Gan Xuekuo's so-called rectification of Huai'an Wharf is not a joke, he wants to move seriously.

The most important task of the governor of Caoyun is to ensure the smooth flow of Caoyun, followed by the governor of the four prefectures and three states of Huaibei, leaving this premise, the governor of Caoyun does not need to be set up, Caoyun is to ensure the blood of the north and south of the Ming Dynasty, it can be said that the operation of the north, to a large extent, is dependent on Caoyun, in the past few years, although many places in the north have also suffered from famine, and there is also the invasion of the Liukou and the invasion of the Houjin Tartars, but because of the stability of Caoyun, a large amount of grain is transported to the north through Caoyun, As a result, the North was able to maintain stability.

Today, this stable situation has suffered a great impact, and it is because of the poor luck.

The first thing Gan Xuekuo needs to do is to ensure the smooth flow of Cao Yun and quickly transport a large amount of Cao grain to the north, and then it is possible to talk about other things, as for abolishing all the rules determined by Zheng Xunrui in Huaibei, he will not be able to do it until Cao Yun is unimpeded.

Gan Xuekuo is not stupid, starting from the capital, taking a boat, along the way he paid attention to the transportation situation on the canal, did not find a big problem, and Huai'an Wharf impressed him particularly deeply, so many busy merchants, this shows that the transportation of the Grand Canal is not much of a problem, otherwise these merchant ships and merchants are waiting at the wharf, is there nothing to do, but why this year to the capital and the north of the grain greatly reduced, so that the capital is difficult to maintain, There is still a lot of grain that can be transported to the north through the Grand Canal, and it is specially transported by merchants to do business.

This can only explain one problem, that is, Zheng Xunrui deliberately delayed and did not want to transport the grain to the capital and the north.

In order to solve this problem, we must start from two aspects, one is to collect grain. The second is to ensure that there are enough boats.

Gan Xuekuo believes that these two problems are easy to solve, and there should be no problems.

As for ensuring the sufficiency of the boats, it is necessary to rectify the Huai'an wharf, and all merchant ships are temporarily prohibited from entering and leaving. Ensure that the boat can dock at the pier and wait.

Wu Weiye, the prefect of Huai'an Prefecture, and Li Yan, the governor of Huai'an Prefecture and the magistrate of Shanyin County, came to the Governor's Mansion.

The Governor's Mansion is in the territory of Huai'an Mansion, but also in the territory of Shanyin County, so the prefect and the county should coordinate the Caoyun Governor's Mansion to do a good job in the collection and storage of grain, after the completion of the transfer, Gan Xuekuo found that the warehouse of the Caoyun Governor's Mansion did not have grain, this is not a big joke, the autumn harvest season has not completely ended, it is the season of a large amount of grain. There is no reserve of grain in the warehouse, is it possible that Zheng Xunrui ate the bear's heart and leopard gall.

The collection of grain is the responsibility of the government at all levels, and the collection of grain is divided into three levels, the first level is the government along the Grand Canal, after the collection of grain, it is piled up at the wharf, or it is loaded directly to the capital and the north, and the second level is the grain of Henan and other places. After the government expropriated, it arrived in Huai'an. Unified and centralized, transported to the capital and the north, the third level is the many official governments in the south, after collecting grain, or by water to Huai'an, or by land to Huai'an. After unified loading, it was shipped to the capital and the north.

The autumn harvest season has not yet completely ended, and it should not be a big problem to collect grain at this time.

Gan Xuekuo, the governor of Caoyun, and Ma Shiying, the governor of Caoyun, were waiting in the governor's palace, and Wu Weiye and Li Yan had just sat down when Gan Xuekuo spoke.

"Lord Wu. Lord Li, you are assisting the Governor's Mansion in collecting grain, and this official does not understand why he was not able to collect grain. ”

Although Gan Xuekuo's face was calm, he spoke unceremoniously.

Wu Weiye looked at Ma Shiying and Li Yan, lowered his head and did not speak.

Li Yan frowned slightly and answered.

"My lord, this year's situation is special, the Caoyun Governor's Office has specially urged Shanyin County, but the grain has long been collected in advance, after the end of last year, the Golden Tartars plundered in Beizhili, because the army of all roads needs a large amount of grain and grass, the cabinet has asked the Caoyun Governor to urgently transfer grain and grass, for which the Caoyun Governor's Office specially wrote a memora to the imperial court, saying that it is the season of green and yellow, and it is impossible to collect the grain, only to take the method of borrowing grain, and the cabinet agreed at that time, Therefore, the Caoyun Governor's Office asked Huai'an Prefecture and Shanyin County to be responsible for raising and borrowing grain, borrowing grain consumed a lot of energy, but this year it was necessary to return the grain, during the autumn harvest season, all the collected grain was returned, and there was still a gap of 200,000 stones, which could not be returned. ”

Gan Xuekuo felt a breath blocked in his chest, and wanted to send it but couldn't send it, last year, Beizhili was attacked by Houjin Tartar, and it did consume a lot of food, especially later to help the affected people in various parts of Beizhili, a large amount of food was used, and these grains were indeed transported from Huai'an, this situation Gan Xuekuo knew.

