Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 387 Encouraging Virtue (Part [-])
Both Zuo Yude and the Shidu bachelor were from the fifth grade, but the Hanlin Academy belonged to the emperor's secretarial team, while the Zhan Shifu was an institution that taught the prince to learn governance.Although speaking this way, it seems that the Hanlin Academy has a higher status, but it also depends on who it is for.

Gao Yushi is the same age as the prince, and it is obvious that the emperor cultivated the assistant talent for the prince in advance, and anyone can see this.

Although in Daming, the first condition for being able to really assist the crown prince in the future is to be highly pragmatic and to be named on the gold list, but since the publication of "Longwenbianying", most people are optimistic about this. In the exam, Gao Pragmatic even took the small three yuan. According to the Gao Pragmatic examination papers published by the Henan Superintendent Yamen, everyone basically believed that this child's future high school is really a high probability event.

In this way, Gao Yushi, a close minister of the prince, can basically guarantee that he will be a close minister of the emperor in the future, so it is better to call him Gao Yude now than Gao Shidu - it can better reflect the special relationship between him and His Royal Highness Well.

However, Gao Yushi himself is very open about this. Anyway, whether it is a bachelor's degree attendant or Zuo Yude, they are all temporary names, not real officials.

In the future, even if he is admitted as a Jinshi, he still has to win the Shujishi first, enter the Imperial Academy for a period of time, and earn qualifications. He still has to start as a junior official of the seventh or eighth rank. , but it's all a false name.

Of course, a false name is a false name, but it does not mean that it is useless at all.At least, with this temporary official position, he can do many things that ordinary people cannot do in vain.

For example, Shangshu.

On the second day of June in the fifth year of Longqing, the prince accompanied him to study, and he was a bachelor of the fake Hanlin Academy. Zhan Shifu Zuochunfang Zuoyu Degao pragmatically published "Shuyi Road Shu" in the imperial court. Post Stations to Shut Up Post Roads”.

At the beginning of Shuwen, there is a wave of "since ancient times".It is said that China has been a great country with a vast territory since ancient times.

And my Ming Dynasty has a vast territory and a vast territory. "It starts from North Korea in the east, covers Annan in the south, and is separated from the desert in the north." Ten thousand and nine hundred and four miles, and "those who are not ordered by officials to buy their homes, and those who are guarded by Hou Wei are not included in this number." ——This number is actually accurate, but he is probably the only one in the Ming court who knows it so accurately.

Of course, no idiot will jump out and say that his data is wrong, after all, no one has measured it.

Then Gao Wushi began to review the ways in which various dynasties ruled such a vast territory from ancient times to the present, that is, the way of information dissemination. "Build beacons, set off beacon smoke; drive horses and cows, run on foot; repair roads, set up post stations", and so on, without repeating them.

Then he introduced the theme, saying that in this vastly different and various forms of information transmission, the role played by the post station is particularly worthy of attention. Life is like a person's blood, which cannot be abandoned in a day." It can be seen that it plays a pivotal role in the flow of government orders.Finally, it is pointed out that all the dynasties in China centered on the capital, built post roads extending in all directions, and set up a large number of post stations with complete functions on them, so as to effectively transmit political, economic, military and other information.

Shuwen then began to talk about this dynasty, saying that since Taizu "mixed a district to live", in order to consolidate the rule, the post station was the most urgent matter for the military and state affairs.From the day he ascended the throne, he has controlled water, opened mountains, built roads, built bridges, prepared horses, set up vehicles and boats, and "placed water and horse stations everywhere".

Mayi refers to Luyi, "using horses, donkeys, carts, and husbands" for postal delivery, "or set up eighty, sixty, or thirty horses" at key points, "the rest are not important, and they are also on the road. , or let there be thirty horses, ten horses, five horses";
The water post is based on boats, "going on the right road, or setting up [-], [-], or [-] boats", and the rest of the branches go off the road, "also set up seven or five boats".It can be seen that according to the importance of the location of the post road, the number of pedestrians, the number of vehicles, boats, boats, and horses used by the post and the post vary.There are generally "ten people on the main roads, five or four people on the out-of-the-way roads".

Then it explained that the postal agencies of this dynasty, in addition to post stations, also had delivery offices and express delivery shops, but compared with the latter two, post stations not only spread all over the belly, but were also widely distributed in Liaodong, Gansu, Duogan, Uszang, and Song Dynasty. Fan, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangdong and other remote areas.By the 28th year of Jiajing, there were as many as 290 five water and horse stations across the country.

Obviously, the post stations of the Ming Dynasty "spread side by side" all over the country, which can be called the main artery of waterway transportation and information dissemination. It is precisely because of the ubiquitous post stations that a nationwide transportation network has been created.

The post station is full-time "delivering envoys, flying reports on military affairs, and transferring military supplies". It is busy with affairs, has a wide range of uses, and has the heaviest load.Therefore, post stations naturally became the main channel for the dissemination of official information in the Ming Dynasty.

After talking about the importance of post stations and Taizu's great importance to post stations, Gao Pragmatism changed his pen and began to talk about current problems.

Gao Yushi said in his essay: "All the rules and regulations of Taizu's post station were originally suitable, but as time passed and the situation changed, all the rules and regulations were completely abolished."

Then he began to give examples: For example, on the post roads of this dynasty, the average distance between stations is sixty to eighty miles. This is the distance that postmen are expected to travel in a day. Tired and "broken down".

In addition, because most of the documents passed by the post station are documents related to national security, postmen work under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War, and the management regulations of the post station are also correspondingly included in the relevant criminal law volumes of the "Daming Law" to show the post station. The importance and the particularity of postmen's work.

Although the law of the Ming Dynasty imposes severe penalties on couriers for delaying time, the courier can be exempted or mitigated when the journey is delayed due to flood obstruction or a wrong address.At the same time, the Ming Law strictly prohibits officials from abusing post stations, scolding and flogging post posts.On the contrary, if the postmen use the post station for personal gain, they will be punished twice.

These systems are not only strict, but also fully consider the rationality and feasibility, which is very appropriate.However, according to Gao Pragmatism, "When the former fan returned to his hometown, he passed through dozens of post stations, went deep into the post station, and asked all the officials, only then did he know that his feelings were absurd."

Gao Wushi not only gave examples of the post stations he passed by one by one, how many post stations were in disrepair, how many post stations were short of horses and horses, and how many post stations were short of postmen. Most of them, Gao Yushi didn’t dare to say it) abused and privately used the post station repeatedly, causing the post station to be overloaded and in a semi-paralyzed state.This in turn led to the inability to pass on the political and military information in a timely manner, causing the administration of the imperial court to fall into a vicious circle.

"The country is strong if the post roads are open; if the post roads are stagnant, the country is weak." Therefore, Gao Wu cried out in his essays that the disorder, disorder, and decline of the post post system seriously violated the original intention of Taizu Zuzu's precepts!
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