Lord of Industrialization

Frederick didn't pay attention to the killer. The two "coachman" and "maid" were handed over to the relevant departments, while "Cornflower" was directly thrown to Spike for solution.

Archduke Wesson now holds four positions as Minister of Finance, Postal Service, Navy and Air Force. Count Rank found him a small office building in Cologne, with signs hanging on both sides of the door.

Now the Ministry of Finance continues to leave Rudolph to deal with. The Ministry of the Navy, the Ministry of the Air Force and the Navy and Air Force of the Principality of Wesson are two brands of the same team, but the Ministry of the Navy has roped in Baron Adikon as the first deputy minister.

The Postal Department was a new department, with only Frederick as a bare 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 left 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. He later participated in the construction of the new Wesson Army and served as the command of the imaginary enemy force. Frederick gave him a knighthood.

It was just that he had suffered many injuries when he was young, and his legs and feet were inconvenient as he got older, so he informally proposed to Frederick that he would 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 deputy minister.

Heinrich was once a member of the Royal Order of Mages. Because Frederick had the insight to transform his achievements into telegraphs, broadcasts, and positioning systems, he is now 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. Over the years, Wesson Bank has grown under his management and has become a booster of the rapid economic development of the state of Wesson. Frederick intends for Wesson Bank to be disguised as a postal bank. Expansion, this task was left to him.

These three deputy ministers had their own professional tasks, and Frederick called Stingel to be the deputy minister responsible for daily work.

Stingel was the son-in-law of Frick, the administrative minister of the Wesson Principality. 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 he is not very proactive. He has failed several opportunities to be the leader in the past twenty years, 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.

In the map room, there is only 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 clay columns of different heights on different towns.

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 placed two tall red columns.

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.

Shupaiya 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 gentlemen send special personnel to take care of them, or ordinary people can only send them through the chamber of commerce with fixed trade routes. Telegraph stations in various places will also subcontract to local chambers of commerce when sending telegrams to places outside the city. .

Frederick established a military mail system in Wesson's 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 ensured 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?"

Efficient and accurate sorting and delivery of letters are inseparable from postal codes. 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 places into four levels according to 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, and the remaining areas are numbered from left to right and top to bottom on the map."

"This work is very tedious. I don't have many people. 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 become a point of conflict. Therefore, except for the royal capital and the capitals of various regions, which are ranked first, the others are still ranked first. Number the location.

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. The other nobles have nothing to say.

Frederick said: "After the postal codes are compiled into a volume in order, with maps attached, each post office will have several copies."

Stingel immediately wrote it down 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. When sending letters, you must use the same The envelope, zip code and mailing address must also be filled in in the prescribed format."

"These are letter papers. It doesn't matter whether you use them or not. They are sold at the post office anyway."

"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."

“This is where the stamp is affixed in the upper right corner of envelopes and postcards, similar to a tax stamp, to prove 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 the envelope. The stamp on the stamped envelope cannot be used again."

As he spoke, he took out several documents from his briefcase and handed them to Stingel. They contained detailed information on how to print envelopes, stamps, and postcards.

However, for a long time afterwards, envelopes were printed in large sheets and sold, and the sender folded them and glued them together 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 it to one price inside the region and one price outside. At the same time, the price will be increased based on weight based on 100 grams."

"Letter mailing can be cheap, plain paper is good, and shipping items can be more expensive."

Pointing to several popular trade routes, he said: "We can first try letter delivery between these places with large trade volume and make adjustments according to the situation."

Shupaiya also immediately recorded it in his notebook.