Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 547
On July 1791, 7, a three-masted sailing ship with beautiful lines and full of white sails quickly passed the sea south of Beihai Town. , like a pair of open scissors, the workers who were busy on the dock gave a burst of admiration.

"This boat is really beautiful."

"Yeah, I heard it's new to the water."

"Sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty!" A dock worker practiced counting twice in a row, and then said in surprise: Good guy!Yeh, why are there so many sails hanging on it?I used to see black and hard sails on Rongcheng Sea. "

"You don't even understand this? My second elementary school heard it from my master in the school, and he told me it again when I got home. There are so many sails, and the emphasis is on being fast and fast."

This newly-launched sailboat is named "Feiyun", and it is the third flying-shear sailboat imitated by Beihai Township Shipyard based on the drawings and scale models obtained by Zhao Xin from another time and space.

The ship is 48.46 meters long, with a hull length of 46.97 meters, a width of 9.69 meters, a molded depth of 9.69 meters, a draft of 6.13 meters and a deadweight of 860 tons.Except for the middle inner keel, ribs, and bilge strakes, which continue to be made of wood, everything from the bilge bracket to the deck, and then to the mainsprit are all made of steel, and even the rigging is made of steel wire rope.

A total of two small diesel generators are equipped on board to drive three electric sail winches, a windlass, hydraulic steering gear, and water pumps.With the assistance of the electric system, driving and maneuvering became relatively easier. Compared with the more than 200 crew members of sailing ships with the same load, the "Feiyun" only had a total of 35 crew members.

Ever since Zhao Xin got the idea to send immigrants to the other side of the ocean, the shipyard in Beihai Town has been imitating the clipper ship.The first one is a 500-ton wooden clipper ship, purely for the workers to practice, and later used as a training ship for the sailing school; the second one is the same size as the first one, but uses steel and welding technology, but because The workers were not good at mast welding and keel welding, and the hull was half built and stopped working.

Generally speaking, one step ahead in technology is a genius, and two steps ahead often becomes a lunatic.The use of advanced technology must be supported by industrial workers with corresponding capabilities.

The main reason for using welding technology to build ships is that there is a shortage of wood for sea-going ships in Beihai Town.

Whether it is teak or iron wood, Zhao Xin needs to buy it from another time and space, or he has to send a boat to Macau to purchase it.Moreover, Beihai Town already has four sailing ships seized from Tsarist Russia, and at the same time there are more than a dozen large Canton ships bought from Siam. Most of the wood must be used closely with these ships.

Another reason is that ships built with steel not only cost far less than wood, but are also lighter and can carry more cargo and people.

Over the years, Zhang Bo has taught his welding skills unreservedly. At present, the best welders in Beihai Town are all in the shipyard, and there is no problem in welding a boiler or something.

However, boiler welding and ship welding are not the same thing at all. Ship welding is a highly technical and professional project. The construction cost can be ignored, and there must be no problems with the structural strength and function of the material.

Zhang Bo's welding level may be fine for ordinary small projects, but it will not work when it comes to large projects.It should be known that whether it is slag inclusions or pores during the welding process, or undercuts or cracks, it will cause changes in the hull structure, which in turn will affect the strength of the ship.

For example, the total amount of pores should not exceed 5.00% of the working interface, otherwise it will affect the tensile strength of the weld and reduce the mechanical properties of the metal.What's more, the strength damage caused by those parts that are not penetrated and not fused is more serious than pores and slag inclusions, and it is very likely to cause brittle fractures in welded parts.

Pointing at Zhang Bo on this matter is definitely going to be useless, and he has been busy with the oil extraction and refining business in Beihai Town for the past few years.Ever since, the Portuguese-Chinese engineer who was in charge of supervising the entire shipbuilding project decided to take back his steps to avoid "pushing the egg" again.After Zhao Xin was consulted and agreed, the keel and hull were still made of oak, while the non-tight connections in the mast, sheer strake, deck side plate, and superstructure were all riveted and welded.

In this way, after more than a year of repeated exploration, until mid-July this year, the "Feiyun" was finally launched.At present, this ship has gone through five days of sea trial, and then it will make two trips to Jeju Island and South Kyushu before the end of the year to find out the defects in the construction and make improvements.

Zhao Xin is actually not very anxious about sending immigrants to the other side of the ocean.Although the newly established United States can't wait to start the "Westward Movement", it is still wandering east of the Mississippi River, let alone the Rocky Mountains.So whether it is Sacramento or Colorado, it is still far from the doorstep of Americans.

Zhao Xin has a plan in mind, but he hasn't told anyone else yet.He planned to cut off his beard at that time, so that Jefferson's plot to buy Louisiana would fail.The current ruler of the Louisiana region has become Spain, but in a few years, when Napoleon comes to power, with the signing of the "San Ildefonso Secret Treaty", the Louisiana region will return to the French.

