In mid-September, the second year of Longhan, Qian Youde came to Yingkou again.

Qian Youde runs an oil business, which purchases oil tea seeds, soybeans, rapeseed and other oils from various places every year, and then sells them. This is a family-owned transaction and has been operated for many years. In recent years, the soybeans in Liaodong have become an important source of soybean oil for Qian Youde Oil. However, the continued Liaodong wars at that time interrupted the source of soybeans in their oil mills, which greatly affected their oil business and almost closed down.

Fortunately, Qian Youde's loan application from the bank was approved the year before yesterday and received a life-saving silver with not a high interest rate. Since receiving that loan, their oil mill gradually came back to life, especially when the Han army gained a foothold in the southern Liaoning region, his family can receive a large amount of soybeans from Liaodong every year.

Starting this year, the Jurchens completely withdrew from Liaodong and immigrated a large number of immigrants into Liaodong. Liaodong grew a large number of soybeans, and the soybeans produced in Liaodong have always been of high quality. Before the soybean harvest this year, Qian Youde borrowed a large number of silver dollars from the bank. After sufficient purchase funds, Qian Youde personally rushed to Liaodong and signed an ordering contract with the bean farmers in advance.

Now the soybeans are harvested, and soybeans from all over the country have been harvested into warehouses. Qian Youde is also in a hurry to transport the soybeans back to Shandong before winter comes.

After the soybean harvest this year, Qian Youde has traveled to Liaodong and Shandong twice in a row, transporting back a large number of soybeans.

The ship entered the entrance of the Liao River Yingkou.

Although he has been in and out here several times this year, Qian Youde couldn't help but be amazed when he looked at the Shanggang with sails. Three years ago, the Jurchens occupied it. Later, the Chu army landed in Liaodong, once captured towns in Gaizhou and Yingkou, and moved all the people in the city to Lushun, Jinzhou, making this place a ruin.

But after the Han army re-occupied the place more than a year ago, it began to stabilize the place and operate it here.

When the Han army recovered Liaoshen and the Jurchens completely withdrew from Liaodong, Yingkou's development was changing with each passing day. On the original ruins, it was like this every day.

Especially when the imperial court set Yingkou as a commercial port open to foreign merchants, Yingkou developed rapidly. Taking advantage of the craze for the imperial court to immigrate outside the pass, Yingkou relied on its location advantage and took advantage of the uniqueness of the commercial port that sailed to the seaport at the Liaohe River, and its economy rose rapidly.

The imperial court immigrated outside the pass, and countless people flocked to several provinces outside the pass, and various transportation demands continued to increase. As a big river outside the pass, the Liaohe River, especially its advantage in entering the sea, was quickly positioned by the imperial court to develop an important water transport channel outside the pass. After dredging, the Liaohe River, which already has strong navigation capabilities, has even developed many new shipping terminals, from Yingkou, the mouth of the Liaohe River, to the north, to Sanjiangkou Town.

A golden waterway of more than 600 miles was formed, connecting Yingkou, Tianzhuangtai, Liaozhong, Xinmin, Fakumen, Tieling, Kaiyuan, Changtu and other rivers and ports. It also connects the Gaizhou, Haicheng, Anshan, Liaoyang, Shenyang, Guangning, Fushun, and Siping cities near the river.

The two major tributaries of the Liao River, Taizi River and Hun River, also have a navigable section of more than 200 miles each. Other small tributaries can also pass through slightly smaller ships. This developed water system network makes the water transportation in Liaodong very convenient and the transportation network can be established.

Just this year, the imperial court established a project to communicate with the Liaohe River and Songhua River. This project extends the Yitun River between the Liaohe River and the southern source of the Songhua River, and unblocks the river, so that the Yitun River connects the Liaohe River, one east and one west, and the Songhua River.

The Yitun River is originally a large tributary of the Songhua River. It has abundant water flow and a wide water surface. It can usually carry a large ship of three or five feet.

After a year of excavation, the southern end of the Yitun River was extended, widened and deep, and ships could directly reach Yitun County Wharf from Songhua River.

The Liaohe River also extends from the northern end of the shipping terminal section of the Changtu Tongjiangkou Port, expands and dredges a section of the Dongliao River, allowing the large ship to travel more than 100 miles, and the golden waterway of the Liaohe River reaches more than 800 miles.

In the end, the two waterways are only more than thirty miles apart, and the two extended canals are more than meter deep, so large ships can be driven.

The imperial court built a wide road on this section of land between the two rivers, and specially built carriage tracks to and from the two canal docks on one side of the road to strengthen transportation capacity.

The dredged Yitun River flowed 350 miles northeast from the Yitun County Wharf and then merged with another large tributary of the Songhua River, Yinma River. It continued to flow north for forty miles and finally merged into the Xiliu Songhua River.

