(PS: Two situations, a severe cold and a desire to die; In the evening, I have to take the train to spend six or seven days in the cold field, which is considered a vacation. Why do you have a bad cold, a rare vacation in a year! Oh, my God! The update of these days will be extremely unstable.,Save a little effort when the brothers scold.,After arriving home on the 23rd,It will be coded in a saturated state.,Thank you brothers for your understanding! ）

On March 16, Ge Cunxin, Zhou Pu and others led the fleet back to Jinhai. At the time of departure, there were two ships of 5,000 stones and six ships of 1,000 stones; At this time, the fleet of ships calling at the port included three 5,000-stone ships and 10 thousand-stone ships. In the eyes of these Jinhai people, who are accustomed to seeing two-masted ships with a load capacity of three to five hundred stones, the fleet of three-masted and five-masted ships returned by Ge Cunxin and Zhou Pu is undoubtedly extremely spectacular, and they all flock to the sea pond to watch, as if it is a rare grand scene.

"This is the Lin family's fleet!" Tang Haoxin stood on the sea pond, looking at the fleet on the shore, the white beard jumped excitedly, and then counted carefully, and asked in surprise, "From leaving Jinhai on the 16th to return to Chongzhou, more than 6,000 miles round trip, and counting the time of unloading and loading, it doesn't take a month to go once?" ”

"Seriously, they traveled more than 6,000 miles," Lin Jian said with a smile, "When they returned, they went to the open sea and made a big circle......

"It's the Black Water Ocean?" Tang Haoxin was stunned for a moment, he never thought that Lin Lian's preparation for this fleet was not a momentary thought!

Lin Jian thought that Tang Haoxin still had some knowledge, although he had not been in charge of Cao Yun during his tenure in the household department, he still knew about the existence of Heishuiyang.

Compared with the last time they set out from Chongzhou and walked along the coastline for more than a month and a half to meet Cangnan, this time they took the Heishui Ocean route in the waters off Changshan Island, and it only took 13 days before and after, which did not take one-third of the time.

In addition to the wind, ships can also use the regular currents in the ocean.

In the outer waters east of Changshan Island, there is a strong ocean current with a width of hundreds of miles, like a huge river rushing in the hinterland of the outer sea, flowing continuously from south to north. The waters beyond this current are blue; The water within the range of the current is black and blue in color, like black water. As early as six or seven hundred years ago, in the literature, the seafarers called it the Black Water Ocean......

The origin of the Black Water Ocean has not yet been figured out, but the documents that can be found and the old people with experience in sea navigation can confirm that at least the vicinity of the South Ryuku Island is not the origin of the Black Water Ocean; With the level of understanding of the ocean in the world, it is impossible to say the reason for the formation of ocean currents, but it does not prevent people from taking advantage of the flow of the black water ocean to sail regularly for a long time.

In Lin Bin's mind, Hei Shuiyang coincided with the warm current of the Yellow Sea that he had learned in his junior high school geography class, but he couldn't be very sure, after all, many of the things he had learned only had a vague impression.

The Yellow Sea is not called the Yellow Sea in the world, there is a lot of silt from the mouth of the Huai River to Chongzhou, the sea water is yellow, and people call this section of the Yellow Sea the Yellow Ocean. From the mouth of the Huai River to the south of Dengzhou, the sea water is turquoise, also called Qingshui Ocean.

As early as more than 100 years ago, when Xinghaicao was in the country, two shipping routes were opened:

One route is the Yellow Water Ocean Inland Sea Route, where northbound ships go north by the wind along the windy coastline, and the water is shallow and silted along the way, and the ship is slow to sail downwind, slow against the wind, and moored when there is no wind.

The monsoon direction is unstable in March, and it is not surprising to take this route from Chongzhou to Jinhai for two months.

The other route is the Heishui Ocean Offshore Route, which goes out to sea from Chongzhou and sails directly eastward into the Heishui Ocean in the outer seas, taking advantage of the strong impetus of the ocean current to go north. After the Heishui Ocean enters the Bohai Sea, it goes north along the west coast of the Liaodong Peninsula, and the coastline that reaches the northernmost side of the Bohai Sea is blocked and then rotates, and the south flow along the west coast of Hejian Province is formed, forming a complete Bohai circulation in the Bohai Sea.

