(The second update, ask for a red ticket)

Lin Xuwen said that he wanted to write a book and speak up, but Lin Jian shook his head. If he could come by temperament, he would be eager to catch Yue Lengqiu and slap him twice, but what good would it do to the current stormy situation if the contradiction was directly stabbed?

The Great Yue Dynasty was a ship full of holes, if the ship sank at this time, the most likely benefit was not others, but the eastern captives who destroyed Yannan, Lubei and other places beyond recognition.

"I have already asked Lin Mengde to secretly go to Beijing to find Tang Gong," Lin Jian said, "How to arrange it in the court, Tang Gong should have a decision." The most important thing now is not whether the harvest can be recovered, but how to solve the food shortage in Gyeonggi! If the problem of food shortage is solved, the crisis of the special purpose of grain supervision will naturally not become a crisis. ”

"It's not just the problem that the Cao Canal is impassable," Lin Xuwen, who has been in the Ministry of Industry for a long time and is very good at water conservancy, analyzed, "The rivers in Pingyuan Province are silted up, and the weather is getting warmer, and the disaster situation is extremely difficult to control." The discharge of the Yellow River and the rivers flowing down from the Taihang Mountains could not flow smoothly to the eastward to the sea, and the land became a river, and the roads were inevitably impassable. One of the ways that can be thought of at the moment is to transfer grain from Jinzhong and take the Taihang Mountain Tunnel, no matter how high the cost, Gyeonggi cannot be cut off from grain; the second is to transport grain from Shandong to Beijing by sea; Third, as much as possible, the garrison will be transferred to the coastal areas where food is easily available, so as to relieve the pressure on Gyeonggi's grain supply......"

"The eldest brother is really a capable minister who has been used by the world, I came to see the eldest brother, and I also came to hear these three strategies, I was puzzled and trapped before, but at this time I suddenly became ......enlightened," Lin Jian said, "The eldest brother is straightforward in the book, and there is no need to mention the disadvantages of the special purpose of the grain." Whoever wants to poke this lid off, and whoever wants to cover it up will also cover it up with them, and we only do what we think is right. The eldest brother can write a book to say bluntly about the three strategies of the central center to transfer grain from Jinzhong, temporarily open the sea and move the garrison to a place with a port on the coast to eat. The adoption of these three strategies by the DPRK and China is also beneficial to the eldest brother; If you don't adopt it, it will not be harmed by the eldest brother......"

If you want to say that Lin Lian's nose and face are swollen and he didn't have a bit of maturity to rush over on a snowy night, Lin Xuwen naturally didn't believe it, but listening to Lin Lian's analysis, he bluntly said that he would offer a solution, which was a world of difference between the advantages and disadvantages of the means compared to offending people by lifting the lid, and Lin Lian was mature in politics.

"Okay, I'll draft the chapter immediately, Old Seventeen, you are here, just to advise me." Lin Xuwen said.

"Then I'll be reluctant to be a staff officer for my eldest brother......" Lin Jian smiled.

Lin Tie pays great attention to maintaining a very polite and respectful attitude towards Lin Xuwen in words and deeds, although Lin Tingxun set up his youngest son as the lord of the Lin clan before his death, but the ten-year-old son is not in charge at all, the idea of the Lin family is still the eldest son Lin Xuwen to take it, the world is scattered, the season of troubled times, the unity and stability of the clan is more important than anything else, this truth, I think Lin Xuwen also understands.

