Since Heifu came to Jiaodong to take office, two large ports were built in the local area, the south is the "Qingdao Jin" that is responsible for shipbuilding, and the north is located in Xuxian County, which is located in Zhifu Bay "Yulijin", but the Heifu County Guard forcibly changed its name, and called it "Yantai" on the grounds that there is often beacon smoke in this place.

No matter what it is called, Yantai Port is the place where the Jiaodong Boat Division is stationed, at the end of April of the 33rd year of Qin Shi Huang, early in the morning, the county lieutenant Ren Huan took a group of subordinates to meet each other at the harbor walled city, seeing the car of the county guard Heifu coming to him, Ren Huan stepped forward and arched his hand, and said with a smile:

"I should have gone to report it, how dare I let the prison army come in person?"

Heifu returned the salute with a smile, pointed to the blue sea outside the port and said, "General Ren's words are wrong, and the maritime affairs should be discussed on the seaside." ”

The two of them walked in with each other humbly, and although Ren Huan was very happy on his face, he wanted to cry without tears in his heart......

It stands to reason that the county lieutenant is in charge of military affairs, and the county guard is in charge of the people and government, and the two sides are clearly distinguished, checking and balancing each other.

But the situation in Jiaodong is a bit special, at the beginning, Heifu did not get involved in military affairs. But the good times did not last long, with the rebellion of Zhutian, Qin Shi Huang did not say a word, and ordered Heifu to quell the rebellion, and this Wei County Shou unceremoniously held the emperor's soldier talisman, and took the Jiaodong soldiers out of the county to quell the rebellion, and moved to the two counties, and quickly suppressed Zhutian and Qingxia.

As for Ren Huan, he could only take the boatman and go around near the coast, but he didn't get any credit.

Although after the incident, Heifu immediately returned the military power, but the rule in the army has always been that whoever leads the soldiers to meritorious service is the real general, and the prestige and voice of the county soldiers are already qualified for the job......

Now, the emperor wants to use troops against North Korea and Canghaijun, which is where the Jiaodong Boat Division comes in, it stands to reason that Heifu doesn't understand water warfare, so he shouldn't be able to intervene, right? But he was appointed by the emperor as the "supervising army", and he had the responsibility of supervising the grain, and he couldn't control how to fight on the front line, but how to transport the grain, when to transport the grain, Ren Huan, the general, could only listen to him.

Ren Huan only felt that he had been pressed to death by Heifu in the past few years, and he didn't dare to fight for power with him, so he said that today, if Heifu didn't come to Yantai Port with a shelf, Ren Huan could only bow his head and take his subordinates to visit him in Yanxian County to explain his grain transportation strategy.

Fortunately, Heifu still saved him some face in the end.

The group sat down in the hall of the military conference, and Ren Huan noticed that there were Chen Ping and Xiao He under Heifu, and there was also a somewhat pale complexion, like a cloth cloth that had been locked up in prison for a long time.

He didn't think much about it, and let people hang up the newly drawn "sea charts".

The coast of Jiaodong is mapped on it, with the V-shaped Liaodong Peninsula to the north, and Mazishui, Jizi Joseon, and the islands of Canghaijun to the east, where the location can only be estimated, probably hundreds of miles south of Korea.

This map template, provided by Heifu, is said to have been offered by a confessed magician. Combined with the results of the past six months, he sent ships to the coast of Liaodong to investigate, and finally completed this "Jiaoliao Sea Chart", on which the islands, ports and Tianjin, reefs are listed one by one, Heifu also suggested, directly engraved on the engraving, printed, be sure to let each ship have a picture.

After having this chart, the distance between Jiaoliao and Liao became more intuitive, and Ren Huan was more convinced that it was feasible to transport it from the sea to provide grain for the Eastern Expeditionary Army!

"From Jicheng to Liekou, full of sweat, there are two thousand miles away, at least three months, thousands of people to save millet, military food arrived, and there was no more than one."

"But from Jiaodong to these two places, but thousands of miles, and take the sea route, with the help of sail oars, more than ten days can reach, Qingdao built a big ship, round belly and deep draft, can carry grain thousands of stones, a time can transport tens of thousands of stones."

Thanks to the hundreds of years of exploration by the magicians and the people of Yan and Qi, the Bohai Rim route from Yandi Jieshi to Jiao Dongzhi Fu and then to Chengshanjiao has become relatively mature.

That is, the sea route in southern Liaoning is relatively unpopular, although there is a record of "Daoyi leather clothes, clamping the right stone, entering the sea", but in fact, the Central Plains and the peninsula do not have much contact. Until ten years ago, in order to escape the tyranny of the Qin Dynasty, the scholars of the Six Kingdoms in Qi took a rudimentary ship from Jiaobeibei, through the Miaodao Islands, to Liaonan, and then to the Korean Peninsula to take refuge in Canghaijun.

"If Kou can go, I can go too!"

This is last month, after receiving the edict of Qin Shi Huang, the declaration of the Heifu Prison Army, it has become a task for Ren Huan to find a fast and convenient shipping channel from the sea.

"Prison Guard, please see."

Ren Huan pointed to the nautical chart and said: "The boat sets sail from Yantai, docks at Shamen Island, and the next morning, and then sails north when the wind blows, and before nightfall, you can go to Liaodong ......."

