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The first snow of the year fell, and the originally brilliant Daqin Palace was wrapped in a silver suit, which had a unique artistic conception.

This day coincides with the five daily dynasties, three drums passed, the minister of civil and military affairs entered the palace of senior administration, and then the emperor ascended, and the first assistant of the cabinet Sima An led the ministers to pay homage, long live the mountain.

After the minister returned to his seat, Hanlin editor Sima Kai was the first to perform the wat out of the class and sang loudly: "Your Majesty, since the first emperor ruled the world, I have been in the sea in the east, the quicksand in the west, Shuonan Ji, and the voice is taught in the four seas, and the territory is so vast.

Since ancient times, the post road passes, the country is strong, the post road is stagnant, the country is weak, throughout the past dynasties, the rise and fall of the post is often a symptom of the rise and fall of the regimes of the dynasties.

China not only has a unified territory of thousands of miles, but also has many ethnic groups and different cultural customs. The imperial court should give orders and maintain system governance, and smooth, convenient and fast transportation conditions are of paramount importance.

Therefore, the successive dynasties have spared no effort to devote a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources to open up and rectify the post station as much as they can, and create an effective post system to achieve the intention and understand the situation.

My Great Qin is no exception, since the day of His Majesty's Dingding, he has controlled water, opened mountains, built roads, built bridges, prepared horses, set up vehicles and ships, and placed water and horse posts everywhere. Horses, donkeys, carts, and man's mail. Eighty, sixty, and thirty horses may be set up at key points. Roughly according to the location of the post road, the number of pedestrians, water, horses, cars, boats, boats, horses, etc. The number of post guards is usually ten, and the number of people on the remote road is five or four.

Nowadays, the post stations are not only all over the belly, but also widely distributed in Liaodong, Gansu, Duogan, Wusizang, Songfan, Yunnan and Guizhou and other remote areas. According to the minister's understanding, as of August this year, a total of 1,295 water and horse posts of various types have been set up throughout the country.

The post station is dedicated to delivering messengers and reporting military affairs. Transporting military quartermasters, busy affairs, vast uses, and the heaviest load. It is irreplaceable in communicating with local political, economic, cultural, military and other aspects. However, it is not difficult to see from the old events of various dynasties. The post station is also a bottomless pit that is most likely to breed corruption and huge expenses.

In the former Ming Dynasty, for example, whether officials were on duty or not, they all borrowed to carry out surveys, and they were not involved in military affairs, and those who used the golden drum banner abounded. There are many matters such as Ding worry, reinstatement, giving reasons, promotion, transfer, and arrival, all of which are included in the tolerance range, and officials and entourages in the past have enjoyed the privilege of eating, drinking, and receiving at the post stations along the way under the guise of official business and official travel.

What's more, in the past, officials wantonly extorted and extorted the coach, and deliberately pawned and destroyed the horses when their desires could not be satisfied. forcing the postman to pay for the disaster; or falsely claiming that the postman stole luggage and demanded payment of free money;

or colluding with businessmen, using post stations to smuggle and evade taxes, and accepting bribes from them; Or hold it for a long time and use it for life, or give it to you as a favor. So much so that the post service has become the most harmful to the people and the hateful heavy service.

Since I set the Ding Ding of the Great Qin, His Majesty has been wise and martial, and the disadvantages of the post station have not been revealed, but if it is not prevented as soon as possible. The minister is worried that after a long time, it will eventually form a bad record.

Now the Department of Internal Supervision and Research and Development has developed a telegraph, which is convenient and fast, and there is military information on the frontier. Immediate communication to the imperial court; If there is a disaster in the local area, it can be sent to the Holy Hearing at any time, so that the imperial court can take timely measures to quickly control the situation.

And after the one-time investment of the telegram. In the future, the cost will be limited, and with the telegraph station, a large number of post stations can be abolished. It can save a lot of money for the imperial court every year.

