It was only later that I learned that this girl was actually the daughter of a wealthy merchant, and it was said that she was forced to flee because of fornication, and the so-called fornication was nothing more than wanting to marry a man she liked but did not have the life of her father and brother---- in order to avoid the fate of being stoned to death by her family and husband, this sister disguised herself as a man and mixed into Lefik's slave trading ship.

Originally, it was all to avoid the impending disaster, but she ended up in a daze to Sin'an City.

The rest of the story is simple, in the Blue Pier of Sin'an City, after she was found to be a woman, she left and was thrown into the women's camp, and then she was discovered by the steward of the women's camp because of her culture - in fact, being cultured is not the main reason, the main reason is that this girl is too beautiful and eye-catching.

Then Lao Wang appeared in time, and then, Duchess Margaret took in this girl - as an adopted daughter, and then the rest of the story is cliché, in short, she soon became Lao Wang's "female disciple......

Li Junming knew that Lao Wang's failure to come showed that there was no major problem in Zixia Island's agriculture at present, so in the next three to four months of agricultural slack, of course, he had to seize the opportunity to carry out construction.

Li Junming then announced that a man and a woman from each household should take turns to participate in various construction projects - of course, it was certainly not in vain, and in addition to three meals a day, the wages were paid according to the standard of an average of one silver per person per day.

This price immediately attracted a large number of immigrants to take the initiative to participate, because if it is according to this standard, there will be an income of nearly three taels of silver a month, although the silver in front of you can't buy much on Zixia Island, but this is money, wealth, and a lot of wealth.

You must know that the peasants of this era, after a year of hard work, will not have an average of ten taels of silver in savings, and now just this month's salary is three months of hard work in the field, how can it not make people yearn for it?

Li Junming and Ren Kewei and Li Dewei discussed that this would not lead to the abandonment of agricultural development on Zixia Island, and although it is said that it is idle now, this leisure is not really idle and has nothing to do, there are still a lot of chores to do in the fields, but a part of the labor force is transferred during this time period will not affect agricultural production.

The brothers plan to accomplish at least three major things in the next three to four months—first, the expansion and construction of the new Qinzhou and Zixia Town wharves, as well as the rail transit project numbered as Project No. 2, and the No. 3 project, the Heishui River open-pit coal mine, and the supporting inland waterway shipping facilities from Heishui River to Zixia Town Wharf.

The focus of the construction of the two piers was not on the trestle, but on the addition of lifting equipment.

After several twists and turns, Wang Gong agreed to move the original manpower winch crane to Zixia Town Wharf - because Wang Gong has transformed a larger winch crane - powered by a coal- or wood-burning 25-horsepower Stirling engine, which is the latest masterpiece of Shuguang Machinery Factory. Originally, it belonged to the second-generation experimental ship power machine engaged in Shuguang Machinery Factory, but because it was too bulky, it was finally used by Wang Gong to be put on the slipway to make crane power.

Li Junming said in the application report to Sun Lao and the Federal Ministry of Finance that the key factor restricting the throughput capacity of the two wharves on Zixia Island is the cargo handling equipment, and increasing the number of tower cranes is the key project of the construction of Zixia Island Wharf.

Li Junming believes that although there is no shortage of manpower on Zixia Island at present, it is obvious that it is not cost-effective to load and unload goods only on people's shoulders.

After all, almost everyone in the Red Mansion has participated in manual unloading, and they empathize with the hardship and inefficiency of this manual work, so the tower crane equipment was immediately given priority to the manufacturing of Shuguang Machinery Factory.

Because Wang Gong and Boss Luo jointly built this equipment a while ago, they have ready-made experience and technology, and the materials are basically available, and the large pulley tower crane on the red pier is a ready-made model, so only two months later, the passing Nicole brought four sets of such tower cranes to Zixia Island - a simple version.

Li Junming, who got the equipment, immediately mobilized all the craftsmen who could do technical work on the island, and installed two sets of such tower cranes at the new Qinzhou wharf and Zixia Town wharf respectively, so that the cargo throughput capacity of the two wharves on Zixia Island was greatly improved.

At present, the red wharf of Mornington Island, the blue wharf of Xin'an City, the east beach wharf of Xiaowanshan Island, the wharf of Zixia Town and the wharf of Xinqinzhou have been installed one after another on the pulley set tower crane designed by Wang Gong assembled from steel and wood components, its structure and appearance are very similar to the lifting cargo pole on the Nicole, but this cargo pole is a composite structure, and sits on a high cement platform, the hoisting height of the entire tower crane is just suitable for lifting goods from the deck of a ship of this level as the Pride to the trestle. The safe lifting weight is 200 kilograms at a time, and the maximum safe lifting ceiling is 400 kilograms – that is, half a ton.

This kind of lifting equipment is suitable for all kinds of docks, and in order to reduce the labor intensity of everyone, Wang Gong did not hesitate to use various construction and metal materials from the old world, including steel and reinforced concrete, in the cave.

Later, after Holley Quanzhenhai was able to provide iron castings, this steel pulley tower crane finally realized the real "localization", but the steel cables in the original design were replaced by thick cables, so the weight of a lifting was relatively low.

It is said that Holley Quanzhenhai has begun to trial produce steel cables, which means that there will be larger lifting tower cranes on the docks of Australians in the future.

The second project of Zixia Island is to build a rail transit connecting Zixia Town Wharf and Xinqinzhou Wharf, that is, to build a railway.

This is a project that the brothers of Zixia Island were inspired by Cheng Dong.

Cheng Dong plans to set up a railway company - specializing in building railways and operating railway companies, which is a well-known thing among the traversers, and no one has expressed any objections to Cheng Cheng's career choice, after all, Cheng Cheng is a locomotive maintenance engineer in the locomotive depot, and he is the only railway professional in our group.

According to Chengdong's plan, his first railway was ready to be built on Zixia Island.

Of course, Li Junming and they are very supportive of this, but they can't wait, because at present, the two wharves in the north and south of Zixia Island and the open-pit coal mine in the upper reaches of the Heishui River are in great need of a land transportation road connection, so the matter of building a railway was quickly brought up by Li Junming and them---- there is no movement on the east side of Chengdong.

This is a standard gauge railway like Mornington Island, and the construction plan was completely designed by Chengdong.

The Federal Treasury and the Northbound Fund are very supportive of this---- and when the railway is repaired, Chengdong's railway company will buy the railway and bear all the costs of building the railway - after all, this is a project that someone pays for, so the federal treasury is of course willing to invest, which also includes the two docks and dock facilities on Zixia Island, the latter of which may be acquired by Australian Shipping Co., Ltd., of which Captain Gu is chairman and president, which is currently in preparation.

It's just that the railway to be built on Zixia Island is not powered by steam locomotives for the time being, but is powered by manpower or animal power, and the track is also a light human-powered rail car and a simple wagon of small steel and wood structure used by Cao Limei in the limestone mine on Mornington Island.