When the sea-going fleet transporting grain passed the sea off Jiao'ao, it dropped Commander Liu of the Yangtze River Navy and his soldiers. They would take small boats and go straight to the captured pirates' lair, completely separated from the sea-going fleet.
"Boss, are you being too trusting?"
Seeing the Yangtze River Navy officers leaving in small boats, Shi Ze said with a worried look on his face: "If we encounter pirates again..."
"Where are there so many pirates?"
Jia Cong sneered and said: "Northern shipping is not booming, and even pirates are having a hard time. The pirates who can gather three sea ships at once are already quite powerful. Do you think sea ships are just small sampans?"
Shi Ze blushed and said awkwardly: "Isn't this worrying?"
"Nothing to worry about!"
Waving his hand, Jia Cong said leisurely: "Yangfan, let's rush to Jinmen in one go. After completing the task, we can all go ashore to rest for three days. Everyone has a share of three taels of silver!"
Amid the cheers of the surrounding sailors, Jia Cong returned to the cabin unhurriedly, and soon the ship vibrated and accelerated its sailing speed.
A few days later, a group of ten sea-going ships arrived at the sea outside Tianmen. The official of the governor's office of water transportation, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately greeted them in a small boat.
The boss was removed, which shocked the officials at the governor's office. How could they dare to assassinate him at this time?
only……
"Boss, these officials in the Water Transport Office are a little too enthusiastic, aren't they?"
Even Shi Ze, who claimed to be the first official of the Yangtze River Navy, noticed something was wrong and hurriedly went to Jia Cong's cabin to report.
"No matter what they have in mind, let's just follow the rules!"
With a slight smile on his lips, Jia Cong said leisurely: "First go to the dock and dock, and then ask the dock workers to help carry the grain. Your boy and the sailors on the ship will all watch with their eyes wide open. If they notice something is wrong, stop it immediately!"
After a pause, he continued: "It must be carried in full view of everyone. If the number of people on the dock is small, you can go to the city and shout. Even if you spend money, you have to shout a sufficient number of onlookers!"
"Boss, are you saying that these officials may be tampering with goods?"
Shi Ze was taken aback and didn't believe it: "No, it's already at this point. Isn't it too late to do anything?"
"It's always good to be careful!"
Jia Cong said calmly: "We can't make mistakes in the last step. Even if we lose part of the grain shipped this time, it will be difficult to make a mistake!"
Shi Ze still has too little experience, or he knows too little.
In the Internet age with the explosion of information, you can see all sorts of evil schemes, and some people or forces are willing to do all kinds of crazy things for their own benefit.
In the modern information society, some beings dare to be unscrupulous, let alone the feudal era where the court's control was not very strong.
Even if you dump the grain from the ship into the sea in front of your face, what can you do?
Jinmen is the headquarters of the governor's office of water transportation. There is no need to elaborate on how influential it is here.
really……
Seeing that the Zhen family's fleet was not confused by the smoke bombs, the expressions on the faces of the officials from the water transport yamen who greeted them warmly deteriorated at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Then, he only glanced at the various cabins where grain was loaded, and did not dare to make any move at all with the sailors closely monitoring him.
When they got off the boat, everyone was absent-minded and looked ugly, but they forgot that this was at sea.
As a result, the ship capsized, and more than a dozen officials from the water transport yamen were all drowned.
These guys have bad intentions. They are suffering from the backlash of Jia Cong's luck.
If you go against the son of luck, don't expect a good outcome.
When the Zhen family's fleet of ships docked, it turned out that there were not many people waiting at the pier.
This can't happen!
Shi Ze, the newly promoted first yamen of the Yangtze River Navy, was quite qualified. He soon led a large number of Jinmen people to break through the simple blockade set up by the water transport yamen and ran to the dock to watch the excitement.
With Jia Cong's strength and acuity of his five senses, he could clearly hear the comments of these people watching the excitement even if he was hundreds of meters away from the boat.
"I heard that young man say that in the future, most of the water transportation will be carried out by sea. This is really strange!"
"Yes, I heard that it is very dangerous to sail a ship in high seas and high waves, but I don't know if it is safe to transport grain from the canal?"
"Those big guys who are engaged in grain and sea transportation are not worried. What do you, a commoner, have to worry about? Didn't that young master say that the Dayuan Dynasty had a perfect grain and sea transportation model for a long time, but it was later abolished by Chen Han!"
"Why does Chen Han want to abolish it?"
"That is a thing created by the foreign court, and our Han Dynasty naturally disdains to imitate it. Fortunately, the young master said, grain transportation by sea has been around since ancient times, and it is not unique to the foreign court. It doesn't matter if our Han court uses it!"
"That's the truth, but I don't know how grain transportation by sea compares with river transportation?"
"Of course it is more convenient, and the carrying capacity is also large. Have you seen any sea-going ships on the dock? One sea-going ship can be as powerful as dozens or hundreds of river ships!"
