Chapter 24 Current Situation of Maritime Transport

Fan Hong said: "Your Majesty, there has just been news from below that Wang Ying, the chief military officer of the maritime transport, has entered Beijing. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Let him meet him more times." ”

Zhu Qizhen was not so anxious before, but as soon as the strategic pressure in the north was clear, Zhu Qizhen decided to speed up the pace of preparation.

In this way, Wang Ying has just arrived in Beijing, and he has not yet sat down on his ass, nor has he had time to visit the backers in Beijing. He is now trying to find a way to get in touch with He Wenyuan, the head of the household department.

Wang Ying has two backers, one is the relationship between the palace and the father-in-law that Wang Ying relied on, but it is already very weak, after all, many years have passed, and now the ministers are no longer beautiful.

Then there is the backer of the civil official, the first backer is Li Shimian, but Li Shimian has died of illness at home in the sixteenth year of orthodoxy. Later, it was Zhou Chen. After all, Zhou Chen presided over various financial reforms, and shipping was also a card he played, and it was easy for Wang Ying to get in touch with Shoufu.

After Zhou Chen went, Wang Ying found a way to get in touch with He Wenyuan, after all, Wang Ying was essentially running an errand in the household department.

It's just that he was pulled into the palace before he had time to build a relationship.

Today's Wang Ying is no longer the young man who wanted to make a name for himself in Beijing, but a mature Ming general.

Even in the fourteenth year of orthodoxy, some people asked Wang Ying to be crowned, the reason was that the grain road was endless, and at the critical moment of the fourteenth year of orthodoxy, the canal was closed for a while, and the grain and grass in the capital, and even the grain and grass in Xuanda, were transported by sea.

Speaking of which, Wang Ying also has merit.

But it was vetoed by Zhu Qizhen.

Without him, Wang Ying didn't go to the battlefield after all, although he also killed pirates, but it was impossible to be knighted just because of this little thing, in this case, Daming's title was too worthless.

However, Zhu Qizhen still has a good impression of Wang Ying, without him, he is the team that Zhu Qizhen single-handedly raised.

Therefore, Zhu Qizhen met Wang Ying in the Qianqing Palace.

After a few words of greeting, Zhu Qizhen said directly: "How is the fleet of shipping today?" ”

Wang Ying immediately replied: "Now there are more than 17,000 people in the shipping fleet, 120 large ships, which can transport 2 million stone of grain at a time, and in spring and autumn, 4.5 million stone of grain can be transported to Tianjin in a year, and more than 3,000 small boats are arranged in Denglai, Jinzhou, Huai'an, and Ningbo, which are responsible for coastal transportation, and between Denglai are responsible for the grain route in eastern Liaodong, and Ningbo is responsible for going from Ningbo to North Korea, and then transfer to Haixi. ”

"If the big ships are free, they will send big ships, and if there are not enough ships, they will also hire civilian ships."

Zhu Qizhen said: "Civilian ships, but now there are many civilian ships on the sea? ”

Wang Ying said: "Your Majesty, since the opening of the sea, the ports have developed rapidly, and there are countless large and small ships

Number, but the imperial court has an order, the civilian ship shall not exceed three masts, there are not many big ships, but hundreds of ships, everywhere, from Japan to the South Seas, almost everywhere there are ships of this dynasty, some people say, these ships can discharge a bridge from Beijing to Nanjing. ”

Zhu Qizhen knew that Wang Ying was patting on the back. But still happy.

It can be said that the matter of opening the sea is the first decision made by Zhu Qizhen, and more than ten years later, feedback has been given.

The economy of the coastal area of Daming is developing rapidly, although Fujian has a little trouble because of the lack of land and dense population, but since the development of Yizhou, these problems are also being alleviated.

Zhu Qizhen said: "Qing is from Jiangnan, how is the disaster in Jiangnan? ”

Wang Ying said: "Not optimistic, the minister is from Fujian, his ancestors lived in Nanjing, half his life has been spent in Jiangnan, he has never seen such a heavy snowfall, when the minister came, there were countless victims in Jiangnan, and countless rice fields were frozen last winter, and this year's harvest may not be good." However, Lord Wang, he is very effective in disaster relief in the south of the Yangtze River, and the people say that there is Zhou Qingtian in front and Wang Qingtian in the back. ”

When Zhu Qizhen heard this, he suddenly felt a little gloomy.

Who is Zhou Qingtian? Isn't it Zhou Chen?

