(ps: Two situations: I have a bad cold and feel like dying; I have to take a train at night to spend six or seven days in a cold place, which is considered a vacation. Why do I have to have a bad cold? It’s a rare vacation in a year! Oh my God! These days
The update of the day will be extremely unstable. Brothers, save your energy when scolding. When I get home on the 23rd, I will write in a saturated state. Thank you brothers for your understanding!)
On March 16th, Ge Cunxin, Zhou Pu and others led the fleet back to Tianjin Sea. When they left, there were two five-thousand-stone ships and six thousand-stone ships. At this time, the fleet docking at the port included three five-thousand-stone giant ships and ten thousand-stone ships.
A giant ship with a thousand stones. In the eyes of the Jinhai people who are used to seeing two-masted ships with a carrying capacity of three to five hundred stones, the fleet composed of three-masted and five-masted ships led by Ge Cunxin and Zhou Pu is undoubtedly
It was extremely spectacular, and everyone flocked to the seawall to watch it, as if it was a rare spectacle.
"This is the Lin family's fleet!" Tang Haoxin stood on the seawall, looking at the docked fleet. His white beard jumped excitedly, and then counted carefully, and asked in surprise, "Leave on the 16th
The return trip from Jinhai to Chongzhou is more than 6,000 miles, including the time for unloading and loading. It doesn’t take a month to go there?”
"Seriously, they traveled more than six thousand miles," Lin Fu said with a smile. "When they returned, they took the open sea and made a big circle..."
"Was going to the Black Water Ocean?" Tang Haoxin was stunned for a moment. He never thought that Lin Fu's preparation for this fleet was not just a temporary idea!
Lin Fu thought that Tang Haoxin still had some knowledge. Although he had not been in charge of water transportation when he was in the Ministry of Household Affairs, he still knew about the existence of Heishuiyang.
Compared with the last time they set off from Chongzhou and followed the coastline for more than a month and a half before meeting up in Cangnan, this time they took the Heishuiyang route off Changshan Island, which took only thirteen days instead of three.
One-third of the time.
When sailing on the sea, in addition to relying on wind power, ships can also rely on regular ocean currents in the ocean.
In the outer sea area to the east of Changshan Island, there is a strong ocean current with a width of hundreds of miles, like a huge river rushing endlessly in the hinterland of the outer sea area, flowing continuously from south to north. Outside this ocean current
The color of the sea water is blue; the sea water within the scope of the ocean current looks black and blue, like black water. As early as six or seven hundred years ago, sailors called it the black water ocean...
The world has not figured out where the Black Water Ocean originated. The available documents and old people with navigation experience can confirm that at least the area around the southern Liuqiu Island is not the origin of the Black Water Ocean. Based on the current understanding of the ocean,
There is no clear explanation for the formation of ocean currents, but it does not prevent people from taking advantage of the flow patterns of the Blackwater Ocean to sail boats.
In Lin Fu's mind, the Black Water Ocean coincided with the Yellow Sea Warm Current he learned in junior high school geography class, but he couldn't be absolutely sure, after all, many of the things he had learned only had vague impressions.
The Yellow Sea was not called the Yellow Sea at that time. There was a lot of silt under the water from the Huaihe River mouth to Chongzhou, and the sea water was yellow. People called this section of the Yellow Sea the Yellow Sea. From the Huaihe River mouth to the sea area south of Dengzhou, the sea water was green, and
It's called Qingshuiyang.
As early as more than a hundred years ago, two shipping routes were opened:
One route is the Huangshuiyang Inland Sea Route. Ships going north follow the winding coastline to take advantage of the wind. Along the way, the water is shallow and siltated. They move quickly with the wind and slowly against the wind. They anchor when there is no wind and the ship speed is slow.
The direction of the monsoon is unstable in March, so it is not surprising that it takes two months to travel from Chongzhou to Jinhai on this route.
The other route is the Heishui Ocean Offshore Route, which starts from Chongzhou and sails directly east into the Heishui Ocean in the outer sea area, taking advantage of the strong driving force of the ocean currents to go north. After the Black Water Ocean enters the Bohai Sea, it goes north along the west coast of the Liaodong Peninsula.
