Among the yamen of the Qing Dynasty, the most efficient ones were the Qing Post Office and the Qing Times owned by Mr. Qing Sanye.
Fuqing had a strong sense of independence from the beginning. The establishment of these two yamen did not use those mediocre people who came from the imperial examination and could only write eight-legged essays.
Moreover, the officials within the imperial court who have learned bad habits are also tried to avoid them as much as possible!
His yamen was filled with many disciples of Western learning. These people admired Chinese and Western systems very much and paid attention to efficiency in everything they did.
Although this disaster relief is the old man's idea, if you really want to implement it, you will have to rely on the direct descendants of Third Master Fu Qing!
The Qing Times began printing as soon as the court meeting was over, and they did not use a large-page newspaper. They were single leaflets, which conveyed the court's decrees in vernacular that ordinary people could understand.
All squires in the Qing Dynasty's snow disaster areas had the responsibility to rescue the rural people. Every landowner should ensure that there would not be a large number of starvation deaths in his countryside.
The imperial court encouraged gentry and landlords from all over the country to open warehouses to store grain, but the imperial court would not let the gentry pay for grain in vain!
After the disaster is over, the court will repay the grain or convert money to the squires at the highest interest rate on the market!
If the squire refuses to ask for food and money, then the court will give the squire the highest honor!
Ten thousand stones of grain can be exchanged for the status of a civil servant, and five thousand stones can be used to build archways and carve stone tablets!
For squires whose income is less than five thousand dan, the local county government will engrave their names on inscriptions, and their descendants will receive certain preferential treatment for going to school and paying taxes for the next three years!
One by one, the entire disaster relief plan is written clearly and clearly. It is all written in plain language and there is no fear that the people will not understand it!
Of course, some people in the court had doubts. They would be worried about such an unmonitored relief effort. Who could guarantee the accuracy of the amount of relief provided by the squires? Is there corruption among those squires?
Not only did some people question it, some people even reported such doubts to Emperor Tongzhi alone!
In the end, it was Weng Tonghe and Master Fuqing who solved the mystery!
"Your Majesty, what result do you want? What you want is not that these squires will not be corrupt, but that the people will not starve to death!"
"There will definitely be cases of corruption and false reporting. This is a problem that even gods can't solve, but what we want is not that the whole process is as clear as water and as clean as a mirror!"
"What we want is for people to die less. We must not starve to death!"
"When the squire distributes grain, we really can't supervise every village, but we also have requirements. When the people receive the grain from the squire, they must sign and fingerprint to confirm it!"
"And finally we have to reconfirm that the signatures and fingerprints of those who died of starvation do not count! This guarantees that the landlords and squires must keep the people alive!"
"Living is as important as the sky. Living is our most important task. If the court can accomplish this, it will be considered a great virtue!"
"As for whether the common people were saved with one stone of rice or one liter of rice, how much did the squires and landlords falsely report... Let's not keep pestering him!"
"If we are really entangled in it, those people will probably have no enthusiasm anymore!"
Zai Chun was really convinced. What the Third Master and Master Weng said were real life experiences. Is this what humanity has become?
This is actually very consistent with the views of the head of state on primary contradictions and secondary contradictions!
People cannot starve to death. This is the main contradiction encountered by the court. This must be resolved. This is the lifeblood!
And try not to be corrupt during the disaster relief process. This is a secondary contradiction. When the primary contradiction conflicts with the secondary contradiction, the secondary contradiction must give way!
Let the people live first, and then talk about the issue of incorruptibility!
The Qing Times used the fastest efficiency to print leaflets, with more than 100,000 leaflets printed at one time. These notices began to be transported to the disaster areas through the railway system, and then the counties distributed them to the villages through dog-drawn sledges, snowmobiles and the like.
However, these are not the fastest and most efficient. Now we can see the benefits of Mr. Fu Qing’s Qing Post!
The Qing Post was the result of the reform of the entire Qing Dynasty official postal system. Emperor Tongzhi gave the entire Qing Dynasty the task of building the telegraph network to Mr. Qing!
And the foundation in Master Qing's hands, the earliest team members in his hands are the postmen on the post roads all over the world!
In the past, the postmen of the Qing Dynasty relied on fast horses. Each post station was a supply point like an inn, and services were provided by changing horses and accommodation!
Now that the telegraph line has been repaired and military intelligence no longer needs to be dispatched, these people cannot all be fired!
These postmen all changed their identities and became telegraph line maintenance workers. Their daily job was to be responsible for their own dozen miles of telegraph lines. Replace in time.
When encountering windy and rainy weather, if the telegraph line is broken, it must be repaired in time!
These people are the core team of the Qing Post. They control the transmission of news from the Qing Empire, and some of these post soldiers also carry out modern postal work.
When people write letters, send parcels, etc., they are all responsible. Although it is not as efficient as later generations, it is much more advanced than before the Qing Dynasty.
With the telegraph network, the imperial court's will can be transmitted faster. At present, the telegraph lines of the Qing Dynasty have reached every county, and some larger towns also have telegraph networks.
There is a maintenance worker every ten miles, and these workers were all ordered by the Beijing Postal Headquarters on the same day. Prime Minister Fu Qing ordered them to immediately send the latest news to the countryside.
With everyone’s conservation area as the core and a radius of twenty to thirty miles, all villages must be notified!
This was unprecedentedly efficient. In the morning, the imperial court issued an imperial edict, and in the afternoon, all telegraph system transfer points in the disaster area received orders from Mr. Qing.
This is the direct superior, and none of the postmen dare to disobey the Third Master's orders, not to mention Master Fuqing's order. All these postmen who work overtime in the wind and snow will receive generous bonuses after the disaster is over!
Who cares about money? These postmen hiding in small maintenance houses in the countryside wear old cotton trousers, old cotton-padded jackets, and dog-skin hats, and wear as much as they can.
Carrying a broken gong, or even an iron basin, and banging on it, we headed towards the villages along the way!
Boom boom boom... boom clang clang...
"The imperial court has a decree... The squires in the villages and towns in the disaster-stricken areas have listened carefully... The imperial court has sent a telegram..."
"The gentry from all over the country opened warehouses to stockpile grain...relief to the people..."
"Any country squire who donates ten thousand dan to charity...the imperial court will reward him with a quota of 100 people!"
"Hurry up and open the warehouse to stock up on food... Exchange the food for people..."
The door that had been half sealed by heavy snow suddenly opened, and several heads emerged from the black wooden door. "Hey... you are reading the telegraph wire... come here... are you telling the truth?"
"Of course the nonsense is true... Not only are the candidates given official positions, but those who have made great contributions are also given the opportunity to build archways and carve stone tablets!"
