Du Ruhui looked at Li Chunfeng quietly and orderly commanding the delivery of supplies.
The carriage set out from the Yanwang Mansion, and huge boxes were placed on the characteristic loading carriage. The goods were quite large, and a carriage could only hold one box, but at the same time, four horses had to pull the reins together.
The carriages were neatly moved, and almost at the same time, they went all out of the city.
Not long after leaving Tianjin City, I saw a Chi Road. I got off the carriage with Li Chunfeng. The buckle on the outer box on the carriage was unbuttoned, and a winch stirring and lifting device lifted the huge wooden box to Chi.
On the carriage on the road.
Horses and vehicles that can run on the road are all specially made, not ordinary horses and vehicles.
After the things were packed, the horses on the galloped road rushed towards Jinkou like flying.
Seeing the 50,000 s of grain, it was split into boxes and quickly left the Yanwang Mansion and headed straight to the Jinkou Wharf.
Li Chunfeng looked at Du Ruhui and said, "Secret Du, let's change the carriage and ride it.
Please rest assured that you can leave Tianjin today. If you use hydraulics and manpower day and night, you can reach Texas in three days at most!"
Du Ruhui nodded when he heard Li Chunfeng's words, and then asked Li Chunfeng,
"When the canal is completely cleared and the canal transportation plan is implemented, will the material dispatch from Youzhou to Luoyang not even take seven days?"
"It's not so fast!" Li Chunfeng shook his head and said, "This cost-effective use is only one hundred thousand.
This raid is quite a loss of horses. If it weren't for the "Grass Plan" implemented by Wang Xuance, there would be horses slaughtered this year, and this raid would not be used in this way.
Let’s not talk about horses, just for the construction of this galloping road, who would build such a galloping road except King Yan?
Just to increase the speed of materials from Tianjin City to Tianjin Jinkou and Tianjin Ferry!
So this matter is just for emergency use in Youzhou. This trip seems easy, but in fact the cost is not low.
The Tang Dynasty wanted to build such a road in other places, to be honest, the price was too high."
Du Ruhui nodded when he heard this, and his eyes unconsciously looked at this track.
As the top prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, Du Ruhui was responsible for the promotion of the entire "Cast Transport Plan" and personally felt the overall improvement in efficiency brought about by the changes in the canal transportation of the Tang Dynasty.
Don’t say it, under normal circumstances, would you think of going to Youzhou to transport food and then rescue the disaster in Henan?
No, when the grain from Youzhou came, Henan had already been starved and killed and injured.
But now, I knew that there was a disaster in Henan, so I immediately wanted to go to Youzhou to dispatch food and grass.
In addition to knowing that Li Tai must have manpower and food and grass, more importantly, the canal from Youzhou to Dezhou was promoted step by step according to the "Cache Transport Plan".
Although the progress was not fast, all of them had been completed in the construction of Tianjinkou and the dredging of rivers. I knew the speed of the ship's support.
Now, the King of Yan is starting to drive the road again.
To be honest, I personally experienced the material operation efficiency brought by Chidao, which really made Du Ruhui feel very nostalgic.
Even when Du Ruhui got on the boat, he couldn't help but look back at these roads.
At this moment, Du Ruhui felt that it seemed good to occasionally arrange a section of the road at a key position.
"However, with the character of King Yan, if you want to promote a certain project, you should make a plan!
But the road requires not only early investment, but also the later maintenance of horses, roadbeds, and tracks are all problems.
No matter how the King of Yan makes a name out of nothing, it is impossible to promote it on a large scale!"
Du Ruhui thought about it and felt that King Yan was not that easy to use.
At this moment, I should still focus all my thoughts on disaster relief.
In any case, the supplies have been obtained and the conditions with Li Tai have been negotiated. It should no longer be difficult to rescue Henan.
Li Tai was already reading the letters of intent to build a miracle when he was doing nothing in Youzhou.
What is "Yellow River Bridge" and "Yangtze River Bridge", what is "Qinling Mountains Sky Bridge", the most despised wonder should be "The God of All Things", as for "Chang'an Luoyang Chi Dao Plan" is being taken by Li Tai at this moment
Flip through.
After all, for Li Tai, he is really not good at political fights or something.
I am good at harvesting wealth and then putting it into use. What I need to do is to continuously create large-scale projects, and then continuously win over all parties through these large-scale projects to form my own interest groups.
