old!
Lao Pu felt increasingly unable to catch up with the idea of the equation.
No one can say for the time being whether the Ming Dynasty will ask for food exchange. Rushing up is not a business, and the Ming Dynasty will not tell them if they don't mention the Wu Dynasty.
But if you mention it, follow this method.
The Wu Dynasty received far more benefits than the Ming Dynasty. The inland river transport ships were small. Compared with the transport volume of sea ships, it was like ants moving. The same distance was traveled down the river and upstream. The experience and time spent were completely unequal. .
Through transshipment through the Grand Canal, moving Qingzhou grain into the warehouse, which takes a year for a river fleet, can only take three or four months at most on a sea-going ship.
The Wu Dynasty could not solve this situation, and the same could be said for the Ming Dynasty.
If it can be solved, if the Ming Dynasty's sea ships traveled all the way to Yangzhou, even if they went against a section of the canal, would there still be a chance of chaos between the Huaihe River and the Huaihe River?
In this process, the tediousness is just the procedure, and the saving is time.
"According to the idea, everyone can make money. Now it depends on whether people can think of it. If it is mentioned, then what should we mention?"
To get along with friends, you still need to come and go. If one party monopolizes the benefits and does not pay, the relationship will not last long.
In alliances between countries, obligations and rights and responsibilities often need to be equal at all times, so that after the alliance is broken, the allies will have no choice but to do or say nothing, and turn around and become mortal enemies.
Wu Chao didn't want to rely on others, let alone be dragged along.
"Boat!"
“Especially the craftsmanship!”
"You don't need the most advanced treasure ship craftsmanship, but at least you need to learn the craftsmanship of keel splicing!"
The keel is the core of a large ship.
In the early days of Kyushu shipbuilding, the keels were mostly based on natural giant trees, and the size of the ships was naturally locked by the wood.
If you want to build a big ship, you must learn how to join keels.
Over one hundred and sixty years since the Ming Dynasty opened the sea, three generations of treasure ships have emerged. The largest treasure ship today was built during the Hongzhi period. It took eight years and was launched three years after Zhengde. It was named Hongzhi, with a captain of 380 steps. Sixty-six paces wide, it almost caught up with the specifications of pre-dreadnoughts in the early days of World War I.
If the Ming Dynasty's keel splicing technology can be learned by the Wu Dynasty, the equation will point out the direction of V-shaped cabin technology. Even if the overall tonnage cannot catch up with the Ming Dynasty's hundreds of years of accumulation in a short time, it will have advantages such as foothold and speed, and smooth ocean navigation. , Wu Chao can play the differentiation card, not only tearing a bite of fat from Ming Chao's mouth, but also taking a sip of soup along with Ming Chao.
"Shipbuilding is a holistic technology. Mingren is so far ahead of us in shipbuilding that just one keel may not be enough!"
"I can't tell that you know very little about shipbuilding, Mr. Pu!"
"The majority of the expenditures of the imperial government over the years have been on shipbuilding, large ships, and grain ships!" Lao Pu said directly without any nonsense, "The private sector is not strong enough, and the Ministry of Household Affairs has insufficient financial resources. The canals built by Zeng Jin are either too small or too old. The pressure is all on the inner government. You must know that a ship is not only about craftsmanship and shipyard, but also involves upstream and downstream. The conditions in our country are pretty good. There are many century-old giant trees in the mountains, but there is a lack of water flow in the rivers. I want to integrate a century-old giant tree into a whole Bringing it out often requires hundreds of people and takes several months or even half a year!"
In the age of manpower, there are too many limiting factors.
The Wu Dynasty had no shortage of wood for shipbuilding, but it lacked the means to move the wood from the mountains.
"The key right now is the Jiaolai Canal. Once this canal is opened, we will be able to purchase large quantities of rice from the Ming Dynasty!"
In previous lives, the world's trade relied most heavily on maritime transport, and river and land transport were nothing but derivatives and supplements of maritime transport.
This is even more true today. How large a river boat can be built has something to do with craftsmanship, but more importantly with the route. The Yellow River, the mother river, is restless. After thousands of years of erosion, the river bed is getting higher and higher, and it is farther away from the land of later generations. The Xuanhe River is not far away, and it is difficult to ascertain the distribution of reefs on the river bottom. A larger river boat will hit the bottom if it is not careful.
The Grand Canal is a little better. There are records of construction during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and the Wu Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty continued to maintain it. There are even more manpower on both sides of the strait, which ensures the navigation of large river ships.
Thinking about the Yangtze River and Zhenjiang section, the navy of the Ming Dynasty would not dare to cross it.
"This is indeed the truth. If the river opens, even if Ming Dynasty regrets it, we can go south to Jiaozhi by ourselves. At most, it will only take a while!"
The Bohai Sea, the junction area with the East China Sea, has the most unpredictable sea conditions. With the Jiaolai Canal, the Wu Dynasty could avoid it and go all the way south along the coastline of Xuzhou and Yangzhou to finally reach Jiaozhou, which produces three crops of rice annually.
Jiaozhou is very large, and its scope far exceeds that of other countries in the Central Plains. The Ming Dynasty and the Chu Dynasty were more colonial than rulers in Jiaozhou. They worked with the natives of Jiaozhou in batches and did not form an effective management system at all. To the north and east It's not easy to move, there is still a large area of land to the south and west.
Regarding Jiaozhou, Wu Chao didn't want to do it, but he couldn't do it and didn't have the ability to do it.
No one would turn down the opportunity to take a bite!
"I didn't expect you could think that far. This is indeed a way to go. Jiaozhou is too big. In the short term, it doesn't matter if two families can feed it, three families can feed it!"
In Jiaozhou, one of the nine states, only the northwest, northeast, and junction with Shuzhou, Bingzhou, and Yangzhou have relatively clear regional divisions. The other six directions are just a concept. As long as the land area depends on the South China Sea, it can be counted as Jiaozhou. scope.
It would take hundreds of years for Jiuzhou to work together to conquer such a large area. The two dynasties of Guangming and Chu had worked hard for more than a hundred years and only occupied a shallow layer.
Lao Pu looked at the equation again and said with a smile, "Jiaozhou is too far away. The key is now. Someone will check your guess later to see who is behind it, but there is a high probability that it is from Song Dynasty. , after all, the Song people are not without internal conflicts, maybe some people want to use this to achieve certain goals, after all, if the Hexi incident is completed, it will have a huge impact on the Song Dynasty itself!"
Where there are interests, there are struggles.
The important land in Hexi involves too many people and things.
I don't want the Song people to get too much of the Hexi country, and the Song Dynasty doesn't want those in power to take over a lot of these achievements.
Family and country, family in front and country in the back, it is impossible for everyone to surrender and uphold righteousness.
Although the Song Dynasty was rich, internal fighting was fierce. The aristocratic families suppressed the warlords, the warlords suppressed the gentry, and the gentry fought against the aristocratic families. Specifically, there were factions within the aristocratic families, warlords, and gentry. In the past few decades, the prime ministers of the Song Dynasty rotated like a marquee. , the Prime Minister of March, and the Prime Minister of the Seventh Day have all appeared.
The guesswork of the equation can at best solve the suspicions of the factions in power in the Song Dynasty. The suspicions of the opposition forces not only did not decrease, but gradually increased.
If you look for it, you must come out. After all, no one wants a poisonous snake sleeping next to them.
The feeling is too uncomfortable. If you can't kill the other person, you have to get to the bottom of it.
"It's really hard to tell. It would be best if we can jump out. But I guess even if we don't investigate, the Song people will try their best. Some scapegoats are not so easy to shoulder!" Fang Fang agreed.
