Chu Dajiang looked at the crowded Suzhou Guanshi and said: "After our ship leaves the water warehouse, it can support three stones of grain, and the later grain is reduced to two stones and seven buckets, and it is only nine times a day." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Zhanming was also born in the army, and said at the moment: "Why is it so little, we are soldiers with three meals a day, and we need one liter of food to be full." ”

Chu Dajiang smiled bitterly: "Nine is good, but in fact, I have never given enough, when the officials are clear, it is good to get six or seven achievements, and the deduction is less than fifty percent on weekdays." Look at the troops under my command, who are hungry on all sides, and how they will survive if they don't sell some soil. ”

Lin Yanchao and the three of them were silent when they heard it.

The next day, the boat sailed from Suzhou to Huai'an, which was the residence of the governor of Caoyun and the general military office of Caoyun.

Da Ming Wen respects the military and humble, the Caoyun General Military Mansion, and obeys the orders of the Caoyun Governor in everything. The Governor of Caoyun, in addition to the Governor of River Affairs, is also the Governor of Fenglu, so he is also known as Caofu and has great power.

Lin Yanchao arrived in Huai'an in the middle of the night, and on the wharf, he could see the Caoyun Governor's Mansion in the city, where it was brilliantly lit, illuminating half of the sky.

When the boat arrives in Huai'an, you need to go to the Cao Yuan to submit a document to the hall before you can pass through Huai'an. It is conceivable that the Caoyun Governor's Mansion must be crowded now.

When the boat arrived in Huai'an, it was difficult to travel on the road below. Due to the Yellow River's seizure into the sea, the downstream has been flooded in previous years.

In view of this, Zhang Juzheng used Pan Jitao, a famous minister for water control, as the governor of the river in the sixth year of Wanli, and was also in charge of Cao affairs.

Pan Ji tamed the river and adopted the strategy of controlling the water and attacking the sand, which was to build high embankments on both banks and wash the sediment at the bottom of the river with water flow. Now Pan Jitao is in Huai'an, presiding over the construction of the Gaojiayan Dam on the one hand, and acting for Caoyun on the other.

However, now that it is the peach blossom flood, whether it is dam construction or water transportation, it has been affected and stopped. Pan Jitao must be anxious at this moment.

Thousands of boats and civilian boats on the Huai'an wharf were blocked on the south bank of the Huai River. On the pier, there are many boats.

You must know that the Cao period cannot be missed for a moment.

In the fifth year of Longqing, the Yellow River flooded the canal, and the imperial court forcibly ordered the troops to drive the ship to the north to carry grain and forcibly cross the Huai, but the ship was flooded by the river. More than 800 of the 3,000 ships were damaged, and more than 1,000 troops were drowned.

Because of the lessons of the past, the troops on the whole ship were nervous, for fear that the imperial court would force them to cross the river.

Fortunately, the worry did not happen, and the Cao Yuan let the Cao boat be in Huai'an, and waited for half a month, and waited for the peach blossom flood to pass before passing through Huai.

Thousands of civilian ships anchored in Huai'an, Cao boats. Since the boat passed first, the imperial court had official documents, the grain transportation prevailed, the boat was exhausted, the second was the tribute boat, the official boat was second, and the people's boat was second.

The order of the cao boats is still on the tribute boat and the official boat. If Lin Yanchao goes north to take a civilian boat. I don't know if I have to wait until the Year of the Monkey.

This night was stormy, and Lin Yanchao slept until midnight. But I heard the sound of rain outside mixed with noise.

At the moment, Lin Yanchao put on his clothes, and his heart said that he had to rush to the Cao period, even on a rainy night? Lin Yanchao walked outside the cabin, but saw that hundreds of boats were really broken.

In the night, the heavy rain is like weaving, and the Huaishui River that is raging during the peach blossom flood has calmed down a lot.

Lin Yanchao saw Chu Dajiang standing on the boat tower with a resolute face. The ship's Gang Division, Stopper, and Fu Chu each have their own responsibilities.

Following the pilot ship in front, hundreds of boats moved forward, looking at the sails like a forest. It is more than ten miles long, one after another.

