Chapter 184: A mess of post-post system

The answer is that the people come out.

The people who were performing corvee service at the post station showed up to the cost of this excess.

As a result, the service of the post station became a heavy service that the people of the Ming Dynasty feared. No matter where they were, as long as they served at the post station, their families would be destroyed and their lives would be light. It can be said that all the enjoyment of the Ming officials was passed on to the local people.

This is why Hai Rui had to criticize Hu Zongxian's son in terms of the standards of hospitality at the inn. That was the son of his immediate boss's boss. It was really a tea and every meal was filled with the blood and tears of the people.

But this is wrong. This is a change to deal with it.

But Yang Jisheng knew that this was difficult to deal with.

There is nothing else. It is not just one person or two who benefit from the post station. It is the entire official collective. The blood and tears of the people have become the welfare of officials and their families. Now Zhou Mengchen wants to change all this, that is, to reduce the welfare of the entire Ming Dynasty government.

How big a problem is there? Just think about it with your toes.

Although the officials of the Ming Dynasty were all born into reading sages, they all understood the idea of ​​Mencius and gentlemen who were away from the kitchen. When they saw their lives, they could not bear to die; when they heard their sounds, they could not bear to eat their meat. Therefore, if they did not see their lives and did not hear their sounds, they could eat their meat.

Anyway, they regard the pain of the post station as if they have not seen it. But it is not enough for you to reduce our welfare.

If Zhou Mengchen wants to change the suffering of the post station, he must ensure that officials in the world use the post station free of charge before they can carry out reforms.

But it takes a lot of money to ensure this kind of welfare. Although Zhou Mengchen did not calculate the specific amount, millions or even millions are reasonable.

Where did the imperial court have this money?

And there is also a power act here.

Zhou Mengchen seemed to be in charge of post-post, but his power in charge of post-post-post was actually shared with the local government. And it would be impossible not to share. After all, the station farthest from the capital is probably south of Yunnan, which is now in Myanmar. How could Zhou Mengchen manage it so far?

If there is no jurisdiction, any orders in Zhou Mengchen will be nothing. If any order is formulated and the person below does not execute it, it will be useless.

If you want complete jurisdiction, Zhou Mengchen had many lawsuits to fight with various places. This change in power ownership was not allowed by many people. The dispute over interests between the yamen, whether it is good or bad to the court, will not have any result without first attacking the dog's brain.

And what support can Zhou Mengchen get?

Is it power support or financial support? None.

What should Zhou Mengchen do if this is good?

Zhou Mengchen pondered for a moment and said, "No, no matter how many things are ahead, if you can do it, if you can do it, if you can do it, if you can be more generous, you will be more generous. I am going to start with the delivery shop first."

The post-post system is not just a post-post.

It is divided into three types, one is the post station. Generally speaking, there will be a post station within a day's itinerary. Generally speaking, there are more than a hundred people in a few rooms. There is also a large courtyard that can accommodate large groups of people to rest. This is also the most important node of the post station transmission system.

Even the imperial court was outside the pass and outside the northeast wall, and the inns in this place also had military functions.

The other type is the delivery station, which is a place that specializes in transporting a large number of tributes. It is mainly located in key places where water and land are intercepted, and is responsible for transporting tributes from local governments to Beijing.

But delivery is the smallest node.

There is a place in ten miles, mainly responsible for passing official documents, military information and other letters.

Yang Jisheng said: "How to start with the delivery shop?"

Zhou Mengchen said: "I am planning to formulate stamps, both the people and officials can send letters home. And set standards for postage for publications. As for how each letter is charged, I have not thought about this yet. In short, I am planning to not take any penny of the income from these stamps and subsidize them all to delivery shops in various places. This will reduce the burden below."

"It can also be considered a public-private and private slut." Zhou Mengchen said in his heart.

The standards were set for the transmission of the great doctor's sincerity and other journals through the imperial court's post transmission system. They could even collect money on both sides. If these journals wanted to be transmitted through the post transmission system, they had to pay a sum of money to the Ministry of War, and then when they were passed, they also needed to pay.

