Shen Tingyang's consideration not only contains political ambitions, but also contains practical interests. The Shen family is the largest sand boat gang at the mouth of the Yangtze River, and if he can change the grain to the sea, this huge amount of water foot income will definitely be spent on the Shen family, which is his biggest motivation.

Cao Yun refers to the feudal dynasty will levy part of the grain from the field, through the waterway to the Beijing division or other designated places, for the court consumption, hundreds of officials, military salaries and food allocation.

In the past dynasties, Caoyun has always been a major event of the imperial court, with high cost and low efficiency, and it is often closely related to water control. Whether it was the Tang Dynasty transporting grain from Guandong to Guannei, the Song Dynasty transporting grain to Kaifeng through the Yellow River, or the shipping in the Yuan Dynasty and the river transportation in the Ming Dynasty...... Each one is an extremely complex system project, involving all aspects of the content, so since ancient times, there has been a special knowledge of "Cao Zheng".

What Shen Tingyang has done in recent years is to compile his research results and nautical charts into a book, and then send a letter to the imperial court through officials who are familiar with him, suggesting that Taicang reform from white grain to sea should be put into trial operation -- a small-scale reform is always less resistant than a major reform.

Shen Tingyang also has many friends in the DPRK, but once this matter is successful, his own shipping company will of course be the carrier of the grain to the north, and the interests involved are very great. It is better to write to a courtier who has nothing to do with his own family.

He also did a lot of research on Wang Yue's situation, this Wang Yue is not only a high-ranking official in the court, but also a giant, and now he has almost become a powerful minister. After hearing that Wang Yue was about to serve as the governor of Yingtian, Shen Tingyang seemed to see hope.

Of course, in business, if the "Cao Grain to the Sea" is successful, Shen Tingyang will of course take Wang Yue as the leader, after all, there is no comparison in strength.

After listening to Shen Tingyang's tirade, Wang Yue was also speechless. He still has some understanding of Caoyun, and if he wants to change the status quo of Caoyun, unless he overthrows the existing regime now, he can have the conditions to carry out a thorough reform of Caoyun. Does no one understand the advantages of "changing grain to sea"? Of course not, it is a matter of interest.

In order to change the status quo of Caoyun, we must first use the administrative order to change the grain to levy silver taels, so Caoyun will almost die. The second is to adopt more advanced means of transportation, namely the Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou railway.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, it was because of the application of railways that the status of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal plummeted, and I don't know how many prosperous cities gradually declined along the way, Yangzhou is a typical example.

Shen Tingyang spoke at length, but Wang Yue smiled and said nothing.

Seeing that Wang Yue didn't speak, Shen Tingyang had no choice but to ask, "What does Lord Wang think of what Ji Ming said?" ”

Wang Yue was also helpless, this old man regarded himself as a high-ranking official of the imperial court. What you have to do is to break an old world and build a new one.

If we proceed from the actual interests of the Ming Dynasty, the transformation of grain into the sea is of course a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people. It's not impossible to give advice to Chongzhen by yourself, but this thing won't work at all, because Chongzhen has no ability to change it, even if he and Chongzhen change positions, this matter is difficult to do.

After the success of Shen Tingyang's maritime test in history. Still failed to abolish the sea, although he personally achieved significant development in his career, but it still failed to make up for the destruction of the entire Ming Dynasty.

Wang Yue thought for a while and said: "The so-called difficulty in shipping is nothing more than the obstruction of vested interests in the final analysis. ”

"Vested interests?" This new term aroused Shen Tingyang's interest.

"Yes, vested interests." Wang Yue nodded and said. "A canal goes from south to north, up to the princes of the court, down to the sluiceman, and what is taken on the surface is stolen secretly...... There are countless people eating the river along the way, how can they be willing to abolish the imperial court and replace it with the sea? ”

Because of the different angles of looking at the problem, Wang Yue sees it more thoroughly in this regard.

This is still all kinds of benefits on the surface, in addition, Cao Ding, the general manager of the transport, the small officials who escorted it, and even the palanquin man who carried the rice grain. None of them should take advantage of the rice on the ship - some out of greed, some out of necessity. The so-called "loss" along the way is even several times more than positive.

Along the way, there are hundreds of thousands of people watching Caoyun eat, and I don't know how many people have made a fortune by Caoyun.

As for the cost of repairing and dredging canal facilities and building and repairing canal vessels in order to maintain river transportation, it is innumerable. This has given rise to a huge vested interest group.

To confront such a huge interest group, even the emperor had to retreat. This luck is just a microcosm of the Ming Dynasty, and there are countless situations like this in the Ming Dynasty.

If it was just a reform, Wang Yue thought that he couldn't play it, and he was just a truck driver before. The simplest thing is to violently demolish and kill his head, then Daming will be demolished with thousands of holes, this project is too large.

So he is still determined to go his own way, so that others have no way out.

Shen Tingyang didn't know that his efforts would end up with a failed result.

Over the years, he has spent a lot of effort studying Cao Gaihai, and he is not ignorant of the resistance of the court, but he did not expect that he would have to face such a behemoth. Listening to Wang Yueyi's analysis, I couldn't help but feel discouraged.

Seeing that this heroic man was depressed, Wang Yue laughed and said: "Brother Ji Ming is so hard to promote the abolition of the sea and the transformation of the sea, and his sincere heart for the country and the people is admired by this official. In fact, this official also knows that if this proposal can be successful, the benefits obtained by Brother Ji Ming are also the motivation. ”

Shen Tingyang was about to argue immediately: "I...! ”

Wang Yue waved his hand and interrupted: "This official is not looking down on Brother Ji Ming's character. The hustle and bustle of the world is for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit, and it is certainly understandable that people have the heart to seek profit. ”

Shen Tingyang had to smile embarrassedly, if he deliberately explained, he would fall into place.

"Brother Ji Ming, don't always keep your eyes on the one-third of an acre of land at home, why not set your sights on the sea." Wang Yue said.

"Do you mean ocean freight?" Shen Tingyang sighed: "Most of our ships are flat-bottomed sand boats, and at most they can only run river transportation and offshore freight. ”

"Now it's not easy to do business in the Yangtze River, the water bandits are like Mao, and there are tooth people who are in the way when they get to the dock. Now I take care of the stewards, and only the goods. If you don't buy or sell, you won't have to worry about it. ”

"The profit of running the sea is very large, and the risk is also very large! The ship is small and can't resist the wind and waves, the artillery is less than the pirates can't be beaten, and many sea routes are very raw, there is no chart reference, it is also very dangerous, and if you are not careful, you will lose all your money. ”

"Our Shen family has two sea vessels, and we only make two or three trips to Japan a year. The other ships mainly run the Tianjin line. ”

Speaking of this, Shen Tingyang came to his senses, "Listen to the steward, today's Zhigu is very different under the governance of Lord Wang. ”