Gu Juan looked at the magnificent sea in the distance and said, "I naturally know what happened to Shen Wansan, but Xuan'er should also know what is the most profitable business in this land south of the Yangtze River?"

"What does Ajuan mean by shipping?" Ren Xuan'er said. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Exactly. ”

Ren Xuan'er smiled and said: "Ah Juan, you are really funny, most of the boats walking on the Yangtze River are official ships, and more than half are industries under the names of big families in the south of the Yangtze River, such as Kunshan Pan's." The Zheng family in Jiading is a well-known shipping family in Taicang, although my Ren family has a few cents of silver, but it is really far worse than these people. ”

This Ren Xuan'er is right, there are hundreds of families involved in shipping in Nanzhili alone, which shows the huge profits here.

Most of the Ren family's industries are concentrated in the shops in the city, and the most important thing is the timber business. It's just that in the end, it's just a business, and it doesn't have much background, so it's powerless about shipping.

"The most important business of the Ren family is the timber business, and although the business I am talking about seems to have something to do with this shipping, the stake is this timber business. ”

Ren Xuan'er saw that the more the official said, the more he didn't know what to do, so he hurriedly asked: "What do you want to say, Ah Juan, you are going to sell the guanzi here, hurry up, how can our family use this ship with these rotten wood, after all, it won't be for us to build a ship, right?"

Gu Juan smiled and said, "Naturally not, Xuan'er, please take a look." I saw Gu Juan pointing to a scene of dock workers unloading goods, and the workers carried grain bags and got off the ship one after another. They were then piled up in designated places, and then another group of people carried the bags into wagons, during which many of them disappeared for various reasons.

"Although I am a woman, I also know how much the luck of the Ming Dynasty cost the people and money. ”

After several changes, the Ming Dynasty changed its transportation method in the seventh year of Chenghua, and the cost of transportation was borne by the grain households, including freight, military grain and ship repair fees. Due to the corruption of the government administration, the accumulation of corruption in the government at all levels, and the emergence of miscellaneous factions that increase consumption one after another, the peasants' burdens are extremely heavy, usually two or three times or even four or five times the regular grain.

The Suzhou Prefecture alone in Nanzhili will transport 697,000 stone of grain.

Moreover, the carriers, whether they are civil or military, are burdened with conscription. The peasants were forced to flee and resist and struggle because they were forced to flee and resist and struggle because they were swept away by the wind and waves, extorted by officials, and even ruined their families. In general, the lower echelons of the army also suffered the same hardships and were deducted by the commanders, and the phenomenon of fleeing continued to appear.

Even in a wealthy place like Taicang, this kind of thing is not uncommon.

It's just that at this time, it is not the time of Caoyun, if it is after the autumn harvest, this Taicang Port, but it is a different scene.

"I often hear my brother say that the Ming Dynasty's transportation is a problem of the system, but we might as well look at this problem from another aspect, according to the carrying capacity of the ship at this time and the convenience of the means of transportation, whether it is land or waterway There is a lot of room for improvement, such as the dock workers to remove this link, as well as all kinds of corruption generated by this link, as long as a slight change, the efficiency of transportation will be improved a lot. ”

Ren Xuan'er was still in the clouds when she heard it, she looked at the scene in front of her, and she really didn't know what Gu Juan, a girl, was thinking in her head.

"What does that have to do with our family's timber business?"

Gu Juan smiled and said, "It has a lot to do with it, because the key to everything is actually in a box." ”

"Boxes?"

"Xuan'er, just imagine, most of the grain transported, the unit of measurement of cloth is relatively general, one stone, one horse, during the calculation of the loss of various transportation, it can almost be regarded as an excellent place for corrupt officials to do their hands and feet. If all the things are classified into a special container, the original bulk transportation method is changed to a standardized container, then you can save a lot of manpower and material resources, and the most important thing is that these boxes are clearly registered and registered, which will greatly improve the picketing ability of the entire transportation system. ”

Ren Xuan'er frowned and said: "Although Ah Xuan's idea is very novel, but the waterway is convenient, how should this land route be good? How to transport such a heavy box, in the end, don't you still have to open the box, so time-consuming and laborious, but it's not cost-effective?"

"The reason why this box is the center, the most important thing is to match the carriage, design the same specification of the carriage frame, these boxes are directly placed on the corresponding carriage as soon as the ship is launched, so that the dock handling is omitted, and at this time about tens of meters long giant trees can be transported off the ship, many shipping tools have been very developed, a large number of use, saving manpower and material resources. ”

At this time, Ren Xuan'er's mind was blank, and after a while, she looked at Gu Juan and said: "How could Ah Juan come up with such an indescribable method, I can't decide these things as a woman, wait until I go home and ask my father." ”

"Okay, wait for the good news. ”

Gu Juan sat in the carriage, still repeatedly deducing what he had just said, in his last life, Gu Juan liked to read some miscellaneous books, and once saw a book about containers, some people said that containers were the greatest invention of the last century, Gu Juan didn't care about it at that time, but when Gu Juan came to the Ming Dynasty, she realized that containers were actually a great invention that broke through the mindset.

After thinking about it, Gu Xuan was a little tired, so she simply leaned on the wall of the car and fell asleep, and Ren Xuan'er on the side looked worried.

When she returned to Lanxi Village, when Gu Juan was about to get out of the car, Ren Xuan'er suddenly took out a bag of silver from her arms and said to Gu Juan: "Ah Juan Dacai, today I am an eye-opener, no matter what my father says, I will support Ah Juan, if this method is really implemented, but I don't know how many people's lives can be saved, this is a great merit, Ah Juan, please accept it." ”

Gu Juan didn't say much and took the purse directly.

After getting out of the car, Gu Juan opened the purse, and it was a golden two-ingot ingot.

The haze in Gu Juan's heart for many days also dissipated because of these two ingots.

After returning home, Gu Juan ran to Gu Zhi's house in a hurry and said to Gu Zhi: "Daddy, let's go back to Taicang tomorrow, right?"

Gu Zhi, who had just been tired for a day, was stunned for a moment, and looked at Gu Juan in disbelief.

Gu Juan smiled and took out the two ingots from his arms.

Gu Zhi looked at the two ingots and said in a trembling voice, "What's going on?"