Some people may question whether 500 large ships can carry 880,000 stone of grain, of course! There's no doubt about that!

During the Qin and Han dynasties, the development of China's shipbuilding industry appeared at its first peak. In the war to unify southern China, Qin Shi Huang organized a large fleet that could transport 500,000 stone of grain, and the technology at that time could build a large ship with a carrying capacity of 50 or 60 tons. One stone is one hundred catties, that is, a ship in the Qin and Han dynasties can hold more than a thousand stones.

The second peak of Chinese shipbuilding history in the Tang and Song dynasties, the dragon boat taken by Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, is 4.5 zhang high, 20 zhang long, and there are the main hall, the inner hall, and the east and west court halls on the upper floor. The middle two floors have one hundred and twenty rooms with a carrying capacity of more than three hundred tons. Of course, it was even more awesome when it came to the Song Dynasty, which built the "Shenzhou" for the Korean envoy, and its carrying capacity reached more than 1,500 tons. Some large sea ships carry tens of thousands of stones, and the rudder is three to five zhang long.

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Li Er, who sat at the top, although he had been prepared in his heart, was also shocked by Li Xiaogong's "work report", his eyes were not smaller than others, and the attention of the courtiers was not on him now, otherwise his gaffe would have been seen by the officials, and he would definitely have to be "criticized" again.

"Ahem~! This trip to the south is really fruitful! Filial piety and all the soldiers have worked tirelessly, traveled thousands of miles to the sea, and contributed to the community, which should be rewarded~! ”

Li Er came back to his senses from the shock and exclaimed with emotion.

"Your Majesty~!"

As soon as Li Er's voice fell, he saw Wei Zheng walking to the front, and the old troll arched his hand at Li Er, and then said: "The king of Hejian County led the fleet south, and the harvest was very rich, although it is gratifying, but the old minister still has something unclear in his heart, dare to ask the king of Hejian County, where did the 100,000 taels of silver and 50,000 catties of brass come from?" ”

Wei Zheng is actually not targeting anyone, he is just talking about things, because food, spices, ivory and so on are all okay, but such a huge amount of brass and silver makes him too puzzling, after all, which country will use this thing to trade~? It doesn't make sense!

After listening to Wei Zheng's question, the other ministers cast questioning glances at Li Xiaogong, but Li Zexuan was stunned in his heart and secretly shouted that it was not good, because from the information he knew, the 50,000 catties of brass and 300,000 taels of silver that Li Xiaogong brought back were "war reparations" extorted from the Japanese state.

Li Er's eyes sank, obviously he also knew the inside story of the war of the Japanese Kingdom, but at this moment, when Wei Zheng asked in public, he could only watch Li Xiaogong play by himself.

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As soon as Li Er left with hundreds of civil and military officials, the dock immediately became lively, and more than a thousand big ships must not all be docked at the same time to unload, so they can only come in batches. At the top of the line, of course, were the five hundred official ships of the imperial court.

Wu Di, the captain of Li Xiaogong's personal guard, came to Xiao Yu with a person who looked like a steward, and then respectfully handed over a booklet, and hugged his fists:

"Xiao Shangshu, this is a list of all the goods on the official ship, he is the cabin steward Yao Jing, if Xiao Shangshu has any questions, just ask the last general or Yao steward, we will definitely know everything, and say everything~!"

"Well, okay, I'm tired~!"

Xiao Yu said politely, and then took the booklet, he opened it and looked at it, and was immediately surprised.

"It's... So much food~? I'm afraid the granary of Chang'an City can't fit it, right~? ”

When Yan Lide heard this, he was extremely curious, what he thought was that the official ships of the imperial court had brought so much silk and porcelain this time, and they could exchange it for more than 100,000 stone of grain if they reached the sky, how could Chang'an City not be able to hold it?

"Shi Wen (Xiao Yu's words), let me see how much grain there is?"

After saying that, Yan Lide came over in a daze, wanting to find out, and after seeing the numbers on the pamphlet, his eyes widened, and he exclaimed:

"This, this, this, 880,000 stones~? With so much stone of grain, Taicang will definitely not be able to fit it, so it has to be transported to Hanjiacang in Luoyang~! ”

The Taicang he mentioned is the largest granary in Chang'an City, and it can also be regarded as the royal granary, whose main function is for the royal family's consumption, rewards, officials' salaries, military quarters, and government accounts. Although Taicang's main function is to serve the ruling center, it also has some positive effects. For example, whenever there is a famine, Taicang will take out grain to supplement the standing position, curb the soaring price of grain, and sell some grain at a low price to help the victims.

However, the total reserves of Taicang are not high, and they can only store five or six hundred thousand stones at most (one stone in the Tang Dynasty is about 100 catties, and in the Song Dynasty it is 200 catties) of grain, and now that the autumn harvest has just passed, there is even less space left in Taicang. That's why these two court bigwigs will express such feelings.

As for the Hanjiacang mentioned by Yan Lide, it can be regarded as the largest granary in the Tang Kingdom.

At the beginning of the Sui Dynasty, the capital was Chang'an, but the products in the Guanzhong area were no longer able to meet the consumption needs of the royal family, the court officials and the central army, and the food alone could not be self-sufficient. During the Great Cause, in order to meet the food needs of the capital Chang'an, Emperor Yang of Sui built the Grand Canal. Later, Yang Guang directly moved the capital to Luoyang.

After setting the capital in Luoyang, Yang Guang first built Huiluocang as a "national granary" set up in Luoyang. There are about 700 warehouses with an inner diameter of 10 meters, each warehouse can store about 4,000 stone of grain, and the whole Cangcheng can store 3 million stone of grain.

Because Huiluocang was built outside the city of Luoyang City in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, in the last years of the Sui Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, Li Mi seized Huiluocang, and Luoyang City fell into a situation of no food for a while. Later, Huiluocang became the focus of the war between Li Shimin and Wang Shichong, who seized Luoyang, and the grain cellar outside the city was occupied, and Wang Shichong was defeated due to serious lack of grain.

Later, Li Shimin saw the disadvantages of the granary outside the city, and he decided to build a granary inside the city of Luoyang, so as not to repeat the mistakes of the Sui rulers of the past. This granary that was carefully "designed" by Li Shimin is Hanjiacang, which not only supplies grain in Luoyang City, but also plays the role of a rice transfer station between Kanto and Guanzhong, and later, it gradually replaced the largest granary at that time - Luokou Warehouse, becoming the largest granary in the world, with a total reserve of nearly six million stones!

"Indeed, the 150,000 stone grain will be transported to Taicang first, and the rest is estimated to be only transported to Luoyang along the Grand Canal~! Lide, you take care of it here, the old man will enter the palace to face the saint, and go to ask for a part of the official ships to turn around and go directly to Luoyang~! ”

Xiao Yu thought about it, and decided to ask Li Er's opinion, otherwise there would be no place to put so much food even if it was moved down, and it would only be cheaper for mice.

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The second update!

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