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Text 616 [Post Office and Newspapers]

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    Zhenjiang.

    The catering and entertainment business of Zhenjiang Water Station in Daming, which has been making a lot of money every day, has been sold to private merchants¡ªin fact, it was originally contracted by private parties, and the restaurant and passenger ships were all purchased by the owner. After the Datong court forcibly took over, the original  Investors redeem at half price.

    However, the horses and fast boats in Zhenjiang Water Station are still preserved, and the government provides funds to support them.

    This situation is very common, including some post stations abolished by Chongzhen, which were also restored by the new dynasty of Datong.  A lot of low-level meticulous work was converted into a post office on the spot, saving the trouble of having no place to settle.

    The postmen belong to the officials, and the postmen are only contract workers.

    This treatment is not bad. The ordinary postmen in Ming Dynasty are often in the nature of corvee.  The more remote the place, the more this is the case, because there is no oil and water, and there is food and drink for the officials who come and go, the local finances cannot afford it, and they need to rely on the postmen to pay for it.

    So no one is willing to be a postman, and can only be used as a kind of corvee, forcing the people to work in the post.  After a few years of being a postman, his family is often ruined.

    Now, the various post stations, catering, accommodation and postal services of the Datong Dynasty have been divested.

    All the catering in the post station is left to private management, and officials who come and go have to pay for their own food and accommodation. The days of eating and drinking for free are gone forever.

    Early in the morning, Zhenjiang Water Station became lively.

    The postmaster congratulated Yipeng and ordered the postmen to replace the plaque, and the sign of "Zhenjiang Water Station" became "Zhenjiang Post Station".

    The shopkeeper of the restaurant next door came to watch the excitement and said, "He Yichang, why did you change the brand for no reason?"

    He Yipeng said with a smile: "Your Majesty has an order. From now on, the post station will also serve as an errand for the letter bureau. People can also deliver letters to the post station. The general rules are handled by the private letter bureau, except that the post station must post stamps when delivering letters."

    "That's rare, show me the stamps." The shopkeeper was quite curious.

    At the end of the Ming Dynasty, both the official and the private sector had express delivery services.

    The official express delivery business is the most developed in Liaodong, and it is divided into express delivery offices and express delivery shops.  The courier office is responsible for the delivery of official materials, and the courier shop is responsible for the delivery of letters and official documents.

    The private express delivery business is most developed in Jiangnan and Shanxi, and its name is "Xinju".  The main customers are gentry merchants, who not only help deliver letters, but also occasionally deliver goods, which can be regarded as SF Express and Debang in the Ming Dynasty.

    There are three payment methods for private express delivery: payment by sending, payment on delivery, and half of each payment for receiving and sending.

    Unfamiliar customers must pay at the time of delivery.

    Familiar old customers can not only pay in cash on delivery, but also keep accounts and make quarterly or annual settlement payments.

    The beacon fire lasts for three months, and the family letter is worth ten thousand gold.  The war caused most of the national credit bureaus to close down, and even if they didn't close down, they continued to shrink their business. In the past few years, they have finally begun to recover.

    Now, the government has actually entered the express delivery industry and introduced some damn stamps.

    "Here, it's this kind." He Yipeng took out a plate of stamps.

    The shopkeeper asked: "How much is it?"

    He Yipeng said: "It depends on the weight of the letter and the length of the journey. For a letter in the province that does not exceed six taels, a five-cent stamp is sufficient. The heavier the letter and the farther it is mailed, the more expensive the stamp is, and the letter is not allowed to arrive."  Payment. Moreover, no more than one catty will be accepted, if you want to send something, go to the private letter bureau.¡±

    This is also to generate income for the station system, otherwise the expenses will be too high, after all, there are so many postmen to support.  Unlike Daming, postmen had to pay back money, but now they are paid.

    An official ship came, and the postman stood on the ship and shouted: "Come here and help get things!"

    "Come on!" He Yipeng responded.

    The Zhenjiang postmen ran quickly, carrying a sack, and the postmen disembarked with their official documents.

    He Yipeng asked: "What's in this sack?"

    "Newspaper," said the postman, "there will be no mansion newspaper in the future. It will be renamed "Datong Monthly Newspaper", and it will be printed more than before. Local yamen, each yamen will distribute a copy for free. Every bulletin board will also post a copy."  All the rest will be sold on consignment at the post station, and every time a newspaper is sold, the post station will get two cents. If it can¡¯t be sold, it will be taken back to Nanjing after two months.¡±

    He Yipeng nodded: "Understood.

    "

    The postman said: "The ones left in Zhenjiang Mansion will be sent all the way to Shanghai."

    The level of the Zhenjiang post station is also very high. The official ship from Nanjing will go north along the canal after arriving here.  As for the things in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, Zhenjiang Station needs to send ships to forward them.

    The postman then took out more than a dozen official documents and said: "Send these two copies to the Zhenjiang government office, this one to the Zhenjiang government court, and this one to the post stations in various places. The rest are not from the Zhenjiang government office, so send them out together."  .You sign for it, newspaper.? Zhao and Song are all ancestors.  Moreover, there are countless descendants of Zhao and Song Dynasties, and it may be some prince who moved to Shanxi.  "

    "It's nonsense, His Majesty has published it in the newspaper to disassociate himself from it."

    "Who said to separate the relationship? Your Majesty only said that he came from Tianshuitang, and his ancestors moved to Shanxi during the Tang and Song Dynasties."

    "The Tang Dynasty moved to Shanxi, so it doesn't matter if it's Zhao Song!"

    ""

    The faces of the people at the two tables were arguing because of a small newspaper.

    No matter who wins or loses, everyone knows very well that the "Datong Monthly" will be indispensable in the future, and a lot of information must be obtained from this thing.

    There are also businessmen who have used their brains. The imperial court can run newspapers, why can't they themselves?

    The main content of the previous newspapers was copied from the Di Bao, and also included some business information, as well as major news, such as the explosion of the Wang Gong Factory.

    And the magazines and publications originating from literati gatherings are all poems, novels, and operas.

    Why not combine the two types, and then report some folk anecdotes, and compile it into a reading that ordinary people prefer to read?

    A folk tabloid is about to be born.

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