Seeing the arrival of the Jiyun Society fleet in Jinhai, Tang Haoxin breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that before mid-April, the goal of storing 400,000 stones of grain in Jinhai would not be difficult to achieve, but he could not relax yet.

By mid-to-late April, nearly 400,000 stone of grain will be transferred from Shandong, which can temporarily alleviate the grain shortage in Gyeonggi, but it will only be temporary. Including the needs of Yannam's relief, 200,000 or 300,000 stone of grain will have to be sent to Gyeonggi every month in the future to basically meet the needs of the Gyeonggi army and civilians.

The blockade of the breach of the northern embankment of the Yellow River and the repair of the land route to Fucao in the plains are by no means a day's work, and the most optimistic estimate will take half a year, which means that in the next six months, 1.5 million to 2 million stone of grain will be transported to Gyeonggi and Yannan through the Jinhai Sea.

In addition to the Jiyunshe fleet, which has the ability to sail to the open sea and can quickly transport grain directly from the Jianghuai region to the Tianjin Sea, most of the merchant ships that ship grain for Tianjin at this time can only sail in the offshore sea due to the limitations of ship type and structural strength. Most of the merchant ships were only suitable for the medium-range sea route from Denglai in Shandong Province to Jinhai, and could not transport grain from the Jianghuai region to Jinhai.

Jinan Prefecture and Pingyuan Prefecture are the topography of the plain in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, which is the main grain producing area of Shandong, and the quota accounts for almost half of the entire Shandong. Jinan and Pingyuan were completely devastated and destroyed this time, and not only could they not send grain to Gyeonggi, but they also had to mobilize a large amount of grain from other regions to provide relief to the refugees. The eastern and southern parts of Shandong are mostly mountainous areas, and grain output is limited, and the transfer of 300,000 or 400,000 stone of grain this time is already the limit.

Lin Tie solved the bottleneck problem of transportation from Denglai in Shandong Province to Jinhai, and Tang Haoxin's biggest headache at the moment became whether the amount of grain exported from other regions to Denglai in Shandong Province could reach twenty or thirty stones per month. If this bottleneck is stuck, no matter how abundant the transportation capacity from Denglai in Shandong Province to Jinhai is, it will not completely explain the Gyeonggi food shortage crisis.

Tang Haoxin hesitated whether to ask for a trip to Shandong in person to take a look at Shandong's preparations, and the key chain could not fall in Shandong. However, Liu Yefei, the new envoy of Shandong, is a trusted confidant of Vice Minister Zhang Xie, and Tang Hao is confident that Liu Yefei will not ignore the Gyeonggi food shortage crisis. If Dongshan really dropped the chain, no matter how much Zhang Xie trusted Liu Yefei, it would be difficult for Liu Yefei to keep his official position.

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The fleet docked at the port, Ge Cunxin and the others went to the dock and handed the list of supplies to Lin Jian first.

The fleet of Jiyun Society includes three 5,000 stone giant ships, 10 thousand stone giant ships, with a total capacity of up to 25,000 stones, in order to ensure the mobility of sea navigation, it is also the first time to test the waters of the Black Water Ocean, and travel in shallow cabins, in addition to some medicinal materials, iron products and other scarce materials, mainly loaded with 15,000 stone grain, the most scarce food in Jinhai is also food.

In addition to the boatmen, sailors and escort soldiers, Lin Xuhong also brought more than a dozen Lin clansmen and children from the forest with the ship to Jinhai this time. This is naturally also Lin Xuwen's body as the right capital of the imperial history and the governor of the Hejian Mansion and the military preparation of the Hejian Mansion and the capital of Jinhai Du Caoyun Division, holding the power of the local military administration of Hejian Mansion and the Jinhai Du Caoyun Division, not to mention that the local forces of Hejian Mansion have been devastated, which is the best opportunity for the Lin clan to extend their power to Hejian Mansion.

Seeing that Lin Lian and the eldest prince were standing in the port, Lin Xuhong, who got off the boat behind him, came over and saluted: "The eldest prince, the seventeenth master, ......" When he withdrew from Shanglin in May last year, Lin Xuhong didn't feel that his status was much worse than Lin Lian, and when it was less than a year later, he felt that it was inappropriate to continue to call Lin Lian "Old Seventeen".