Therefore, your overall strategy is the strategy of developing a country with wonders.
"Chidao has been put into use, and its operation efficiency is still very good, but the cost of this thing is a bit high!" Li Tai frowned.
After all, Li Tai built a small section of Tianjin City, which was a taste of experimentation.
Many problems that I had not noticed before began to be exposed as this section of Chidao was put into use.
I won’t say anything about the high investment in advance, which really made Li Tai feel distressed for many days when he saw it.
The real problem is the later maintenance problem, which is the real big deal.
First of all, horses consume very quickly, and the main point is the wear of the horse's hooves.
However, Li Tai took a look and found that the horseshoe, one of the three treasures of the cavalry, was a skill that time travelers knew, and solved the horse problem a lot.
But even so, as a livestock power, it determines that the goods it can hold every day and its own physical strength are limited.
Especially for horses running on the road, they need to invest enough feed. Sometimes, in addition to feed, they even need to add eggs to their food to supplement their nutrition.
This determines that there must be enough animal husbandry power behind it, and even a horse farm to support such a road.
At that time, even if Wang Xuance's "Grass Plan" is successfully implemented, China will be able to plant grass and raise cattle and sheep north of Yinshan Mountain, but to be honest, Li Tai himself is not sure how big the area can be supported.
Not to mention, if you want to build a track from Chang'an to Luoyang, the materials you need are mainly iron.
Of course, wood is not bad, but the biggest problem is that the soil erosion in Chang'an area is actually very serious.
As long as there is any plan to build a palace, I will basically focus on the deforestation of the Qinling Mountains. The soil erosion of the entire Qinling Mountains is extremely terrifying.
More importantly, if iron is used to build tracks, not only will the iron smelting technology be improved, but the cost maintenance can also be within its controllable range, but in this way, you must build an iron smelting plant in Guanzhong.
The Tang Dynasty still had relatively strict control over iron. It was not necessarily the case that it had the right to forge salt and iron in Youzhou.
After all, it is the best place under the feet of the emperor, and it is incomparable to the bitter and cold place of an empire like Youzhou.
But only by mastering the iron factory can you reduce the cost to your own controllable range.
Li Tai thought of this, and he turned over the plan first, and he had a long way to go if he wanted to do things.
Fortunately, I conducted such a short experiment in Tianjin, which allowed me to make a correct judgment on the difficulty of building a road between Luoyang and Chang'an and maintaining it. Now I find that difficulties are more difficult than in the future
good.
Now Li Tai has understood that if he wants to build a road from Chang'an to Luoyang, he will inevitably need a horse farm with a scale of 100,000 horses, an iron smelting plant completely controlled by himself, and a relatively excellent one.
Corvee voyage.
As for the imperial court, we cannot say that we support this matter, but at least we cannot directly object.
In fact, I am really afraid that my plan would be opposed by the court if it was proposed.
A very important reason is that Li Tai was afraid that the Guanlong group within the court would refuse the court to implement this plan in order to maintain his political status.
On this point, even Li Tai has no good idea, so he can only take one step at a time.
"King of Yan, the article that advised Du Prime Minister has been written!" Bai He came to Li Tai and handed over an article.
"Put it here. I've read it and I'll copy it if I have no problem. Wait and hand over the article I copied!" Li Tai said.
"No!" Bai He nodded and obediently left the door.
Li Tai watched Baihe leave, took Baihe's article to write and read it, and felt that there was no problem, so he immediately copied it.
If Bai He hadn't been unable to imitate his own font, who would have to do it himself if his prince wrote an article!
Du Ruhui took the boat along the Grand Canal overnight, but when he arrived in Cangzhou, he allowed some Tianjin troops to stay and replaced many Tianjin troops. After all, if he wanted to make the ships sailed quickly, he could only change people and not change boats.
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Such behavior was quickly reported to Xue Dading. Xue Dading put on his clothes and came out, and Wang Youfang was already waiting.
Wang Youfang came to Xue Dading and said, "Captain Du dispatched a large amount of Tianjin service from Tianjinkou today, escorting at least 50,000 stones of grain, and went straight to Dezhou, saying that the flood in Henan needed food relief. The King of Yan seemed to have given the food to Du Xiang!"
