At the end of the sixth year of Wanli, the first "Guangbao" was spread from Nanjing to Nanjing. It was the message "My emperor is wise and powerful, and his longevity is boundless" from the Jinyiwei Jiangnan Bureau. Zhu Yijun laughed loudly and expressed his opinions on the route planning and supervision of the "Guangbao"
Those involved in the construction will be rewarded for their merits.
The connection of the optical newspaper route has compressed the speed of information transmission between the two capitals from the fastest five days and nights required by "urgent delivery" to six hours.
As a modern person with certain historical knowledge and political literacy, Zhu Yijun knew that the stability of imperial rule directly depended on the speed and density of information transmission.
As the saying goes, "post roads are the link of the country and cannot be blocked." After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, emperors of all dynasties attached great importance to the construction of post roads and the transmission of information. By the middle of Jiajing, there were a total of 1,259 water and horse posts in the country;
By the fifth year of Wanli, the number had increased to 1,762.
These stations are managed at three levels. The largest is the hub station, also known as the "key point", which is equipped with eighty horses or twenty fast boats; the second is the main station, also known as the "main road", which is equipped with sixty or forty ships.
Horses or fifteen, or ten clippers; the last station is the remote station. Depending on the degree of remoteness, there are about five clippers and three to ten horses.
These more than 1,700 inns formed the branches of the empire's information transmission, the nerves that conveyed the emperor's will, and the blood vessels of the court's policies; they also played an important role in connecting trade routes.
For Zhu Yijun, the efficiency of these nerves and blood vessels is still too low: for example, the imperial newspaper was sent to the capital of Sichuan, the whole journey was 5185 miles and 86 stations. According to the regulations of "Ming Huidian", it took 172 days, a difference of ten days and half a year.
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Secondly, this post road can reach at most thoroughfares or military fortresses. For places outside the county town, the blood vessels of the empire have not yet grown there. In Zhu Yijun’s view, this is precisely the fundamental reason for the low mobilization ability of the feudal country - "
"The imperial power does not go to the countryside" will of course lead to the inability of the people's hearts and people's strength to be concentrated under the will of the central government.
Therefore, starting from the seventh year of Wanli, with the gradual in-depth work of compiling yellow books and household allowances, the reform of the Post Office Administration was also put on the agenda. The "Post Office Administration Department", which had been established for one and a half years, finally received the first allocation of 500,000 taels of silver.
, the network has been rolled out across the country.
If you want to turn the reform of Yi Zheng into sustainable good governance, you must first solve the funding sources that support the network. As before, relying on local financial subsidies and central allocations is completely insufficient to support it. Therefore, the Ministry of Yi Zheng
The reform is divided into three steps:
The first step is to bring the national post stations under the unified management of the Central Post Government Department; establish the Daming Post Trading Company - 100% controlled by the Post Government Department.
The second step is to uniformly distribute the green "Da Ming Post Office" uniforms to the soldiers who were reformed and abolished in the guard stations, and turned them into local post postmen. They are divided into part-time and full-time, part-time for those who have land, and full-time for those who have no land.
The third step is to print stamps, issue the "Measures for the Administration of Post Offices", and carry out communication, consignment, remittance and other services across the country.
At this time, in the rural areas of the Ming Dynasty, the above-mentioned demand is very small, but it does not mean that there is none. In cities and towns, this demand is astonishingly high.
Compared with competitors such as private escort agencies and entrusted merchants to deliver goods on their behalf, the biggest advantage of Daming Yi Zheng is that it is "quick, stable and guaranteed".
The power of large state-owned enterprises has finally emerged in this time and space. First of all, the speed is fast, and at the slowest, it is the same speed as the imperial court. If the parties involved are in a hurry, they can also add money, and Yizheng Trading Co., Ltd. provides expedited services.
Secondly, it is stable. According to the slowest one-stop speed of two days, the sender can judge the approximate time when his letter or goods will reach the recipient. In this way, many things can be handled through letters without having to travel thousands of miles.
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Finally, there is the guarantee. As the first prominent state-owned enterprise in this time and space, Yizheng Trading Co., Ltd. guarantees the price of the items sent - if the letter is lost, the postage will be refunded twice as much; if the item is lost, the price will be compensated.
Finally, the backbone network of Guangbao, which was built before the end of the sixth year of Wanli, is also open to the public. If the person involved is in an emergency, such as informing a court official that his old father is critically ill, he can ask Yi Zheng for a price of ten taels of silver per word.
The Guangbao Bureau of the trading company will send you a Guangbao - according to the evaluation of the Ming Dynasty in this time and space, this thing is: "as fast as lightning".
For the big merchants on both sides of the canal, the service of Guangbao is irresistible. Although it costs ten taels of silver per word, there are often queues at the door of Guangbao Bureau after dark. At the beginning, these guys were inexperienced.
At most, it can be simplified to this: "When ginseng is sold out, five hundred kilograms will be sent quickly." Later, after gaining experience, it became "ginseng is sold out, five hundred kilograms", and you can save fifty taels at once.
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During the seven-year restructuring process of Wanli, Lu Guofeng Yicheng served as the top leader of the Pengcheng Yi Political Bureau. His identity was dual - he belonged to the Yi Political Department and was the general manager of the Pengcheng branch.
The officials and people of Pengcheng Mansion finally looked at Sir Hulu from outside with admiration. Although he had a title before, as the head of the post station where people were sent, his political status was still very low, and he was often criticized. For example, a man holding a post station
The official who voted for the ticket came to pick the fat and thin, and it was enough for him to drink a pot.
However, there is no such thing as a post ticket now. The imperial court stipulates that when officials travel, they will be directly subsidized according to the distance and ten days spent. After the Tianxia Post was returned to the trading company, all the original reception work was charged.
In other words, any official who lives in a post hotel will be renamed the Yi Zheng Hotel. They will be treated the same as travelers. You are lucky if you can get a luxury package. If you are not able to get a luxury package and are not willing to live in a standard room, please stay elsewhere.
Go. Of course, if you want to save the subsidy, you can go to a large car shop outside and squeeze into the Datong store regardless of your dignity. If you are injured by a thief, it will not be considered a work-related injury.
There are exceptions, that is, retired Jingguan Chiyi's benefits have not been cancelled. According to the arrangement of the Yiyi Administration Department, the general manager of the Yizheng Bureau will live in a courtyard in the Yizhan - if he encounters Chiyi, the general manager will dump out the house.
It is for the retired cadres of Chiyi. The rest of the time, you can use this house to make extra money as you like. This is a benefit for the general manager.
For Sir Lu, his thousand acres of land is nothing, Pengcheng has much more land than him; his position is also nothing, he only looks after his own postmen and waiters; but the luxury set in his hand is amazing——
From the government office to the prefect and down to the arrester, who doesn’t have a few good friends?
Someone else's friend came and stayed at the Yi Zheng Hotel. My friend came and stayed at the Tongfu Inn - this was obviously not understood. Sir Lu relied on this luxurious apartment to make countless friends in Pengcheng, and even paid for all the mountains and mountains.
He wants to save face. And what makes him feel most comfortable is that his appointment and dismissal are under the control of the post government department. Even if the prefect himself comes, and he is determined not to give him face, the prefect still can't do anything to him.
In this way, in the spring of the seventh year of Wanli, Sir Lu Guofeng, who had taken root in Pengcheng and became the number one figure, finally got his wish - he married the little widow.