Chapter 181

Liu Bu once calculated an account. If his father left Linqing customs under their current situation, just transporting grain can drag them down and triple the cost.

Compared with the Yuan Dynasty, maritime transportation in this dynasty declined. People initially opposed maritime transportation, which was not only a sea ban, but also derived from the risk of many winds and waves. Maritime transportation was regarded as a very difficult and risky undertaking in this dynasty, especially long-distance shipping. In the early years of this dynasty, there was a shortage of military pay in Liaodong, which led to the transportation of grain from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to Liaodong. As a result, nearly half of the grain merchant ships sank in the sea. Although people have accumulated a lot of maritime experience in long-term practice, long-distance shipping is still regarded as a very dangerous undertaking. Especially in the monsoon season, only large seagoing ships dare to go to sea rashly, and must "learn the water-based wind trend" and "learn the water-based terrain in detail".

This dynasty ended the troubled times and benefited from the development of the canal in the Sui, Tang and Yuan Dynasties, so as to vigorously promote the canal instead of shipping.

Chengzu Zhaojian built Beijing and transferred it to the southeast of the caohao river. Both land and water were pulled together. It was still the old time of the Yuan people. He participated in sea transportation, caught the meeting, opened the river, and stopped both land and sea.

Although water transport is safer than sea transport, the construction and use of canals also have many disadvantages.

The cost of repairing the canal is huge. The canal is clogged and built every year, wasting money.

Qiu Jun, a famous official of the dynasty, put forward the idea of resuming shipping earlier. In the 23rd year of Chenghua, he entered the supplement to the meaning of University, and put forward the idea of parallel shipping and water transport

"If a sea boat carries thousands of stones, it can be used as a river boat three times, which greatly reduces the use of pawns. The river water transport depends on the land freight, and the sea transport depends on the land freight. Although there is a risk of drifting and drowning, it also saves the labor of leading pawns, the cost of refuting shallow ships, and the defense in order. It is advisable to visit those who know the sea route and pay attention to exploration."

Although it is said that the trip has not taken place, it can be seen that sea transportation has the advantages of large transportation volume, low cost and labor saving.

It's just that Daming has used the canal for decades and has formed a huge interest system. Whoever dares to oppose will die. Therefore, the reason why shipping costs are low but does not use shipping all the time is that it touches the interests of too many people.

This also makes the shipping of this dynasty worse than that of the song and Yuan Dynasties.

The Liu family used to have the master of the Liu family as the head of Linqing customs. They could get food at the lowest cost, but when he was not the official, it also meant that the Liu family's forces withdrew from the canal, and the cost of their fleet in the canal tripled. It was not the same era that grain could be used as pig material.

Moreover, even if they can transport the grain to Jining, and then Jining will transport the grain through Qingzhou to all parts of Jiaodong for disaster relief, its transportation cost is quite high.

But now they use sea transportation to directly transport grain from Jiangnan and Huai'an to Fushan, which greatly reduces the cost. It is still the price of pig feed. Finally, both the cost of sea transportation and the cost of land transportation are greatly reduced.

So the alliance between them and the Zheng family is very important.

If people who are not familiar with the sea are allowed to go by sea, they are afraid to death. The official fleet allows them to go by sea, which can sink half of the East and West, while the Zheng family's fleet is an old expert in going by sea. They can do business in Manila or Batavia.

The southeast coast is like their own backyard. It is certain that they will sink some ships when they are asked to transport food, but they will never sink at least half of the ships like the Ming government.

It can sink half. If no one plays tricks, no one believes it.

Liu Liu's alliance with the Zheng family ensured that their food channel was smooth.

This greatly compensated them. After leaving the support of the canal fleet, they could get food and materials from other sources.

However, the pressure of their Liu family is still huge, but now they have formed a huge platform. Through this platform, they can actually leverage several times the capital operation.

For example, the horse trade between them and Shanxi merchants, at the cost of 422 per horse and 100 per month, can be said to be the other party's major customers. They can pay through flexible payment methods.

First of all, they can pay with their unique products, that is, their high-purity wine, or they can use this brand of Liu family to owe part of their debts, which greatly reduces their financial pressure.

Of course, Liu Bu still has a backhand. Otherwise, it is not a way to rely solely on their blindly leveraged trading. Sooner or later, it will collapse.

