Li Jing took the lead in getting into the car, "Handlebar type, go to the old city of Dengzhou, only half the way, isn't it less?" ”

The driver was a middle-aged man, who looked a little thin and thin, but he had a smile on his face, and when he heard this, he turned his head and smiled at Li Jing, "This gentleman said that he laughed, my four-wheeled carriage is to take the dock to Xindenzhou at a fixed point, no matter how far or near, it only takes ten yuan to get on the car." Don't think I'm expensive, look at this carriage, how beautiful it is, the four-wheeled carriage has never been seated before, so we have it in Dengzhou. Walking on this road, comfort is not the peak. And let's sit in a car for people, and the compartment is not crowded and clean. ”

Li Jing nodded, the operation of this four-wheeled passenger carriage is good, the price of ten cents is the whole journey, and it is a high-end route. Rich people sit comfortably, fresh and face-saving, and what they are willing to do are businessmen, literati, and officials, and they don't care about ten cents at all.

The four-wheeled carriage was manufactured after Li Jing explained the requirements and several key technical points to the Boat and Vehicle Department of the Equipment Bureau, and asked them to perfect it. Li Jing's starting point for manufacturing four-wheeled carriages was because of the large transportation volume of four-wheeled carriages. Although the four-wheeled carriage is not as suitable for Chinese roads as the two-wheeled carriage, it is better suited than the two-wheeled carriage for the wide and flat road that runs the short distance from the dock to the city.

At present, the trade of Zhenguo Army is very prosperous, and the Dengzhou wharf and more than ten small ports along the coast of Dengzhou, as well as the Duli Port, Qingni Port, and Shirenzhu Port in southern Liaoning are all very busy, and there are a lot of goods in and out. The volume of transportation was huge, and the manufacture of four-wheeled carriages greatly eased the pressure on the transportation of the docks.

However, after the four-wheeled carriage was put into use. Someone immediately discovered that the four-wheeled carriage was more comfortable to ride. Especially if you're not going far away. It is quite comfortable and very stylish. As a result, a large number of orders for carriages were quickly received. For this reason, the four-wheeled carriage factory now not only has the first, second and third factories that specialize in manufacturing four-wheeled carriages for transporting goods, but also the fourth factory that specializes in sitting people. Most of these carriages were ordered by merchants and officials, so they were all very luxurious and expensive. However, there are also some people who have a good eye and begin to order ordinary four-wheeled carriages after discovering the comfort of four-wheeled carriages. Started a car rental or direct solicitation business.

Li Jing has no opinion on this, and he is happy to see it. One more business means that the newly established tax bureau of Zhen Guojun can increase the tax by a certain amount.

The coachman whipped up, and the two horses pulling the carriage ran briskly, and sat in the middle of the carriage, which was indeed much more comfortable than the two-wheeled carriage.

"Wait a minute, everyone, I'll go get something and bring it up." The handlebar of the car stopped in front of a house near the city gate as he was about to leave the city. Li Jing looked up and saw the flag of the Zhenguo Army planted in front of the house. There were also two military policemen in black uniforms standing guard with guns.

Xiao Dingbang said softly: "This is the post office." ”

The Zhenguo Army not only retained the post station system, but also added post offices in each city. Twenty-six post offices and 100 post offices were set up in the 26 counties of the Zhenguo Army. This post office post system is not only responsible for delivering news, but also for receiving passing Dengzhou officials and public officials. In addition, it is also responsible for the receipt and delivery of letters, for the time being, this system can only accept the mutual transmission of letters in Dengzhou, and the rest only opens the letter mail system between Dengzhou and Songzhou, Biancheng, Luoyang, Chang'an, Yangzhou, and Guangzhou.

To this end, the Zhenguo Army also issued the first set of stamps and envelopes, as long as you buy the stamps issued by the Zhenguo Army, affix stamps on the envelopes, and then put the letters into the post office mailboxes of the Zhenguo Army in each city, and the post office post station of the Zhenguo Army will deliver the letter to the address on the envelope.

Sure enough, the handlebar style quickly came back with a few packages on his back.

"Are you still carrying things?" Li Jing asked with a smile.

The handlebar tied a few packages to the roof of the car, and replied with a smile: "The letter from the post office and a few packages were delivered to the old city, and I took them along the way." ”

"Doesn't the post office have a special stagecoach?"

"Yes, but sometimes when I don't have enough things or can't get there, the post office will ask me to piggyback on some, and I have to come twice a day anyway. However, it is not free to piggyback, bring it once, and charge a ten-cent car fee. The coachman said with a smile. This piggyback is still good, every day to both sides of the piggyback, just this day can collect forty or fifty yuan, a day's carriage and horse money will come back.

"Are there many senders?" Li Jing asked.

"There are a lot of letters, and now it is indeed much more convenient to send letters like this, much faster than the letters of the previous post station, and there are fewer cases of lost letters, and the charges are low. However, there are many people who send parcels and send things, and many parcels are entrusted to me. "The handlebar type is driving while driving.

