"Set up the track gangplank."
"Set up the track gangplank."
"Boom!"
At the Wei River wharf of the capital government, the people carrying the goods on the shore put a gangplank with tracks on the side of the ship like a suspension bridge in the moat.
Then the people on the ship pulled and the people on the shore pushed. They pushed the carts with goods to the head and the people on the ship carried them directly.
Every time, two tracks were set up at the same time, but they were on a ∩ shaped board.
They sent the carts forward from one direction on the shore, unloaded the carts, and returned to the empty carts from the other direction.
It was the same when loading and unloading the carts.
They no longer had to carry the goods across the gangplank. It was slow and dangerous.
If the ship was small, it would tilt towards the wharf when the board was set up. After the carts were put on the other side, it would gradually balance.
Big ships couldn't feel the weight at all, especially flat-bottomed caoshi.
The ships had already gone down the river. There was a team with the largest size. They raised the flag with two words written on it: Shu Salt.
Yang Huanjin stood at the wharf and watched the last boxes being carried to the ship with sails. He looked back and stepped on the ship.
The boxes were filled with five hundred thousand yuan worth of exchange coupons. He took the money, but he didn't see Li Yi.
Today, Li Yi didn't come to see him off, but someone accompanied him.
The pigeon keeper. Li Yi got a lot of pigeons and gradually let them fly. The main reason was to familiarize himself with the terrain and magnetic environment of the capital government.
Now he took out fifty feathers and put them in cages to take them to Shu Di to see if they could return to the nest.
"If possible, fly back and raise them. Then take more pigeons to Shu Di and fly back." The pigeon keeper was talking to Huang Xianrong.
He knew the purpose of taking care of the pigeons carefully. The old pigeon took the new pigeons and flew back.
The pigeons' feet carried a letter tube, and the content was written in a password.
The password was a book printed by the Li Family Zhuangzi. The matching numbers and even the phonetic combination of the words indicated the position of the book.
"One pigeon at a time, it can be transmitted fifty times." Huang Xianrong was looking forward to raising another batch of pigeons when he arrived in Shu Di.
Through land transportation, the communication between Chang 'an and Shu Di would be many times faster.
"One won't do, at least five. Otherwise, you won't be able to find your way back or get caught by the birds on the way." The pigeon keeper shook his head gently.
"How many days does it take to travel from Shu County to Chang 'an?" Huang Xianrong thought about it and found it reasonable.
"One day." The pigeon keeper raised a finger.
He was confident that the pigeons raised by his team could easily fly back from Shu Di within a day.
"Fast, really fast. Why don't you bring some pigeons with you? "Huang Xianrong was not familiar with carrier pigeons, so he had more questions.
"She hasn't laid eggs yet. Once she lays eggs and the experiment here is successful, the hatched pigeons will be sent over to the relay station. I'll raise them there."
When the pigeon keeper talked about that place, he looked a little sad.
He had a heavy responsibility on his shoulders. He was the most outstanding pigeon keeper.
When he got there, he needed to teach others how to raise pigeons before he could return. His home was in Chang 'an.
Huang Xianrong seemed to have thought of this problem and comforted him, "Li Dongzhu will take good care of your family. How much does he pay you every month?"
"Fifty kennels." The pigeon keeper finally smiled. He was the best.
50,000 kennels per month. If there was no leap month, he would get 600,000 kennels per year. If there was a leap month, he would get 650,000 kennels per year.
In the past, when he raised pigeons for others, he only got 500 kennels per month. The difference was 100 times.
Huang Xianrong looked at the pigeon keeper again. He did not expect that the pigeon keeper's salary was so high.
"Then you can save money to buy a house." Huang Xianrong congratulated him.
"I have a house. Dongzhu will give me a house in the south of Chang 'an. He will set aside a special place for me.
For those who raise pigeons, their families will live in the courtyard on the second floor. There will be people around to protect them.
This is to prevent my family from being captured and used to threaten me. When there are more pigeons in the Tang dynasty, I will be safe. "
When the pigeon keeper talked about the house, his smile did not change.
Huang Xianrong realized that he had not thought enough. He suddenly asked: "If you are captured by the enemy and they ask you to pass fake information, what will you do?"
"I … … I will never agree." The pigeon keeper lowered his head.
What he was thinking was to change to a special kind of paper. On the surface, it was not obvious. Every piece of paper had a number on it.
The special paper had a special number on it. Every pigeon keeper had a different number.
If he used the special paper to pass the message, the people in Chang 'an would know that something had happened to him.
They would think of ways to rescue him while making use of his connection.
He had to try his best to stay alive and wait for the day when he was rescued.
If the connection was broken, the rescuers would not be able to find him.
Everything had been agreed upon. Every aspect had been considered.
Of course, he would not tell anyone. He had to pretend to be loyal to him.
"Let's go! Have a safe journey! "
The people on the shore shouted and helped to push the boat. The people on the boat stepped on the boat and adjusted the rudder. The boat was pushed downstream.
The Salt Gang took away four boats. One of them was an experiment in the Yangtze River.
In the rapids, the boat only needed to rely on the boatmen to move forward. In other places, the boat would paddle if there were oars and sail if there were no oars.
Therefore, the upstream channel of the Yangtze River was wider than the downstream channel. If the wind was not good, the boat would sway back and forth.
The sailboats usually slanted to the left and then slanted to the right. The people on the boat kept operating the sails. It was a laborious job.
Since the wind was right, the boat would fill the sails and lower the sails.
The four boats needed help to pull their own boat in the rapids. If they succeeded, the boatmen's job would be easier.
The boats were modified and had sails. When the wind was good, they could keep up with the main group.
"If we use the new boat from the Li Family Zhuangzi, it will be easier."
Huang Xianrong stood at the bow of the boat and looked at the boat in front of him as he spoke to Yang Huanjin.
Yang Huanjin raised his hand to test the wind: "We will not release them. The underwater oars are military weapons."
"Li Dongzhu gave us 500,000 taels in exchange coupons. In addition to the tens of thousands of taels we received from selling goods in Chang 'an, we will be snatched up when we return to Shu."
Huang Xianrong did not expect more advanced oars. He talked about using the coupons to make money.
Nowadays, all the merchants in Shu who could get their hands on coupons would bring some back.
Some would add one coin for every 100 taels to exchange with others. Some would add one coin for every 50 taels.
If they used the coupons to buy snacks, the stalls and shops would be willing to give them more.
Shu was short of copper. Historically, Shu's economy had developed well, but they did not have enough currency. Therefore, they could only use iron coins.
The ratio of iron coins to copper coins was too big. They would need to bring a lot to buy things. It was too heavy.
For example, if they used copper coins to buy something, it would be very uncomfortable to carry it around.
If they used iron coins, it would be more than 60 catties.
The coupons were convenient. They were light as a piece of paper. The pictures were good and could not be faked.
500,000 taels in exchange coupons. According to the ratio of 50 taels to one coin, they would have an extra 10,000 taels when they returned.
"We will not add more money. Go back and tell the people from the other big businesses that we will not add more money to exchange coupons. However, if we need help in the future, they must help us first."
Yang Huanjin shook his head. If they used the normal ratio to exchange coupons, they would get a chance to help.
In the past, if the salt merchants in Shu did not pay for the transportation of goods for the imperial court, how could they have the face to ask Li Yi for help?
In the past, they were rewarded with tax exemption.
They earned it all back in one go. There was still a lot more.
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