Liu Bu now focuses on the army. He hopes that before next spring, they can expand the Liu family army to 4000 people. Among the 4000 people, 2000 are their soldiers, 500 cavalry, 1000 archers and 500 Musketeers. If the artillery is dry, they will have more than 4000 people and have a certain Strike ability.

However, it's very good for him to put more than 4000 people here in Jiaodong and Daming, but it's not enough to see Shangjian slaves.

JianNu they have eight banners. It is said that they are still preparing to build the eight banners of the Han army. Any one of them is stronger than Liu Jiajun. This strength is temporarily understood as a large number of people and well-trained.

Therefore, they have only a few thousand troops, which is only reluctantly, but they have only a war with the enemy, and their advantage is not great, but it is their limit to expand their army to this point. Unless they get additional funds, they will not be able to continue.

Now the most difficult thing for them is disaster relief.

With the cold weather, there are more and more displaced people. Fortunately, they transported a large amount of food by sea in Fushan. They transported these food to all parts of the country. Laizhou Prefecture, two prefectures and five counties began comprehensive disaster relief. Previously, the Liu family was in disaster relief, but now it is in the form of the government, so they can also mobilize the power of the government, Greatly reduced their pressure.

Now there is an endless stream of roads leading to Fushan. Big cars rush here day and night to transport food to various places for disaster relief.

Now it's winter, and their disaster relief is in a greater dilemma. If it's in summer or autumn, they can keep these people alive as long as they manage a meal. Now the biggest problem is that it's cold. You have to manage not only what you eat, but also what you wear and live.

Thanks to Liu Bu's foresight, they have stored a large number of cloth, raw silk and cotton. Now all localities are setting up their quilt factories to make clothes day and night. They not only distribute food, but also distribute clothes and arrange accommodation for these refugees.

While building a large number of dwellings, they also prepared a large amount of wood and charcoal for heating.

These refugees, who can no longer live in their hometown, gave up their ancestral heritage and left their hometown to wander and beg. This is a road of no return and a dead end. Nine times out of ten, they died in a foreign land, fell in the countryside and became hungry Fu. Their bones are exposed in the daytime, let the wind and the sun blow, bitten by rats and insects, and died as strange ghosts. They are not allowed to return home. If they can choose, no one will choose to be a refugee.

Moreover, everywhere they went, they were driven away and hated by people. Countless people fell into the wild and couldn't wake up. Only when they came to Laizhou, they were warmly entertained by the government. They not only managed to eat but also live, but also distributed clothes, arranged accommodation and work. It was a place to stay. It was a paradise in troubled times.

Now, for the Liu family, the biggest difficulty is this metaphor. Now they are equivalent to recruiting people. They have to manage food and accommodation for several months before they can work for him. Therefore, the investment in the early stage is very large. If the Liu family is not so rich in capital, others really can't do it.

Moreover, under the leadership of the Liu family, the government made every effort to provide disaster relief. These big families saw that the government began to invest, and local big families followed up one after another, and began disaster relief one after another. Some people came out and made strong efforts, which greatly improved the disaster relief situation here and basically put an end to the phenomenon of starvation.

However, the nearby Qingzhou and Dengzhou can only be described as sad.

For example, the governor's residence in Dengzhou. They are the most tragic place of Wuqiao mutiny, which took three years to ascend the state, but let the rebels stay for three years. The local big families basically destroyed the rebels. There is no big family and strong, and the local grass-roots construction has been completely destroyed and finished. Even the government is new, There is no political achievement and the ability of the victims.

For them, the greater pressure is that Liao people come across the sea every day. Their hometown has basically been occupied by JianNu. They have also become JianNu's coats and slaves. They work in their fields and manors and suffer inhuman torture. Many people risk their lives, holding canoes When you were in a boat, you took a boat to the sea to go to Daming. For these Liao people who went to Daming, the imperial court said you can't abandon them or rush out.

Governor Chen YingYuan's biggest headache is to appease these refugees, which requires a lot of money and food. Although he has hardened his head to ask the imperial court for a lot of money and food, it is a drop in the bucket to appease so many people.

When there was no way, he distributed all these refugees to Laizhou. Previously, the government guided them. Now he directly asked them to dredge the victims to Jiaozhou and Pingdu.

This is the only way. The governor has no soldiers and no food. After all, Laizhou is also under his rule. He has the right to use all resources to help the victims. Although it greatly increases the pressure on Laizhou, there is nothing he can do.