Nanle is one of the many small counties on the canal, because of the back of the canal, the traffic conditions are particularly convenient, Nanle's wharf has also become one of the busier wharves on the canal, more than 500 ships pass every day, and even more than 1,000 ships at the most extreme time. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

This is in the Song Dynasty, and is the busiest, but also the most important Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, in the feudal society, a river, similar to the highway, in the land route is far away, extremely difficult, the river has become a natural traffic artery, thousands of miles of Jiangling one day, is the Tang Dynasty poet's exaggerated statement, but in the relatively stable and turbulent river, plus the wind is slightly powerful, an hour 4 knots speed is still there, that is more than 7 kilometers an hour, 300 miles a day is no problem, this in ancient times, It's unimaginably fast.

The battle of the large army, 50 miles a day is already terrible, even the cavalry, it is difficult to cross thousands of miles a day, five or six hundred miles is already quite terrible, but the ship can rely on the combination of river flow and wind power, up to 300 miles, which also created the legend of water transportation, any place where there is a river connection, the connection between the two is much closer, this is an indisputable fact.

On the canal, there is no river flow speed, except for a few canal parts, the rest of the place is relatively stable, but on the water, itself is more than on land, reducing a lot of resistance, remember the boatman's oars go slowly, 30-40 miles a day, in terms of boat, it is far more comfortable than on land, and the carriage is also good, but before the appearance of shock absorption, the carriage is fast, it is more bumpy, and if it is slow, the speed will make people helpless.

Where there are ships navigable, transportation costs, than land, to save dozens of times, this is also the Sui Yang Emperor even if the country's strength, but also to build the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal fundamental, it can be said that a Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, directly changed the political situation of the whole China, Sui Yang Emperor, therefore, lost the world, but from the Sui Yang Emperor, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in the entire history, is positive.

Since the Tang Dynasty, the dynasties that unified China, the capital has never been separated from the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the capital of the Yuan Dynasty, Yingtian and Beijing in the Ming Dynasty, Kaifeng and Lin'an in the Song Dynasty, and Beijing in the Qing Dynasty, all of which are on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and even after the Song Dynasty, with the gradual dilapidation of the interruption, the flow of the river has been formed, and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, Beijing and Nanjing, which have since become the most important cities, the political center of China, have never been far from them, and the other cities are dilapidated relative to the two of them.

Of course, it is still early to say that Beijing and Nanjing at this time, Beijing in the Northern Song Dynasty is Yingtianfu, one of the four capitals, and Yingtianfu in the south is not Nanjing, but Shangqiu, Nanjing in the Northern Song Dynasty, is Jiangning Mansion, which is already quite rich in the Southern Tang Dynasty, has become one of the important pillars of the south of the Yangtze River, and the other is Hangzhou, which is one of the capitals of the Southern Song Dynasty.

As an important city on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, Nanle is only a very simple county, backed by the Grand Canal, but also shows a busy scene, dozens of boats every day, stop here to unload, all kinds of goods from the south to the north, will pass through the wharf, for loading and unloading, not only to supply the needs of the county, but also to prosper many nearby towns and towns, become an important fulcrum around.

Unloading at the wharf, it should be a grain merchant, he brought back 4 boats of rice from the south, a huge sack, put the rice in it, a sturdy man, carrying the sack, slowly to the shore, the heavy sacks pressed them, a drop of sweat fell, fell into eight petals, they used their labor to make money, the goal is the front, at the exit of the spacious wharf, there are a few two-wheeled carriages, bags of rice, neatly placed on it, as long as it is full, you can start transporting.

The grain business, as the simplest business, is also the least simple business, hoarding is a foundation for high throwing and low sucking, but those who can withstand such sequelae are all family families, under the legal system of feudal society, Shengdou Xiaomin can only follow these family families, this grain merchant, the reason why he chose Nanle to unload is because the grain of the entire Daimyo's Mansion is controlled in the hands of a few top nobles, he can't get in at all, he can only choose to retreat to Nanle.

Nanle can also be, around 18,000 households, with a total population of nearly 100,000, will consume a large amount of grain every year, and at the same time backed by the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, if there is a shortage of food anywhere, it can be passed through Nanle, which is also the foothold of this grain merchant.

Zhao Xin's eyes swept over, two or three red handwriting flashed, and several things were lit up, the people on the dock were too dense, and the stevedores were busy, so it was not suitable to stay too long, and after lighting up a few at the end, he left quickly.