Li Jing nodded, and Li Liang and the others also smiled at Li Jing. The post station system is used to transmit messages and receive officials on the road, which is an indispensable setting. But the consumption of the post station is also large, and a lot of money has to be thrown into it every year. Datang had nearly 2,000 post stations at its peak, but now many of them have been abolished, just because it consumes too much money. It's a big hole that you can't get into.

I remember that Li Zicheng in the last years of the Ming Dynasty was a post soldier, and he was laid off because he was laid off, and he rebelled because he couldn't settle his job after being laid off.

After studying for a long time, Li Jing and Li Liang and other officials all thought that the post station could not be withdrawn, but it could not just be thrown into it every year. In the end, Li Rang proposed to expand the post station, and the post station would operate inns, restaurants and warehouses by the way. Li Jing agreed to this point, although the post station is a military setting, but it is also possible to operate a civilian operation, after all, the two are in business together. Li Jing also mentioned his own idea by the way, that is, to make the private letter delivery business operated by the post station bigger and integrate it into a faster and more complete post system through the post station system.

The post office is not only responsible for delivering letters, but also for delivering parcels, as well as running inns, restaurants, and warehouses. Moreover, it is not only convenient for the people, but also can make money by operating these civilian uses, subsidize the military post station system, and prevent it from eroding.

The soft ringing of the carriage bell did not stop, and Li Jing slowly felt the huge change.

The road connecting the old city of the new city and the wharf is very wide, ten zhang wide, can run several carriages in parallel, and the loess is the foundation, and a layer of gravel, then a layer of cinder, the most plastered with a layer of white sand, and there are special road maintenance workers. Sitting in this four-wheeled carriage, I didn't feel any vibration at all.

Li Rang and the others were already chatting with the other people in the carriage at this time, those few Luoyang businessmen who came to Dengzhou from other places to look for business opportunities as Li Jing expected, and those young scholars were teachers at the Dengzhou School and went to the East Street of the old Dengzhou City to buy books. The East Street of Dengzhou City has now almost become a street of paper, ink, pen and inkstone and various books, and several printing houses and bookstores are concentrated here. Every weekend, students from various schools come to buy books and papers.

"Master, go to the old city, do you still have a place to piggyback?" Halfway through, a young woman with a fiery red body under the locust tree on the side of the road waved her hand to stop the car, and the exposed wrist was heartwarming. The eyes of the people who were talking in the car were all attracted at once.

The handlebar stopped the carriage and said with a smile: "There is a position, there is a position, but there are already people in the car, I don't know if the little lady in the road minds." ”

The woman was about twenty-eight years old, dressed in fiery red, looking at the material, it was a good mirror flower silk, and a piece of scarf around her neck was still a piece of fox skin. Combing a girl's hair in a bun, although she didn't have any jewelry, the fabric on her body and her delicate skin, even the moving eyes, and her generous expression all showed that this was not an ordinary woman.

"It doesn't matter, now that women can go to school to read and write, and they can go out to work in the workshop to make money, what does it matter if they ride in a carriage together." The woman was very hearty. The coachman put her salute on the roof of the car and invited her to get into the car.

Several people in the carriage suddenly got up together, squeezed to the back very gracefully, and gave up the position in front to this beautiful woman.

The woman thanked her, but sat down in front unceremoniously.

Li Jing looked at the woman carefully a few times, and always felt a little familiar. The last glance fell on her fiery red straight-necked robe, which was a little above the tall position, and finally saw a small bronze medallion with a familiar logo on it. The pattern consists of a four-leaf clover and a circle. The overall look is simple and elegant, the four leaves of the four-leaf clover are composed of four hearts, the round background color is green, and the four hearts are white, which is very harmonious.

This is the symbol of the Zhenguo Army Medical Guild, and all clinics, medical centers, hospitals, and even traveling doctors and various pharmacies and medicinal herb shops under the jurisdiction of the Zhenguo Army are all under this guild and are under unified management. This sign is found in medical halls and pharmacies under the guilds of the family. However, individuals can only wear this emblem as doctors, and they must be regular doctors, and apprentices are not allowed to wear them.

is so young that he is actually a doctor with formal medical qualifications, which makes Li Jing slightly surprised.

Li Rang opened the folding fan and folded half of his face, quietly moved his head to Li Jing's ear, and whispered: "She is the chief doctor of the gynecology and pediatrics, obstetrics and nursing departments of Dengzhou Hospital, and she is proficient in surgery, and she is also the principal of the women's school of the Doctor's Hospital. ”

Li Jing finally knew who this woman was, "Little Doctor Immortal Lin Yueru!" ”

Li Rang nodded, Li Chun and the others had already recognized the identity of the little doctor fairy Lin Yuexian, and they had all met with her, and at this time, they all opened the folding fan and bowed their heads to get together.

PS: Glamorous is beautiful, encounter is encounter, what is beauty? The flowing water, the blooming flowers, the growing fruits, and the scenery along the way are all beautiful. You see it, you meet it, and it is beautiful to meet it. (To be continued......)