If I fail to overcome the tribulation, I can only return to the Ming Dynasty and become a prince.

Chapter 160 Transportation of food and expedition

Planning the transportation of food and fodder for the army is not an easy task.

Even in later generations, if you look at the problems that occurred with various supplies during major disasters and epidemics, you will understand that this job is not easy to do.

This is just one of the reasons why people are working hard. Ensuring that the transported grain and grass can be transported satisfactorily was also a very difficult thing in ancient times.

Later generations can rely on logistics technologies such as cold chain low-temperature transportation and a series of transportation methods such as airplanes and trains to transport fresh vegetables and fruits at an efficiency that is multiple or even dozens of times faster than the number of people in ancient times. This was unimaginable in ancient times.

The emperor of the Qing Dynasty wanted to eat shad. This is not a difficult thing in modern times. Even in Beijing, it is not impossible to eat it. However, in ancient times, shad died as soon as it came out of the water. If you want to eat fresh ones, you need to The manpower and material resources used are unimaginable.

This fish needs to be salvaged from Nanjing, and will immediately be put into a box containing lard and ice, affixed with a seal from Nanjing military and political officials, and then transported to Beijing on a fast horse without stopping.

Along the way, all local officials from Nanjing to Beijing had to wait on the road to wait for the cavalry transporting shad to ensure that the road was smooth and there were no problems along the way.

A post station every thirty miles must prepare fast horses and water early. The person delivering fish will change a fast horse when he arrives at a post station to ensure the speed of the journey.

Eating, drinking, and even solving personal hygiene problems all have to be done on horses. To put it more bluntly, people can die from exhaustion, horses can die from exhaustion, and you must deliver the fish that the emperor wants to eat.

At that time, the regulations of the imperial dining room of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were that the fish should be cooked in the imperial dining room and served to Kang Mazi's table, and the time could not exceed 22 hours.

Along the way, more than [-] horses were used, and more than [-] civilians were employed.

"On a journey of three thousand miles, in less than three days, I know how many people and horses will be killed."

"It doesn't matter if a horse hurts or kills someone, I just want a good fish to be the best."

The song "Enter the Fresh Line" fully describes the manpower and material resources Kang Mazi spent on eating a fish at that time.

As for food, although transportation is not so exaggerated, [-]% of the food is transported from Nanjing to Beijing. If it is transported by land, [-]% can reach Beijing. The traffic conditions along the way are considered to be good and smooth all the way.

Therefore, since the Mongols established their capital in Dadu, the Mongols built the Grand Canal to the city of Beijing, and also actively developed maritime transportation routes, transporting food from the south to the north through two routes: water transportation and sea transportation.

Although the capital was settled in Nanjing in the early Ming Dynasty, water transportation and sea transportation were suspended for many years. It was not until Zhu Di moved the capital to Beijing that water transportation was gradually resumed. After the sea transportation, even the ships simply disappeared, but the transportation of grain was not easy. It can also be seen.

After all, if millions of grains of grain were to be transported from Nanjing to Beijing via the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the food and clothing of the "millions of grain workers" would still be affected along the way.

As for the local officials along the way?There is a dedicated water transportation yamen responsible for water transportation, and local officials do not need to intervene unless there is a problem with the water transportation in their own jurisdiction.

But those are all head-turning things, so it doesn’t matter if you don’t care.

Moreover, during the Qing Dynasty, not counting the various arbitrary levies and clever pretexts imposed by local officials at all levels, only the 400 million shi of grain stipulated by the court for transporting grain by water, and an additional 230 million shi of grain consumption as "loss" were levied. How troublesome and troublesome is this food transportation? You can imagine how difficult it is.

Fortunately, it is still the Yongle period of the early Ming Dynasty. Although there was some corruption among Ming officials, it was not as exaggerated as it was later in the Qing Dynasty. The court could get enough food for one stone, but local officials had to collect five or even seven stones.

One stone of grain was transported from Nanjing to Jeju Island by sea. Although there was some loss along the way, after deducting the consumption, [-]% of the grain was still able to be transported to Zhu Zhanquan.After all, the speed, efficiency, and scale of sea transportation are far superior to land transportation and water transportation, and the waste and consumption are not as great as land transportation and water transportation.

But even so, it is impossible to transport a shipload of grain directly from Nanjing to Jeju Island in this era.

Even in later generations, domestic shipping and transnational shipping were still two different things. In this era, it was even more impossible for grain ships to transport grain directly from Nanjing to Jeju Island.

After all, on the vast sea, who knows whether you transported the food to Jeju Island or somewhere else.

During such a long sea journey, it was reported that a grain of food was wetted and lost by the waves, but in fact it was corrupted and the court was unable to investigate.

In addition, there are large and small ships transporting grain. If you want to ensure the stability of the grain supply, you need a transfer station to sort and transfer the transported grain.

The grain from Nanjing was transported to Tianjin. After being counted and sorted in Tianjin and checked for mold, germination and other problems, it was loaded onto a large ship and transported to Incheon. Here it was loaded with grain provided by North Korea and then sent to Jeju Island. This trip That's it.

If it is transported by land, don't even think about it. The food will definitely be eaten halfway.

Even if it was transported by water, it would be considered a high price if it could be transported from [-] to [-]%, not to mention that there was no canal to transport it from Nanjing to North Korea.

Maritime transportation is much better in this regard. Not only is it far superior to water transportation and land transportation in terms of transportation volume, even if a sea ship completes the journey from Nanjing to Jeju Island, it will not take a month, and the consumption along the way can be said to be very low. .

Over in Nanjing, Zhu Gaochi and Xia Yuanji, two experts in financial management and internal affairs, were watching, so Zhu Zhanjuan was not worried about problems.

His fiefdom is also under the responsibility of the royal palace officials. Whether it is inventory, sorting or transfer, the two chief historians of the palace will handle the matter properly.

After all, something was really going to go wrong. It didn't take Zhu Zhanjun to chop off their heads, but Xia Yuanji, the old man who wanted to break open the eight-petaled flower with a copper penny, would peel off their skins.

Just kidding, this conquest is related to several silver mines with an annual output of one million taels of silver. Hubu's eyes are bleeding because of this matter. If you dare to play tricks on this matter, then it's true. Waiting to confiscate the family and exterminate the thin-skinned real grass.

If there are no problems at home, it is even less likely that there will be problems on North Korea's side.

Li Bao, who had just come to power thanks to the Ming Dynasty's rebellion, unless he wanted the Ming Dynasty to drive him out again, he would definitely not be able to cause any trouble to the Ming Dynasty in the matter of conquering Japan.

Even if someone under his command causes trouble, Li Bao must first think about pleasing Ming Dynasty and then smooth things over.

After all, if he can't pacify the situation, then Ming Dynasty will have no choice but to pacify North Korea.

So in the end, it seemed that there was something wrong with Jeju Island. Xu Bin was just a remnant of the Jing Dynasty and an orphan of Jianwen. Although he took refuge in Zhu Zhancheng for various reasons, it was difficult to guarantee that he had no second thoughts.

But Zhu Zhanjun seemed to be very optimistic about this person and entrusted him with the task of transporting the army's grain.

As for Zhu Zhanju himself, after waiting for the arrival of his three guards from Tianjin and the fleet led by Zheng He himself, he swore to go on an expedition on the last day of September, directing his troops towards the Japanese state.

(End of this chapter)