Hearing the great achievements of his ancestors, Chen Wangmo couldn't help but straighten his chest and said with a heavy emphasis: "Yes, my ancestors dug Qingjiangpu, so that the canal ships could reach the Yellow River. Since then, the canal transport costs have been greatly saved. Because of the dangerous sea storms and ships are often damaged, they asked to stop shipping. The ancestors have long proved that shipping is not as good as shipping, but now those people are trying to do things in a rebellious way, which is really a pity!"

"Since sea transportation is our own management, then we are coming here now, won't everything be settled?" The officials of the canal transport were immediately excited. Whether it is water transportation or sea transportation, as long as it is in their hands, it is good luck.

"It's not appropriate, we prefectures and counties cannot move to the beach." The local officials along the river were unhappy when they heard this. Although everyone shared the same hatred for the enemy, their interests were not always completely consistent. No matter who took care of the shipping, the harm to them was the same.

"This is just a temporary solution. When the canal is repaired, it will still be transported." The officials of the canal advised.

"It's not right, the canal transportation yamen has always said that the risk of shipping is too high, but now he suddenly said it is feasible. Wouldn't it be a slap in the face?" Local officials are not as easy to coax as a three-year-old child, and it is still understandable that it is difficult to collect water. If the canal transportation yamen is also managed, with the current urinary nature of the canal transportation, I really can't tell who is the child or who is raised by the stepmother in the future.

Seeing that the two gangs were about to start arguing by themselves, Zhenyuan Hou slapped the table and asked the idiots to shut up. Then he asked Song Xiaoming: "Shopkeeper Song, tell me, will we snatch the shipping?"

"Return to the Marquis, in my humble opinion, we cannot let someone lead the nose." Song Xiaoming replied calmly: "Although we still have thousands of boats and tens of thousands of sailors, it is completely different to drive boats in the canal and follow the ocean boats."

"Well..." Gu Huan nodded, agreeing. There was no wind or wave on the canal, and the canal did not require navigation. Just walk along the only river channel.

But when sailing on the vast sea requires technology, experience and courage. All these are not available.

"Why can't we do it?" The people from the Cao Transportation Office muttered dissatisfied.

"The Jiangnan Group can do it because they first collected the Sand Boat Gang. The wind and waves on the Yangtze River are second only to the sea surface, and the Sand Boat Gang often moves along the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Their ships and sailors themselves have the conditions for sea transportation." Song Xiaoming said in a deep voice without changing his face: "We will not meet the sea transportation conditions in a short period of time."

After a pause, he changed his tone and said in a deep voice: "And there is no need for us to take the evil path of ocean shipping. It is very unwise to use our own shortcomings to attack our strengths."

"Na Rentou, what do you mean?" Gu Huan nodded and asked.

"In order to take the initiative into our own hands, we should propose our own alternative." Only the shopkeeper Song Da said in a deep voice: "We can propose to reopen Jiaolai River!"

"Reopen the Jiaolai River?" Everyone in the hall couldn't help looking at each other, thinking that what's the bad idea?

Everyone here is a glutinous rice for the canal transport, so they are naturally familiar with topics about canal transport. For example, the Jiaolai River discussion is much more popular than the "sea transport discussion". Almost every time the canal is in trouble, someone mentions this. From this, it can be seen that in the alternative to canal, the Jiaolai River ranking is higher than that of the sea transport.

Jiaolai River was originally an artificial canal that was excavated by the Yuan Dynasty to avoid fleets traveling around the Shandong Peninsula during the sea transportation of grain in the Yuan Dynasty, connecting Jiaozhou Bay and Laizhou Bay.

The canal is 200 miles long, which can save 800 miles of sea routes and avoid the wind and waves on the sea. It sounds very good. So Kublai Khan conscripted tens of thousands of people and spent two years digging through this beautiful canal.

However, after navigation, it was found that the canal was too defective. The middle of the Shandong Peninsula was high and low on both sides, which caused the Jiaolai River to flow north and south. Therefore, the canal originally planned to flow abundant sea water was still a Danshui River with insufficient water.

Therefore, the Jiaolai River is easy to silt and difficult to pass through large ships. The ships transported by sea must be replaced with small boats in Jiaozhou Bay to pass through the canal. Not only is it very troublesome, the losses are also amazing.

In addition, at that time, sea transportation opened up a safer and faster ocean channel, avoiding the coastal areas far away, making the Jiaolai River completely a decoration, so Kublai Khan quickly issued an order to "stop the Jiaolai Maritime Transportation".

But the monarchs and ministers of the Ming Dynasty were always obsessed with this Jiaolai River.

Not to mention the distance, in the 14th year of Jiajing, in order to reduce the pressure on the canal transportation, the court recruited civilians and reopened the already silted Jiaolai Canal, and diverted the river water into the canal to increase the water flow. It also imitated the Grand Canal and built nine major sluice gates to adjust the water level of the river.

Now, we finally passed through the Jiaolai Canal without changing the big boat. The court was extremely happy, and all the officials who proposed and constructed were rewarded.

