This is a planned project. Whether you can see the prospects from the plan depends on your ability.
Zhao Xi didn't think that people in this era could have that kind of insight. Even Zhao Qin and the people from the Lao Liu family thought that Zhao Xi was asking them to take responsibility and share the worries of the court.
If someone takes over, I'm afraid Zhao Qin and the Lao Liu family won't care about the plan they worked so hard to make.
However, for Zhao Xi, it is really impossible to distinguish between public and private. His status as an emperor is destined to completely integrate public and private.
As far as the current situation is concerned, even Zhao Xi is not very sure about the income from the inn and postal business.
From the perspective of the transportation industry, although water transportation and rail transportation are not sufficient to transport large quantities of goods, they do not leave much surplus.
Operating the inn and mail business, what can generate profits is the delivery of letters and small items, including the income from the reception function.
The re-registration of households and the management of identity certificates in the country are also beneficial to the court. Of course, it also lays the foundation for the postal business.
In fact, Zhao Xi does not think that the postal service can produce much benefit.
Letting Zhao Qin and the others take the lead in this business is also one of the purposes of helping the court solve the expenses of the post station.
There are logistics needs of the newspaper industry, and they also have expenses themselves. Taking over the official post station is already an internal digestion measure to a certain extent.
Changing the original issuance of post certificates by the Privy Council to the method of advance payment and reimbursement by officials who use the post, it is an effective way to control costs for the party operating the post and the court.
Based on the imperial court's annual expenditure on maintaining the post staff, plus the transportation costs of small and medium-sized items from Zhao Qin's property, it should be enough to keep the balance.
At the same time, the post station is open to civilians on the basis of ensuring official delivery. This will be the source of income for operating the post station. After all, the imperial court is about to completely use decrees to liberalize the mobility of the people.
This not only increases the income of the station, but also promotes the flow of labor between countries and dynasties.
Such an explanation is rational both inside and outside, and even Zhao Xi can't tell whether it is public or private.
"Officials, once this is implemented, the transmission of official documents between the court and the prefectures and counties will be a problem."
Zhang Fangping's worries are not unreasonable.
Although there are rail and water transportation, the role of post stations in the country and the dynasty is irreplaceable. Whether it is water transportation or rail transportation, they cannot compare with the post delivery in terms of extension and network perfection.
The post roads extend in all directions. Between the countryside and the capital, there are horse-resting pavilions within twenty miles, pavilions within sixty miles, and water posts in Shuixing prefectures and counties.
Track laying is limited by terrain, and water transportation is even more so. It cannot replace the role of a post station at all.
There are delivery shops for delivering documents, and there is one shop every eighteen, twenty, or twenty-five miles. There are three types of delivery shops: foot delivery, horse delivery, urgent delivery (also known as urgent delivery) and gold-lettered urgent delivery.
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The types of documents delivered by various delivery shops and the daily distances are different. The documents delivered are also called deliverers. The service members of the post office have been serving as couriers on behalf of the people since the second year of the founding of the country. This ensured to a certain extent that
The official nature of Yi Delivery also plays a role in keeping official documents confidential.
"The party that operates the post station must retain the function of transporting official documents. In other words, it must reserve personnel and horses for delivering documents to the court at any time. This is a prerequisite."
"In order to ensure the confidentiality of official documents of the imperial court, we can try out a personnel registration system, which means to register the personnel responsible for delivering official documents."
On this issue, Zhao Xi is not too worried. Compared with the soldiers of the Xiang Army who are currently supported, Zhao Xi trusts the people hired by Zhao Qin and the others more.
In many things, if the surname is public, the sense of responsibility will actually decrease.
"Why do the officials rely on the state-run temple to take the lead?"
This is what makes Fu Bi strange. It is said that many industries of the imperial court are dominated by state-owned temples and adopt a public-private joint venture approach. The effects are visible both in terms of management and income.
I don't understand why the officials completely ignored the imperial court on this matter.
"Prince Fu, everyone, in fact, the most critical point in using this unofficial contracting method to lead the inn is to solve the court's expense on the inn."
"The imperial court issued the e-mail scrolls without considering their purpose, and the loss of the e-mail scrolls has nothing to do with the e-mail scrolls."
"To be specific, the Privy Council has issued countless post papers, and there is no way to know how many post papers there are. And the money and food paid by the imperial court every year for the operation of the post station also have no standard. This does not include the cost of supporting the staff of the post station."
"The reason for using this method is first of all to consider the placement of the post station staff. Secondly, if the post station is operated by a state-owned temple, the state-owned temple must determine the cost of all the post stations. This is a big project."
"At the same time, when determining the loss of the post station, it is a process of digging out the roots. From the perspective of input and output, this is not worth the gain for the court. It is better to throw it out completely."
In fact, due to the laying of tracks, some large inns have been completely replaced by track stations, and they are basically being provided by the court in vain. However, the court's expenditure in this area has not decreased.
Even if it is thrown out, for the imperial court, it has not really lost its backbone.
As for the operator, while reducing personnel, it should be a win-win situation as a supplement to the imperial rail station to put the entire postal network of the imperial court into healthy operation.
Zhao Xi didn't say everything clearly, there are some things that need to be understood.
"It's not something that needs to be decided today. It's just an issue for the cabinet to understand first and see if it can be done in this way."
They are probably all confused, this is not something they can figure out in a short time.
Judging from the expressions on Han Jiang and Lu Gongbi's faces, they probably didn't understand it either.
Zhao Xi is not in a hurry, and he is not worried that the cabinet will fail to approve this method of operation.
As for Zhao Qin and Lao Liu's family... we can take a look at the degree of compliance. It can be seen at a glance that they are making money, and anyone can tell. Only in this kind of business that seems to have no hope, can we have the opportunity to identify some positions.
This matter was mentioned in this way. Since the officials did not ask for an immediate agreement, and since there were important matters in the court, it really became such a mention.
In the next few days, Zhao Xi learned from Zhao Qin that no one had indeed contacted her about the inn.
Maybe he couldn't care less, because the court was indeed in a bit of turmoil...
After the results of the Internal Reference General's investigation into Wang Anshi were announced, suddenly there were more bullets.
This reassured Zhao Xi a lot, but the court was in a bit of chaos. And the supervisory office was even more busy.
"As expected! The officials asked the supervisory office to open a case to investigate Jifu, so they should have expected today's situation!"
Zhang Fangping complained in the cabinet, but he did not directly accuse the officials... There were many things in the court that made him confused. Being bold was not reckless. He needed to wait and see.
It's a pity that no one in the cabinet responded to his complaints, and they all looked indifferent. Even Wang Anshi, who also looked like it had nothing to do with him.