Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 529

It is said that since Beihai Town was founded seven years ago, a large number of machinery and equipment have emerged one after another, not to mention the two big iron ships, the Thunder God and the Jinglei.Although there are still new immigrants who are curious about the tractors on the fields and stand on the ridges of the fields during spring plowing and autumn harvest, most people will not regard these machines as monsters.

For example, Zhu Dagui, who was invited to participate in the opening ceremony of the train, and other village representatives, they are no strangers to tractors, cars, and inland river sailing boats.

In Zhu Dagui's view, there are endless magic weapons in the pockets of gentlemen, and whatever you take out is a good thing, it must be of great use.So when most people see the steaming locomotive, they just stick out their tongues in admiration, and then turn the focus of the discussion to how fast this thing can run and how much it can pull.

Only Wang Zhong, Hong Liangji and others were shocked, pulling Zhao Liang to ask questions, to explore the principle of operation, in order to demonstrate it from the perspective of Confucianism.

In the history of another time and space, the first officially operated railway in China was not the one outside the Xuanwu Gate in the capital, but the Wusong Railway built by the British.In the end, this line only ran for one year before it was taken back and demolished by the Qing Dynasty.

So some people said that the Manchu Qing Dynasty was corrupt, ignorant of science, and often took off their pants and farted.In fact, the British secretly built the railway without telling the Qing court, which made the officials headed by Shen Baozhen worry that the big powers would use the construction of the railway to expand their power and violate the right of road. Other countries would follow suit, so they had to demolish it no matter what. Lose.Of course, Dai Qing definitely wouldn’t dare to play tricks with the British, so he could only spend money to buy it back, and then use the demolition method as a disguised warning.

In 1881, the Qing court presided over the construction and fully controlled the Tangxu Railway in its own hands, which was officially opened to traffic.

As for the so-called destruction of geomantic omen, the reason behind it is either that the common people took the opportunity to make trouble due to the lack of money for land expropriation, or the conflict of interests between conservatives and reformers in the court.Throughout the ages, it could be better to say that no one is more stupid than anyone else.

After all the people from Beihai Town arrived, the opening ceremony officially started at 8:10 in the morning.First of all, Zhao Xin came to the stage and did a blah blah, which took [-] minutes.Its content is nothing more than working together from top to bottom to work together for the future of New China.

In another time and space, Zhao Xin occasionally participated in this kind of ceremony.Usually at such times, he who sits below pretends to be concentrating, and silently greets the other party's family in his heart.Unexpectedly, Feng Shui took turns, and now he has become one of the people speaking on the stage, but I don't know if anyone is also sending cordial "greetings".

All in all, the Khabarovsk Railway Station on April 4 was a gathering of talents, and the major "radishes" of the Beihai Town Railway Construction Committee took the stage to speak one after another.When a foreman named "Yu Jinfa" who was a worker's representative came to the stage to speak, Zhao Xin, who was sitting in the front row, was so nervous that his legs softened and he almost knelt in front of the microphone.

After more than 40 minutes, the speech finally ended, and Zhao Xin and others immediately went to the platform to cut the ribbon.The tens of meters long red silk was cut into eleven pieces amidst the sound of gongs and drums, and then they were taken away and distributed to the workers working in the station.Take this thing back, whether it's a bellyband or red pants, it's pretty good.

According to the plan, after the ribbon-cutting ceremony, the locomotive will drag two passenger cars at a speed of [-] kilometers per hour to run back and forth between Boli and the dispatching station ten kilometers away.Counting the time to visit the dispatching station, the whole process took more than an hour.

The first batch of locomotives used in Beihai Town were two forward-type steam locomotives, which Zhao Xin bought three years ago from a company in the north in another time and space.After undergoing major repairs two years ago, it was shipped onto a Panamanian-flagged freighter, and then disappeared from the cargo list strangely when passing through a transit port.

Several steam engine enthusiasts in the power plant wanted to go to the cab to follow, but when they told the responsible Master Sun, the old man said impatiently: "Driving? I think you are rushing to open the river. It’s almost the same! Where it’s cooler, stay there!”

"Master Sun, how can you say that, anyway, I have also visited the train museum and assembled a steam train model, which is much better than your apprentices."

"Really? Can you read the water meter? Do you know how high the water level should be?"

"Isn't it enough to keep the boiler from running out of water?"

Master Sun, who was in his early sixties, cast a glance at the 30-something power plant after hearing this, and ignored him.

At this time, the four-square-meter cab that can only accommodate three people is already crowded. In addition to the driver and co-driver, there are also two apprentices with big shovels. Go to the first car and sit down.

These people are actually only interested in steam machinery, and no one has ever driven a steam train.In their minds, they all think that the train driver is very majestic and interesting, but in fact, the hard work of the train driver is unimaginable to ordinary people. The so-called "looks like a fleeing famine from a distance, looks like a beggar at a close look, and looks like a maintenance worker at a closer look." It’s right.” This is the true portrayal of a railway man.

