how do you think the workers dug the grand canal in 1900
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It is estimated that it took over 45,000 full-time laborers to maintain the canal during the Ming Dynasty. The canal was also used as a courier route for carrying important government messages
It was built to enable successive Chinese regimes to transport surplus grain from the agriculturally rich Yangtze (Chang) and Huai river valleys to feed the capital cities and large standing armies in northern China. Cargo barges on the Grand Canal at Suzhou, Jiangsu province, China.
One of the greatest benefits of the canal system in the Tang dynasty—and subsequent dynasties—was that it reduced the cost of shipping grain that had been collected in taxes from the Yangtze River Delta to northern China.
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