At the beginning of the year, the Liaodong Peninsula was almost blank, there was no county system, only at the southern end of the peninsula, there was a small town called "Yushi" (Dalian), which was in charge of the nearby fishing village. What is surprising is that there is still a feudal lord system hundreds of years ago, which has been inherited from generation to generation, and the imperial court does not interfere, and even does not collect taxes. After all, the Yu clan is not only so poor that it is tinkling, but it is more than a month's walk from Xiangping, Liaodong County, which county official will be idle and have nothing to do, risking the risk of being attacked by the Yi people, and go over the mountains and mountains to collect dried salted fish?

For Liaodong, it is a remote fishing village, but for Jiaodong, it is a transportation artery, and Ren Huan has sent people there, planning to build a small port for grain ships from across the sea to dock overnight.

He also asked Heifu a question: "If this place is established as a county, will it belong to Jiaodong County or Liaodong County?" ”

Heifu's answer was: "Liaodong can't be managed, Jiaodong can be managed, of course it belongs to Jiaodong!" “

As a result, the Lu clan in southern Liaoning was taken over by Jiaodong County, and the Heifu county guard was not polite, and really regarded it as his own rule, and changed its name to "Dalian" on the grounds that the Yu clan was named.

Next, according to Ren Huan's plan, after the fleet leaves Dalian, it will slowly move along the coast of Liaodong. For some reason, this section of the voyage is always extremely slow, quite like a boat sailing against the current, so it takes seven or eight days to reach the mouth of the Yalu River, and two more days to reach the most remote harbor of the empire, located at the mouth of the Qingchuan River.

Heifu bowed: "Therefore, it takes more than ten days to sail before you can reach the mouth of the column?" ”

"Exactly."

Ren Huan added: "It is faster to return, it only takes seven or eight days, so one round trip, about twenty days." ”

"20 Days ......"

Heifu groaned, in this way, with the capacity of the Jiaodong grain ship, at most 70,000 or 80,000 stones a month, it is still a lot short of Xiao He's calculation of "100,000 stones a month" for him.

This speed was much slower than he expected. In this era, navigation was not developed, and most of them were "local navigation", and the position and pilotage of ships were determined according to the landmarks, so they had to sail along the coastline. In the case of many beacons along the coast of Jiaodong as a lighthouse, the old boatman can try to sail at night, but in the uninhabited coast of southern Liaoning, he can only walk during the day and anchor at night.

That's why it's so slow, from Yantai to Liekou, even if you drive on the shore, it's about more than 500 nautical miles, and it takes more than 10 days to walk, on average, it's 50 nautical miles a day, even if you rest half the time, the speed is only one hour and four or five knots, although it is far beyond the land march, but compared with later generations, it is really outrageously slow......

"What do the overseers think?"

Ren Huan asked, if Heifu had no opinion, the route and strategy for transporting grain were thus decided.

He looked incomprehensible, looked at his staff, his eyes swept over Chen Ping and Xiao He, fixed on the third person, that is, the middle-aged man in cloth with a pale complexion, and nodded to him.

The middle-aged scholar had been holding back for a long time, and now with the permission of the black man, he suddenly burst out laughing.

"False, false! General Ren's strategy is inevitably a bit timid and inefficient. ”

This remark immediately aroused the dissatisfaction of Ren Huan's subordinates.

They just saw this person listening from the side, and every time he said a word, he shook his head once, if it weren't for the fact that he was the staff brought by Heifu, the strong-blooded Chu Yuelou shipman, he would beat him up in the morning, and then throw him into the sea to feed the fish!

"Oh?"

Ren Huan looked at the silent Heifu, and glanced at the staff: "Could this gentleman have other opinions?" ”

The middle-aged man in cloth Yi bowed his hand to Ren: "I don't dare to say that it is a high opinion, but it is just ...... A round trip takes twenty days, and if this matter is learned by the boat people under Canghai Jun, they will definitely laugh off their big teeth. ”

He restrained his smile and waved at the black man: "Prison army, if you follow the method of the grass people, the time can be shortened by half, one round trip, ten days!" ”

"Ten days?"

In the hall, the officials of the building ship looked at each other, in their plan, this was impossible!

"How can it be done!"

"How could it not be done!"

The middle-aged man in cloth clothes said: "As long as you are bolder, you don't have to walk cautiously along the coast, the fleet set sail from Chengshanjiao, ride the wind and waves, cross the sea, and go directly to the shore at the mouth of the river!" The return journey remains the same, so that both the voyage and the time can be greatly reduced. ”

These words made everyone laugh angrily:

"You madman, do you know how big the fog is east of Chengshan Corner? Do you know how fierce and unpredictable the wind is in the East China Sea, and a few waves can sink a ship. You cloth clothes, you don't know anything about maritime affairs, how dare you talk about military discussions? ”

Ren Huan stopped everyone's attack on this cloth and looked at Heifu: "Dare to ask the prison guard, who is this gentleman?" ”

Heifu waved his hand and pointed to the cloth clothes: "Say it yourself." ”

Bu Yi promised, and sighed: "I used to be a boat family begging for food on the sea, although the sea is big, in my eyes, it is just a bathtub. ”

"I am also an immortal seeker who has traveled back and forth in Jiaodong and North Korea no less than ten times, but unfortunately the so-called Penglai, Abbot, and Yingzhou are hard to find, and I finally realized that they are fake."

As he spoke, he walked up to the chart, pointed to it, and said, "Now I have changed my mind and become the maker of this chart!" ”

"You drew this chart?" The officials of the building ship were all shocked.

"Not bad."

The middle-aged man in cloth Yi arched his hand to everyone: "I am fortunate to be pardoned by His Majesty and work beside the prison army, Xu Fu!" ”