Great Tang Dynasty

Chapter 1597 Bloated
Twenty miles outside Chang'an City, there is a station called Huangcheng Station.

This post station is the one closest to Chang'an City. Generally speaking, memorials or urgent reports from various places will be sent to this post station in the end, and then the people at this post station will send them to Chang'an City.

It can be said that this inn is the busiest one-person inn.

If the problem can be found and solved here, the post stations in other places will naturally be solved.

That afternoon, Qin Tian and Cheng Chumo rode fast horses to the Imperial City Station.

As the post station closest to Chang'an City, it is also the largest post station in Datang. There are many people coming and going in it, and they are all responsible for sorting and selecting various memorials and news.

You know, some memorials are sent to the Ministry of War, some are sent to the Ministry of Households, and so on, they all have to be selected by competition.

In addition, there are also people who specialize in raising horses.

If they want to pass the news, they need to raise a lot of fast horses. Sometimes the horses can run away to death if they are in a hurry for eight hundred miles. If this is the case, they need to prepare more good horses.

After Qin Tian and the others arrived here, the people here were busy coming and going, and they were a little shocked when they saw Qin Tian coming.

Soon, the officials of the Imperial City Station ran out in a hurry.

"Meet the young masters."

The leading official was Huang Dong, a fat man with a slightly fat body.

Qin Tian glanced at him and said, "Master Huang, I'm afraid you will have a hard time in the future."

Upon hearing this, Huang Dong's face became tense: "Master Qin, what... what do you mean?"

"Today in the morning, many people complained that the efficiency of your post station is very low, and many news are delayed, so that things are delayed. Regarding this matter, the Holy Majesty is very unhappy."

Huang Dong's face became more and more ugly, and he was a little frightened for a while.

"My lord, this... this... this is really embarrassing. In the past, in my Tang Dynasty, there would be a station in thirty miles. A horse cannot be changed for a hundred miles, so the speed cannot keep up, and there is nothing the lower officials can do about it."

In order to reduce the budget, Datang cut down a lot of post stations back then. At that time, they didn't think there was anything wrong, but now there is a problem.

Qin Tian snorted softly and said, "You have to tell the Holy Master about this."

"Master Qin, this... you must save the officer."

Huang Dong begged, Cheng Chumo curled his lips and said, "My elder brother Qin is here today to save you."

"Really?"

Qin Tian rolled his eyes. He felt that Cheng Chumo talked too much and too fast. He originally wanted to scare Huang Dong and give him a little power, so that it would be more convenient for him to solve the problem here. Usually, he just cut in.

"My lord sent me to solve your affairs here. Now the whole station is under the full authority of the officer. I want to visit the station. You can lead the way."

Huang Dong didn't dare to hesitate, and quickly nodded in response.

"Master Qin, this is a place dedicated to delivering memorials and urgent reports. That place is for officials to eat and stay. Over there is a stable with many high-quality horses..."

Huang Dong walked ahead, and when he arrived at a place, he would introduce the situation of this place. In comparison, the main task here is to deliver news.

However, after Qin Tian read it again, he also found many problems.

In comparison, even if the memorials from various places in the Tang Dynasty can be delivered level by level, there are not many, but there are obviously many more people in charge of information transmission here.

"Master Huang, how many people are there in your station?"

Huang Dong smiled wryly, and said, "There are more than two hundred people in all departments."

"It's just sorting out the memorials, raising horses, and taking care of the officials' food and lodging. There are more than 200 people in an imperial city station, isn't it a little too much?"

From Qin Tian's point of view, 30 to 20 people are enough to sort out and pass on the memorials, and 200 people are enough to raise horses. There are more than [-] people, that is to say, many other people are extra, and the imperial court has been supporting them.

The whole station is a bit bloated.

If there are many people, they need to find something to do for them. In this way, a memorial can be left immediately, but it has to go through the hands of several people. Isn't it a waste of time?

If the other post stations are the same as here, that one station wastes a little time, and all the stations along the way add up, and the time wasted is much more.

Huang Dong was terrified, and quickly said: "Master Qin, there are indeed a lot of people in the post station, but the imperial court cut down a lot of post stations, but the post stations were cut down, people can't cut them down casually, these people are experienced veterans, It is only with them that the normal operation of a post station can be guaranteed, so the people who were cut off from the post station were all assigned to different post stations, so there are more of these people here."

The cost of cultivating a messenger is definitely much lower than raising a messenger who has already mastered it, so in the post station, it is better to have more people than less.

Regarding this matter, Huang Dong was also helpless.

After he finished saying this, Qin Tian didn't say anything, his expression was slightly gloomy, but he didn't attack.

There must still be many problems here in the post station, but these problems are not superficial problems. For example, with so many people and the court's budget is fixed, their salaries must be much less.

In order to get more salary, they must climb up.

It is a good thing to have competition, but sometimes unfair competition will produce a lot of filth.

The more such people are, the more likely they are to be tempted. Once someone wants to know some secrets, they can be tempted to sell the news they want to know by giving them a little money.

And this is only due to the large number of people.

Some of the management methods here also have some problems. It is no wonder that such a bloated organization is more efficient.

Datang has only been founded for a few years, so it is a bit too hasty to cut down the post station like this.

And Li Shimin refused to increase the budget, which is definitely a trouble to solve these problems.

After Qin Tian and the others walked around the post station, Qin Tian didn't say anything else, and left with Cheng Chumo and the others, but asked Huang Dong to wait, and he would give Huang Dong some orders soon so that the post station could be carried out. reform.

But not long after Qin Tian left the inn, the people in the inn suddenly became uneasy.

(End of this chapter)