The Yitun River flows into the west stream Songhua River and flows northward for more than 200 miles, then merges into the Nenjiang River, the northern source of Songhua River, and then travels to the east for nearly 2,000 miles to the east and into Heilongjiang River.

The Nenjiang River in the north can also be navigated from the intersection of the two sources to Nenjiang County, with more than 1,000 miles of shipping waterways.

In addition to the Yalu River, the southern section of Songhua River, etc., as well as the tributaries of rivers on these waterways, the connection between waterways and land routes has been completed at this stage.

Although due to weather reasons, these waterways outside the pass can only be shipped from April to October each year, and only half a year will be sailed in a year, but they are still important transportation routes that are irreplaceable at this stage, and even in the future, they can also replace their important role.

However, although the rivers will freeze in winter, because the ice layer is thick, ice sleds and sleds can be transported for some filling.

Qian Youde still hopes to transport more beans back before the shipment in the October River stops.

Because of the dredging and connection of the Yitun River, the two major rivers of Songhua River and Nenjiang River can be connected with the Liao River. Although there is still thirty miles of land between the middle, the cargo is unloaded at the docks on both sides and after being transferred by land, it can be replaced and continued to open in the river.

From Yingkou to Tongjiangkou Town, the original northern end, you can now reach Dagushan Town more than 200 miles north. After thirty miles of land transfer, you can enter the Yitun River.

At Yitun River Wharf, you can enter the south source of Songhua River. More than 200 miles north, the two sources of Songhua River converge. To the north, the more than 1,300-mile waterway can reach Nenjiang County in the middle reaches of the Nenjiang River, where it has entered the northern part of Heilongjiang.

If you go along the main stream of Songhua River to the east for more than 1,800 miles, you can enter Heilongjiang. After the two rivers meet and go east, you can reach the eastern estuary.

Even after the Yitun River enters the Songhua River, you can sail upstream along the Nanyuan to enter the eastern and southern regions of Jilin Province.

The Yitun River, which is more than 300 miles away, connects the entire northeastern provinces.

The Liao River not only extends from the 600-mile waterway to the 800-mile waterway, but can even reach Jilin, the east of the sea, Heilongjiang, and Dongjiang Province to the northwest, and can also connect Xing'an Province, Mosan and Yanbei.

The Liaohe shipping has become more prosperous, and countless sailing docks have emerged along the route. Dagushan Town at the north end has quickly become a distribution center for goods due to its connection with the Yitun River. The grain and goods of Jilin, Heilongjiang and Xing'an are all summarized here. The commerce is extremely prosperous.

Of course, what is more prosperous is the southern end of this golden channel, Yingkou at the mouth of the sea.

In Yingkou, the dock area alone is twenty miles long, and along the 20-mile dock area, there are shops everywhere. Now it is the first harvest year for the rest of the provinces outside the pass. A large number of grain ships are constantly descending along the river day and night, and countless grains are accumulated along the river wharf. Yingkou, a large commercial port, has accumulated more than one million stones of new grain in a short time.

A large number of cloth, cotton, spatulas, plows and hoes were transported here continuously from across the sea, and then transported to various immigrant development areas through the Liaohe River waterway.

In this emerging port, a new dock was even built, and ships suitable for navigation in the Liaohe River and nearby tributaries were started, and maintenance business of Liaohe ships and incoming sea ships.

"Dongjia, immigration drives the Liaohe River water transportation. The Liaohe River water transportation has flourished the canal wharf towns along the coast, especially the extension and dredging of the Yitun River and the Liaohe River, which has further connected the entire provinces outside the pass, making the Liaohe River waterway more important, and the docks on both sides of the Liaohe River are becoming more prosperous."

Following Qian Youde's accountant, he sighed, "It really makes me feel like the Grand Canal back then."

In the Ming Dynasty, canals were extremely important, and countless ships were traveling on the canal, which indirectly gave birth to countless prosperous canal marinas. However, in the new dynasty, more emphasis was placed on sea transportation. In addition, the project of the Yellow River reverting to the old road made the current canal less busy than before. Those once prosperous canal cities have gradually been surpassed by coastal harbor cities.

But now these emerging towns on both sides of the Liao River seem to have returned to the canal of the Wanli era.

"After all, this place is different from the Central Plains. The Central Plains itself has excellent water canal channels such as the Yangtze River, Yellow River, Huai River, and Pearl River. The canals are just for communication between the north and south. However, now the shipping is so developed, and those large sea ships are fast and loaded, which are much more cost-effective than the canals that break the dam without moving, dry water or even crowded. But here, except for Liaoning, it is a coastal place. Other places such as Jilin and Heilongjiang are far away from the coast, especially now that these places are immigrating in large quantities, with large landscaping and sparse populations. Land transportation is not cost-effective, and it is also very complete in a short period of time. There are large rivers suitable for navigation such as the Liao River, Songhua River and Nenjiang, which are naturally the most cost-effective to develop water transport."