The Heishui Ocean sea route, especially before entering the Bohai Sea, is located in the outer waters of the Yellow Water Ocean, and the wind and waves are strong. Small and medium-sized seagoing vessels with poor wind and wave resistance and low structural strength are more dangerous when they take the Heishui Ocean sea route, and slightly larger wind and waves may cause the ship to disintegrate, damage the cargo and kill people.

Except for the time when Xinghaicao was 100 years ago, there was a large-scale fleet that went north by the Heishui Ocean sea route, and there were very few sea ships that also took the Heishui Ocean after that.

In addition to the greater risk of going through the black waters, the main reason is that after the rise of inland waterway transportation, the demand for trade between the north and the south through the sea route has been greatly weakened, and large maritime merchant ships lack room to survive. However, the short-distance sea trade along the coast is in the ascendant, such as the coast of Hejian Province, the coast of the Shandong Peninsula, the Huaihe estuary to Chongzhou, and the Chongzhou to the Qianjiang estuary. This short-haul shipping demand does not necessitate the Blackwater Ocean Outer Sea Route.

Except for some maritime merchants, shipowners, and old shipowners who have seen the world, most of the maritime merchants and shipowners nowadays don't even know about the existence of the Blackwater Ocean route.

There is no need to repeat the disadvantages of inland river transportation, especially in the last season, when the rule of law is chaotic and the contradictions are more prominent. When he first gained a foothold on Prison Island, Gu Wuchen at that time was in charge of the transportation of Jiangdong County, and Lin Jian was thinking about the problem of Haicao. I didn't have much contact with Li Zhuo, and I also talked about this issue. However, it is difficult to return from the accumulated evils, especially the hundreds of thousands of people who are counting on inland river transportation to eat, be promoted, and make a fortune, and want to resolutely give up inland river transportation and go to the sea, which is undoubtedly not something that the last dynasty has the courage or ability to do.

At present, the inland Cao Canal has been damaged, the Cao transportation has been blocked, and the imperial court has been forced to open the sea Cao, but in the eyes of the vast majority of officials, this is only an expedient measure, once the Yellow River is broken and blocked, and the Cao Canal in Pingyuan Fu is repaired, everything will return to their self-righteous right track.

Lin Jian spared no expense and built a fast and large sea ship with a strong structure at two or three times the cost, which was to sail into the outer seas.

The last time, Ge Cunxin led the fleet to the north to cooperate, not in a hurry, and the first large-scale sea trip of the fleet was to choose the slightly more stable Yellow Water Ocean offshore route. This time, there was a shortage of grain in Beijing and Jinhai to raise grain, and Lin Jian only thought that the capacity of Jinhai was insufficient in the short term, and the fleet had two voyage experiences, so Ge Cunxin recruited some boaters with experience in taking the Heishui Ocean route this time, and tried to make the shallow cabin of the fleet go north through the Heishui Ocean.

In the season when the north wind or northwest wind prevails, the best sea route to transport grain from Dengzhou to Jinhai is not to stick to the north bank of the Shandong Peninsula to Hejian Province, and then to the east bank of Hejian Province to Jinhai. It's hard to borrow the power of the wind, and the speed is very slow. The best route was to borrow the black water current branch into the Bohai Bay to form a ring current, and to transport grain to the Jinhai Sea in a large circle around the west coast of Liaodong occupied by the Dongyu, although it seemed that the voyage was twice as far, but the time was saved by more than half.

Because the Bohai Sea is surrounded by Liaodong and Shandong, taking the Bohai Sea circulation is an offshore route, and the wind and waves are quite ideal, and it is very convenient for a two-masted sailing ship of three or five hundred stones to walk in it, but one-third of the voyage of the grain transport fleet in the whole process will be close to the Liaodong land occupied by the Dongyu.