Xue Dading understood why Wang Youfang was anxious, mainly because he was afraid that the King of Yan's borrowing of grain would affect Cangzhou's plan this time.
"Nothing happened!" Xue Dading said calmly, "Although there is a lot of rain this year, our Cangzhou has built a lot of water conservancy facilities when we were unblocking the Grand Canal, and the flood did not destroy the farmland.
The food we have in our hands is enough to support the promotion of wheat.
Last year, the King of Yan was short of food. Didn’t the King of Yan buy grain from the family of Youzhou? This year, Youzhou has not suffered any disaster. I believe that the King of Yan will always get food, so we don’t need to get it.
In addition, you send more people to Jinkou, the canal. Jinkou has been transferred too much corvee service, which is afraid it will affect its operation tomorrow."
"No!" Wang Youfang couldn't help but feel relieved when he saw Xue Dading's calmness and immediately went down to handle the matter.
At this time, Xue Dading looked at Wang Youfang leaving and murmured:
"The three cities jointly promote wheat cultivation, and their own hands are a bit short of people.
Forget it, write a letter to the clan to see if there are any talents who know how to farm!"
Thinking of this, Xue Dading wrote a letter overnight and sent it to the Xue clan in Hedong.
Although Xue Dading was born as an official slave, he was qualified to become an official slave in normal families.
His father Xue Cui served as the chief minister of Jiezhou during the Sui Dynasty. His sons of Emperor Wen of Sui fought for power and profit. King Yang Liang of Han was falsely accused of rebellion. Xue Cui was implicated and lost his life in this political struggle. As the son of a traitor, Xue Dading was sentenced to death.
Sold as an "official slave".
If Xue Dading didn't fight, it would be great that the Xue clan would not be implicated.
But now I have been struggling again to the Governor of Cangzhou, and it is not difficult to ask the Xue family in Hedong who knows how to farm, especially wheat.
After all, let alone the Tang Dynasty, even the Song Dynasty’s way of enthroning officials was normal.
So Xue Dading found that his subordinates were not enough, so he wrote to the clan to see if there were any talents to provide them.
After all, I am a member of my own tribe, so I feel at ease when using it. Nepotism is the most common thing in employed people.
Xue Dading wrote the letter and sent it back to Hedong. Seeing that it was already dawn, he didn't mean to lie back to sleep. Instead, he took out the plan he discussed with Li Tai and Li Chunfeng at this time.
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However, there is a more trustworthy map next to it. The wheat implementation of Nanpi, Cangzhou and Wudi is the first step in the entire plan, but it must be done well.
Of course, compared to Xue Dading's calmness, Du Ruhui arrived in Dezhou as quickly as possible.
However, after experiencing the speed of the Tianjin Railroad and the smooth flow of the Grand Canal is helpless, it was too slow when I really took these food and grass to Dezhou to transport the Yellow River.
Even though Ma Zhou seemed to know that Du Ruhui had brought them one by one, he prepared a shovel early to pry open the big boxes, took out the sacks inside, and put them in the carriage one by one.
superior.
There is no way, Dezhou's canal transportation plan has not been fully implemented, and there is a gap from equipment to manpower.
In this case, the most correct way to choose to disassemble the box and carry the food in sacks.
But in this case, it took one day to unload the goods. When the grain was transported by land to the Yellow River Ferry to load the goods, another three or four days passed.
Du Ruhui thought about the time it took to get food from Youzhou to travel back and forth, but it was actually less time to unload and load goods in Dezhou. For a moment, Du Ruhui's intention to popularize the "Cache Transport Plan" was heavy.
a bit.
More importantly, Du Ruhui also understood why Li Tai specified from the beginning that all the goods must be placed in prescribed large wooden boxes, and there should be no problem with the size.
This is not only a matter of tax collection by the court, but also in the circulation of goods. With such an outside container, it is much easier to transport the cargo ship on the entire shipping.
More importantly, this model greatly increases the cost of someone who opens a Heijinkou to move the goods.
After all, the most important thing for merchants is timeliness. If they do not have the ability to handle containers, it will be difficult for the black port to open.
Of course, even if you have the ability to handle containers, do you need to prepare the road, carriage, and personnel? The cost will naturally increase.
"No matter what, Henan will be saved by the arrival of this batch of grain from King Yan!"
Du Ruhui crossed the Yellow River with his food and began to bring people to provide disaster relief.