Chapter 433 Postal Layout (Part 1)
Frederick did not pay attention to the killer. The two "coachman" and "maid" were handed over to the relevant departments for processing, and "Cornflower" was thrown directly to Spike solved.
Now Archduke Wesson is responsible for four ministers: finance, postal service, navy and air force. Count Rank found him a small building to work in Cologne, with signs hanging on both sides of the door. .
Now the Ministry of Finance continues to give Rudolph a toss. The Ministry of the Navy, the Ministry of the Air Force and the Navy and Air Force of the Duchy of Wesson are one team and two brands, but the Ministry of the Navy has roped in Baron Adikon as the first deputy minister. .
The Postal Department is a new department, with only Frederick as a polished minister and no secretary to serve tea or water.
Frederick had great hopes in the Postal Department, and took advantage of the fact that the Rhine River was not yet frozen, so he came from Weissenburg.
Orr was a mercenary from the Black Forest. Eleven years ago, he was hired by the old Count Wesson to participate in the war in the lowlands. He brought back the remains of the old count and others. Later, he participated in the construction of the new Wesson Army and As commander of an imaginary enemy force, Frederick gave him a knighthood.
It’s just that he suffered a lot of injuries when he was young, and his legs and feet were inconvenient as he got older, so he informally proposed to Frederick that he wanted to withdraw from the army.
Frederick thought that he had helped a lot when Weisen State was started and had a high reputation among the Black Forest mercenaries, so he asked him to come to the Postal Department as a deputy minister.
Heinrich was once a member of the Royal Order of Mages. Because of Frederick's discernment, he transformed his achievements into telegraphs, broadcasts, and positioning systems. Now he is a rich man envied by his former colleagues.
Frederick wanted to gradually promote the telegraph, so he recruited him as deputy minister.
Also serving as deputy minister is Giovanni. Wesson Bank has grown under his management over the years and has become a booster of the rapid economic development of Wesson State. Frederick plans to let Wesson Bank To expand under the guise of Postal Bank, this task was left to him.
The three deputy ministers all had their own professional tasks. Frederick called Stingel to be the deputy minister responsible for daily work.
Stinger is the son-in-law of Frick, the administrative minister of the Principality of Wesson. When he was young, he was attracted by Frick because of his outstanding work ability, but problems arose after working for many years.
He is good at implementing the work assigned by his leadership, but his subjective initiative is not strong. In the past twenty years, he has failed several opportunities to be the leader, but his ability as a deputy is well-known.
Frederick took a fancy to this aspect of him, and at the same time asked Frick to rest assured that he would be able to take up his last post before retiring without having to worry about his children's generation, and summoned him to the Postal Department to be responsible for implementing his policies.
Also arriving was Shupaiya from the Dawn Chamber of Commerce. In recent years, the Dawn Chamber of Commerce has expanded rapidly by relying on the telegraph station and publishing the "Every Ten Days Business News". The Chamber of Commerce has mastered a lot of business intelligence and provided important basis for decision-making.
Frederick was quite emotional. After ten years of development, his connections, technology, talents and intelligence were finally enough to support national projects.
The map room now only has a large table made of two ping-pong tables for maps. A detailed map of the Rhine League is spread out on it. Shupaiya personally placed the clay cylinders of different heights on different on the town.
These columns represent the amount of tax in various places. The larger the amount, the higher the column. At the same time, they are divided into three levels from high to low: red, yellow and green. Weissenburg City simply put two tall red ones. Pillar.
Shupaiya then took out woolen yarns of different colors to connect different towns. These woolen yarns represented the trade volume between the two places, and were also divided into three levels from high to low: red, yellow, and green.
Shupaya spent three days busy marking the map.
During this period, Frederick was not idle. He kept visiting landowners in various places to exchange opinions on the establishment of a postal system.
Nowadays, when people send letters over long distances, either the lords send special personnel to do it, or ordinary people can only help them through chambers of commerce with fixed trade routes. Telegraph stations in various places also send telegrams to places outside the city. Subcontract to local chamber of commerce.
Frederick established a military postal system in the Wesson Army. It was small in scale and had some experience.
Now Frederick wants to establish an institution throughout the country that specializes in delivering letters, transporting goods and remittances, and the nobles still support it. The biggest problem is that it is not peaceful outside now. The postman needs to be armed to avoid being robbed by bandits and turning into a beast of takeaway, which touches the power of the local nobles.
Frederick assured that the postman would only be equipped with weapons for self-protection and would not intervene in local disputes, which made the nobles relent.
Others were not idle either. When they started to formally arrange the work, Frederick asked Stingel: "How is the postal code arrangement going?"
Letters must be sorted efficiently and accurately. Postal codes are inseparable from delivery. Frederick brought the detailed geographical catalog and map of the Rhine League from the palace and asked Stingel to code the postal codes of various places.
Stingel replied: "I divided the regions into four levels based on geographical and political factors according to the master's wishes, and compiled a six-digit postal code."
"The primary area in each region is numbered No. 1 , the remaining areas are numbered from left to right and from top to bottom on the map."
"This work is very tedious. I don't have many people and it is expected to take a month."
Frederick nodded. Nobles often compete in various strange places. Maybe the size of the postal code of the territory will also become a point of conflict, so in addition to the royal capital and the capitals of various places, they rank first. , the others should be numbered according to their positions.
Because the city of Weissenburg is located in the southeast of the Rhine League, the postal code of the Principality of Weissen is ranked second to last among the top two, only higher than the Principality of Byrne, and other nobles have nothing to say.
Frederick said: "After the postal codes are compiled into a volume in order, with a map attached, each post office will have several copies."
Stingel immediately recorded it in his notebook.
Frederick took out a brown paper bag from his briefcase, took out several things from it and placed them on the table. He introduced them one by one: "These are envelopes of different specifications that I designed. The letter must be sealed in a uniform envelope, and the postal code and mailing address must be filled in in the prescribed format.”
“These are stationery papers. You don’t have to use them. They are sold at the post office.”
“This is called a postcard. It has a pattern on the front and an address and content on the back. It can be mailed directly.”
"The upper right corner of the envelope and postcard is where the stamp is affixed, which is similar to a tax stamp, proving that payment has been made."
"At the same time, a postmark must be made. After the post office receives the letter, it stamps the stamp and envelope. Stamped envelopes can no longer be used."
As he spoke, he took out several documents from his briefcase and handed them to Stingel, which contained instructions on how to print envelopes, stamps and stamps. Postcard details.
However, for a long time afterwards, envelopes were printed in large sheets and sold, and the sender folded them and glued them according to the dotted lines on them.
Frederick continued: "The Dawn Chamber of Commerce has a task to calculate the mailing costs for different distances. The postage rules should be simple. It is best to simplify them to one price inside the region and one price outside. At the same time, 100 grams is used as the Grades are priced based on weight.”
"The mailing of letters can be cheap, plain paper is good, and the transportation of goods can be more expensive."
He pointed to several popular trade routes and said: "We can first try it out between these places with large trade volumes. Deliver the letter and make adjustments according to the situation.”
Shupaya also immediately recorded it in his notebook.
(End of this chapter)