Walking all over the world, I am sad to cross the Wujiang River, thousands of miles of beaches, and nine out of ten ships are broken.

Xu Youzhen arrived in Gongtan Town and was waiting for the ship, and he wanted to go down the river.

In the 27th year of King Zhao of Qin, Sima Cuo, the Qin general, led 100,000 people from Bashu, set out from Fuling, and rushed up the Wujiang River and went straight to Sinan. This was the first large-scale military operation in Guizhou in history and the beginning of the first Wujiang canal transport.

Since then, boats and oars have shuttled back and forth on the Wujiang River, transporting salt on the top, tung oil, raw lacquer, oil tea, green hemp, cinnabar, mercury, cotton, wax and other specialties. Merchants gathered along the river to form a group of commercial and handicraft towns.

While Xu Youzhen was waiting for the boat, it started drizzling in the sky, and the river surface was like fog, and a layer of mist appeared. Coupled with the howling wind in the mountains, people suddenly felt a chill, and a fresh air filled the rain.

Through the misty water mist, Xu Youzhen saw the ship he was waiting for.

The wavy head-shell ship is a ship specially used in Wujiang. The thick plate of the ship is nearly three inches thick, about three meters long and one meter wide, and can hold up to 250 materials.

The bow and stern of the crooked ship are raised very high, which is to prevent evil waves from appearing into the ship.

The strangest thing about this ship is that the stern is high on the left and low on the right, and the height difference is nearly half a meter, which is a crooked stern.

The bow of the ship is also tilted.

The bow of the crooked boat was tilted to the left, and the stern of the boat was tilted to the right, as if it had been twisted.

This is because ships in Wujiang generally travel on the right, so whether they are going up or down, the water flow on the left is not so turbulent, so this crooked boat has this crooked head.

"Can you pass by the boat, go down the river?" Xu Youzhen boarded the boat and looked up at the sky. The rain started. I wonder if something would happen.

The shipkeeper was the owner of the ship, and there were not many ships on Wujiang. Most of them were controlled by large merchants such as Yifenghe, Zhang Yifeng, Yuelaihe, Dasheng, and Zhoujiayan in Sinan. They traveled between Sichuan and Sichuan and transported Sichuan salt to Yunnan and Guizhou.

Two years ago, there were only about 200 ships in the Wujiang River, and there were only more than 900 ships engaged in the Wujiang River ships, only more than 900 people.

Therefore, when King Xiang entered the nobles, he not only had to solve the problem of gaining income from labor, but also had to solve the problem of no place to work.

Since King Xiang Zhu Zhanji arrived in Guizhou and ordered Guo Yan to supervise the construction of the Wujiang Shipyard, he adapted to local conditions and built a total of 500 crooked ships in just one year.

The construction speed of Wujiang Shipyard has increased rapidly at a speed that merchants cannot understand.

The shipman was wearing a short shirt and a hat, and the oar in his hand was about two feet long, almost the same length as the boat.

"Yes, yes." The shipman was not good at talking, but just spoke calmly.

His ancestors moved to Gongtan Town in the early Song Dynasty and have been engaged in boats and boats for generations. It has been thirty or forty years since the waves.

Xu Youzhen is a high-ranking official, and the shipkeeper is still a little nervous.

"Can you sail on this weather?" Xu Youzhen asked with a little concern while sitting on the boat.

When the boatman saw Xu Youzhen boarding the boat, he smiled and said, "What's the problem."

Xu Youzhen talked with the shipman for a few words, and the shipman opened up and talked for a long time. He was a Han citizen. Although he was not very fluent in Chinese, there was not much problem with communication.

The shipkeeper said with a smile: "There are five fiber paths up and down the Wujiang River and fourteen dangerous shoals. I know clearly where to pass or where to pass. I can't. Don't worry, the high-ranking officials."

There are about a thousand boatmen with the fiber trajectory. Whether it is windy and sunny or heavy rain, they have to tow the boat on the fiber trajectory less than five feet away from the cliff. Whether it is bubbles at the soles of their feet or bleeding from the rope, they all face the ground and their backs facing the sky, and they support their bodies to pull the boat like a bent bow.

Xu Youzhen had never seen these boatmen, because since the Beiya marched into Guizhou and began to swindle the beach, these five beach silt places that require boatmen to navigate, no longer need boatmen.

King Xiang Zhu Zhanji placed them all in the shipyard. While doing physical work, he followed the shipmen to learn how to train the boat.

The shipman started to take the boat and said with relief: "In the past, the ship owners were all wealthy and powerful chieftains and officials and gentry. 60% of the income from the canal transportation belonged to the ship owners, the shipman fought 20% of the ship, and the boatman accounted for 20% of the boatman.

"If the ship sinks, the owner will pay for the money and the shipboat workers will pay for their lives, and they will try their best to make some money."

"After King Xiang comes down, there is no need for so many boatmen, it's about four or six minutes."

Xu Youzhen said in confusion: "Why is it so hard, why is it only 40%?"

"40% of them belong to the shipyard, and 60% of them belong to ours." The shipman said quickly.

Xu Youzhen understands it.

After the shipman opened the box, he couldn't stop saying: "Now the waterway is much easier to walk than before. Three years ago, it was dark and the ground was stormy, and the boat capsized. I, the only one of the six boatmen, survived."

