After the autumn harvest, a large sum of grain was transported from the waterway to Li Tai’s Tianjin small town. The huge long dragon was filled with ships from Youzhou City to Tianjin City, as if the head and tail were connected, thousands of miles away.
Absolute.
And among this endless shipping lineup, Zu'an, the head of the Zu family, came to transport this batch of grain in person.
In contrast, Lu Chengji also has to work in the agricultural institution. As the famous Lu family in Fanyang, he does not need to show up in these matters.
As for the Hedong Wei family, although the reputation of the Lu family is not as good as that of the current Lu family, their foundation is not in Youzhou.
It is enough for them to have a certain relationship with Li Tai. As for whether they will have more relationships in the future, it depends on whether Li Tai will return to Chang'an and whether there will be further possibility.
The Zu family is an authentic Youzhou native clan. After the family became famous in the local area after the Zuti family, they gradually became a Youzhou clan. However, because they had never produced top talents after Zuti, they only
Become a county honor in Youzhou.
Compared with the arrogance of Lu and the indifference of Wei, Zuan thought that the King of Yan was very good at doing things.
He has done so many things in less than half a year after he came to Youzhou and spent so much money. He is a master of big things.
He thought of expanding the influence of the ancestors by moving closer to the King of Yan, not to mention the world, at least to make Hebei Road famous.
So, this time Zuan personally sent Li Tai food, and the Zu family could still get the 100,000 stone of grain.
But as the head of the family, it is impossible for the family to empty the grain directly, so they joined forces with the Han family, Zhang family and other families in Youzhou to raise 100,000 stones together and personally sent the grain to the small town of Tianjin to see the place
Condition.
It is impossible for me to meet the King of Yan in normal times. If I have good luck in collecting grain this time, I can talk to the King of Yan, for Zuan, it may be a chance. As for whether I can meet, I can only see
It depends on your luck.
After all, opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared. Prepare more times and try your luck more, and you will have a chance.
He drove the grain ship toward Tianjin City through the canal. When passing Yongnu, the waterway, which was originally a little narrow, suddenly became wider.
At this moment, they stood at the bow of the boat and looked at the bottom of the water, and the entire canal and river water seemed to be a little clearer.
The ship arrived at Jinkou, Tianjin, but Zuan was a little stunned when he looked at Jinkou in Tianjin.
The entire Tianjin Jinkou was extremely large. Its own ship carrying 100,000 stones of grain was normally enough to block the entire Jinkou, but now it only accounts for a part.
The entire Jinkou in Tianjin spread around the canal for several miles. As soon as his fleet entered the Tianjin waterway, a ship was guided to ask if he wanted to dock in Jinkou, Tianjin. After the answer was yes, he led himself to dock in one place.
The ships are moored.
After explaining the purpose of the visit, a local official named Wang Zhenru came to receive him.
Wang Zhenru first took Zuan to the warehouse where the silk was placed and counted out the silk needed for 100,000 stones of grain.
Then he took his soldiers to count the food sent by Zuan, and even randomly selected ten sacks of food to open it to verify the quality.
Although I didn't expect that all these grains would be new, even old grains would not be moldy or something for myself.
After confirmation, the grain was placed in a large box, and a box was filled, and the lifting machinery was hooked up to put the big box on the carriage. The box looked quite large, but in fact it was just right to stabilize.
Put it on the carriage steadily.
Two boxes can be placed at a time, and after packing, the carriage can transport these goods in an orderly manner and deliver them to the designated location in Tianjin City.
This situation has never been seen by the Youzhou family, which made Zuan a little stunned and asked Wang Zhenru curiously:
"Why should you put these into this big box one by one and then transport the horses, and directly transport the horses, isn't it much easier to save yourself?"
Wang Zhenru was not an official in Youzhou, but a scholar under Li Tai.
Although the function of the lord was greatly weakened after the Qin and Han Dynasties, if the lord was willing, the lord under his command could be regarded as the secretary-general and his full power would represent his own actions.
However, Li Tai's master is a bit special and is regarded as a person who specializes in road construction.
The main reason is that there was no department of the Ministry of Transport in this era, and the rank of the household ranks that were similar to it was too low, so Li Tai directly appointed him as the principal and was responsible for infrastructure on his behalf.
"It is mainly to improve efficiency!" Wang Zhenru asked Zuan and replied,
"In Guanzhong area, the imperial court was able to collect taxes based on these unified specifications of boxes. Although the Grand Canal has not yet begun, I think it will be implemented one day.
