Chapter 440: A Thousand Years of Ancient Crossing
"One, two, three...... Eggplant ......"
"Okay, very good, let's take a few more pictures by the bridge. ”
Later, the brothers and sisters had a lot of fun on the world's highest bridge, taking pictures and enjoying the scenery on and off the bridge.
"Brother, it's so high here, what will happen if you jump from here??" Xiao Yue couldn't help but exclaim as she looked at the deep canyon under the bridge.
"It's all nonsense, who's going to jump from here?" Zhang Feng slapped her on the head.
"Oh, why not, isn't there often bungee jumping and skydiving on TV??" the little girl pouted and quibbled.
Hearing this, Zhang Feng immediately rolled his eyes, bungee jumping at such a high place, isn't that looking for death? As for parachuting, it is even more impossible, because there is a boiling river below, and jumping from here is almost the same if you don't want to live.
"Brother, you see there's a ship coming over there!" Suddenly Zhang Yi exclaimed in surprise.
Zhang Feng and the others hurriedly looked upstream of the Panlong River, and sure enough, a white pleasure boat went down the river, and the tourists on it could be vaguely seen.
"It was supposed to be a cruise from the Panlong River Travel Agency. As the cruise ship approached, Zhang Feng probably saw the words on the side of the boat.
Seeing his cousin and two younger sisters staring at the cruise on the river without blinking, Zhang Feng smiled and decided to take them down to the river valley to have a look.
"Let's go to the pier, from where we can feel the majesty of the Grand Canyon. ”
"Okay, okay......" The little girl was hot for three minutes, but she was tired of seeing the scenery on the bridge in a quarter of an hour.
Gudu Wharf is located in the lower reaches of the Panlong River Gorge, not very far from the bridge, only about ten minutes away by car.
"Xiaoyi should be familiar with this place, right?" Several people got out of the car and came to the dock, Zhang Feng asked his cousin with a smile.
"Hehe, of course, since I graduated from high school, I went to the countryside with my dad to do business, and I would come here every six days to catch a fair. Looking at the familiar Gudu Bazaar, Zhang Yi replied with a smile.
The Panlong River was also the only water transportation in the southwest of Guizhou Province during the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, and from here it could lead to the prosperous Guangdong Province.
In the past, there were thousands of sails racing here, and the commerce was developed, and countless paulownia and pig bristles were loaded onto ships from here and transported to Guangdong Province, and then pulled back iron nails and kerosene lamps for industrial products.
Therefore, Gudu gradually became a prosperous market town, with many shops and developed commerce, and during the Qing Dynasty, there was also a special water checkpoint here to collect customs duties.
However, with the establishment of New China, the country has carried out large-scale development, and various reservoirs and bridges have stood on the Panlong River.
As a result, the Pen Long River became a Gudu market and rapidly declined, and eventually became a poor and remote area, becoming one of the most isolated towns in Qingshan.
However, with the progress of technology and social and economic development, locks have been built in various reservoirs on the Panlong River, so the Panlong River has the conditions for navigation again.
Since three years ago, the Panlong River has been able to navigate large ships of less than 1,000 tons, and some people may say that 1,000 tons is very big? Supertankers at sea can only reach 100,000 tons, or even 300,000 tons.
However, it is above the sea, and it is not easy for a place like Qingshan, which is thousands of kilometers inland, to have a navigable river of 1,000 tons.
From here, shiploads of jet-black coal set sail and were shipped to the resource-strapped Guangdong province, so the development of coal has become an indispensable and important economic pillar of Tsingshan, creating tens of millions of wealth and tens of thousands of jobs for Tsingshan every year.
"Isn't this a bazaar, why are there so few people?" the little girl asked curiously.
"Hehe, today is not the time to catch the market, and besides, the new town has been relocated to other places, so of course there are fewer people. Zhang Yi smiled and responded.
This will only be so lively every time you catch the market, because this is the junction of Qingshan and Guanshan counties, and the Panlong River is Guanshan County.
At this time, there are only sporadic tourists on the side of the Panlong River to collect wind and enjoy the beautiful scenery of the Panlong River.
"Wow, brother, look, there are people fishing over there!" Everyone walked to the ancient ferry port, and suddenly the sharp-eyed little girl saw a fishing boat downstream, and there were fishermen casting nets in the river.
A small wooden boat floats leisurely in the river, the tall mountains on both sides of the river are undulating, and the rising sun hangs on the river.
Such a beautiful scene couldn't help but remind Zhang Feng of a wonderful verse:
The green hills on both sides of the strait are opposite each other, and the lonely sail comes by the sun,
"The bearded fish in the Panlong River is a famous specialty of our Qingshan!" Zhang Yi said with a smile, although the fish here are not rare, because there are many in the Moon Lake, but I have to say that the fish here are more famous than those in the Moon Lake.
A pound of wild Panlong River erbeard fish can be sold for 50 yuan a pound when it is the most expensive, and although it is much cheaper now, it can also be sold for about 20 yuan in good ones.
In recent years, with the improvement of the natural environment, the once depleted fishery resources have gradually recovered, and the ancient profession of fishing has also slowly recovered, especially when the farming is not working, the villagers on both sides of the river will row small boats to the Panlong River to fish, and earn some extra money to subsidize the family.
"Brother, how about we go to the river to catch fish?" Seeing the fishermen fishing in the river, the little girl suddenly said on a whim.
"How to catch it, do you catch it with your hands?" Zhang Feng rolled his eyes and said angrily,
Does this girl really think she is a fairy, and she can fish empty-handed without tools?
"Oh, big brother, why don't you bring a fishing net?" the little girl blamed.
"Okay, Satsuki, we're here to see the scenery, not to fish. Zhang Lin shook her head and said to her little sister.
"Hmph, I'm just talking, and I'm not really going fishing......" the little girl muttered quietly.
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"Do you want to rent a boat, the preferential price is only 100 yuan......"
"Handsome guy, beautiful woman take my boat, only fifty yuan per person............"
When a few people came to the dock, several small pleasure boats came forward to solicit guests.
"No, no, we have our own boat!!" Zhang Yi has a lot of experience and often comes here to catch the market, so he is extremely familiar with this place.
Hearing his local accent, the boatman who solicited passengers immediately shook his head and left, everyone knows that the business of the locals is not good, and only outsiders are big fat sheep.
If you want to say that the imagination of stealing customers, in fact, there are all over the country, but it is just a matter of how much, of course, it is also related to the manager, where the management is strict, the phenomenon of stealing customers is relatively rare, and the place with poor management is simply arbitrary, let the locals slaughter, such as the notorious Snow Town.
Seeing that Zhang Feng and the others were locals, the boatmen who knew that there was no drama left one after another, and then hurriedly walked to the next wave of tourists.