Li Yan's answer made Gan Xuekuo have nothing to say, either he should adopt the method of eating grain and levy next year's grain, but in this way, the progress of the collection is not easy to say, after all, it is borrowing grain.

"This official knows this situation, but the transportation of cao grain is related to the stability of the capital and the north, and the cao grain still has to be levied, and one million stone of cao grain must be transported to the capital and the north within this year."

After Gan Xuekuo finished speaking, Wu Weiye followed and spoke.

"My lord, there are indeed 200,000 stone of grain borrowed at the end of last year that have not been returned, the accounts are still in the government, and the adults can check them at any time, if there is a problem, the lower officials are willing to accept any punishment, the adults ask for the collection of grain, the lower officials are indeed in danger, if they can return the 200,000 stone borrowed grain, the lower officials and Lord Li can still find a way to borrow the grain again......"

Before Wu Weiye finished speaking, Gan Xuekuo's face changed.

"This year, we still need to transport 1 million stone of grain to the capital, how can we continue to return 200,000 stone of grain, the Governor's Mansion can no longer take out a stone of grain, so wouldn't it be a big delay."

At this time, Ma Shiying also spoke.

"Lord Gan, Lord Wu and Lord Li are telling the truth, last year's cabinet urged the Caoyun Governor's Palace, because the Grand Canal was frozen, and the method of land transportation was adopted, and 1.8 million stone cao grain was transported, all of which were borrowed, and they must be returned this year."

The escort to participate in politics Su Jiancheng entered the study.

"Master Su, can you prepare for the preparation and escort of this boat?"

Su Jiancheng had a bitter look on his face.

"My lord, the situation is like this, before Lord Zheng came to Huai'an, Huai'an stationed 15,000 Cao Yun soldiers, they were responsible for escorting Cao Yun, but the consumption of Cao Yun soldiers was too large, Zheng Daren felt that it was difficult to deal with, in order to save expenses, more Cao Yun soldiers could be transported to the capital and the north, so Cao Yun soldiers were all dismissed, some went to the Beijing camp in Nanjing, and some were transferred to the Cao boat, engaged in Cao Yun matters, now Zheng Daren has left Huai'an, this guard Cao Yun soldiers, for a while can not be found, I also ask an adult to come forward and coordinate. ”

Gan Xuekuo's face turned red all of a sudden.

He was concurrently the governor of Caoyun with the title of secretary of the household department, and the military department was responsible for the mobilization of soldiers, and he could not and did not dare to meddle in this matter.

Guarding Caoyun requires at least nearly 10,000 soldiers, where to find so many soldiers at a time, and there is one of the biggest problems, it takes a lot of silver to feed these soldiers, and where to find so much silver in a short time.

Barely suppressing his anger, Gan Xuekuo spoke again.

"Is the boat ready?"

"Your Excellency, Xia Guan managed to find a part of the boats, a total of thirty."

Gan Xuekuo finally couldn't help it, thirty cao boats, according to the calculation of each cao boat transporting 500 stone grain, one time is able to transport 15,000 stone grain, from Huai'an to the capital, it takes about a month, and 15,000 stone cao grain can be transported every month, even if it does not stop, according to the calculation of ten months, that is, it can transport 150,000 stone grain.

"Could it be that there is something wrong with the boat?"

Su Jiancheng was not in a hurry, and slowly explained.

"My lord, in the past, the Cao Ship was directly under the jurisdiction of the Governor's Palace, and the Governor's Office needed to consume a lot of money every year, and Lord Zheng later made a rule, the Governor's Mansion needed to save expenses, and no longer fixed the number of Cao ships, and when it was necessary to transport grain, let a large number of merchant ships undertake the transportation task, which could be settled after each delivery, so the number of Cao ships under the jurisdiction of the Governor's Office was very small."

"Listen to what you say, you can do it now."

"It's true, but you need to give an order from your lordship and determine the remuneration for each merchant ship at the same time, so that the lower officials dare to recruit merchant ships to transport grain."

"Then tell me how much silver is needed to recruit a merchant ship."

"Xia Guan remembers that there are three kinds, a large merchant ship is fifty taels of silver, a medium-sized merchant ship is forty taels of silver, and a small merchant ship is thirty taels of silver."

Gan Xuekuo's face turned pale again, hiring so many merchant ships requires a large amount of silver, but where to take out this silver, just relying on the Caoyun Governor's Mansion, there is no way at all.

Half a month has passed, Gan Xuekuo seems to be a headless fly, and the grain, boats and escorted soldiers have not been able to be implemented, so he also went to Huai'an Mansion and Shanyin County Mansion, and saw that there was indeed no food, and the businessmen also went to the county government and the government from time to time to urge the grain that was lent out.

Gan Xuekuo, who fell into a mess, finally felt his own naivety, thinking about Zheng Xunrui's ability, thinking about how people can govern the entire Huaibei in an orderly manner within a few years, where can he change it in a short period of time, if he thinks about using strength here, I am afraid that the ending will be even worse.

A terrible scene appeared in Gan Xuekuo's mind, on the one hand, Huaibei completely developed according to the model determined by Zheng Xunrui, on the other hand, Cao Yun could not be carried out, and he had to bear this huge responsibility.

After repeated setbacks, Gan Xuekuo fell into hard thinking, how could he get out of such a situation. (To be continued......)