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    The biggest problem of the water transport yamen is not at all the loss of watermen and ships mentioned by Liu Mingqi.

    ?????????? It¡¯s about the corruption at the top and bottom, and the burning out.

    The corruption at his hands will definitely be rectified after Miao Yan passes, and it will definitely get better for many years.

    But as long as Miao Yan leaves and the person who succeeds him is not as good as him, it will return to the original situation in two or three years.

    This is unavoidable at all times and in all countries.

    The other fire consumption is the same.

    The fire consumption of the water transport yamen is very high, reaching about 1.8 times.

    What does that mean?

    ¡°If you want to transport one kilogram of grain from Jiangnan to the capital, you must prepare 1.8 kilograms of grain in Jiangnan.

    If you want to transport it to the territory where the northwest garrison is located, you will have to double the fire consumption.

    So this almost doubled loss greatly consumed food, making the annual famine even more shocking.

    But this is more troublesome than solving the corruption that lies at the hands of others.

    Why?

    You think 1.8 times is too high?

    That¡¯s really not high!

    If transported by land, the fire cost will be five times to the capital, and ten times to the Northwest Pass!

    It means that if you transport ten kilograms of grain from the south of the Yangtze River to the Northwest Pass, only one kilogram can be delivered in the end.

    have a look!

    Compared with land transportation, do you dare to say that water transportation is not kind?

    Liu Mingqi will spit in your face!

    ¡°But the fire loss of the water transport yamen is just a very special example. In fact, among the entire Grand Canal transport fleet, they are the ones with the best treatment and the least loss.

    Because of the checkpoints along the way, it is impossible to intercept the money and grain fleet.

    But the ordinary merchant fleets are not so lucky.

    The various taxes they encountered were as little as two or three times, and as much as seven or eight times.

    ?This involves a lot of corruption, a large number of checkpoint personnel who take advantage of the situation, and various unreasonable taxes.

    Don¡¯t think that this happened only in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In fact, it happened in every dynasty.

    Even Dakang is not exempt from vulgarity.

    I believe this aspect is also the focus of Miao Yan¡¯s rectification.

    Dakang is a country based on commerce. Everyone knows that only when there are more commodities circulating, the prices will be cheaper.

    ??If it goes through layers of overweighting, even the cheapest things will become very expensive.

    ??From this aspect, the nobles and clans took advantage.

    With the exception of some formal large-scale tax collection checkpoints, they don¡¯t have to pay anything else, and those small checkpoints don¡¯t even dare to embarrass them.

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    Even people like Yu Wang who don't do much business know that in addition to the formal collection of money for water transportation operations and payment of taxes, there are at least two or three times more money, which is owned by the people in the middle.  Swallowed.

    But the imperial court couldn¡¯t control much.

    For example, as mentioned before, when the water transport yamen wants to repair rivers and clean up silt, it always asks the local government to pay for it.

    How much money do local governments have?

    They have no money, so they can only rely on setting up cards on the Canal Road to make money to subsidize them?

    Okay, if you don¡¯t want them to set up a card, they are willing to do so.

    But next time you need some dredging and repairs, don¡¯t come to us.

    No money!

    There¡¯s no money for beating him to death!

    Therefore, the court acquiesced in their behavior.

    There is nothing we can do about this.

    ¡­¡­

    Fortunately, this matter can only be left to Miao Yan to worry about, and Liu Mingqi doesn't have to worry at all.

    So you see, being an official is so troublesome, what kind of big troubles will it be to be an emperor?

    It would be good to be an emperor like Xia Jie, Shang Zhou, Sui Yang Emperor, Tang Ming Emperor, Song Huizong, Qing Qianlong, but except for the old man Shiquan who could die a good death, the rest would all end well!

    Poor Ming Dynasty, none of the dozen or so emperors were as crazy and wasteful as them, and they were still destroyed.

    Zhengde, who was scolded the most, also personally committed suicide on the grassland and defeated Ada Khan!

    Recalling the fate of these emperors, Liu Mingqi felt uncomfortable about being an imperial prince who didn¡¯t care about anything.?

    The structure of the ship is easy to draw. Without the power system, it would be a little more troublesome. It requires the use of tracks, iron gears, rotating blades, lever principles, etc.

    But these are all within Liu Mingqi¡¯s control.

    How can it be difficult for a man with a Ph.D. in physics to make mechanical drawings like this from hundreds of years ago?

    That is to say, the drawing and size details should be more careful and rigorous, and the rest is not too harsh.

    ¡°After all, you don¡¯t need to build a stone screening machine, you don¡¯t need to make transmission lines, you don¡¯t need to consider load issues, let alone mechanical failures.

    In addition, Liu Mingqi also made a drawing of a new type of ship.

    This is a kind of ship that he learned about when he was in college, after watching his classmates in his dormitory play "Age of Discovery 4" and checking the information.

    This kind of ship is called a Clark sailing ship.

    But there are many types of Clark sailboats.

    Liu Mingqi chose the evolutionary species of the sixteenth century.

    In addition to ensuring that the length, width and height are at a very scientific 4:3:1, he also specifically increased the number of masts.

    Nowadays, Dakang¡¯s ships usually have two masts, but Liu Mingqi added a middle mast in one go and even a small tail mast, giving it a full four masts.  ¡ª¡ªOf course, it is much smaller than the real five-masted ship Prussia. This is an improved version of the ordinary three-masted ship.

    In addition, the boy also changed the hard sail into a soft sail, and changed from large sails to small sails.  ¡ª¡ªJust like the appearance of the super gunboats we saw on TV in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the sun never sets and other countries.

    Such a ship has greatly improved its ability to withstand violent storms.

    As for other improvement methods, Liu Mingqi, who is half-full, cannot understand.

    It is not easy for him to write down the external characteristics and advantages and provide inspiration to those who build ships.

    No matter how versatile the engineering dog is, it is not omnipotent!  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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