Although the peach blossom flood has passed, I don't know how many undercurrents there are under the undulating river.

Several gale lanterns were hung on each boat, and the transporters also lit lanterns and torches and poked under the side of the ship.

The wind blew with the heavy rain, the wind lamps were blown around, and the light on the torches was also torn to flicker.

After a moment of wind, more than ten miles of Huanghuai water have been illuminated, and even the stars and moon in the sky have been eclipsed.

The ship in front ploughed out turbid waves, and in the shower, the troops on the front ship danced torches and shouted backwards: "Cross the Huai!" ”

"It's over!"

The cries of transporting troops on the cao boat ahead came into my ears one by one through the fierce wind and rain.

Chu Dajiang, who was beside Lin Yanchao, pulled his throat and raised his arms and shouted: "Hold the rudder!" It's over! ”

The ship's full of troops is also fighting against the storm at the moment, but they still don't forget to shout: "Cross Huai!" ”

Lin Yanchao couldn't help but be infected by this pride in fighting against nature, and said softly.

"Well, it's too much."

After passing Huai'an, the boat continued to travel north along the canal.

I have to say that these 500 big ships are much more comfortable for Lin Yanchao's passengers. The boat is not easy to bump, and it is very convenient to sleep and read on it, without having to hold a book in one hand and an oil lamp in the other, as a small boat.

As for the living place, it is also very comfortable, this was Chu Dajiang's own cabin to Lin Yanchao and the three of them, and he and Gang Si were squeezed in one cabin. Lin Yanchao can be regarded as completely occupying the magpie's nest.

However, for the troop transporters, the ship was too large to run aground, so the three ships did not dare to be fully loaded.

Although this section of the waterway is not as easy to walk as the Suyang section, it is quite smooth, Lin Yanchao is studying on the boat, and only Chu Dajiang occasionally gets off the boat to shop along the way.

The boat has entered the boundary of Shandong all the way.

The boundary of Shandong is not easy to walk, and this is where the river ridge is.

Mountains have ridges, and rivers have ridges.

It is important to know that the north and south ends of the canal are low, but the eastern part of the canal is higher.

Water cannot flow to high places, but in order for the canal to circulate, it is necessary to build a river lock in this section of Shandong, as well as a steep water tank door to divert water and discharge water.

The water of the entire canal does not flow from south to north, or from north to south, in the words of the folk proverb, seven points to the son of heaven, and three points to the south of the Yangtze River.

This section of the Grand Canal belongs to the Liaocheng River with the most locks, so this section of the waterway is called the Gate River. In each river gate, there is a gate officer and 30 gate drivers.

Thousands of boats gathered at the locks, preparing to cross the river in turn.

At present, the south is flooded, but Shandong is not rich in rain. The river gate keeper cherishes the water like gold, and when he sees the boat coming, he does not call the gate to be released.

Although the gate official is not a flowing product, it is commonly known as the sweet official, which means that there is a lot of oil and water.

After the boat arrived, the lock official first sent the gate man to ask for money for each boat, and the price of each stone ranged from eight cents to one cent, and only let it go after giving the money.

The imperial court stipulates that each gate must accumulate water to six or seven boards before it can be opened, but no matter how many gate officials do, it would be good to be able to give half a penny of water.

However, he didn't dare to give it too shallow, in case the ship ran aground in the gate, the gate officer couldn't eat and walked away.

Lin Yanchao entered the lock with the boat, and the boat passed through the culvert, measuring the length first, and not giving you the one that did not fit.

After that, the boat reached the gate, and the above gatekeeper used an iron winch to pull the stone gate open, and the boat entered with fish.

The gate is very narrow, only a boat can enter and retreat, in order to prevent the river from getting lost, the gate needs to be opened and closed, and the gate driver needs to go to the gate officer to hand over the gate key in order to remove the gate key.After the boat crossed the Liaocheng Gate River, it was June when it arrived in Tongzhou. After several months, Lin Yanchao finally arrived at the feet of the Son of Heaven in Beijing. (To be continued.) )