What is the "professional qualities" of a talented official?

Zu Feng used facts to show Li Li: In the past five days, a memorial with a thick "attachment" appeared on Li Li's desk.

This memorial talks about the pros and cons of canal and sea transportation.

He also compared the canal transport and sea transport to left and right legs, and made suggestions on how the imperial court should use these two "legs" to make a steadily step.

At the beginning, Zu Yi first talked about the canal transportation. After all, the canal transportation is a transportation method that the courts of all dynasties must have attached importance to for thousands of years, and thus accumulated a lot of experience and "data".

The so-called "data" refers to the human, material costs, as well as the loss and maintenance costs of the canal transportation.

Zu Yi analyzed the pros and cons of canal transportation based on the "actual operation situation" of several major artificial transportation in China.

1. In the north of the Yangtze River, the transport of canals is generally interrupted due to the frozen river surface and the drop in water level in winter, unless a large amount of manpower and material resources are invested to break the ice and pull the fiber.

2. The prosperity of Yundu canal transportation is very helpful for the "economic development" of Yundu coastal areas. Therefore, canal transportation is not only a mode of transportation, but also an important means to drive local development.

3. Over time, the population who relies on the canal transportation to make a living will inevitably expand rapidly, and it is inevitable that the Yundu River will accumulate and the navigation capacity will be limited.

Therefore, in order to maintain the smooth flow of canal transportation, the court will invest in regular dredging and cleaning of the transportation bank every year in the future, and the maintenance cost will be very high.

After the formation of the interest groups in the canal transportation, it will inevitably be too big. If the court wants to make major changes, it may be difficult to "eliminate the old and welcome the new."

What is "think about big changes"?

That is, partially replaced canal transportation by sea transportation.

Therefore, Zu Yi introduced the second content: the advantages of sea transportation.

Canal transport and sea transport are both shipping, and the means of transportation are ships, but the waters are different: canal transport is carried out on inland rivers (including lakes), while sea transport is carried out on the sea (coastal, deep sea).

According to the existing shipping information, it can be seen that when the wind is down, the ships sailing from western Liaoning will arrive thousands of miles away and the distance will take only one month.

This is true from north to south, and from south to north.

If cargoes in western Liaoning take land (including inland waterways) to go to Panyu, Guangzhou, how long does it take?

At least half a year, let alone how high the transportation cost is.

Of course, the risk of sea freight is much higher than that of inland freight, but overall, the efficiency and transportation cost of sea freight have great advantages in long-distance transportation of bulk goods.

But having an advantage alone is not enough. Whether it is canal transportation or sea transportation, the fundamental lies in the transportation of goods and personnel. The significance of its existence lies in the transportation of large amounts of materials and personnel to important places.

So, after the imperial court "returned the capital to Luoyang", would the materials needed by the capital every year be solved by canal transportation or sea transportation?

The answer is very clear: only the canal transportation can solve it.

Luoyang's location is the center of the world (the perspective of the Central Plains), like the center of a circle, and the sea is on the edge of this circle.

No matter how good the shipping is, it is useless. Only the canal transportation can ensure that the resources of various places are continuously transported to Luoyang.

If it is just to solve the problem of material transportation after the capital of Luoyang is established in the future, the canal transportation can be solved.

However, if we want to stabilize the situation outside the Great Wall and the situation in the western part of the Great Wall and the situation in the Jiaozhou area, we cannot do it without shipping.

Here, the discussion has taken a turning point. After the reunification of the world, Luoyang will be established and the material guarantee of Luoyang will be in all directions and discuss the necessity of shipping from the border situation.

That is, turn your eyes from the center of the circle to the edge of the circle.

For the Central Plains court, the threats to the border mainly came from the northwest grasslands.

However, in the south, Jiaozhou is now facing the continuous invasion of Linyi State, and local tyrants are making small moves.

A rebellion broke out in Jiaozhou area more than 30 years ago. Although it was pacified, the local tyrants were still ready to collude with Linyi Kingdom, which occupied the former land of Sunan, in the south, and frequently made trouble.

The Jiaozhou garrison should prevent the powerful from causing trouble at home and prevent Linyi from invading outside the country. It is not arrested and needs foreign aid.

Foreign aid can only come from Guangzhou, and the Guangzhou area is surrounded by a group of staff. If there is a slight mistake, there will be war everywhere.

It is obvious that if you want to stabilize Lingbiao Jiaozhou and shock the local wealthy families, you must first stabilize Lingbiao Guangzhou. To strengthen the connection between Central Plains and Guangzhou, it is better to go by sea than by land.

As long as Guangzhou is not chaotic, Jiaozhou will not be chaotic. However, if Guangzhou is not chaotic, the Central Plains must import population to Guangzhou and even Lingbiao areas for a long time.

Only when there are more and more immigrants in the Central Plains area will the local natives be honest.

Only when Guangzhou is stable can the local snakes in Jiaozhou be honest.

Similarly, if the imperial court wants the grassland area to be peaceful in the future, no overlords will threaten the border areas at all times, so they have to divide the grassland into east and west, defeat each one, control or exert influence respectively.

The stability of the eastern grasslands has a lot to do with whether the western Liaoning region is stable. Whether western Liaoning is stable depends on whether Liaodong is peaceful.

