When he came ashore, Shen Shouyao was suddenly active and regained a bit of the innocence and sharpness of a young man.

He saw that there were two parallel iron bars laid along the embankment in the middle of the harbor, and he was immediately interested in taking a closer look, and the iron bars seemed to be supported and fixed by horizontal wooden beams, each of which was thicker than a thigh, one every few feet. On top of the iron bars, there are flatbed carts propelled by manpower, and the wheels of the carts are also iron, rolling on the iron bars and making a rumbling sound, which is very amazing. This flatbed cart looks very capable of carrying weight, Shen Shouyao saw that only two or three people can push the fully loaded cart to move quickly, and he was also speechless, and only after hearing the ship's owner mention it turned out to be an Australian railroad.

'Australians are really good at work. ’

Shen Shouyao has long heard of the name of the Australians, when he was in Fujian, he also saw a lot of exquisite strange goods to Australia, and now he sees that it does not take much effort to load such heavy goods to move the board car and rails, the heart of the road turned out to be just two more iron bars to have such a miraculous effect, no wonder the Australians want to purchase a large number of iron materials from Fujian, only a moment, the young man even came to the conclusion that the efficiency of animal traction may be doubled.

But this conclusion has only just been reached, and it is immediately broken.

Because at the end of the track, with the sound of a whistle, a long line of flatbed carts that had just loaded more than half of the goods drove along the tracks. The coal and goods on those big carts were as high as a hill, but this time there was no one to push them, but the speed seemed to be much faster than those who used manpower, and Shen Shouyao even looked for sails on those flatbed trucks, but he also found nothing.

If there is anything on this cart that can replace manpower, animal power, or even wind power, then the only suspicious thing is the black machine hanging at the front of the flatbed car queue, an iron cabinet larger than the chest of drawers, on which lies an iron barrel, and on the 'iron bucket' stands a round iron pipe, like a Franc cannon barrel. These things are also placed on the flat cart with wheels, but there are many metal poles connected to a wheel next to it on the outside of the iron cabinet, which seems to be made of cast iron, and the iron flywheel is connected to the wheels under the flat cart, so I think it is this thing that drives the train forward. The round iron pipe was constantly emitting black smoke, which looked like a chimney, and the barrel was painted with four large words 'Strictly forbidden fireworks', which seemed to confirm the boy's conjecture, and it was obvious that this thing was extremely important to this train.

Considering that the sailless automatic iron ship was driven by a similar machine, he quickly took this into account.

Shen Shouyao told his father about this discovery, but Master Shen only nodded slightly, and his heart was equally shocked.

Next to the pile of strange machines sat a young man who seemed to be a 'driver', his face blackened, his clothes mottled and unrecognizable, and a collar of gray rags around his neck. The man held an iron rod in his hand and kept pushing and pulling forward, and from time to time he shouted something to the people on the embankment, and as he moved, the connecting rod on the flywheel was also pulling rapidly, turning forward with the wheel below.

It wasn't long before the flatbed train finally came to a slow stop by a tower with a screeching sound of brakes.

Shen Yourong had already noticed these tall towers on both sides of the embankment, some of them were tall and some were short, but the shortest ones were not less than two zhang, which was only a limited amount shorter than the ordinary state and county city walls of the Ming Dynasty. From a distance, the tower is full of huge triangular conical arms made of iron bars and wooden beams, the tips of the long arms are exposed to the top of the tower and pointing obliquely to the sky, and the rope hanging from the end of the arm makes people feel like the Australian wants to fish, but his intuition tells him that it should not.

Such towers are densely arranged along the harbor, and at the other end of the harbor, it seems that there is more to the location of the Kaohsiung Port Shipyard.

'Attention! Note! ’

Someone on the embankment began to shout while blowing a whistle.

'Loading begins at berth C! ’

A sound of footsteps followed.

With the sound of whistles and shouts, several people in gray and blue cloth coats jumped down from the flat car behind them - Shen Yourong found that all the public servants in Hong Kong were wearing this kind of short gray and blue cloth coats, but some people wore belts around their waists, and some people did not. The common denominator is that they all wear a kind of helmet presumably made of withered rattan. Shen Yourong didn't understand the function of wearing this kind of helmet, could it be that the Australians learned the story "Three Kingdoms" Meng Shu, and they still had to train rattan armor soldiers?

