Water Margin: I, Wang Lun, will have many children and many blessings in Liangshan.

The mornings of midsummer are short.

When the camp approached the wide river near the city of Tokyo, the entire river surface was already shining with golden light.

The river near Kaifeng City was full of boats.

Extremely spectacular.

These boats converge from Huguang, Liangzhejiang, Jiangnan East Road, Jiangnan West Road, and enter the Bianhe River through the canal, where they converge with the ships of Jingxi and other places.

Bianliang is normally 15.6 million people, if there are many displaced people, or fluctuations such as the year of the imperial examination, plus the merchants, retinues, officials, attachés, boatmen, sailors and others who enter Beijing, the maximum is close to about 2 million.

This was a unique megacity at the time, or for thousands of years.

In terms of population alone, Chang'an, which far surpassed the Han and Tang Dynasties, was about the same as Beijing in the Ming Dynasty.

However, in terms of the development of Caoyun and the development of the economy, Kaifeng is stronger than Beijing.

Beijing is a purely military fortress "833" city, which can become the capital of a country due to its geographical location during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

But from the political, economic, and cultural trade-offs, it became extremely reluctant to become a Jingshi.

It is to support a large military fortress with the strength of the whole country, and after becoming the capital, a large number of magnates and officials have supported a certain economy, culture and education, so that it has a certain economic scale, and because a large number of elites gathered, it has a certain cultural heritage.

But the cost is not insignificant.

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the first thing was to give up the shipping of the Yuan Dynasty and change it to Hecao.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the dredging canal began, starting from Hangzhou, reaching Tongzhou, passing through Jiangnan, arriving at Yangzhou, Suqian, Xuzhou, Dezhou, Linqing, and finally arriving at Tongzhou.

Needless to say, the function of the Grand Canal was far less important in the Tang and Song dynasties than in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

After all, Kaifeng's Caoyun has Shaanxi Guanzhong in the west, Shandong Henan in the east, Hebei in the north, and finally Huguang, Zhejiang, and Jiangnan in the south.

In all directions, the world is thoroughfare.

It is not only the materials needed by the imperial court, officials, and garrisons, but also the exchange between the north and the south, and the promotion of economic, personnel, culture, and material exchanges.

It is not only to drink blood, but also to make blood and replenish blood.

And Beijing in the Ming and Qing dynasties was a pure blood-drinking city, and it had no hematopoietic function, let alone feedback.

The Beijing-Tianjin Poverty Belt is not just talking.

A Grand Canal is responsible for nearly two million people and food supplies for important towns, including Jiubian, so you can imagine how heavy the task is and how much it consumes.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, there was a record that one stone of grain was transported to Beijing, and from the south of the Yangtze River, the round-trip consumption was three to four stones.

In other words, the annual transportation of grain is 4 million stones, and the consumption is about 12,300 to 150,000 stones.

The grain income of the summer and autumn taxes in the Ming Dynasty was less than 30 million stones.

The Qing Dynasty levied grain and silver, and the tax manager was higher than that of the Ming Dynasty, and Cao Yun was still a heavy burden.

The burden of canal transportation is extremely heavy, there are several months of dry season every year, from Jiangnan to the canal, it is difficult for ships to travel in the dry season, even if there are soldiers and slender men, it is also difficult, and the consumption is doubled.

If there are bandits in the canal, they will be choked by the neck, and the most important blood vessels may be cut off.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty deployed dozens of guards along the canal, and even the transportation of grain was done by special guards, and civilians were not allowed to participate.

The Qing Dynasty was to change the original Ming Dynasty's guards into civilians, hire and transport grain, and let the slippery people set up a Qing gang, replacing the government with gangs to manage, and in the face of difficult things, the government forced gangs, and the gangs pressed the husbands, which was also considered to save administrative expenses, which seemed to be smart, but the gangs were released, and then affected the end of the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China for decades, and the disadvantages far outweighed the administrative costs saved by this. (If you read a violent novel, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

Clever, what an idiot.

The transport boats, merchant ships, and ferries on the Bianhe River in front of you are part of the ships outside Kaifeng.