At that time, the imperial court only needs to send people to station and calculate, and it will be much more convenient to hand over it."
Zuan didn't expect that he could actually know some of the court's policies from Wang Zhenru, and said in surprise, "In the future, the canal will need to pay taxes and fees to the court?"
"But if the goods dock, then charge the toll fee according to these unified specifications of boxes!" Wang Zhenru told Zu'an,
"After this implementation, the canals are mostly transported by equipment and carriages, and there is no need for a lot of labor to approach the shore, causing unnecessary congestion at the port. When these goods are on the shore by carriages, the unloading of cargo can be spread out to the entire area.
Tianjin City.
This can be seen as a port in the entire Tianjin city, and it is naturally much faster and more convenient to do work."
Zuan didn't understand very much, but he nodded because he saw a power of order in this Jinkou.
At this time, Zuan discovered that there were no messy hawkers around Jinkou in Tianjin.
There seems to be no local self-organized personnel, and there is only an indescribable order.
Of course, there are also a lot of labor here to ship items to designated large boxes, and then use some mechanical lifting devices composed of winch and pulleys to put the large boxes on the carriage and let the carriage transport and export them.
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"Tianjin needs these specified standard wooden boxes to enter and exit from the warehouse.
This batch of goods is the grain we want in Tianjin City, so the rental cost of the box is no longer needed.”
Wang Zhenru told Zu'an, "However, if you want to buy goods here in Tianjin City and transport them through fleets, you need to rent our characteristic wooden boxes. Of course, it is OK to buy them directly."
"How much does a wooden box cost?" Zuan couldn't help asking when he heard Wang Zhenru's words.
"Once always!" Wang Zhenru replied to Zuan sincerely.
"Just these boxes made of broken wood, sold in Yishen?" Zuan was shocked when he heard Wang Zhenru's words.
"Yeah!" Wang Zhenru nodded confirmingly and said, "Of course, it's cheaper to rent, one hundred yuan a month at a time. Don't think this thing is expensive. When the "Cache Transport Plan" is implemented on the Grand Canal in the future, you will naturally buy it.
Something is over."
It is nothing strange that Wang Zhenru did not accept containers for Zuan.
Because when containers were first implemented in the Weishui River, some local merchants in Jinkou also found it difficult to accept these things.
But after using it for too much, this kind of container was quickly accepted. It is natural for merchants to take things like Zhenxiang for granted.
Especially the larger the bulk trade, using containers is really much more convenient than moving one by one.
Because this thing is not only a simple box, but more importantly, the standardization of the product can be used to establish a transportation system based on it, thereby derive supporting facilities, dismantle the entire process and quickly
Collect and distribute goods.
A behemoth of several tons or dozens of tons can be dismantled as quickly as possible under this standardized transportation system, and then transported from shipping to carriages, or even directly from the dock to a designated land location, with a complete unified system.
This is not comparable to the ancient transportation method that requires continuous loading and unloading, and the efficiency is much higher.
Of course, when it was first implemented on the Grand Canal, and there was only Tianjin, it would naturally be boycotted by ups and downs.
But it is meaningless for them to boycott, because this thing is related to the tax revenue of the court.
The Tang Dynasty was not the Ming Dynasty. It collected taxes, especially the taxes of the Guandong merchants. At most, the Tang Dynasty didn't think of how to collect them, but if they really wanted to collect them, all the relevant Dong merchants could not resist even if they joined forces.
Because the foundation of the Tang Dynasty was the Longxi nobles, not the Guandong family, and they even actively suppressed the Guandong family.
Therefore, Li Tai openly began to implement the system of art at the ferry crossing in Tianjing. Should he accept Li Tai and ignore it? Anyway, this kind of thing is the general trend. Now use this standard early, and maybe you can get some cheaper in the future.
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Zuan sent the grain to the designated granary and looked at the granary with some curiosity because the granary was too short!
This granary is a fire-proof underground granary, and a large amount of similar grains are poured into it and accumulated continuously.
Zuan was amazed when he saw this kind of granary. He was only curious about why the granary was built underground instead of on the ground.
But in fact, this is somewhat to prevent someone from burning the grain after embezzling. It is actually difficult to burn the grain with a torch for such underground granaries. Even if someone embezzles, he wants to burn it with a fire.
There is no evidence of death, but soon you will find that it is burning, and a large part of the area below cannot be burned.
