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A merchant sitting on the bags, supervising the laborers moving bags of grains from two boats to the shore. Notice, also, the outfit that he has on -- the loose-fitting clothing he has is decidedly not designed for manual labor. The laborers, on the…

The river is full of such cargo vessels transporting various goods and food items to different locations in the city.In the Northern Song (960-1127), the Bian River has become one of the major water routes that the government uses to transport…