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After the expeditionary fleet departed, Gao Junshan received a call from Bailisha, saying that the engineers had built a bicycle, but no one could ride it.

Gao Junshan asked Bailisha to send bicycles to Cam Ranh Bay, where he wanted to open a bicycle training class to teach everyone how to ride bicycles.

Soon after the telegram was sent, a telegram was received from Zhou Shichen from Yangon, proposing to set up a naval fleet in Yangon to combat pirates in the Bay of Bengal. Gao Junshan called Zhou Shichen back and replied after discussing with the Admiralty.

On the fifth floor of the Admiralty, Gao Junshan summoned Zhou Wenjiang to his office and discussed with him about forming a new fleet.

Gao Junshan said while showing Zhou Shichen's telegram to Zhou Wenjiang: "This is Zhou Shichen's call, he hopes to set up a naval fleet in the Bay of Bengal, what do you think?" ”

Zhou Wenjiang said: "Back to Your Majesty, at present, our Admiralty has six major fleets, which are enough to deal with any invading enemy. If a new fleet is formed, it will mean an extra amount of money, and as for the waters of the Bay of Bengal, we can completely send a part of our forces from the Sixth Fleet to the Bay of Bengal. ”

Gao Junshan asked, "Can you send the Sixth Fleet to Rangoon to garrison?" ”

Zhou Wenjiang said: "The Sixth Fleet was originally a mobile fleet, and now it is stationed in Taiwan, and the defense range of the First Fleet in Quanzhou is completely able to cover the entire island of Taiwan, and there is no need to garrison Taiwan. ”

Gao Junshan said: "As long as Taiwan's defensive strength is not affected, then transfer the Sixth Fleet to Yangon." ”

Zhou Wenjiang said: "The main task of our Southern Fleet is to monitor and block the ships from the island country, and the transfer of the Sixth Fleet will not have much impact on the Southern Fleet. ”

Gao Junshan said: "The island country is currently implementing a policy of closing the country to the outside world, except for pirates and a small number of official ships, there are not many ships going to sea. Our current policy is still to blockade and strictly prevent our technology and Western guns from entering the island country."

Zhou Wenjiang said: "What Your Majesty said is extremely true. So we don't have to put three fleets in the direction of the island nation, we can completely draw out one fleet to go to the Bay of Bengal. ”

"Just do as you suggested, and transfer the Sixth Fleet to Rangoon." Gao Junshan agreed with Zhou Wenjiang's proposal, and asked, "How many ships does the Sixth Fleet currently have?" ”

Zhou Wenjiang replied: "There are three Wuchang-class battleships and eighty-two other types of sailing ships. ”

Gao Junshan said: "The order of the Sixth Fleet will be issued by the Admiralty, and I will call Zhou Shichen back now, so that they can prepare for the arrival of the Sixth Fleet." ”

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On this day, Cao Xin came to Gao Junshan in a hurry and told him that the railway had been paved for thirty miles, and he came to invite Gao Junshan to inspect it.

"Oh, it's been thirty miles long? It's going fast! Gao Junshan was very surprised.

Cao Xinru said: "Now all fronts are racing against time to build our country, and the workers of the Railway Bureau are not far behind!" ”

"Good! Good! Then I'll go and see. After Gao Junshan finished speaking, he said to Li Derong, "Prepare the car, let's go and see the fruits of the labor of the railway workers." ”

When Li Derong received the order, he was ordered to go downstairs to arrange the carriage, and Gao Junshan, accompanied by Cao Xinru, also went down to the building of the Navy Headquarters.

In the courtyard downstairs, three carriages lined up neatly. Li Derong led Gao Junshan to the second carriage, and Gao Junshan invited Cao Xinru to ride with him.

Li Derong himself got into the carriage in front of him and opened the road in front, followed by more than two dozen cavalrymen behind the three carriages.

The carriage went out of the compound of the Navy Headquarters, on a wide road, this road is called Shengli Avenue, along the Shengli Avenue through two street corners, turn left into Xinzhuang Road, this road is the road to the railway station, the road is not long, the carriage travels for ten minutes to the railway station.

Gao Junshan got off the carriage and looked up to see the big red plaque at the main entrance of the railway station, with six big characters on it: "Cam Ranh Bay Railway Station".

Gao Junshan was interested, and he said to Cao Xinru: "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, let's start from the railway station to inspect the railway built by the workers!" ”

So everyone entered the gate of the railway station, into the station, Gao Junshan was very attentive to observe the layout of the railway station, they came to the platform from the entrance to the platform, here, there were already seven or eight engineers waiting, seeing Gao Junshan coming, they all stepped forward to salute Gao Junshan.

These engineers were all disciples of Gao Junshan's Chongwen, and Gao Junshan greeted them in return.

Later, under the guidance of Cao Xinru, they got off the roadbed and came to the newly paved railway, Gao Junshan saw at first glance that the sleepers of the railway were too sparse, and he said to the engineers around him: "The sleepers are too sparse, and they should be tighter." ”

There was an engineer in charge of sleepers who wrote down Gao Junshan's words in a notebook.

Gao Junshan walked along the railway for a while, and said to the engineers around him as he walked: "There is no problem with the spacing of the railway, so I don't know if there is a problem in terms of level." ”

One of the engineers replied, "Back to the mountain chief, the workers used a level to measure the rails when laying the rails, so there won't be much of a problem with the level." ”

"Do you have a level with you now? I'm going to test it. ”

An engineer said, "Please wait a minute, the level is in the station, and the students will go and get it." ”

Gao Junshan nodded and agreed to go.

It didn't take a few minutes for the engineer to run back with a level.

The level is a ruler, the ruler is inlaid with a section of glass tube, the glass tube is filled with half a tube of water, the ruler is placed flat on the object to be detected, the water droplets formed by the clear water are just at the center point, which means that the surface of the detected object is a horizontal plane.

Gao Junshan took the level and put it on the surface of the two rails, sure enough, the water droplets were at the center point of the ruler, Gao Junshan translated the ruler forward, the water droplets still remained at the center point of the ruler, he kept moving the level forward, moved nearly 500 meters, the water droplets have remained unchanged, he was very satisfied.

"Yes, the laying technique is quite high!" Gao Junshan exclaimed.

Cao Xinru said modestly: "This is all the result of the hard work of the workers. ”

Gao Junshan suddenly asked, "What month is it?" ”

Everyone didn't know what Gao Junshan meant, and no one could answer his question, but fortunately, Li Derong answered Gao Junshan's question for the engineers: "It's November." ”

"November," Gao Junshan repeated Li Derong's words, then shook his head and said, "This railway is not up to standard, and it will be rebuilt." ”

Cao Xinru asked, "Why?" ”

Gao Junshan said: "Don't you know that steel has the characteristics of thermal expansion and cold contraction? If you look at the joints of these rails, there is not a single gap, and it's November, and when it comes to July and August next year, believe it or not, these rails will bend because of the expansion. ”

The engineer in charge of laying the railroad tracks came to his senses and blamed himself for not thinking about it beforehand.

Gao Junshan said: "It's not your fault, it's because I didn't remind you in time." ”

Cao Xinru asked: "Mountain chief, can't we watch it anymore?" ”

Gao Junshan said: "No need! When it is re-paved, I will come back to inspect it again, let's go back to the station first! I just took a look at the station you built, and I found a lot of problems, now go back and I will point them out to you. ”