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Although it has started to get cold in the north, as the ship goes down, it is obvious that the climate will become warmer.
Three days later, the ship stopped at a pier.
This pier is commonly known as the "North Pier", and together with the "South Pier" on the other side of Guimen Pass, they sandwich the twenty-mile road of Guimen Pass.
Of course, we did not build the pier just after we passed the gate of hell. Instead, we built the pier two miles ahead of schedule, and we went in around a corner to build a "U"-shaped throughput pier.
At the boundary of the Grand Canal here, there are more than a dozen thick iron cables blocking the river surface to prevent a boat from accidentally sliding down and causing the boat to be destroyed and people to die.
There are high cliffs on both sides of the North Pier, but the area is particularly spacious. The width of the pier is at least more than 200 meters, and the depth of the recess is more than 300 meters.
This was not built in a year or two, but it took at least thirty years of continuous construction and expansion to reach today's scale.
After entering the port, Liu Mingqi felt as if she had returned to the East Watergate Wharf in the capital.
I saw hundreds of ships of different sizes, divided into two parts in an orderly manner under the command of the small boats that kept shuttling back and forth.
Part of it is naturally going to the capital, while the other part is unloading the goods here and preparing to transport them to the south.
The Grand Canal is not just about transporting things from the south to the north. Many things from the north are also transported to rich places in the south through the Grand Canal.
Only when things come and go, and exchange what is needed, can things last long.
Of course, the things that came from the north are far inferior to the scale and amount of things that came from the south.
Because they were flying the flag of Qianniuwei, Liu Mingqi and his two ships naturally received preferential treatment. It only took half an hour to land at the dock.
The officials who had received the news were already waiting at the dock.
This group of officials is divided into two obvious camps.
The man on the left, a tall, fat official in his forties, saw Liu Mingqi and others disembarking, and immediately came up with his subordinates with a smile.
"Chen Xianzhi, the magistrate of Xiangcheng Prefecture, who holds the humble position, has met His Royal Highness Prince Yu, Lord Zhang, Lord Gu, and Miss Wu." He saluted respectfully.
A shorter official on the right also followed suit and said: "Lu Guanxin, a low-level transport envoy of the Water Transport Yamen, has met His Highness, Mr. Zhang, Mr. Gu, and Miss Wu."
When he finished speaking, Chen Xianzhi, the magistrate of Xiangcheng Prefecture, said again: "Master Gan Shuzheng, a doctor in the household department, has gone to Beijing for business, so he was not able to meet His Highness from afar. Please forgive me."
"It doesn't matter."
Liu Mingqi raised her hand and said with a smile, "You should also be exempt from the courtesy!"
Although he did not hold any official position in the imperial court, in terms of title, he was of a superior rank. Even the Prime Minister Cao Yi was two levels below him.
So even though Gu Chenyan was officially the imperial envoy, Liu Mingqi still ranked first when it came to etiquette.
The two docks in Guimenguan and the land transportation in between are all within the boundaries of Xiangcheng Mansion.
"But such a large piece of fat cannot be eaten by just Xiangcheng Mansion. Without supervision, problems may easily occur."
Therefore, when the dock was first opened, the imperial court asked the water transport yamen to manage it together.
The specific shipping is handled by the water transport yamen, but the warehouses on the shore, the small town, and the transportation between the north and south docks are all handled by Xiangcheng Mansion.
In this way, the two can be separated to improve efficiency and supervise each other.
However, neither of them was affected by the collection of merchant shipping taxes from the two major docks. The Ministry of Household Affairs specially sent a doctor to collect it, which resulted in the separation of the rights and interests of the three parties.
¡°However, Liu Mingqi knows that in the past ten or twenty years, the efficiency of the two major terminals in Guimenguan has become increasingly low, and various losses have increased, resulting in higher and higher prices in the Gyeonggi region.
It would be impossible without the "contribution" of their local state capital, water transport yamen and household department.
It¡¯s not that the imperial court didn¡¯t think of ways. In the past ten years, there have been five changes in the prefect of Xiangcheng Prefecture, four transfer envoys in the water transport yamen, and four doctors in the Ministry of Household Affairs, but there has still not been much change.