Lin Jian said: "Actually, apart from the three strategies mentioned by the eldest brother, there is no other better way to solve the food shortage in Gyeonggi. Time is really short, and it is very likely that the Gyeonggi grain stock will only last until mid-April, and we will have to fight for it every hour, and we must not wait for the resolution of Gyeongjung before we take action. If it drags on for a day, I don't know how many people will starve to death in Gyeonggi. At present, the water potential of the whirlpool is not large, and I think that it is necessary to immediately organize people to intercept the flow of the river, widen the river channel to make the Tongwei River, and improve the navigation conditions from the whirlpool to Gyeonggi, which will be the biggest bottleneck in Haicao...... In addition, it is necessary to immediately build a large granary at the mouth of the vortex to prepare for grain storage. As long as there is enough grain and grass in Jinhai, it will be more than 200 miles away from Gyeonggi, and it will be much easier to transport it to Gyeonggi by land, whether it is a small boat or a cart or a horse......

"That's it!" Lin Xuwen knew that this was not a letter to solve the problem of the matter, but to ask him to stop the other things at hand, and concentrate all the resources that could be mobilized in Hejian Prefecture on the three things of widening the whirlpool river, building a grain transportation road, and building a grain storage warehouse.

To make such a decision, of course, there are political risks, the same way, to do great things must have the courage to decide, Lin Jian can rise in Jianghuai, Lubei, Yannan at the age of a weak crown, and the courage to make a decision is far beyond the reach of his peers. Lin Xuwen pondered for a moment and said, "Okay, I'll go back to Jinhai with you......"

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The Gyeonggi grain shortage is not just a shortage of 10,000 or 20,000 stones, but a shortage of millions of stones.

Gyeonggi is responsible for solving the problem of feeding 100,000 border troops, 80,000 garrisons and 30,000 military horses in Xuanhua and Jibei towns.

The Yanji Plain is an important grain-producing area, and in the past, Gyeonggi needed grain, and the five prefectures of Yannan and Lubei could solve part of it; This year, not only can we not expect to transfer grain from the five prefectures of Yannan and Lubei, but we will also have to transfer a large amount of grain to help two or three million refugees. One addition and one subtraction has made the grain shortage in Gyeonggi even worse and added fuel to the fire.

It is still unclear how serious the grain shortage in Gyeonggi is, but even in the year when the grain transportation was at its lowest, Gyeonggi had to transfer about 3 million stone of grain from other counties. At present, the grain supply from other counties is blocked south of Yannan, and the lowest estimate is that 3 million stone of grain will be transferred this year to tide over the food shortage crisis.

Weighing a carriage with a capacity of 10 stones, 300,000 carts, 600,000 mules and horses, and 300,000 coachmen would need to transport 3 million grains.

For a river boat with a capacity of 200 stones, 3 million grain requires 15,000 boats, 30,000 to 60,000 boatmen, and perhaps hundreds of thousands of additional pullers, lined up in a long line of nearly 1,000 miles in front and behind.

Cao Yun is probably the most spectacular project that the Great Yue Dynasty has to carry out every year.

A major crisis is always formed by the concentrated outbreak of multiple factors.

Lin Jian and Lin Xuwen did not return to Jinhai directly from Hejian County, but took a carriage north to Weitai.

The Whirlpool River is connected to the Wei River here.

The Wei River is the core waterway of inland river transportation in the Yannan and Gyeonggi sections, and the water is diverted from the middle section of the Taihang Mountains, with a width of between 150 and 200 steps. Lin Jian rushed to Weitai and saw that on both sides of the Wei River were Shibazi embankments, planted with willows, and there were spacious official roads leading to Gyeonggi on both sides. Due to the distance from Pingyuanfu, it is not clear from here that the Wei River has been seriously affected by the disaster of the Yellow River breach.

The navigation conditions of the Wei River to the north from Weitai are excellent, and there is no problem for the direct passage of the thousand stone grain ships.

The key vortex river is a big bottleneck that tightens the neck, and the navigation conditions are very poor.

Lin Jian and Lin Xuwen didn't stay long in Weitai, they went east along the Vortex River, they just wanted to go around the field and personally grasp the first-hand information on the navigation conditions of the Vortex River.

