Caoyun is a thing that must be governed. Nowadays, the imperial court has 4 million stone of grain transported north every year, which is generally only enough for about 2 million stone, and the rest can only be folded or lost.

The loss is high, and the burden of Cao Ding is large. Cao Ding also has to survive! Officials also need to make money! So up and down, let's do it together. Officials eat and take cards, and Cao Ding also takes them privately, or steals grain halfway, and then reports it as loss or something. When the ship returns to the south, it can also carry a shipload of salt back.

How to manage Caoyun and how to operate shipping, Zhu Youxiao wrote a letter to Yuan Keli and discussed it with Yuan Keli. After all, at this time, Yuan Keli, the governor of Denglai, Cao Yun changed to take the sea route, and Yuan Keli must preside.

Yuan Keli quickly replied to Zhu Youxiao, but he did not play normally. After all, this is a private discussion between the monarch and the minister, and the upper fold will go through the cabinet.

The old minister thought that shipping was very convenient, without the worry of river blockage, and it was not as difficult as river transportation, which could reduce losses and save people's manpower, which was very feasible. However, after all, river transportation has been maintained for many years, and it is feared that all of them will be abolished for a while. The river and sea should be adopted first, and this year, four million stones of grain will be transported, and half of the river transport can be cut and transported by sea. Entering the sea from the Huai River is the least risky. If next year, it can be divided into 3 million stone grains to be shipped by sea, and it is more appropriate to decrease year by year. ”

Seeing this, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but nodded, or an old minister like Yuan Keli has experience! Originally, he wanted to directly abolish the river transport, but did not think too deeply about the interests of the river transport.

The loss of transportation is indeed large, but it also feeds many people.

Despite the burden, Cao Ding also has a gray income, so it is indeed maintainable. It is equivalent to this loss of the state, which provides a lot of jobs.

Those corrupt officials and something, naturally they don't need to consider their interests, but Cao Ding has to think about it.

Suddenly the river transport was abolished, and some professional Caoding were unemployed?

Yuan Kelijian's decreasing year by year is indeed very reasonable. Anyway, there is a quota of 4 million stone for river transport, which will be reduced a little every year, so that Cao Ding can change jobs or something, leave a buffer time, and there will be no chaos.

In the end, when the river transport no longer transports grain, those officials and businessmen can toss the river as much as they like, and want to take the country's downwind boat and dream of the Spring and Autumn Festival!

At that time, the Cao Ding people will not be able to get grain, but it will affect their income. However, the state does not need them to bear the cost of freight, which also reduces the burden.

When the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and other rivers are converted to civil use, these Caoding still have jobs. At that time, the country will not have food transported from the river, and no one will be able to dig the corners of the country. As for where the river is blocked, there is no need for the imperial court to spend money to dredge it. In five or six years at most, most of the river transport will be abolished.

At that time, all the Cao Yun will go by sea and land, there is no need to toss and toss on the sea, and there is no place to dump the grain on the ship, as long as there is no shipwreck, there is basically no loss, and the merchant does not want to use the Cao Yun to carry private goods.

Yuan Keli continued to write at the end of the letter: "As for sea vessels, it is advisable to use large ships, which are not afraid of ordinary winds and waves, and are not easy to drown soldiers. In addition, a large ship of 3,000 materials can transport 6,500 stones of grain at a time, and the speed is faster than that of a small ship, and the number of boats required is less. If it enters the sea from the Huai River, the grain can be transported to Tianjin and other places within a month. Then the imperial court does not need to bear the loss of transportation every year, and can transfer more grain from the south, which can be said to kill multiple birds with one stone, and benefit the country and the people. ”

Zhu Youxiao understands that the convenience of sea transportation is actually known to everyone. It's just that shipping can't dig the corners of the country, so those ministers are building yì to develop river transportation.

What development can river transportation have, sea transportation is the most promising mode of transportation in this year!

It is important to know that science has proven that for every 2 times the displacement of a ship, the propulsion required is only 1.5 times more, so the larger the ship, the smaller the proportion of space occupied by the power plant, and at the same time the fuel can be carried, freeing up more space to store cargo.

In these days, ships use sails, although they do not use fuel, but it is also true. Because larger ships can use larger sails, sailboats of the same type can sail faster as long as they have a larger displacement.

And the bigger the vessel, the stronger the resistance to wind and waves.

With a specific plan, Zhu Youxiao directly ordered Li Chaoqing to draft the will.

"Passing on my will, I ordered Yuan Keli, the governor of Denglai, to preside over the opening of the sea grain, and the quota for river transportation was reduced to 2 million stones, and the reduced 2 million stone grains were all from the Huai River into the sea."

The Huai River flows into the sea because there are islands to shelter from the wind, and small boats are much safer. If it is a thousand-ton ship, it doesn't matter, you can go to sea directly from Matsue Prefecture.

Of course, big ships are expensive.

Small boats are cheaper to build and have a shorter manufacturing cycle. Daming is a country with very developed water transportation, and there are ships everywhere in the south, but there are not too many large-tonnage ships.