In a matter of moments, the men were quickly doomed into a circular wheel beneath the tower, and then sprang into the wheel. The wheels spun as they ran, and the long arm on the tower rose with it, and then the others pushed the winch on the other side with all their might, and turned the long arm at the top of the tower in the direction of the flatbed. One of the people who had been standing next to him began to blow his whistle constantly, waving two small flags, one red and one green, with both hands. Sheng Yourong looked at it for a while and understood that this was directing the person pushing the winch to rotate the angle. Under his command, the long arm slowly stretched out to the top of the rickshaw flatbed, and a huge iron hook hung down from the end of the arm, and the people on the flatbed hook hung the hook to the car net rope. After everyone jumped out of the car, the people in the wheels ran again, and the top of the boom began to rise again.

A large pile of rope nets formed a net bag, which hoisted many of the sacks full of goods onto the flatbed train that appeared to be driven by vitality. At the same time, several other 'treadmill cranes' on the side of the rails are also loading and unloading, but some of them are also hanging net bags, and some of the loading and unloading goods are neatly stacked on wooden pallets.

But either way, it's enough to shock those who meet it for the first time, and the goods that often take the people an hour to move in the ports of the Ming Dynasty are finished in just a few breaths.

In fact, if it weren't for the 'new' steam engine that was also constantly exploring the restoration process, and the coal supply here in Taiwan was really scarce, otherwise the scene that Shen Yourong and his party saw would have been shocked several times. There are not many coal mines in southern Taiwan, and now the first coal mine in the whole Taiwan Road is located at the western foot of Alishan Mountain, close to the Zhuluo Mountain Society, Fenqihu Coal Mine, which is the closest to the Jianan Plain.

To this end, the Senate not only built a connecting railway for the other place, but also built a new fortress village nearby - Chiayi Township.

But even so, the annual coal production here is only less than 5,000 tons, and the ports have to be supplemented by manpower, but the safety of treadwheel cranes has been more perfect.

Of course, the steam machine is also the only way to replace manpower, even though the tread crane copied by the Western history of Hong Kong China Atom has improved a lot in safety devices, but it is inevitable that there will be injuries to workers.

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After a simple quarantine and 'entry' registration, Shen Yourong and his entourage finally got the ninety-day valid 'temporary visa' that belonged to them, I heard that this thing is extremely urgent, and there will be a lot of trouble if it is lost, after all, this time is not like the future generations, and it is common for businessmen who do not have steam-powered ships to wait for two or three months in order to wait for the hyacinth. The visa paper not only has the identity information and physical characteristics of each person, but the paper shading is also beautifully printed, at least much more delicate than that of Daming.

According to the shipowner's point Shen Yourong and his entourage chose to stay at the HSBC Hotel in Hong Kong, it is said that this is an inn run by Australians, the conditions are quite good, and after settling down the luggage, it is natural to visit the port city, but now Shen Yourong has changed his mind and decided to take a closer look at the inn first.

It was the first time for Shen Yourong to live in such an inn, inside and outside the house, the biggest feeling for him was cleanliness and freshness, and the most surprising thing for him was that the thatched house was located in the house. In the past, even if it was a government-run post station, there was at most a wooden barrel or a night pot, but it was not like a white porcelain toilet directly connected to the sewer here, which was really luxurious.

There are no factories in Kaohsiung to make white porcelain toilets, so the production capacity should be reserved for brick factories as much as possible, and it is urgent to build more brick houses before the typhoon season. It is because the flushing toilets of the HSBC Hotel are all sent from Nanyang, because of the difficulty of the process, the internal supply of such a good quality finished product can not be fully satisfied, and a complete pumping and sewer system is also needed, so in addition to Guangzhou, Songjiang and Tianjin, Wantong has not been sold in large quantities, at best, it will be open to some useful Ming relations in the future.

In addition to the sanitary ware and the dressing mirror in the room, what interests Shen Yourong and He Qiaoyuan the most is those colorful Australian 'treasure money', these banknotes printed with the consistent, when a Mo, and when a text are accompanied by the Arabic numerals next to them are full of novelty, so when they heard that the banknotes were actually passed here, Shen Yourong and his party also followed the customs, and changed some at the customs, anyway, there were not many of them, and they could also be exchanged for silver taels when they left.

Shen Yourong's family has been out of the palace to try the champion, with his knowledge, he naturally understands the great benefits of the passage of this banknote, but because this thing can only be used to buy Australian goods, so all the merchants who enter and leave here will choose to spend all the money when they leave, so this thing has not yet been circulated on the mainland, but he has the intention to collect some back, so as not to say that the news about the Australian Song Dynasty is unfounded.