The coastline that goes straight to the northernmost side of the Bohai Sea is blocked and then rotates, adhering to the west bank, that is, the south current along the coast of Hejian Prefecture, forming a complete Bohai Sea circulation in the Bohai Sea.
The Blackwater Ocean Route, especially before entering the Bohai Sea, is located in the outer sea area of the Yellow River Ocean, with strong winds and strong waves. It is more dangerous for small and medium-sized seagoing ships with poor wind and wave resistance and low structural strength to use the Blackwater Ocean Route, which is slightly larger.
Strong winds and waves may cause the ship to disintegrate, causing damage to cargo and loss of life.
Except for the large-scale fleets that used the Heishui Ocean route to go northward during the construction of the sea route a hundred years ago, there were very few sea-going ships that used the Heishui Ocean route after that.
In addition to the greater risk of traveling through the black water ocean, the main reason is that after the rise of inland water transport, the demand for sea trade between the north and the south has been greatly weakened, and large maritime merchant ships lack room for survival. On the contrary, short-distance sea trade along the coast is in the ascendant.
For example, the coast of Hejian Prefecture, the coast of Shandong Peninsula, the mouth of the Huaihe River to Chongzhou, and the mouth of Chongzhou to the Qianjiang River. Such short-distance shipping needs do not require the Blackwater Ocean route.
Except for some experienced maritime merchants, shipowners, and old boat people, most maritime merchants and shipowners nowadays do not even know the existence of the Blackwater Ocean Route.
There is no need to elaborate on the shortcomings of inland water transportation. Especially in the last season, water management is chaotic and contradictions are more prominent. When Gu Wuchen first established a foothold on Prison Island, Gu Wuchen was in charge of water transportation in Jiangdong County, and Lin Fu was considering sea water transportation.
I have had little contact with Li Zhuo, and I have also talked about this issue. However, the long-term disadvantages are difficult to rectify, especially when hundreds of thousands of people rely on inland water transport for food, promotion, and wealth. There is no doubt that they want to give up inland water transport and use sea water transport.
It is not something that the apocalyptic dynasty has the courage or ability to do.
At present, the inland canal is damaged and water transportation is blocked, so the court is forced to open the sea canal. However, in the eyes of most officials, this is only a temporary measure. Once the Yellow River breach is blocked and the canal in Pingyuan Prefecture is repaired, everything will return to normal.
Get back on the right track they think they are.
Lin Fu spared no expense, spending two or three times the cost to build a large, fast ship with a solid structure, just to sail in the outer seas.
Last time, Ge Cunxin led the fleet to the north to cooperate. He was not in a hurry. Besides, it was the first time for the fleet to go to sea on a large scale, so he chose the slightly safer Huangshuiyang offshore route. This time, there was a grain shortage in Beijing and Zhonghai, so Lin Fu could only find food in Tianjin and Hainan.
The shipping capacity of Tianjin Sea was insufficient in the short term, and the fleet had two more voyage experiences. This time Ge Cunxin recruited some boatmen with experience in taking the Blackwater Ocean route, and tried to make the fleet go northward via the Blackwater Ocean in a shallow cabin.
In the season when northerly or northwesterly winds prevail, the best sea route to transport grain from Dengzhou to Tianjin is not to follow the north coast of Shandong Peninsula to Hejianfu, and then along the east coast of Hejianfu to Tianjin. This is difficult to borrow.
The wind is strong and the speed is very slow. The best route is to use the annular ocean current formed by the branches of the black water flowing into the Bohai Bay, and transport grain in a large circle along the west coast of Liaodong occupied by the Donglu to the Tianjin Sea, although it seems to be a long voyage.
The cost is doubled, but the time is saved by more than half.
Since the Bohai Sea is surrounded by Liaodong and Shandong, taking the Bohai Sea circulation is an offshore route, and the wind and wave conditions are quite ideal. It is easy for a three- to five-hundred-stone ketch to travel on it, but the grain transport fleet accounts for one-third of the entire process.
The voyage will be close to the Liaodong land occupied by the Donglu.