After a while, they returned to the same way, a bit heavy.
"If this were not the case, it would have been absolutely impossible for Emperor Jinghe and the princes of the court to come up with the almost impossible idea of ??"opening the gate of hell".
Thoughts passed by in a flash.
Chen Xianzhi on the opposite side said with a smile: "Your Highness, you have worked hard all the way.Most of them are businessmen traveling from north to south, and there are also convoys transporting goods and so on. "
This shows the importance of the north and south piers of Guimenguan.
As the main node connecting the Gyeonggi region and the northwest, many merchants simply do business here. After the sale is negotiated, they can directly pick up the goods on the ship without going to the capital or other places to trade.
Rice, silk, porcelain, tea, tung oil from the south, horses, cattle and sheep, furs, ores from the north, etc. are all available here.
Even many goods that should have been on the northeast route, such as ginseng, mink skin, deer antlers and other treasures, are also traded here.
To Liu Mingqi, this feels like the largest goods trading market in the country.
Many merchants even feel that it is much more convenient and faster to transport goods here and sell them directly than to sell them in various provinces.
This creates a lot of middlemen, and many of them are dedicated to facilitating various transactions.
As a result, the towns at the North and South Piers are naturally filled with music and music every night, creating a lively scene like a city that never sleeps.
After walking more than a hundred meters, Liu Mingqi entered Tongjiang Town.
Seeing that the local bully here, Chen Xianzhi, the prefect of Xiangcheng Prefecture, and Lu Guanxin, the transshipment envoy of the Caoyun Yamen, were accompanying a young man in brocade clothes, all the people on the street involuntarily moved out of the way.
In fact, they couldn¡¯t get out of the way even if they wanted to. Dozens of government officials and canal transport troops had already started clearing the middle of the road.
"Wow, look, it's the logo of Xiuyiwei!"
"It's strange, these are obviously the guards of Qianniu Guard!"
"Scared? Is it the Qianniu Guards in the palace? Could it bethe emperor is here!?"
"But pull it off. When the emperor is traveling, can there be no Yulin Guards around?"
"Is that the prince?"
"No, isn't the prince in the Lianghu area? Besides, there are no eight hundred or so Yulin guards around the prince. How dare the emperor let him come out?"
"But this young man is also wearing a robe with a golden dragon, mountains and rivers!"
"I don't know I heard that the most popular person in the capital recently is the sixteen-year-old Crown Prince Yu. Could it be him?"
Everyone was whispering, but Liu Mingqi didn't pay attention to them.
During the process of walking from here to the restaurant, the young man has been observing the situation in Tongjiang Town.
The roads in Tongjiang Town are much better than those outside. They are basically made of bluestone slabs. Walking on them is smooth and smooth, which is very refreshing.
Chen Xianzhi is right, this place can easily accommodate 20,000 to 30,000 people.
From an economic perspective, this has created a siphon effect.
Through the prosperity of Tongjiang Town, it can not only bring huge tax revenue to Xiangcheng Mansion, but also bring a lot of material needs to nearby villages hundreds of miles away.
In this way, the enthusiasm for raising and planting in nearby villages will greatly increase, and the attraction will also increase, which will attract landless or poor people from further areas to come here to find jobs, or to marry their daughters.
If the gate to hell is cleared, Tongjiang Town would not dare to be abandoned, but the excitement would be at least halved.
I wonder how many shops will be left here and how prosperous it will be?
But looking back, compared to the shipping restricted by the Ghost Gate and the various ills caused, the interests of these shops and people are not worth mentioning.
The lesser of two evils.
Whichever of the two benefits is more important.
What I¡¯m talking about is this necessary choice.
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Note: The word "dock worker" mentioned here has actually been used for a long time. "Xunzi¡¤Ruxiao" said, "If you set up rules and put them ink, they will be ready for later use. A gentleman is not as good as a worker." Han Yu's "Money is more important than things and shape is more important than appearance" also writes: "With grains and silk, farmers can do what they can, and workers can do what they can." Why."
Although the two of them are probably talking about the workers in "scholars, farmers, industry and commerce", which means craftsmen, they think it is reasonable to use it for civilian handymen, and it is more appropriate than "dock helpers".
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