Chapter 11 Postal Service and Milk Tea

The post system originated in slave countries, flourished in feudal society, and ended with the decline of feudalism. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Although the communication between the post post and the beacon tower was the imperial tool of the feudal dynasties, it was also the beginning of China's organized communication work.

It not only occupies a certain position in the history of China's postal communications, but also makes important contributions to promoting social progress and human civilization.

The post station is the communication organization of the government, and only delivers official documents. Ordinary people can only carry information by entrusting people, but it is not urgent to pass it around, and it is easy to delay and lose.

There are many stories about "Hongyan Carrying Books" recorded in ancient Chinese books, which shows how difficult it was for people to communicate in ancient times.

Today, people still regard the wild goose as a symbol of postal communication, which shows the high hopes of the people for postal communication.

The formation of civil communication organizations began around the Tang Dynasty.

At that time, it was mainly due to the social and economic development, especially the need for business and trade. First of all, between Chang'an and Luoyang, there is a "post donkey" that serves private merchants. At that time, there was also a method called "flying money", that is, merchants from all over the country deposited the money obtained from the sale of goods in Chang'an into the offices of local governments in Chang'an, and then went to the local government offices with receipts to get back the amount, which is the germ of today's exchange business.

It was only in the Ming Dynasty that the Minxin Bureau appeared to transmit information to the people.

In the southwestern provinces, there have also been "Maxiang Covenants" to visit relatives and bring letters. Legend has it that the farmers in Xiaogan Township, Macheng County, Hubei Province, who were relocated to Sichuan for reclamation, because they missed their hometown, agreed to send representatives back to their hometowns every year to visit, bringing some local products and letters when they went back and forth, and then gradually formed the Civil Credit Bureau.

Minxin Bureaus began to appear in coastal cities with convenient transportation and developed trade, and then gradually developed into the mainland.

The Civil Credit Bureau is privately run for profit. On the one hand, they do it where it is advantageous, and no one takes care of the remote areas; On the other hand, in order to attract business, they competed with each other to provide convenience for customers, such as sending people to collect letters and remittances, and the fees could also be recorded, and so on, which led to the rapid development of the Minxin Bureau.

In the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty (1821 to 1874 AD), it was the heyday of the Minxin Bureau, and there were thousands of Minxin Bureaus across the country.

Some of them have set up their head offices in Shanghai, the commercial center, and have branches and agency stores in various places, and the civil information bureaus have jointly operated with each other, forming a non-governmental communication network.

Since the Song and Yuan dynasties, some of the impoverished people in Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, and other coastal areas have been abducted and deceived into doing hard labor abroad in order to earn a living.

The "Overseas Chinese Approval Bureau" is actually the Overseas Chinese Information Bureau, because the Fujian dialect calls "letter" "approval", so the Overseas Chinese Information Bureau that serves overseas Chinese communications is called the Overseas Chinese Approval Bureau.

Due to the overseas Chinese approval bureau's thoughtful service and outstanding reputation for overseas Chinese, it has almost monopolized the business of sending letters and remittances to overseas Chinese.

Since the invasion of China by foreign capitalism, the feudal ruling class allowed the invaders to encroach on China's postal rights, and together with foreigners, took advantage of the special rights of both officials and foreigners, and adopted the measures of compulsory registration of the Minxin Bureau, accepting the leadership of the customs and postal service, restricting the Minxin Bureau's delivery of mail to ships, and adopting capitalist competitive means, putting most of the Minxin Bureaus in a situation where they could not operate.

By 1935, the Minxin Bureau had been forcibly closed by the Kuomintang, and there were still more than 100 overseas Chinese approval bureaus until the eve of liberation.

Of course, now, it is only 1630, and the rest of the world has not yet happened, and with Chen Xin's involvement, the history of the whole world will definitely change dramatically, and these things are just a small reference.

The United Kingdom of China is a country of immigrants.

Most of the local natives in the northern part of the Korean region, that is, the Goryeo people, were either captured as slaves or died on the battlefield as cannon fodder during the perennial war.

Even if there is a lot of life left, they have all run away to the territory of the Korean Kingdom, and there are really very few local natives left in the kingdom.

The remaining natives of the Chaonan Administrative Region and the Kyushu Administrative Region, although the number of ensigns is a little more, but after the kingdom continues to collect displaced people from the Ming Dynasty as new immigrants, and continues to divide the natives with numerical advantages, and cooperate with the Sinicization policy, it is likely that in the next generation, all of them will become Han Chinese.

In this case, new immigrants from Daming will have a need to connect with their hometown after their lives slowly improve.

Indigenous people who have been relocated to other places will also have a desire to connect with former relatives and friends.

Xuanjun's civil affairs documents, as well as some military documents, also need an effective delivery system.

In this case, it is really not cost-effective to constantly configure separate letter and material delivery systems for each department.

Over the next few years, the kingdom will continue to build and improve 13 major departments, as well as dozens of independent institutions that are accountable to Chen Xin himself.

With so many institutions, it would be a terrible waste to set up their own communication channels one by one.

Therefore, it is necessary to establish a unified postal system.

What makes Chen Xin happy is that there is also this convenience in the establishment of a postal system in the United Kingdom of China, that is, air transportation.

The kingdom's army has been accustomed to using the biochemical falcon made by the golden finger for five years to deliver messages.

The falcon, which can carry 1 pound of materials and fly quickly at a speed of more than 300 kilometers per hour, is really a good helper in the postal service.

Especially now, when the roads between the counties have not been built and it is impossible to move the carriage quickly, these falcons can really help a lot.

However, it is not possible to rely on the falcon entirely, in the early stage, the kingdom has a small population, and it may not be much, and when the population explodes, the amount of falcons can be carried will become a problem.

When opening up the postal route, first of all, we should vigorously use water transportation and sea transportation, and at the same time, practical steam engines can already be manufactured in small batches, so the construction of railways should also be put on the agenda.

Taking this opportunity to open up the postal route, we will thoroughly understand the relevant technology of the railway and establish an experimental railway.

Chen Xin changed a pen, used different colors, and drew the names of several people on the list again.

"Very well, you are members of the Preparatory Committee for the Postal System, which will be formed."

At this moment, the maid came over with a tray and said softly, "Your Excellency, the kitchen has made some desserts and boiled a little milk tea, please taste it, whether it suits the taste." ”

Chen Xin took his eyes off the document and fell on the head maid dressed as a second-dimensional maid in the afterlife, and nodded with a slight smile, "It's okay, I haven't drunk milk tea for a long time, and I've almost forgotten what it tastes like." ”