Chapter 457: The Battle Between Water Transport and Sea Transport

Xu Qing wanted to go back the next day, Fang Xing told him to wait. WwΔW. "Lie Wen. CC

After seeing Fang Xing's energy, Xu Qing wished he could go back and expand the scale immediately, allowing canned food to enter thousands of households.

"Brother Dehua, this thing is very useful in the army, but we have to see what the emperor thinks."

After eating canned food for a day, Zhu Zhanji finally gave an evaluation of this convenience food.

Fang Xing said firmly: "There are often fraudulent purchases in the army, and if they are dispatched, the best meat in the army is only dried meat. How can it compare with canned food!"

"Not only in the army, but those who often go out, if they carry some canned food, they don't need to worry about meat."

Zhu Zhanji relished the taste and agreed: "The key is that the ones made by others don't have this taste!"

Fang Xing thought of instant noodles insidiously. Could it be that instant noodles have the nutrition that they carefully made?

Of course not, instant noodles have a strong taste, which is why they are widely welcomed.

Zhu Di's problem is not big, especially after Zhu Zhanji asked someone to calculate the cost of canned food, he even felt that Fang Xing was hurting his own self.

"Dehua is really dedicated to serving the country."

Xia Yuanji came to find Fang Xing, as a money bag, of course he knew about it.

Fang Xing said with a righteous face: "Lord Xia, Daming is short of money everywhere, as a relative of Fang, who is living with the country, he has to contribute to it no matter what!"

Before Xia Yuanji came, he had calculated Fang Xing's quotation, and he stroked his beard and smiled when he heard this, "If all the relatives are like you, it's just... hey!"

Fang Xing observed his words and saw Xia Yuanji's troubled expression, so he guessed: "Master Xia, is it because of those... the country's Ping Fan?"

Xia Yuanji was taken aback, and hastily denied, "Nothing, nothing."

The so-called screen of the country refers to those vassal kings.

Except for the royal family, the old Zhu's family is pretty good at giving birth. Xia Yuanji, as the number one person in Daming's financial management, has of course seen the disadvantages of the future.

If those vassal kings continue to give birth like this, Xia Yuanji is sure that Daming's finances will be dragged down sooner or later.

But who dares to ask this question?

Xia Yuanji didn't dare, and Fang Xing didn't dare either.

Who dares to propose cutting off the vassal king's territory and salary, it is estimated that even Zhu Di can't withstand the pressure from all sides.

At this moment, both Xia Yuanji and Fang Xing thought of the Tweeting Token.

Fang Xing saw that there was no one outside the door, and said in a deep voice, "Master Xia, what is the basis for the success of the former Han's Tweet Order?"

A trace of surprise flashed in Xia Yuanji's eyes, and he was a little happy to have found a comrade.

He said slowly: "The former Han Dynasty was relying on the prestige of quelling the chaos of the Seven Kingdoms, and the Tweeting Order is just a means of easing it."

Fang Xing nodded in agreement and said: "My Daming is only withdrawing the troops of the feudal lords at this time, and strictly ordered not to leave the fief. As long as the vassal king has no intention of turning back, he will be allowed to toss about in the fief. Lord Xia, there are endless children and grandchildren! "

Thinking of the countless descendants of the Zhu family who will need to be supported by the Ming Dynasty's finances, Xia Yuanji's spine shuddered, and he could only smile wryly: "When I kick my feet, I can't control anything."

"Dehua, you speculate with the grandson, and you should prepare early, and I will be waiting for your good news."

Xia Yuanji didn't dare to talk about this topic again, and quickly slipped away.

Cunning old fellow!

Fang Xing also had a helpless wry smile. The current size of the vassal king is not enough to cause heavy damage to Daming's finances, so mentioning this at this time is courting death.

"It doesn't matter, let's take care of my little family first."

Fang Xing called Xu Qing to discuss whether to produce canned food on a large scale, and then headed north from Taizhou Mansion.

