"This is Qinghe?"

When the fleet arrived at Qinghe, Qian Lei and everyone on the boat were all stunned by the prosperity in front of them, although they had heard that with the benefit of the north-south transshipment of Qingjiangpu, as the governor of the river, the Qinghe River, where Huai'an Pass is located, is far more prosperous than the ordinary market, but they never thought that this city would be so prosperous, in addition to the shipyard full of timber for dozens of miles along the coast, there is a dense house, the prosperity of the market, even the ordinary city in the south of the Yangtze River can not be compared.

"I'm afraid this Qinghe is prosperous, and I'm afraid Hangzhou is just like that!"

Qian Lei, who was on the bow of the boat, couldn't help but exclaim, while Gao Jiming on the side hurriedly said.

"Mr. Bingqi doesn't know, this Qinghe used to be known as the four major cities with the canal, and Yangzhou, Hangzhou and said, the outer city is not less than dozens of miles, when the Qing captured the customs, the Ming army here directly surrendered, so it was not like Yangzhou in general, although the prosperity of these years is not as good as that year, but it is far better than Yangzhou......"

In fact, this is not the first time Gao Jiming has come here, he was in Xuzhou to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and he knows a little about Qinghe.

"However, compared to the prosperity of the market, the city wall of Qinghe County is really shabby, when the system was established, it was just a county seat, since it has not considered today's prosperity, the city wall is not more than a zhang high, and then Qinghe prospered because of the north-south transfer of Qingjiangpu, outside the city, it is increasingly prosperous, so that the county seat is narrow and can not be expanded, since the Yongle period, Chengping for hundreds of years, the city wall is in disrepair for a long time, in this city, but there are only a few yamen ......"

As he spoke, when their boat had arrived at the dock near Qinghe City, looking at the city wall that had been in disrepair for a long time, Qian Lei couldn't help but say with wide eyes.

"This place is so prosperous, why are the walls so broken?"

In Qian Lei's view, this is an unimaginable thing at all, the city is very prosperous, but the city wall is in disrepair and almost crumbling.

Mr. Bingqi didn't know that this Qinghe is different from ordinary cities, it is prosperous because of the river, but the river is outside the city, and the merchants naturally gather outside the city, so shops and restaurants are also gathered in the outer city, so that the outside of the city is becoming more and more prosperous, but the city is becoming more and more deserted. Over time, the inside of the city was where the government office was located, and outside the city was lined with merchants, because the city wall had nothing to do with itself, and how could the local gentry be willing to pay for the repair of the city? As for the government, because it is useless to strengthen the old city, and it cannot expand the city for dozens of miles, over time, the Qinghe city wall will become more and more dilapidated......"

As Qian Lei's right-hand man, although Wang Deyu is a native of Jiangnan, he is no stranger to Qinghe, in the explanation of others, the group has already gotten off the boat, and when they got off the boat, Zhu Daxian personally greeted him and bowed.

"Bingqi and Commander Gao, under the orders of the military gate, greet the two here, the military gate must be entangled in important matters, otherwise they will meet each other in person......"

Although Zhu Daxian is only a member of the army, compared to others, as the son of Zhu Mingzhong's teacher Zhu Zhiyu, he is Zhu Mingzhong's senior brother, so with this identity here, the two naturally will not feel that the military is slack.

"Pingchen, the military gate is busy with military affairs, so when state affairs are undecided, it is natural to focus on military affairs!"

Seemingly casually asked, Zhu Daxian didn't hear what he meant, so he explained with a smile.

"What the military gate is busy with today is also related to military affairs, and the current military gate is in the Changying warehouse on the other side, and the grain in this Changying warehouse is directly related to the Northern Expedition of our army in other days......"

Zhu Daxian pointed to the other side of the canal not far from the place like a small city, that is the Grand Canal's largest granary Chang Ying Cang, since Yongle moved north to the Yellow River to fully seize the Huai, hundreds of years, this Chang Ying warehouse has been responsible for the transfer of grain, the usual period of grain storage 500,000 stones, sometimes even more than 3 million stones. Therefore, it is known as "the first warehouse in the world".

At this time, Changying Warehouse, known as "the first warehouse in the world", stored as much as one million stone of grain! It is precisely because of this that the loyal and righteous army, which originally did not carry much food, had enough food!

At this time, in the granary of this small city, Zhu Mingzhong's steps seemed a little relaxed, and he had a thick smile on his face.

These grains are undoubtedly the biggest harvest of this Northern Expedition, and it is even more important than the territory, because grain is the foundation of everything.

“…… In addition to the 1,360,000 stone official grain in the Changying warehouse, there are also more than 600,000 stone official grain in other Changying warehouses......"

Compared with the nervousness of Li Jiechuan, the head of the warehouse, Zhu Mingzhong's smile became even stronger when he heard that there were nearly two million shicao grains, although he had known this number for a long time, but when he saw these granaries full of grain, he was still inevitably happy.

2,000,000 stone grain!

