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Episode 1: New Arrival Chapter 636: Jin Wanwan¡¯s Operations Research

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    Although Li You didn't believe it at first, seeing Jin Wanwan's extremely confident look, he asked for advice.  Jin Wanwan asked in return: "May I ask my virtuous son-in-law, what is the crux of this matter?"

    Li You replied without thinking: "First, the quantity is too large, and tens of thousands of copies need to be sent every other day; second, hiring manpower is too expensive, and we can't afford it anyway."

    Jin Wanwan analyzed: "Not talking about the number of copies, just from the perspective of transportation, 10,000 newspapers are not very big. They are only two feet high when stacked. Only a corner of a carriage can be loaded. In fact, the wise son-in-law wants to say  The problem is that there are too many, and the frequency of publishing newspapers every other day is too high, so it is impossible to use manpower to send them to other places at any time."

    Li You agreed: "This is exactly the reason."

    "This is easy to solve. Why send every issue every other day? It's too labor-intensive. In fact, just accumulate your official newspapers and send them to other places once a month. Once a month is easier and more economical than once every issue.  Manpower.¡±

    Li Youruo realized something and couldn't help but slap his forehead. He fell into the misunderstanding of a time traveler!

    Based on the information transmission situation of this era, it is normal for newspapers from other places to be delivered after two or three months. However, I am thinking about how to deliver newspapers as quickly as possible, and I also want to send every issue of newspapers to other places immediately.  This is completely unnecessary and is very redundant and highly efficient.

    As Jin Wanwan said, it is enough to save newspapers for a month and distribute them to other places!  This efficiency is completely within the acceptable range of people, but I am thinking too far ahead.

    Jin Wanwan¡¯s analogy is not bad. The newspaper itself is not very large. Suppose one issue of the newspaper is a carriage.  A monthly newspaper also requires a carriage. If the time is not urgent, then why bother sending out every issue and consuming countless manpower and animal power?

    When I was thinking about the problem, I made an operational research mistake.  Jin Wanwan corrected him.  After Li You figured it out, he urged urgently: "Old Taishan's words woke up the dreamer, please continue."

    Jin Wanwan smiled.  He added: "As for the second question, as a wise son-in-law, if the post station is not feasible, then it will be difficult to find manpower who can deliver official reports to various places on time and reliably, right?"

    Li You was really helpless about this, "This is the biggest difficulty. Is Lao Taishan going to figure it out?"

    If you simply want to send something to a certain place, you can always find someone to do it.  But the official newspaper is delivered once every issue or once a month.  They were sent to all parts of the country on a regular basis, and the difficulty increased thousands of times.

    In other words, there are not that many people who do nothing else but are engaged in the business of delivering official newspapers to thousands of yamen across the country according to the release time of official newspapers.  Li You couldn't afford it either.

    Jin Wanwan didn't pretend anymore, "The solution lies in the guild halls in the capital! There are people from all over the capital, and guild halls have been built in various places. There are more than one guild halls in big provinces like Huguang. Just put the newspaper  Leave it to the guild hall and ask them to deliver it to their respective provinces once a month, it¡¯s not a big problem.¡±

    "Why?" Li You didn't quite understand the meaning behind this.

    Jin Wanwan explained: "There are many people from all over the country who come to the capital for business or travel, and there are also businessmen who say goodbye to the capital and return to their hometowns. Just ask these businessmen to take the official newspapers with them when they go back. You don't have to worry about running out of manpower. Each province  There are always people returning to their hometowns. This month A will go back, and next month B will go back. They can bring the official newspaper back along the way.

    ¡°No one knows the business exchanges in this province best than the provincial guild halls.  So you just need to make an agreement with the association and drop the newspaper at the association.  Then the guild hall will see who will return to their hometown this month, select suitable candidates, and entrust them to take them with them.  "

    Jin Wanwan was afraid that Li You didn't understand, so he further explained: "There are so many prefectures and counties in the world, how can we deliver it directly? Just like our gang merchants transport salt, it is impossible to sell salt directly to each county, so the method  That is to say, the salt area is divided, and we are only responsible for transporting it to this area. The transportation of official newspapers can completely follow this method and only deliver it to the provincial capitals.

