The beggar emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty - Chapter 564

With a large number of real gold and silver arriving at the provincial branches, countless people lined up at the door of the bank, carrying bags to exchange for ingots.

However, this scenario didn’t last long. Sometimes it was like this. The bank didn’t run money, and everyone wanted to break their heads. But when the bank really had a steady stream of money, everyone was not in a hurry.

After all, apart from hiding at home and abroad, there are very few people who really take out the gold ingots for trading, because it is too inconvenient.

The attitude of the Royal Bank also made it clear that your majesty never intended to default, and also saw your Majesty’s determination.

As long as your majesty doesn’t intend to default, it doesn’t matter even if the treasure note can’t be converted into silver. It can still be used to pay taxes and go to Daqin commercial firm to buy things.

After the confidence in the royal family gathered again, it was only a short time that the paralyzed businesses in the provinces resumed the original order, countless shops and restaurants opened again, and there were fewer people at the door of the bank.

The real exchanged ingots add up to about 102 million, and the rest are hoarded in the provincial headquarters and stopped dispatching.

Qin Huan was relieved to see that the financial and commercial order had been completely stabilized. This time, he worked hard to transport the silver to various branches at the cost of bankruptcy, just to show everyone his determination to maintain the treasure money.

All in all, the main reason why this financial crisis will be triggered is that we do not trust, not only the emperor, the imperial court, but also the new financial system.

This is also a must experience, because it is the first time in history that treasure notes completely replace copper coins and broken silver transactions. In addition, the huge negative impact caused by the indiscriminate issuance of treasure notes before the Ming Dynasty and the non recycling of treasure notes, combined with various reasons, it is not difficult to understand why people are so panic and nervous when there is wind and grass.

After this lesson, Qin Huan realized that there were still many loopholes in his financial system and Daqin firm.

The first is the communication conditions and transportation capacity, which are far from meeting the rapid development of business. Now it is just the beginning. In the future, this situation will only be more serious and it is easy to be exploited.

In terms of communication and transportation, at present, both efficiency and speed can not be improved in a short time, but it can not be solved.

After scratching his head and ears, Qin Huan found some solutions, including short-term and long-term.

The first is transportation. The short-term solution is to set up a large warehouse in each province to store a large amount of grain, salt and cloth. At least the amount of daily consumption in the province for half a year should be met, so that all three things can be stored.

The long-term solution is naturally to build wooden tracks, study steam engines, widen canals, and open north-south sea transportation lines to ensure diversified transportation and avoid north-south traffic congestion caused by a flood or other natural disasters.

As for information transmission, in the short term, we can only choose flying pigeons to send letters and express horses to communicate. In case of emergency, flying pigeons can be used to send letters, and express horses can be used to send letters at ordinary times.

Qin Huan planned to set up a special department for raising and training carrier pigeons under the royal house of interior affairs. Each county, state, capital and province became a branch, and then set up several transfer stations in North China, East China, southwest and northwest. In case of emergency, carrier pigeons were used to deliver the information one by one, so as to deliver the information to Wuhan in one day.

Similarly, Wuhan can spread information to all counties in the world in only one day. Those who have the right to use carrier pigeons are just four people, including the shopkeeper of commercial bank, county magistrate and county captain. In order to reduce costs, only two carrier pigeons and a professional breeder are needed for each county. Because the Department is subordinate to the royal family, the personnel and carrier pigeons are placed in the backyard of the bank.

The mail Department of the Government Affairs Council will be responsible for the management and construction of the express horse communication channel. In the future, it will only be responsible for the transmission of letters and official documents, not for the delivery of goods.

Today’s post department is very imperfect, so Qin Huan plans to reform it personally to make it have efficient communication ability. Fortunately, there are official channels in all parts of the Qin Dynasty, and basically every county has official channels.

His idea is to establish a nationwide communication network, which is divided into trunk lines and branch lines.

Trunk lines, first of all, rely on the existing official roads, establish a transfer station every 50 miles, establish several separate trunk lines, and start from Wuhan and connect to all provincial capitals.

The provinces are building several branch lines to cover all the States and counties under their jurisdiction. Similarly, a transit station should be set up every 50 miles.

Each transfer station is equipped with two fast horses and two personnel, and the official documents and letters are transmitted by relay.

If a document is sent from Wuhan headquarters, if it is only sent to one province, send a fast horse, carry the letter, rush 50 miles along the trunk line, give the letter to the personnel of the transfer station, and then the transfer personnel ride the fast horse and immediately run to the next transfer station, one by one to the branches of the provincial capital of the province, Finally, the branch shall sort out the public documents and letters slightly, and send them to the state and county in the same way after passing through the branch line.

The fast horse runs for 50 miles in one breath. It takes only two quarters of an hour during the day and at most half an hour at night. Even with the transfer time, it can run at least two or three thousand miles a day and night.

Therefore, within two days, the official documents sent from Wuhan are enough to be transmitted to the provincial cities in North China, East China, South China, northwest and southwest. In another day, they can be transmitted to the States and counties of their provinces.

If there is a letter at the transfer station, the returning personnel must change horses and run back immediately. If there is no letter, there is no need to change horses and walk back slowly.

Of course, not all official documents should be sent nonstop. In the future, all official documents and letters will be divided into three types.

The second is ordinary documents. Similarly, there shall be no delay between transfer stations and no stopover. However, if there is only one horse left in the transfer station, it is necessary to wait for the return of another horse before departure, so as to ensure that there will be no delay when there is an emergency document, that is, the transfer station shall ensure a war horse and a messenger at any time.

The third kind is the letter of ordinary people. This kind of letter does not need to be sent immediately, but only needs to be sent to the next station in one day. When each messenger sets out, he must insert a flag behind him. The colors of the flag are divided into three kinds, representing urgent and ordinary respectively. It is stipulated that there are three kinds of delivery.

At that time, the postal department will formulate special envelopes and briefcases. If people want to send letters, they need to buy the envelopes of the postal department. If they want to deliver them quickly, they need to pay another ten Liang silver according to the level of ordinary documents. As for the urgent level, it is not open to ordinary people.

Moreover, the mail department is only responsible for sending it to the counties, but not to the villages. People need to pick it up by themselves.

In this way, the expedited official documents of the imperial court can be sent to all counties in the world in up to three days. Ordinary official documents can be four or five days fast and six or seven days slow.

Ordinary people’s letters can be delivered in half a month if they are within the province. If they are across provinces, they can be delivered in at least three months or half a year.

Because even if you send a letter from Shandong to Hebei, as long as it crosses provinces, you have to first transport the letter from Shandong branch to Wuhan headquarters, and then to Hebei Branch.