Lord of the House

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On March 16th, Ge Cunxin, Zhou Pu and others led the fleet back to Jinhai. When they left, there were two five thousand stone ships and six thousand stone ships; the fleet at this time included three five thousand stone giant ships and ten thousand stone giant ships. In the eyes of the Jinhai people who are used to seeing two-masted ships with a capacity of three to five hundred stone these days, the fleet of three-masted and five-masted sea-going ships led by Ge Cunxin and Zhou Pu is undoubtedly the most spectacular. , all flocked to the sea pond to watch, as if it was a rare sight.

"This is the Lin family's fleet!" Tang Haoxin stood on the seawall, looking at the fleet of boats moored on the shore, Baibeard jumped excitedly, and then calculated with his fingers, asked in surprise, "Leaving on the 16th Jinhai returns to Chongzhou, a round trip of more than 6,000 miles, including the time for unloading and loading, it doesn't take a month to travel?"

"Seriously, it's more than 6,000 miles," Lin Fu said with a smile. "When they returned, they went to the outer sea and made a big circle..."

"Did Heishuiyang go?" Tang Haoxin was stunned for a moment. He never thought that Lin Fu was not thinking of preparing this fleet for a while!

Lin Fu thought that Tang Haoxin still had some insight. Although he had never been in charge of water transportation in the Ministry of Housing, he still knew about the existence of Heishuiyang.

Compared with the last time they left from Chongzhou and walked along the coastline for more than a month and a half to meet in Cangnan, they took only 13 days before and after they took the black water ocean route outside Changshan Island, not three days. a fraction of the time.

In addition to the wind, the boat can also use the 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. The water outside this current is blue; the water within the current is black and blue, like black water. As early as six or seven hundred years ago in the literature, the sea navigators called it the Black Water Ocean...

The origin of the Blackwater Ocean is still unclear to the world. The documents that can be found and the old people with experience in HNA can confirm that at least the southern part of the Liuqiu Island is not the origin of the Blackwater Ocean; Level, the formation of ocean currents can not be explained, but it does not prevent people from taking advantage of the regular flow of the black water ocean very early to sail.

In Lin Fu's mind, Heishuiyang coincides with the warm current of the Yellow Sea he learned in his junior high school geography class, but he can't be very sure, after all, many things he has learned are only vague impressions.

The Yellow Sea is also not called the Yellow Sea in this world. There is a lot of silt in the water from the mouth of the Huaihe River to Chongzhou, and the sea water is yellow. People call this section of the Yellow Sea Huangshuiyang. The sea from the mouth of the Huaihe River to the south of Dengzhou is turquoise, also known as Qingshuiyang.

As early as more than 100 years ago, when the sea was prosperous, two shipping routes were opened up:

One route is the Huangshuiyang Inland Sea Route. Ships heading north follow the tortuous coastline to take advantage of the wind, and the water shoals are silted along the way. They travel fast with the wind, slow against the wind, moor when there is no wind, and the speed of the boat is slow.

The direction of the monsoon is unstable in March, and it is not surprising to take this route from Chongzhou to Jinhai for two months.

The other route is the Heishuiyang Outer Sea Route, which goes out from Chongzhou and goes directly east into the Blackwater Ocean in the outer seas, using the powerful driving force of ocean currents to head north. After the Heishuiyang enters the Bohai Sea, it moves northward along the west bank of the Liaodong Peninsula, and the coastline that reaches the northernmost side of the Bohai Sea is blocked and then turns around.

Heishuiyang sea road, especially before entering the Bohai Sea, is in the outer sea area of ​​Huangshuiyang, with strong wind and waves. Small and medium-sized sea-going ships with poor wind and wave resistance and low structural strength are more dangerous to travel on the black water and ocean routes. A slightly larger wind and wave may cause the ship to disintegrate, damage the cargo and kill people.

Except when the sea was prospering a hundred years ago, there was a large-scale fleet of ships going north on the Heishuiyang sea route, and there were very few seagoing ships that went to the Heishuiyang after that.

In addition to the greater risk of taking the black water and ocean, the main reason is that after the rise of inland waterway transportation, the trade demand between the north and the south through sea routes has been greatly weakened, and large maritime merchant ships lacked room for survival. On the other hand, short-distance sea trade along the coast is in the ascendant, such as the coast of Hejianfu, the coast of Shandong Peninsula, the mouth of the Huaihe River to Chongzhou, and the mouth of Chongzhou to the Qianjiang River. This short-distance shipping demand does not need to take the black water ocean route.

Except for some sea merchants, ship owners, and old boat people who have seen the world, most of the current sea merchants and ship owners don't even know the existence of the black water ocean route.

The drawbacks of inland water transportation need not be repeated, especially in the doomsday season, when the water management is chaotic and the contradictions are more prominent. When he first established his foothold in Prison Island, Gu Wuchen was in charge of the water transportation of Jiangdong County, and Lin Fu was thinking about the issue of sea water. I have not had much contact with Li Zhuo, and I have also talked about this issue. However, it is hard to get rid of the accumulated abuses, especially the hundreds of thousands of people who count on the inland waterway transportation to eat, get promoted, and make a fortune, and want to give up the inland waterway transportation and go to the sea waterway.

