Begging for a living on the water, from the boatman, to the captain, to the slender man, a waterway, I don't know how many people have been fed, this is especially obvious in the Northern Song Dynasty, because the Northern Song Dynasty was the era of the most developed commercial activities.

The Northern Song Dynasty, which was completely different from other historical periods, almost the entire economy and population relied on the water system connected by the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and water transportation occupied a very key position in the entire process of the Northern Song Dynasty.

The transportation industry, as long as there is enough strength and capacity, should not be much meager, and even in the Northern Song Dynasty, to a certain extent, the salary standard of sailors is still relatively high.

These people begging for a life on the water, their misery, comes from uncertainty, although the risk on the water, compared to the sea, I don't know how much it has shrunk, for the general strength of the shipowner, there are still risks, and there are a lot of digits.

Even in the 21st century, there will be news of large ships capsizing, and it is mostly some whirlwind from the river, which upsets the balance of the entire ship, and eventually causes problems.

In this era, a little more, a sailboat encounters a whirlwind, which is slightly better than a steamer, and is itself a lighter thing than water, and it is not easy to be silent, but the wind and waves, destruction, disintegration, and landing, these things that will hardly appear in later generations, appear in the next order.

Of course, it is impossible to arrange safety facilities on the ship, let alone investigate every inch of the waterway, record all the places where there may be wind, waves and reefs, and even sometimes, in order to survive, even the old ships that cannot be repaired will be transported.

These ships, like the scrapped vehicles of later generations, may not have problems, but if they do, they are big problems.

The Northern Song Dynasty did not count, and I don't know how many ships capsized and how many people died in a year, but there were a lot of news circulating.

Of course, Zhao Xin will not be so dry and fishing, besides, in the early stage of the formation of the fleet, all of them are new ships, as long as a little attention, there will be no potential safety hazards, and even for some aspects, it deliberately increases safety, even if it increases the cost.

Cost is the last thing Zhao Xin doesn't have to worry about, the Dinghai Army, which is in a buyer's market, has enough production capacity every year, and these products need to be transported to various places in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Because in terms of safety, the cost incurred is negligible compared to the huge volume.

Not to mention the added value generated by production and sales, this is the core of the Dinghai Navy, with these, we can have the Dinghai Navy now, such a huge situation, even if it is an ordinary freight, can also support the operation of a huge fleet.

Ship transportation, is a test of transportation density, in fact, all transportation is the same, to a trip, basically can cover the cost of back and forth, sometimes, in order not to go back empty, some vehicles even have to wait for ten days and half a month.

The same is true for shipping, with the current output of the navy, let alone 1,000 ships, even if it is three or five thousand, there is no problem.

Zhao Xin has passed a scientific method to adjust the proportion of round-trip transportation, unless there is a large profit, otherwise, it will operate according to a stable operation chart, so that the cost is reduced to the minimum, and the profit is enough to guarantee.

In order to form a huge water transportation system throughout the Northern Song Dynasty, he invested desperately and purchased more than 1,000 ships of various kinds.

If you want to get the ship that the other party is about to deliver, the only way is money, 3 percent, 5 percent, or even one or two times, the price of the original relatively cheap ship has been raised a lot, and the cost of this alone is more than 500,000 yuan.

This is just a basis for the formation of such a huge water transport system, a transportation system, ships are a starting point, ports, storage and transportation points, offices in various places, communication and communication systems, these investment is greater, and sometimes, even in order to intersect a complete system, various ports and reservoir areas, the number is quite huge.

Now, it's just a simple system, and in addition to the huge investment in ships and ports, in addition to that, there is also waving money to absorb all kinds of talents related to ships in all directions.

Dinghai is a terrible development of the industrial city, once into the formal, in the construction of the investment, all invested in industrial production, the outbreak of power is terrible, if because of the constraints of transportation, can not be transported to various places in the Northern Song Dynasty, this is also a blow to the business of the Dinghai Navy.

In feudal society, there are more things, which is nothing more than a drop in prices, but the production of industrial products is different, and when the inventory rises to a certain extent, it is huge for an enterprise in Shanghai.

The most obvious difference between a modern industrial factory and the handicraft industry is that it has a large amount of output, once it starts, it is difficult to stop, even if it is a loss, there are not enough sales channels, if these things are sold, the terrible production efficiency will become a nightmare for the entire industry.

