"From Yanjin Port, crossing the Bohai Sea eastward, and sailing more than 600 miles, you can reach Lushun. If the sea boat can be propelled with a propeller and sails with the help of wind, as long as the sea conditions are still OK, the entire journey can theoretically be shortened to one day."

"It is very convenient to use Lushun as a transit port to Liaokou or Huangcheng, Laizhou. Of course, it is also possible to fly directly from Yanjin to Liaokou, but the opening of this route should not be urgent, so be cautious."

"Similarly, the dual-purpose machine-sail ship set off from Guangzhou Fanyu Port and headed to Jiaozhou Longbian Port. When the sea conditions are still acceptable, it can theoretically take the complete journey within three days."

"As for the sailing time of going to Danluo, Ryukyu, Taizhou, and Luzhou, the two-purpose sea ships will also be shortened, provided that there is sufficient supply of coal and fresh water."

"But these are all theoretical states. After all, wooden hulls are poor in wind and wave resistance. If the wind is high and the waves are harsh, they can only stay in the port area and cannot go out to sea."

"And the speed of the dual-purpose machine-sail boat is not as good as the five-masted sailboat that sails by wind when it is downwind. After all, the steamer boat has heavy machines and coal-fired, which is dead weight and there are not enough sails."

In the side hall, Yuwen Wen was talking with Xu Shao and Hao Wu Bo. There were several ship models in front of him, and there were many sketches and materials next to him, all of which were related to dual-purpose ships of machine (propeller propulsion) sail (sailing).

Although propeller propulsion has made breakthroughs and has begun to be practical, if used for navigation, there are still many shortcomings and many problems that need to be solved. Yu Wen Wen is very clear about this.

The biggest problem with the steamer entering the sea is that it requires burning coal, so the ship must be loaded with a large amount of coal, which requires the destination port of the steamer to have sufficient coal to ensure that the steamer can return or go to the next destination.

Therefore, if the propeller-propelled steamship must be used for maritime transportation, it is necessary to ensure the supply of coal, and the ship itself must carry a large amount of fuel. Under this premise, the steamship can only run mature routes when entering the sea.

For the planned cross-Bohai passenger and freight routes to achieve normal operation and strengthen the circulation of personnel and materials in Hebei and Liaodong, the Liaodong region must mine a large amount of coal and store it in Liaokou.

A simple sailing ship does not have this problem. It does not require fuel to be carried and can be moved directly by using wind power. The maximum speed of a five-masted sailing ship has long exceeded forty miles per hour.

However, different seasons have different wind directions. When sailing sailing, you must wait for the hyacinth when you go to sea. You cannot do whatever you want and go wherever you want. This is the disadvantage of relying on wind power to navigate.

So as far as the current situation is concerned, it is inevitable that the coexistence of sailboats and machine-sail dual-purpose ships is a must. As for steamships that rely solely on propellers, because they consume a lot of coal, they will inevitably squeeze the space of the cargo hold, so it is not realistic to use them for long-distance sea transportation (bulk cargo transportation).

Xu Shao and Hao Wubo focus on inland shipping rather than sea transportation. Of course, they know how important it is after the new steamship with a speed of more than 40 miles per hour is launched. Once this thing is popularized, the world will inevitably have a new look.

A new steamship departing from Guangling, the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, arrives at Jiangling, downstream of the Three Gorges exit. The entire journey takes more than 2,000 miles, theoretically it only takes ten days to reach it (including appropriately berthing at the port on the road overnight, adding coal, maintenance, etc.).

If you continue to move forward, you can also go westward to Yizhou or even Chengdu after passing through the turbulent Three Gorges of the Yangtze River.

It is likely that the whole process will only take one month!

This kind of thing can make people feel extremely excited just by thinking about it. Xu Shao and Hao Wubo understand that the propeller-driven steamship is like the last firewood thrown into the furnace, causing the water in the pot to boil.

The transportation is convenient, and the cost required to control the local area has dropped significantly, which means that the court has stronger transportation capacity and will deliver "power" to the frontier.

This kind of power can be an army, food, baggage, armor, and anyway, it is nothing more than personnel and materials.

The large number of "mile populations" that follow will also lead to many problems complicating or new problems. Therefore, the court must respond, carry out "reforms", reform various systems, and formulate various new policies.

Xu Shao looked at a new model of inland passenger ships and was shocked by the new shipping capabilities. Such transportation and transportation tools have never been seen in thousands of years. The imperial court wanted the county to control such tools, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs or the Ministry of Works alone could no longer do so.

