Countless ships set sail and arrived at Yingkou Port, with various flags flying on the bows. Some came from Tianjin, some from Dengzhou, some were transferred from Lushunkou, and some even came directly from the south of the Yangtze River.
Located at the mouth of the Daliao River and close to the Bohai Bay, the natural advantage of the intersection of the river and the sea made Yingkou, an already important water transport port, soar into the sky and become the most important outside the customs under the influence of Shao Tian Dynasty's vigorous development of maritime transport.
One of the seaports in the world, especially because it was located at the mouth of the Liaohe Plain. As the imperial court penetrated deeper into the Northeast, it became more and more important.
In the early Ming Dynasty, the imperial court's water transport wharf on the Daliao River was located at Niujiazhuang at the intersection of the Liaohe, Hun, and Taizi rivers upstream of the river mouth. It was called Niuzhuang Wharf. Most of the cotton-padded clothes and grains of the officers and soldiers of the Liaodong Guard Station were made through economics.
Ship it here by sea and then transship it.
Niuzhuang Wharf can go up the Liaohe River to Laomi Bay in Kaiyuan. Later, a land and water transport route was opened from Laomi Bay to Jilin by land, then into the Songhua River and directly to the mouth of the Heilongjiang River in Nurgan.
"During the Hongwu and Yongle periods, the materials for the Liao army and the army were supplied by the annual transportation of cloth and cotton from prefectures and counties in Shandong. They were transported by sea from Zhili and Taicang to Niuzhuang for storage. Thousands of ships moved there. What a spectacular scene it was.
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On a sea ship, Yan Shuxun looked at the countless ships in Yingkou and sighed.
Lu Yicheng said from the side, "No matter how lively the Niujiazhuang Wharf was in the Yongle period of Hongwu, it would definitely not be as good as the current wharves in Lushun, Dalian, and Yingkou. Especially Yingkou Port, it is a key seaport, with river-sea connections, direct to Kaifeng
It turns out that it needs to be connected to the Songhua River."
"The Songliao Canal is only in the demonstration and investigation stage. As for whether it can be built and when it will be built, there is no doubt." Yan Shuxun said with a smile. The son of the great scholar Yan Wogong is going to Jilin to serve as the prefect.
Jilin was the shipyard where the Ming Dynasty's Blackwater Fleet originally set out. The Ming Dynasty established a shipyard in Jilin in later generations to build naval warships, and then went straight down the Songhua River to the Heilongjiang River every year, patrolling the estuary along the way. They were called the Seal Guard Army.
The choice of shipbuilding in Jilin at that time was also because the Ming army crossed the sea from Denglai and landed at Niuzhuang Pier, and then went directly from the Liao River to Kaiyuan in the north, where they transferred overland to the north bank of the Songhua River. From Kaiyuan, they could also change boats to the upper reaches of the Dongliao River.
It is only a hundred miles by land to reach the branch of Songhua River and flow into the river, which greatly shortens the distance.
From Dengzhou Port to Lushun Port, it takes one day and night to sail with favorable winds, and it only takes one day from Lushun to Yingkou.
Moreover, the imperial court has operated Dengzhou and Lushun ports for several years, and the port management and material dumping here are very convenient and effective.
Niuzhuang Port is still in use and is even still lively. It is much better than the depression caused by the war between the Ming and Qing Dynasties in the early years, and is now prosperous again.
Yingkou Port is a seaport, and all ships entering and exiting are sea-going vessels, while Niuzhuang Port is an inland river port, and those entering and exiting are inland river ships that mainly run on the Liaohe River, mainly on the Liaohe River route from Yingkou Port to Kaiyuan.
Because Niuzhuang is at the mouth of the Sancha River, its superior geographical location makes it an important cargo distribution center.
Yan Shuxun waited for the ship to enter the harbor and then got off the ship.
He came from Qingdao Port, and the cargo on the ship was not ordinary cotton cloth or grain, but a boat.
Ship loading, Dahai Ship is loading various ship parts to be sent to Jilin Shipyard. All parts have been produced in Qingdao Shipyard, and are shipped to Jilin for assembly and paint, and then they can be used on the Songhua River.
As the new prefect, he was also the first prefect, and his first task was to build the Jilin Shipyard.
The imperial court wanted to relocate the shipyard on the Jurchen territory, on the site of the original Daming Shipyard, and build a Jilin City there, which would serve as a garrison castle, a post station, and a border city. The emperor set aside a piece of land around the shipyard for resettlement.
