Daqin started with offering immortal medicine

Chapter 345 The Logistics Dilemma

It is autumn now, and the chestnuts in various places are almost harvested.

However, the only thing Li Yang is not sure about is whether the Ministry of Households will calculate this year's harvest so quickly.

Ji Kai is the secretary of the household department, so the money and food matters are naturally under his control.

Seeing Li Yang's question, Ji Kai hurriedly replied: "My lord, the autumn harvest reports for Jiangsu, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi and other southern provinces have not yet arrived, but the rest of the Guanzhong provinces have submitted their autumn harvest data. What is gratifying is that the harvests of these provinces this year have almost tripled that of previous years! My subordinates believe that the provinces in the south of the Yangtze River are also close to each other."

"Oh? It's really tripled the harvest!" Li Yang was overjoyed when he heard this.

The three-fold increase in grain means that the problem of food and clothing in Daqin has been completely solved.

Daqin no longer has to worry about the problem of food and clothing, so he can naturally develop the handicraft industry and economic construction freely.

Thinking of this, Li Yang felt extremely happy.

Ji Xie said: "At present, it is true in all parts of Guanzhong. I haven't had such a big harvest in Daqin for more than ten years. This is really the luck of Daqin and the luck of the people. Of course, all of this is also due to the credit of your lord. One is to invent and improve the plow, and at the same time transport the cattle and horses of Donghu and Xiongnu to the Central Plains, which increases the farming efficiency several times. In addition, the yield of corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes promoted by adults is amazing, and they can be planted on dry land. It has been produced. Otherwise, it is impossible to triple the harvest by relying on the chestnut alone."

Everyone nodded, agreeing with Ji Kai's analysis, and said together: "This time, Daqin has a good harvest, and your lord has contributed a lot."

Li Yang waved his hand and said with a smile: "If you want to talk about credit, in fact, this first credit should belong to Xu Fu! If it hadn't been for him to transport these new crops back from Shaohao Continent across thousands of miles of oceans, how would there be today's harvest , we should remember this great service for him.”

"What your lord said is very true, Xu Shangshu has made great contributions!" Everyone nodded repeatedly.

No one has any objection to Xu Fu taking the first place.

Moreover, Li Yang really sympathized with Xu Fu. At such an old age, he had traveled to America twice. This kind of errand is unbearable for ordinary people.

The first time, it was to transport the seeds of crops such as corn and potatoes.As soon as the front foot came back, everyone had not rested for a few days, and then followed Ying Zheng back to America.

To be honest, Li Yang felt sorry for this old guy.

It's just that Xu Fu, as a minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has rich sailing experience and has traveled to America twice. Apart from him, Li Yang really can't find anyone else to go for him.It can only suffer him.

Li Yang couldn't find someone to replace him for this hard work, but Li Yang still had to record the credit for him. The only thing Daqin could repay him was this honor.

Therefore, Li Yang immediately said: "The Ministry of Education must write Xu Fu's deeds into the textbooks, so that the world will know his great achievements, and at the same time let the people of Daqin learn from his noble spirit of serving the country and benefiting the people."

Xiao He and the others responded quickly, and they were also full of respect for Xu Fu.

Fu Su also nodded in agreement, and said: "Xu Shangshu's merits are in the country, and benefit the people. When the father returns, Gu will definitely ask for credit for him."

Speaking of this, he seemed to have thought of something suddenly, and said again: "By the way, is there any gain from the Taifu's inspection in the south this time?"

When everyone heard this, they all looked at Li Yang curiously.

Li Yang nodded: "Of course there are gains. The biggest gain is that I discovered the talent of Gongshu Chu in Langya! He is a genius in the world in terms of machinery and manufacturing. There is this person in charge of the Engineering and Manufacturing Department, leading the sea. Regarding the building of ships, I believe that Daqin's sea-going ships, and even the entire manufacturing industry, will develop rapidly."

"Oh? I, Daqin, have such a genius!"

Fusu couldn't help being surprised.

Li Si and the others were also amazed. They were obviously curious about Gong Shuji, and they couldn't help saying: "It seems that if you have the opportunity, you must meet this genius that you are talking about."

