Chapter 704: Water Transportation Network Is in Chaos

In Xiegu Village in the west of Yusi County, on a water network drawn from the Weishui River from north to south, a small pedal boat carrying four people was traveling along the water.

There are eight places on the boat, and the other four places are empty and have baskets with kiwi fruits in them.

People in Xiegu Village picked kiwi fruits to sell in Chang'an. They used to use the village's ox cart to go there. If several households in the village had cows and worked with the cows, they would have to walk.

If you are willing to spend two yuan, you can walk to the county, where there is a Heihe River, and wait for a boat on the Heihe River. If a boat comes, you will be given two yuan.

Now we have changed to a small boat, and we go directly out of the village and follow the water to Heihe River, all the way to Chang'an.

"Xiaojiu, what do you want to do? Put on your clothes."

Because it was going downstream, the four people stepped slowly, and one of the older people scolded a seventeen-year-old.

"Uncle Big Tou, don't you know I'm a watery person? If you wear a life jacket made of bamboo tubes, nothing will happen to this boat."

The person being trained muttered, but still put on the life jacket he had just taken off.

"The rules are set. Wear a life jacket first when you get on the boat. If you don't wear it, you won't be allowed to use the boat." The big-headed uncle said softly.

"Uncle Big Tou is right, you have to be obedient after all. Don't think that if others can't see it, then nothing will happen. Can Boss Li still harm us?"

Someone a few years older followed suit.

The fourth person was a girl of 12 or 13 years old. She smiled and said, "Brother Xiaojiu, can your water quality compare to mine? I'm wearing both."

"Humph!" Xiaojiu snorted and didn't answer.

He knew the girl's water nature. It rained heavily the year before last, and the Xiegu was flooded. The nine-year-old girl saved all eleven villagers who were washed away by the churning water.

Last year in Heihe, I swam directly to Chang'an City and then swam back from Chang'an City against the current.

The key is that she brought a basket of forty eggs when she went there, and ten pounds of salt when she came back.

Put a circle of paper in the basket and put the salt inside.

When she came back, the salt was not wet, which meant that she had been treading water all the way.

With such water quality, why should I use a boat? I can swim by myself.

"Uncle Big Tou, do you think this boat is less expensive? Let's take a one-way trip, which costs four cents. No matter how many people there are, one trip costs six cents.

How long will it take for them to get their boat money back? I still like the big goose boat, which is smaller than this one but has a roof. "

The little girl adjusted her life jacket again, looked at the boat and asked the elders.

It was her first time to ride such a ship. The last time she went to Chang'an, she saw other people's goose boats in the river there. She was very envious, but she didn't want to spend money.

This time she was selling kiwi fruit, and she asked for it, otherwise the kiwi fruit would be placed in her place.

The reason she gave was that everyone fell into the water and she could rescue them ashore.

This reason was so strong that the villagers acknowledged it and she was allowed to board the boat.

Uncle Big Tou didn't know, so he estimated: "It has to be very tight anyway. The village sent six of them, and the village chief is in charge of the box where the money is collected."

"Donzhu Li is actually not afraid that we won't give him money. He goes from the village to Chang'an, where there is someone to take care of him, and from the village to the next village, he pays one fee at a time, and no one takes care of him."

The man who was two years older than Xiao Jiu explained the operation mode of the ship.

It cost one penny to go to the village and the neighboring villages, and it cost a penny to come back.

Going to Chang'an from the village costs four cents, and coming back two cents.

The village chief of each village is in charge of this matter. There is a box. If anyone wants to throw money into the box by boat, the village chief will send the money to Lijiazhuangzi once a month.

There are no specially assigned people to take care of the situation; the villagers rely on their own initiative.

"There is a village official, and the village official will help look after it." The little girl laughed when she mentioned the village official. She saw that the village official was so stupid that he didn't know how to feed the pigs.

"Isn't Muramasa's supervision enough?" Uncle Big Tou stressed that Muramasa had no problem.

Muramasa belongs to the officials, so isn't this just sending officials to watch over him?

The little girl looked around: "Brother Xiaojiu, why don't you become a salesman? When there is water on the river, you can run from village to village carrying the goods."

She came up with a good idea. She heard that in the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, the salesmen did not carry burdens to sell things, but ran around on the boats.

"I promise there will be, but I won't do it. I will work with Lijiazhuang in Bashui. Boss Li can always find work for everyone."

Xiaojiu shook his head. He was good at water, but he didn't like to stay in the water all day.

He looked at the rotating wheels on both sides of the boat: "Actually, this boat can be supported by poles. The water is shallow, with a depth of six to eight feet and a width of about three feet."

"It's too tiring to swim against the current, so it's suitable for calm water and short-distance ferries." Uncle Big Tou said.

"Use it with the flow, but don't use it with the flow." Xiao Jiu followed.

"Why do we need to hold a punt when we are going downstream? It will be washed away if we go with the current. However, with the fast speed of a bamboo pole, this kind of boat is not very suitable."

The little girl retorted, but she felt it made sense.

The four of us pedaled and chatted without feeling tired at all.

The same situation occurs in the small rivers in Jingzhao Prefecture. Some people have nothing to sell at all, so they just ask their neighbors what they want to sell, collect a pile and set off.

I simply want to play with this kind of ship and experience it.

Many small docks were built around Chang'an City for ships to dock.

Naturally, there are several canals connecting Baishui. Entering Baishui from the west and northwest is downstream, while entering Baishui from the south is countercurrent.

Some boats are not well controlled and will bump into each other, and everyone is trying hard to separate.

Li Yi stood on the other side of the bridge and looked at it, shaking his head: "There must be traffic rules. Don't be afraid if a small boat touches a small boat. If a big boat touches a small boat, the small boat will be broken."

"It's because they are not skilled in operation. There are many small boats that are not ships on the river. They all know how to avoid the big boats."

Li Chengqi stood by and knew the situation. Many people operated the boat for the first time, and the more nervous they were, the more mistakes they made.

He came here specifically to deliver dried shrimps, golden hook dried shrimps.

The navy caught all very small shrimps there, and sent them to the shore, boiled them in a big pot, and added a little salt.

After they were cooked, they were spread out to dry. At the same time, there would be skin on the outside of the dried shrimps, which needed to be processed separately and beaten.

Put the dried dried shrimps in a bag and start beating them. The skin and head will fall off after beating.

Sieve and winnowing basket.

The shrimp skins and heads that were beaten off can be added to feed chickens and ducks.

Li Chengqi's seafood fishing and processing have formed a scale there, and local people help to deal with it together.

This kind of dried dried shrimps are shipped to Chang'an by ship when there is water in the Yellow River, and the price of dried shrimps in Chang'an drops by 30%.

"Brother Yi, I didn't expect the people in Chang'an to like it so much. They said that the people on the coast don't eat dried shrimps, they eat big shrimps and fish."

Li Chengqi talked about dried shrimps, which were all small things, far inferior to big shrimps.

"Many people in the mainland love to eat seafood, which is the importance of transportation and commerce, especially mussels, which are made into mussels, and people on the coast also like them."

Li Yi likes to eat golden hook dried shrimps more, and eats them as snacks.

"The road from Luoyang to Chang'an has basically been repaired. The people in Chang'an no longer have to worry about lack of food, and the court does not have to go to Luoyang to eat."

Li Chengqi looked in the direction of Lantian County. The road from Luoyang goes to Lantian County, and then transports from Lantian County to Chang'an.

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