The relocated shipbuilders and their families, as well as the families of the officers and men of the newly built fleet, etc.
Going deep into the barbaric land, it is not easy to be the prefect.
"Let the dock be careful. These parts cannot be damaged. Otherwise, it will be very troublesome to reship them from Qingdao to Jilin Shipyard. We cannot afford the delay."
As the commander of the new fleet, Lu Yicheng reassured him. After landing, he personally negotiated with the officials at the dock, took out official documents from the Ministry of War, and asked them to handle the goods carefully.
Upon seeing the official document from the Ministry of War, the dock officials immediately reported it to the top official in charge, who had also been notified earlier. After seeing the official document, they quickly mobilized the inland river fleet that was already on standby to transfer the goods.
Yan Shuxun had no time to be polite to the dock officials and kept an eye on the goods the whole time.
I breathed a sigh of relief when I saw that everything was transferred to the ship without any damage.
"The official has arranged a reception banquet..."
"It's not someone who refuses, it's really an important errand. I can't delay it for a moment. Thank you very much for your kindness." Yan Shuxun, the son of a bachelor, was very interested in this foreign appointment. Although he was a descendant of his relatives, he also walked around the emperor for a few experiences.
Years, but know what is heavy and what is light.
Immediately, he and Lu Yicheng took the fleet and set off along the Liao River.
The shipping on the Liao River is very smooth. Although it is against the current, it only takes seven or eight days to reach it, and it can travel hundreds of miles a day. Along the way, there are sailing ships traveling south and north everywhere. These ships are not big, and they usually carry 10,000 to 20,000 kilograms.
wooden boat.
The boss of the ship told Yan Shuxun that because the imperial court vigorously managed Liaodong, the Liaohe River had now become the most important transportation line. There were 8,000 ships traveling on the 800-mile waterway from Yingkou to Kaiyuan.
"Isn't that a bit exaggerated? Eight thousand?"
"That's almost the number. It's no exaggeration. How many immigrants come to Liaodong every day now. Most of them come from the sea and land in Lushun, Yingkou and Lingkou. It's most convenient to go inland to the Liaohe River. This transports grain
Those transporting livestock and cloth, transporting immigrants, transporting troops, post troops, and garrison troops have never been so lively in decades.
Just look at the bustling scene in Yingkou and you will know how many big-sea ships like high-rise buildings are docked, how many inland river boats are coming to transport goods, and how many people are making money on the docks, and how many warehouses and inns have been built.
Besides, there are hundreds of brothels alone."
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Yan Shuxun is from Jiaxing in western Zhejiang. He is a prosperous country in the south of the Yangtze River, canals, Taihu Lake, and the sea. He is also very familiar with boats. He can tell how much a boat can hold at a glance. Although these
The boats on the Liao River are not big, but there are many of them.
When they passed by Niuzhuang, they also entered the dock to check and register, file taxes and pay money, and eat and buy food and supplies. The boats in Niuzhuang were also as crowded as those in Yingkou.
Three rivers intersect here, but the port is not deep, so large ships cannot enter, and they are all at Yingkou. Yan Shuxun estimates that there are not a thousand ships, but hundreds, but the pier is managed very neatly, and the incoming and outgoing are orderly, even
There is a special tax police camp at the dock, and the officials of the tax department do not collect taxes randomly.
After resting at Niuzhuang Pier, we continued sailing.
Fortunately, the wind was favorable this time. The boss of the boat said that if the wind was not favorable, it might take half a month, but seven or eight days of favorable wind would be sufficient.
Eight days later, they completed the 800-mile waterway and arrived at Laomi Bay in Kaiyuan, which was once the Liaohaiwei of the Ming Dynasty.
There are also Guangshun and Zhenbei Erguan in the west of Kaiyuan and Xiaoqinghe. Laomiwan is in the west of Liaohaiwei, and to the north is Xin'an Pass on the Liaohe River. This northern protrusion in the early Ming Dynasty was surrounded by pass walls on three sides.
To the west of this prominent Liaohaiwei is the Mongolian Korqin tribe across the Liao River, while to the east is the Hercynian Jurchen tribe.
However, after the rise of Nurhachi, all the Jurchens Sinala in the west of Haixi, the Mongolian tribes such as Korqin in the west, and even the Mongolized Jurchens in the north were all conquered by Hou Jin.
But now, the Ming army has regained Liaochen and moved up the Liao River, taking Zhangwu in the west, Kangping in the middle, and Siping in the north. The Horqin tribe is also trembling and can only keep moving north.
