Doomsday Code

Chapter 454 Night Attack

However, before the new national policy, providing accommodation to merchants was naturally not the main source of the post station's economy.

Before, the post stations were the marching camps when the kingdoms went to war and recruited lords and city lords from all over the country. At that time, the post stations not only had sufficient financial allocations, but also had commodity trade established around the post stations.

Especially providing food to soldiers passing by, or purchasing prisoners of war and slaves, etc.

As national policy changed, many armies were disbanded, wars were eliminated, and the only tasks left for the post stations were to transport government documents.

Naturally, the business centered on the post stations collapsed, and many post station operators were also laid off.

Fortunately, this is a different world, otherwise in the previous life, among the laid-off post station staff, there might be someone named Li Zicheng.

When the post station attendants saw such a large group of Huidun and his group, they all smiled like chrysanthemums on their faces.

Since the collapse of the post station's economic system, the main source of income for their post stations has come from merchants staying overnight.

However, due to the collapse of the post station economy, many merchants would not come to the post station unless it was necessary, but would choose cities and towns connected by official roads.

The only option would be to choose a post station, unless there is no time to get to the town, or the merchant's destination is somewhat remote.

Such teams usually do not have too many people, but Huidun’s team has hundreds of people, which makes them a big customer.

Before they reached the post station, someone came out to lead the horses for Huidun's carriage.

"Welcome to the inn. I wonder what you do for a living and where you are going?"

Although the postman who led the horse looked very materialistic, he still did not forget his job.

Those who stayed in the post station, whether officials or merchants, had to provide their names, addresses, and passes issued by officials or nobles at the place of departure.

If not, then the person is an illegal resident. If you encounter an illegal resident, even if you don't arrest him, just reporting it is a great achievement.

Huidun in the carriage took out his identity card and the imperial edict.

The item was handed out from behind the carriage curtain, and the postman took it with a smile.

But when he saw the contents of the edict, he was so scared that he fell to his knees.

Huidun also lifted the carriage curtain and walked out. Seeing the postman kneeling down, he helped him up and said:

"No need to panic, just follow the rules."

The postman just nodded blankly and only came to his senses after he walked away.

This was the first government official their post station had received in recent years, and he was summoned back to the capital.

He immediately reported the matter to the chief of the post station, and then immediately called on other postmen inside to help Xiao Dun and others lead and feed the horses.

In an instant, the whole post station became lively.

The stationmaster of the post station also came to pay a visit to Huidun, and after a busy period, Xiao Dun and his friends finally had a hot meal.

After finishing their meal, Huidun also found the stationmaster here and told him that he needed to borrow the carriage and war horses from him and come back to pick them up after they returned from the royal capital.

The main job of the post station is to provide convenience to government officials. Huidun's request for the post station to keep items is also part of the post station's responsibilities.

And this can also be used as one of the performance evaluation criteria of the post station.

Seeing that the webmaster agreed, Huidun also took out a stack of vouchers and said:

"I know your post station has limited funds, and these are excellent war horses. This money can be used as food for these war horses, and the remaining amount can be used as hard work fee for all brothers."

The stationmaster did not pretend to be reserved, because as Huidun said, the funding for their post station was much different than before.

If it was just storing dead animals, it would be fine, but Huidun and his friends were storing war horses, and their post station didn't have that much money to provide them with concentrated feed.

After explaining the matter, the webmaster also took his leave.

Chen Cheng remained silent after entering the post station. After seeing the post station, he remembered the most important profession in economic exchanges in his previous life - courier.

This post station is the original version of express delivery, and its main function is to provide postal and reception services to the royal family and the government.

And this world has not developed the civilian version of the ancient express delivery service - the escort agency.

Of course, the escort agency is more like a civilian armed escort company under the government's auspices, and the items it escorts are often valuables.

But what makes it different from the post station is that it serves people of all classes. However, the lower class people have no need for the escort agency due to their small peasant economy, so most escort agencies provide escort services to large chambers of commerce.

And the final product between the two is modern express delivery.

The express delivery industry has made tremendous contributions to the economy, especially with the rise of platform e-commerce business, in which express delivery has played a vital role.

Of course, it is impossible for Chen Cheng to engage in e-commerce at present, but it is possible to develop the express delivery industry.

Especially with the rapid development of Huidun City nowadays, if there is an express delivery industry, in fact, many material handovers before commercial negotiations will no longer need to come to Huidun City.

You can pack it directly and send it to the courier company.

This can also reduce the burden on many large chambers of commerce, so that they do not need to maintain large caravan guards.

At the same time, it can also provide protection for small merchants, allowing them to sell their goods to further places without having to worry about being robbed along the way due to insufficient protection.

Chen Cheng suppressed his thoughts because now was not the right time.

But he just thought of this. When Huidun reaches that position in the future, the express delivery business can really be developed.

In the early morning, when everyone was asleep, a lot of rustling sounds and human figures appeared outside the inn.

"Did you see that there was a large caravan coming to this post today?"

The masked bandit outside asked the guy next to him who was wearing a post station uniform and had a pointed chin and monkey face.

This guy smiled at the bandits with his big buck teeth showing:

"Don't worry, I'm definitely not mistaken."

The bandit nodded when he heard it:

"Good boy, I'll give you credit for this for the time being. When we take down this group of people, you will definitely get some benefits."

Then the bandit commanded his men to surround the post station in an orderly manner.

The post station did not have any tall walls, just a circle of wooden fences.

There were originally a few postmen patrolling at night, but because they were so sleepy, they all hid themselves and fell asleep.

After surrounding the post station, the bandits did not rush in, but instead used ventriloquism to simulate the call of a pheasant.

The next moment, several magical lights lit up in all directions, followed by several fireballs smashing towards the post station.

At the same time, countless flaming arrows were shot towards the entire post station, and instantly the post station was engulfed in flames.

Seeing the fire had started, the lazy postmen who had been sleeping got up and shouted. The gang of bandits rushed in directly with weapons in hand and in groups of several people working in close coordination.