A day later, the boat arrived at Liujiagang in Taicang. Since the Yuan Dynasty, this is the starting point of the shipping of grain.

The transportation of grain from the sea was actually as early as the Qin, Han, Sui and Tang dynasties. In the Song Dynasty, especially in the Southern Song Dynasty, which was highly dependent on overseas trade, the rapid progress of navigation technology created sufficient objective conditions for the great development of shipping in the Yuan Dynasty.

Subjectively, because most of the north was turned into pasture by the Mongols. The north, especially the Yuan capital, was heavily dependent on the Jiangnan region for food supplies.

However, with the low governance ability of the Yuan Dynasty and the sharp ethnic contradictions, it is simply not capable of maintaining the smooth flow of the Grand Canal and the safety of Cao Yun.

Therefore, the lower cost and safer shipping of grain became the only choice for the Yuan Dynasty.

Of course, the safety here does not refer to the safety of navigation, and this sea transportation is certainly not comparable to Cao Yun.

Safety here means that the fleet is at sea and will not be looted and burned by the peasant rebels......

In the process of continuous exploration, the shipping lanes of the Yuan Dynasty were improved three times.

At first, the fleet sailed along the coastline, near the coast, so that it was not easy to get lost. However, it is easy to run aground in sand, and the voyage is difficult and tortuous, and the voyage lasts for more than two months.

Later, Li Fu, a native of Changxing, opened up a new waterway, and some of the waterways took ocean navigation, the route was relatively straight, and the voyage period was shortened to more than half a month to more than a month.

In the end, Yin Mingluo, a thousand households by sea, opened a new route, from Liujiagang to Chongming Sansha, eastward into Heishuiyang to Chengshantou, the easternmost part of the Shandong Peninsula, and then sailed northwest into Zhigu.

This route is mainly taken by ocean voyages, and can be reached in 10 days downwind. In the following years, until the northward transportation of grain in this dynasty, this route was adopted.

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Although the capital of this dynasty was Nanjing, the army on the northern front still relied heavily on the supply of grain and grass from the south of the Yangtze River. So Liujiagang is still busy.

The grain is divided into spring and summer, and the spring transportation is generally the first month of the month, and it sets sail in February and March. When the boat arrived in Liujiagang, the first wave of this year's shipping fleet was about to depart.

So the two sides formed a team, sailed out of the mouth of the Yangtze River, and sailed towards the vast ocean.

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Zhu Zhen checked carefully, and saw that there were navigation beacons set up along the way, and there were small boats for navigation in the port and Chongming Sansha silt.

The boat boss has a popular navigation knack and knows hydrology and meteorology well. He is also proficient in the art of drawing stars across the ocean, and sails on the sea as if on land.

The sailors are also very skillful, cooperative, and confident in dealing with any situation.

'Who says we are a land people?' We've conquered the oceans! He roared in his heart: 'The sinner who ruined it all should be pulled out and shot!' ’

What, the sinner is the Father?

Then let's change to hanging......

But you can't blame your father and the emperor, didn't the fourth brother send Zheng He to the West six times later, and they all caught giraffes from Africa?

As for the emperors of later generations, can they have the final say?

Therefore, in the final analysis, it is the civilian clique and their feudal etiquette that can only be used as a blessing in a closed agrarian civilization. Once the country opens up and embraces the ocean, they're all done.

It's a pity that the Ming Dynasty opened too late, and it didn't come to this point until the Longwan period. What is even more tragic is that the old order collapsed, the new order has not yet been established, and it caught up with the Xiaoice River, and the result is oh open.

In the Manchu Qing Dynasty, when foreign races ruled China, they were more afraid of opening up than the civilian clique, so the two sides hit it off, completely closed off the country, and continued to dominate the agricultural civilization for more than 200 years.

At the same time, the West was changing with each passing day, and the king of the world was completely left behind, until the Opium War was fired......

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Therefore, it is better to travel thousands of miles than to read 10,000 books.

Standing on the high deck, looking at the fleet chopping waves, Zhu Zhen's heart was surging, and he finally clearly realized that he and his teacher's historical mission -

It is to do everything possible to promote Daming to open up and fully embrace the ocean! Whoever wants to close off the country, who wants to retreat to the small peasant civilization, is their enemy!

No wonder I always don't deal with the old thief, it turns out that the root is here......

The sixth child knows that the old thief is difficult to change, but his brothers are at a critical stage of the formation of their worldview, and it is relatively easy to subtly influence their thoughts at this time.

So he turned into a sea blow and bragged to his brothers about the good of shipping.

"This sea freight is ten times faster than Cao Yun, saving ten times, but the capacity is ten times stronger, so the end of the world, has always used sea freight!"

"Sea freight is better than luck." The fourth nodded and said, "But it also harmed the Yuan Dynasty." ”

"Why?" Lao Liu was stunned.

"That's right." The third child who was thrown on the mast no longer dared to disagree with the fourth. "Because they can easily get food and materials from the south of the Yangtze River, the Mongols do not worry about eating and drinking, and the princes of the Yuan Dynasty are even more spending, poor and luxurious."

At the end, he flattered: "I'm right, fourth?" ”

"Hmm. They relied on shipping to survive, and naturally neglected the development and governance of the north. Zhu Di nodded and said, "The righteous army will naturally fall apart." ”

"That's right." Zhu Zhen said suddenly.

"If you want me to say, Kublai Khan should not have set the capital of Beiping, but should have set the capital of Luoyang, or directly set the capital of Jinling, and control the land of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and wealth." Zhu Di said eloquently:

"In the bitter cold land of Beiping, it is completely self-sufficient, and it must be supplied from the south at the expense of the people and money. And it's so far away from the south of the Yangtze River, it's beyond the reach of the whip, and it can't control the two Zhejiang, and the country has only a dead end! ”

"Beiping is a fourth...... King Yan's fiefdom, is it really that bad? Zhu Zhen was stunned when he heard this.

"It's so bad, at best, it's a place where the king is on the border, how can it be the capital of the country?" Zhu Di said with a look of course: "Only the Hu people who have no knowledge will be in that kind of place!" ”

"Okay, fourth brother, always remember this sentence." Zhu Zhen nodded. But I sighed secretly, it's useless to remember, it's always the butt that makes the decision, not the head.

If you want Beiping to become a Jingshi, the best way is to let the fourth brother's ass not sit on that chair.

But is there really a way to stop the Chosen One?

Zhu Zhen really has no confidence......

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"Excuse me, two." The third child was so red that he finally couldn't help but beg the fourth child: "Fourth, Hong Baihu, can you let me down?" Brother really doesn't get seasick......"

After the boat went out to sea, it began to toss in the waves, so many people began to get seasick.

The third child is especially dizzy.

The fourth child told him that he had learned a way to overcome seasickness in the army, and he could use it as soon as he used it.

The third child is also dizzy, I don't want to think about what a group of landlubbers know about seasickness? Let the fourth teach himself.

So he was tied by the fourth child and hung up......

Zhu Di also told him that the reason why he was seasick was because the bed was too shaky. When you hang it, it won't shake......

Now the blood flowed into his brain, and the third child immediately understood that he had been tricked.

He was just about to ask the fourth child or is he a human? My brother is still playing me like this?

Zhu Di said faintly in his ear: "You ruined my cave room!" ”

The hero does not suffer the loss in front of him, and the third child is honest when he ascends.

He estimated that no matter how dishonest he was, he could throw the fourth child into the sea......

P.S. Write another chapter.

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