If the sand boat can be changed to sea transportation, then the transportation cost and consumption along the way will be greatly reduced, and the burden of the people of Songjiang Prefecture will be greatly reduced, benefiting the people's livelihood.

It's just a canal from south to north, from the local to the center, from Cao Ding to the head of the household department and the cabinet bosses, I don't know how many people in the road share fertilizer on it, transport grain 8 million stones, but spend nearly 30 million stones, and the cost of repairing the canal, this is really a splash of gold and silver, how can the people's livelihood in a mere government be hindered.

The local bigwigs in Songjiang Mansion also have their own benefits in this Cao Yun, and their interests are involved, and they will not do anything troublesome about changing the sea to Cao Yun, having said that, Xu Jie has encroached on more than 10,000 hectares of fertile land, and he does not dare to be buried in his hometown after his death, lest he be dug up, Dong Qichang's mansion was flooded in by the people and burned down, how could such people do such troublesome things that benefit the country and the people

There are thousands of people in the world, in addition to those who are consumed by the desire for profit, there are also heroes who think about the country and the people, and the Yu family of Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture is such a person.

The Yu family ran the cotton field weaving field in the early years, since Huang Daopo brought back Li Min's textile technology from Hainan, Songjiang cotton cloth is in the world, the Yu family is rich by this business, perhaps in order to produce cloth and sales, the Yu family began to store sand boats in Longqing, and ran the so-called Beiyang route from Songjiang to Tianjin, Songjiang cotton cloth and Jiangnan specialties were transported to Tianjin, in exchange for all kinds of goods in the north, and it was a huge profit.

Around 20 years of Wanli, the Yu family had become a local wealthy, and like many families in the south of the Yangtze River, the business was managed, and the children were still studying and studying, glorifying their ancestors.

To have such a business mind and keen eye, it will not be too bad to study, Longqing Nianyu family already has Xiucai and lifting people, you must know that there are many people reading in Songjiang Mansion in Ludao, and the examination of Xiucai will be crowded and trampled to death because of thousands of students, and it is not easy to have a Xiucai fame or even get a lift.

In the fifteenth year of Wanli, the Yu family had a jinshi, and he stayed in Beijing as an official, and he became the Langzhong of a certain division of the household department from the main thing.

It is said that such a shrewd character should be delicate and clear in the officialdom, and he is good at dancing with long sleeves, but he didn't expect that the most enthusiastic thing in this Yu Lang is Caoyun to change the sea.

I don't know how many people this proposal has offended, when it was first proposed, everyone thought it was a joke, or Qingliu pretended to be famous, and when everyone found out that this Yu Langguan was serious, they immediately couldn't tolerate him.

There was no fanfare for fabricating charges, and the squire "inadvertently" saw a small mistake in the accounts under Yu Langzhong's jurisdiction, and then he was "furious", and none of the colleagues who were angry came forward, and Yu Langzhong was dismissed and returned to his hometown.

Yu Langguan who returned to his hometown was not discouraged, tried it himself in Songjiang Mansion, compared with shipping and Caoyun, there is a huge and incomparable advantage, as long as he manages it carefully, it is naturally the income of Jinshan Yinhai, Yu Langzhong continues to spend money at home to dredge up the relationship, entrusting familiar officials to sparse, trying to change Caoyun to sea transportation, reducing the burden of Yijiang and the entire Jiangnan.

But all his suggestions are sinking into the sea, thousands of miles of canals, nearly a million people are involved, and tens of millions of stones are tens of millions of taels of silver, such huge benefits, who is willing to change, and who dares to touch them, Yu Langzhong's continuous efforts, continuous failures, and finally rushed to the heart, and died of illness at home.

Yu Langzhong's two sons, the eldest son is honest and studious, Xiucai, Juren, and Jinshi are all going very smoothly step by step, but because of their father, they did not stay in Beijing, and went directly to Jiangxi to do a magistrate, and worked hard step by step on the road of foreign officials, and the second son Yu Zhiyuan is smart and romantic, known as a prodigy in Songjiang Mansion, and at the age of nineteen he was raised in Nanzhili, and his future is immeasurable.

In addition to the ability to enter the imperial examination, this Yu Er Gongzi is also a strong general in the romantic field, in his teens, he is a good guest in the Qinglou, the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are all excellent, and the legend has written a list of hundred flowers, evaluating the Jiangnan people, the Qinglou Chu Pavilion, the painting boat courtyard, the beauty of the girl, as soon as she was on the list, she was worth a hundred times.

His father is shrewd and capable, and the officialdom of the imperial examination is a great person, but he was planted in the Caoyun reform sea, this Yu Ergongzi is suave, and his life career is smooth sailing, and he is also rich in family wealth and proud of his love, but he is also obsessed with this Caoyun reform sea.

His brother went to Jiangxi to be an official, and Yu Zhiyuan presided over the family business locally, and his father was already a little stone into gold, but in his hands for two years, the number of ships actually doubled by sixty percent, and even Shandong's military business to supply Liaodong, and the transportation and marketing of Liaozhen's specialties have caught a lot, so naturally it is a lot of money.