Similar to later generations, after industrialization, Britain even did not hesitate to fight a terrible war for the sake of colonies and commodity dumping grounds.

War is the most costly, and in Chinese history, there are many people who perished because of long wars, but commercial countries have to fight like this, because if he doesn't fight, the terrible production and the oversupply crisis caused by it will be enough to make the country perish.

The Dinghai Navy is far from this level, but it needs to be prepared for danger in times of peace, and even to consider, the output that may skyrocket in the future, and similarly, it is also necessary to accumulate talents for the long-term goal.

Zhao Xin wants to prepare talents for the entire Northern Song Dynasty river transportation area, these sailors who operate on the rivers can enter the navy in the future, compared with river transportation, Zhao Xin expects more from the ocean.

River transportation can help the navy and quickly sell products to various places in the Northern Song Dynasty, but sea transportation is what really opens up the territory and turns decay into magic.

The ocean has already begun, but at most, on the basis of recruiting ready-made sailors, some intensive training, some new sail groups, will also carry out a certain amount of land training, large-scale investment in the ocean, must be temporarily opened, and even large shipyards are in the preparatory stage, and even the development is not fast.

It is not difficult to recruit people who are related to water, or even work on the ocean-going fleet, and there are many people in the two major cities of Quanzhou and Hangzhou who ask for this bowl of rice, and those crew members who have two seasons a year, after they arrive on land, they only get basic living expenses.

This is already a large number of shipowners, and there is no need to venture out to sea, in the flatland, not even the convenience of the locals, the shipowners can do all this, it is already good.

Most seafarers, they behave, when the monsoon arrives, they travel nervously, and when the monsoon is interactive, they drink, spend money, or do something else, and now they have a good seafaring job, and they don't have to go too far, how can they not agree.

Just let this demand out, there are a lot of people who want this job, and there are still a little fewer Chinese sailors from overseas than overseas sailors.

It's just that when it comes to shipbuilding, there is a problem, the ocean-going shipbuilding industry in the Northern Song Dynasty is very developed, in Quanzhou, in Hangzhou, and even along the Yangtze River, a series of shipyards, at least dozens of ships that can build more than 4,000 large ships.

4000 materials, is not small, according to a material of 0.325 tons, 4000 materials as high as 1300 tons, which is the beginning of the European Age of Discovery, is already a very terrible ship, not to mention now, in the 11th century, at this time, the ancestors of the so-called navigators in Europe are still playing windsurfing.

It's a pity that these shipwrights are either concentrated in the manufacturing department, although the Northern Song Dynasty did not manufacture many large ships, but in some open sea guards, there will still be some large ships, at least more than 2,500 materials, these ships need shipwrights to build.

However, in general, the shipyards under official control, they have fewer tasks, and there are not many shipwrights under their control, and most of these shipwrights are elected locally, and the level is good.

Some outstanding and famous shipwrights, under the recommendation of the shipowner and under the official inspection, have the status of an official, even if it is just a craftsman, which is also a rush for the workers at the bottom.

This point can also be regarded as the characteristics of the Northern Song Dynasty, a change of iron materials, so that the foundry department these places, more than 100,000 people were dismissed, and the bloated Northern Song Dynasty can be seen.

But from another aspect, it also means that the Northern Song Dynasty is better treated, a soldier of the forbidden army can feed more than 20 people, and the craftsmen who enter the government sequence, even if the status is very low, but an iron rice bowl is enough to make everyone envious, not to mention, within the system, you can continue to be promoted, a little careless, and get an official and a half position, which represents a qualitative difference.

However, the shipwrights are different from the blacksmiths, and the blacksmiths are already facing the danger of industry, because the blacksmith workshops of the daimyo provide cheaper and better quality iron, and it is natural that the government will cut them, otherwise they will be raised in vain, and they may cost hundreds of thousands of yuan a year, or even more.

The shipwrights did not have competition from the navy, and coupled with the strong demand for ships in the Northern Song Dynasty, they lived a relatively nourishing life.

In the developed shipbuilding industry of the Northern Song Dynasty, there was not much official business, but if you hang a consultant in a private shipyard and guide it, you can get a lot of income every year, plus the official status, you don't have too much nourishment.

Even the shipwrights of those private shipyards, most of them are multigenerational relationships, and even own some shares, especially some masters, who themselves jump out to become shipyard owners, so it is even more difficult to attract.