If the civil telegraph business is opened, it may even bring a considerable amount of income to the imperial court. At the same time, after the information is fast and smooth, it will inevitably drive the faster circulation of commodities, which will play an immeasurable role in promoting the industrial and commercial development of Daqin. Therefore, the ministers asked His Majesty to set up wires in the country, so that the telegraph could form a network for the benefit of the world. ”

Sima An, the capital, sat on the left side of the train, and after listening to his son's long speech, he was like an old monk on the surface, and he couldn't help but feel very relieved in his heart.

The erection of telegraph lines not only made the transmission of information very fast, so that the imperial court could grasp the situation of all parties in a timely manner and quickly deploy countermeasures, but also cut a large number of post stations and save a lot of expenses.

Everyone will not object to such a good thing, and the Son of Heaven let his son come to play, which is equivalent to giving his son a big piece of sugar to eat, alas, it finally ended up sweet.

Sima Kai's performance immediately aroused heated discussions in the court, and the ministers expressed their opinions and offered suggestions.

Yang Chao, the right attendant of the household department, considered the input and output aspects, and suggested: "Your Majesty, if a large number of telegraph lines are erected in the country, it will be a considerable expense; The minister thought that some telegraph lines might as well be handed over to the private sector to operate, and the northern and western Xinjiang were sparsely populated, and it was estimated that there would be no private capital interested, and the imperial court would mainly invest financial resources in these places to ensure border communications. ”

Xu Yingjie, the left waiter, was not so optimistic, he said very bluntly: "Your Majesty, the cost of telegraph and transmitter is low, but the generator, battery, and even a steam engine are required, and the cost of erecting wires is not small. Maintenance of the line is also required at a later stage.

In terms of investment and income, there may be private investors willing to invest in these routes from Nanjing to Beijing, Xijing and Chengdu. Because these places are densely populated, the commodity economy is developed, and there are frequent exchanges between the state capitals along the route, the telegraph business is expected to recover the investment cost relatively quickly, but it is difficult to say about other places.

In addition, the telegraph line is long, passing through the state and county, and it is difficult to carry out daily maintenance if the telegraph business is operated privately. Unless they have separate maintenance personnel in each county along the route, which will greatly drive up the cost of investment.

Therefore, the minister thinks that it may be difficult to expect the private sector to make such investment. After all, this matter has to be invested by the imperial court. ”

Qin Mu originally intended to be run by a private person, but Xu Yingjie's words were quite reasonable, so he said: "Ministers, what do you think? ”

Lu Zhenfei, the second assistant of the cabinet, groaned: "Your Majesty, what Yang Shilang and Xu Shilang said has a certain truth. The minister believed that it was not possible to adopt a compromise method and practice public-private cooperation.

At present, the Ministry of Industry, Sinong Temple, Taifu Temple, etc., have many cooperation projects with the private sector, and have a good reputation. In this matter, it is advisable to use private capital as the initial investment and cooperate with the mode that the imperial court is responsible for the later maintenance. He believes that in this way, there will always be private individuals who are willing to invest. ”

Lu Zhenfei's mention was supported by many ministers.

Although it is not that the treasury is now without this money to invest, the telegraph business will take a long time to recover its costs, and if it can attract private capital to enter, there is really no need for the imperial court to bet a large amount of money on it.

However, the existing post houses of the imperial court could not be completely dismantled, and most of them had many other functions in addition to the delivery of letters, and the telegraph could not completely replace these tasks.

Now it is basically a post house in fifty miles, and it would be nice if the post house could be cut by half after the telegraph was erected. Then it is much easier to go to the local government and carry out daily maintenance of the telegraph line than private maintenance.

Qin Mu said in the court: "I think it is feasible, so I will negotiate this matter with Xu Shilang of the household department." Xu Yingjie is in charge of industrial and commercial and financial affairs in the household department, and it is natural for him to take care of such things as private capital cooperation.

Qin Mu continued: "The lines and sequence of the telegraph should be fully taken into account the needs of the military, political, and economic aspects. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." The three Shangshu went out of the class together and replied.

The erection of telegraph lines is of great significance, it has an immeasurable effect on strengthening the rule, Qin Mu has been sighing before, Mobei, the Western Regions and other places, it will take several months to send a message back, if there is a rebellion there, and when the news comes back, the daylily will be cold.

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