Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 1580 You are begging for food with golden rice bowls

The Great Qin Dynasty only existed for 15 years, but it created countless brilliant achievements and established its almost insurmountable historical position in one fell swoop.

One of the most important achievements was the astonishing effort to complete a nationwide transportation and communication network...  

"Eastern Poor Yan Qi, South Pole Wu Chu, above the rivers and lakes, the view of the Binhai is complete", this is the "road" of the Great Qin Dynasty throughout the world! "The road is fifty paces wide, and the tree is three feet wide. The outside is thickly built, and the golden cone is hidden, and the tree is green pine." What a magnificent feat and what a magnificent scenery?

Even if it is placed in later generations, it has always been an achievement that has attracted worldwide attention!

Strictly speaking, the construction and maintenance of such avenues that criss-cross across the country are not much less difficult than the Great Wall...

The unified "post system" of the Great Qin Dynasty was built on such a magnificent road transportation network.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, all countries had different names for post post communications, such as "Jun", "日", "Zhi" and so on. The Qin Dynasty unified the names of these different names and created post posts throughout the country. system, even if the empire suddenly collapsed, the postal system has been extended to future generations.

Since the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the number of post stations across the country has increased sharply, continuing and developing the system of combining post and biography in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. "Post" replaced all previous "post", "ting" and "pass".

The post station in the Tang Dynasty had all kinds of tasks. It was not only responsible for the transmission of official documents and letters of the state, but also conveyed emergency military information. affairs, and sometimes manages the transportation of tribute shipments and other small items...

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Liu Xun looked stunned: "Yes, all post stations in the world are under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War, otherwise who does Fang Shilang think it belongs to?"

How does Fang Jun know who is in charge?
In ancient times, official offices were originally unclear about their duties and powers, and there was no special institution for managing the post stations in the world. They didn't even have a special chief official...

"very good!"

Fang Jun was very excited. He really didn't expect that the Ministry of War was not a poor yamen. Although the mess was a bit rotten, the foundation was good!

"very good?"

Liu Xun was puzzled, and said: "Where is it? You probably don't know it? There are 260 water stations and 2 land stations in the country. There are more than [-] employees who specialize in post services. Although most of these postmen They are all doing hard labor and don’t need to bear the salary, but the daily food consumption alone will soon make our Ministry of War poor! These mud legs are really delicious... But when the British Duke served as Minister of the Ministry of War, he began to gradually Reducing the supply of post stations made life easier for the Ministry of War."

Thanks to the Fubing system, postmen are also served by local strong men in turn.

Compared with the army that often participates in wars, postmen are much superior in terms of security and freedom, and it seems to be a good place.

Actually it is not.

The post office system at this time was very strict, and the laws of the Tang Dynasty stipulated the penalties for various mistakes in the postal delivery process very carefully, and if there were any mistakes, they would be dealt with severely.

For example, the postmaster should have several responsibilities. First, he must report the death, loss and fertility of the posthorse every year, and report the expenditure of the posthorse.If any post horses are killed or damaged, the post chief is responsible for compensation; if the post station staff and horses are deducted privately, then "one hundred sticks"... What kind of heavy punishment is this?Basically dead.

This is the case with the postmaster, but the punishment for the postman is even stricter.

When the postman arrives at the post station, he must change his horse to go further. If he does not change his horse, he will be charged with eighty sticks; if he delays his journey in the post and is not dispatched, he will receive one hundred sticks; if the document arrives late, the stick will be eighty one day, and it will be doubled in two days... By analogy, the heaviest sentence is two years of imprisonment.

If the delay is an urgent military document, the crime will be added to the third class.

If you lose the battle due to the delay of the letter, you will be sentenced to death by hanging...

Because of the unprecedented unification of the whole country, the Sui and Tang dynasties sent a large number of official documents from the central government to various regions and from various regions to the central government. The statistical materials sent to the central government by the states alone amounted to more than [-] pieces per year. It is recorded in "New Book of Tang Dynasty" that Yuan Jie, a famous poet in the mid-Tang Dynasty, served as the governor of Daozhou for less than [-] days, and received as many as two hundred documents from various places...

The extremely harsh living environment and the pressure from the higher-level authorities show how severe the postal system is at this time.