On the Yellow River, on the Huitong River, on the Huai River, on the canal, on the Wuzhang River, Jishui, there are boats leading to Kaifeng everywhere.

The location of Kaifeng was originally in the heart of the Central Plains, with many roads and rivers, and it is not surprising that there are nearly 200 years of operation from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to the Northern Song Dynasty.

There is a very clear depiction on the famous painting of the Qingming Riverside Picture.

Those who are interested will notice that the artist devotes one-third of the space to depicting the busy scene of boats coming and going on the Bianhe River in Tokyo, and there are 24 large and small boats depicted in the picture.

According to the function of the ship, the ships that appear in the "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" are divided into three categories: cargo ships, passenger ships and pleasure boats.

The most common vessels in the Bianhe River are obviously cargo ships and passenger ships. The function of passenger ships and cargo ships, in the words of the Song people, was "to carry the people of the country, Jia Zhuse and others, and to carry incense and miscellaneous objects."

There is a slight difference between the two in terms of shape, cargo ships generally do not have cabins with open windows, "the shape of the ship is round and short, such as three large houses, the door is out of its back, the middle is very decorated, and the landing is stepped up", one of the huge stone ships, "not very windy".

The passenger ship has a cabin one by one, "the four walls are equipped with windows, such as the system of houses, and the upper columns are applied, Zhu paints Huahuan, and is decorated with curtains", which have tables, chairs, beds, tea and food, so that guests can ride comfortably, and you can also open the windows at any time to enjoy the scenery along the river.....

The developed water transportation is a witness to the prosperity of commerce in the Northern Song Dynasty. For example, before the Song Dynasty, there was a proverb that "thousands of miles do not sell money", and the cost of transporting grain and rice to thousands of miles away for sale was too high, but in the Northern Song Dynasty, the water transportation network greatly reduced the cost of "thousands of miles of trafficking". Since then, the trade limitation of "thousands of miles without selling goods" has been broken.

The Tokyo Prefecture Bridge, which is close to the Bianhe Wharf, is built in this area, and the cargo ships on the Bianhe River need to dock to unload and store goods after sailing to the Bianhe Wharf, and the materials are distributed here and the flow of people also converges here, so the night market is very lively, and there are shops and stalls selling all kinds of food everywhere.

Tokyo Menghualu recorded: "Go south from the state bridge, and eat rice, pork, and dried food on the street...... Chicken skin, kidney and chicken mincing, each no more than fifteen yuan...... Fragrant candy seeds, inter-channel sugar lychee, Yue Mei, knife perilla paste, golden silk party plum, fragrant fangyuan, all with plum red box storage, winter moon plate rabbit, spin roasted pork skin meat, wild duck meat, dripping crisp, crystal belly, fried clips, pig organs and the like, until Longjin Bridge must be brain meat, called miscellaneous chewing, until the three watches. "

The state of prosperity is on the paper.

Even if it is not long after the sun rises at this time, the weather is hot, and there are 0.8 snack stalls everywhere near the Tokyo State Bridge, mainly with flat food, soup cakes, various kinds of baked cakes, fried, dim sew, sweets and other breakfast food, the aroma is overflowing, and most of the guests from the south to the north eat the morning food here first, and then enter the city. []

There are also eunuchs and eunuchs who come out of the city to play, or wealthy merchants, who come here by chariots and horses, and there are already gorgeously decorated pleasure boats waiting here for a long time, transporting these rich people to take a boat on the Bianhe River to play and relax.

There are lakes such as Jinmyeongchi in the city, which is the Imperial Forbidden Garden, which is open for a limited time of the year, and most of the people in the city still go out of the city to play by boat in spring and summer.

On the Qingming Shanghe map, there are also other paintings of the Song people, which have been shown.

At this moment, Zhao Mingcheng and his friends Li Zhen and Lu Defu arrived at the state bridge, and everyone was an official eunuch, and they all had breakfast at home, and they only ordered their subordinates to bring some snacks and drinks to meet at the state bridge to get on the boat and play.