The research of agricultural tools is considered to be forward-looking, and the research of the horse-drawn plough is too advanced, and before the railway is completed, even if a large number of horses are obtained in the northwest through the Lingzhou agreement, it is difficult to transport them to the interior.

For the officials of the Northern Song Dynasty, for some wealthy merchants, they will almost certainly obtain a large number of horses, and the transportation environment of the entire Northern Song Dynasty will be greatly improved, but a large number of horses will enter the hands of ordinary farmers, and a long road is still needed.

Even if there is a fixed navy, it can help the peasants at the bottom to obtain horses and farm tools through large-scale cheap leasing, so as to increase labor efficiency and reduce the number of labor force, it is not now, it is only after the competition for labor force appears, and the trend of the growth of the navy has a contradiction with the Northern Song Dynasty, it will be carried out, so as to coordinate the relationship between the two sides.

Of course, this can only be done after the strength of the Dinghai Navy is valued by the Northern Song Dynasty, and it is still too early.

The matter of farm tools is always forward-looking, but another problem is already imminent.

Many things in the Dinghai Navy are brand new, and therefore a series of new problems will be born, before, the biggest problem in the Dinghai Navy is the lack of capacity, between raw materials and commodities, as well as food and other necessities, you must make a choice, many times, you have to choose.

Now, with a huge fleet of maritime merchants, the volume of transportation has increased by more than 10 times, and a new problem has arisen, which is also a problem that even Zhao Xin did not expect, that is, because of the traffic congestion caused by shipping.

Zhao Xin chose to set the navy because of its port, and even built 3 ports in the right location, but he didn't expect that the port would usher in congestion when there was no modernization.

A large number of maritime merchant fleets joined, as well as those families in the south of the Yangtze River, and a small number of the ships accumulated in the entire Northern Song Dynasty were still on the river to ensure Cao Yun and ordinary transportation, and the rest came to the Dinghai Navy.

Perhaps the freight given by the Dinghai Navy is not the highest, but after the Dinghai Navy has been adjusted, it will try its best to make every round trip not empty, and it will be a short distance at most.

This is very attractive for shipping, the high cost of freight depends on the waiting time, the ship has to transport the goods, in order to get the benefit, the same is true for sailors.

In the past, in the Northern Song Dynasty, the average number of days in transit for ordinary ships would not exceed 10 days per month, and the unlucky ones would have no business for one or two months.

Even if you receive a long-distance order and deliver something to your destination, you have to wait for the return order, and sometimes, it takes a long time to wait.

There is no way, the whole process is empty, the price paid is huge, maybe, this time transportation, all the benefits, are gone.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, commerce was far less developed than in later generations, and often long-distance transport ships could only come back with the help of short-distance step-by-step relays, and when they went, it might only take 15 to 20 days, but it was possible to come back, one or two months, and if they were unlucky, it was three or four months, even if they added three or four months of hotel accommodation, it was better than coming back empty.

From the very beginning, the transportation method of the Dinghai Navy is completely different from the traditional one, and the modern port city of the Dinghai Navy is very large in and out, and after reasonable overall arrangements, more goods can be transported at the same time.

This is very helpful for the Dinghai Navy, even if there is a fleet of maritime merchants, the material pressure faced by the Dinghai Navy is also huge, the food consumed every day, as well as all kinds of necessary materials, are an astronomical amount, not to mention other materials.

The materials consumed by industrial cities are several times that of agricultural cities in feudal society, especially those of Dingjun, which produce 2 million tons of steel per year, and the daily demand for steelmaking materials is as high as 10,000 tons, not to mention, there are factories with huge output such as cement plants.

Huge pressure, from the very beginning, was pressed on the body of the Dingjun, responsible for the overall planning of the department, and there were more and more personnel, from the beginning, only basic mathematical knowledge of the scholars, to the back, continuous training of personnel, and now a very large department has been formed.