Everyone nodded one after another, and even Fusu had the expression of wanting to see at a glance.

In their eyes, Li Yang is already regarded as a genius who is endowed with unrivaled knowledge, wisdom, and knowledge of a hundred schools of thought, but this public loser can make Li Yang keep praising him, so this person is definitely not good. easy.

Li Yang smiled: "There will be a chance to meet in the future."

The crowd nodded.

At this time, Fusu said again: "Teacher, what interesting stories about strange people?"

Li Yang smiled: "It's hard to find strange people in the world, and there are many interesting things, but today I don't want to mention interesting things, because this time I went south to inspect, in fact, apart from strange people and interesting things, I also discovered a big predicament in Daqin right now. .”

"Dilemma?"

Upon hearing this word, everyone's expression tightened, and they all became dignified.

"What's the predicament?" Fu Su was also stunned, and hurriedly asked.

Li Yang said: "The dilemma of logistics and transportation!"

"Logistics and transportation?"

Everyone was dumbfounded. Obviously, no one had heard of the word logistics at this time.

Li Yang saw their confusion, so he said: "Logistics refers to the circulation of goods. Logistics transportation refers to the circulation of goods by means of transportation. This time I left Xianyang, passed through Shandong, went south to Jiangsu and Guangdong, and then Returning to Xianyang via Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, and Bashu, this route was found from south to north. Because of the inconvenient transportation, many goods between the north and the south of our Great Qin are not in circulation. This is a very serious problem for Great Qin. predicament."

This time, everyone finally understood, so everyone nodded slightly, showing a thoughtful expression.

Li Sidao: "The transportation of goods between the north and the south is indeed a dilemma. They are thousands of miles apart and the journey is long. Many goods have deteriorated before they can be delivered to their destinations. Some goods that will not deteriorate will be transported over thousands of miles. The cost is also very high, which is also a major obstacle to the non-flow of goods between the north and the south."

Xiao He also said: "Yes, the transportation cost is too high, and the goods between the north and the south naturally rarely circulate."

Zhang Cang said: "The distance between the north and the south is thousands of miles. It is probably impossible to change it."

Everyone nodded in agreement with this sentence.

Indeed, today's Great Qin has unified the six countries, and its territory is too wide. It is not easy to get goods from all regions of Great Qin.

Fusu said: "Actually, Father Huang also spent a lot of effort on this matter, so he used the power of the whole country to build the straight road and the straight road."

Qinchi Road is mainly used for transportation, which is convenient for the emperor to go on tour. It can be said that this is the earliest official "national road" in Chinese history.The Qin Zhidao is mainly used for military purposes and can be used as a passage for transporting troops.

Qin Chi Road, with Xianyang as the center, can lead to all parts of the country.And there is only one straight road, leading to Jiuyuan County, with a total length of more than 700 kilometers.

In fact, the galloping and straight roads built by Qin Shihuang are already a major pioneering work on the road of communication in Chinese history.

Li Yangdao: "Although His Majesty has built the Chi Road, it is still difficult for the transportation of goods between the north and the south, and we need to think of other ways to solve this dilemma."

"Could it be... the Taifu has a solution?" Fusu asked curiously.

When everyone heard this, they also looked at Li Yang curiously.

3Chapter 16 The Grand Canal

In everyone's opinion, it is obviously impossible to solve the transportation dilemma between the north and the south of the Great Qin Dynasty.but……

Who is this person in front of me?He is Li Yang!He is uniquely endowed with the wisdom of the heavens, possesses the unique knowledge of the world, is extremely intelligent, proficient in a hundred schools of knowledge, and is omnipotent.

Didn't every predicament in the past turn the impossible into possibility in his hands?

Therefore, everyone looked at Li Yang expectantly, thinking that if they really wanted to solve the transportation problem between the north and the south of the Qin Dynasty, the only Zhen Guojun in front of him in the world would have an idea.

Seeing everyone's curious eyes, Li Yang nodded and said, "I have a solution, but it's not easy to realize it."