Lin Jian was slightly stunned, wondering when he would become the "Seventeenth Master" in Lin Xuhong's mouth, and felt that this title was also awkward, but he didn't say anything, he introduced Tang Haoxin on his side, and said: "Tang Gong Tang Shaobao, Brother Xuhong, you come to salute Tang Shaobao......"

"Little one, you always greet Tang Gong," Lin Xuhong saluted Tang Haoxin and said, "Master Gu guessed that Tang Gong was in Jinhai, so he specially asked me to bring a letter to Tang Gong, and you ......" Hurriedly asked the entourage to find out Gu Wuchen's private message and give it to Tang Haoxin.

Tang Haoxin smiled slightly, took the letter, and was not in a hurry to open it, and asked some details of the voyage off the coast of Heishui Ocean quite kindly, the more he asked, the tighter his brows wrinkled, and now it is not realistic to want to go to sea from Chongzhou to directly transport grain to Jinhai on a large scale.

In the winter and spring, when inland river transportation is the most inconvenient, it is the most convenient time for large sea fleets, from the Heishui Ocean to the north of the sea route, and then by the northwest monsoon to the south, you can go back and forth once a month.

But after April, the monsoon will change from the northwest monsoon to the southeast monsoon, and the storms at sea will become more frequent and violent. It is a large, sturdy sea vessel, and after April, it generally sails north only by the southeast monsoon. The speed of going north is not slow, but the speed of the fleet going south is very slow, and it will take at least two months for the fleet of Jiyun Society to make a round trip.

In summer and autumn, due to the frequent storms at sea, small and medium-sized sea vessels or sea vessels with structural strength that meet the requirements usually choose to hide in safe harbors, and will not easily go to sea, let alone easily go to long-distance shipping.

Taking these factors into account, the huge maritime merchant shipowners organized by Lin Tie in Jinhai could still only transport grain and grass within the scope of the Bohai Bay, where the wind and waves were relatively small, for the next six months. Even if the fleet of Jiyunsha was allowed to directly transport grain to Chongzhou, the maximum grain transport volume in the second half of the year would be 60,000 to 80,000 stone, which would not be able to meet the grain demand of 1.5 million to 2 million stone in Gyeonggi and Yannan areas.

At present, the most pressing problem is the shortage of grain in Shandong, so that the grain from other counties should be transported to the Denglai area of Shandong through inland rivers and land transportation.

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Lin Jian also thought about this problem very clearly, the bottleneck was how to transport the grain from other counties to the Denglai area of Shandong, but no matter how strong he and Jiangdong Zuoying's ability was, there was a limit, and this was something that the imperial court and the household department had to mobilize all energy to solve.

The sea ship docked at the port, the pallet was set up, and the speed of the people's handling was very fast, and the thousand-stone ship was loaded with six or seven hundred bags of grain, and two or three hundred people's men were organized to carry it into the warehouse, and a stick of incense could empty a ship.

Lin Jian did not have time to stay on the dock to monitor the handling, and returned to the yamen or temporarily stationed in the camp with Tang Haoxin and Lin Xuwen to take care of official business, and he needed Ge Cunxin to report more detailed information about Jiangdong County to him in person.

As soon as Lin Jian returned to the camp, Liu Zhi walked in with his tail attached.

Seeing Liu Zhi's sneaky appearance, Lin Jian knew that he had something to say, and he didn't invite Liu Zhi into the secret room to discuss, so he stood up and asked with a smile: "Liu Guanjun, what do you have to ask?" ”

The Jiangdong Left Army was officially organized into a township battalion, and Liu Zhi's so-called title of deputy envoy of the Jiangdong Left Army Guan Jun Rong was void, and he no longer had a direct relationship with the Jiangdong Left Battalion, but Liu Zhi was also a person with great ability and Hao Zongcheng's trust, and he was given the title of deputy envoy of the Jinhai Guan Jun Rong, and became the deputy envoy of the entire Jinhai garrison and the guest army. Even if Li Zhuo succeeded in convincing the emperor to agree to the strategic concept of strategic contraction, internal defense, and three-way layout, and set up an elite division in Jinhai, Lin Jian estimated that Liu Zhi would officially serve as the military supervisor of the Tianjin Navy or the military envoy of Guan Junrong, exercising the post of supervising the army.