Through calculation, message transmission, overall arrangement, control of the entire Northern Song Dynasty tens of thousands of large and small ships, constantly adjusted according to the actual situation, far from reaching the later generations, the railway operation chart, accurate to the extent of minutes, but it is already very good, the entire tonnage, can ensure more than sixty percent of the full load, and at a higher speed in the operation, this alone, compared with the previous Cao Yun, I don't know how much improved.

Co-ordination is only on the basis of the original, to make adjustments, so that they can maintain a relatively healthy transportation, maximize their capacity, in the same time, transport the most materials, to the Navy to transport the most goods.

In this way, the absolute number of ships of all kinds has increased a lot, even if the Dinghai Navy has taken into account such a problem, in the small Dingjun, 3 ports have been opened, except for Zhao Xin, no one else has realized why there are so many docks, and they are still so big.

After just 2 years, the port became congested, and as a seaport city, the biggest change in the development of the Dinghai Navy to the present is in the port.

With the arrival of a large number of ships, the No. 1 wharf of the Dinghai Navy, which has expanded considerably, has some of them unable to enter and exit, and the congestion is abnormal, which even affects the normal operation of the port.

You know, this 1 pier is not the traditional Northern Song Dynasty wharf, this is the most suitable port through certain improvements, not only has a relatively complete port layout, has the most waterways, can accommodate dozens of ships at the same time, even if a large number of fleets are concentrated, you can also receive them one by one.

In addition to the port is big enough and the channel is large enough, there is also a very important lifting machine.

There is more manpower, the machinery is endless, the modern port, the reason for modernization, is because of the use of various machinery, taking the current Northern Song Dynasty as an example, even if it is a superman like Sun Ji who is far beyond ordinary people, he can move up to 15 stones, which is converted to 750 catties.

Hercules like Sun Ji were not very common in the Northern Song Dynasty, and most people would lift up a stone or so at most and transport it to the warehouse on foot.

Under the premise of complete manpower, the efficiency is very low, and the entire ship's things are sent down from the ship and then moved into the warehouse, which is as short as hundreds of steps and as many as 1,000 steps.

The No. 1 port of the Dinghai Navy, because it has to prepare for the future, thousands of tons, or even 10,000 tons of giant ships, is also very large, and even leaves a certain space for the stacking of containers in the future.

Compared with ordinary ports, the location of the warehouse is at least 300 steps away, which represents extremely low efficiency for full manpower loading and unloading.

In the era of no tools, no lifting facilities, the efficiency of the port all depends on manpower, in the middle and late stages of the Age of Discovery, a merchant ship of thousands of tons, docked at the port, at least one or two days, more than four or five days, can be completely loaded and unloaded.

In those days, the goods were either temporarily placed on the dock, or they had to find the nearest warehouse, once the warehouse was far away, not only the cost of loading and unloading would increase a lot, but also the loading and unloading time would increase a lot.

The port of the Dinghai Navy, of course, is not as good as the modern container terminal, but after the breakthrough in steel, there are many steel tower cranes and cranes, and now, the Dinghai Navy has no electric and mechanical power, but the traction is still possible, as long as the machinery gets the goods to the crane or tower crane, and then translational traction, the power consumed is not large, especially on the track, the friction is reduced to the limit under the premise, the efficiency is of course doubled.

Compared with the ordinary ports of the Northern Song Dynasty, the No. 1 wharf of the Dinghai Navy, under the premise of the same tonnage, is ten times more efficient than other seaports, and the overall efficiency is more than 50 times, which cannot support all the freight.

After the congestion occurred, it was natural that the second and third piers were also opened one by one.

In the middle, the wharves are also classified, No. 1 wharf, mainly for berthing large sea vessels, mainly used for the loading and unloading of raw materials and materials for steel and cement plants, and No. 2 and No. 3 piers are used for other materials.

In this, it is necessary to say that wood, along with Jiangnan, a large amount of wood has returned, most of which have not been treated and must be treated.

Ship materials must be used on ships, and the dock must be close to the sea, at least by water, in the dock, through a certain process, the ship is made, such as filling water in the dock, and then it can be released.