Zhu Qizhen's heart swept away, and asked Wang Ying: "Do you estimate how many victims there are in Jiangnan this year?" ”

Wang Ying said: "The minister is a military minister, ignoring civil affairs, this minister really doesn't know? ”

"It doesn't matter." Zhu Qizhen said: "Didn't you say that you have been in Jiangnan for a long time, you should have a spectrum in your heart?" ”

Wang Ying pondered for a while and said, "The minister thought it should be in the millions. ”

Zhu Qizhen secretly said in his heart: "Million." ”

What numbers multiply by a dozen is not a trivial question.

With a strong man eating one liter of grain a day, one million people need 10,000 stone rice a day, so this million people cannot all be strong men, but Zhu Qizhen estimates that the number of victims is not only one million.

The summer rice matures in about 100 days, and Zhu Qizhen roughly estimates that the survival of so many people is about 1 million to 1.5 million stones.

And this year's food tax is not to be thought about. There is a food gap of about five or six million stone inside and outside.

Although it is a heavy food burden, Daming can still hold on.

What makes Zhu Qi Town stand up the most is that after Zhu Qi Town's vigorous repair of water conservancy, Hebei has become the center of grain production in the north.

Therefore, Hebei's grain is much worse than that of Jiangnan and Huguang.

But not having to travel long distances is his biggest advantage.

Zhu Qizhen predicted the worst-case scenario, feeling that although the disaster in the south of the Yangtze River was serious, it would not affect the use of troops in the north. After all, Nanjing, as well as the canal line, originally had a lot of granaries.

Zhu Qizhen

asked Wang Ying and said, "Have you heard about North Korea?" ”

Wang Ying's spirit was shocked, and he said: "The minister has heard that Li Yi has no king and no father, and he cares about human morality, which is really heinous. ”

Wang Ying also had some guesses about suddenly summoning him to Beijing.

After all, he escorted the team to transport grain to Tianjin twice a year. If things are not in a hurry, when he stays for three or four months, he will be escorted for the first time.

Don't be in such a hurry, let him go to Beijing in a hurry.

All he could guess was North Korea.

Zhu Qizhen said: "Yes, I have issued several edicts to order me to reform myself, I look at the face of King Zhuang Xian, and I am not to blame in the past, but this wolf has a heart and lungs, and actually ignores my will and kills my brother and nephew, which is tolerable or unbearable?" I intend to crusade against North Korea. ”

Wang Ying immediately understood and said, "The minister asks to serve in front of the army." ”

Zhu Qizhen smiled and said: "Naturally, when you served in the army, you can talk about how many people the fleet can transport to North Korea in the future." ”

Wang Ying said: "As long as Your Majesty gives an order, even if it is a million people, the ministers can transport them to North Korea." There are one hundred and twenty large ships, thousands of foreign ships, and large and small civilian ships, as long as His Majesty orders, all the shipowners in the world are happy to use them for His Majesty. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "What weapons are on the ship? ”

Wang Ying said: "On the big ship, there are ten thousand-pound generals' cannons, 500-pound generals' cannons, and nearly 100 catties of cannons. And the minister went to North Korea many times, and even requisitioned the ships of the North Korean sailors for transportation on several occasions, so naturally the ships of the North Korean sailors were like. ”

"It's not much different from the imperial court's foreign boat. With a big ship, condescending, bullying the small, everything is restrained. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "In this case, you will go to see General Fengrun Hou Cao, naturally you will have your business, if you do it well this time, you can still earn an earl after this battle." ”

When Wang Ying heard this, he immediately said, "Thank you, Your Majesty Longen." If the minister goes, he will definitely do his best to serve the court. ”

Zhu Qizhen waved his hand and asked Wang Ying to retreat.

Zhu Qizhen has a lot of twists and turns here, and Zhu Qizhen is just determining the strength of the water division, and since he has entrusted the specific strategic plan to Cao Yi, he will not overstep his bounds. Naturally, Wang Ying was asked to go to Cao Yi's command to listen to it.

"However, now there are some things that we have to start preparing for." Zhu Qizhen thought, so he ordered that one million stone of grain be transferred to Fenghuangwei in the Tianjin warehouse, and ordered that five million taels be transferred to the military department from the internal transportation warehouse.

As a result, more than half of Zhu Qizhen's internal carrier warehouse was empty.

This is nothing to Zhu Qizhen, because his internal transportation warehouse actually played the role of sealing the silver of the Northern Song Dynasty, which was itself used to fight.