Section 18 Customs

Compared with the squirrel cage crane used in Europe at the same time, the Lingao version of the squirrel cage uses a transmission and cam controller, which not only improves the output efficiency, but also prevents casualties caused by sudden reversal.

The 21st century technology has transformed the rat cage in terms of efficiency and safety compared to quark? The poor see much better. Even in quarks? The benefits of this mode of loading and unloading were also obvious to poor traders who knew little about engineering: a flatbed truck of goods was loaded and unloaded in a matter of minutes, and it took less than ten people in total. If it is carried by manpower, it will take one or two hours.

Quark? The deepest feeling after being poor to the Ming Dynasty is that the Ming Dynasty rarely uses animal power and machinery, and has a tendency to abuse manpower, he has talked to Li Luoyou about this problem, Li Luoyou's explanation is that although the machine is used for convenience, but a machine always saves a lot of labor, and virtually takes away the jobs of these people.

"It's a bitter meal, but you have to have something to eat, right?" Li Luoyou despised this red-haired man for not knowing how to govern the world.

On the one hand, Li Luoyou was very interested in machines, and often asked missionaries and merchants from Europe for news about it, and also ordered books. On the one hand, it is very reluctant to use the actual use of the machine. This makes quarks? Poor couldn't understand his thinking logic very well, but he was still deeply impressed by the extremely cheap manpower of Daming. Especially the guys in Li Luoyou's name, according to Quark's standards, the remuneration is unimaginably low.

No wonder he repeatedly suggested that Leo should be rejected, by importing certain British machines for use in his industry. And Li Luoyou also said that he did not introduce the machine to "do a good deed", because if he used the machine, he would fire the redundant guys and ruin their livelihood.

Is it the good deeds or the cheap labor that makes this big businessman refuse to use the machine? Quark wants to probably have both.

There is only one machine that the great businessman can not refuse to come—that is, something that cannot be done by humans alone. For example, a machine that makes cannons.

At this time, the big businessman was fascinated by this way of loading and unloading. Even the fear I felt just now faded away. Flatbed trucks and container cars run back and forth on the tracks, some pushed by manpower, and some arranged in a row and driven by themselves. Some cargo is brought to the berth and loaded onto the ship, while others are unloaded from the ship. The tower crane is constantly rotating and falling, and the goods are constantly flowing, which makes Li Luoyou dizzy.

The goods transported are everything, and the ones shipped out from Lingao are very haode packaging, either crates of the same size, or neat straw bags and bales or sealed haode rattan baskets and bamboo baskets. There is a jar wrapped with a straw rope. There were also various marks and patterns on it, and Li Luoyou could barely see the words "fragile" and "careless" written on some boxes.

It's not so regular to get things in. But it seems to be much more mixed: some are brown rice and rice, some are sugar, and some are wood, and some are loaded with pig iron from Canton on flatbed trucks -- he has been hoarding pig iron for his cannons lately, and has learned a lot about the standard of this kind of form. He had always wondered how the supply of weishenme pig iron would be so tight. Now he saw the mountains of iron-to-iron bars on the flatbed trucks, and he knew why the price of cold goods, which had been worthless in the past, had risen so much - the Australians were buying pig iron on a scale far beyond his level.

What does Australia want so much pig iron for? Li Luoyou was surprised that very few of the various Australian goods they sold required a lot of iron. This iron must have been hoarded after it flowed in.

Could it be that they are building weapons and planning a rebellion? Li Luoyou shuddered.

But more of it is still black coal, and most of the container cars are loaded with black coal. Australians' demand for pig iron and coal seems to be staggering.

The captain of the boat advised: "Two masters, after getting off the ship, you have to go through customs and customs inspection, you better hurry up and pack your luggage and get off the ship." ”

Li Luoyou originally expected Runshitang to send someone to the dock to greet him, so he waited on the deck for a while, and saw that the guests on several nearby ships had all gone, but there was still no one to greet him, so he had to take care of the young master and prepare to get off the ship.

