And then make a fuss about the money collected.

On the account, one wipe and one flat.

The looted and burned 100,000 stone grains seemed to be like air.

Without the slightest sign of it, the smoke vanished.

"Oh, that's a good calculation, ah!"

Yixian County Commander Yang County's eyes narrowed slightly, the goatee that he unconsciously combed with his hands, looked at the respectful Master Dong next to him, and stayed for a full cup of tea, before he slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

Yang Shuangyin sighed secretly in his heart, Yixian County is really a pit.

The first two county magistrates, one was investigated and is still in prison in the Criminal Department, and the other came to Yi County for a few months, but he didn't want to do things in a daze, and then he died in a daze.

I came to Yixian two years ago, and I only pretended to be confused with everything, and as long as I survived these three years, I should be transferred.

However, the time to come is still coming, you can't hide, let's take one step at a time!

"That's it, anyway, I have to go to Beijing for more than half a year to report on my work, it's rare to be confused!

It's just that the people of Yi County have suffered! “

"Master, I've worked hard for you, please accept the grain next year!"

When Master Dong left the county office, he looked back at the plaque at the entrance of the county office, and the smile on his face became more and more victorious.

After Zhao Xiong and the big shopkeeper Wang Liangcheng discussed the matter, they went to the Water Street Wharf below Yicang behind Zhao Ji Department Store.

Water Street Caoyun Wharf also belongs to the jurisdiction of Fuzi Wharf.

However, the Water Street Wharf is a special wharf for transporting grain.

At the moment, a loading and unloading team of more than 100 people is carrying, "white grain".

There are five plank roads in the size of Caoyun Wharf, each plank road is separated by more than 100 meters, and it is a torch to play in the dark night, and it is impossible to see the plank road next door clearly.

There are dozens of shallow-water sand boats with sails down leaning on the plank road, and the masts of the boats are lit with rickety rain lanterns.

The lights are reflected on the surface of the river, and the stars are sparkling, sifting gold and silver.

On the trestle on the bow of the ship, figures swayed and flickered.

Zhao Xiong asked Wang Haifu, who was following him, and the average carrying capacity of each cao boat here was 500 stones.

These dozens of shallow-water sand boats with landing sails were driven from the Guangyun warehouse in Xuzhou, and they were originally going to Tongzhou with the brigade, but now, Lehi is dead and no one orders them.

As soon as the big shopkeeper came forward to stir up this peace, the soldiers who were supervising on the ship were also happy to sell themselves, so they went ashore happily, and they did not come out of the Qinglou for several days.

Now there are more than 100 shallow sand boats carrying other goods left at the Fuzi Wharf of Hanzhuang Gate, and they have to wait for the last opening of the gate the next day to enter Weishan Lake through the Hanzhuang Gate.

Zhao Xiong remembered the sand boats of the eunuch An Dehai again, he calculated it, and now it is estimated that it has docked at one of the seven locks of the Hanzhuang Canal, Dunzhuang Gate Wharf.

Since the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal has been rerouted, it has become more and more lonely, and the sand boats from Xuzhou to Taierzhuang have been dragged by manpower from the river road that has been in disrepair for a long time.

One hundred and dozens of miles was dragged for ten days, which was quite fast, but once the dry water was in the dry season, the boat was as slow as a snail.

Now people have done experiments, normally speaking, after the cao boat carries Cao rice from the south to Tongzhou, when returning to Huai'an empty in the flood season, it needs to sail for 64 days.

Dividing the distance of 2,760 miles by the 64-day voyage gives an average of 43 miles per day.

This speed is 60% faster than the speed at which the rice was loaded north.

It can be seen from this that whether or not to load goods has a great impact on the speed of the boat.

However, in fact, the Dakang Dynasty limited the time limit for Cao Yun, and the 2,760 li from Huai'an to Tongzhou Dam was limited to 100 days.

It can be seen from this that the number of sailing days of the boat is limited as above.

There are a total of 1,302 miles of canals in Shandong, limited to 40 days, so the average daily navigation is 32 miles.

Similar to Zhao Xiong's estimate, at this time, more than 20 sand boats of Ande's child docked at Dunzhuang Gate.

There are still seventy or eighty miles of waterway from the Hanzhuang Gate, and it will not be possible to catch up with it before the gate is closed the day after tomorrow!

Now An Dehai is standing on the bow of the boat, looking at the dark Grand Canal, thinking that tomorrow the Hanzhuang lock will be sealed.

This is a sensitive period, like Zhao Xiong, a petty official who has not entered the stream, he can't come up with any ideas, so he can only ask the palace.

Zhao Xiong frowned and looked at the sand boats on both sides of the No. 5 plank road of Fuzi Wharf, and asked Wang Donghai in a low voice: "How much is in storage!" ”

"It's 9 percent in storage, and these ships are still missing, and it should be about the same at midnight!"

Zhao Xiong then asked: "You transported the grain, what should you do with the Cao Ding on the boat?" ”

Wang Donghai replied casually: "This fleet of ships is a total of fifty-six second-class sand boats, and they will come up from Xuzhou at the latest.

The deputy Qianhu who led the team above is our acquaintance, and he knows that the relationship is powerful!

Besides, the big shopkeeper gave him two thousand taels of silver, and he was enjoying himself with a group of subordinates in the Dafeng Restaurant. ”

Zhao Xiong pondered for a while and said: "Then when these sand boats go back, no one operates them, and in the winter, they are soaked in the water, not in vain. ”

Wang Donghai explained: "How can it!

The thousands of households leading the team are newcomers to Xuzhou Wei, but they are very knowledgeable, and they have long been far away, and after we emptied the grain, we sold the sand boat to a newly established sand boat gang.

As soon as they changed their faces, even if the household department investigated, there was no evidence.

What's more, Shen Tianhu's deputy Qianhu does this every year, and his superiors acquiesced, and they also have to dig for water in the canal to eat! “

Zhao Xiong now knew that there was a reason for the shortage of boats in the Dakang Dynasty, and the sand boats that were left after the original drifting grain were reported to the household department as sunk.

However, the household is full of human spirits, as long as the people below deal with it, they don't bother to pay attention to it.

At present, the grain is piling up in the south, and it is necessary to hire civilian boats to enter the canal.

The price of hiring a civilian ship was "seventy or eighty taels of silver per ship, and no less than forty or fifty taels per ship."

Now in Yongping 15 years, "the price of each large one is about 150 taels, and the small one has to start at 100 taels, and the freight has doubled."

There is no certain source for this expense, first from the original exploitation of the light silver, "if there is not enough, borrow Qian tired army."

The people of the Military Aircraft Department came up with a method, and once they were paid for the military transportation and monthly rations on the ships that were missing, and later they were paid by the local divisions.

Also, the water foot silver corresponding to civilian ships is often detained.

The boat was also exempt from tax after passing through the customs, but none of the people who escaped from the boat were recruited, and the locks were hung and tortured, several times.

It was indeed a disaster for the hired people to get on the grain ship.

Every time I met the hired boat owners, there were people who sailed away, some people who shipped, and some people who sank into the river, and they avoided it.

Of course, that's all for later.

Now Zhao Xiong still doesn't understand these things, and even if he does, with his ability, he is just protecting the people near Hanzhuang Town from being hired.

Wang Donghai looked at the sky and the night sky of the dock, and continued in a dark and gloomy voice: "Master, the remaining grain will definitely be emptied tonight, you don't have to wait, rest early." ”