Otaku Engineer in Great Tang Dynasty Chapter 785: The distress of too much food!

Some people may question whether the 500 large ships can carry 880,000 shi of grain, of course! This is absolutely beyond doubt!

In the Qin and Han Dynasties, the development of my country's shipbuilding industry reached its first peak. In the war to unify southern China, Qin Shihuang organized a large fleet capable of transporting 500,000 shi of grain. The technology at that time was able to build a large ship with a deadweight of 50 or 60 tons. One stone is one hundred catties, which means that a ship in the Qin and Han dynasties can hold more than one thousand stones.

The second peak in the history of Chinese shipbuilding in the Tang and Song Dynasties, the dragon boat ride by Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty was 4.5 feet high and 20 feet long. The upper level had the main hall, inner hall, and east and west halls. There are 120 rooms on the middle two floors with a load capacity of more than 300 tons. Of course, it was even stronger in the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty built a "shenzhou" for envoys to North Korea, and its carrying capacity reached more than 1,500 tons. Some large sea ships carry tens of thousands of stones and the rudder is three to five feet long.

Tai Chi Hall.

Li Er, who sat on the top of the head, although he was prepared for a long time, was shocked by Li Xiaogong's "work report". His eyes were no smaller than others, and it was due to the attention of courtiers. The strength is not on him, otherwise his gaffe will be seen by the admonishers, and he must be "criticized" again.

"Ahem~! This trip to the south is really rewarding! Xiaogong and the soldiers have worked so hard to travel thousands of miles and have contributed to the community. We deserve a reward~!"

Li Er recovered from the shock and exclaimed with emotion on his face.

"Your Majesty~!"

As soon as Li Er's voice fell, I saw Wei Zheng stepping forward. Lao Tanzi arched his hands at Li Er, and then said: "The King of Hejian County led the fleet to the south, and the harvest was quite fruitful. It is indeed gratifying, but the old minister There is still something unclear in my mind. I dare to ask the King of Hejian, where did these hundred thousand taels of silver and fifty thousand catties of brass come from?"

Wei Zheng didn’t actually aim at anyone, he just talked about the facts, because food, spices, ivory, etc. are fine, but such a huge amount of brass and silver makes him too hard to understand. After all, which country would use it This thing is for trade~? It doesn't make sense!

After hearing Wei Zheng’s question, the other ministers cast doubtful glances at Li Xiaogong, but Li Zexuan's heart was stunned and cried out, because from the information he knew, Li Xiaogong brought back the fifty thousand. Jin Brass, three hundred thousand taels of silver were blackmailed "war reparations" from the country of Japan. If this is said, Li Xiaogong will probably receive some impeachment.

Li Er's eyes sank. Obviously he also knew the inside story of the War of the Kingdom of Japan, but at the moment when Wei Zheng asked publicly, he could only see Li Xiaogong playing.

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As soon as Li Er took the civil and military officials away, the wharf immediately became lively. There are more than a thousand big ships, certainly not all can dock at the same time to unload, so they can only come in batches. At the forefront of course are the five hundred official ships of the imperial court.

Li Xiaogong’s guard captain Wu Di came to Xiao Yu with a person in charge, and then respectfully handed over a booklet and said with a fist:

"Xiao Shangshu, this is a list of all the goods on the official ship. He is the cabin steward Yao Jing. If Xiao Shangshu has any questions, even if you ask the general or Yao steward, I will know everything about it~ !"

"Well, good, I have work~!"

Xiao Yu said politely, then took the pamphlet, opened it, and was surprised.

"This...so much food~? I'm afraid the granary in Chang'an City can't hold it~?"

Yan Lide was extremely curious when he heard the words. What he thought was that the official ships of the imperial court brought so many silks and porcelains, and they could exchange more than 100,000 stones of food when they were uplifted. How could Chang'an City be installed? No less?

"Shiwen (Xiao Yu's words), let me see how much food is there?"

After that, Yan Lide eagerly leaned over, trying to find out. After reading the numbers on the pamphlet, his eyes widened and exclaimed:

"This, this, this, eight hundred and eighty thousand shi~? Taicang definitely can't hold the grain of so much stone, so I have to transport it to Hanjiacang in Luoyang~!"

The Taicang he was talking about was the largest granary in Chang'an, and it was also considered a royal granary. Its main function was to provide for the royal family’s consumption, rewards, official salaries, military supplies, and government accounts. Although the main function of Taicang is to rule the central service, it also has some positive effects. For example, every time there is a famine, Taicang will take out grain to supplement the normal warehouse, curb the skyrocketing grain prices, and sell some grain at a low price to help the victims.

But the total reserves of Taicang are not high. The maximum can only store five or six hundred thousand shi (one stone in the Tang Dynasty is about one hundred catties, and the Song Dynasty is two hundred catties) of grain, and it is just after the autumn harvest. The remaining space is even less. That's why these two court lords made such feelings.

As for the Hanjiacang mentioned by Yan Lide, it can be regarded as the largest granary in Tang Dynasty.

At the beginning of the Sui Dynasty, Chang'an was established as the capital, but the products in the Guanzhong area have been unable to meet the consumption needs of the royal family, aristocrats, officials and the central army~IndoMTL.com~ only food can not be self-sufficient. During the Daye years, Emperor Sui Yang built the Grand Canal in order to meet the food needs of the capital, Chang'an. Later, Yang Guang directly moved the capital to Luoyang.

After establishing the capital of Luoyang, Yang Guang first built the Hui Luocang as a "national granary" in Luoyang. The entire Huiluo Cangcheng is one meter long from east to west and 335 meters wide from north to south. There are about 700 warehouses with an inner diameter of 10 meters. Each warehouse can store about 4,000 stones of grain, and the whole warehouse can store three grains. Millions of stone food.

As Huiluo Cang was built outside the city of Luoyang in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the world was in turmoil. Li Mi captured Luo Cang and Luoyang City fell into a grainless situation for a while. Later, returning to Luocang became the focus of the war between Li Shimin and Wang Shichong, who ruled Luoyang. The grain cellar outside the city was occupied, and Wang Shichong was defeated due to a severe shortage of food.

Later, Li Shimin saw the shortcomings of the granary outside the city, he decided to build a granary in Luoyang city, so as not to repeat the mistakes of the Sui rulers. This granary that was carefully "designed" by Li Shimin was the Hanjiacang. The Hanjiacang not only supplied the food in Luoyang City, but also served as a transfer station for rice between Guandong and Guanzhong. Later, it gradually replaced the largest at the time. The granary-Luokou warehouse, has become the largest granary in the world, with a total reserve of nearly 6 million shi!

"Indeed, first carry 150,000 shi of grain to Taicang, and the rest can only be transported to Luoyang along the Grand Canal~! Lide, you can take care of this first, and the old man will enter the palace, go Please order some official ships to turn around and head to Luoyang~!"

Xiao Yu thought for a while, and decided to ask Li Er's opinion, otherwise, even if so much food is moved, there is no place to put it, it will only be cheaper for mice.

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