I deliver the courier at the end of Qin

Now that Xu Qin had been hit by Xu Negative's words and fell, Xu Qin didn't dare to go out at night again.Tomorrow, his father will take him to meet other officials of the county government to prepare for a good relationship. This first impression can't be a pig's head with a bruised nose and a swollen face, right?

The ancient people worked at sunrise and rested at sunset, which was much earlier than modern people.As soon as the cock crowed outside, people's voices and the sound of wheels rolling over bluestone slabs were heard in the streets and alleys.

Xu Qin got up and drank a bowl of turnip and rice porridge with soybean paste, ate a cake, got dressed and went to find Xu Wang.

Chen Mai also waited in the yard early in the morning, saying that he had never seen what the yamen looked like, so he had to ask Xu Qin to take him there with him.

The Qin Dynasty implemented the system of prefectures and counties. There were more than forty prefectures in the country, and there were counties under the prefectures.

The people's livelihood of a county is governed by the county magistrate, the parent official, through the county government. Tax collection, implementation of laws and regulations, construction of water conservancy, household registration statistics, maintenance of law and order, handling of lawsuits, road construction and disaster relief, and trivial matters are all through the county government.

The assistant officials of the county magistrate include the county magistrate and the county lieutenant, with a rank of four hundred to two hundred shi. Compared with the county magistrate, who has the highest thousand shi and the lowest [-] shi, their salary is not low, and their status in the county is quite high.

The county magistrate is in charge of warehouses and prisons and is a civil official; the county magistrate is in charge of security and arresting robbers and is a military officer.In addition, there are a lot of subordinate officials who Xu Qin can't remember clearly just after listening to the introduction.

The county magistrate is a frail scholar who looks to be in his early thirties, named Qin Peng.The one who stayed and talked with him was a young chief bookkeeper named Wang Xun.

Qin Xiancheng heard that Xu Qin planned to do business in Wen County, so he enthusiastically led him to meet the relevant officials in charge.If you want to do business, storefront and transportation are very important.

Xu Qin first met Jin Cao, who was in charge of collecting city rent. If he wanted to set up a store in the county, he would have to pay the county government monthly rent, and the money would be handed over to Jin Cao, an official.

Jincao of Wenxian County is called Zhou Lang, a fat man who always speaks cheerfully. He told Xu Qin with a smile: "Come and tell me which one you like, and I will definitely charge you the customs tax according to the cheapest one on the market."

Then Qin Xiancheng led Xu Qin to meet Guo Yi, who was in charge of transportation, and Mao Chong, a stable man who was in charge of horses in a county.

"I want to open a shop to deliver things to the people. May I ask the county magistrate, is there anyone in this county office who is responsible for delivering letters?" Xu Qin asked.

"You want to do this business?" Qin Peng looked back at Xu Qin, "Mr. Xu, it's good to have an idea, but you have to be down-to-earth. There are such subordinates. I'll take you to see him. After seeing you I knew it was a bad business.”

The post office that Xu Qin saw was called Wang Yi, and its office was located in Chuanshe near the city gate.

Wen County is located on the north bank of the Yellow River, and the postal business is not very busy. This Wang Yi is like some modern office men. Modern people make a pot of tea and read newspapers, and Wang Yi is lying comfortably on his side in the biography room. On the couch, holding a bamboo slip in his hand, he was slowly reading the entry and exit records and expense registration of the biography.

As soon as Wang Yi saw the county magistrate leading people in, he immediately restrained his unrestrained image and sat up: "This is the second son of the county magistrate's family, right?" As soon as he shouted, it had already spread throughout the county government.

"Exactly." Qin Peng gave Xu Qin a hand, "This is Wang Yi, the postal secretary. You want to open a private delivery shop, so you can pluck the hair out of this mouth. The two of you chat slowly. , I still have something to do, so I'll go first."

Qin Peng came and went in a hurry, leaving only Xu Qin and Chen Mai standing in place, staring at Wang Yi.

"I'm Xu Qin, I've seen the post office." Xu Qin blinked and didn't know how to speak for a while.

"Hey, take whatever you want." Wang Yi pushed up a plate of melons and fruits on the desk, "The freshly picked melons are very sweet, you both have to taste them."

Xu Qin handed Chen a slice first, took a slice himself, and took a bite. It was really sweet. This is the melon and fruit of green and pollution-free ecological agriculture. In modern times, you have to go to a special agricultural base to eat it.

Eating is the best way to bring people closer together. After eating melons to break the embarrassment, Xu Qin and Wang Yi chatted relaxedly. From Wang Yi, Xu Qin learned a lot about Knowledge of the postal service of the Qin Dynasty.

It turns out that the transmission of official documents and letters in the Qin Dynasty was divided into two types. The short-distance and direct walking is called "step transmission", and the long-distance document transmission is called "post".

After Qin Shihuang unified China, the cars were on the same track and the books were on the same text. He established the main road Chidao starting from the capital Xianyang, the "highway" Qin Zhidao from Yunyang to Jiuyuanbian County, and also built a road leading to Guangdong, Guangxi and Southwest China in the south new way.

The development of transportation has also led to the rapid progress of the postal service. In the Qin Dynasty, the roads were full of small "kiosks" and "posts". Time, and the documents are passed on in this relay way.

It can be said that "post" is the official postal agency of the Qin Dynasty.In the Qin Dynasty, there was a biography in thirty miles, and a pavilion in ten miles.According to Qin law, Ting should be responsible for the messenger's horse supplies, pedestrian rations, pickles, etc. in a timely manner.Chuanshe is a building that provides a place to rest.The post office in Chuansheli, Wen County, is equivalent to the current post office in the county.

