Lin Xuwen said that he wanted to write a letter to speak out, and Lin Fu shook his head. If he could let his temper go, he would have wanted to catch Yue Lengqiu and slap him twice before talking about it, but to directly open up the conflict, he would have to face the current precarious situation.
what is the benefit?
The Dai Viet Dynasty was a ship riddled with holes. If the ship sank at this time, the people most likely to benefit would not be others, but the Donglu who had destroyed Yannan, Lubei and other places beyond recognition.
"I have asked Lin Mengde to secretly go to Beijing to find Duke Tang," Lin Fu said. "Gong Tang should make a decision on how to arrange it in the court. The most important thing now is not whether we can take it back, but how the food shortage in the capital will be."
Solved! If the problem of food shortage is solved, the crisis of the special purpose of supervising food will naturally not become a crisis."
"It's not just the problem of the canal being impassable," Lin Xuwen, who has been working in the Ministry of Industry for a long time and is very good at water conservancy, analyzed, "the rivers in Pingyuan Prefecture are silted up, and the weather is getting warmer, and the resulting disaster is extremely difficult to control.
.The water discharged by the Yellow River and the rivers flowing down from the Taihang Mountains cannot flow eastward back to the sea smoothly. The land is marshy and the roads are bound to be impassable. One of the ways that can be thought of at the moment is to transport grain from central Shanxi and take the Taihang Mountains Tunnel.
No matter how high the cost, we cannot let the capital run out of food; the second is to transport grain from Shandong to Beijing by sea; the second is to move the garrison to coastal areas where food is easy to obtain as much as possible to relieve the pressure on the capital's food supply..."
"Eldest brother is really a capable minister in the world. I came to see him just to hear these three strategies. I was confused and confused before, but now it suddenly becomes clear..." Lin Fu said, "Eldest brother wrote to the central government to speak out.
There is no need to supervise the shortcomings of the special grain edict. Whoever wants to poke the lid on this cover, let them cover it up. We only do what we think is right. Please ask the central government to adjust grain from Jinzhong and temporarily open the sea.
The eldest brother can write a letter and speak out about these three policies: moving the canal and garrison to places with ports along the coast to eat. If the court adopts these three policies, it will also be beneficial to the eldest brother; if they do not adopt these three policies, there will be no harm to the eldest brother..."
Lin Xuwen naturally didn't believe that Lin Fu came here with a bruised nose and a swollen face on the snowy night without any mature thoughts. However, after listening to Lin Fu's analysis, speaking out and offering solutions is a huge difference between the good and bad methods of uncovering the cover and offending others.
, Lin Fu is mature politically.
"Okay, I'll draft the memorial immediately. Lao Qi, you are here, and you can serve as my adviser." Lin Xuwen said.
"Then I will reluctantly serve as a consultant to my eldest brother..." Lin Fu said with a smile.
Lin Fu paid great attention to being very polite and respectful to Lin Xuwen in his words and deeds. Although Lin Tingxun appointed his youngest son as the leader of the Lin clan before his death, the ten-year-old son could not take charge of the affairs at all. The eldest son of the Lin clan, Lin Xuwen, was the one who took charge of world affairs.
In the midst of troubled times, the unity and stability of the clan are more important than anything else. I think Lin Xuwen also understands this truth.
Lin Fu added: "Actually, apart from the three strategies mentioned by the eldest brother, there is no other better way to solve the grain shortage in the capital. Time is really tight, and the grain reserves in the capital may only last until mid-April. We have to work hard every hour.
We must not wait until a decision is reached in Beijing before we take action. If we wait for one day, I don’t know how many people will starve to death in Gyeonggi. At the moment, the water in the whirlpool is not very strong. I think we should immediately organize people to cut off the river and widen the river to make it passable.