Xu Qing obviously investigated the route, and said with confidence: "Uncle, the waterway transports a lot of traffic and consumes little energy. As long as the government agrees, it's a trivial matter."

Because Taizhou Mansion can only take the sea route first, and then turn to the canal northward, which can almost run through the entire north and south of Ming Dynasty.

This kind of model is good. It can save a lot of distribution costs by unloading goods all the way.

But at present, it is really difficult for Daming's merchant ships to go to sea.

After thinking about it, Fang Xing went to find Zhu Zhanji.

As soon as Zhu Zhanji heard about the sea transportation, he said in embarrassment: "Brother Dehua, the canal will be completed soon, and some people are already talking about abolishing the sea transportation and the land transportation, and changing to the water transportation."

In the north of Ming Dynasty, a large number of troops were hoarded, and the capital would be moved in the future, so many materials could not be self-sufficient, so they needed to be transported from the south.

At present, there are two ways of transportation for this blood transfusion: 6 transportation and sea transportation.

6. It is costly to transport people to eat horse chews, while shipping by sea is risky. Once there is a storm, half of the entire fleet will be considered good.

After Zhu Di's death, Ming's sea ban policy became more and more strict, and in the end, he simply burned the blueprint of the treasure ship.

Burning the blueprints of the treasure ship is not terrible, what is terrible is that the nautical materials and Annan's atlas were also burned, and this move was unanimously praised by the civil service system at the time.

Of course, some people later said that Liu Daxia did not burn these materials, but just hid them when the emperor wanted to obtain them and discuss whether the grand occasion of Zheng He's voyages to the West could be reproduced again.

"Sea freight has natural advantages."

Fang Xing had no choice but to put on a teaching posture again and said: "Going on the canal, regardless of the size of the boat, let's talk about how many people I need to support in order to maintain the smooth flow of the canal."

The canal has to be dredged every year. These costs and manpower are planned by the governments of various places along the coast. After calculation, the cost is much higher than that of sea transportation.

Moreover, the canal also has the function of collecting taxes, setting up cards in various places to collect taxes and fees from passing ships.

"Although shipping is risky, we can't give up completely."

The cost of excavating and dredging the canal is too high. If the water transportation is abandoned, Fang Xing feels that he will be drowned by the saliva of those with vested interests, so he has no choice but to make a roundabout suggestion.

"In the trade wind season, we can take the canal, but in the season with less wind and waves, why do we have to go through all the hard work?"

Zhu Zhanji said awkwardly: "Brother Dehua, Grandpa Huang is going to set up four large warehouses in Huai'an and other places, and the army will directly transfer them by relay."

"Is it all transported by the army?"

Fang Xing felt that this matter was unreliable, unless it was to expand Cao Ding's scale, otherwise it was absolutely impossible.

Zhu Zhanji has also listened to matters related to water transportation recently, so he said with confidence: "If the people transport it, they can be exempted from the tax and grain of the year."

"What if you don't send it?"

"Tax as usual."

Fang Xing sighed in his heart, this is a multiple-choice question for farmers to choose between two!

Once farmers participate in grain transportation, the crops of that year are all wasted, so they are exempt from tax.

But even if it is tax-free, what do those farmers eat?

"It's true that shipping can't be restored?"

Fang Xing asked with the last hope, he hoped that Daming would not stay away from the ocean, even if there was a risk, but isn't Zheng He's fleet floating overseas all year round?

Zhu Zhanji knew that Fang Xing had always valued the interests of the sea, but once Zhu Di's actions were settled, no one could shake his will.

Seeing Zhu Zhanji's embarrassed look, Fang Xing resisted the urge to pound the table, and said with a livid face, "The canal is very important as a north-south passage, but it is so important that it abolishes sea transportation. I think this is a short-sighted decision!"

After Zhu Di left, during the period from the Ming Dynasty to the Longqing period, the ban on the sea became more and more severe. From the short Zhu Gaochi era to Zhu Zhanji's policies after he took the throne is the end of all this.