Li Luo is used to being done by the eldest master, so he naturally has subordinates to handle it. In less than a moment, the servants bundled their luggage, surrounded the old man Li in the middle, and the group got off the boat in a mighty way.

In addition to the iron road, there is also a pedestrian road on the embankment, the road is not known to be paved with what material, the gray hard road, smooth and smooth, and there are signs on both sides of the road, which read, "Keep to the right". There are signs that don't count, and the road is simply painted with white arrows. "Go" and "come" at the same time.

Li Luo and his party followed the instructions of the arrow, leaning on the right side to walk. At the end of the embankment stood a long boxy house, with a bell tower like a European church, but no bronze bell hung on it, only a large circular hole, covered with wooden planks.

The building is strange, and the strangest thing is that there are many doors. There's a big empty space ahead. Now there are not many people, and it is empty. You can see that there are many big signs set up in the empty field, which are written "local", "long-term valid", "short-term valid", "temporary", "customs declaration", "quarantine registration", "refugee", and "green channel......

Li Luoyou first set foot here, I don't know what it means. Quark is also inexplicable to this set of things. While he was wandering, a man in a blue cardigan came up to him:

"You're coming to high for the first time, aren't you?" The person who came spoke a straight and round official language. Li Luoyou noticed that there was a cloth ticket nailed to the person's chest, on which the word "customs" was written in ink and letters.

In this way, this is the customs set up by the Australians, but the customs is mainly to collect taxes and pump water, and now Australians do not pump water, what is the use of this so-called "customs" official?

"Exactly." Sweeping Leaves hurriedly greeted and answered.

"Do you have any goods with you?"

"No goods."

"Please take the temporary passageway." The man pointed.

Li Luoyou originally thought that the existence of quarks would be in a little trouble. But the other party is obviously not interested in the red-haired man.

Sweeping Ye went over along the passage to take a look, and then came back and said, "The master still has to line up to do things, you sit here for a while, and let the little one do it." ”

"There you go." Li Luoyou gave an order, chose a place with an awning, and the servants around him hurriedly opened two folding leg stools and invited the master and Quark to sit down, and then someone poured tea from the white copper pot wrapped in a blue satin warmer, and someone handed a hand towel. Quark has a penchant for snuff, and the cigarette box is immediately served.

This behavior made the people in the square look sideways. Li Luoyou is a person who is used to enjoying it, and he doesn't feel anything wrong. However, Master Han coughed as he came, and whispered: "Master, isn't this a bit swaggering-"

"It doesn't matter." Li Luoyou thought that this time he came to contact the Australians, otherwise he would not need to contact Yang Shiyi. Now the Australians probably knew he was coming.

Li Luoyou drank hot tea, looked around, and saw that the place was extremely clean, and all kinds of people were coming in and out, each going all the way, doing all the things, and those who hesitated a little and wandered around to watch, and there were people in blue coats who stepped forward to point out, and they looked like they were in order.

Li Luoyou nodded secretly, opened a folding fan with the inscription of Zhuzhishan and shook it gently, his eyes swept to the side, and his hands trembled. It turns out that there are three houses on one side of the square, and there is a wooden sign at the door, which is written in a nondescript thick ink script: "Daming Lingao County Bopu Inspection Division", not to mention that this brand is not in line with the Ming system at all, and there is actually a Ming inspection department standing next to the Australian dignified customs, which makes people feel ridiculous.

There is actually a soldier of the inspection division wearing a public uniform standing guard at the entrance of this inspection department with a sentry stick, and he looks decent, but the soldier's monk-like hair reveals that this person is actually a "bearded man", or a "wig".

This gang of Australians is funny tight. Just thinking about it, Sweeping Leaves trotted all the way over, and asked for a peace on one leg; "Back to the master, the deputy master over there has to ask you to fill out the form in person, and it doesn't make sense for a long time-"

"Come here and do this salute." Li Luoyou put away the fan and stood up, "Let's go, we'll talk about it later." ”

There was a long counter in the room, and there were several people sitting behind them with the word "Customs" on them, and Li Luoyou paid attention to them, they were all very young, no more than twenty years old at most. In front of each of them was a stack of white paper, a European-style dipping inkwell. There are also the four treasures of the Chinese-style study

"This is our lord." Sweeping the leaves said with a lot of momentum. The clerk looked up at him:

"Do you want to fill out the form, can you read?"

