在中国几千年漫长的封建社会中，漕运一直是统治者赖以生存的经济命脉。至明清时期，漕运更是达到鼎盛阶段，沟通南北的大运河也因此成为维系京师补给的交通命脉。但在明初，朱元璋建都南京时，“四方贡赋，由江以达京师。”“江西，湖广之粟，浮江直下；浙西，吴中之粟，... In China’s thousands of years of feudal society, water transport has always been the economic lifeline for the rulers to survive. To the Ming and Qing Dynasties, water transport reached its heyday, and the Grand Canal, which communicated north and south, therefore became the lifeblood of the traffic to maintain the supply of the capital. However, in the early Ming Dynasty, when the emperor was capitalized in Nanjing, “the tribute tribute by the river to reach the capital.” "Jiangxi, Huguang Su, floating down the river; western Zhejiang, Wu in the millet, ...