"After King Xiang came down, it was almost three months. I haven't heard of anyone's capsized. His Highness and the Governor seemed not satisfied. They were busy all day long and exploded stalls all day long."

"I will shout out the slogans when they shout, one is used, two is used, three is used, four is used, five is used, and five is used. Not to mention, these military men are quick to do things."

"I heard that I was in Zhentian Cave recently to deal with the Tianshi Stone. It was said that the Tianshi Stone would be knocked off within one year."

Zhentian Stone is the Hengjiang stone silted on Zhentiandong Beach. The stone will turn into a reef in summer and autumn. It is a high-incidence area for shipwrecks. If the Zhentian Stone is not blown up, how can this section of waterway be able to pass?

Of course, Xu Youzhen knew what King Xiang Zhu Zhanji and Governor Yang Jun wanted to do. Wujiang Shipyard was building a five hundred-material crooked canal ship. This kind of ship was much larger than the current crooked canal ship. In order to ensure the smooth navigation of the canal ship, it was naturally necessary to kill large pieces of Hengjiang stone.

Not long after Xu Youzhen got on the boat, she felt a violent vomiting. The boat was very bumpy, and then he found that he was seasick.

But he still insisted on keeping his energy and carefully recorded the silt along the way.

When he arrived at Sinan Pier, Xu Youzhen finally couldn't hold on anymore. He vomited so hard that he seemed to have to vomit his stomach before he could stop.

The shipman and the boatmen shook their heads repeatedly as they looked.

Who knows the dangers of this place if you haven’t taken the Wujiang boat?

Not to mention Xu Youzhen, when the shipman and the boatmen were slightly more ill, they vomited in a slight bad weather. If they were seasick, they would not get used to it.

I kept snoring on the boat.

The wavy boat stopped at Sinan Wharf. Xu Youzhen was in the inn, twisting his own light oil lamp and starting to write and draw.

He soon discovered that his idea of ​​the water return method would not work at all.

Of course, Xu Chengzong knew that the case of the Jiling Female Housekeeper would definitely involve Yanyunlou in the end, and the closing of Yanyunlou was within his expectations.

"It's not that I, Old Xu, is greedy for money. This Yanyun Tower is indeed making money every day, but this person is gone. What's the use of making so much money?"

"But Governor Li, I think this Yanyun Building will be suspended for a few more years." Xu Chengzong did not think it would be a good idea to stop Yanyun Building now.

"What do you ask those women to do? You can go to Shenlexiandu even if you don't want Yanyun Tower. If you don't want Shenlexiandu, you will go to the slanting alley. If you locked up a Yanyun Tower, you will scatter all over the city, which is even more difficult to catch."

"Yanyunlou can stop the business of thin horses immediately, but where are these women in the fireworks world going?"

"Do you want to force these private creep into beggars, or simply force them into secret prostitutes?"

"There are many people who can't do anything except sell. Are we saving them or harming them?"

If the court simply banned Yangzhou thin horses and private gangsters and did not allow the existence of prostitutes on the surface, but instead harmed these women, what is the difference between the court and the elders of the Li family?

The counterproductive effect was a result that Xu Chengzong didn't want to see.

Therefore, to ban private prostitutes, we must use shelter.

Shelter requires money and food, official residence, and livelihood, otherwise it will not last long.

Li Xian of course considered this issue. He looked up and said, "Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, we can also expand the Weaving Bureau in Nanjing City, Yingtian Prefecture. I have written a letter to the court."

Xu Chengzong immediately asked, "Why don't they want to go? Do you think that people in the fireworks world are forced?"

"Many of the private parts are the puppies who love money and women who love beauty. This is a very complicated problem, not simply because they have nowhere to work."

"If they are honestly going to the weaving bureau to be a female red girl, they may not be happy. Even if we force them to enter, what will they look like in the weaving bureau? What will they make the weaving bureau look like?"

The world of fireworks is charming, and there are many people who are addicted to it. Xu Chengzong has seen too many of them.

Moreover, these women don’t have children, and their favorite thing is to intrigue and send them to the weaving bureau, which makes the weaving bureau unreasonable.

Xu Chengzong's opinion was that it would be better to let them rise and fall in the fireworks world and live on their own.

He continued: "Even if we expanded the weaving bureau, we expanded the official house, and we took all these women into it, there might not be a good result."

Of course, Li Xian thought about this consequence. He thought about it for a long time and said, "But you still have to do it."

Xu Chengzong still shook his head and said, "I still don't agree with such a hasty policy."

"Many people have fistulas. If you place them with those ill-dead female households, don't say I didn't remind you."

Xu Chengzong always looked for flowers and willows when he was not in his own place, but he was afraid of death.

If you want to play, you will never get married. You will marry a slim horse who is so arrogant and take it to your room as a concubine. He has always kept himself clean of other girls in Yanyunlou.

Because of the disease of the willow.

Li Xian finally understood what Xu Chengzong was opposing.

Xu Chengzong officially refused to see the court failing in the matter of the evil female household, so he opposed the closure of Yanyun Tower and the seal of Shenle Immortal City.

It’s easy to seal it up, and then what? What should they do? Can’t the diseases in these people be cured?

If they are not cured, those rescued female households are prone to getting sick when they live with them in daily life, but they cannot be cured. The fistula is repeated over and over again, and the pain is tortured by the pain. Not a few people choose to join the Qinhuai River.
Chapter completed!