So in the past few years, we have to build relationships with the French, and when the time comes, we will find a rhythm, step by step ahead of the Americans, and reach a private deal with Napoleon.Didn't Jefferson pay $1200 million?At that time, I will pay 1800 million, and I will shoot it to death!

这年月的“Dollars”还只是银币，黄金属于贵重金属。等明年汉密尔顿搞出了《铸币法案》，到时候每枚“Dollars”的含银量就会确定下来--24.0566克；1200万美元就是289吨白银不到的样子。一枚北海元的含银量是6.9005克，所以一美元兑换北海银元的比例就是3.4862:1。

Is Yinzi still a problem for Zhao Xin?You must know that in Beihai Town's treasury, there are five caves for silver bars alone, and each cave is the size of two basketball courts, and they are almost full.

"follow me."

On the beach, Zhao Xin folded his arms and looked at the "Feiyun" in the distance. He took his thoughts back from a thousand miles away, and then said something thoughtless to Wang Zhenyi beside him.

More than ten seconds passed, Wang Zhenyi didn't respond, her eyes turned from the sea to the sky, so Zhao Xin repeated it again.This time, Wang Zhenyi spoke.

"Where?"

"Siberia, Chiyan City by the Qian River, let me tell you, the rocks on the river bank there are all red, and it's beautiful at dusk. It's okay to row a boat, see the scenery, touch a fish, no, How nice to catch a fish or something."

"What about my family?" Wang Zhenyi bit her lower lip.In order to avoid being implicated, her family moved to Beihai Town from Jiangning Mansion at the end of the year before last.

Zhao Xin turned his head and said with a smile: "Should we let them go too? At that time, we will build a hospital and let your father be the director."

Wang Zhenyi gritted her teeth and said, "Do you think my father is not busy enough now, and is planning to tire him down?" As soon as the words fell, she sighed softly again, and said quietly, "How can I get along with someone who has no name or distinction?" They speak?"

"Uh"

Zhao Xin didn't dare to answer.Forget it, don't go if you don't go, the big deal is to come back a few more times.So when he and Wang Zhenyi parted ways and returned home from the beach, when he saw A Miao walking out, he casually said, "A Miao, come with me in two days?"

"Really?!" A Miao stood still immediately, staring at Zhao Xin with big eyes, which meant "Did I hear correctly?"

"It's more real than real gold. We'll go by boat this time. The journey is far away. I'm afraid we won't be able to reach it in a month or two. Shall we go?"

"Of course I'm going!" A Miao almost jumped up happily, her eyes were full of joy.Then she asked again: "Do you want to bring more blessings?"

"You can bring it if you want." Zhao Xin laughed, thinking that the days of beautiful girls and cats as companions are coming again.

In fact, the reason why he wants to go by boat is to take this opportunity to visit various places along the way. First, he wants to know how the people in the pass are living. living conditions.

Now Beihai Town's territory is getting bigger and bigger, and more and more officials are being appointed and promoted.The time-traveling people are all high above, each taking care of a large stall, even Chen Qingsong seldom has time to go down below, and is entangled with a lot of paperwork every day.

Are the common people dissatisfied with the officials photographed?Are you dissatisfied with Beihai Trading Company?How much impact will the arrival of a large number of immigrants in the customs have on the living environment of the border residents, and what contradictions exist between the two sides?
Zhao Xin intends to take this opportunity to see and hear for himself.

In the early morning of July 7th, Zhao Xin and A Miao, who brought Duofu, boarded the carriage under the watchful eyes of Shen Xuan and his son, Wu Siyu, Zhao Liang, Yu Deli, Li Ji, Zhi Nai, and Wan Zao's wife.

As for King Duofu, he looked back at the "wives, concubines, and children" who were lying on the roof, on the wall, and at the door, and meowed with their mouths wide open, as if to say that the king has gone to the mountains and rivers, and so on. To take a good look at the house, he jumped into the carriage with a light leap.

Along with Zhao Xin this time, apart from twenty disguised guards, Wang Zhong was also among them.Wang Zhong has been in Beihai Town for several years. He has been to Boli Town to attend the opening ceremony of the train as far as he can go, and he has been looking for an opportunity to visit the upper reaches of Heilongjiang.As soon as he left, 56-year-old Duan Yucai temporarily took over the position of vice principal of the primary school; at the same time, Lao You's position as principal was also replaced by a physics teacher, Li.