And in the village, all the strong men with some connections go to serve in the army. Although it is a bit dangerous, at least they have enough to eat and wear warm clothes. All in all, who wants to go to Kuhaha's post station to be a postman?
Fang Jun was shocked when he heard the words: "Reduce the supply? Absolutely not!"

motherfucker!

You guys are really ignorant and fearless!

If memory serves me correctly, the first postman riot in history happened in the Tang Dynasty, right?
It's nothing more than an ordinary riot. At the top of the sky, as the chief officer, he has to bear the main responsibility, and it is inevitable to be demoted. But what if one or two powerful people appear among the postmen of the riot?
Fang Jun clearly remembered that it is easy to produce good men among postmen, especially in Shaanxi...

Liu Xun didn't understand why Fang Jun had such a reaction, and said puzzledly: "But if the supply is not reduced, such a huge team of postmen will be too wasteful. The most important thing is that our yamen has no money now. If Fang Shilang If you don’t get some money back, not only the construction site of the Foundry Bureau must be shut down from next month, but the supply of the post station can only be reduced by half on the basis of the cut..."

The Ministry of War was originally a poor yamen, and after Fang Jun's toss, the warehouse was almost running out of mice...

It's unbelievable, but that's the status quo.

Fang Jun held the tea bowl and crossed Erlang's legs, and said: "You people are all dead-headed. You just think about saving money all day long. How much money can you save? If you want to live a good life, then Get open source! Open source is not easy? Money is earned, not saved!"

Liu Xun said in a low voice: "This...we have nothing to do. How can we make money by guarding such an unwelcome government office like the Ministry of War? There is not much money in hand. If we are going to pluck the hair... those officials who are censors can't do it. They are not vegetarians, and once caught by them, no one can resist."

As he spoke, he raised his eyebrows again, stared at Fang Jun and asked, "How can Fang Shilang get money? Whether it's His Majesty's internal money or the Ministry of Household's treasury, if you don't do anything, we will The yamen really can't open the pot!"

At the beginning Fang Jun boasted that he would invest a lot of money in the construction of the foundry bureau when he came to Haikou. Now the time is not short. The little money that the Ministry of War has is almost gone. It's time for you to get money, right?

Although the Ministry of War is in a state of desperation now, Liu Xun is really not worried.

Who is this in front of me?

This is the man that Datang calls "God of Wealth"!The emperor's internal funds and the treasury of the Ministry of Households have become richer than ever due to large sums of investment in glass, saltworks, etc., and the source of all this is not all because of Fang Jun?
As long as he is willing, it is not difficult at all to get some money to support the mess of the Ministry of War...

Fang Jun said angrily: "Just so promising? When you encounter trouble, you always want to ask for help. Why don't you ask yourself?"

Liu Shi smiled wryly and said, "It's not that we like to ask for help. It's not like you don't know how unwelcoming our military department is. Without power, how can we have money?"

Throughout the ages, every yamen has been like this. If you want to do things, you have to win people's hearts first, and if you want to win people's hearts, you have to treat the big guys well. Without sufficient protection, who will charge into battle with you?
In essence, a government office is the same as an enterprise, they must first generate income before they can achieve performance...

Fang Jun sighed, and said, "You guys... you really are begging for food with a golden rice bowl, you deserve to be hungry!"

Liu Xun wondered, "What does Fang Shilang mean by this?"

Fang Jundao: "Don't say anything else, let's talk about this post station that spreads the world. You just put money in it year after year, and use your pitifully small public money to fill this hole for the imperial court. Why don't you think about ideas at the station?"

Liu Xun was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized: "The servant of the house wants to abolish all the post stations in the world, so as to save a large amount of money for subsidies every year?"

Fang Jun almost fell to the ground...

After talking with the young master for a long time, you came up with an idea to abolish it?

Not to mention that this move is tantamount to killing a chicken and taking eggs, isn't it afraid that His Majesty Li Er will chop off your head?
Where is the station?Those are the people who are in charge of delivering government documents and military information, or the existence of board and lodging and horse-changing on the way to and from officials. You abolished the post station, do you want to paralyze the entire Tang Dynasty?

If you really dare to tell His Majesty Li Er like this, it seems that the head is absolutely light, and it is possible to destroy the nine clans...

(End of this chapter)