The canal transport thing must be managed. Nowadays, the imperial court has four million stones of grain transported north every year, which is usually only about two million stones, and the rest can only be broken or consumed.

The loss is high, and the burden on the grain peddlers is heavy. The grain peddlers also have to survive! Officials also have to make money! So we work together. The officials will take the food and get the money peddled, and the grain peddlers will also carry it privately, or steal food in the middle of the way, and then report it as loss. When the grain peddlers return to the south, they can still transport a ship of salt back.

How to manage the canal transportation and how to operate the sea transportation in detail, Zhu Youxiao wrote a letter to Yuan Keli and discussed it with Yuan Keli. After all, at this time, Yuan Keli, the governor of Yuan Keli, must have been presided over the change of the canal transportation on the sea route.

Yuan Keli quickly replied to Zhu Youxiao, but did not submit the memorial normally. After all, this was a private discussion between the monarch and the ministers, and the memorial would pass through the cabinet.

"The old minister thinks that sea transportation is very convenient, without the worry of river blockage, nor is it as difficult as river transportation, which can reduce losses and save people's strength. However, river transportation has been maintained for many years, and it may cause trouble in a short time. The strategy of parallel rivers and seas should be adopted first. If this year, four million stones of grain transport are transported, Your Majesty can cut half of the share of river transportation and transport it on the sea route. From the Huai River to the sea, the risk is the lowest. If next year, three million stones of grain can be transported on the sea route, which is more appropriate to decrease year by year."

Seeing this, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but nodded. It was still an old minister like Yuan Keli who had experience! He originally wanted to destroy the river transportation directly, but he did not think too deeply about the interests of the canal transportation.

The loss of canal transportation is indeed large, but it also feeds many people.

Although the grain stewards are burdened, the grain stewards also have gray income, so it can be maintained. This is equivalent to the loss of the country and provides many jobs.

Of course, those corrupt officials don’t need to consider their interests, but the grain managers have to consider it.

Suddenly, Heyun was abolished, and some professional Caotei were unemployed?

Yuan Keli's suggestion is indeed very reasonable. Anyway, the quota of grain transport in Heheli is only 4 million s, which is a little reduced every year, leaving a buffer time for the grain managers to transfer business and other things. There will be no chaos.

When the river transportation no longer transports grain, those officials and merchants will do whatever they want to do, and want to take the country's sailboat. Let's have a dream of spring and autumn!

By then, the grain peddlers will not get grain, but it will affect their income. However, the country does not need them to bear the freight, which will also reduce the burden.

By then, the Grand Canal and other rivers will be converted into civilian use, and these grain workers will still have jobs. By then, the country will not have food transported through the river, and no one can dig the corners of the country. As for where the rivers are blocked, the imperial court will not need to spend money to clear them. At most, most of the river transportation will be abolished in five or six years.

By then, all the canal transportation will go to sea and land. There is no need to make trouble on the sea, and there is no place to buy the food on the ship. As long as there is no shipwreck, there will be basically no loss. Merchants will not want to use the canal transportation to carry private goods.

Yuan Keli continued to write in the letter: "When sea ships are used, large ships should be used. They are not afraid of ordinary wind and waves, and they will not easily drown soldiers. In addition, large ships of three thousand materials can transport 6,500 stones of grain at a time, and the speed is faster than small ships, so there are fewer ships required. If they enter the sea from the Huai River, they can transport grains to Tianjin and other places within one month. Every year, the court will not have to bear the losses of grain transportation, and can transport more grain from the south. It can be said that they can win more than one shot, and only benefit the country and the people."

Zhu Youxiao understood that the convenience of this shipping is actually known to everyone. It’s just that shipping cannot dig out the country’s fences, so those officials and workers all suggested developing the shipping industry.

What development can arise if the river transportation is dead? Sea transportation is the most promising transportation method these days!

It should be known that scientific experiments have shown that every time a ship's displacement increases by 2 times, the required propulsion force is only 1.5 times. Therefore, the larger the ship is, the smaller the space of the power unit can occupy, and the less fuel can be carried, thus making more space for storing goods.

These days, ships only use sails, although they do not use fuel, but it is the same reason. Because large ships can use larger sails. Sailing ships of the same type can have faster speeds as long as the displacement is larger.

Moreover, the larger the ship, the stronger the ability to resist wind and waves.

With a specific plan, Zhu Youxiao directly ordered Li Chaoqing to draft an order.

"I passed on my decree and ordered the Governor of Denglai, Yuan Keli, to preside over the launch of sea grain transportation, and the fixed quota of river grain transportation was reduced to two million stones, and the reduced 2 million stone grain was all from the Huai River to the sea."

The Huai River enters the sea because there are islands to shelter the wind, so the boat is much safer. If it is a large ship of 1,000 tons, it doesn’t matter. You can go directly to the sea from Songjiang Prefecture.

Of course, large ships are expensive.

Small boats are relatively cheap and have a short manufacturing cycle. The Ming Dynasty was a country with very developed water transportation. There were ships everywhere in the south, but there were not too many large-tonnage ships.

