The quickest and most convenient way to get from Jinling City to Shanghai is to take a boat all the way down the river.

Chen Lifu is naturally not exempt from vulgarity, so he is taking the ship!

Originally, Chen Lifu also thought about traveling in his own boat, but he still dispelled this idea, although his own boat is more luxurious, more comfortable, and it is also a new type of inland river schooner that has just appeared in the Tang Dynasty in the past two years, but this is too ostentatious.

So he chose to take the official transport ship, although the official ship said that the conditions were more difficult, but the speed was still not slow.

Because this kind of official transport ship of the Tang Empire is usually used for the transportation of dignitaries and letters, and it is a regular flight, and the ship type used is also a new type of longitudinal sail that has just come out in recent years.

The advantages and characteristics of this sail are very obvious, the advantage is that the speed is fast, very flexible, the ability to sail against the wind is quite good, the disadvantage is that it is difficult to build a lot, so at this stage, it is not suitable for large ships, and it is generally used on small and medium-sized ships.

This kind of sail is equipped with the bow of the flying clipper, so it is the standard equipment of the current fast communication ships and fast transport ships of the Datang Imperial Navy and Datang Western Company.

At the same time, most of the official transport ships sailing on inland rivers also use this kind of sail outfit, but they are not clipper types.

The transport ship that Chen Lifu took belonged to the post office, and this post department was the previous post station, and the early post station system was managed by the military, but in order to maintain the balance of operation, the post station will also accept civilian business.

Later, this post station system became a simultaneous military, official, civilian organization, in order to better manage, is from the military to separate the voice, and the management organization is also very complex, the army, the navy, the Ministry of state-owned enterprises jointly sent personnel, formed the post department management committee.

In addition to Chen Lifu and his entourage, there were more than a dozen other officials and their servants who had gone to other places to take up posts or do office work.

In addition to the passengers, there was a whole bunch of various official documents and even some other messy things in the cabin.

This is a transport ship that transports small items while taking passengers.

As the transport ship raised its sails and gradually sailed away from the dock, Chen Lifu did not return to the cabin, but stood on the deck of the bow of the ship, watching the dock in front of him and the ships coming and going around him.

The wharf as far as the eye can see is as busy and green as ever, this wharf is not a commercial wharf in Dongcheng District, but an official wharf in the old city, which is not open to private ships.

The ships anchored here are all official ships, the largest number of which are the transport ships of the postal department, and then there are patrol ships, the ships of the tax inspection team, and most of the ships of other departments are also moored here.

At the same time, it is also a military port, but it is not a naval port!

The military dock of the Navy's Yangtze River Fleet is not here, but in the Navy's Yangtze River Fleet base further north, where the military ships are mainly belonging to the army and the Guards.

Regardless of the fact that both of them seem to be branches of the military operating on the ground, they actually have ships.

The Guards is a mixed army and sea force, in addition to the ground combat force, there is also a fleet force, the capital ship is a frigate of more than 400 tons, and then there are more than a dozen patrol ships, the strength is not weak.

On the side of the army, people also have maritime transport divisions, and they are still ocean-going ships, so such an army is naturally indispensable to inland river vessels.

In the past two years, the army has been arguing with the navy, and the army wants to get its hands on the navy's inland river fleet, because after all, most of the things the river fleet does are to support the land and escort inland river transportation materials, and it has a close relationship with the army, but it has nothing to do with the navy's own combat mission.

But the navy is reluctant to hand it over like this, so although we have talked about it in the past two years, it has no effect.

The Guards and the Army, their ships naturally can't be too many, and this battleship is not very professional, but there are after all.

The ships on this pier are the warships of the Army and the Guards.

Such an official wharf, according to common sense, will not be much busy, after all, it is not a private commercial wharf, but who makes the empire huge, and Jinling City is the capital of the empire, every day there are official ships from all over the country to Jinling City, and then every day there are also many ships leaving Jinling City, so it is just such an official wharf, it is so busy.

After leaving the wharf and entering the Yangtze River channel, Chen Lifu was able to feel the development of the Yangtze River shipping even more.

Here, is the civil commercial wharf of Jinling City, but also the general sense of Jinling Port, the whole wharf, almost along the south bank of the Yangtze River all the way to spread out, here a large number of various ships moored, which shows the development of the Yangtze River shipping!

