In the middle of September of the second year of Longhan, Qian Youde came to Yingkou again.

Qian Youde runs an oil shop, which buys camellia seeds, soybeans, rapeseeds, etc. from all over the country every year, and then sells it, which is a family heirloom business for many years. In recent years, soybeans in Liaodong have become an important source of soybean oil for Qian Youde Oil Company. However, the ongoing war in Liaodong at the beginning interrupted the soybean source of their family's oil mill, which also greatly affected their family's oil business, and almost closed down as a result.

Fortunately, Qian Youde's loan application in the bank was approved the year before last, and he got a life-saving silver with a not high interest. Since receiving that loan, the family's oil mill has gradually come back to life, especially when the Han army has gained a foothold in southern Liaoning, and his family can receive a large amount of soybeans from eastern Liaoning every year.

Since this year, the Jurchens have completely withdrawn from Liaodong, and a large number of immigrants have entered Liaodong. Before the soybean harvest this year, Qian Youde borrowed a large number of silver dollars from the bank, and after sufficient purchase funds, Qian Youde personally rushed to Liaodong to sign a good purchase contract with soybean farmers in advance.

Now that the soybeans are harvested, the soybeans in various places have been harvested and put into storage, and Qian Youde is also anxious to transport the soybeans back to Shandong before the arrival of winter.

After the soybean harvest this year, Qian Youde has traveled back and forth between Liaodong and Shandong twice in a row, and has shipped back a large number of soybeans.

The boat entered Yingkou, the mouth of the Liao River.

Although he has been in and out here several times this year, Qian Youde still can't help but marvel at this commercial port lined with sails. Three years ago, it was still occupied by the Jurchens, and later the Chu army landed in Liaodong, once broke through the towns of Gaizhou and Yingkou, and moved all the people in the city to Lushun, Jinzhou, making it a ruin.

But after the Han army reoccupied it more than a year ago, it began to stabilize the place and operate here.

When the Han army regained Liaoshen. After the Jurchens completely withdrew from Liaodong, the development of Yingkou changed with each passing day, and on the original ruins, it was the same here day by day.

Especially when the imperial court set Yingkou as a commercial port open to foreign merchants, Yingkou developed rapidly. Taking advantage of the upsurge of large-scale immigration outside the customs by the imperial court, Yingkou relied on its own geographical advantages and took advantage of the uniqueness of the commercial port at the mouth of the Liaohe River, and the economy rose rapidly.

The imperial court emigrated outside the Guan, and several provinces outside the Guan, and countless people poured in. The demand for various types of transportation is also increasing. As a large river outside the Guan, especially its advantages of entering the sea, the Liao River was quickly positioned by the imperial court as an important water transportation channel for immigrants to develop outside the Guan. After dredging, the Liaohe River, which already has a strong navigation capacity, has many new shipping terminals, from Yingkou at the mouth of the Liaohe River to the north to Sanjiangkou Town.

It has formed a golden waterway of more than 600 miles, connecting Yingkou, Tianzhuangtai, Liaozhong, Xinmin, Fakumen, Tieling, Kaiyuan, Changtu and many other river ports. It also connects Gaizhou, Haicheng, Anshan, Liaoyang, Shenyang, Guangning, Fushun and Siping cities near the river.

The two major tributaries of the Liao River, the Taizi River and the Hunhe River, also have navigable sections of more than 200 miles each, and other small tributaries can also pass smaller boats. This well-developed water system network makes the water transportation in eastern Liaoning very convenient, and the transportation network can be established.

And just this year, the imperial court set up a project to connect the Liao River and the Songhua River. This project extended the Yitun River between the Liao River and the southern source of the Songhua River, dredged the river, and connected the Yitun River with the Songhua River in the east and west.

The Yitun River is a large tributary of the Songhua River, and its own water flow is abundant. The river is wide and can carry a large boat of three feet and five feet.

After a year of excavation, the southern end of the Yitun River was lengthened, widened and deepened. Boats can go directly from the Songhua River to the Yitun County wharf.

The Liao River also extends to the northeast from the wharf section of the Changtu Tongjiang estuary at the north end of shipping, widening and dredging a section of the East Liao River, so that the big ship can go up more than 100 miles, and the golden waterway of the Liao River has reached more than 800 miles.

Eventually, the two waterways were only more than 30 miles apart, and the two lengths of the canal were more than enough to be used for large ships.

The imperial court built a wide road on the land route between the two rivers, and also built a carriage track to and from the two canal wharves on one side of the road to strengthen the transportation capacity.

The dredged Yitun River flows northeast for 350 miles from the wharf of Yitun County, and then joins with another major tributary of the Songhua River, the Yinma River, and continues to flow north for 40 miles, and finally joins the Songhua River flowing west.