"You are stupid. I heard that it doesn't even take ten days to take a boat from Jinmen to Jiangnan. If grain transportation can be done at such a speed, it would be really amazing!"
"It doesn't matter. I only know that if this is the case, the cost of transporting grain to Tianjin is extremely low. Doesn't that mean that the price of grain can be reduced a lot?"
"That's the reason. It seems that grain transportation by sea is still very useful for us people. At least the price of grain will drop a lot in the future!"
"What are you talking about? Haven't you seen that the ship has already started carrying grain? Why don't we go over and take a look?"
"..."
I don’t know if I was entrusted with making a noise in the crowd. When the ship was loading grain, this group of people suddenly came to watch and swarmed in to see what was going on.
I don’t think so, but this guy Shi Ze is also capable of propaganda and agitation.
Jia Cong smiled slightly and asked his younger brothers to go out and keep an eye on it, so that the guys from the Governor's Office of Water Transportation wouldn't take advantage of it.
Here, more and more grain is piled up on the dock. What is strange is that there are not many transportation vehicles, and they are just piled up on the open space of the dock.
"Xue Pan, send someone to ask what's going on?"
By this time, his eyes were opened. He was playing so crudely that he really thought everyone was blind.
Soon, Xue Pan ran over with an angry look on his face and said angrily: "Boss, those guys at Caoyun Yamen are really hateful. They even said that we came too suddenly and were not ready!"
Damn you are not prepared!
Several days before the departure of the Zhen family's fleet, they had notified the water transport yamen in advance through the canal, explaining the specific time of departure of the fleet and the possible time of arrival. The error would never exceed two days!
With Jia Cong personally accompanying the ship, unless it seriously deviates from the course, it will definitely reach Tianjin on time even if it encounters bad weather such as storms.
As a result, the Caoyun Yamen actually said that they were not sure about the reception time and were not ready yet?
Get your hammer ready!
"Then transport these grains to the Xue family's warehouse on the dock first!"
Jia Cong looked calm and was not affected at all. He said leisurely: "No matter what, we must ensure the safety of this batch of grain!"
"Boss, aren't there a lot of people on the dock?"
Xue Pan was a little confused and said confusedly: "I don't know exactly what is going on at the Xue family's dock warehouse in Jinmen!"
He was a little worried. If the steward below fooled him, he would be embarrassed. He was bragging a lot on the ship.
"You're confused, the people on the dock are probably Cao Gang's men!"
Jia Cong said calmly: "Can you guarantee that they won't do anything secretly?"
this……
Xue Pan was speechless. How could he dare to make such random promises? If something happened to him, he would be in trouble and it would be hard to explain to the boss.
"What are you still doing?"
Jia Cong said angrily: "Go to work. If anything goes wrong, you are the only one I will ask!"
He waved Xue Pan away, who was an eyesore, and looked at the busy crowds on the pier and the increasing piles of grain, with a strange smile on his face.
I just don’t know if I will have the urge to kill someone now that I know the situation in Jinmen.
He really guessed it, and now he was very murderous.
Jinmen is only a hundred miles away from the capital. If you work hard, you can go back and forth in one day. What happened at Jinmen Pier was immediately known to Jinjin.
The bold behavior of the officials in the Governor's Office of Water Transport surprised him and made him murderous.
Damn it, this is obviously dissatisfaction with his decision, and he wants to make some small moves secretly. Even the warehouse of the water transportation yamen is not allowed to enter. This is to prevent the ten ships of grain that have just arrived from unexpected events.
Now that I was very angry, I immediately sent out my confidant eunuchs and rushed to Jinmen with a group of dragon guards. They must protect the batch of canal grain. At the same time, I was brewing in my heart to deal a bigger blow to the canal transport yamen.
Since it is so disobedient, is it still necessary for this yamen, which has so much money and food, and nearly 100,000 soldiers, to exist?
This attempt to transport grain by sea has obviously been a complete success.
In the future, water transportation can gradually shift to sea transportation. As for the impact along the canal, aren't there still a large number of merchant ships?
In "The Heroes of the Late Sui Dynasty" written by that boy Jia Cong, it is written quite clearly.
If the Grand Canal wants to truly develop, water transport must not become the mainstream. Instead, merchant ships traveling between both ends of the Grand Canal should become the main force.
As a result, the imperial court deliberately removed itself from the quagmire of water transportation and handed over the work of canal maintenance to the local governments.
If done well, everything will be easy. If there are a sufficient number of merchant ships, the development of towns along the Grand Canal will not be greatly affected.
However, if the local government fails to act or acts indiscriminately, the impact of the canal accident on the court will be the same, and the economy of the towns along the canal will suffer a devastating blow, but this is all caused by the local officials and people.
As long as you think about the money invested in canal management every year, you can't help but feel heartache now. You don't want to continue to maintain it. You have benefited those morons. Do you really think that he doesn't know the secrets of canal transportation...