At present, the inland river canal channel is damaged and the water transportation is blocked, and the imperial court is forced to open the sea waterway, but in the eyes of most officials, this is only a stopgap measure. Get on the right track as they think they are.

Lin Bie spared no expense and spent two or three times the cost to build a fast and large sea-going ship with a strong structure, just to sail into the outer seas.

Last time, Ge Cunxin led the fleet to the north to cooperate, and was not in a hurry. Besides, it was the first time the fleet went to sea on a large scale, so he chose the slightly more secure Huangshuiyang offshore route. This time, when there was a grain shortage in Beijing and Jinhai raised grain, Lin Fu only thought that the transportation capacity of Jinhai was insufficient in the short term. Besides, the fleet had two more voyages. This time, Ge Cunxin recruited some boatmen with experience in the black water and ocean routes. , then tried to make the fleet go northward in the shallow cabins of the black water ocean.

In the season when the north wind or northwest wind prevails, the best sea route to transport grain from Dengzhou to Jinhai is not from the north bank of Shandong Peninsula to Hejianfu, and then from the east bank of Hejianfu to Jinhai. It is difficult to borrow the wind, and the speed is very slow. The best route is to borrow the circular ocean current formed by the branch of the black water flow into the Bohai Bay, and close to the west coast of the Liaodong land occupied by the eastern invaders to transport food in a large circle to the Jinhai Sea. Although it seems that the voyage is doubled, the time is saved. More than half.

Since the Bohai Sea is surrounded by Liaodong and Shandong, the Bohai Sea circulation is an offshore route, and the wind and waves are still ideal. It is easy for a brig of three to five hundred stones to travel, but one third of the grain fleet is in the whole process. The voyage will be close to the Liaodong land occupied by the Donglu.

Although the Eastern Captives had almost no water camp strength, even a small group of captive soldiers used small shuttle boats to attack the sea from the mouth of the inland river, and no merchant ships carrying grain could resist. Before that, one was to ask the Dengzhou Navy to send troops to **** them, and the other was to organize the ship Dongyang, which he had left in Jinhai, with the grain-carrying ships, and a sentinel of **** soldiers went in to **** him. .

At least in the water battle, the Jiangdong Zuoying at this time has an absolute advantage. There is a lion-like warship in the grain fleet, and even prisoners who can't tell their direction at sea and can't stand firm on the deck, that kind of shuttle boat that is too crowded to ride in three or five times. The waves that caused the Dongyang to overturn, even if the number of captives rushed into the sea from the mouth of the river, they were only as fragile as babies. Lin Tie's new formation method in Jiangdong Zuoying, with five pawns as the basic battle group, is especially suitable for such a very small battlefield of the nature of the ship.

On the first escort, he made several beautiful counterattacks, with more than 30 owl heads, and even the accompanying maritime merchants and shipowners were eager to try. The official price of a raw barbarian head is to exchange twenty taels of silver. If you don’t change the silver, you can accumulate ten raw barbarian heads to exchange for a scholar’s ​​rank. From then on, you will be an official. For maritime merchants and shipowners, the temptation is even greater. big.

Tang Haoxin was worried about the insufficient capacity of the Jinhai Sea, but he did not expect that the total capacity of the ships that gathered in the Jinhai Sea was only more than 20,000 stone. There are 36,000 shi of grain. At this time, there was a fly report from Denglai. Shandong coastal merchants and ship owners all knew that Jiangdong Zuoying purchased grain at high prices in Jinhai. Every day, sea ships flocked to Denglai to buy grain. The transport capacity can exceed 80,000 stone.

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This price is far higher than other areas in Shandong and the farther Jianghuai area. It also attracts a large number of grain merchants to concentrate grains in the Denglai area from land or Shandong inland rivers, which greatly makes up for the shortage of Shandong's inland water transportation capacity.

Tang Haoxin really understood the beauty of setting up a grain price gradient. Regardless of the organizational power of the government, it took three to five months to fold the 300,000 grains that were scattered on the way to Jinan to Jinhai for delivery. time will not be possible. It's just that the food shortage crisis in Gyeonggi can't be dragged on for three to five months.

Of course, there are also grain merchants who have the idea of ​​hoarding grain. The newly appointed ministers and inspectors in Shandong have all come to Denglai to supervise grain, and they all know that Gyeonggi is really in chaos due to the grain shortage, and their heads will be chopped off. Killing the grain hoarding merchant in Denglai and inspecting the grain store will not be soft-hearted.

The key is that by mid-March, follow-up grain will enter Denglai one after another, otherwise there will be no grain to buy when the sea ships arrive at Denglai. The food shipped by the merchants reluctantly took over the supply chain.

Seeing the Jiyun Society's fleet returning to Jinhai, Tang Haoxin's heart that has been suspended due to the food shortage in Gyeonggi only fell back half. With the Jiyun Society's fleet, the transport capacity that Jinhai can mobilize at one time is more than 100,000 stone. With the **** of boats, around the coastal waters of Liaodong, it is said that they can go back and forth twice a month. Before mid-April, it is not difficult for Jinhai Warehouse to complete the goal of 300,000 shi of grain storage.

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