Chapter 882: What to Think of Wasting Money on the Journey

Bi Gou also ate noodles, looking absent-minded. He couldn't figure out how the post station could support itself.

If someone else said it, he could throw a bowl of noodles in the other person's face. Li Yi said that he was not considering the feasibility, but how to operate it.

When he finished a bowl of noodles with soup, he still hadn't figured it out.

Li Yi accompanied Bi Gou out for a walk outside to digest the food.

"Xiao Yi, tell me where the money comes from?" Bi Gou gave up thinking.

"Now it exists. People ask the postmen to help carry letters and goods, and pay them. Of course, they are all rich families.

Let's expand the business, operate the official post and the private post at the same time, and the private post will provide paid services to the people, and boiled water is free.

If the people don't stay, they bring their own dry food and pickles, and drink boiled water for free. The post station can't make money..."

Li Yi talked about the logistics and inns at that time. The better hotels have free water in the lobby, but the worse ones don't, unless you stay.

The post station takes the initiative to bear it, anyway, it has to boil water for the guests.

If the common people want to stay at the post station, the same price is safe, even if they live in a large bunk bed, one coin for one night is not much.

Merchants need the post station more, to find a place to rest, and they can ask for more money to help watch the goods.

Bi Gou understood and shook his head: "Not appropriate, the common people have many letters and things to take, and they can't make money back."

"Yes, the common people don't have so many relatives outside." Li Yi agreed with a smile.

Then he smiled and said: "But we can let people use the post station to deliver goods. Old Bi, you know Hami melon, right? Can't eat it?"

"It will rot when it arrives." Bi Gou looked ugly, thinking that Li Yi was teasing him.

"The express delivery that travels 300 miles, no, the post station, from the time it is picked to the time it is delivered to you, it can be eaten.

There is a post station every ten miles. If I am in the local area, I will send people to Chang'an to ask who wants to buy it, pay the money, and when a certain amount is collected, it will be delivered by the post station."

Li Yi gave a simple example, Hami melon can be preserved for a period of time, ten days and half a month.

"It's expensive." Bi Gou didn't want to spend that money.

"The local Hami melons are not valuable in the local area. If you buy one melon, you can earn one more cent if you don't buy two melons. The rest is all for travel expenses.

You pay 10 cents for one melon, 25 cents for two melons, and you still don't want to eat them?

I set up a business in Hami and another in Chang'an.

The Chang'an business is responsible for asking people what they want to buy. It doesn't have to be Hami melons in Hami, it can also be things from other places.

There are also business houses in other places. They gather a group, take the money and pass the message, and the local post station will deliver it to you..."

Li Yi explained that the price added is naturally different for different time requirements.

If you want to eat lychees in Lingnan, you only need to pay for it. You can run 1,500 miles a day, and the lychees will be delivered to you before they rot.

There is a post station every ten miles. You pay money and use fast horses to run for you.

If you change to something that can be stored for a long time, the travel expenses will be cheaper.

If you choose something, it will be delivered to you at a speed of 150 miles a day, and it will be delivered within a month.

For Li Yi at that time, no one would buy at this speed. Do you think you are selling large machinery?

In the Tang Dynasty, it took only one month from Lingnan to Chang'an, which was incredibly fast.

The key is that many things are not available in Chang'an. If merchants transport in large quantities, they can't travel 150 miles a day.

The more Bi Gou listened, the brighter his eyes became: "In this case, it doesn't have to be Chang'an. It can also be operated in this way between other two places."

"Yes! Then the post station will make money, and you can also receive taxes. If the post station has more money, it can help build roads.

People who have lost their land and become fugitives can be re-naturalized and help at the post station, or take goods from the post station and distribute them to local villages. "

Li Yi was talking about express delivery services. He didn't have airplanes, cars, or trains, so he could only take the post station route.

"Let me go back and think about it." Bi Gou left in a daze.

Li Yi tilted his head, not caring whether Bi Gou could figure it out or not, this matter must be done.

There is a post station every ten miles, which will increase employment opportunities, improve logistics speed, and make money to build roads.

The flow of materials between various places has been accelerated, and things that should have rotted in the fields have become money.

Economic development is achieved little by little in this way.

People who used to send parcels through the post never rushed, because it was useless, and it was normal for a parcel to be delivered for one or two months.

If the ten-li post station in the Tang Dynasty can be established now, its small-item logistics speed will be the postal speed in the 1980s when Li Yi was there.

The key is that it can be expedited, such as sending letters. If you are willing to pay, it will be faster.

"Benefit the people in peacetime and the army in wartime." Li Yi muttered.

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Bi Gou returned to the Political Affairs Hall, and his condition was still not very good.

Song Jing and Su Yan were used to it. Every time Bi Gou said he went to Li Yi to ask about something, he would come back like this.

"How about Long Ze? But can the people of the Tang Dynasty have free hot water?" Song Jing smiled, he didn't believe it.

Sure enough, Bi Gou shook his head: "Dream, but in a year or two, if you want to eat Lingnan lychees, I can let you eat unrotten ones."

"I still think it is easier to drink free hot water." Song Jing thought drinking water was easier than eating lychees.

How can horses run to eat Lingnan lychees? Did someone prepare horses on the way?

"The nearest post station is every 20 miles. In places with bad roads, there is even only one post station every 34 miles, unless you have one every 10 miles..."

Su Yan echoed Song Jing and stopped talking.

Bi Gou nodded there and gave a thumbs up, meaning that you are very good, yes, one post station every 10 miles.

"It's still impossible. It requires too much money. The fiscal revenue of the Tang Dynasty has increased, but it can't afford to support those post stations anyway."

Su Yan denied it again. A post station needs to arrange people, horses and fields for growing alfalfa.

How can it be added just by saying so? Why not say one post station every five miles?

"This is how it works..." Bi Gou said Li Yi's words in his own language.

Including official and civilian integrated post stations, business companies inquire about the situation in various places, profit distribution, and charging model.

After listening to what he said, Song Jing and the others were silent.

The idea is too bold. It's really good to think about it yourself. People with a little money are willing to spend more money to eat things they couldn't eat before.

For example, oysters, dried shrimps, and dried shrimps in winter sell well in Chang'an. It is said that the King of Song gets a lot of profit. UU Reading www.uukanshu.net

If the King of Song's profit is lowered, I believe the people will eat more.

Are greenhouse vegetables expensive? People will still buy them because they have money and are willing to spend it on food.

There are also sea cabbages, which are also not cheap. They are all the business of the King of Song.

If the price of dried sea cabbage bought directly from the seashore is lower than the price sold by the King of Song in Chang'an City, they must buy it from the post station.

The merchant in Chang'an sent people to inquire about the season and the production of products in different places.

If others want to buy, they pay first, and then batches will be delivered.

The ones with short shelf life are expensive, and the ones with long shelf life are relatively cheap.

"According to this, the money is spent on the road, the seller earns less, and the buyer pays more for the road expenses."

Song Jing noticed the problem in the transaction.

"Yes." Su Yan agreed that it was a waste of money.