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Chapter 0110 – The Luxurious Life of the Emperor Taishang!!

“Holy Lord, now that the water transport has been out of service for as many as ten years, the cost of land transportation collected by taxes in various places is as much as eighty percent higher.

The minister pleaded with the Holy Lord to reopen the water transport and allocate funds to clean up the silt in the water route. ”

At this time, Shangshu of the Ministry of Works stood up with the fold, bowed to Zhao Xuanche, and pleaded, “En? ”

“Ten years of suspension of transportation?”

Listening to the work of Shangshu, Zhao Xuanche’s eyebrows suddenly broke.

Then I remembered that the transportation had indeed been stopped for ten years.

This water transport is formed by the confluence of the Yangtze River, the Yellow River and the Huai River, and is an important waterway together with the north and south.

In all dynasties, Caoyun was a very important transportation route.

It is an important channel for transporting taxes and grain everywhere, and if it goes land, the cost will increase greatly.

And because there is a lot of silt, it takes a huge amount of money every year to clean up the silt in the canal.

And the girder stopped transporting, that was the will of the emperor Taishang.

If Emperor Taishang went on patrol to the south, he had to take a dragon boat to go south along the Caoyun.

29 In the words of Emperor Taishang, Caoyun was his royal route to the south, and no ships were allowed to exist except him.

As long as it is a route of transportation, let alone transportation, fishermen cannot take boats to fish.

Moreover, the transportation is blocked every year, and it also costs the imperial court a lot of silver to clean up, so the emperor Taishang also stopped cleaning the Caocanal by the way.

This not only increased transportation costs, but the emperor was also complacent about saving the country unnecessary expenses.

When this canal channel will be cleared, it will have to wait for when he will make a dragon boat and prepare for the southern tour.

After Zhao Xuanche ascended the throne, Zhao Xuanche was originally prepared to open the Caoyuan and clean up the Caocanal channel.

But the problem is that the clanging of the national treasury is poor, and there is no silver to clean up this transportation between the north and the south.

It should be noted that this transportation is cleaned up every year, and each cleanup costs at least one-tenth of the annual tax revenue.

This shows how big a project and how expensive it is.

Moreover, the clean-up of the water transport is not assigned to the Yamen alone, but the river officials in various places along the water transport route.

Now so many years have passed, because the national treasury is empty every year, and this matter has been delayed.

This is not Zhao Xuanche now has silver, but he forgot about Caoyun.

“Caoyun cannot be passed for a day, and Huanghuai cannot be left untreated for a day.”

Starting today, the Ministry of Households has allocated river officials in various localities to clean up river siltation as soon as possible and dredge the transportation.

“In addition, in addition to transporting grain in various places, civilian ships and merchant ships can also be allowed to sail within the transportation.

Civilian ships and merchant ships are berthed according to the size of the vessel. ”

“This fee does not have to be handed over to the imperial court, but is only used to clean up the silt of the river every year for flood control.”

In addition, when the imperial court needs to transport troops in wartime, all ships can be requisitioned to transport. ”

Zhao Xuanche thought about the Emperor Taishang stopping the Caoyun, and his heart was particularly angry and angry for a while, and after thinking about it, Zhao Xuanche opened his mouth to Hube Shangshu and ordered.

“Lord!”

Having received Zhao Xuanche’s will, Hube Shangshu Gao Cheng hurriedly came out to answer Zhao Xuanche.

“Holy Lord, if civilian ships are allowed to be transported by water, merchant ships will sail greatly for the people and merchants everywhere.

But if there are more ships on this ship, congestion will inevitably occur. ”

“It is inevitable that there will be a collision of ships, which will break the ship or capsize and sink into the canal.

This will also greatly increase the speed of congestion, and will greatly increase the difficulty and cost of cleaning up the river. ”

Bai Guan was very happy to hear Zhao Xuanche open Caoyun, after all, Caoyun is very important and cannot be stopped.

But after hearing that Zhao Xuanche actually wanted to open the Caoyun to civilian ships and merchant ships, and that merchant ships were also sailing in Caoyun, Shangshu of the Ministry of Works couldn’t help but open his mouth to express his opposition to Zhao Xuanche.

“For civilian ships, the advantages of opening up the transportation of merchant ships outweigh the disadvantages, which not only facilitates the people, but also greatly reduces the cost and time for merchants to transport goods.”

“This will also make goods abundant everywhere and commodity prices lowered.” In this way, it can also be regarded as benefiting the people.

So that’s it. ”

Faced with the rebuttal of Shangshu of the Ministry of Work, Zhao Xuanche said his thoughts to him.

After speaking, the matter was given without a rebuttal from Shangshu of the Ministry of Work.

And Shangshu of the Ministry of Works listened to Zhao Xuanche’s words, and thought that it was indeed so reasonable, so he didn’t say anything more.

“Holy Lord, speaking of Caoyun, the dragon boat that stopped at the Caoquan Canal Road outside the Emperor Taishang has not been repaired for several years.

This dragon boat is expensive to build, and a large amount of silver is required to repair it. ”

“I wonder if this dragon boat has also allocated funds for repairs.”

Seeing that no one was talking, Hube Shangshu Gaocheng opened his mouth and asked Zhao Xuanche

In Gao Cheng’s opinion, this dragon boat is expensive to build, and there should be more than one.

Now that it is abandoned, it is simply wasted, it is better to spend money to repair and maintain, or keep it for Zhao Xuanche.

“Repair a fart, the dragon boat made of so much silver can’t be used several times, and a lot of silver is spent every year to repair and maintain.

What is bad about having this silver? ”

“If you want to say, it is better to dismantle the dragon boat directly and send it to the people as firewood, so that the people can still make a fire for cooking.”

Listening to Gao Cheng’s proposal, Zhao Xuanche couldn’t help but scold immediately.

In Zhao Xuanche’s eyes, the dragon boat was a decoration.

This dragon boat is expensive to build, and its body size is naturally tall.

As far as Zhao Xuanche knew that the dragon boat in 437 Xiao had four floors, forty-five feet high and 200 feet long, the upper floor had the main hall, the inner hall, and the east and west halls.

There are 120 rooms on the middle second floor.

This ship is “decorated with dan powder, packed with gold and pearl jade, carved with wonderful.” ”

And this should not be counted, when the Emperor Taishang made a dragon boat patrol, he traveled in a fleet, and there were nine water temples with three floors high and called ‘floating scenery’, and thousands of large ships called Yangcai, Vermilion Bird, Cangxiao, White Tiger, Xuanwu, Feifea, Qinghuang, Lingbo, Fifth Floor, Dojo, Xuantan, Huang Cong and other names.

Slaves, kings, princesses, officials, monks and nuns, Taoist priests, and guests were seated according to their taste.

In addition, some of the ships carried the items used by all the passengers below the emperor, sharing more than 180,000 people.

Among them, there are several hundred people in the Taishang Emperor Dragon Boat, and 9,000 people on the ‘Yangcai’ class and above.

These 9,000 people, known as ‘temple feet’, were all dressed in splendid clothes.

In addition to these, there are also guarding the forbidden army, the Kyoto camp, and the army of the hegemonic camp also rides thousands of ships.

In such a fleet, the ships sailed more than 200 miles end-to-end, and the cavalry escorted them from the shore.

Residents within 500 miles of the prefecture capital and county must come to ‘offer’ food, and the food is delicious, and the land and water are rare.

If you can’t finish eating, you will dig a pit and bury it, and just a dragon boat trip will cost astronomical amounts.

How can such a good life be the people?