There are no polite words, let alone the word "master". As soon as Sao Ye wanted to scold, Li Luoyou nodded: "I recognize a few words." ”

"That's great, you can fill it out yourself." As he spoke, he gave him a blank piece of paper, "Pen and ink are ready-made." ”

Li Luoyou picked it up and saw that many words and sentences had been printed on the white paper in advance, such as names, years of birth, and so on. Some are like guest house booklets, but the content is much more detailed.

He thought about it for a while, took a pen and began to fill it in, Li Luo used a pseudonym from Lin Gao, called Yu Shucheng. He filled in this name, his occupation was written as "businessman", his place of residence was Foshan, and the purpose of coming here was also written as "businessman".

zuihou is the number, name, and gender of the attendants. Li Luoyou filled them out one by one and exchanged them with him, and the other party picked up a stamp and stamped it after a little browsing.

"Press a fingerprint." The clerk handed over a box of red ink.

In the past, when business was not large, Li Luo did put his fingerprints on the contract - this is a common business custom. I didn't expect the Australians in Lingao to do this.

The form was then handed over to a person next to him.

The man doubled it and took out a sign from the drawer, which was made of thick paper, very hard, and half the size of a book. The clerk tore off a long strip of paper on the form filled out by Li Luoyou and glued it to the sign with paste. Then he dipped the tip of a bamboo pole in a fountain pen and began to write something on the sign.

"You have to carry this sign with you at all times during your time at the heights." The clerk said, "The brand is valid for 30 days. Hand back the sign when you leave Lingao. If you want to stay in Lingao for more than this time, you must re-register at the local police station or the local police station before the expiration date. ”

He accentuated his tone to show solemnity: "...... The brand is very important, don't lose it, in case of loss or damage, you should register it as soon as possible."

Li Luoyou took it and saw that the back of the sign read "Temporary Visa", and the torn long piece of paper was pasted underneath. It is a rectangle of thick and thin black lines, with a row of Arabic numerals underneath.

In addition to his registered name, place of origin, and occupation written on the front, there is also a "date of issuance", and at the bottom is a line of words: "The validity period is 30 days from the date of issuance".

Li Luoyou noticed that not only did he have this sign, but Master Han, Sweeping Leaves, and even every servant all came over and received the same sign, and those who couldn't read were written by the clerk.

After receiving the documents, Li Luo walked along the counter from the tour group. Behind the counter were young women in blue cloth gowns, wearing wonton-like cloth hats with slim gowns and very handsome looks. The ticket cloth on the chest reads "quarantine".

Behind these women were four or five men and women in short black coats, belts around their waists, and disc-shaped hats, with the words "police" written on their chests.

The woman took the sign in Li Luoyou's hand, looked at it and shouted: "Foshan"

A woman behind him immediately flipped through a large book, and after a while, she replied loudly: "Foshan has not had an epidemic in the past 90 days. ”

Then the woman asked Li Luoyou a series of questions: Have you had a fever recently? Do you have a cough? He also took a closer look at his complexion. It made the old man feel very uncomfortable - usually the women saw him either sincerely frightened or shy and lowered their eyes.

"Have you had any recent illnesses?"

After getting a negative answer, the woman shouted: "Pass" and then snapped a seal on Li Luoyou's sign, Li Luoyou took a closer look, the seal was actually blue, and there were four words engraved on it: "Quarantine qualified".

Then came Quark, who asked these questions in the same way, and Li Luoyou suddenly heard: "Have you ever had syphilis?" ”

"God testifies, no" Quark categorically denied.

"What about gonorrhea?"

"Nope"

"Please come inside." The woman said.

“weishenme？” Quark felt a little bad, "I'm not sick, I'm healthy"

"Just for a while." The woman was not accommodating, and several strong men with sticks behind her also forced her.