Tne transportation of the impost grain requires careful consideration.
Pliere are tio routes for conveying the annual imperial Before the reign of Tau-kwang, (he transportation, was mpont grain which Eh hi East supplies to the Capital. el; after his time it was hartly by canal ant Recently, since the desolation of the rebelbeconne shallow and obstructed, the Nelkiang has all taken the hax happened, sports tion ray every one, Suill are those who, while acknowledging, the matter ug a very important one, the consider inthe mode must not be made lightly, andi knowing full well that canal transportation would ifliculties, yet fear that the SI transportation Hence, the in-post grain produ ing provinces, although they niay live the desire to transport vet look with a sigh to the impassible gulf. Unless, th Majesty establishes a definite poli advocate canal tr: il Jersly planning an while those vho alvosate sea transportation will tuhhornly adhere to the method amore enlarge policy. Although from year to year, in provinces, a dai iuleration is given to this the grain in the imperial storehouses is not increas only does the scheme for canal transportation present.
nothing tangible, even the sea transportation must sven demand 1 attention. Hence, ax often as the er revert to thix question unch anxiety and perplexity, ant yet cannot Jay it aside. He legs now to consider it in nil at side, offer a clear exposition of it. bearings, with the advantages and disadvantages of either Since the rebel desslations, the impost grain prov {districts have altogether abandoned the Kai, Cheb,
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