In recent years, several major mainstream inland waterway shipping represented by the Yangtze River shipping has become the economic artery of the Tang Empire!

The Yangtze River, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the Yellow River, and the Pearl River are the main arteries that drive many tributaries.

The Yangtze River basin has the Gan River, the Xiang River, and then also connects the Huai River through the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and then connects to the Yellow River, and then penetrates through the Yellow River to Henan and even Shaanxi.

The Pearl River basin has the Beijiang River, the Dongjiang River, and the Xijiang River, among which the Xijiang River passes through Zhaoqing, Wuzhou, and then reaches Liuzhou and many other places in Guangxi.

The extensive inland rivers also gave the empire the basis for the development of inland waterway transportation.

At the same time, the empire is also vigorously promoted, stimulating inland waterway transportation, so in recent years, the empire's inland waterway transportation is developing rapidly, the most representative Yangtze River, especially the lower reaches of the Yangtze River from Jinling City to Shanghai, which is commonly known as the Yangtze River, there are many ships coming and going.

These ships on the Yangtze River, some large and some small, the small ones are just small sampans, but the large ones are capable of reaching hundreds of tons of displacement, and these ships sailing on the inland rivers are usually mainly sand boats.

Sand boat, this is a type of ship that has been used for a long time, characterized by shallow draft, large load capacity, strong ability to sail against the wind, wind and wave resistance, especially the poor wave resistance, of course, low cost is also an important feature of it.

This type of ship is suitable for coastal and river and lake use, but if you want to sail in the open sea, you can barely do it, but if you are not careful, the ship will be destroyed and people will die.

The Tang Empire developed shipping, inland waterway shipping and coastal shipping were the first to bear the brunt, so this traditional ship also got the opportunity for development, began to be built in large quantities and widely used, whether it is the Yangtze River or the Pearl River or the coast, you can see a large number of sand boats.

In fact, the recent shipbuilding technology of the Tang Empire has developed rapidly, not to mention the warships, which has nothing to do with civilian use, and the ocean-going merchant ships are based on the 680 merchant ships, and a series of new merchant ships of the Tang Dynasty have been developed.

In addition to this new type of ocean-going merchant ship of Tang Ship, there are several other new ship types, such as flying clippers, but although the hull of the flying clipper ship has been explored and applied, this kind of hull is simply for the pursuit of speed, so that the transportation volume is relatively small, so purely in terms of freight cost, in fact, the cost performance is far lower than that of Tang ships, not to mention the Galen sailboat.

Only in some fields that require the pursuit of speed, can you see the shape of ocean-going clippers, such as fast communicators, fast transport ships, and a few trading companies, began to use this kind of clippers to transport tea!

When tea is transported by sea, the shelf life is relatively short, so in order to make the tea reach its destination as soon as possible, it is natural to use faster clippers.

However, in the ordinary, non-pursuit of speed in the transportation of bulk goods, for the time being, it has not been able to replace the Tang ship or the Galen ship.

In addition to Tang ships and flying clippers, in fact, the Tang Empire also learned and imitated the Western Galen ships, after all, this kind of ships have great advantages in transporting goods, and some trading companies like to use Galen ships.

Compared with the rapid development of ocean-going vessels, the development of offshore vessels is to lag behind, which is mainly the traditional ships in the Chinese region, originally most of them were used for inland waterway and offshore navigation, and the performance is not bad, the sand ship is the most obvious example, the cost is low, the cargo capacity is large at the same time, the number of sailors required is small, which means that the transportation cost is low.

Otherwise, those shipowners would have bought the new schooners launched by the Dingsheng shipyard a long time ago, how good the ship is, the speed is fast, and the suitability is good, but the cost is expensive, and there is not much cargo to be transported.

If you want to use this new type of schooner as an ordinary cargo ship, it is estimated that you have to wait for the further development of shipbuilding technology, and when the technology develops, the cost will be lower, the sailors will be less, and more goods will be transported, and then the transportation cost will be reduced, and it may be able to be applied on a large scale.

Now, the coastal inland river transportation of the Tang Empire is still dominated by the ancient traditional ship type of sand boat.

However, this did not affect the rapid development of coastal inland river transportation in the Tang Empire!

Industry and commerce have a huge transportation demand, shipowners will have profits, and if there is profit, more and more ships will be put into it, which is not only the result of the official promotion of the Tang Empire, but also the natural choice of the commercial market.

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