As soon as the decree was issued, the Donglin Party suddenly made a fuss.

At this time, the Qichu and Zhejiang Xuan parties have been expelled from the court by the Donglin Party, and the profits of this Cao Yun are in their pockets. Suddenly, the emperor did not engage in river transportation, but went to engage in sea transportation, isn't this a boiled duck flying? Will they still be able to run to the sea and turn upside down?

This is obviously impossible.

Grain is transported by sea, and there is no need to stop the ship on the way. It's like river transportation, this river for that river, and there is a land route in between. At this time, Cao Ding sold the grain, and the merchant stuffed the private goods into it for Cao Ding to carry, and the freight was all paid by the state.

So a strange situation was formed, the court asked Cao Ding to pay for the freight, Cao Ding sold part of the court's grain and reported it as a loss, and brought the businessman's private goods, but the cost was still from the court. These Caoding are actually grain households, and they do not need to pay field taxes when they participate in transportation, but this cost is several times higher than that of field taxes.

In addition to the ships that transported grain, the merchants also had many ships in their hands, and the cost of river transportation was lower than that of land transportation, which was still very cost-effective.

The canal was built by the imperial court, and these merchants had to pay tolls if they wanted to go through the canal.

Under the command of the big man, the horses of the Donglin Party played to the emperor one after another.

There are a lot of strange reasons, what delays, floating, casualties, in short, it is a comprehensive denial of shipping, and at the same time does not mention the various drawbacks of river transportation, especially now that the Cao Yun of the Ming Dynasty has received the severe influence of the Yellow River, and the middle canal that has been dug for decades is still not completed.

If this canal is to be completed, it will have to invest a relatively large amount of manpower and material resources. Yang Guorui originally wanted to build a bank funded by the Royal Bank, and then set up a card on the canal to collect taxes. However, Zhu Youxiao felt that the cost was too high, and it was better to use the money from the construction of the canal to build cargo ships, which seemed more reliable.

After all, the construction of the Middle Canal still makes businessmen cheaper, and there are no hundreds of thousands of people who can't repair it, it's too laborious.

The cargo ship was built by itself, and it was ready to carry whatever it wanted. The ocean is so wide that you can go anywhere. If a merchant wants to transport by sea, he can pay the freight first.

Obviously, shipping can also be monopolized, especially for the transportation of bulk commodities. As for those small and medium-sized merchant ships that are fast and flexible, they can allow private capital to develop. And those large cargo ships that transport bulk commodities, the transportation route is relatively fixed, and does not require much flexibility, and the brainless monopoly will not make the people feel inconvenient, as long as the ship is built large enough to reduce the transportation cost of bulk commodities.

Shipping is very promising, but this is only in the interests of the royal family, and obviously not in the interests of the Donglin Party bigwigs.

Zhu Youxiao was suddenly a little annoyed in the face of so many movements opposing the opening of the sea. Recently, his self-cultivation is still good, and he knows what the Donglin Party is, so he generally can't get angry with the Donglin Party.

However, this time, the Donglin Party blindly compared with each other for a long time, and the matter of reducing the quota for river transportation and grain was delayed for nearly a week.

The decree went down, but Zhu Youxiao was so angry that he wanted to directly cut off the household department. So he called Wei Zhongxian over and asked, "How are the officials of the Qichu Zhejiang Xuan Party contacted?" ”

Wei Zhongxian happily reported: "Your Majesty, during this period of time, many Qichu and Zhejiang Xuan Party officials have been recruited, and there are more than 40 people. ”

"More than forty people, huh! It's barely enough. Zhu Youxiao touched his chin and thought about it, these more than 40 people were scattered to the Sixth Ministry and the Cabinet, and they looked similar. If some of the useful Donglin Party and some non-party officials are retained, the structure of the imperial court can still be erected.

Of course, there are so many scholars in the world, and whoever will be an official will not be worse than these Donglin Party who take money all day long and don't do anything, but Zhu Youxiao still has to play according to the rules for the time being. At the very least, being an official must be to make a name for himself, and he does not want to let any scholar be the one who reads.

Looking at Wei Zhongxian, Zhu Youxiao waved his hand and said, "You go back first!" Continue to gather some people, I can be useful at any time. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Wei Zhongxian saw that Zhu Youxiao was still sitting there thinking about the problem, and during this time, Wei Zhongxian couldn't figure out the emperor's thoughts, and he didn't know what the emperor was thinking.

But fortunately, I know what the emperor's goal is.

Zhu Youxiao's mind is indeed a little complicated, at this time he has a bunch of criminal evidence of the Donglin Party in his hands, and he also has a group of Qichu Zhejiang Xuan Party horses.

This time, the Donglin Party made Zhu Youxiao very annoyed on the issue of Cao Yun, and the long-suppressed feelings were about to completely explode.

"Is it served in one pot, or is it going to be killed in batches?" Zhu Youxiao had a headache thinking about this tangled question. (To be continued.) )