Zhao Dezhao doesn't know, some people compare Zhao Dezhao to a hen that lays golden eggs, but even if Zhao Dezhao knows, he is very happy, and now the commercial development of the Great Song Dynasty is not perfect, and the development of business needs talents like Zhao Dezhao, of course, it also needs businessmen with developed business minds and shrewd and capable businessmen in the world, and he Liu Fang is one of them.

When the night wind came and went quickly, Zhao Xin had never seen anything unusual about the ship behind that night, and the people on the boat were the people who stayed and sent them.

This person is highly respected, well-known in the Tang Dynasty, when he stayed in the service to recruit with excellent gifts, awarded the military department of the foreign lang, appointed to inspect the school book, all military and political secrets, all discussed with him, handed over to him to handle. In the Xiande years, and at that time, because Guo Rong defeated the Khitan, captured the Tang State, and seized its fourteen states in Jiangbei, the war achievements were impressive, and the countries suddenly felt that they were in danger, and they stayed in the effect to hear it, so they thought that Guo Rong had the momentum of the world together, so he ordered him to envoy to the Zhou State, and he did not disgrace his mission. At the time of Kaifeng, Guo Rong of Zhou Shizong allowed him to stay in Quanzhou to claim the domain, and allowed him to play, issued an edict to commend him, and gave him treasures. This envoy is Quanzhou, don't drive Huang Yuxi.

The last time Huang Yuxi made a pilgrimage to the Son of Heaven was only a year or two ago, and now he was sent to the Song Kingdom to perform the same duties.

The wind blew out, and after Huang Yuxi was woken up, he wore a cloak, stood on the bow of the boat, the wind blew from his beard, looking at the vast rivers and mountains, who was the lord of ups and downs, who could have expected that in just a few years, the situation in the world would have changed, and who could have expected that Guo Rong, who was a martial artist of Wenzhi and martial arts, died young, and the Great Zhou was now replaced by the Great Song Dynasty, and he didn't know whether the Central Plains Dynasty would be replaced again as before.

And in order to complete the mission, he obeyed the order of the Qingyuan Jiedu envoy to stay in effect, went to Kaifeng to meet the Son of Heaven, in order to show his loyalty, and by the way to Zhao Kuangyin to express his recognition of the legitimacy of your Great Song Dynasty, he thought that Quanzhou had been in the hands of the Liujiedu envoy for 15 years, and the people under his rule had food and content, houses, boats, chariots and horses...... He was very proud.

When you get tired, you re-enter the cabin and sleep peacefully.

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The big ship has been sailing on the river for four days, and it is already November 11.

Early in the morning, Huang Yuxi came out of the cabin.

"Ma San'er, where is the ship at this moment?"

"Farewell to Huang, our ship has arrived in Yongcheng, and it will be Kaifeng in the near future!"

Huang Yuxi asked, "Yongcheng? How many days does it take to get to the capital? ”

"In about seven days, our boat can get off at the Bianshui Wharf in the south of the city!"

"That's good!" Huang Yuxi thought that he was about to meet the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, and his ship was full of tributes from Quanzhou, and these tributes were basically purple coral, pearls from the East China Sea, ivory, rhino horn, tortoiseshell, pearls, floating incense, camphor, and of course some items shipped from Southeast Asia, Huang Yuxi himself couldn't name them.

Huang Yuxi saw that there were more people coming and going on the wharf along the coast of Yongcheng, more than in other places, and they were all people transporting grain or soldiers, so he asked: "Ma San'er, why are there so many people on this wharf?" ”

"Returning to Huang Don't drive, since the Great Song Dynasty Tianzi promulgated the decree of changing the law, he mobilized local troops to accumulate troops in the Beijing division, and the forbidden army was stationed in the Beijing division and other counties, rotating inside and outside, and returning to the Beijing division regularly. The Son of Heaven ordered the dredging of the river and the management of the river, so the affairs of the river and the canal were the most urgent, and the people had to be recruited to dredge the river, and the local troops had to be mobilized, so the old system was changed, and the people were requisitioned every year to dredge the Cao River and bring their own rations. ”

Huang Yuxi nodded again and again when he heard this, it seems that the policy of the Central Plains Dynasty has changed again, and it is the first time he has heard of this more military law, and he has an indescribable feeling about the more military method, he is a literati, and he doesn't know whether this more military method is good or bad.

At this moment, there was a pier in front of him, so Huang Yuxi ordered someone to dock the ship at the pier for a while, and the boat slowed down and headed towards the pier......

But at this moment, Zhao Dezhao's boat is the same, and all this is just a purchase of food supplies on the ship, a few people followed Zhao Dezhao off the boat, and saw that the dock was full of people coming and going, presumably it was very lively here, so he paid a private visit to Yongcheng and went to Yongcheng to observe the people's feelings.

The Yongcheng wharf is full of busy people, some men are carrying bags of grain, struggling to transport the grain from the ship to the wharf, and then the grain is sent to the next wharf by donkey cart.

The government grain ships, transported to Kaifeng, need to go to the next ferry, where the water flow is the same, and the grain ships with a deep waterline can go to Kaifeng along the river.

And Yongcheng's official grain, as one of Yongcheng's taxes, was sent to the capital before the Bianshui River was frozen, and now it has been more than November, the weather is cold, and the Bianhe River will be frozen from time to time, in order to ensure that the grain will be sent to Kaifeng before the Bianshui is frozen, and part of it is transported by water; The other part is transported by land and then by water to the capital.

