Father can be an enemy country

Chapter 271 The Great Route

A day later, Feng Zhou arrived in Liujiagang, Taicang.Since the Yuan Dynasty, this has been the starting point of grain and sea transportation.

The transportation of grain and fodder by sea actually existed as early as the Qin, Han, Sui and Tang Dynasties.In the Song Dynasty, especially the Southern Song Dynasty, which was highly dependent on overseas trade, the rapid progress of navigation technology created sufficient objective conditions for the great development of shipping in the Yuan Dynasty.

Subjectively, because most of the north has been turned into pastures by the Mongols.The food supply in the north, especially Yuan Dadu, was heavily dependent on the Jiangnan region.

However, with the low governance ability and sharp ethnic conflicts of the Yuan Dynasty, it was impossible to maintain the smooth flow of the Grand Canal, nor the ability to maintain the safety of water transportation.

Therefore, the lower cost and safer grain transportation by sea became the only choice for the Yuan Dynasty.

Of course, the safety here does not refer to the safety of navigation. This sea transportation is definitely not comparable to water transportation.

The safety here means that the fleet will not be robbed and burned by the peasant uprising army at sea...

In the process of constant exploration, the shipping lanes of the Yuan Dynasty underwent three improvements.

At first, the fleet sailed along the coastline, so that it was not easy to get lost.However, it is easy to be stranded by sand, and the voyage is difficult and tortuous, and the voyage lasts for more than two months.

Later, Li Fu, a native of Changxing, opened up new waterways. Some of the waterways were ocean voyages.

In the end, Yin Minglue, a thousand households of shipping, opened a new route, from Liujiagang Kaiyang to Chongming Sansha, eastbound into Heishuiyang to Chengshantou at the easternmost tip of Shandong Peninsula, and then sailed northwest into Zhigu.

This route mainly takes ocean sailing, and it can be reached within ten days with the wind.In the following years, this route was used until the northward transportation of grain in this dynasty.

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Although Nanjing is the capital of this dynasty, the army on the northern front still relies heavily on the supply of grain and grass in the south of the Yangtze River.So Liujiagang is still busy.

The grain transportation is divided into spring and summer transportation, and the spring transportation usually collects grain in the first month and sets sail in February and March.When Feng Zhou arrived at Liujia Port, the first wave of shipping fleet this year was about to set off.

So the two sides formed a team and sailed out of the mouth of the Yangtze River to the vast ocean.

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Zhu Zhen checked carefully, and saw that navigation marks were set up along the way, and there were navigation boats at the port and the Chongming Sansha silt.

The boss of the boat has popular nautical formulas and knows hydrology and meteorology like the back of his hand.He is also proficient in the art of pulling stars across the ocean, sailing at sea as if on land.

The sailors are also very skilled, cooperate with each other tacitly, and deal with any situation with confidence.

'Who says we are land peoples?We have clearly conquered the ocean! He roared in his heart: "The sinner who ruined everything should be pulled out and shot!" '

What, the sinner is the father?
Then change the hanging...

But you can’t blame your father entirely. Didn’t the fourth brother send Zheng He six voyages to the West and capture giraffes from Africa?
As for the emperors of later generations, can they have the final say?
Therefore, in the final analysis, it is still the civil official group and their feudal ethics, which can only dominate in the closed farming civilization.Once the country opens up and embraces the ocean, it's all over for them.

It is a pity that the opening of Daming was too late, and it was not until Long Wannian that it reached this point.What's even more tragic is that the old order has collapsed, and the new order has not yet been established, and it has caught up with the little ice river, and the result is extinct.

In the Qing Dynasty, foreign races ruled China, and they were more afraid of opening up than civil officials, so the two hit it off, completely closed the country, and continued to dominate the farming civilization for more than 200 years.

At the same time, the West is changing with each passing day, and the king of the world is completely behind, until the sound of the Opium War...

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Therefore, it is better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books.

Standing on the high deck, looking at the fleet cleaving the waves, Zhu Zhen was overwhelmed with emotion, and finally realized clearly the historical mission of himself and his teacher——

It is to do everything possible to promote Daming to open up and fully embrace the ocean!Whoever wants to close the country, who wants to return to the civilization of small farmers, is their enemy!
No wonder I'm always at odds with the old thief, the root cause is here...

The sixth child knows that old thieves are difficult to change, but his brothers are in the critical stage of forming their worldview. At this time, it is relatively easy to influence their thinking subtly.

So he turned into a sea blower, bragging about the good shipping to his brothers.

"This sea transportation is ten times faster and ten times less expensive than water transportation, but the transportation capacity is ten times stronger. Therefore, in the end of the Yuan Dynasty, sea transportation has always been used!"

"Sea transportation is better than water transportation." The fourth child nodded, and changed the topic: "But it also harmed the Yuan Dynasty."

"Why?" Lao Liu was taken aback.

"That's right." The third child who was dumped on the mast no longer dared to speak against the fourth child. "Because they can easily get food and supplies from the south of the Yangtze River, the Mongols don't have to worry about food and drink, and the princes of the Yuan Dynasty spent their lives in extravagance."

At the end, he flattered him and said, "I'm right, fourth child?"

"Well. They rely on sea transportation to get by, and naturally ignore the development and governance of the north." Zhu Di nodded and said: "With the rebels together, they will naturally fall apart."

"That's it." Zhu Zhen suddenly said.

"If you want me to say, Kublai Khan should not have set his capital in Beiping, but Luoyang, or directly in Jinling, to control the wealth and wealth of Jiangsu and Zhejiang." Zhu Di said eloquently:
"A place like Beiping, which is bitterly cold, cannot be self-sufficient at all. It must be supplied from the south at the expense of people and money. Moreover, it is so far away from the south of the Yangtze River, and it is beyond reach. If the two Zhejiang provinces cannot be controlled, the country will only die!"

"Beiping is the fief of Four... King Yan, is it really that bad?" Zhu Zhen was taken aback when he heard that.

"It's that bad. At best, it's a place where the king of Sai is guarding the border. How can it be the capital of the country?" Zhu Di said with a look of course: "Only ignorant barbarians will be in that kind of place!"

"Okay, fourth brother, always remember this sentence." Zhu Zhen nodded.But he sighed secretly, remembering is useless, the decision is always made by the butt, not the head.

To prevent Peking from becoming the capital, the best way is to let the fourth brother's ass not sit on that chair.

But can I really have a way to stop the Chosen One?

Zhu Zhen is really not confident...

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"Two, excuse me." The third child blushed, and finally couldn't help but begged the fourth child: "Fourth child, Hong Baihu, can you let me down? I really don't get seasick..."

After the ship went out to sea, it began to bump in the waves, so many people became seasick.

The third child was especially dizzy.

The fourth child told him that he had learned a way to overcome seasickness in the army, and he would be fine once he used it.

The third child is also dizzy, don't want to think about what a group of landlubbers know about seasickness?So he let the fourth brother teach himself.

So he was bound by the ankles by the fourth child and hung up...

Zhu Di also told him that the reason for seasickness was because the bed was too swaying.It won't shake when you hang it up...

Now the blood flowed into his brain, and the youngest knew immediately that he had been tricked.

He was about to question whether the fourth child was still human?My brother is so dizzy that he still plays with me?

But Zhu Di whispered in his ear: "You ruined my bridal chamber!"

A hero doesn't suffer from immediate losses, and the third child will be honest immediately.

He reckoned that no matter how dishonest he was, he could throw the fourth child into the sea...

ps. Write another chapter.

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