Although there was almost no water camp strength in the east, even a small group of captives attacked from the mouth of the river by small shuttle boats, and it was not possible for the merchant ships transporting grain to resist. Prior to this, one was to ask the Dengzhou Navy Division to send a military ship to escort it, and another Lin Tie would organize the Dongyang, the ship he left in Jinhai, together with the grain carrier, and organize a sentry team to escort the guard.

At least in the water war, the Jiangdong Left Battalion at this time had an absolute advantage. There is a lion-like warship in the grain fleet, even at sea can not distinguish the direction, on the deck can not stand steadily, the kind of shuttle boat that is too crowded to ride three or five will even overturn the waves stirred up by the Dongyang, even if the number of captives rushing into the sea from the mouth of the river is large, it is only as fragile as a baby. Lin Tie's new formation method in the Jiangdong Left Battalion, with the five pawns as the basic combat group, is particularly suitable for this kind of extremely narrow battlefield of the nature of the ship.

The first escort made several beautiful counterattacks, with more than 30 heads, and even the accompanying maritime merchants and shipowners were eager to try. The official price of a barbarian head is to exchange for twenty taels of silver, not for silver, and accumulate ten barbarian heads for Ru Linlang Sanjie, which is the status of an official from now on, and the temptation is greater for maritime merchants and shipowners.

Tang Haoxin was worried about the lack of capacity of the Tianjin Sea, but he did not expect that the total capacity of the ships gathered in the Tianjin Sea at the beginning was only more than 20,000 stones, and the total capacity increased directly to 36,000 stones on the first return trip, and the grain transported back for the first time was as much as 36,000 stones. At this time, Denglai Fei reported that the coastal maritime merchants and ship owners in Shandong knew that Jiangdong Zuoying bought grain at a high price in Jinhai, and there were ships rushing to Denglai to buy grain every day, and I was afraid that when the second formation departed, the total transportation capacity would exceed 80,000 stones.

It is not worrying that the maritime chamber of commerce will transport the grain to other places for sale, and it will take a process for the Shandong Cao grain to be concentrated in Denglai, and the maritime merchants will buy the Denglai grain at this time, which will make the Denglai grain immediately nervous, and the grain price will soar to the price limit line of 1,000 yuan per stone for the first time the grain is transported.

This price is already far higher than that of other parts of Shandong and the farther Jianghuai region, and it has also attracted a large number of grain merchants to concentrate grain to the Denglai area by land or inland rivers in Shandong, which has greatly made up for the lack of inland transportation capacity in Shandong.

Tang Haoxin really understood the beauty of setting up a grain price gradient, regardless of relying on the organizational strength of the government alone, if he wanted to turn the 300,000 grains scattered on the way to Jinan Prefecture and transport them to Jinhai to hand over the warehouse, it would be impossible to do so in three or five months. However, the food shortage crisis in Gyeonggi will not be able to drag on for three to five months.

Of course, there are also grain merchants who have the idea of hoarding grain, and the newly appointed Xuanfu envoys and inspectors in Shandong have personally gone to Denglai to supervise the grain, and they all know that Gyeonggi is really in chaos due to the grain shortage, and their heads will be cut off.

The key is that by mid-March, there will be follow-up grain into Denglai one after another, otherwise there will be no grain to buy when the sea ships arrive in Denglai - the earliest grain to enter Denglai, in addition to a small part of the grain from nearby prefectures and counties, more is still grain transported by grain merchants, and the supply chain is barely connected.

Seeing the return of the Jiyun Society fleet to Jinhai, Tang Haoxin's heart that has been hanging due to the Gyeonggi grain shortage has only fallen back to half, plus the Jiyun Society fleet, the capacity that can be mobilized at a time in Jinhai is more than 100,000 stones, and there is a boat division to escort it, circling the coastal waters of Liaodong, and it is not difficult to go back and forth twice a month, and before mid-April, it is not difficult for Jinhai to complete the goal of 300,000 stone grain storage.

As long as Jinhaecang is available, even if the grain is pushed to Gyeonggi by wheelbarrow, the food shortage crisis can be temporarily suppressed.