Zhao Dezhao looked at the orderly and busy scene, and sighed in his heart that the Grand Canal, the main artery! However, at this moment, in the Great Song Dynasty, there are three kinds of water transportation: river transportation, water and land transportation, and sea transportation. However, the Great Song Dynasty now has too little access to the sea, and Kaifeng City is inland, so it is not yet possible to talk about shipping, but can only be transported by river. Land transportation is not realistic, it costs a lot of manpower, material and financial resources of the local government, and the road transportation is inconvenient, and sometimes natural disasters and man-made disasters are encountered.

However, the water and land transportation is much larger than the land transportation, but the efficiency is low, and the only feasible method of official water transportation today is river transportation.

The Great Song Dynasty now follows the Tang Dynasty's sectional transfer method. The water level of each section of the river is different, and the official construction method is to add a sluice gate at the water level of each river. Grain ships go along the river, and if they run aground, they close the sluice gates, and wait for the water to sit on an equal footing upstream, but this method is still flawed at present, after all, when the water is full, it will take a lot of time to reach the same level as the upstream, and if so, it will have to be delayed on the road for more time, and then the local government can not afford to be liable for the untimely delivery.

Therefore, after arriving at a wharf, a batch of grain on the ship is transported by donkey carts and other means of transportation, first by land, and then carried to the ship at a level of water, and so on.

In the early years of the Great Song Dynasty, this method followed the transportation method invented by the Tang people. As long as the river is not blocked, it is feasible to call some river workers to dredge it every year and maintain the water conservancy facilities in a timely manner. However, there is always a risk, if the river is blocked or the war season, the main artery from the south to the north will be blocked, and there will be a food crisis in Kaifeng, and the consequences will be terrible......

In Zhao Dezhao's view, if one day, the Great Song Dynasty can be transported by sea, which can save more costs such as manpower, material and financial resources, and shorten the time, which is the best.

Thinking so, Zhao Dezhao walked out into the street, followed the entourage of the procurement, and looked around. Seeing that there are quite a lot of people in the market, it is now a ghost market, but it is as lively as the night market, presumably because of the cold weather, and the people's official homes have to live.

The street notice was crowded with some people, Zhao Dezhao was puzzled, so he squeezed into the crowd and saw that the notice said "change the law...... The first year of Jianlong of the Great Song Dynasty...... Troops stationed in remote areas with harsh conditions are rotated for a period of six months. The imperial court temporarily appointed the commander of the garrison army ......"

Zhao Dezhao thought in his heart, and finally came out of history, but it took about half an hour, and the procurement was almost over, and the group returned to the cabin.

On the way, Zhao Dezhao has been thinking about changing the law, and he also knew from the people around him that his father adopted Zhao Pu's suggestion and promulgated the change of law during his departure from Beijing, but Zhao Dezhao was skeptical of this change of law.

And his father probably took into account that after taking into account the world, he would punish the disaster of the Tang Dynasty and the five dynasties, and accumulate troops in Beijing to become stronger than weak. Troops stationed in remote areas with harsh conditions are rotated for a period of six months. Although the imperial court temporarily appointed the commanders of the garrison army, although it prevented the military generals from controlling the lower-level soldiers, it caused the soldiers to not know the generals and the generals did not know the soldiers, which greatly weakened the combat effectiveness of the army. Therefore, after he returns to Beijing, he will refute this order in any case.

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And Huang Yuxi stood on the bow of the boat, wanting to get off the boat and stop and spit out here. He saw a full range of ships in front of him, the yellow flag on the ship was flying, and the word "Song" was written on the flag, which could be seen to be an official ship, and on the side of the "Song" flag was written the word "Zhao", it seems that the surname of the person on this ship is Zhao, and the surname Zhao is the surname of the country, is this related to Zhao Kuangyin, but Huang Yuxi is just guessing, and he saw a soldier dressed in the army, so he stepped forward and asked.

"Dare to ask Master Jun, what is this ship?"

"This is the official ship of the imperial court and the king of Liangjun!"

"I see!"

However, listening to the military master on the dock, it was the official ship of the king of Liangjun, the son of heaven, who was ordered to inspect Huainan, and was about to rush back to Kaifeng and return to Beijing to resume his life.

Huang Yuxi thought that he met King Liang Jun by such a coincidence, and listened to his entourage that this King of Liang County is not weak in ability, and he has already shown good ability at a young age, he has founded Guangwei Restaurant when he was less than five years old, and then ...... Huang Yuxi listened to Zhao Dezhao's past, and was full of emotion in his heart, if he arrived in the capital, he would definitely make friends with this person.

The water is gentle, the wind is hanging, and in less than a week, you can return to Kaifeng, and now the ship has traveled to Yongcheng.

The ship is still docked near Yongcheng, Zhao Dezhao saw the busy scene of Yongcheng, and suddenly remembered the unmined coal under the Yongcheng ground, which was called coal at that time, and this precious resource, according to the current stage, can be described as a large amount of resources, and relying on coal, can make the industrial development of the Great Song Dynasty reach a new level, as we all know, the first industrial revolution in the history of the world, is the steam machine used the energy driven by burning coal, so that the industrial level was greatly improved.

And Yongcheng's coal resources, Zhao Dezhao probably knows that Yongcheng has found high-quality coal in later generations, its storage area is about 621 square kilometers, the reserves of 5.25 billion tons, the annual mining capacity has reached 12 million tons, it is one of the six major anthracite bases in the country, and there are magnetite, kaolin, marble and other 17 kinds of mineral resources, easy to mine, to be developed.

So Zhao Dezhao plans to open a coal yard here in the future and mine this coal! This is a virgin land, but it is necessary to mine it while protecting natural resources, and Zhao Dezhao plans to tell his father about the coal when he returns to Beijing, and then the imperial court will order the government to mine it.

Thinking like this, the ship set off, and at sunset on November 17, the group arrived at Chenliu, and the next day the Qincha returned to Beijing and arrived at the Bianshui Wharf in the south of Kaifeng City.