From 1789.Beihai Town Railway Construction Committee opened a railway technology branch school in Khabarovsk, which is affiliated to Beihai Town Technical School, specializing in training railway technical workers.

There are many stations in life. For the hundreds of thousands of refugees from Daiqing, the appearance of Beihai Town led to a major turning point in their lives, and the appearance of the railway school also meant a new beginning for some of them. There are 800 Many young people have changed from farmers to members of the working class.

Several teachers of the Railway Technical School are old railway people invited from another time and space, and their average age is over 60 years old.What Zhao Xin negotiated with them was a five-year contract. After teaching the first batch of students, they will take another two years to count as the end of the task. Afterwards, they will consider whether to retain them based on their personal situation.

Boli Locomotive Depot consists of four major workshops for operation, maintenance, equipment, and fuel, two pull-back sections, four locomotives, and 500 apprentices who have not yet graduated.Because of the small number of vehicles, each vehicle consists of 12 people as a team, and the driver, co-driver, and fireman take turns in three shifts.

It is not easy to become a train driver in Beihai Town.You must go through the four stages of school, apprenticeship, fireman, and co-driver, and you must pass at least one year of experience and examinations before you can be promoted to a driver.In general, it will take five years at the earliest.

According to the suggestions of several teachers, students in the railway technical school will formally enter a two-year apprenticeship period after one year of theoretical study. Only after working for more than one year can you be qualified to take the co-driver test, and the co-driver can only be tested as a driver after working for another year.Therefore, it takes five years at the fastest to become a locomotive driver, that is, three years of burning fires and one year of lubricating parts before being eligible to become a driver.

Such a study of the Fa is actually counterproductive. According to the opinions of those masters, it takes at least seven years to go from an apprentice to a driver.The driver and co-driver not only need to understand practical operation, but also have to master locomotive structure principles, fault analysis and maintenance, technical regulations, operation regulations, and signals.Fortunately, the outer northeast of this time and space is sparsely populated, and there is an urgent demand for technicians, which gives those apprentices room to display in advance.

Considering the level of the apprentices, the four locomotives are currently operated by time-travelers, and some apprentices who have learned particularly well are qualified to burn the boiler with a big shovel.

Before the steam train starts driving, the driver, the co-driver and the fireman must be ready for departure.The task of the driver is to preheat the cylinder, increase the temperature of the cylinder wall, and discharge a large amount of condensed water in the cylinder; Oil the five friction surfaces of the flat wedges behind each wheel, as well as the intermediate buffers.

At this time, an old man surnamed Wang who was the co-driver was refueling, and casually said to the apprentices behind him: "Remember! As long as the car is parked, the co-driver has to come down and refuel these places to reduce wear and tear."

A student raised his hand and said, "Master, what if the position of the iron wheel happens to block the flat wedge iron?"

The old man nodded in satisfaction, turned around and showed a teachable expression: "Good question! So when the position is just oiled up, you must give it enough. Not every time you park, you can leave just enough space for you. .”

After the co-driver finished checking around, more than 300 people who participated in the opening ceremony got on the car.At this time, a signal light is raised in front of the station to notify that the train can depart.

With a sound of "thrust pull", as the old man Sun, who was the driver, skillfully pushed the gate to the operating position, the main air cylinder began to fill the train pipe with air.As the pointer on the wind pressure gauge turned to the position of [-] kPa, old man Sun pushed the handle again, opened a quarter of the valve, and then pulled the small gate to the relief position; It started slowly.

"Kuu~kuu~kuu~kuu~"

"It's moving! It's moving! The train is moving!"

In the second section of the passenger car, Zhu Dagui, who was sitting on a green chair with a backrest, suddenly felt his body rush forward, and at the same time, the scenery outside the window moved backward.

After the train pulled out of the platform, the driver in the cab pushed the forward gear to 55, opened the big valve again, and then stepped on the drain valve on the ground on the left side, and the whole train "click~click~click~" ran up.

"Woo~~" a whistle whistled, and the steam train in Beihai Town galloped on the land of Outer Northeast for the first time.

Beside the railway to the east of Khabarovsk Station, border residents of various nationalities who heard the news and came to see the strangeness stood behind the fences on both sides of the railway, watching the roaring train pass by with curiosity and astonishment.Thanks to the railway police and soldiers on duty every 50 meters along this section of the railway, and the construction of wire fences, otherwise the Hezhe and Oroqen people who came from afar would have liked to stand on the railway track to see what happened.

Ten days later, Fukang'an, who lives in Ula City, Jilin Province, received a report from a spy that Beihai Town's construction of the Qianli Avenue built with four steel rails to the north of the Huntong River had been completed.Beihai Town did not know what kind of evil method was used to make a black steel monster emitting white smoke drag two carriages with at least hundreds of people sitting on them.When the monster acted with astonishing momentum, it only took a little more than a stick of incense to travel more than 20 miles.