Kaiyuan's original name was Kaiyuan, which was Kaiyuan Road in the Yuan Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang moved Kaiyuan here and changed it to Kaiyuan to avoid taboos. This was also the seat of the Thirty Thousand Guards, Liaohaiwei and Anlezhou in the early Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang once planned to move the three
Wanwei was located in Wuguo City, but later it was considered difficult to transport grain and grass, so it was moved back more than a thousand miles and was located in Kaiyuan.
It is located here because of the convenient water transportation.
This was also an important border market between the Ming Dynasty and the Jurchens. The Yehe tribe of the Haixi Jurchens got their name because they lived on both sides of the Yehe River in the north.
Yan Shuxun didn't bother to rest. The journey was relatively smooth and not hard at all. As soon as he arrived at Laomiwan Pier, he didn't even go to Kaiyuan City on the banks of the Daqing River, a tributary of the Liaohe River, and directly asked about the former Jilin.
"It's still five to six hundred miles from Laomiwan to the shipyard, right? Is it all by land?"
The boat boss took him to the dock and found another boat boss, "Generally, the journey from Niuzhuang is to Kaiyuan Laomi Bay, but if you still want to go north, you can do it, but you have to change to a smaller boat.
You have to be a boat boss who specializes in traveling upriver."
The ship boss who was called told Yan Shuxun that if he wanted to go to the shipyard, he actually didn't have to walk hundreds of miles by land.
"It won't take more than a hundred miles by land."
After the Hou Jin Dynasty conquered the Jurchens in Haixi and captured Kaiyuan Tieling and other places, the Liao River was also used to transport supplies, especially supplies from Haixi and Haidong and other places. They were all collected through the tributaries of the Songhua River to Changchun City and entered the Songhua River.
The tributary of Yitong River is stored in Yitong City.
After about a hundred miles of land route, it will be transported to Dengzi Village (Gongzhuling City) in the upper reaches of the Dongliao River in the west. From here, it will be loaded onto a ship and you can go along the Dongliao River to Laomi Bay in Kaiyuan, and then change to a larger ship.
, passing through the Liaohe River for 800 miles, it goes directly to Niuzhuang, or it can be transported to Shenyang.
The upper reaches of the Dongliao River are navigable only a few times a year, but as long as it is not dry or during heavy rains and floods, it can still be transported.
By taking this waterway, the Liao River and Songhua River intermodal transport can pass through the Dong Liao River and Yitong River, reducing the original distance of five to six hundred miles to about a hundred miles.
The Ministry of Industry proposed to investigate and build a Songliao Canal, which would connect the Yitong River and the Dongliao River.
Yan Shuxun was relieved after hearing this, and quickly went to the officials at Laomiwan Wharf. After taking out the official documents from the Ministry of War, they were also very cooperative in helping him transfer ships and people.
The goods were transferred from the ship to a smaller ship again, and went up the river again that same day.
From Laomiwan to Dengzi Village, after entering the Dongliao River, the river channel is still wide and flat downstream. The river channel becomes narrower as you go up, and the water volume is less. However, it is still flat and there are no rapids and rapids. However, you have to worry about the Horqin Mongols or the
Jianlu, this is already the northern border.
Fortunately, the imperial camp also set up many outposts along the Liao River, such as Siping City, Lishu City, Kangjiatun, Shuangliao (Zhengjiatun), Kangping (Kangjiatun), and Huaide (Gongzhuling), which can probably protect the Eastern Liao River.
This line is to ensure the passage with Changchun and Jilin.
As for the Xinkai River line of Xiliao River, it has not gone too far yet.
It takes more than ten days to travel from Laomi Bay to Dengzi Village, a 500-mile waterway, which is longer than the time it took Yan Shuxun to go from Qingdao Port via Dengzhou, Lushun, Yingkou, then change ships and then go to Kaiyuan Laomi Bay. He arrived in Qingdao before
It only took ten days and nights to reach Laomiwan, but now it took twelve days to complete the five hundred miles.
After successfully arriving at Dengzi Village, we unloaded the ship and switched to carts and horses for transportation. We traveled hundreds of miles overland to Yitong. As a result, it took another three days to transport the goods with loading and unloading belts.
They stopped immediately at Yitong to load the ships. Fortunately, Lu Yicheng had already led people to ride ahead and arrange the ships and manpower for him.
