After the Lianghuai Salt Administration and the salt field affairs were over, Zhu Yunwen did not stay any longer. When he was leaving, countless Zaohu saltmen walked along the road to see him off. They reluctantly went straight to Gaoyou, more than 30 miles away, and dispersed after watching the fleet leave.
In the cabin, Ma Enhui looked at the half-asleep Zhu Yunwen with some distress.
The female doctor Mei Hui carefully picked out the thorn stuck in the sole of the foot, sterilized it, tied it with gauze and tied it, then stood up: "Queen, the Emperor is not seriously ill, he just got a thorn in his bare foot, and he will be fine in two days. "
Ma Enhui signaled Mei Hui to go down, lowered her head and said to Zhu Yunwen: "Everyone thinks that the emperor goes to the places where he visits to eat delicious food, drink spicy food and enjoy it, but who wants to be so hard and tired? The work of Yanding is so heavy, if the dragon body is exhausted, the Queen Mother will definitely Heartbroken."
Zhu Yunwen opened his eyes slightly, then closed them again: "If you haven't experienced it, you don't know how bitter it is. It's still autumn, I'm sweating when I work, and my clothes are cumbersome. I heard that in summer, men wear a piece of cloth around their waists." , almost naked, not to mention the scorching sun, the salt penetrated into the skin and stung. It is really ridiculous that the court officials have not mentioned so many people who are suffering. "
Ma Enhui said bitterly: "So we punished the officials by frying salt? As a result, twenty-eight officials were exhausted, and the etiquette system was incomplete. Huang Guan, the Minister of Rites, almost jumped from the canal because of this."
A smile appeared on Zhu Yunwen's lips.
It is true that Huang Guan wanted to jump into the river. After all, the Ministry of Rites pays attention to a system of etiquette. Anything that violates the etiquette system is a big deal. Twenty-eight officials fell, twenty of them were from the Ministry of Rites, and there were not enough people. , etiquette failed.
In order to prevent Huang Guan from creating a traditional festival, Xie Jin directly arrested 20 officials in Gaoyou and transferred them to their posts on the spot. The local officials directly became officials of the Ministry of Rites, which did not starve their bodies or suffer their bones. After all, these people are just holding up a sign to make up the numbers. It is not their turn to speak, and they do not need much professionalism...
Concubine Xian walked in, carrying a bowl of nourishing soup: "Your Majesty, take a good rest after drinking the soup. It will take some time to reach Huai'an."
Zhu Yunwen sat up, reached out to take the soup, and asked: "Please go down and boil more soup, and give it to the officials."
Ma Enhui smiled: "The emperor is still considerate of them. After all, they worked hard in the salt field."
Zhu Yunwen blew the soup and said softly: "No, I'm worried that they won't be able to bear it..."
"ah."
Ma Enhui and Concubine Xian looked surprised. Do they still need to endure hardship when their relationship reaches Huai'an?
Zhu Yunwen said to Ma Enhui and Concubine Xian: "After the fleet arrives in Huai'an, the carriage will be temporarily placed in Huai'an. Concubine Xian will go home to visit relatives first, and I will arrive in Wuhe a few days later."
"Where is the emperor going again?"
Ma Enhui asked.
Zhu Yunwen didn't speak, he just tasted the soup quietly.
Concubine Xian rolled her eyes slightly and said to Ma Enhui, "The emperor has his own arrangements. I might as well go to Wuhe first."
It is less than two hundred miles from Gaoyou to Huai'an, and it only takes a little more than one night to travel slowly against the water by water.
Zhu Yunwen did not summon the Huai'an officials. The local officials continued to do whatever they were supposed to do. After the fleet and carriages entered Huai'an, they settled in the house that the Security Bureau had bought long ago. Most of the officials, retinues, and honor guards rested there, and nothing happened. But the main personnel and officials have a lot to do.
