Chapter six hundred and thirty-six gold million operations research
Although Li You didn't believe it at first, seeing Jin Wanwan's extremely confident look, he asked for advice. Jin Wanwan asked, "May I ask what is the crux of the matter that my virtuous son-in-law is unable to do anything about?"
Li You replied without hesitation: "First, the quantity is too large, and tens of thousands of copies need to be sent every other day; second, the cost of hiring manpower is too high, and we can't afford to use it anyway."
Jin Wanwan analyzed: "Not talking about the number of copies, just from the perspective of transportation, 10,000 newspapers are not very big. They are only two feet high when stacked. Only a corner of a carriage can be loaded. In fact, the wise son-in-law wants to say
The problem is that the accumulation is too high, and the frequency of publishing newspapers every other day is too high, so it is impossible to use manpower to send them to other places at any time."
Li You agreed: "This is exactly the reason."
"This is easy to solve. Why send every issue every other day? It's too labor-intensive. In fact, just accumulate your official newspapers and send them to other places once a month. Once a month is easier and more economical than once every issue.
Manpower.”
Li Youruo realized something and couldn't help but slap his forehead. He fell into the misunderstanding of a time traveler!
Based on the current situation of information transmission in this era, it is normal for newspapers from other places to be delivered after two or three months. However, I was preoccupied with thinking about how to deliver newspapers as quickly as possible, and I also thought about sending every issue of newspapers to other places immediately.
This is completely unnecessary and is very redundant and highly efficient.
As Jin Wanwan said, it is enough to save newspapers for a month and send them to other places once! This efficiency is completely within the acceptable range of people, but I am thinking too far ahead.
Jin Wanwan’s analogy is also good. The newspaper itself is not very big. Suppose that one issue of the newspaper is a carriage. A monthly newspaper also uses a carriage. If the time is not urgent, then why bother to dispatch each issue and waste countless manpower?
Animal power?
When he was thinking about the problem, he made a mistake in operations research. But he was corrected by Jin Wanwan. After Li You figured it out, he urgently urged: "Old Taishan's words woke up the dreamer, please continue."
Jin Wanwan smiled and said: "As for the second question, as a good son-in-law, if the post station is not feasible, it will be difficult to find manpower who can deliver official reports to various places on time and reliably."
Li You was really helpless about this, "This is the biggest difficulty. Will Lao Taishan's plan be implemented?"
If you simply want to send something to a certain place, you can always find someone to do it. But whether the official newspaper is delivered once every issue or once a month, it is sent to all parts of the country on a regular basis, and the difficulty has increased by thousands.
Tens of thousands times.
In other words, there are not that many people who do nothing else but are engaged in the business of delivering official newspapers to thousands of yamen across the country according to the release time of official newspapers. Li You cannot afford it.
Jin Wanwan didn't pretend anymore, "The solution lies in the guild halls in the capital! There are people from all over the capital, and guild halls have been built in various places. There are more than one guild halls in big provinces like Huguang. Just put the newspaper
Leave it to the guild hall and ask them to deliver it to their respective provinces once a month. It won't be a big problem."
"Why?" Li You didn't quite understand the meaning behind this.
Jin Wanwan explained: "There are many people from all over the country who come to the capital for business or travel, and there are also businessmen who say goodbye to the capital and return to their hometowns. Just ask these businessmen to bring official newspapers with them when they go back. You don't have to worry about running out of manpower. Each province
There are always people returning to their hometowns. This month A will go back, and next month B will go back. They can bring official newspapers back along the way.
The one who knows the most about the business dealings in this province is the provincial guild hall. So you only need to make an agreement with the guild hall and drop the newspaper into the guild hall. Then the guild hall will see who is returning to your hometown this month, select suitable candidates, and entrust him to take them with you.
That’s it.”
Jin Wanwan was afraid that Li You didn't understand, so he further explained: "There are so many prefectures and counties in the world, how can we deliver it directly? Just like our merchants transport salt, it is impossible to sell salt directly to each county, so the method
That is to divide the salt area, and we are only responsible for transporting it to this area. The transportation of official newspapers can completely follow this method and only deliver it to the provincial capitals.