"With a stick of incense, hundreds of people walk more than 20 miles. Not good!" Fu Kang'an suddenly got up from his seat after thinking for a while, his face turned a little pale.

In ancient times, an hour was divided into eight quarters, that is, the upper four quarters and the next four quarters. Each quarter is about 15 minutes later.A stick of incense takes a quarter of an hour, and if you can travel twenty miles, wouldn't you be able to travel 160 miles in one hour?You can travel thousands of miles in ten hours!

Fukang'an was shocked by this matter.In his opinion, with such a "steel monster" in Beihai Town, wouldn't it be true to travel thousands of miles every day.If Beihai Town deploys troops in the future, thousands of people can rush thousands of miles away in only half a day!
Who can handle this?You must know that it is only more than 2000 miles from Jilin Wula to the capital!He set off from the capital to Xi'an to suppress the bandits, and more than 60 bearers took turns changing along the way, and it took more than two months.

Right now, from top to bottom in the Qing court, the person who knows the strength of Beihai Town best is Marshal Fu.Don't look at Man Qing's lack of action in the past two years. In fact, the customs has been working hard to strengthen the training of green battalions in various places.

With the completion of the handover of 50 refugees, hundreds of guys with spy missions infiltrated into various parts of Beihai town in a grand manner.However, the more news came back, the more frightened the ministers from Qianlong to the following.

Iron cows and iron horses can help farm the land, and boat after boat of laborers from island countries are busy building roads and laying "iron slides" day and night in the mountains and dense forests. It is even more confusing. What is the value of those places? ?It doesn't make sense to spend huge sums of money just for ginseng and mink fur!

For the emperors and ministers of the Qing Dynasty, the layers of fog that had covered Beihai Town for these years not only failed to be lifted, but were even more impenetrable.Not to mention the mystery of Zhao Xin's life experience, just where the source of Beihai Town's money comes from made the Manchu rulers and ministers break their heads and couldn't figure it out.

After fighting with Zhao Xin for so many years, Qianlong was shocked by the high salary of the Beihai Navy.As for ordnance, the Ministry of War of the Qing court concluded based on the statistics of the previous battles that Beihai Zhen spent astronomical figures on "cracklings" and flowering bombs alone.

Where did he get so much money?You must know that Zhao Xin has been begging everywhere in the past few years. In the eyes of the Manchu rulers and ministers, the money in Beihai Town is a sea of ​​flowers!

According to the analysis of the various currencies issued by Beihai Town in recent years by the Baoquan Bureau of the Ministry of Household Affairs, the quality of Beihai silver dollars is consistent, and the balance of weight is beyond imagination.Even if it is a copper coin, there is no difference in copper content between the original version and the version issued last year.This shows what?It shows that the silver and copper stocks in Beihai Town are extremely sufficient, the market is stable, and the finances are ample.

Trade with island nations?People from Sticky Pole and Heshen have checked many times in Nagasaki. The gold and silver earned by Beihai Town from the island country in the past three years is only more than 200 million taels at most, and only two-thirds of it has been cashed out. The rest are Gold and silver bills.

The gold placer in Solenji Island?The problem is that people from Sticky Rod and Fukang'an have also checked, and the little gold placer is exhausted, which is more than [-] taels of income per year.

A certain minister guessed, is there a large gold and silver mine outside the pass, and Beihai Town is supported by this?However, this is even more impossible.In 170, the capital of the Jin Dynasty since the Qing Dynasty, Nurhaci and Huang Taiji fought in various places in Jilin and Heilongjiang during the period of Nurhachi and Huang Taiji, and included those Hezhe, Xibo, Oroqen, and Daur tribes under their command.If there were any large-scale gold and silver mines, Qianlong must have known about them a long time ago.

Later, when the news that Zhao Xin led the army to defeat Tsarist Russia in the Nebaikal region came, the group led by He Shen speculated whether it would be possible that after Zhao Xin captured the land of Oros, he would plunder and plunder to support the military expenditure, otherwise Why did he fight all the way to the Yenisei?

However, when the news from Outer Mongolia came back, Qianlong, his son and He Shen were disappointed again. Beihai Town did not plunder at all, but exempted the poll tax in the occupied area.

When will Zhao Xin do it?At present, this matter has become the most concerned issue of the Manchu court.

On April 1791, 4, Zhao Xin, Liu Sheng, and Fan Tong, who had returned to Baibaier City from Baili Town, held a closed-door meeting for three consecutive days.At this military meeting, Zhao Xin presented a "Outer Mongolia Campaign Implementation Outline" drafted by him.

The launch time of the whole battle was set by him in early July.

(End of this chapter)