After Zuan transported all the food to the designated warehouse, he exchanged several trucks of brocade, he mustered up the courage to polite Wang Zhenru:
"The King of Yan is in Tianjin City. If he is there, can you... go and visit Yi Er?"
When Wang Zhenru heard Zuan's words, he knew that Zuan wanted to take this opportunity to meet Li Tai.
However, Wang Zhenru shook his head sadly and said, "It's a bit unfortunate today. King Yan is saying goodbye to Gao Shaoqing. He is not in Tianjin City. I don't know whether he will go back to Tianjin City today and when he will go back to Tianjin City, so the ancestors are still
Don't wait too much."
"What a pity!" Zuan was very disappointed when he heard Wang Zhenru's words. He didn't meet him.
At this time, Li Tai had just sent Gao Biaoren, Changsun Shi, and the Japanese envoys sent to the Bohai Navy.
To be honest, looking at this entire Bohai navy, with complete tower ships, ships, fighters, boats, yachts and various sea fleets, it looks quite majestic, and it looks so impressive.
Extremely emotional.
This is not only the strongest navy in East Asia, but also the strongest navy in the whole world.
Standing in front of such a naval fleet, you will naturally feel an indescribable sense of pride!
He sent the two envoys who were preparing to go on a mission to Goguryeo and Japan to the fleet. Li Dejian turned his head and looked at Li Tai,
"King Yan, I heard that as long as you are in charge of Youzhou and have the right to operate Hebei Road, it only takes three to five years for our Datang Navy warship to be launched like dumplings!"
"If the navy was still in Youzhou, I would have done this.
Unfortunately, the Bohai Navy is not already stationed in Dengzhou, so I, the governor of Youzhou, cannot control that place.
Even if you have this ability, it is definitely a taboo to act across states!" Li Tai said helplessly.
Li Dejian raised his eyebrows. It was obvious that Li Tai's decisive attitude of eating what he said made Li Dejian expect, but he was still somewhat unswerving. I can only say that all this is still there.
It's reasonable.
Li Tai continued, "But if a small Bohai navy stationed in the guards near Tianjin City, it would be normal for our Tianjin City to be responsible for supply and maintenance. It was even approved by the imperial court to add defensive weapons to this fleet.
I, the governor of Youzhou, still really hope to add some energy to the coastal defense cause of the Tang Dynasty!”
When Li Dejian heard Li Tai's words, he looked at Li Tai deeply and said,
"There are no students from Youzhou Academy who will come to our Bohai Navy for internship. You will not refuse!"
"Since they are all soldiers in Youzhou, I will naturally treat them well!" Li Tai replied with a smile.
The two sides reached an agreement to some extent. For Li Dejian, the navy was too busy with military spending, so it was naturally a pleasure to have someone to help provide for it.
The most important thing is that there were people in the Bohai area who were responsible for patroling, and handing them over to this group of student soldiers was also considered to increase their war experience.
As for Li Tai's logistics, please report it to his father.
Because he remembered nothing wrong, his father's logistics had also let the King of Yan intervene, and it was not a big deal.
After all, it’s just a report. When I come back from North Korea and Japan, there should be a result.
As long as you follow the procedures to report on this matter, whether you want to agree in the end is the court's problem and has nothing to do with you.
If I don’t report it, but discuss it with Li Tai in private and even reach an agreement, it means I am misbehaving.
So, after discussing this matter with Li Tai, Li Dejian returned to the ship and wrote a letter to send someone to the Ministry of War.
To be honest, Li Dejian still really hopes to establish a good relationship with Li Tai, especially after Li Tai came to Youzhou, the students from Youzhou branch seemed to have expanded their enrollment, and this group directly recruited more than 800 people.
You should know that these student soldiers are much easier to use than those old fried dough sticks, especially mastering various tools on ships. Student soldiers learn very quickly, which made Li Dejian very fond of them.
Therefore, Li Dejian wanted to use this warship as bait to tempt more people to come to the Bohai Navy.
After all, as long as you are a normal man, there are a few people who don’t want to make a living by joining the army, especially the navy. After retiring from the army, they can buy retired warships from the army and use these warships to fish. That’s money.
It's almost done!
Li Tai naturally didn't know what Li Dejian was thinking, but just watched the Bohai waters set sail from Tianjin and began to move towards Goguryeo. In the scorching sun, they disappeared little by little on the sea line.