After several black carriages left the city, they started to pick up speed. The leading carriage suddenly stopped suddenly, and Zhao Xin, who was sitting in the second carriage and was talking to Wang Zhong, followed suit.He was about to ask what was going on, when Wu Kanbei, who was acting as a guard, came over and saluted: "My lord, there is something wrong, it seems that someone is waiting for you by the side of the road."

"Who?"

"You better see it for yourself."

Zhao Xin got out of the carriage suspiciously, and saw a woman standing seven or eight steps away, wearing a hat covered with light gauze, and wearing a moon-white plum-blossom pattern with a vertical collar and slanted skirt, with a little fringe exposed on her lower body A light green pleated skirt with a stone blue double-breasted collar over it.Immediately, the first two lines of a poem written by someone appeared in his mind: the faint fragrance strikes first, and the cold beauty is graceful.

However, what obviously didn't match this attire was that there were actually two large cowhide boxes half a person's height lying on the side of the woman, which looked clumsy and heavy.

"You're here." After the nonsense, Zhao Xin asked another nonsense: "Your father and mother agreed?"

The lice on the bald man's head -- it's obvious, if you really disagree, Wang Zhenyi can't move those two big boxes by herself.

Wang Zhen spat softly, looked at Zhao Xin through the veil, and said, "That's not it! I made an appointment with Mr. Rong Fu to see the beautiful scenery of the northern country together, but I just hitch a ride along the way."

At this time, Wang Zhong's hearty laughter sounded behind him, and he said immediately: "Your Highness, that's true. The day before yesterday, brother Xichen personally came to the door to mention this matter to Wang. Please take care of Deqing along the way."

Hehe, Zhao Xinxin said, I believe you a ghost!But the bad old man is not bad at all, he is very helpful.

It is said that Beihai Town has built a lot of roads in recent years, opened mountains and blasted rocks, and built bridges when encountering water, which greatly improved the traffic conditions in the outer northeast region.These roads basically adopt the construction standards of secondary roads in another time and space.

For example, in mountainous areas, the width of the subgrade is 8.5-10 meters, the width of the road surface is 7.0 meters, and a single-sided drainage ditch is repaired; the width of the roadbed in plain and hilly areas is 10-12 meters, and the width of the road surface is 7.5 meters, and double-sided drainage ditches are repaired.

Due to the seasonal frozen soil environment in the outer northeast and the high precipitation in summer and winter, basically all the main roads connecting the two places have a total thickness of more than 120cm and are divided into 4-5 layer structures.During construction, each layer needs to be rolled repeatedly with a road roller before proceeding to the next step.

Generally speaking, the bottom is a 40 cm thick gravel cushion, followed by a 40 cm thick cement mixed gravel; after it dries out, a layer of 20 cm thick cement mixed gravel is laid on top, and then a 20 cm thick cement mixed gravel. medium-grained asphalt concrete.

There are two main sources of paving asphalt in Beihai Town, one is the coal tar pitch after coking in the steel plant, and the other is the petroleum asphalt from the Bitter Leaf Island Oil Refinery.

If there is a road, there must be someone to maintain the road.The new road cannot be like the ancient post road, where a post station is set up only seventy or eighty miles away; considering the problem of transportation, the main road in Beihai Town currently has a small road maintenance point every 20 kilometers, and a road maintenance station every 100 kilometers.

Most of the road maintenance workers came from post houses in the Qing Dynasty, as well as from poor households among the border residents; in addition, there were also some families who came from the customs and were not suitable for urban life.In addition to maintaining roads, repairing potholes and dredging drainage, these road maintenance workers also take on the role of guarding and patrolling surrounding forests and maintaining communication lines.

All stations and workers are under the Transportation Committee under the Ministry of Civil Affairs, which is separate from the railway project.The current main person in charge is a power plant traveler named Ding Yan, and his deputy is Sima Jianghan and Motoki Ryonaga from the island country.

The reason why Ding Yan was awarded this position was mainly because he was in charge of the concrete mixing project in the power plant project, and he was still an engineer.However, Ding Yan is usually busy with the new power plant project in Boli Town. He has two days a week to deal with the affairs of the transportation committee. Most of the work is in charge of the two deputies.

Sima Jianghan and Benmu Liangyong participated in the railway construction survey and were naturalized last year, so they joined the transportation committee as a matter of course.Sima Jianghan's name has not been changed, his real name is quite good; Motoki Liangyong changed his name to Mu Shiqing, Shiqing is his previous name.

These Lan scholars from the island country have been here for two years, and all of them are learning "New Tang Studies" eagerly.They mainly focus on clinical medicine, agriculture, mathematics, astronomy, physics, transportation, etc. As for many knowledge and technologies such as industrial technology, they are currently not open to them.

Zhao Xin also had to keep a hand. Who knows if any of these people are responsible for the mission of the Edo Shogunate?

(End of this chapter)