Reborn Regent of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 620 Water Transportation

When everyone was rejoicing, only a few people remained calm enough.

The Zhang brothers, Lin Wenyuan and Qu Rui knew enough inside information. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Although they have taken the first few solid steps, they are still far from reaching their goal.

But is Zhang Shouren's goal really achievable?

There is still no answer to this question...[

When the soldiers of Dengzhou Town were receiving rewards in the Gucheng and Taiping Town areas and fell into carnival, the situation in the Shandong area became more and more dangerous in the eyes of many people.

The northwestern part of Yanzhou was completely under Li Qingshan's control at the beginning of Li Qingshan's uprising, with Liangshan as the core, and then Dongping Prefecture, Dong'e County, Pingyin County, Yanggu, Shouzhang and other counties all fell into Li Qingshan's control .

The snowflakes of urgent reports from all over the country usually flew to the capital, but at that time, the war in Huguang was also at the most critical juncture, and the court still didn't think much of Li Qingshan, a local bandit who was born as a thieves... It's been a year, and the thieves who came out of northern Shaanxi are the most serious troubles. Among them, Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zi are the leaders. The next rank is Luo Rucai and the fifth battalion of Gezuo. After a while, it was the turn of the chaos and thieves that appeared in various places.

Shandong is adjacent to the capital, and it is also one of the bases of the White Lotus Sect. When the famous Wenxiang Sect rebelled in the early years of Chongzhen, there were as many as hundreds of thousands of rebels. Lord, a small number of elite soldiers rush to help. The so-called hundreds of thousands of incense people are farmers with fork targets, and the long-range attack method is to throw stones.

Li Qingshan has been active in the Liangshan area for many years, and he has a good reputation. Everyone in the court knows that he is a thieves leader. When rebelling against such people, they subconsciously don't take it seriously. The land with a radius of thousands of miles and hundreds of thousands of people fell into his hands, and the most dangerous thing was that the water transportation was obviously about to be cut off!

The rice-producing prefectures of Su, Song, Hangzhou, and Jia are delivered to Huai'an, and after being exchanged to the transport army, the transport troops from Guazhou and Huai'an go northward along the canal. There is at least 200 million to 300 million shi of grain every year. Water transportation is the lifeline of the entire northern China. If Beijing and the military towns along the border do not have the support of Jiangnan Caomi, let alone supporting hundreds of thousands of frontier troops to fight against aliens, even the city of Beijing The hundreds of thousands of people who eat royal meals will definitely not be able to support them.

In the past few years, Beizhili has failed to harvest every year, and the price of grain did not exceed five yuan when it was the highest.

At the same time, the price of grain in Shenyang in the same period was probably more than a dozen taels for one stone when it was the highest, and three or four taels for one stone when it was cheap. The price of grain was dozens of times that of the capital of Daming. If the population of the Qing Dynasty were to cultivate the land, all kinds of droughts and snowstorms, the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty were expensive, and they would have gone to the king of Hades long ago.

The most important water transportation routes in Shandong are two prefectures, one is Dongping prefecture, which is an important wharf and distribution center, and the other is Linqing prefecture, which is the warehouse transfer center in the north. Allocated from Linqing Cang, the entire Northern Army Town and the capital use grain, and Linqing Prefecture is also a transshipment center. This city usually stores at least hundreds of thousands of shi of grain... The last time when Donglu entered the country, all of them were robbed , not to mention the heavy loss.