    For example, if the Henan official newspaper distributes one thousand copies, then just send one thousand copies of the newspaper to the governor's Yamen in Kaifeng City on a monthly basis.  Later, various prefectures in Henan often had subordinate officials who went to the governor's Yamen on errands, and they could just take their newspapers with them on their way back.  The same model can be used to collect official reports from the lower counties, but they are just brought back from the government office.  "

    This idea sounded very feasible. Seeing that the solution to the problem was in sight, Li You couldn't help but said with joy: "This is a good idea. Lao Taishan is indeed a veteran in the business world, and he can actually come up with such a method! What do you think about the guild hall and those  Are businessmen willing to do this?"

    "Of course they are willing!" Jin Wanwan affirmed: "You can pay the transport officer a certain amount of remuneration to the merchants who returned to their hometowns. If you don't make a few cents of profit, it will be in vain. If you give him dozens of taels for each batch, there will definitely be someone willing.  Do it. Secondly, the transport officer reports to the capital and is received by the governor's Yamen of the province.This is a good opportunity to make friends with the governor's yamen. Who would say no to a discerning businessman?  Thirdly, the guild hall takes no effort in this matter, it is just a connection between them, so why not be able to serve the imperial court?  "

    "Wonderful!" Li You praised, now he could finally let go of his biggest worry in recent days.  If the official newspaper can be distributed smoothly to all yamen across the country, then the Ministry of Household Affairs can legitimately ask the Ministry of Revenue to collect subscription payments in the form of additional local taxes, and completely get rid of the problem of depleting the national treasury.

    ¡°I really didn¡¯t expect that Jin Wanwan¡¯s words would open a door for him, a time traveler who was supposed to be incredibly innovative.

    There is no need to say much about the status of the capital. People come to Beijing all the time, and people leave the capital and return to their hometowns all the time. There are a lot of people interacting with any province. What is lacking is just organization and scheduling.

    To use the terminology used by Li You in his previous life, it is the field of operations research.  If the guild hall can be used as the hub for dispatching work, and the other end only involves provincial areas, the business opportunities are promising, and it is completely different from the delivery mode of the inn.

    Thinking of this, Li You forcibly suppressed his thoughts and secretly said that he was biting off more than he could chew. It was better not to be distracted at the moment and finish the issue of the official newspaper first.  However, if there is a chance in the future, I can explore some avenues in this area.

    Weng¡¯s son-in-law was chatting happily and briefly chatting about the bank account, but he saw Aunt Jin sent someone to deliver a message and a banquet had been prepared in the side hall.  So Li You invited Jin Wanwan to the table, and Aunt Jin accompanied him to have a small reunion dinner.

    Jin Wanwan visited Li You today, and Gao Changjiang, who went to Beijing with Jin Wanwan, went to visit his close friend Mr. Deng, the right minister of the Ministry of War.

    During the chat, the incident at the Chongwen Gate Tax Office yesterday was inevitably brought up. Seeing that Gao Changjiang seemed to be aggrieved, Shilang Deng persuaded him in turn: "My dear brother is not aware of the situation in the capital, nor is he aware of the affairs of the Chongwen Gate Tax Office.  First, the Chongwen Sect tax money is sent directly to the Great Neitian Treasury and belongs to His Majesty. Who can easily waive it?

    Secondly, the people who work in the Chongwen Gate Tax Division are all relatives of the capital, and each has his own support. They have always been very unruly and domineering.

    Thirdly, although I am a third-rank official, I am in the Ministry of War and not the Ministry of Household Affairs, so I have no control over the Chongwen Gate Customs.  Therefore, it is normal that it will be of no use if you take me out on the spot. As a brother, the most I can do is help you go to the Ministry of Household Affairs to file a complaint afterwards and recover some of the forfeiture.  "

    After listening to Deng Shilang's answer, Gao Changjiang wondered: "If it is according to what my brother said, when the ambassador of the tax department heard about Li Xujiang's name, he immediately surrendered to us and let us go, and never mentioned the matter of imprisonment or confiscation.  What¡¯s the reason?¡±

    Deng Shilang smiled bitterly and said: "You asked well, Mr. Li is a special one." (To be continued)

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