Now that the Liaodong region is occupied by Goguryeo, if you want to solve the Liaodong problem, you must solve the Goguryeo, at least you must defeat it, otherwise there will be constant border troubles, and the money and food consumed for this will become a huge financial burden.

Zu Yi believed that although the Youyan garrison could support western Liaoning, even if the garrison was stationed in a military farm, it could only ensure the needs of its own defense zone.

If we want to support the troops stationed in western Liaoning outside the Great Wall and even use troops to Liaodong, it will not work at all. Therefore, in the future, the imperial court will need to mobilize a large amount of materials from other places to manage Liaodong.

So, shipping came in handy.

Even if the coastal areas of western Liaoning will freeze in winter and shipping will inevitably be interrupted, in autumn, the huge transportation capacity of sea transportation can still be quickly transported to western Liaoning before the ice is frozen.

When war begins, shipping is even more important.

Geographically speaking, the Central Plains army had to go to Liaodong, usually by land to leave Youyan, pass through Yingzhou in western Liaoning, and cross Liaoze before reaching Liaodong.

However, the road is mostly high mountains or deserted water, which is very unfavorable for logistics transportation.

Moreover, Liaodong and western Liaoning are bitter and cold, the weather is early and spring is late. During the year, it is only a little more than half a year.

According to the information obtained by the Ministry of Education, most of the strongholds in Goguryeo in Liaodong were mountain cities, and the government troops continued to attack the difficulties, which took a long time.

Once the war is halfway through and the cold winter comes, you will have to be forced to withdraw your troops and all your previous efforts are wasted.

To solve the Liaodong issue, Goguryeo must be beaten to death and crippled.

However, from Liaodong to the east, there are all steep mountains and ridges. A large number of Goguryeo mountain cities are distributed among them. The official army will inevitably consume huge amounts of strongholds and time.

Can the court afford such a war?

But if you change your thinking, take the sea to transport troops and grain, the problem will be solved.

The Liaodong and Qinglai areas are only a few hundred miles apart in the sea and land. The boat troops set out from Qinglai are able to enter the plains of Goguryeo by crossing the sea and reaching eastwards within a few hundred miles apart.

Go straight to the capital.

During the Han Dynasty, the Han army crossed the sea eastward to expedition, intercepting bends and taking straightness, which is a ready-made example.

Whether it is a cross-sea expedition to Goguryeo, or a cross-sea expedition to Linyi Kingdom, and toquel the rebellion of the rich people in Jiaozhou, strong maritime transportation is the key.

Therefore, Zu Yi believed that the imperial court's vigorous development of maritime transportation was of great significance to stabilizing border defense.

When Li Li saw this, he couldn't help but exclaim: Throughout the article, Zu Yi did not mention Daxing's sea trade in a single word, but only talked about the importance of sea transportation to ensure border stability.

Daxing shipping is actually Daxing shipping.

Otherwise, where would the crew come from a huge sea boat and a large number of sailors?

This size of the sea fleet must be active in various sea areas by participating in maritime trade, rather than temporarily pieced together when the court needs it.

Zu Yi did not mention trade at all, but used "political correctness" that others could not argue, and advocated the establishment of shipping to indirectly lead to the view that Daxing's maritime trade is beneficial to the country and the people.

In this way, those "knowledgeable people" who are bound by farming traditions and don't like the sea trade no matter how they think about refuting them, but they can't find an excuse.

Because they cannot deny the importance of regaining Liaodong and stabilizing western Liaoning, nor can they deny the necessity of stabilizing the Lingbei and regaining the former land of Rinan County (now occupied by Linyi State).

Liaodong County and Rinan County were all lands during the Han Dynasty. The unified dynasty did not regain its hometown. Where did the so-called "Central Plains" start?

Zu Yi used this method to openly suggest Daxing shipping, which is actually to facilitate the emperor to follow the flow of Daxing shipping. He is truly a veteran of the officialdom... a talented person.

The human being knows what the emperor wants, knows that the emperor needs a "mouth", and expresses what the emperor wants in the form of suggestions (written by letter, memorial).

I also know that when I am a message, I must be "aware" and not cause trouble for the emperor, or after causing trouble, I have to bear it myself. So I carefully designed a "script" to solve the emperor's worries and problems...

Is this kind of person loyal or treacherous?

Li Li put down the memorial and slowly drank tea.

The King of Chu was so thin that he starved to death in the palace. People like Zu Yi, who had extremely low moral bottom line but were particularly talented, were loyal or treacherous, and it was entirely up to the good or bad of the lord he served.

Li Li himself wanted to promote the maritime trade so as to benefit the country and the people. If the elites and ancestors would become the ministers who were loyal and actively offered suggestions;

Li Li felt that if he was a desolate emperor, he would always think about getting other beautiful women to bed. Zu Yi would definitely run actively and make a move to make the beautiful women obediently.

Such a "human spirit" can be used well and twice the result with half the effort. If it is not used well...

Li Li put down the teacup and sighed.

There are so many elites in the officialdom, Zu Wei is just one of them. It is impossible for every generation of emperor to win intrigue with elites.

Therefore, without dividing the bureaucratic group and letting them restrain each other, how can those new kings who were born in the deep palace and raised by women sit firmly?
Chapter completed!