For example, Zhu Di and Xu Huizu were arranged by Zhu Yunwen to inspect Dahe Guard to see if there were any problems in the guard house. Xie Jin and Yu Xin were assigned to the Huai'an Prefecture's Yamen to handle and review the backlog of cases. At the same time, they advertised the people's revenge. No, there were To redress the grievance...
Zhu Yunwen took Xia Yuanji, Yang Shiqi, Ru Yu and others to Qingjiang in order to inspect the Qingjiang Shipyard here.
In the second year of Jianwen's reign, Zhu Yunwen made a grand strategy and established the Qingjiang Shipyard. The shipyard mainly built water transport and maritime grain ships. Two years have passed. How the Qingjiang Shipyard is being built and whether it can support the ships needed for water transportation in the future are all major events that Zhu Yunwen is concerned about.
According to estimates by Song Li and the Ministry of Industry, the Huitong River dredging project is expected to be completed in the spring and summer of the fifth year of Jianwen. Compared with the initial four-year construction period, it will be half a year or even eight months ahead of schedule. This is related to performance construction and the management of the imperial court. It is related to the system and also to Shanxi’s large-scale immigration.
In any case, after the Grand Canal is unimpeded, the pressure on food supply around Peiping will disappear, and the plan to move the capital can also be discussed out of imagination. Of course, there is a premise for all this:
The imperial court must have water transport ships.
Thanks to the contribution of classmate Chen Youliang, Zhu Yuanzhang owned a lot of river boats, but after all, those boats had been damaged by decades of wind and rain. In the middle and late period of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang considered the need to transport grain northward, and the Grand Canal was blocked, so he could only choose to build sea-going ships. Longjiang Shipyard and other shipyards in various places mostly built sea-going ships, supplemented by river ships.
After Zhu Yunwen came to the throne, he shifted his focus to sea-going ships, especially Dafu ships, treasure ships and Dabao ships. Now 90% of the production capacity of Longjiang Shipyard is given to sea-going ship manufacturing. There is really no such thing as river ships. Energy care.
In the private sector, influenced by Zhu Yunwen's policies such as lifting the ban on the sea and reopening the municipal shipping department, in order to meet the needs of merchants going to sea, private shipyards mostly focused on sea-going ships, resulting in fewer and fewer river ships.
Looking at the Yangtze River now, many river boats were manufactured two years ago. The number of new river boats is so small that when there was waterlogging in Taihu Lake in Suzhou, the most used ones by the court were sea boats, followed by river boats, flat boats, Bamboo raft...
Hongjiang has gathered a large number of merchants. In order to transport goods, the merchants have recruited a large number of river boats. However, most of the river boats are small. Even the large river boats that can be used are less than fifty. Compared with the navy and merchant ships that sailed to the Southeast Asia, they are simply useless. It's so shabby.
However, if the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is to transport grain northward, it is not feasible to rely on sea ships.
Although sea boats and river boats are both made of wood, under special circumstances, you can even use river boats to travel along the coast and sea boats to travel on large rivers. But river boats cannot travel to the sea, and sea boats cannot swim in small rivers.
The bottom of seagoing ships is usually designed in a "V" shape to ensure draft depth, resist wind and waves, and accommodate limited cargo. River boats mostly have flat bottoms to accommodate more cargo. Sea ships are usually larger, but river ships cannot be too big. The river is only so wide. If the river ship is too big, once it runs aground and blocks the way, how can the brothers behind get past...
In order to move the capital, water transportation must be guaranteed.
In order to ensure water transportation, a large number of river boats are necessary.
Qingjiang Shipyard is responsible for providing canal ships.
The scale of Qingjiang Shipyard exceeds many people's imagination. It is not a large shipyard similar to Longjiang Shipyard, but a very large shipyard. It is only twenty-three miles long and has jurisdiction over Jingwei, Weihe, and Zhongdu. , four large shipyards in Zhili.
