The coastal area of Huai'an Province has been a famous salt field since ancient times, because the large and small salt fields are distributed in the north and south of the mouth of the Huai River, so it is called the two Huai salt fields.

Among them, the one north of the Huai River is called the Huaibei Salt Field, and the one south of the Huai River is called the Huainan Salt Field. Originally, the Huainan salt field was more prosperous, but after the Yellow River seized the Huai, it brought a large amount of sediment and fresh water, forcing the coastline to expand to the east, making the Huainan salt area far from the sea and bringing great difficulties to the salt production.

Therefore, since the Yuan Dynasty, the Huaibei Salt Field has surpassed the Huainan Salt Field and has become the main salt producing area of the two Huai. Because the Yancao River is in Haizhou, the center of the Huaibei Salt Field is also in Haizhou.

The two Huai Du Salt Transfer Envoys have set up a transshipment warehouse in Haizhou, and nearly one million quintals of Huai salt are collected from various salt farms to the transshipment warehouse every year. There are two wharves in the Huaiyan transshipment warehouse, one sea wharf and one river wharf, the former is on the seaside and is responsible for shipping; The latter is on the Yancao River and is responsible for transport.

This time, the military grain was transferred to the sea wharf of the Huaiyan transfer warehouse. Because the river wharf is several miles inside the mouth of the sea, it has long been frozen and solid, and it is impossible to drive into the boat. As a result, military ration ships could unload their cargo at sea wharves four miles away from the river.

For this reason, the officials of the Lianghuai Salt Works and the salt Ding sprinkled water on the avenue for two days, and they made a four-mile-long ice road.

In this way, after the ice truck comes ashore from the Yancao River, it can drive directly to the wharf. In this way, the wooden orange truck on the ship can be used to directly lift bags of grain onto the ice truck.

It's all wrapped up when it's loaded onto the ship. Every 10 bags of grain are wrapped in a net bag to facilitate the lifting of orange trees on board. So each bag is exactly 1,000 catties, and an ice truck can be loaded with two bags and drive away.

Therefore, unloading the ship is much faster than loading the ship, and it will take more than two days to unload all the 300 grain ships...... And most of the time is wasted queuing to enter the port, waiting to unload.

On the night of the 15th, when Zhu Zhen led the last convoy to the wharf, the fourth team in front had just left with a full load. Finally, sixty grain ships slowly approached the wharf. Everything works together seamlessly.

He observed the whole process of the 'New Year's grain transport operation', the whole operation spanned Beiping, Shandong Zhili three provinces and eight prefectures, the number of participants as many as hundreds of thousands, how many links need to be docked, how many aspects need to be coordinated, how many personnel need to be deployed? It's scary to think about.

"Hehe, without him, only familiar with it." Zhu Zhen said with a smile: "When I fought against Japan and conquered Yunnan, I did all the errands of a quartermaster, and I was in a hurry at the beginning, but I became familiar with it." ”

"Sixth brother is really amazing!" Seeing this scene, the old eleven admired the five-body throw. "It is said that in ancient times, Liuhou Wuhou was strategizing and scheduling well, and I am afraid that he can't compare to the sixth brother."

"Haha, that's a coincidence." Zhu Zhen said with a smile: "This time, the people who cooperated with me were either old subordinates or new friends, and there were no outsiders. Everyone is cheering for this effect, you say, brother? ”

This is also the reason why Zhu Zhen let the convoy be divided into five teams and set off two days apart. In this way, the timing is just right, and the efficiency is far higher than squeezing all the brains on the dock.

But what is even more terrifying is that the sixth brother actually connected all the links very smoothly, all aspects were coordinated together, and all the personnel were deployed in an orderly manner. This ability is terrifying even for a rookie like him.

"It's not just a matter of skill." Eleven shook his head and said: "People say that the yamen is reluctant, but the sixth brother can make so many departments like a finger, what kind of prestige is this?" ”

His last sentence was said to Han Yike, who came to meet him.

Han Yike is already over the age of confusion, and he has been working hard all year round, making his temples a little gray, and his originally fair skin has also turned bronze. But wearing that first-class official robe, he still looks too young.

He first saluted the three highnesses in a regular manner, and then said to the sixth child with a wry smile: "On the first day of the new year, the minister just got out of the morning court, and was about to go to the teacher to pay New Year's greetings. ”

As he spoke, he pointed to his eyes and said, "Look at this dark circle, from the first day of the new year to today, I haven't slept for twelve hours." ”

"I can't see it, your face is black." Zhu Zhen laughed and joked with Han Yike.

Knowing that the two had something to say, Eleven pulled Twelve to see the crane unloading.

Han Yike smiled and said: "The prince is really cautious now, I didn't know anything before the prince said it." ”

"I don't eat camel meat anymore, so I can't be cautious now." Zhu Zhen smiled bitterly and touched his chin and said, "We are now a great sect, a model for the royal family, and we have to take the lead in explaining the rules." ”

"The prince is still the prime minister of the maritime administration, the serious leader of the maritime affairs yamen, say hello to the subordinate officials in advance, let me be mentally prepared, no problem, right?" Han Yike said.

"That being said, what would my eldest brother think if he saw that you were mentally prepared?" Zhu Zhen said lightly.

Han Yike was stunned, the prince would never say such a thing before.

Zhu Zhen stopped at the point, and then asked in a deep voice: "The recent big case won't involve you, right?" ”

"I was about to tell the prince about this." Han Yike immediately stopped worrying about those things he shouldn't worry about. He said in a low voice: "I heard that Wu Yong and Mao Xiang have turned the Household Metropolitan Procuratorate upside down, and the two yamen are still paralyzed." It is said that they tortured all the officials below the squire and obtained a lot of confessions, and the next step will be to arrest other yamen. We will definitely not be able to run away from the Yamen. ”

"Of course, you're in charge of transporting grain." Zhu Zhen nodded: "You won't also participate, right?" ”

"Absolutely not!" Han Yike first denied it, and then said with a little weakness: "At least I definitely don't." ”

"Why do I sound so scared when you say that?" Zhu Zhen was speechless and said: "It seems that the butt of the shipping division is not clean. ”

There are five departments under the Prime Minister's Maritime Yamen, of which the General Affairs Department is responsible for general affairs and the Ship Department is responsible for shipbuilding. The Municipal Department of Maritime Trade is in charge of maritime trade.

There is also a Kyushu Division, which is in charge of Japanese affairs. To put it bluntly, it is in charge of Japan's gold and silver mountains.

The other is the shipping department responsible for the shipping of grain.

The other four officials did not touch the grain, and this time there was basically no danger. But the shipping department in charge of the shipping of grain is deeply involved, and even Han Yike does not dare to guarantee that they are fine.

"The subordinate has ordered all departments to conduct self-inspections, especially for the shipping department that has a major stake, and directly sent Yang Shiqi to bring people into the station for a thorough investigation." Han Yike reported to Zhu Zhenyu: "In the past half a month, I have really found out a lot of problems, ranging from eating and taking cards, to using hands and feet on the accounts, exaggerating the loss of grain on the grounds of drifting, and then reselling it to his accomplices at sea...... It's shocking! ”

(End of chapter)