been following Yinzuo for many years, and he can be regarded as the henchman of Yinzuo's henchmen, don't look at Zhou Yongcheng's honest appearance. In fact, he is very shrewd in his heart. Although he didn't understand the importance of the newspaper very well, he was clear that Yinzuo had sent Wu Sidao and Lin Xuanyi, the two great strategists of the year, to integrate the newspaper. That shows that Yinzuo attaches great importance to this matter. After a few days of stagnation, Zhou Yongcheng, who was really unable to ensure the delivery of the manuscript in addition to completing the daily document delivery task, had to hurry to Yinzuo to complain.

"The saint, the minister is incompetent, and the post station under the minister's management can no longer bear the heavy responsibility of passing on the manuscript, please give instructions to the saint. Zhou Yongcheng followed Gao Nianying into the upper study and immediately said clearly.

"Huh? What's going on? "Zhou Yongcheng's ability Yinzuo is clear, a large part of the victory over the Russian army in the first battle of Brento Haizi depends on Zhou Yongcheng's integration of logistics and supply, and even Zhou Yongcheng, who has never complained bitterly, is obviously a little more serious than imagined.

"Qi Yu Sheng, the post station under the jurisdiction of the minister has a total of 370 places, in the preparation of 14,142 post soldiers, more than 7,600 post horses, although there are a lot of people and horses, how can the post station officials come and go a lot, can put into the official document transmission of the post is only more than 2,000 people, can be used for the official document transmission of less than 3,000 post horses, and are scattered everywhere, a few days ago received the holy decree, by the General Logistics Department is responsible for the transmission of manuscripts from all over the place, the minister has tried his best to adjust the people and horses of the post stations everywhere, but there are many drafts, the main post stations have been powerless, If this affects the normal transmission of official documents, it is difficult to escape the blame for the death of the minister, and please ask the Holy Master to learn about it. Zhou Yongcheng kowtowed and said with a look of chagrin.

Oh, damn it, I forgot about it! Yinzuo was originally happy because of the large number of manuscripts sent from all over the country in the past few days, completely ignoring the posting capacity of the current era, if it wasn't for Zhou Yongcheng to talk about this, I was afraid that the normal operation of the court would be affected by it for a few more days.

Well, in this era, there is no computer network, telegraph, telephone, everything has to rely on horses to transport, the partial road is not good, not to mention the car, even the train is not, ***, Lao Tzu invested so much money to go down, so many years have passed, the train is stunned is not a whole look, really damn it, or a post and telecommunications office will be done. That's right, the post office! This thing can solve a big problem, hey, you have to think about it, see if it can be done, if you can make money, it's not bad, it's better than a free post station, one is convenient for the people, and the two are profitable It's a good idea, I don't know if the people will accept this kind of thing. Yinzuo has been thinking about it repeatedly in his heart for a long time, but he has never had a bottom - although he was called "the prince of business" when he was a brother, but in fact, Yinzuo is not proficient in business, and often only knows what it is and doesn't know why it is in business.

"Come on, Xuan Liu Chang'e has entered the palace. Yinzuo has no idea whether the post office can make a profit, but he also understands that business things have to be asked by business people, and those court officials can't come up with an idea, and after thinking for a while, they still decided to recruit Liu Chang'e, the shopkeeper of the Eight Banners firm, into the palace to ask carefully.

Liu Chang'e is the eldest son of Liu Mingchuan, the earliest slave of Yinzuo, and since Liu Mingchuan's death a few years ago, Liu Chang'e has taken over the domestic part of the Eight Banners firm. Thirty-five-year-old Liu Chang'e has rarely faced the saint since he was kicked out of the "Honghu" because he made a mistake, and when he saw Yinzuo's face at this time, he immediately knelt on the ground, and his words were a little unclear with excitement: "Holy Lord, the slave Liu Chang'e has asked you for peace, and the slave ......."

"Excuse me, get up, Chang'e, you've been with me for many years, and you're also my confidant, I've always been busy, and I don't have time to see you. Alas, your father is my first minion, and he has always been loyal to me, and even when he dies, he is helping me in my work, and I owe it to your father and son. As soon as Yinzuo saw Liu Chang'e, he thought of the deceased Liu Mingchuan, and he couldn't help but feel a little sad in his heart.

"The saint is as kind to the slave family as a mountain, and it is difficult for the slave to repay it even if he is broken, but where there is an order from the saint, the slave will be deadly. Liu Chang'e swore with red eyes.

"Well, I can trust this, you are good at the Eight Banners for me, I can't lose you, okay, don't talk about this. Yinzuo waved his hand, put the sadness behind him, calmly glanced at Zhou Yongcheng who was standing with his hands down, and then looked at Liu Chang'e and said: "Chang'e, I called you today to ask about something, well, that's the case, I plan to set up a post office...... Yinzuo briefly talked about the functions of the post office, the use and issuance of stamps, and the general setting of the post office, and finally asked: "You help me figure it out, can this post office be able to make a profit?" ”

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