Judging from the historical records and local chronicles, the Jinhai vortex was the most important transit port when the sea was opened. At that time, the newly excavated vortex river was almost more than 60 steps wide, and the perennial water depth was more than one zhang, and the embankment on both sides of the river was planted with willow berms. Large seagoing ships transported grain to Jinhai to dock at the port and transfer to the port, and then exchanged for three or four hundred stone carrying inland river boats to go through the Whirlpool River to the Wei River and enter Gyeonggi. At the most prosperous time, the boats are connected, and almost the entire vortex river and the vortex port are closed, and there is no pressure at all to transfer four or five hundred stone grain a year, after all, the river section is short, only fifty or sixty miles.

It is a pity that Haicao was abolished for various reasons after five years of prosperity, and more than 100 years have passed so far.

There is no government involvement to maintain and control the river for many years, but the whirlpool river that diverts water from the Wei River is getting shallower and shallower year by year. There were also several floods that broke the embankment in the middle, and the damage to the river embankment was even more serious. Nowadays, not to mention the thousand-stone giant ship, even the medium-sized inland river boats with a capacity of 100 stones rarely enter the vortex river because they are afraid of being shallow.

The depth of the Vortex River channel is the most important embodiment of the conditions for inland river transfer, and naturally it also determines the prosperity of the vortex as a transit port.

Even if there is a large amount of grain stored at the mouth of the whirlpool, under the navigation conditions of the Whirlpool River at that time, it can transport up to 200,000 stone of grain to Gyeonggi in a year. The cost of taking the land route is too high, and the three prefectures of Yannan have been destroyed, and there are not enough mules and horses. However, as a last resort, it is necessary to make people push a wheeler to transport grain into Beijing.

Due to the need to consider the river on the spot, Lin Jian and Lin Xuwen were delayed on the road for two days, and did not return to the mouth of the Jinhai vortex until the evening of the 26th. Lin Mengde had already returned from Yanjing, he had to believe that Lin Lian had returned to the vortex, hurriedly came out of the stockade to greet him, and said to Lin Lian and Lin Xuwen: "Tang Gong is here, he arrived in the afternoon, and now he is in the stockade......"

Lin Jian didn't expect that Tang Haoxin would personally go out of Beijing to Jinhai, and he and Lin Xuwen hurriedly entered the village to meet Tang Haoxin.

Tang Haoxin is already seventy-one years old, his beard and hair are all white, his face is full of yellow-brown old age spots, his eyes are not very good, the sky is already dark, the hall is lit with pine candles, Tang Haoxin's eyes are red with green smoke, and when he is rubbing his eyes, he sees Lin Jian and Lin Xuwen entering the lobby.

Tang Haoxin saw Lin Tie for the first time, seeing him like this, and walking side by side with Lin Xuwen, he knew that it was him, and said loudly: "Heroes are out of teenagers, heroes are out of teenagers, Wuchen has such a proud protégé as you, and there are no regrets in this life!" Pulled Lin Tie's arm, looked at him carefully, and said with a smile, "Good looks, really strange!" It is worthy of being a rising star of my Chu Party. ”

"Tang Gong has an overreputation." Lin Jian smiled modestly, he went to Hejian County to find Lin Xuwen, he fell a few times in the muddy water, the conditions were so bad, and there was no change of washing, he hadn't washed well in the past three or four days after leaving, it was so dirty that he was like a child, and his clothes and armor also saw the original color, can this be called good-looking? According to the river, Lin Jian felt that his face was hateful.

When the Chu Party gained power, Tang Haoxin was already sixty-nine years old, and recommended his protégé Zhang Xie to serve as the deputy minister, and he only served as the young master of the crown prince and the bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion.

"I don't have much to say hello, this is Chen Jingtang, the director of the Ministry of Industry, and I know you in the continuation of the article," Tang Haoxin took Lin Tie's arm and walked into the lobby, "Your guess is right, Gyeonggi grain is about to run out." When will you be ready to reopen Haicao from Jinhai? ”