The heavens are kings, starting with Qing Prince Li Chengqian

Chapter 34
This postal route system is actually one of the products of Emperor Qing’s New Deal, which basically appeared at the same time as the newspapers run by the inner court.

Like the inner court newspaper, no one cares about it.

Because the price is too expensive, just sending a letter costs a tael of silver.

No one bought a newspaper for one tael, and naturally few people bought and sold this letter for one tael.

So far, only some sons and daughters of officials and eunuchs will use this postal route system for correspondence.

For example, Fan Xian and Fan Ruoruo have been like this in recent years.

But even if they are the sons and daughters of officials and eunuchs, ordinary low-ranking officials may not be able to afford the postal service of this tael of silver.

The income is naturally very little, but the investment is several times greater than that of the inner court newspaper.

The post stations built in each town alone cost a lot of money. In addition, the postmen in each post station are basically relatives of officials. The bloated part is almost no less than the increasingly large bureaucratic system in the Qing Dynasty. One can imagine , the monthly salary spent on the postal system is definitely not low.

Horses and daily wear and tear are also not a small expense.

To put it bluntly, Qingguo's investment in the postal system was almost enough for Li Chengqian to run hundreds of newspapers.

And it has to be thrown in every year, like a bottomless pit.

Even because of the huge postal system, more and more officials have been involved, and the resistance to Emperor Qing's desire to abolish this matter will become extremely great.

After all, who doesn't have a few lazy relatives whose mud can't support the wall?
Just throw it in any post station, not to mention the work, and the salary, and the usual food and drink can be settled at the post station.

The officials are relieved, and the relatives are also happy. The only unhappy person is probably Emperor Qing who only sees the input but not the output.

But this is what Ye Qingmei once said. Emperor Qing felt that he did what she said. Regardless of whether he earned money or not, he felt comforted in his heart. Are you there?

As long as the inner library can hold on, everything is not a problem.

What's more, it's hard to act rashly now, so let's just leave it at that, anyway, when the world is unified, there will naturally be a time to settle accounts after autumn.

If he compromised the first time, there would be a second time, or even countless times.

In short, everything is for the ultimate hegemony.

Of course, Emperor Qing also realized that many of the actions of his New Deal not only failed to solve the problems of the Qing Kingdom itself, but created new problems one after another.

This is also the root cause of his less and less movements over the years.

Li Chengqian felt that Emperor Qing was his father after all, and as a son, he naturally had to solve problems for him.

Although the postal route has many problems, it is also a valuable asset.

At least, if he wanted to spread the newspapers published by Fuyao Newspaper Office to the world, he could hardly do without the help of the postal system.

Of course, it is not impossible for him to build it himself.

But the construction of the postal system requires a lot of people and horses. He is the prince after all. If he does it, someone will definitely impeach him. The whole world recruits soldiers and horses, is it to rebel?

Therefore, his best way is to cooperate with Qingguo's official postal system.

Of course, it's not that he didn't think about using the official postal system to build a team loyal to him.

He even had an idea to use this team as the prototype of his future intelligence organization.

The importance of intelligence is beyond doubt.

Whether it is the Overwatch Council in Nanqing, the inner court of Emperor Qing, or the Jinyiwei in Northern Qi, they all have a decisive force in many events.

In future disputes, if he doesn't have a strong enough intelligence organization, he will be restrained everywhere.

But he is not very good at telling the truth about these things, and he only occasionally learned some from the Internet in his previous life.

So he mainly wanted to extract an intelligence-related expert to help him deal with all this by intervening in the postal route or completing other events.

But the randomness of the lottery is too great, and he is not sure what he will get in the future.

In short, now he is taking one step at a time, and there is no anxiety in his heart.

A strong military force is his greatest confidence, and the rest, just treat it as a business development game.

It's good if it's done, but it doesn't hurt if it doesn't.

Just like Li Yunrui's backstab on the day of the Great Court Meeting, he had no fear at all.

How to be or what to do on weekdays.

But in the end, it was Li Yunrui who acted at a disadvantage. After some dragging, in private, Li Yunrui made a lot of concessions on the things that he had resisted before.

……

It was another court meeting. Since Li Chengqian already had a draft, he naturally saw the right time and said, "Your Majesty, my son has been idle in the East Palace for nearly half a year now, and I am very quiet, so I would like to ask Your Majesty to give me a hand." My son has an errand to do."

He said it bluntly, and it didn't make sense.

Although everyone knows that Fuyao Newspaper is run by him behind the scenes.

But after the last court meeting, the nominal owner of Fuyao Newspaper has become Luo Guanzhong, who is now famous, and Fan Sizhe, the son of Fan Jian, the servant of the household department, and has basically nothing to do with him in name.

Needless to say, Luo Guanzhong, he was the one who made the most of the rumors on the Fuyao newspaper.

As for Fan Sizhe.

Although he signed the so-called transfer contract, he only owns half of Wenbao's shares.

Moreover, in the final analysis, this half of the shares is not owned by him.

Because when he signed the contract, he also automatically defaulted to owe Fuyao Newspaper a huge sum of 5000 taels of silver.

And the 5000 taels was exactly the sum of money Fuyao Newspaper returned to the internal treasury.

Naturally, Fan Sizhe had no money, so the 5000 taels were paid by Fuyao Newspaper itself.

It's just that if the Fuyao newspaper pays it back directly, the internal treasury can also use the name of investment dividends to deny the arrears.

But adding Fan Sizhe to make a move is equivalent to Fan Sizhe personally returning 5000 taels to the internal treasury, thereby buying half of Wenbao's shares.

Although Versace had a huge debt of 5000 taels of silver.

However, he also received a fixed dividend of 100 taels of silver per month from the Fuyao newspaper.

The reason why he can only get 50 taels is because the other 50 taels are used to repay the debt.

The principal plus interest is clearly written in the contract, and it can be paid off in ten years.

That is to say, Fan Sizhe didn't have to pay a penny, not to mention 50 taels a month, and ten years later he could still own half of Wenbao's shares.

Fan Sizhe is a young genius for calculating accounts. If he hadn't figured out the issue of money, although he was stupid, he would not sign easily.

Of course, the specific influence behind it is something that he can't calculate and can't figure out.

This also led to Fan Jian being so angry that he was beaten to death after Fan Jian returned to the mansion that day.

After learning about this, for some reason, Li Chengqian ate two extra bowls of rice.

(End of this chapter)