The Transport Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs has its own transportation departments and the Shipbuilding Merchants Bureau. However, with a new round of major development in shipping, it will definitely be difficult to manage shipping by relying on the Transport Department to manage shipping of steamships and not very efficient.

"So, there must be a 'department' specialized in transportation, with the specifications similar to the six departments."

Yuwen Wen said, saying his idea: "It can be called the Ministry of Transport, or the Ministry of Transportation, which is responsible for water and land transportation matters, as well as material transfer, and it is under the jurisdiction of local transshipment departments and steamship merchandising agencies."

"Of course, whether these responsibilities are under the management of the Ministry of Industry or the new department, we must clearly distinguish them so as not to argue with each other."

"The functions of household registration management in various places, including the management of migrant population, must be strengthened. They can be separated from the Ministry of Civil Affairs and combined with the police system to establish a department responsible for household registration management, law enforcement, and maintaining public security and ensuring public safety. If so, the new department can be called the "Ministry of Internal Affairs."

"The management of migrant population involves household registration, taxation and public security. The Ministry of Internal Affairs corresponds to household registration and public security. As for taxation, including various tax issues brought about by the prosperity of business, the Ministry of Civil Affairs needs to strengthen its corresponding functions. You can think about how to strengthen it."

"Or, the function of tax collection for migrant population, business and industry is separated from the Ministry of Civil Affairs and formed a system, which can be considered."

"Also, the development of industry and mining is very rapid. The overall number and scale of workshops and mines are getting bigger and bigger. It is very difficult for the Ministry of Industry to manage it. Whether it is necessary to establish a new department to strengthen management is also something to consider."

"In short, the division of the six ministries of the Shangshu Province is no longer appropriate and needs appropriate changes. Targeted institutional adjustments are required for emerging industries. This requires collective efforts. I have nothing to say by myself."

Yuwen Wen talked endlessly, Xu Shao and Hao Wu Bo listened while reading the information and ship model, their faces gradually became solemn: It is obvious that a major change that has not been seen in a thousand years is about to begin.

The court must adapt, but if it cannot adapt, something big will happen sooner or later.

Walking alone in the countryside on a marching horse, leisurely and contented, without any superb riding skills. When the mount becomes a thousand-mile horse that can travel thousands of miles a day and gallops on the vast land, if the rider is not good at riding, he will not be able to control the mount at the least, and if he falls off the horse and falls and falls seriously and is even killed.

Times are different, really different. Faced with the ever-changing social development, not only should the system and national policies be "changed", but even the concepts must be changed.

For traditional concepts, local officials should manage and govern the people well. It is best to let the people do "parents are here, not travel far away", so that the people can live a life of men farming and women weaving, working from sunrise to sunset.

In order to facilitate management and to have stable tax revenue, Beijing officials and local officials hope that people from all over the country will stay in their hometowns honestly, so that the government can manage and collect taxes at a lower cost.

For manors of all sizes and large places, the owners hope that the people will be imprisoned on the land, so that there will be a situation where there is a "small land and more people" and they can hire tenant farmers to farm at a lower and lower cost.

But now it is not possible. With the increasing convenience of transportation and the rapid development of industry and commerce, more and more farmers choose to leave their hometowns to work in other places. Workshops, workshops and mines in various places need to hire a large amount of labor, so the number of migrant population will only increase.

This puts forward new requirements on the governance capabilities of local officials and also on the abilities of Beijing officials.

Governments in various places are likely to have conflicts over various problems arising from migrant populations, and the contradictions may intensify.

The factory owners, workshop owners, mine owners and big businessmen hope to hire a large amount of labor at a relatively low cost and hope that the population will move. This demand will have a conflict with the owners of the manor and the contradiction will intensify.

Also, when a large number of foreign populations gather in areas with developed industry and commerce, the local population soared, and various problems also followed, which also made the relationship between locals and foreigners subtle and conflicts not missing.

As the court, it is impossible to be indifferent to what is happening and is about to happen. So how to coordinate, appease all stakeholders, manage and guide the migrant population is a problem that must be faced and resolved as soon as possible.

These problems can no longer be solved by relying solely on capable officials, cruel officials, capital officials, and local officials. "Reforms" must be carried out to make the entire court adapt to the country's rapid development.

At this moment, Xu Shao and Hao Wu Bo, who were in their forties, looked at the emperor of the same age and listened to the emperor looking forward to the future, suddenly remembered the past.

Thirty years ago, Bazhou was unknown. The young Xiyang County Duke took office as the governor of Bazhou. In the dilapidated state yamen, he looked forward to them with confidence:

"In the future, Bazhou will definitely become unique, and the whole world will have to look at it with admiration. Do you believe it?"
Chapter completed!