In the forty-fifth year of Wanli, the twenty-one-year-old Yu Zhiyuan did such a few things, first spent a lot of money to go through the door of the Beijing Division, asked a few Qingliu and a certain Da Jue in the inner court to promise to advise the upper and outer dredges, and then found a few noble and famous people with good reputations in Beijing and Nanjing, and asked them to come over next year to be a witness, and then bought and sold grain and grass on their own, and decided to use the family fleet to transport the same amount of grain as the grain of Songjiang Prefecture to Tianjin in the forty-sixth year of Wanli.

This truth is also very clear, if the sea is faster, the loss is smaller, then the sea is more reasonable, at least you can fight.

Jiangnan is heavily endowed, although the wealthy family is not burdened by this, but there are many people who suffer from it, even if they delay the arrears, they will rarely be stabbed, such people are most in agreement with the initiative of Yu Ergongzi, many people are willing to contribute money and efforts, and there are often some officials and scholars behind these people, seeing that this wave is getting louder and louder, and it is gradually going to become the climate.

On the ninth day of the first lunar month of the forty-fifth year of Wanli, the heaven and earth are cold, but the forest cold in the south of the Yangtze River is different from that in the north of the Yangtze River, and there is still green everywhere, but it is a little more depressed than usual.

Approaching dark, at dusk, everyone in Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture, did not care about the cold, everyone walked out of the house, or stopped in the courtyard, or walked to the northeast.

"Didn't Yu Er go to the docks?" On the contrary, the women in the green buildings in various places in the county can guess the whereabouts.

The second son, Yu Zhiyuan, is famous, but he never stays outside, and he has to go to the dock every other day to see his own fleet moored there.

At this time, the northeast side of Shanghai county reflects the red light in the sky, which is where the wharf is located, and there is rarely a sunset reflecting the sky here, and such a red light at dusk can only be a firelight.

In the second year of Yongle, Songjiang Mansion dredging, leading the Wusong River into the Liujia River, dredging the Huangpu River, the two rivers flow into the sea, the water flow is abundant, the sediment is no longer silted, it becomes a good port, Songjiang merchants can take a boat to go upstream, go to Nanzhili, Jiangxi and Huguang along the river, sell goods, trade specialties, and go to the sea to go north to Jiluliao Town, south to Fujian Guangdong, out of the ocean to Goryeo and the Wa Kingdom, the so-called "Xiangjiang Lianhai", the natural hub point, the trade center, this is one of the reasons why Songjiang is re-endowed but rich is still one of the reasons.

Tongzhou (here is Nantong Prefecture, which is now Nantong) and Chongming Island built sand boats, and the big ships docked at the port of Shanghai, and the fleet of the Yu family was naturally anchored here.

In the harbor, the Yu family's fleet was burning, the sound of the whirring wind brought by the fire, the crackling sound of the ship's planks breaking, and the strange sound of the river waves were combined together, and from time to time the mast broke and smashed into the water, causing the water to burst open.

The river and the sky were already red by the fire, and it was dusk, but the fire was blazing, giving people the illusion of night, and the contrast was dark everywhere.

The fleet of the Yu family is too large, so it occupies a place in the port, far away from other ships, and seeing such a fire here, everyone set sail one after another, avoiding as far away as possible.

Compared with the chaos and noise on the water, the dock was very quiet, Yu Zhiyuan stood not far from the shore, his jade crown tied his hair, wearing a pure sable fur, looking at the river fire expressionlessly.

Because the distance is not far, the heat of the wind and fire is baking, although the weather is cold, but everyone on the dock is covered in sweat, four men are guarding Yu Zhiyuan, since Yu Langzhong was dismissed and returned to his hometown, he invited a martial artist to take care of the family, this Yu Erzi has these people guarding every day, because this is still ridiculed, saying that the family is a dignified family, but these stupid martial artists do evil and evil all day long.

The attention of the four guards was not on the fire, they kept looking at the more than two hundred young men who were more than a dozen steps away, although in winter, these people were not dressed much, they were all dressed as sailors, they stood there with a dejected expression, looking at the water from time to time, and at Yu Zhiyuan who was standing there.

Suddenly, someone took a step forward, and when they moved, the four guards immediately put their hands on the hilt of the knife, and looked at it coldly, one of the guards was closer to the second son of the Yu family, this is the method that has been set a long time ago, once something happens, the three of them resist, and the other person drags Yu Zhiyuan and runs, don't look at the appearance of Yu Zhiyuan's noble son, his skills are far more agile than the average rich and noble.

The person who moved was one of the sailors, and his face was full of guilt, so he knelt on his knees, and with this person taking the lead, more than 200 sailors knelt on the ground one after another.

Several guards breathed a sigh of relief, but Yu Ergongzi ignored it, just quietly looked at the river, the fire burned for a while, the hull of the ship broke, the cabin began to enter the water, the sand ships began to sink, and the fire became smaller.

Mink Qiu Yuguan, handsome and handsome, was reflected by the firelight, looking like a person in the painting, the sailor kneeling in front, and the guards on his side were waiting for Yu Zhiyuan to speak, but this son stood there without joy or sorrow, calmly staring at the sinking fleet.

After watching it for a long time, the sailors and guards felt cold, and the dock was warmed by the fire, but this chill was not on the body, but in the heart.

The fire is weaker again, after the fire in Zhilu Road, a lot of people rushed to Shanghai County, with the reputation of the Yu family in the local wealth, of course there are many people who are familiar with each other, if they are in normal times, they have long come to talk and please, and now everyone is standing far away, turning heads and ears, pointing and pointing.

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