"It's only three hundred miles from Yitong to Jilin Shipyard via Changchun. It's almost there." Yan Shuxun's servant looked at the map and breathed a sigh of relief, but Yan Shuxun said, "There are still eight hundred miles."
"Isn't it only three hundred miles?"
"You are talking about the land route, but it is easier and more convenient to take the water route for freight. We must first enter the Songhua River along the Yitong River, and then enter the west-flowing Songhua River, a tributary, before we can reach the upstream Jilin Shipyard. Going around this circle will cost an extra five hundred
It’s a waterway, but it’s still more convenient and easier than the land route.”
"Then why not just locate the shipyard in Changchun?"
"Because the old shipyard is located in Jilin, it is on the bank of the west-flowing Songhua River. It is the center of Haixi and has sufficient water in the river, which is convenient for large ships to sail and cruise the Songhua River and Heilongjiang."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The city was built next to a large river. This was naturally due to many reasons. First, it was convenient for transportation. Second, of course, it was also easy to contact other tributaries inland.
Only by occupying the center of the region can we better control the Haixi region.
Set sail again, this time going down the river. The water surface gets wider as you go down. After entering the main stream of Songhua River, the river becomes even wider. When you turn into the second Songhua River, the river surface is also wide and the water waves are flat.
It took only five days to reach the eight hundred miles.
When we finally arrived at the Jilin Shipyard, Lu Yiming, who arrived first, came to greet us.
The garrison that came earlier has built a bastion here. Next to the bastion is a town, and on the other side is a new shipyard camp.
"It took me a full month to get here from Qingdao, but I'm finally here. Let's unload the goods quickly."
Lu Yicheng brought people to help unload the cargo, and boxes and boxes of materials were unloaded. Yan Shuxun couldn't wait to instruct the craftsmen in the shipyard to start unpacking and assembling.
More than ten days later, in the dock of Jilin Shipyard on the banks of the Songhua River, the Qingdao Crab Boat built by Qingdao Shipyard was finally fully displayed.
The old craftsman looked at the ship and proudly said to Yan Shuming, Lu Yicheng and other officers and generals, "The sail paddle boat produced by our Qingdao No. 1 Shipyard is called Kuai Crab. It is a river warship specially built for the Northeast Army. It is light and fast.
, light and sensitive.
The length is six feet and the width is one foot. It is larger than our traditional sailboats and uses a pointed bow, so it is very fast. Compared with the previous Centipede sail paddle boat, it is more advanced than the previous centipede sail paddle boat. This boat has attracted some of the Western sail paddle boats.
The advantages are combined with the characteristics and advantages of our traditional Chinese sailing paddle boats.
The old craftsman looked proud. Once assembled, the boat looked like a work of art.
The ship is divided into two layers, with ballast stones on the bottom layer, accommodation and cargo holds on the upper layer, and a watertight tank structure on the hull.
There is a war shed and an artillery platform on the bow of the ship, which can be equipped with two artillery pieces. The warship's long gun used is the Zhoushan Cannon Foundry. It is an iron-cast three-pound cannon, which can shoot three-pound shells, but weighs only eight hundred pounds.
The hull is covered with oars, with a total of fifty oars, which can be operated by a hundred people. It has two sails and can fly at high speeds.
It can also be equipped with a Fran rapid-fire cannon, coupled with the soldiers' fire blunderbuss and the big nine-headed bird blunderbuss. This ship can fly in the Northeast's Songhua River, Nen River, Heilongjiang, Jingqili River, and Wusuli River.
Invincible.
"Although this ship is not as good as a clipper ship that travels on the sea, it is very suitable for inland rivers, especially in the Northeast to recruit Jurchen tribes and pursue and suppress Tsarist Russian bandits."
"This time there are a total of thirty crabs. The first batch of seven has been assembled. The second batch has just been delivered and will take about ten days to assemble."
Both Yan Shuxun and Lu Yicheng had seen such ships at the Qingdao Shipyard, but now they saw that the scattered parts they had worked so hard to transport had finally turned into seven ships and launched into the water.
The red-black painted hull and the red sun and moon flag on the white sail made them feel extremely excited, and they felt that no matter how hard they worked, it was worth it.
The sailors and crew members of the Blackwater Fleet were even more impatient to get on board and operate the ship.
"Fucking Tsarist Russian bandits, my crab boat is finally ready. Now let you try the power of our crab boat. Hahaha, Yanfutai, choose a day and set sail!" Lu Yicheng was already a little forced.