Chapter One Hundred and Five: Stopping the Boat
When Feng Chuan arrived, there were black-clothed people floating on the water who were wailing constantly, I don't know what they had experienced, they were as depressed as chickens in the soup at the moment, and they were all taken down by Feng Chuan. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Feng Chuan took the distress letter in his hand and sighed: "This Sun Qi is really like a god descending from heaven, the letter said that the menacing man in black was tortured like this, as a county guard, I really sighed to myself." ”
He looked into the distance, and under the faint light of the sky, there was the Grand Canal, which had been a vast soup for thousands of years, continuously delivering nutrients to the land of northern royal power.
The three transport ships began their journey to the north again, and someone in the black three's mouth was the person above, Sun Qi already knew who it was, but he didn't expect that his colleagues could do such a vicious thing in order to compete for merit.
Fortunately, with the powerful water gun, Sun Qi washed the blood on the deck clean, as if nothing had happened before.
"Write down the dead migrant workers, and each person will be subsidized with thirty taels of silver per month when they go back!"
The revolver, after this water thief incident, did not even come in handy, and could only wait for the next time to release its dazzling bullets.
Ten days were as fast as flowing water, the ships were floating on the Grand Canal, just like those products were automatically transported to the terminal on the production line, and the gradually increasing number of boats on the water, and the gradually narrowing river channel undoubtedly told Sun Qi that he was about to approach the boundary of Chang'an.
Chang'an rice warehouse is located in the east of Chang'an City, where it is easy to defend and difficult to attack since ancient times, there is a chasm moat, according to legend, in ancient times, Emperor Liu and Emperor Xiang competed for hegemony in the world, Emperor Liu set up camp on the west side of the moat, and Huang Xiang was in a stalemate with Emperor Xiang for a long time in this place, but because there is a granary of Hangu in the west of the moat, there is a huge amount of grain left over from the previous dynasty, Emperor Liu made use of it, and finally won the victory of the war.
Therefore, in this regard, based on the Hangu granary of the first dynasty, the Han Dynasty transformed the Hangu granary into the largest granary in the Central Plains, and it is said that the grain loaded here is enough to feed the population of several states of the Han Dynasty for a year.
People come and go on the shore, the sound of selling, the sound of iron, the land of Hangu, there is the bitterness of the small people in the market, and there is also the unbeatable majesty at the feet of the Son of Heaven.
Retrograde to the shore, retracting his gaze from the lakes and mountains on both sides, Zhou Shuai yelled at the sleepy migrant workers.
"Unloaded! Let's all move! ”
Three huge dragons, unique appearance of the transport ship, slowly sailed into the unloading dock of the rice warehouse, along the way, these three huge transport ships envied others, as long as the people who saw it were all admired, a look was to sail in the direction of the rice warehouse, and all clapped their hands and said, I have such a god-type ship in the Han country, why worry about the endless dangerous sea area.
The eye-catching people on the dock all came up and prepared to hook the boat that was fluttering in the water with their hooks, but a large black awl suddenly thrown from the boat was like a black sword inserted into the water, stirring up several kilometers of river water.
"What is this?"
"I threw it straight into the water, so how did I catch it?"
Obviously, the pick-up personnel on the dock are surprised by this, you must know that the ships of the Han Dynasty, all the ships, are not equipped with the equipment of 'anchoring', when the ship is docked, in addition to sailing against the current, increasing the resistance and slowing down, but also need the assistance of people on the shore, with a hook to forcibly stop the boat, tied to the shore.
If it is a small boat, it can be forcibly stopped by manpower, but like this large transport ship built by Sun Qi, it is absolutely impossible to stop the ship by manpower, and the kinetic energy of the ship is too great, and it may even pull the people on the shore into the river.
When the unloading began, the migrant workers seemed to have forgotten the invasion of water thieves.
The carrying capacity of 5,000 catties of grain was completed within three hours.
However, these three eye-catching 'giant ships' can be regarded as a great amazement to the officials who received the ships, and when the migrant workers finished unloading their goods, the official leaned on the side of the dock and stared at the three big ships without turning his eyes.
"Where's the ship?"
"Jiang Ning's."
"Jiang Ning? No, Jiangning hasn't shipped grain to us for three years, Xiao Wu, go check and see if this is Jiangning's Cao Yun? ”
In short, it shows that Jiangning's position in the heart of the Central Plains Rice Warehouse is completely untable, it is not in the stream, and there has been no achievement in three years, and suddenly so many goods have been unloaded at once, which makes people have to doubt.
"Where did this ship come from? So big, my good boy, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, I have never seen such a big ship! ”
In addition to expressing surprise, the official who received the grain also talked to Sun Qi about some gossip outside the transportation industry, which made Sun Qi very embarrassed.
"How much grain and grass is transported, this is not the point, the key depends on the mind, but if you want to be promoted and make a fortune, then you have to have more luck, otherwise the officials will evaluate the position in the past, and there will be no way......"
There was an unknown smell in his tone, as if he was stretching out a pair of invisible hands, wanting to ask for something from Sun Qi, as long as people in the officialdom could understand that meaning, Sun Qi could also understand it, but he just endured it and didn't say it.
This official really takes himself seriously, this year is only the first time to transport grain, Sun Qi has not filled the three boats, and the next time he goes out of the mountain, five thousand catties is considered a small amount.
Sun Qi speculates that in the next five years, the volume of water transportation in one county of Jiangning County will be equivalent to the total amount of water transportation in the whole of Yangzhou.
"This is thirty taels of silver, you take it!"
Sun Qi didn't understand this rule, so he took out three pieces of silver from his arms, which were heavy, and then put them in the official's hand.
Looking at the official's satisfied smile, Sun Qi had an indescribable disgust in his heart.
A gust of wind called Xiao Wu seemed to run back, and within half a moment, he held a roster in his hand and handed it to Sun Qi.
"Sign your name, to be honest, Jiang Ning actually transported 5,000 catties at once this year, which is really beyond my expectations."
"Who's to say it isn't?"
Ignoring the conversation between the two, Sun Qi looked at the lists, remembering that they were all the transportation of some states and counties, including sea salt, minerals, and grain and grass.
The household department buys these grains and grasses from various prefectures and counties at a low price in the rice warehouse in the Central Plains, fills the state treasury with half of the market price, and then opens the warehouse to release grain during the disaster year to seek benefits for the people.
Sun Qi still remembers the drought and locust plague, if it weren't for the timely allocation of grain above, I am afraid that Goudi Village would have been empty long ago, leaving no people.
Sun Qi found a strange phenomenon on the roster, originally the amount of grain transported this time should be the first in Jiangning County, but Sun Qi found Fang Tianhua's name in the first position, this Cao Yun envoy of Wu County.
Maybe this is the proximate effect, Jiangning County has given up the Cao Yun industry for too long, and it has long been regarded as the default penultimate first!