Although Donglu had almost no water camp strength, even if a small group of Lu soldiers used small shuttle boats to launch an attack from the inland river mouth, no grain-carrying merchant ships could resist. Before that, first, the Dengzhou Navy was asked to send warships to escort them, and then
Lin Fu combined the ship Dongyang he had left in Jinhai with the grain transport ship, and formed a sentry team of escort soldiers to escort it.
At least in water warfare, Jiangdong Zuoying had an absolute advantage at this time. There was a lion-like warship in the grain transport fleet. It could not even tell the direction at sea and could not stand on the deck.
The stable captive soldiers, that kind of shuttle boat that is too crowded for even a small group of people, will even be overturned by the waves caused by the Dongyang. Even if the number of captive soldiers rushing into the sea from the inland river mouth is large, they are only as fragile as babies. Lin
The new formation method attached to Jiangdong Zuoying, with five pawns as the basic combat group, is particularly suitable for this extremely narrow battlefield with a nature of connecting to the side of the river.
The first escort launched several beautiful counterattacks, with more than thirty owl heads. Even the accompanying merchants and shipowners were eager to give it a try. The official price of a raw barbarian head was twenty taels of silver. If you don't exchange for silver, you will accumulate a lot of money.
Ten raw barbarian heads were exchanged for the rank of Confucian scholar and scholar, and he became an official from then on. This was an even greater temptation for merchants and shipowners.
Tang Hao
The amount of grain in Tianjin was 36,000 dan. At this time, reports were sent from Denglai. Maritime merchants and shipowners along the coast of Shandong knew that Jiangdong Zuoying was buying grain at a high price in Tianjin Sea. Every day, ships came to Denglai to buy grain.
grain, I am afraid that when the second formation ships, the total transport capacity will exceed 80,000 shi.
There is no need to worry about the maritime merchants transporting grain to other places for sale. It takes a process to concentrate grain from Shandong to Denglai. What the maritime merchants are buying at this time is the grain stored in Denglai, which makes Denglai grain immediately tense. The first time grain is shipped, the price of grain rises.
The price has soared to the limit of 1,000 yuan per stone.
This price is already much higher than other regions in Shandong and the Jianghuai region further away. It has also attracted a large number of grain merchants to concentrate grain to the Denglai area by land or Shandong's inland rivers, which has greatly made up for the lack of water transportation capacity in Shandong's inland areas.
Only then did Tang Haoxin really understand the beauty of setting up a grain price gradient. Regardless of the government's organizational power, if he wanted to transport the 300,000 grains scattered on the way to Jinan Prefecture in a reversal direction and transport them to Jinhai for delivery, it would take less than three to five months.
It's impossible to accomplish anything if we don't have enough time. However, the food shortage crisis in Gyeonggi Province cannot last for three to five months.
Of course, there are also grain merchants who have the idea of hoarding grain. The newly appointed Xuanfu envoys and inspectorate envoys of Shandong have personally gone to Denglai to supervise grain. They all know that if there is a big chaos in Gyeonggi due to grain shortage, their heads will be chopped off.
If you kill merchants who hoard grain in Denglai and raid grain stores, you will not be merciful.
The key is that by mid-March, follow-up grain will gradually enter Denglai. Otherwise, there will be no grain to buy when sea ships arrive in Denglai. The earliest grain shipments enter Denglai. In addition to a small amount of grain from nearby counties, more
It was the grain shipped by grain merchants that barely connected the supply chain.
Seeing Jiyunshe's fleet returning to Jinhai, Tang Haoxin's heart, which had been worrying about the grain shortage in the capital, was about half over. Adding in Jiyunshe's fleet, the transport capacity that Jinhai can mobilize at one time is more than 100,000 shi.
With the escort of the boatmen, it can take at least two round trips around the Liaodong coast in a month. It will not be difficult for Jinhai warehouse to complete the goal of storing 300,000 shi of grain before mid-April.
As long as Jinhai warehouse is available, even if the grain is pushed to Gyeonggi by wheelbarrow, the food shortage crisis can be temporarily suppressed.