After the imperial edict, the Donglin Party immediately started to make trouble.

At this time, the Qi, Chu, Zhejiang Propaganda Party had been expelled from the court by the Donglin Party, and the profits of the canal transportation were their pockets. Suddenly the emperor did not engage in river transportation and went to sea transportation. Wouldn't this cooked ducks fly? Will they still run to the sea to rush?

This is obviously impossible.

When transporting grain by sea, there is no need to stop the ship in the middle. It is not like river transportation. If this river is replaced by that river, there will be a period of land in the middle. At this time, the peddlers will sell the grain, and the merchants will stuff private goods in for the peddlers to carry it. The freight is paid by the state.

As a result, a strange situation was formed. The court asked the grain tutors to pay the freight fees. The grain tutors sold part of the grain tutors of the court and reported it as a loss, and brought the merchants' private goods with them. As a result, the cost was still paid by the court. These grain tutors were actually grain households, and they could participate in the transportation without paying land tax, but the cost was several times higher than land tax.

In addition to ships transporting grain, the merchants also have many ships in their hands, transporting goods directly to the north. The cost of river transportation is lower than that of land transportation, which is still very cost-effective.

The canal was built by the court, and if these merchants wanted to walk the canal, they naturally had to pay tolls. The governor of the canal in the capital transportation department has always been a rich position.

Under the command of the boss, the Donglin Party’s mascots reported to the emperor one after another.

There are many strange reasons, such as postponement, drift, casualties, and casualties. In short, it is a complete denial of sea transportation, and at the same time, it is never mentioned the various disadvantages of river transportation. Especially now, the Ming Dynasty's canal transport has been seriously affected by the Yellow River, and the Central Canal, which has been dug for decades, is still not completed yet.

If this Zhonghuan is to be completed, it will have to invest a lot of manpower and material resources. Yang Guorui originally wanted to suggest that the Royal Bank of China be funded and then set up a card to collect taxes on the canal. However, Zhu Youxiao felt that the cost was too high, so it would be better to use the money for the Zhonghuan to build a cargo ship, which seemed more reliable.

After all, when the Zhongcanal was built, merchants still made it cheap, and it would not be able to repair it without hundreds of thousands of people, which was too laborious.

The cargo ship is built by itself, and you can transport whatever you want. The ocean is so wide that you can go anywhere. If a merchant wants to transport it by sea, he can pay the freight fee first.

Shipping can obviously be monopolized, especially commodity transportation. As for small and medium-sized merchant ships that are fast and flexible in transport, they can allow private capital to develop. However, those large cargo ships that transport commodities have relatively fixed transportation routes and do not require any flexibility. The brainless monopoly will not make the people feel inconvenient. As long as the ship is built large enough to reduce the transportation cost of commodities.

Shipping is very promising, but this is only in the interests of the royal family and obviously does not in the interests of the Donglin Party bosses.

Zhu Youxiao was suddenly annoyed when facing so many memorials opposing the shipping. He has been well educated recently and knows what kind of nature of the Donglin Party is, so he usually doesn't need to get angry with the Donglin Party.

However, this time, the Donglin Party had been competing for a long time, and the matter of cutting the quota for river grain transport was delayed and it was delayed for nearly a week. During this period, Zhu Youzhai ordered the Ministry of Revenue to supervise the matter for several times, and then the decree was implemented.

The government orders were gone, but Zhu Youxiao was so angry that he wanted to directly chop off the Ministry of Revenue to the head of the department. So he came to Wei Zhongxian and asked, "How are the officials of Qi, Chu, Zhejiang and Propaganda Party contacting?"

Wei Zhongxian reported happily: "Your Majesty, you have already recruited many Qi, Chu, Zhejiang Propaganda Party officials during this period, with more than 40 people."

"More than forty people, well! It's barely enough." Zhu Youxiao touched his chin and thought. The more than forty people were scattered to the six ministries and the cabinet, which looked similar. He retained some of the Donglin Party and some non-party officials, and the imperial court's structure could still be built.

Of course, there are so many scholars in the world, no one who can become an official will be worse than the Donglin Party who spends money all day without doing anything. However, Zhu Youxiao has to play according to the rules to a certain extent. At least one official must be a scholar, not to be a scholar who wants to be a scholar.

After looking at Wei Zhongxian, Zhu Youxiao waved: "You go back first! Continue to gather some people, I will be useful at any time."

"Yes, the emperor." Wei Zhongxian saw that Zhu Youxiao was still sitting there thinking about the problem. During this period, Wei Zhongxian could no longer understand the emperor's thoughts, nor did he know what the emperor was thinking.

Fortunately, I know what the emperor's goal is.

Zhu Youxiao's mind was indeed a bit complicated. At this time, he was holding a bunch of evidence of the Donglin Party in his hand, and also won over a group of Qi, Chu, Zhejiang Propaganda Party mascots.

This time, the Donglin Party made Zhu Youxiao very annoyed about the issue of canal transportation, and the long-standing depression was about to burst out.

"Are you killed it in one pot or killed it in batches?" Zhu Youxiao thought about this troublesome issue with a headache. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!