Weihe River, improving the navigation conditions from Wukou to Gyeonggi, this will be the biggest bottleneck of the sea-cao line... In addition, a large granary should be built immediately at Wukou to prepare for storing grain. The grain and grass transported by sea will be stored in Wukou, as long as the Tianjin Sea
There is enough food and grass in stock, and it is only more than 200 miles away from Gyeongsang Province. It is much easier to transport it to Gyeongsang Province by land by changing boats or carriages and horses..."
"That's it!" Lin Xuwen knew that this was not a memorial to solve the problem, but to ask him to stop all other things at hand and concentrate all the resources that Hejian Mansion could mobilize on widening the Guoshui River and building a grain transportation post road.
, here are three things to do about building large grain storage warehouses.
Of course, there are political risks in making such a decision. Similarly, to do big things, you must have the courage to make decisions. Lin Xuneng rose to prominence in Jianghuai, Lubei, and Yannan at a young age, and his courage to make decisions is far from outstanding.
People of the same age can reach it. Lin Xuwen pondered for a moment and said: "Okay, prepare the memorial, and I will return to Jinhai with you..."
The grain shortage in Gyeonggi is not just a shortage of 10,000 stone or 20,000 stone of grain, but a shortage of millions of stone.
Gyeonggi Province is responsible for solving the food problem of 100,000 frontier troops in Xuanhua and Jibei towns, 80,000 forbidden defenders and 30,000 to 40,000 army horses. To maintain such a large army, one year's military food plus transportation losses will be enough.
More than three million stone grains are needed.
The Yanji Plain is an important grain-producing area. In the past, when the capital needed grain, the five prefectures in southern Yan and northern Shandong could handle part of it. This year, not only can we not expect to transfer grain from the five prefectures in southern Yan and northern Shandong, we also need to transfer a large amount of grain to the two regions.
Three million refugees. Each addition and subtraction makes Gyeonggi's food shortage worse and adds fuel to the fire.
Lin Fu still doesn't know how serious the grain shortage is in Gyeonggi, but even in the years when grain transportation is at its lowest, Gyeonggi has to transfer about three million shi of grain from other counties. At present, all grain from other counties is blocked in Yannan.
Nan, at the lowest estimate, we need to transfer 3 million shi of grain this year to tide over the food shortage crisis.
Based on a carriage carrying ten stones, three million grains require 300,000 carts, 600,000 mules and horses, and 300,000 drivers to transport them. Such huge carriages line up in a long line and walk on the post road.
There will be a long queue of about five to six thousand miles in length.
Based on an inland river boat with a capacity of 200 shi, three million grains would require 15,000 boats, 30,000 to 60,000 boatmen, and perhaps hundreds of thousands of additional trackers, lining up on the canal.
, there was a long queue nearly a thousand miles in length.
Water transportation is probably the most spectacular project carried out every year by the Dai Viet Dynasty.
Major crises are always caused by the concentration of multiple factors.
Lin Fu and Lin Xuwen did not return to Jinhai directly from Hejian County, but took a carriage north to Weitai.
The Guoshui River connects with the Wei River here.
The Wei River is the core waterway for inland water transport in the Yannan and Gyeonggi sections. It diverts water from the middle section of the Taihang Mountains and is between 150 and 200 paces wide. Lin Fu rushed to Weitai and saw that both sides of the Wei River were Shibazi embankments.
, planted with willows, and there are spacious official roads leading to Gyeongsang Province on both sides. Since it is some distance from Pingyuan Prefecture, it is not obvious from here that the Wei River has been seriously affected by the Yellow River burst disaster.
The navigation conditions of the Wei River from Wei Tai to the north are excellent, and Qianshi grain ships can pass directly without any problems.
The key point is that the Guoshui River is a big bottleneck and its navigation conditions are very poor.
Lin Fu and Lin Xuwen didn't stay long at the Weitai and headed east along the Wushui River. They just wanted to take a walk and gain first-hand information on the navigation conditions of the Wushui River.
Judging from historical records and local chronicles, the Wuokou of Jinhai Sea was the most important transit port when the sea was opened. The newly excavated Wuoshui River at that time was almost more than 60 paces wide, and the water depth was more than one foot all year round.