Moreover, they are all polished rice and refined wheat, which not only means that they are worth more than 200,000 taels of silver, but more importantly, these grains are enough for hundreds of thousands of troops to eat for several years.

There is food in your hands, and you don't panic in your heart!

Great men don't deceive me!

2,000,000 stone of grain, regardless of its value. With this food, there will be no need to think about military rations anymore, at least for the next few years.

For the military, sometimes it is the military rations that are the most important. And if necessary, this grain can also be sold in the market in exchange for the funds needed for military training.

Although he received more than 1 million taels of silver from the salt envoy in Yangzhou, these were only a drop in the bucket compared to the training of soldiers.

These grains can be sold in the market in exchange for more funds, so as to meet the needs of Jiangbei military training, and of course, they can also be used as start-up funds for the cause.

It can be said that this grain fundamentally solves the biggest problem faced by any warlord in the early days of his rise - the problem of insufficient materials and funds.

Although he does not consider himself a warlord, he will always need a lot of money to back up his military training, build factories, develop trade, and promote industry and commerce in the future.

The 2 million pieces of grain in the grain depot and the more than one million taels of silver obtained by Yangzhou have fundamentally solved these problems.

Zhu Mingzhong, who was in a very happy mood, looked at the granary and asked,

"Is this grain a grain for the array, or is it a new grain?"

The reason why I ask this question is because the old grain and the new grain are two completely different prices, and 2 million stone grain is enough to disparity hundreds of thousands of taels.

"Back to the military gate, since ancient times, this grain has been required to be the new grain of the year, and the rice must be fine white grain. Therefore, the grain in the warehouse does not dare to be mixed in the slightest. ”

After Yongle moved north, in order to supply the Beijing division and the Beijing border guards, in order to transfer the southeast grain to the Beijing division, he formulated the detailed rules for the collection and transfer of the grain, on the surface, the refined grain collected from Nanzhili, Huguang, Jiangxi and other places every year is 3 million to 4 million stones, but in fact, in order to transfer the southeast grain to the Beijing division free of charge, the heaviest burden of grain per stone, such as Nanzhili, only half a stone, the actual annual transportation of grain is no less than 5 million stones, If you add the exploitation of officials, it will be no less than 6 million stones, and in order to avoid the extortion of officials, the people naturally dare not use the array grain to pass it off as new grain. Naturally, the grain in this warehouse did not dare to be mixed with the grain, the people did not dare, and the officials did not dare, because they did not know where the grain in the warehouse would be transported in the end, whether it would be sold to ordinary people or sent to the border army.

As for now, there is one more item that is issued to the Eight Banners, after all, the hundreds of thousands of banner people in the Beijing Division have been cleared and distributed a large amount of food to those parasites that suck the blood of the Han people.

"According to the law of the Qing Dynasty, the soldiers of the Eight Banners received three taels and four cents of silver per month, and fifteen stones of rice, which was enough to feed more than a dozen people. The vest receives two taels of silver and ten stones of rice every month, which is enough to feed 8 people. Bujia receives one or two six cents of silver every month, and seven stones of rice, which is enough to feed five people. The raising soldiers receive eight cents of silver and four stones of rice per month, which is enough to feed three people, and it is precisely because these millions of stone grains are almost completely used to feed the Jingshi Qiqi that the people naturally dare not mix. ”

Think of millions of stone grains every year, just used to feed those parasites. Thinking of some bastards who are not enough slaves in the later generations, they actually keep saying what this is the reward that the Manchurians should get for fighting the world. Shameless!

Zhu Mingzhong's heart suddenly swelled with anger, suppressing the anger in his heart, and he secretly thought in his heart, since you parasites can bring this kind of salary, then it will be necessary to repay this debt from generation to generation. Since hundreds of years later, those miscellaneous who are not enough slaves can say something over and over again, which is the reward that people deserve for fighting the world, then everything in the future is just retribution! It is the retribution they deserve for enslaving the Han Chinese!

After secretly making up his mind, Zhu Mingzhong continued to ask.

"How does a permanent profit warehouse work?"

"Back to the pacification envoy, Chang Yingcang usually only for tun transportation, every year the grain in the warehouse is transported to Beijing, and then the new grain from the south of the Yangtze River replenishes the warehouse, so that the grain in the warehouse can always be new grain,"

Listening to Li Jiechuan's answer, Zhu Mingzhong's brows furrowed slightly, and then asked.

"In other words, the grain in this warehouse is said to be new grain, but it is actually last year's array grain?"

The answer is obvious, and then Zhu Mingzhong asked some more questions, of course, among all the questions, he was most concerned about the storage and transportation of grain in Xuzhou Warehouse, Linqing Warehouse and Tongzhou Warehouse, he asked this, Li Jiechuan thought for a moment, and then answered truthfully.

“…… Therefore, now the Qing captives in the north should have no less than 3.6 million stones of grain in their hands, which can barely be eaten by the Jingshi for a year......"

For outsiders, this may be a secret, but because most of the grain in those granaries is transferred by Changying warehouse, Li Jiechuan, who is the head of the warehouse, knows very well how much grain is in these warehouses.