The ships entered the inland river and were berthed by the wharf. Although the twenty-mile pier still seemed a bit simple, its lively commercial atmosphere was not false.

After paying a parking fee, the two immediately rushed to the Yingkou Soybean Chamber of Commerce Hall.

This chamber of commerce is based on soybeans, and it is the soybean business. Soybeans are a crop that immigrants from all over Liaodong today. The planting industry is now the main source of the gates and do not have much processing capacity yet. Most of the soybeans produced are imported into various canal wharf towns, and then sent to Yingkou, and finally entered the warehouse of the Soybean Chamber of Commerce.

The Soybean Chamber of Commerce in Yingkou purchased soybeans from soybean guilds in the docks in Liaohe, then transported them back to Yingkou warehouses, and then sold them to Zhongyuan’s bean merchants. Although this layer-by-layer relay trading method has more intermediate links, it has higher efficiency.

Now Qian Youde doesn't have to work hard to get to Tunbao everywhere to buy soybeans, and he has to find a ship to transport it back. He directly negotiates transaction orders at the soybean chamber in Yingkou, and then he can ship the soybeans back to Shandong immediately, saving a lot of time and buying more soybeans.

This year, the soybean harvest is bumper, and the soybean prices are relatively stable.

The president of the Chamber of Commerce was very happy to see them coming. He personally welcomed Qian Youde into his office and then had someone come to the best ginseng tea.

"President Wang, are our soybeans ready?"

"Don't worry, I'll keep it for you." President Wang smiled, "Boss Qian, we have been working together for a long time. I have left enough soybeans for you. The best quality soybeans and the most reasonable price. No matter what, you have to take care of us. We will eat all the bean cakes you brought this time."

Bean cake is a dreg cake after soybean oil is pressed. This kind of bean dreg cake contains a lot of oil and fat, which can be used as food, livestock feed, and fertilizer.

In the years of famine, bean cakes are even life-saving things for the poor. However, although the food price is not low now, at least everyone can eat enough food. Therefore, bean cakes are more used as feed and fertilizer, and bean cakes are sometimes fried as snacks at most.

But as feed, bean cakes are very good feed.

Bean cake is a high-quality protein feed for young animals, breeding public animals, pregnant and even nursing female animals. All kinds of livestock and poultry like to eat it very much. Adding a small amount of bean cake to pig food can make the pig grow fatter. Adding a small amount of bean cake to the forage of dairy cows can also increase the amount of milk of cows. Even military horses will use a small amount of bean cake to feed the horse.

There are fewer oil pressing mills outside the pass, and most of the soybeans are imported into the Central Plains. However, outside the pass, they are mainly planted. Plowing oxen and horses is an important animal for land reclamation and planting, and there is a great demand for feed such as bean cakes.

The price of bean cakes sold in Liaodong is even better than that of the Central Plains. Qian Youde's ship comes to Yingkou to transport soybeans, and it is impossible for him to come empty ships, so he brings the bean cakes and some soybean oil over, and then transports the soybeans back.

Qian Youde smiled and compared a gesture to President Wang, and offered his own price. President Wang also compared a gesture. The two of them didn't say anything. They gestured several times, and finally reached a mutually satisfactory price.

Finally, it was agreed that the soybean deduction part of the bean cake money was used, and the remaining ones were settled in silver coupons.

"Brother Qian, I've eaten so many soybeans in one go this year. It seems that the business is very good." After the deal was settled, the atmosphere became much more relaxed.

"Average, just make a living." Qian Dade smiled. In fact, the oil mill business this year is indeed good, and the profits are expected to be very high this year.

"Brother Qian, are you interested in cooperation?" President Wang did not break down Qian Dade's hypocrisy. "You also see that Liaodong has abundant soybean production, and it will definitely become larger and larger in the future. In the future, the imperial court will migrate more people to Liaodong to reclaim land and expand borders. But you also see that this large number of people are pouring out of the pass, but they mainly focus on land reclamation and planting, and they also do some breeding, but there are still very few processing. They produce a large amount of soybeans every year, and the soybean oil they eat is mainly transported from the Central Plains."

"If we jointly open an oil pressing factory in Yingkou, we have soybeans, you have skilled workers, and we have a partnership, Liaodong has a vast market and the cost is lower. We don't have to work hard to transport the soybeans back. After we press the oil here, we can directly sell it to the wharf towns on both sides of the Liaohe River. Even the soybean cakes left over from the oil can be taken directly here, which can speed up the recovery of capital turnover. What do you think?"

Qian Dade just thought about it for a moment and thought it was a good money-making business. One has technology and the other has soybeans. The most suitable one is the close-opening oil press, not to mention that there is such a vast market here and a cheaper soybean supply.

"What is the specific cooperation method?" Qian Dade asked. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!