Similar to the segmented processing method of later generations, it is in the excellence of the lifting device, and a variety of welding technology and complete conditions, can be carried out, now, or under the premise of manpower and animal power, the maximum lifting weight is only a few tons.

Even Zhao Xin didn't realize that there would be so much timber to be transported in a short period of time, Dinghai is a port, maybe the area itself is scarce, but the area of the port has always been as large as possible, after the breakthrough in the steel plant, the construction speed of the steel structure is much faster than cement and bricks.

On the wharf, there are a large number of ports, loaded with raw materials transported from all over the Northern Song Dynasty, as well as products produced by the Dinghai Navy.

However, the wood cannot be disposed of casually, it must be close to the sea, near the dock, and in the drying room near the port, and the wood is dried day and night to meet the standard of ship timber, but there are not so many docks, and the consumption of ship materials is not so much, and many of them are piled up.

It turned out that these things were piled up in the No. 1 port, because there were too many, and the port was just a temporary accumulation area, and the accumulation of wood had affected the operation of the port, and then moved to the second and third, which was also problematic.

The person in charge of the port, there are many complaints, this wood is a good thing, too much is not good, so piled up, and not used, is it a change of place.

This chaotic situation did not last long, and after some urgent adjustments, especially Zhao Xin's decision, the fourth port was opened.

This port is not a permanent port, the conditions of the whole port are not very good, but it is the mouth of the three rivers of the entire Dinghai Sea, after investigation, especially when Zhao Xin decided to prosper the ocean, he has begun to develop here to a certain extent, and has some conditions for the port.

However, because it is not a deep-water port, in all aspects, it is far inferior to the previous three ports, even if it has been dredged, it is just an ordinary port, at most than many ports in the Northern Song Dynasty, slightly higher than a grade, and it cannot be compared with the three major ports at all.

However, such a port is not without advantages, that is, it is empty, because of the reservation, the site is very large, and the wood is loaded into these temporary buildings, and a series of drying rooms have begun to be built.

With the help of the cutting machine, the log gradually becomes a variety of wood, and then enters the drying room, dehydration, when the moisture reaches a certain level, it will be stress relieved, the original years, or even more than ten years of process, in a short period of time, perhaps the quality of this ship, not as long as the treatment, but it can be regarded as qualified and can be used.

Specialized ports, even if the automation machinery is insufficient, only some simple lifting equipment, cranes and tower cranes, etc., are still under construction, but a separate professional port, not mixed with others, the efficiency has been significantly improved.

With the ability of the entire Northern Song Dynasty and the southern clan, the wood and other things soon piled up, and among the various houses that were temporarily built, there were piles of wood everywhere, and the process of processing began.

Zhao Xin: Actually, there are more expectations for this fourth port, which is located next to one of the longest rivers in the Dinghai Navy.

Dinghai is not big, this one originates from the mountain, runs through the entire Dinghai River, almost 15 kilometers long, said to be a small river, at best, is a small ditch, the place into the sea, the widest, is only 4 meters, and in the Dinghai, most of the places, the width will not exceed 1 meter.

The 1-meter-wide river channel would even surpass it by some canals, and if it weren't for the dozens of mountain springs on top of the highest peak, which could continue to produce water, the river would have been cut off long ago.

This direction facing the mainland, the longest river, has been valued by Zhao Xin, and at the mouth of the sea, it is the fourth port of the Dinghai Navy.

Because it is not as good as the previous three, it is a real deep-water port, and after a unique design, it can support the ocean transportation of the entire Dinghai Navy in the future.

The fourth port is not as good as the previous three, but the fourth is only about one-tenth of the first three, but there is one more river, there are more changes, especially when Zhao Xin explored the surrounding situation and found that most of the surrounding areas of the river are soil layers, not rocks, he has a new idea, in Zhao Xin's view, this will become a natural shipbuilding base for the Dinghai Navy, and will become an important support for the ocean.