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Beijing, Forbidden City.

Kangxi has been unable to sleep at night for several days, and as soon as he closes his eyes, he learns the scene of Emperor Chongzhen of the former Ming Dynasty hanging himself on the coal mountain. Most of the Qing army was entrusted to the front line of Jingzhou and Wu Sangui's uninterrupted battle, and he had always strongly asked the Qing army to take the initiative to attack and eliminate Wu Sangui's rebels.

Wu Sangui has an army of more than 400,000, while the Mawei army is less than 100,000, and it was only 70,000 when it was full last year. It's just that he didn't expect that the combat power of the Mawei Army was so strong, and it had expanded its army by more than 100,000 in a short period of time, and the speed of expansion was simply astonishing.

Now, the Mawei Army has actually rushed directly to the heavy tax area in Jiangnan, and if Jiangnan is lost, almost half of the taxes of the imperial court will be lost. More importantly, the fall of Jiangnan brought the canal to a standstill, and the Mawei Army at this time was like a big hand choking the neck of the Qing court, and the entire court was strangled out of breath.

"Where has Yue Le's army marched at this moment? What about Zhou Peigong? And where did his troops go? Kangxi's eyes were bloodshot, staring at the big map on the wall, and asked Suo Etu behind him.

"Back to the emperor, it is reported that Prince An has already passed Luzhou, and he will arrive in Chuzhou in two days. At this time, Chuzhou had been occupied by Geng's rebellious Mawei army. Therefore, Prince An reported that he wanted to take Chuzhou first. Then he used Chuzhou as a stronghold to attack and recover Jinling. And the 30,000 people of Zhou Pei's office have arrived in Xuzhou at this moment and are preparing to attack Sizhou City. Suo Etu quickly read out the latest recital, and then stood aside silently, at this time if he said one more word, he would inevitably be reprimanded by Kangxi, for more than a year, it has been commonplace for Kangxi to reprimand the minister loudly to vent his feelings.

States, prefectures, and counties were lost one by one. Kangxi's temper is also getting worse and worse, and the bigger the points he loses, the bigger his temper will be. This time, Jiangnan Province was lost, and the governor of Liangjiang was publicly beheaded at the head of the city, which made him completely violent. In fact, the more important reason was not what happened to the governor of Liangjiang, but that Caoyun was cut off by the Mawei army all of a sudden. The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, Caoyun, this is the lifeline of the Qing court, if this Caoyun is broken, it is difficult to say how long the entire Qing court can last.

"They have to speed up. Cao Yun must not be lost. "Kangxi walked back and forth in the upper study." You know the importance of Cao Yun better than me, if Jiangnan can't guarantee it. There will definitely be problems with the food and salary of the front-line army, so Wu Sangui will definitely not let go of this opportunity. Mingzhu, I said that you wrote, and gave Yue Le and Zhou Peigong two holy decrees, I limited them to half a month, and they must take Jinling City back to me, otherwise they will take off their crowns and return to Beijing to be punished! ”

"Yes!" With that, Mingzhu walked aside and picked up a pen and wrote. He used to be the head of the household, no one knows better than him about Cao Yun, the current capital can rely on Cao Yun to survive, if Cao Yun is broken, then what do millions of people in the capital eat and drink? What did the officials and soldiers in the capital use to pay their salaries?

Although the Qing court was completely inherited from the former Ming Dynasty, there was basically no difference between Cao Yun and the former Ming Dynasty at this time. Compared with the previous Song and Yuan dynasties, the Ming Dynasty Caoyun also developed to a new stage, and the Jiajing Emperor conquered the six provinces of Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Huguang, Henan and Shandong. Cao grain is divided into southern grain and northern grain according to different supply areas. Its amount, at the time of Xuande, was as high as 6,740,000 stones. In the eighth year of Chenghua, the constant amount of four million stones was set for annual transportation. Probably since Zhengde and Jiajing, even the grain conversion (about 100 to 2 million stones) has barely reached this number. It is mainly collected from Nanzhili and Zhejiang, accounting for about 60% of the country's grain. In addition to the grain, there is also white grain, which is supplied by the five prefectures of Suzhou, Songjiang, Changzhou, Jiaxing and Huzhou, with an annual amount of 214,000 stones. All of them are locally produced white ripe japonica glutinous rice. In terms of use, the grain is the military salary of Beijing and the border (north), and the white grain is used for the palace, the Zongren Mansion and the Beijing official grain.

The organization and management of Cao Yun was in the central government, and at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Gyeonggi Metropolitan Cao Yun Division was set up to preside over things with Cao Yun envoys. Later, the Cao Yun envoy was abolished and the chief military officer of the Cao Yun Mansion was set up. In the second year of Jingtai, he began to set up the governor of Caoyun and dealt with the Cao administration together with the chief military officer. Caofu led the 12 guards with a total of 127,600 people, 11,700 ships, 7,000 people and 350 sea ships, and was full-time for grain transportation, which was called the transportation army. At the local level, officials such as the Fuzuo, Yuandao and Kedao officials, as well as the county secretary, were in charge of local affairs. The Central Household Department and the Cao Government dispatched special officials to preside over the supervision and escort of military and civilian grain ships in various localities. At the county level and below, the chief of grain is responsible for the collection and reconciliation of transportation. Under the chief of grain, there are households and transporters, who are dedicated to transportation.

And because of the inheritance of the Yuan Dynasty in the early Ming Dynasty, it was mainly based on shipping, supplemented by river and land transportation. One from the river into the sea, through the mouth of Zhigu to Tongzhou, or to Liaodong; One is transported from the river into the Huai and the Yellow River, from Yangwu County to Weihui Mansion by land, and then transported from the Wei River to Jizhou (now Jixian County, Hebei). Jiangnan Caoyun was transported from the Jiang and Huai to Nanjing. As far as carriers are concerned, sea transportation is military transportation, and the rest is civil transportation. The right to hire is a form of assistance. During the Yongle period, due to the relocation of the capital to Beijing, the demand for grain increased day by day, and shipping was difficult, so the Grand Canal was renovated, that is, the Cao River from Hangzhou Bay to Beijing. Its methods: First, the dredging will open the river, and more than 3,000 boats will be built to transfer funds. The second is to build grain warehouses in Huai'an, Xuzhou, Linqing, Dezhou and Tianjin along the canal, also known as water warehouses.

After the Qing army entered the customs, the Shunzhi period began to dig the middle canal on a large scale, and now it has completely ended the era of borrowing the Yellow River to transport, and built the Huang, Huai, and Yun interchange hubs, easing the river level ratio, reducing the turbidity current irrigation and transportation, and improving the conditions for water transportation. The Governor's Cao Yun Department and the Yamen Cao Yun method basically undertook the Ming system, but there were a few more names: Zheng Yi rice, transporting grain from the Beijing warehouse, with a quota of 3.3 million stones; Changed to rice, Yuntong Prefecture warehouse grain, with a quota of 700,000 stones; Changing the levy to other varieties of grain; Convert the grain into silver, and the price of silver will be included in the local Ding item and reported to the household department. (To be continued......)