Lu Ming

Chapter 260 Arrive at Taijiang
The strange ship that kept making "chug" noises completely ignored the laws of nature and rushed towards it in the headwind.When the big boat with [-] materials approached quickly, the people on the fishing boat also fell silent: the coming was too aggressive and murderous.

Yu Chengde, who reacted suddenly, quickly ordered the sail to be lowered loudly: this action is equivalent to Erha showing his belly and surrendering.

Seeing the two fishing boats lower their sails, the atmosphere on the field eased up a little.Not a moment later, the big boat deftly stopped on the water surface more than ten meters away from the fishing boat.

"What are you doing?" Before the boat stopped, an officer wearing canvas shoes, cropped trousers, and a blue canvas training cap stood on the side of the boat and began to shout loudly with the horn in his hand.

At this moment, cold sweat was streaming down Yu Chengde's head: on the side of the big ship, a row of hair-haired sailors in double-breasted jackets were pointing long guns at their own family members, fearing that something wrong would turn around and bombard them.

Fortunately, Houzi, who has been traveling all the year round, spoke up in time, and he put his hands around his mouth and shouted: "Deputy Master, the little ones are going to vote for the big ones!"

"Tou Kun? Why did Tou Kun go north?"

"I'm lost in front of my head!"

"What's in the cabin?"

"No stock, just family members."

"Let the family members come out!"

When the people on the big ship saw the white-haired old man, women and children coming out of the cabin, they believed the monkey's words: Pirates would not drag a boat full of old and weak to go out to work.

"Follow the tail of the team and take you to the big staff."

At this moment, the bright door opened.

The two fishing boats easily followed the team: except for the leading motor sailboat, the other boats in the team were ordinary sailboats with heavy loads, full of people and cargo.In terms of speed alone, the fishing boat is a little higher.

From this moment on, the fishermen who have experienced sorrows and joys are considered to be under the Buddha's light of the time-traveling forces.Even though this group of people didn't even get a temporary work permit, they still felt the power of light: at the moment of approaching night, two white beams of light appeared on the sea in the 17th century.

Considering that the two fishing boats sailed at night for the first time, the flagship cast an extra beam of light tonight.Yu Chengde and the others quickly adjusted the sails in surprise, and drove their boat into the beams of light.

The bright beam of light dispelled all deadly dangers.Even when it rained in the middle of the night, the fishing boat still firmly controlled itself in the safe area through the beam of light.The fishermen who took the high-tech night voyage for the first time were very excited. They roared loudly on the dark sea, crying like ghosts and wolves all night.

In the early morning of the next day, the fishing boats following behind the fleet began to eat: the fishermen salvaged several sealed iron buckets dropped from the previous boat, which contained fresh water and warm brown rice.

The long voyage just got easier.And the two fishing boats that traveled thousands of miles to cast their boats, after another night voyage guided by the beam of light, finally saw the Dayuan Channel in the early morning of the third day.

Like all bumpkins, the fishermen who came to the legendary land after experiencing hardships are all watching the western scenery on the deck at the moment.Yu Chengde held his third sister with his left hand, and supported Grandpa Ba with his right hand, surrounded by a spitting monkey giving everyone directions, everything seemed so beautiful.

Today's Dayuan waterway is already busy.There is an endless stream of merchant ships coming here from all directions and ships sailing from the Taijiang River. The increase in passenger flow has forced the installation of traffic command boats with electric horns on masts and eye-catching red body paint at both ends of the channel.

The channel that has been widened to 40 meters is now divided into two, with buoys installed in the middle, forming a road pattern that does not interfere with each other.

The hero who caused all this: Comrade Haidilao, still parked beside the waterway like an eternal sculpture, digging the sand slowly, as if digging until the end of the world.

There are also many more landscapes on both sides of the channel.The artificially pruned, neat sand-fixing plants formed a large green belt around the island, and the imperial city in the distance, flashing blue light, was quite a majestic building in the eyes of the wise.

The imperial city has now become a real symbol of rule: whenever night comes, the Jianyuan Hall, which also serves as a lighthouse, will always shine brightly, projecting the internal lights onto the nearby sea through the blue glass curtain wall.

And the busy figures of the princes who use these lights to work will always make the ancients watching from a distance have a feeling of looking at fairy paintings.This unique visual effect quickly became famous and became a scene for everyone.

A lighthouse is a must.The current ship throughput on both sides of the Taijiang River is no longer what it used to be. There is an endless stream of ships coming here from Hangzhou, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Nagasaki, and Nanyang. ensure the safe navigation of ships.

You know, as early as the ancient Roman period, there was already a lighthouse on the Spanish peninsula-the Hercules Lighthouse.It is a miracle that this lighthouse is still functioning in the 1900st century after 21.

The crossing people not only "replaced the tower with a city" on Dayuan Island, but also built lighthouses in Penghu, Kinmen, Xiamen and other places.

The lighthouse built by Kinmen is crucial: ships can now set off from Kinmen at four or five o'clock in the morning and use the lighthouse to guide eastward across the strait.In this way, when the sky is bright, the ship has already traveled [-] to [-] kilometers in the strait.

This voyage does not seem to save much, but when the lighthouse on the western island of Penghu lights up before nightfall, the voyage saved on both sides is more than 50 kilometers.

You know, the straight-line voyage from Kinmen to Penghu West Island is only 130 kilometers in total.That is to say, as long as the ship maintains an average speed of 4 knots, it is completely possible to travel from Kinmen to the vicinity of Penghu in one day.

After that, it became easier: the distance between Penghu and Tainan is completely within the visual range of the two lighthouses, and ships can swagger from Penghu to Tainan at night.

Therefore, Yu Chengde and the others still suffered from lack of information.

If they had known that Jinsha had already built a lighthouse, then everyone could run south from Putian, and when they arrived at Jinmen, they could take a few merchant ships to Dayuan and set off.

If you are still worried about the daytime voyage, you can go to Xiamen and wait for the "liner".Now every three days or so, there will be a liner boat with radar and searchlights from Xiamen Zhongzuo Wharf.Whenever the eldest brother set off, the mighty merchant ships and even small private cargo ships with only a few people would follow behind, and the scene was extremely spectacular.

Fortunately, different routes lead to the same goal.Yu Chengde and the others were lucky. They met the Hangzhou fleet on the middle line of the strait, and today they came to Taijiang without any danger.

(End of this chapter)