The store is considerate, prepare a warm shower early, Shen Yourong enjoyed it, took off the dust of the two days, and when He Qiaoyuan and Shen Shouyao got together again, it was already time for the sun to wane.

Akashi Michido did not miss the appointment, and he arrived as promised before nightfall.

After a brief introduction, he apologized to Shen Yourong, and the active soldiers of the Fubo Army needed to go through some procedures when they went out of the camp alone at night, but did not reveal that in fact, he also went alone in the afternoon to make a special report to the chief sitting here.

Shen Yourong didn't care, he already knew that the Australians had their own laws to prohibit the order of the Australians, and he was also the one who led the troops, so he naturally understood the truth and fully understood Akashi's explanation.

As a 'landlord', seeing that Shen Yourong and his party had not yet eaten, Akashi Daoyou skillfully greeted the guys in the restaurant and ordered a few new Australian and Song famous dishes, such as shredded chili pork, tomato scrambled eggs, and asked for a bottle of Guoshi Wushuang.

Shen Yourong was also born in the army, and the wine and food were quickly unrestrained when they were served on the table, and these wine and food were unheard of in the past, and they were also extremely delicious after the entrance, and everyone was in a good mood.

Akashi Daoyou didn't hide too much in front of the old people, and told Shen Yourong a lot about what he had done in the past three years.

It turned out that not long after he returned to Nagasaki from the Ming Dynasty, the lord Murayama and other Yasu were defeated in the political dispute with the last Masa, because he had some involvement with the Toyotomi family in the battle of Osaka and was caught by the last family, and at the end of last year, the Murayama clan was executed by the shogunate, and he himself was taken to Edo to be beheaded. The dispute between the Murayama family, which represented the outer town of Nagasaki, and the Nagasaki acting official, who represented the last family of the inner town, was not only a conflict between the religious interests of the Spanish Dominicans and the Portuguese Jesuits, but also involved an undercurrent entanglement between Toyotomi and Tokugawa.

On the one hand, as a Kishitan samurai, he was not allowed to be in the shogunate, and on the other hand, because of his background in being close to the Dominicans, he could not get the trust and protection of the Jesuits.

Unexpectedly, because of his excellent military quality and integrity, and his proficiency in Chinese, he won the favor of the chief after joining the Taiwan Pioneer Regiment, and quickly emerged in the Fubo Army stationed in Taiwan. At the beginning, he followed him to the Ming Dynasty, Masaki Yaemon, Shibata Katsuzaemon two subordinates were also naturalized in the Australian Song, Shibata Katsuzaemon followed the fleet to Luzon to carry out a mission some time ago, Masaki Yaemon was on duty in the north of Anping Port, like them defected to the Australian Song Dynasty Japanese Cheshitan There are many, no matter the young and the old, the senate is all contained, almost everyone can make the best use of it, not only their own food and clothing, but also rely on errands to support their families.

"So Australians are as religious as you are?" Shen Yourong knew that Akashi Daoyou and many Nagasaki samurai were also Catholics because of Murayama and other reasons, since the Australians sheltered Akashi, they must also be Christians, listening to Akashi's Chinese is more fluent than at the beginning, I am afraid that he is living well here, but there are many Liaodong accents in his words, which makes Master Shen a little puzzled.

Akashi Daoyou didn't answer seriously, but just sighed a little, "It doesn't matter if you are taught or not, but I don't expect to see the military gate in Kaohsiung, and the kind and clumsy people of the year are still impressed by it." ”

"Back then, it was just a gesture, and it was also your generation that had no intention of offending China, but this time I still heard people talk about the new weather in the east now, and I just want to come and see it."

He Qiaoyuan also said: "When I first came here, everything was fresh, but I didn't have a guide. ”

Akashi Daoyou said with a smile: "The military gate is in charge of Fujian's coastal defense, and it is natural for Taiwan to be attentive here, but there is nothing unseemly under the rule of the Senate, and the increase in immigrants from the Ming Dynasty and Japan these days is evident. ”

"That's very good."

That night, a table of people ate and drank to their heart's content, and ate until midnight, and when they saw off Akashi Daoyou, the street lamps lit up in the harbor surprised Master Shen again.

Back in the room, Shen Shouyao was waiting for Lao Tzu to change his clothes, but he heard Shen Yourong ask his son, "Hachiro, do you see if this Akashi Daoist has revealed our news to the Australians?" ”

"If you don't reveal it, you'll find out tomorrow."

Looking at the lights outside the hotel, the young man seemed to have more anticipation.

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