The Yitun River flows into the Songhua River in the west and flows more than 200 miles to the north, then joins the Nenjiang River, the northern source of the Songhua River, and then flows nearly 2,000 miles to the east into the Heilongjiang River.

The Nenjiang River in the north source can also be navigated from the confluence of the two sources all the way up to Nenjiang County, with more than 1,000 miles of shipping waterways.

In addition, the southern sections of the Yalu River and the Songhua River, as well as the tributaries of the rivers on these waterways, have been completed through the connection between the waterway and the land route, and several key transportation arteries outside the customs have been completed at this stage.

Although due to weather conditions, these waterways outside the customs can only be sailed from April to October every year, and only half a year is sailing, but they are still irreplaceable important transportation routes at this stage, and even in the future, they can also replace their important role.

However, although the river freezes in winter, because of the thick ice, it can also be filled with ice plows and sleds.

Qian Youde still hopes to transport more beans back before the boat stops flowing in the river in October.

Because of the dredging connection of the Yitun River, the Songhua River and the Nenjiang River can be connected with the Liao River, although there is still a 30-mile land route in the middle, but the goods are unloaded at the wharves on both sides, and after the land transfer, they can change ships to continue to flow smoothly in the river.

From Yingkou to the original north end of Tongjiangkou Town, now you can go more than 200 miles north to reach Dagushan Town. After thirty miles of land transfer, you can enter the Yitun River.

About 400 miles north of the Yitun River wharf, you can enter the south source of the Songhua River, and then more than 200 miles to the north, the two sources of the Songhua River converge. More than 1,300 miles of waterway to the north can reach Nenjiang County in the middle reaches of the Nenjiang River, where it has entered the northern part of the Heilongjiang River.

If you follow the main stream of the Songhua River to the east for more than 1,800 miles, you can enter the Heilongjiang River. After the confluence of the two rivers, further east, you can reach the eastern estuary.

Even after the Yitun River enters the Songhua River, it can be sailed upstream along the southern source into the eastern and southern regions of Jilin Province.

A more than 300-mile Yitun River has connected the entire northeastern provinces.

The Liao River not only extends from a 600-mile waterway to an 800-mile waterway, but can even reach Jilin and Haidong in the east. It reaches Heilongjiang and Dongjiang provinces in the north, and can also communicate with Hung Yen Province and Mo Nan and Yanbei in the northwest.

As a result, shipping on the Liao River has become more prosperous, and countless navigation wharves have been added along the route. Dagushan Town at the northern end, because of the connection with the Yitun River, has quickly become a distribution center for goods, and the grain goods of Jilin, Heilongjiang and Xing'an provinces are gathered here, and the business is extremely prosperous.

Of course, the more prosperous is the southern end of this golden waterway, Yingkou at the mouth of the sea.

Now Yingkou, the wharf area alone is already twenty miles long. Along the twenty miles of dockland, there are shops everywhere. Now is the first bumper harvest year of the reclamation of the provinces outside the Guanwai, a large number of grain ships are going down the river day and night, piling up countless grains along the river wharf, and Yingkou, a large commercial port, has accumulated more than one million stone of new grain in a short time.

Large quantities of cloth, cotton, shovels, hoes and other commodities were also transported here from across the sea, and then transported to various immigration sites through the Liaohe waterway.

In this new port, a new dock was even built, and ships suitable for navigation on the Liao River and nearby tributaries began. And contract the maintenance business of Liaohe shipping ships and incoming sea vessels.

"The east, the immigrants drove the water transport of the Liao River, and the water transport of the Liao River prospered the canal and wharf towns along the river, especially the extension and dredging of the Naitun River and the Liao River. It also connects the entire provinces outside the Guanxi River, making the waterway of the Liao River more important, and the wharves on both sides of the Liao River are becoming more and more prosperous. ”

The account office who followed Qian Youde sighed, "There is really a bit of the scene of the Grand Canal back then." ”

Ariake generation. The canal is extremely important, and countless ships come and go on the canal, which has also indirectly spawned countless prosperous wharves along the canal. But now a new dynasty. More attention to shipping, coupled with the Yellow River back to its original course project, the current canal is not as busy as before, those once prosperous canal cities, but also gradually surpassed by coastal port cities.

But now these emerging towns on both sides of the Liao River make him feel as if he is back on the canal of the Wanli era.

"After all, this is different from the Central Plains, which itself has excellent water canals such as the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, the Huai River, and the Pearl River. The canal is just to communicate the north and the south, but now that the sea is so developed, those big ships are fast and loaded, and the sea transportation is much more cost-effective than the canal that bursts the embankment, is dry and even congested. But here in addition to Liaoning is a coastal place, the rest of Jilin, Heilongjiang and other places, that is far away from the coast, especially now these places a large number of immigrants come, the land is sparsely populated, land transportation is not cost-effective, but also in the short term is very complete, there are Liaohe, Songhua River, Nenjiang River such a large river suitable for navigation, naturally is the most cost-effective development of water transport. ”

Ships enter the inland river, berthed by the wharf, and the twenty-mile wharf, although it still seems a little simple, but its lively commercial atmosphere is not virtual.