Lin Jian still didn't want to offend these eunuchs, and wanted to have a good relationship with them as much as possible, and his attitude towards Liu Zhi was always kind.

Liu Zhi smiled, hesitated for a moment, and then said: "It is said that the grain transported by the Jiyun Society's fleet does not need to be stored in the Jinhai warehouse, and the household department only cares about the grain and grass transported out of Denglai at this time......

What Liu Zhi pouted his buttocks, Lin Jian knew what shit he wanted to pull.

Lin Lian's provision of grain and grass to Jinhaicang and the relocation of the coastal army was included in the plan of the household department, and the price was 1,500 yuan per stone of corn; This price is already three or four times higher than the price of corn in Jiangning.

Gyeonggi has a grain shortage, grain has been strictly controlled, except for the officials who give them the full amount, the ordinary people sell grain at a fixed price at a flat price, but the supply is very small, and if the whole family wants to be fed and not hungry, they must buy grain from other sources.

Even if the officials of the DPRK and China can receive the full amount of food, they still feel that there is a shortage of food, after all, there are many servants in the house, and there is a shortage of food to support so many people, so they need to buy grain from the grain market.

In the Gyeonggi region, apart from a small percentage of the grain supply at parity, the market grain price has soared to a much higher extent than the price of rice in Jiangning, which is three or four times higher.

Liu Zhi's meaning is obvious, the grain transported by the Jiyun Society fleet is directly smuggled to the Gyeonggi area for sale without passing through the Jinhai warehouse, and the profit is definitely far more than the sale to the Jinhai warehouse.

Of course, Lin Jian knew that Liu Zhi would not be kind enough to guide him to make a fortune, so he bowed his head slightly and said with a smile: "What else does Liu Guanjun have to hide in front of me?" ”

"......" Liu Zhi smiled and said, "The Jibei Army has frequent dispatches, and it is not subject to local control, and it will be able to transport hundreds of thousands of stones of grain to Gyeonggi every day, and it will be able to do it ......without knowing it."

"The sea ship is docking, Tang Shaobao has also seen it at the dock, I can't do it," Lin Jian thought for a moment and said, "That's good, this time I still give an extra 2,000 stone of grain to the Jibei Army at a price of 1,500 yuan per stone, what good things should be here, we will discuss it next time?" ”

"Done!" Liu Zhi didn't expect Lin Tie to be so refreshing, he could have asked for more grain to share the profits with the Jiangdong Left Army, since Lin Tie did not share the profits, this time he could allocate an extra 2,000 stone of grain, which was interesting enough. He thought about it, with the price of grain in Gyeonggi at this time, it would be a light matter to keep these two thousand grains in his hands for a few more days, and to earn an extra seven or eight thousand taels of silver from changing hands.

Lin Jian also knew that the price of grain in Gyeonggi was soaring, but he was responsible for assisting Lin Xuwen to supervise Haicao for the Ministry of Households, and in addition to supplying the coastal army to the troops stationed in the coastal army, he could only sell all the grain to Jinhai Warehouse, and then Lin Xuwen organized inland river and land transportation to deliver it to the Gyeonggi Warehouse under the Ministry of Households, as for how the Ministry of Households disposed of it, how to use these grains to collude with grain merchants to collect money from the common people, it has nothing to do with Jinhai and the Jiangdong Left Army.

Unexpectedly, Hao Zongcheng wanted to reach out to get this money, Hao Zongcheng still controls the Jibei Army, and it is very convenient for the grain to be transported to Gyeonggi by Hao Zongcheng, which is similar to the nature of using the army to smuggle, Lin Jian also thought, why should all the silver be given to the officials of the household department and the grain merchants related to the household department?