But the following year, the Jiaolai River was silted again. The culprit this time was the sea tide. At high tide, the sea water carried a large amount of mud and sand poured in from the estuary. At low tide, the sea water left mud and sand retreated alone. The siltation speed was so fast that it was not time to silt at all...

Such a canal full of illness is simply an A Dou who cannot be helped, but Song Xiaoming used it as a magic weapon to fight against sea transportation, so it is naturally difficult for everyone to convince.

Faced with everyone's questioning gaze, Song Xiaoming said calmly: "I know that Jiaolai River is not worthy of use, and it is barely opened and will soon be blocked."

"Not bad." Everyone nodded and thought to themselves, "You know what else to say?"

"But for us, this Jiaolai River is wonderful." Song Xiaoming picked up the teacup, gently slid the floating mo, and said leisurely:

"First of all, it's wonderful, it can only last for one or two years."

"Yes!" The participants who were a little more active had already understood what the manager Song Da said. "Don't we need such a short-term replacement?"

Those local officials have no objection now. If the Jiaolai River temporarily uses the canal for transportation, the canal will be repaired in the future, and the canal will definitely return to their place. Otherwise, the surge in costs will make the transportation yamen bankrupt.

"Secondly, if the imperial court adopted our Jiaolai shipping plan, the shipping .asxs. would not be Suzhou Taicang, but Huai'an. This would cause the least damage to the current situation, and most importantly, it would keep the Jiangnan water crabs out and prevent them from interfering in the canal transportation." The shopkeeper Song took a sip of tea and continued.

"Miscellaneous, wonderful!" Everyone gave a thumbs up, saying that the dominance of the canal transportation cannot be left behind, this is the fundamental principle.

"Third, Jiaolai sea transportation route is less than 600 miles from Huai'an to enter Jiaozhou Bay, and they are all near the coast. It is much less difficult to sail, so our cabins are also easier to get started." Song Xiaoming put down the teacup and said slowly: "To sum up, I suggest that the Governor's Office and the General Office jointly write a letter to reopen the Jiaolai River. I wonder what the Marquis and you guys think?"

"support!"

"No objection!"

"Very great agreement!" The people who were still panicked just now finally had a backbone, so who would object?

"This idea is good. It not only solves the urgent needs of the court, but also does not hurt our roots." Zhenyuan Hou also twisted his beard and nodded and praised: "It is better to call it 'Jiaolai Sea Freight'. This is also considered to implement Your Majesty's will to 'handle shipping'. Those who support sea freight have no reason to oppose us."

"It's a good change! It's a wonderful change!" Everyone hurriedly echoed and praised, "The Marquis is so handsome, every word is worth a lot of money! We have taken the initiative in this change!"

"Hehe." Only the sincerity Liu Shiyan was still deliberately singing a counter-tune there: "What you think is quite beautiful, but the court will listen to you? Even if you play word games, you will not change the fact that Your Majesty and the Minister of Revenue are both supporting Jiangnan Group!"

"We are the canal transportation yamen. We have to listen to our ideas on the canal transportation, right?" Everyone retorted for granted.

"You can save Zhao Kongzhao's head first." Liu Shiyan laughed strangely, "Eight hundred canal ships capsized in Suqian. I just made such a big mistake. The farts I made can only be stuffy butts, and they will definitely not make noise!"

"You!" Everyone's mood was astonishing as they turned dark, and the words "Little Liu Ji" were disturbed very badly.

"Okay, please say less." Zhenyuan Hou glanced at Liu Shiyan helplessly. This guy is old and has also been in charge of the Right Army Governor's Office. He is the only one who can suppress this guy in the field.

"But Chengyi Bo said something is somewhat reasonable." Gu Huan sighed and said with some concern: "If it were just Jiangnan Group, it would not be a concern. After all, their influence in Beijing is not as good as us, but the boy named Zhao brought Xishan Company in again, which is indeed a bit troublesome."

"Yes." Nan Hebo nodded and said, "I heard that Duke Ding, Duke British, and Duke Cheng Guo all have shares in Xishan Company. Duke Ding and Duke British are still in it, let alone the eldest princess."

"The high-ranking officials and wealthy businessmen in Beijing are all fascinated by this Luo Shizi Xishan Company." The officials also nodded and said in a little fear: "It is really difficult for these two companies to join forces."

"So there must be other countermeasures." The shopkeeper Song looked at everyone calmly and said in a deep voice: "But today, let's finalize the Jiaolai shipping matter first, arrange the memorial as soon as possible, and just lobby matters."

"It's the extreme." Everyone knew that this was going to be a move. Naturally, this kind of thing cannot be discussed in front of so many people, and most of them were unwilling to speak with him.

So they hurriedly spent an afternoon to finalize the Jiaolai shipping plan and the plan that led to this plan, and everyone went back to their residences in Huai'an City to rest.

Only Gu Huan, Chen Wangmo, Song Xiaoming and other core figures stayed to discuss some shameful things.

Eunuch Qiu naturally would not participate in this kind of thing. The eunuch who was the governor of the garrison was the greatest support for the Caoyun Group.
Chapter completed!