, there are willow berms planted on both sides of the river embankment. Large sea-going ships transport grain to the port of Jinhai for transfer, and inland river ships with a load of three to four hundred stone take the Wishui River and transfer to the Wei River to enter the capital. When it was most prosperous, the boat boats
Connected, it can almost cover the entire Wushui River and Wokou Port. There is no pressure at all to transport four to five hundred tons of grain a year. After all, the river section is short, only fifty or sixty miles.
It is a pity that Haicao was abolished due to various reasons after only five years of construction. More than a hundred years have passed.
Without the involvement of the government to maintain and regulate the river channel for many years, the Guoshui River, which diverts water from the Wei River, becomes shallower year by year. There were also several floods that broke the embankments, and the damage to the river embankments was even more serious.
Nowadays, not to mention giant ships with a thousand-stone load, even medium-sized inland river cannons with a load of a hundred stones rarely enter the Wishui River because they are afraid of being shallow.
The depth of the Wushui River channel is the most important manifestation of the inland river transfer conditions, which naturally determines the prosperity of Wokou as a transit seaport. Today, Wokou is only one of many small fishing ports and commercial ports along the Bohai Sea, and there is no
Something surprising.
No matter how much grain is accumulated at the mouth of Wushikou, with the navigation conditions of the Wushui River at this time, at most 200,000 shi of grain can be transported to Gyeonggi Province in a year. The cost of traveling by land is too high, and the three prefectures of Yannan have been destroyed.
, and could not find enough mules and horses. But as a last resort, people would have to push wheelbarrows to transport grain to Beijing.
Because they had to consider the river course on the spot, Lin Fu and Lin Xuwen were delayed on the road for two days, and did not return to the mouth of the Jinhai vortex until the evening of the 26th. Lin Mengde had returned from Yanjing, and he was convinced that Lin Fu would return to the mouth of the vortex.
He hurried out of the village to greet Lin Fu and Lin Xuwen and said, "Tang Gong is here. He arrived in the afternoon and is now in the village..."
Lin Fu did not expect that Tang Haoxin would come to Jinhai personally from Beijing, so he and Lin Xuwen hurried into the village to meet Tang Haoxin.
Tang Haoxin is already seventy-one years old, with a white beard and yellow-brown age spots on his face. His eyes are not very good. It is already dark, and pine candles are burning in the hall. Tang Haoxin's eyes are red from the smoke.
I was swollen, and when I was rubbing my eyes, I saw Lin Fu and Lin Xuwen entering the lobby.
This was the first time Tang Haoxin saw Lin Fu. Seeing him like this, and walking side by side with Lin Xuwen, he knew it was him. He said loudly: "Heroes come from young people, heroes come from young people. Wu Chen has such a proud disciple like you. In this life,
No regrets!" He took Lin Fu's arm, looked at him carefully, and said with a smile, "What a good-looking person! He is indeed a rising star of our Chu Party."
"Tang Gong is too complimentary." Lin Fu said with a smile. He went to Hejian County to find Lin Xuwen. He fell several times in the mud and water. The conditions were so bad and there was no change of clothes. He had not washed himself properly in the past three or four days since he left.
He was as dirty as a beggar, and the original color of his clothes and armor could be seen. How could this be called a good appearance? Looking at the river water, Lin Fu felt that his appearance was disgusting.
When the Chu Party gained power, Tang Haoxin was already sixty-nine years old. He recommended his favorite disciple Zhang Xie to serve as deputy prime minister. He only held idle positions such as Prince's Young Master and Wenyuan Pavilion Bachelor.
"No more greetings. This is Chen Jingtang, the director of the Ministry of Industry. I'd like to extend my acquaintance." Tang Haoxin took Lin Fu's arm and walked into the lobby. "Your guess is good. The grain reserves in the capital are about to be exhausted. We will reopen from Tianjin and Hainan.