Around the wharf here, it will be more eye-catching, the wharf is a large number of goods, that is to say, most of the goods are the same as the cargo, stay here, it is impossible to light up more cards, rather than this, it is better to enter the city, in the market, may concentrate a few days, a few months of materials, more diversity, the goods of Nanle Wharf, most of them are fixed, there are many of them, are to be sold in Nanle, there are on the wharf, the market in the city is basically there, Even if the main unloading location is not in Nanle, there will be sporadic sales, and the lighting of cards is just a number, and bulk and sporadic are the same.

Zhao Xin is very clear that under the premise of the present, one or two have very little impact on the card system, unless it is some specific kind, what can be unloaded at Nanle Wharf is not ordnance or unique goods, it is strictly controlled, and it is impossible to unload from the wharf casually, so it is just a lit data like ordinary raw materials or grass and wood cards.

After walking out of the dock, the people seemed to be crowded a lot, Zhao Xin looked at the location of the inner city from a distance across the personnel, Nanle was a typical Song Dynasty county, not only with city walls, but also with a moat. The wharf is not far from the city gate, Nanle is built near the canal, not far from the wharf, is the location of the water gate, where it is generally not opened, the water gate is a canal connection, this waterway, is also part of the moat, Nanle is one of the few counties with a moat, the moat will provide more strong protection to Nanle.

Nanle is a typical county town of the Northern Song Dynasty, the city wall built of blue bricks, it has not been repaired for a long time, it is very clean, and there are not many traces of war, the ancient city wall is used for war, Nanle County is just a county seat, the city wall is not too high, more than 5 meters less than 6 meters, it is probably the height of the two-story building in later generations, this is also this era, most of the city wall height, some state capitals or capitals, will be slightly higher, but it is also one or two meters, at most on the city tower, add some buildings, It is used to strengthen the protection of the city gates.

The city wall is an important protection of the city, the county town with the city wall, and the county without the city wall, the protection capacity is completely different, the construction of the city wall, need to consider many factors, the general small county town, the city wall is five or six meters high, the thickness will not exceed 1 meter, the cost is about a few hundred runs, such a city wall, at most is a little higher than the walled wall, Nanle is slightly larger, but it is also large and limited, about 3 miles, some smaller, Monday is more than normal, that is to say, the whole city is only more than 400 meters long square structure, Such a city, in the future generations, I am afraid that there will not even be a real building. Only the real capital city, or even the capital, will focus on building large city walls, which are not only long enough, wide enough and high enough, but the consumption of different scale city walls is also huge.

The Daimyo's Mansion is like this, the thickness of the city wall is more than 2 meters, the height has reached 8 meters, between the bottom and the top, there is a huge difference, it looks mighty and poor, the majesty is not only majestic, but the cost of money is also the sea, the length of the wall of the Daimyo's Mansion is at least two and a half times that of Nanraku, plus the width length and height, the cost of the Daimyo's Mansion is at least dozens of times that of Nanraku. Of course, the important role of the Daimyo's Mansion is also dozens of times that of Nanle, and it may be more than 100 times more than the smallest city wall, which is only a few hundred times.

The county seat, not the capital city and the capital, are not big, Nanle in the county, it is also good, the total circumference is not big, about 3 miles, calculated, that is, a rectangular area of 400 meters by more than 300 meters, far less than the small town of later generations, the reason is very simple, too big a city, the defense is very unfavorable, a lot of romance or history books, in the description of the siege, may be the last moment, still in the south gate to resist, because the other gates are in critical condition, they ran to the east gate, It looks like taking an airplane and rocket, in fact, most of the county seats, from the east gate to the south gate, the distance between the left and right is two or three hundred meters, and the fast run will soon be able to support, only the opposite gate, it is a little more difficult, because to go around the city, it is better to pass through the city, after all, on the battlefield, the city wall is still relatively dangerous.

Nanle City is in the county, it is already big enough, even if it is the famous mansion in Beijing, it is only 1.83 kilometers, 3.66 miles, the circumference is more than twice as high as Nanle, and the area may be four times that of Nanle. Nanle County according to the visual area, Up to 0.2 square kilometers, which in later generations, is the size of a large stadium, a sports field circumference of 400 meters, expansion of 2 times, plus stands and other ancillary facilities, 160,000 square meters, a small block is larger than here, this is also the difference between ancient and modern, ancient cities, only the core points and strategic points, but later cities, indeed rich in wealth and personnel area, that is the essence of a country, and in the Song Dynasty, in addition to Bianliang such four capital cities, or Jinling, Hangzhou such a southern town, other places or rural areas as the standard, one of the foundations of the rural dynasty.