Wang Yi's daily work is to classify the documents that came to Wen County that day, and the official documents sent by the higher authorities to Wen County Magistrate are packaged and sent to the county government by the "walking messenger" who is responsible for delivering letters on foot.If there are documents from other places that need to be sent to other places, they will be sent to the next transmission house immediately without a moment's delay.

If the time spent on the road is not counted, the official postal system of the Qin Dynasty is actually more efficient than some modern express companies, because the "Law of Running Script" stipulates that all documents must be sent on the same day, and if there is a backlog, it is a violation of the law Behavior.

Assuming that Xu Qin wants to open a private mail, he is undoubtedly uncompetitive in front of the official mail, and even in the Warring States Period, only nobles with high status such as the Fourth Prince of the Warring States Period had their own private mail.

However, Xu Qin also had the advantage of opening a courier company at the end of the Qin Dynasty more than a thousand years earlier - the official mail at that time could only deliver government documents, and private letters were not allowed.

Xu Qin watched a variety show called "Seeing Words Like Face" before crossing, which mentioned the earliest extant family letter in China, which was written by a pair of brothers named Heifu and Jing from the front line after a stroke of Qin soldiers 2200 years ago The letter to the eldest brother, the wooden tablet was finally unearthed in the tomb of the eldest brother in Yunmengsuihudi, Hubei.

For professional reasons, he also looked up some information on the Internet after watching the variety show. As a low-level soldier of Heifu and Jing, it is absolutely impossible to use private mail. Experts speculate that these two family letters are probably sent by the army. When fellow villagers who have completed their military service return home, they will take them home along the way.It shows that the common people in the Qin Dynasty had a need to mail letters, but they suffered from the lack of an institution to satisfy them, so they could only ask people to help deliver letters piecemeal.

It was not until the Song Dynasty that the scholar-official class enjoyed the government-approved policy of "delivering private letters"; with the development of the commodity economy in the Ming Dynasty, communication organizations such as the "Min Xin Bureau" that were spontaneously operated by the people finally began to appear.

After Xu Qin returned home, he used Kunpeng to overdraw 2 experience points and searched for basic information about the Civil Credit Bureau on Baidu.Regarding the origin of the Minxin Bureau, there is a theory that aroused Xu Qin's interest.

It is said that the People's Letters Bureau first emerged from coastal areas such as Shaoxing and Ningbo in Zhejiang Province. Because the officialdom in the Ming Dynasty mostly used Shaoxing people as staff, they were commonly known as "Shaoxing masters."They were scattered among the provincial governors and inspectors' yamen, and they had extensive contacts and became gangs.There is often correspondence between each other, and there are relatively many letters.Over time, the initial public trust institutions were formed. [note 1]

Xu Qin grasped this point keenly. If non-noble people want to set up private mail among the people, there are very important people in the government. No wonder Kunpeng arranged for him a county magistrate father, who was waiting here.Now it is said that Fusu has sent troops to the south, Qin Ershi and his eldest brother are inextricably torn apart, the Qin Dynasty has initially shown chaos, and the private mail with the support of a local government, the higher-level government will not pay attention for a while arrive.

But Xu Qin is not satisfied with just being a private mailer delivering letters. The second task assigned to him by the system is to "open a courier company in his hometown", and the bulk of the courier delivery is goods.There is no reference for this from the history of ancient Chinese postal development, but Xu Qin immediately thought of a mysterious organization that has a strong sense of existence in martial arts novels-"Escort Bureau".

The Escort actually only officially entered the stage of history during the Qing Dynasty, but in the martial arts novels about ancient China, it insists that its existence can be traced back to several dynasties.Escort transport is to transport goods, usually some precious treasures. The Escort collects a certain amount of money and let the martial arts escorts escort them all the way to the destination.

Xu Qin didn't want to compete with the official post, so he didn't want to call his courier company private post. The post office coincided with the name of the government agency, and the People's Letters Bureau reminded him of the Civil Affairs Bureau. Crematoriums... uh, that's inauspicious!Must pass!

After much deliberation, Escort still sounds cool and in line with the business positioning of the express company.Xu Qin immediately made a decision and asked his only young employee who was still in the probationary period: "Chen Mai, what do you think of me opening a courier company called Escort?"

Chen Mai:? ? ?

It's not that modern people can't understand where the word "get bodyguard bureau" came from, but after hearing it, Chen Mai felt that Xu Qin's pronunciation of the word was quite nice, so he nodded and said, "It's very nice, very good."

Having received unanimous approval and praise from the staff, Xu Qin happily announced with his family: "It's decided, I want to open a bodyguard agency in Wen County."

The author has something to say: Note 1: Excerpted from "Ancient Chinese Post Stations and Postal Communications", Zang Rong, China International Broadcasting Press, 2009.11; the information about postal transmissions in the article also refers to this book

Turnip: is kohlrabi, cabbage head

掾yuan: a general name for the subordinates of ancient government offices

Heifu and Jingyou guessed that they died in battle, because their elder brother’s tomb was better, but there was no brother’s bones. It is speculated that the family enjoyed the pension after the two brothers died in battle, and the elder brother specially buried these two letters in the tomb In the movie, I probably want to be able to reunite with my brothers after death, so this is a story of be brothers

This chapter should explain clearly the background of express delivery, so the content of the information is more

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Let’s have a small Tanabata theater:

【Theater 1】

Xu Qin: Today is Qixi Festival, do you want to spread some dog food?

Chen Mai: All right (happily ran to the rhubarb nest in the yard and sprinkled a handful of real dog food)

Xu Qin: Heck, he's still a child

【Theater 2】

Xu negative: Second brother, your red luan star has moved

Xu Qin: (beautifully) Am I here as a time traveler?

Xu Negative: Second brother, I figured out that you are an old cow eating young grass

Xu Qin: 0_0!!!!!!!!!!!!