In fact, building a very large shipyard is not something that can be done in a year or two at all, it will take at least five years. But it only took Zhu Yunwen two years for the Qingjiang Shipyard to begin to take shape and enter the shipbuilding stage. Ultimately, we still need to thank his grandfather Zhu Yuanzhang.
As early as the seventh year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered to build four shipyards in Hexia, Shengxiang, Qingkou and Fuxing in Shanyang, which took up to six years. These four shipyards were the predecessors of Qingjiang Shipyard. On this basis, Zhu Yunwen , after two years of renovation and expansion, today's Qingjiang Shipyard was established.
The shipyard is heavily guarded and has a high wall outside. If you want to enter, you need a tooth tag.
However, it was easy for the Security Bureau to bring people in. Zhu Yunwen, Xia Yuanji, Ru Yu and others chatted and laughed all the way and gradually entered the depths of the shipyard.
To the left is the fence, and inside is a large shipyard with as many as five docks. More than two hundred craftsmen are busy, and the sound of hammering can be heard. Taking a closer look, the ships in the three docks were almost completed, and the ships in the remaining two docks were building cabins. There were also large pieces of wood lying not far away, which looked like they should be masts.
Deputy Tiju Sun Rui was inspecting shipbuilding. When he saw Zhu Yunwen and others approaching, he couldn't help but stepped forward and blocked the way: "I'm Deputy Tiju Sun Rui, who are they?"
"Routine inspection by the Security Bureau."
Zhu Yunwen replied.
You cannot use your identity as a businessman here. Businessmen are not qualified to enter the shipyard.
Sun Rui looked at the security bureau's tooth tag. After carefully checking that there was nothing wrong with it, he turned sideways and said, "Please."
Zhu Yunwen asked as he walked: "How many boatmen are there here?"
Sun Rui replied cautiously: "In this shipyard alone, there are 286 shipwrights, and the entire Qingjiang Shipyard has more than 1,700 shipwrights."
Zhu Yunwen nodded slightly.
Although the number of shipwrights is still insufficient at the moment, after all, the time is still short, and the sea ships have taken away many craftsmen, and some apprentices have not yet started their apprenticeships. After a year and a half, this problem will be alleviated.
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"Some people say that setting up a shipyard in Qingjiang and cutting down timber in Huguang, Jiangxi and other places is a waste of national resources and people's power. What do you think?"
Zhu Yunwen asked.
Sun Rui shook his head with some contempt: "That's just shortsightedness."
"Oh, tell me in detail?"
Zhu Yunwen was interested. He knew that many officials in the imperial court opposed the Qingjiang Shipyard. The reason was that the wood harvesting area was too far away from the Qingjiang River. Even if the wood was cut and thrown into the Yangtze River, it would take a lot of time to reach Yangzhou and then transfer it to the Qingjiang River. What's more, civilians are required to escort the entire process, which delays farming time and affects livelihoods.
Regarding this problem, the Ministry of Industry has a very crude way of solving it, just two words:
Add money.
In the Hongwu Year, a lot of wood was cut from Jiangxi, Huguang, Sichuan and Sichuan, and this caused civil unrest. In the final analysis, it was just a waste of work, and it was useless.
The Ministry of Industry considers that cutting wood is a long-term job, and it also requires a certain degree of professionalism. For example, if you need pine, you can't cut willows. If you need fir, you can't cut poplars. The length, thickness, and whether there are any diseases also need to be checked. Among ordinary people, So they were messing around because they just cut down the trees when they came across them. But when they took them to the place, they found that they were not long enough. This house needs beams and columns that are 12 feet long. If you cut them down to 1 feet long, how can they be used?
Adding more money and forming a logging team is the Ministry of Industry's response plan.
But even so, many officials believe that the shipyard should be built in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River instead of going to the Huaihe River. But no matter how much controversy there is, it will not affect the construction of Qingjiang Shipyard. After all, it is their right to speak, and it is Zhu Yunwen's right to make the decision...
