After hearing Xu Ping's words, Zhao Zhen breathed a sigh of relief and said to Li Di: "According to what the Sansi said, there is a place for the surplus money and food in the world. Wherever there is war, it will be allocated from wherever there is war, and it is very organized. I often read historical books. Whenever I see war, I worry about money and food, borrow from all over the world, and piece it together, which is very hard. If the Sansi does this, it will not be like this."

Li Di held the scepter: "Your Majesty said it. However, these things are easy to plan but not easy to do. Although the Bridge and Daosi have already built the road, when it is really used, there are many different things to collect food and grass in the place and transport it on the road. If the Sansi really straightened out these things, they would probably have to put in countless efforts."

Chen Yaozuo said: "Mr. Li said it too complicatedly and he will take care of everything. That's a good idea? The things in the world should be cut off quickly. With the road and the grain, the government should not care about those minor details anymore. Now there are banks and there is no shortage of money. The so-called reward must be brave under heavy rewards. As long as the price is given high, merchants who seek profit will naturally transport the food and grass to the place."

If you are afraid of it, Xu Ping hurriedly said: "My husband, the three companies have spent so much effort and invested countless money, manpower and material resources, but they don't want to hand over major national affairs to the hands of merchants who seek profit. Wars are the major affairs of the country, the place of life and death, and the way of survival and death, and must not be taken lightly! Merchants can add icing on the cake to war, and it is impossible for them to help them in time. When merchants seek profit, the timely help is the time for them to make profits. At that time, they will have a higher price and are unwilling to deliver the goods they want to you. What if they can do? The more anxious you are, the more they will refuse to give it to you. Wouldn't this regard the lives of soldiers fighting on the front line be a joke? Therefore, what we just said cannot rely on merchants."

Chen Yaozuo disagreed: "It is because the merchants seek profit that they have to use them. But it's just that they want money? It's better for them to have money! The court is rich now! Scholars, farmers, industry and commerce have their own uses, and transporting goods for profit is done by merchants!"

"My husband, merchants rely on mutual exchanges on whether they can make profits. They buy low and sell high, and they have to transport goods. When they use them in wartime, in the eyes of merchants, it is better to use one cargo to make money with two pieces of goods. Therefore, only when you can buy or not buy the goods in the hands of merchants, they are most useful. When you want to buy his goods to save your life, you will have to pay at least half your life. This is how they can add icing on the cake and cannot provide timely help."

Chen Yaozuo thought this because he thought that businessmen would do what he thought, how could that be possible? Which businessman who dared to make profits in war is a good baby? No businessman is the true nature. When the war is smooth, everything is fine. They make money with the army. Once there are twists and turns, these people will run away first. I always feel that as long as I can pay a high enough price, someone will definitely make this money and have no worries about it. The words are good, but the problem is that no one in the world can afford such a price. Really rich is when others beg for money to make money. When you beg others to make money, you will spend all the money quickly.

Seeing that Xu Ping was in conflict with him, Chen Yaozuo was a little unhappy: "What should I do if the three officials said? Do you still have to reiterate the old words just now and ask the Xiang army to transport food and grass? If the number of troops increases, it is better to use a merchant!"

Xu Ping held the scepter and bowed to Zhao Zhen: "What Chen Xianggong asked just now is exactly what I want to say. The road has been repaired, and the prosperous state army in the mainland also has enough surplus grain. What is still short of is how to use it to support the war. First, the surplus grain must be stored, and the grain prepared for the war cannot be put into Changping Warehouse. It is not just right and it is easy to be misappropriated. Therefore, I believe that a different warehouse should be set up, and the Changping Warehouse should be controlled by the Caosi and the Constitutional Department respectively. There should be a good example between them and they are not allowed to act privately. The second is fortune. In the past, the requisition of civil servants or forced to transfer the people in the name of branch transfer were extremely harmful to the people. Since last year, the court has no longer allowed local governments to have any more

The varied taxes such as the transfer, so they cannot be the same as before. The Sanshi thought that when the mailing and other things under the original Liqiao Road Department came out alone, they would set up a single department. When there was no war, they would transport goods normally, and charge according to the weight and mileage, which was enough to support the officials of our department. Things like Sanshi shops, delivery between companies, etc. will be included in them in the future, and private merchants can also take them to transport goods from war. When it comes to war, all miscellaneous things will be stopped, and no recruitment will be hired from private ships and vehicles, and food and supplies will be transported according to the established route. The requisitioned civil servants will also pay the money."

Chen Yaozuo said: "How is the difference between doing this, except setting up a yamen, and asking merchants to transport grain?"

"My grandpa, the court's yamen, they must do it if they order it, otherwise they will have their own national laws! Moreover, there is no matter how the price increases are randomly raised during the war. Of course, the court has the final say in the affairs of the yamen!"

What Xu Ping had to do was to set up a separate mailing department, separate it from the Bridge Road Department, and it was not related to the original post office delivery shop under the Privy Council. Official documents and military information were still delivered by post office delivery shops, and the mailing system only engages in private business. The post office does not receive the delivery of private letters now, and only officials are allowed to use post office delivery. The people can communicate in different places with merchants. This market exists in reality, and the mailing system can occupy it.

The most important thing is of course the shipping cargo, which is what Xu Ping intended to set up a mailing department. Now there are Sansi Shops and cargo transportation between companies in various places. Just relying on these official and regular business alone is enough to raise a mailing team. In addition, private business may still make profits in normal times. When wartime or natural disasters are needed, they can use this ready-made mechanism to transport materials on a large scale. Insufficient personnel, they can temporarily hire from the private sector, and even cars, boats, horses and mules can be hired from the private sector, so that the transportation capacity can be rapidly increased. The key is that with such a mature system, everything has rules to follow, it avoids the fact that they don’t know what they should do when things happen, and they are just busy like a headless flies.

In short, after the road is repaired, a shelf is set up from warehousing to transportation. This shelf can support itself in normal times, but it costs little, but in wartime, it can quickly change its state and transport materials to places where it is needed. Because the employees are all people, neither officials nor soldiers, they are recruited when they have something to do and dismissed when they have nothing to do, which is different from the imperial guards' army that has no entry or exit.

For the country, the key is that there is such a mechanism, even if it is just a shelf, it will be relied upon when it is really needed. Without such a mechanism, you will be at a loss when things come and don’t know where to start.

With the road and such a mechanism, the Sansi now has money, and the system of transporting military food and materials from the mainland to the border has basically taken shape. In fact, in order to deal with the war, Xu Ping established a complete war preparation plan from hardware to software. When the relevant regulations are improved and the war is done together, the relevant plans can be activated.

If things can still be messed up at that time, Xu Ping will really have nothing to say.

Seeing that Chen Yaozuo stopped talking, Li Di asked, "If the Sansi did this, how much more money would you spend in addition to establishing a new yamen? This mailing yamen, as you said before, must be spread all over the world, and there are a lot of people hiring. Although there is no shortage of money and grain now, the court cannot raise too many people who eat food."

"I can't spend any money or food when I return to my husband's office. The official has calculated that it is enough to just transport goods for Sansi Shop, and then take on some civilian work. The real place to use money is to buy vehicles and ships. These are always inseparable, and there is nothing."
Chapter completed!