For example, if a thousand copies of the Henan official newspaper are distributed, then just send a thousand copies of the newspaper to the governor's Yamen in Kaifeng City on a monthly basis. Later, various governments in Henan often have subordinate officials who go to the governor's Yamen on errands and take them with them when they return.
Newspapers are enough. You can also follow this model when collecting official newspapers from the lower counties, but you just bring them back from the government office."
This idea sounded very feasible. Seeing that the problem was in sight, Li You couldn't help but said with joy: "This is a good idea. Lao Taishan is indeed a veteran in the business world, and he can actually come up with such a method! What do you think about the guild hall and those
Are businessmen willing to do this?"
"Of course they are willing!" Jin Wanwan affirmed: "You can pay a certain amount of remuneration to the merchants who are reported to return to their hometowns by the transport officials. If you don't make a few cents of profit, it will be in vain. If you give him dozens of taels for each batch, there will definitely be someone willing.
Do it. Secondly, the transport officer reports to the capital and is received by the governor's office of the province. This is also a good opportunity to make friends with the governor's office. Who would be a discerning businessman to refuse? Thirdly, this matter requires no effort from the guild hall, which is just an intermediary. It can do a lot for
Why not serve the imperial court?"
"Wonderful!" Li You praised. Now he can finally let go of his biggest worry in recent days. If the official newspaper can be smoothly distributed to all yamen across the country, then he can justifiably let the Ministry of Revenue collect it on his behalf in the form of additional local taxes.
Subscription funds have been paid, and the hat of shortfalling the national treasury has been completely eliminated.
Unexpectedly, Jin Wanwan's words opened a door for him, a time traveler who was supposed to be innovative.
There is no need to say much about the status of the capital. People come to Beijing all the time, and people leave the capital and return to their hometowns all the time. There are a lot of people interacting with any province. What is lacking is just organization and scheduling.
To use the terminology of Li You's previous life, it is the field of operations research. If the guild hall can be used as the hub to do the scheduling work, and the other end only involves the provincial area, the business opportunities are promising, and it is completely different from the delivery mode of the inn.
Thinking of this, Li You forcibly suppressed his thoughts and secretly said that he was biting off more than he could chew. It would be better not to be distracted at the moment and finish the issue of the official newspaper first. But if there is a chance in the future, he can do it in this regard.
Number of exploration paths.
Weng's son-in-law was chatting happily and briefly chatting about the bank account. However, he saw that Aunt Jin had sent someone to deliver a message and a banquet had been prepared in the side hall. So Li You invited Jin Wanwan to the table, while Aunt Jin was looking at her.
Accompanied me and had a small reunion dinner.
Jin Wanwan visited Li You today, and Gao Changjiang, who went to Beijing with Jin Wanwan, went to visit his close friend, Mr. Deng, the right minister of the Ministry of War.
During the chat, the incident at the Chongwen Gate Tax Office yesterday was inevitably brought up. Seeing that Gao Changjiang seemed to be aggrieved, Shilang Deng persuaded him in turn: "My dear brother, I don't know the situation in the capital, nor do I know the affairs of the Chongwen Gate Tax Office.
First, the Chongwen Sect tax money is sent directly to the Great Neitian Treasury and belongs to His Majesty. Who can easily waive it?
Secondly, the people who work in the Chongwen Gate Tax Division are all relatives of the capital, and each has his own support. They have always been very unruly and domineering.
Thirdly, although I am a third-rank official, I am in the Ministry of War and not the Ministry of Household Affairs, so I have no control over the Chongwen Gate Customs. Therefore, it is normal that it will be of no use if you take me out on the spot. As a brother, I can at most help you afterwards.
You go to the Ministry of Household Affairs to make a case and recover some of the fines and confiscations."
After listening to Deng Shilang's answer, Gao Changjiang said curiously: "If it is according to what my brother said, when the ambassador of the tax department heard about Li Xujiang's name, he immediately surrendered to us and let us go, and never mentioned the matter of imprisonment or confiscation.
What’s the reason?”
Deng Shilang smiled bitterly and said: "You asked well, Mr. Li is a special one." (To be continued)
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