After paying a parking fee, the two immediately rushed to the Yingkou Soybean Chamber of Commerce.

This chamber of commerce is in the name of soybeans, and it is a soybean business. Soybeans are a crop planted by immigrants from all over Liaodong today, and the outside of the border is now dominated by planting, and there is not much processing capacity for the time being, and most of the soybeans produced are imported into various canal and wharf towns, and then sent to Yingkou, and finally entered the warehouse of the soybean chamber of commerce.

The soybean chamber of commerce in Yingkou buys soybeans from the wharf soybean guilds in various parts of the Liaohe River, and then transports them back to the Yingkou warehouse, and then sells them to the bean merchants in the Central Plains.

Now Qian Youde no longer has to go to various places to immigrate to Tunpu to buy soybeans, and he has to find a ship to transport it back. He negotiated the deal directly with the soybean dealers in Yingkou, and then he was able to immediately load the soybeans back to Shandong, which saved a lot of time and allowed him to buy more soybeans.

This year's soybean harvest is bumper, and the price of soybeans is relatively stable.

The president of the Chamber of Commerce was very happy to see them coming, personally welcomed Qian Youde into his office, and then let people serve the best ginseng tea.

"President Wang, are our soybeans ready?"

"Don't worry, I'll leave it for you a long time ago." President Wang said with a smile, "Boss Qian, we have been working together for a long time, I have left enough soybeans for you, the best quality soybeans, the most fair price, how about it, you always have to take care of us, this time you brought the bean cakes, our chamber of commerce can eat them all." ”

Soybean cake is the dregs cake after soybean oil extraction. This okara cake contains a lot of oil, which can be used as food, livestock feed, and fertilizer.

In famine years, bean cakes were even a lifesaver for the poor. However, although the price of food is not low now, everyone can still eat enough. Therefore, soybean cake is more used as feed and fertilizer, and soybean cake is occasionally fried as a snack at most.

But as a feed, soybean cake is a very good feed.

Soybean cake is a high-quality protein feed for young animals, breeding bulls, pregnant and even lactating mothers, and all kinds of livestock and poultry are very fond of eating. Adding a small amount of soybean cake to pig food can make the pig fatter. Adding a small amount of soybean cake to the cow's forage can also increase the cow's milk production. Even military horses will use a small amount of bean cake to feed the horses.

There are now few oil mills outside the Guanwai, and most of the soybeans are imported into the Central Plains. However, outside the Guanxi is now mainly planting, and ploughing cattle and horses is an important animal power for reclamation and planting, and there is a great demand for feed such as soybean cake.

The price of soybean cake in Liaodong is even better than that of the Central Plains, and Qian Youde's ship came to Yingkou to transport soybeans, and it was impossible to come empty, so he brought soybean cake and some soybean oil over, and then transported soybeans back.

Qian Youde smiled and gestured to President Wang, and offered his own price, and President Wang also gestured, and the two did not speak, so they made several gestures, and finally reached a mutually satisfactory price.

In the end, it was agreed that the soybean cake money would be deducted from the soybeans, and the rest would be settled with silver dollar coupons.

"Brother Qian, after eating so many soybeans in one go this year, it seems that the business is very good." The deal was negotiated, and the atmosphere was much more relaxed.

"It's normal, just eat with a mouthful of food." Qian Dade said with a smile, in fact, this year's oil mill business is really good, and it is expected that this year's profits will be very high.

"Brother Qian, are you interested in cooperating?" President Wang did not dismantle Qian Dade's hypocrisy, "You can also see that the soybean production in Liaodong is rich now, and it will definitely become more and more large in the future, and the imperial court will move more people to Liaodong in the future to reclaim the land and expand the border." But you have also seen that this large number of people have poured into the Guanwai area, but they are mainly engaged in reclamation and cultivation, and also engage in breeding or something, but there is still very little processing and the like, they produce a large number of soybeans every year, and the soybean oil they eat is mainly transported from the Central Plains. ”

"If we partner to open an oil mill in Yingkou, we have soybeans, you have skilled workers, we partner, Liaodong market is vast, and the cost is lower, there is no need to work hard to transport soybeans back, we can directly sell oil to the wharf towns on both sides of the Liaohe River after we press oil here, and even the soybean cake left over from oil extraction can also be directly followed by the hand has been here, which can speed up the recovery of capital turnover, what do you think?"

Qian Dade only thought about it for a while, and also felt that this was a good money-making business, one has technology and the other has soybeans, and Hekai Oil Mill is the most suitable, not to mention that there is such a broad sales market here, as well as cheaper soybean supply.

"What is the specific cooperation law?" Qian Dade asked. (To be continued.) )