In short, since Zhou Mengchen regarded the postal system as the postal system, he naturally thought of the way to make money in the first place in the postal system.

In this way, the delivery of journals such as Dayi Jingcheng has become legal.

The post-passing system is so troublesome, Zhou Mengchen did not have the courage to cut the mess quickly, so he could only make a change little by little, starting with the delivery shop and subsidize the hospitality fee with postage.

Yang Jisheng was silent for a while and said, "Brother Zhou, don't underestimate people's greed. Now many officials are here, not just having a meal. They also have to offer silver. During the Zhengtong period, a postmaster was forced to kill passers-by officials and then commit suicide."

"I don't know how much money Brother Zhou can make. But one thing is that if you don't kill this kind of power, no matter how much it costs, it will be useless."

"I think it is time to redeem the post ticket. I asked before that the court formulated the post ticket and gave it to the officials, and even had a post ticket, which was still used for decades. This is completely unreasonable. Redeem the post ticket and ordered that there were no post tickets at the post station below and could not be received."

Zhou Mengchen also knew that many officials had to be received by post tickets. For example, Yan Shifan wanted to receive the post station, and even if he had eaten the courage of the post station, he would not dare not not receive the reception, let alone ask for a penny.

However, it is also good to have stricter national laws.

Zhou Mengchen said: "Okay. In the future, the post ticket must be a long ticket. For example, from Beijing to Nanjing, there are so many stations in the long ticket, and there are so many stations connected to the long ticket. For every one of them received, a section of the station will be left. Finally, when he arrives at the destination, his post ticket will be used up."

Yang Jisheng didn't expect this and said, "Union vote? Is this OK?"

Zhou Mengchen thought for a while and said, "Try it. At worst, you can change the method. There is always a way, so that people can't get enough time."

Yang Jisheng and Zhou Mengchen discussed various issues about the post newspaper for a whole night.

Zhou Mengchen even advocated opening up the source and used the entire post-school transmission system to make more money. Subsidies were simply the bottomless pit reception fees for officials from all over the country. Yang Jisheng was more concerned about reducing expenses and kicked out all those who should not be received by the post-station.

But both of them know a little.

That is, no matter how they change, they will not involve the fundamentals of posts. For example, the heavy service of posts, the local governments bear the financial resources of posts, the dispersion of management rights, etc. These will not change at all. All changes are flashes and flashes. What should the rest be like or what should be like?

It just wants to make fundamental changes. It involves the fundamental system of the court and the tax service system.

This is not something a doctor in the Ministry of War can do, and even the Minister of War may not dare to touch it. Even the chief minister of the cabinet is not everyone.

There is no way to do the power and the big things you have.

Zhou Mengchen was busy for several days. Jin and Yang Jisheng completed the post reform plan for the 27th year of Jiajing.

After submitting it, Yan Song's tacit approval, he arrived at Jiajing on the way. Jiajing didn't look closely at it. He just felt that since then, the sincerity of the great doctor had been delivered to every part of the world, and it was reasonable and legal. So without saying a word, it was accurate.

Jiajing may not have expected that his "accurate" would set off an ideological revolution in the later period of Jiajing.

First of all, the great etiquette in the early years of Jiajing severely damaged the foundation of Neo-Confucianism. In addition, the trend of Neo-Confucianism reform since the Chenghua of the Ming Dynasty has existed. In history, this change came in the year after Wanli, and there were trends of lectures everywhere. However, the reform of the post-discipline system seemed to have opened a back door for great doctors. In fact, the era of great development of newspapers and publications came.

Many laws in the Ming Dynasty were lagging behind, such as the management of multiple newspapers and publications. This was not interesting at all. In other words, a few people lived in a house and could do it as long as they found someone to print it. Before, it was only limited to the local area. Many people couldn’t do it. However, through the post-distribution system, many places have been linked together, giving many newspapers and publications a new market.
Chapter completed!