Chapter 59 Grain Handling
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The dispatch of the Dongfeng is a major event in the Oriental Port, and you must know that the Senate's greatest reliance on the surrounding waters is not those cruiser destroyers, nor the frigates of Fuchuan Guangchuan, nor the bulky capital ships, but precisely the Dongfeng that is known as the steel giant. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
Dongfeng power in the old time and space is a relatively backward marine engine, the fuel used is diesel, heavy oil is no problem to use, although the oil production of Guangrongling oil production point is not high, but in the old time and space vehicles in the East Harbor are used most of the gasoline, so the consumption of diesel is not large, this dispatch of Dongfeng fuel has not become much of a problem, the main problem is the safety of navigation.
Of course, with the freeboard and all-steel hull of the Dongfeng that moves dozens of meters high, no ship in this time and space can pose a threat to it, and even the Fengrui-class capital ship that the Medenor people are proud of is just a pile of rotten wood in front of it, and it will not cause much damage to the hull if it hits it headlong, and its main threat is from the underwater reef. In comparison, the South China Sea is a place with many reefs, like the famous islands in later generations, which are densely covered with reefs, and the primary islands on the supply ship must carefully follow the channel marked by buoys in order to enter and exit safely.
Therefore, the Dongfeng sortie this time was carefully protected, and the front was opened by a cruiser, and the predecessor of the cruiser was a fishing boat, and there was a fishery sonar on board. Although these fishery sonars are not comparable to the military sonars on the old air force ships, it is still no problem to look at the underwater situation, and it is still quite useful for the underwater seabed situation or something. Even some veterans who served in the navy lamented that this kind of sonar monitoring screen was still in color, and it was already very tall to have a black and white display on the old warship they had served in.
To save fuel, the barge and the landing craft used as tugboats were towed behind the Dongfeng by cables, like children playing eagles and chickens. At first, there were only a few barges and landing craft, and later the two frigates responsible for escorting the ship and the capital ship of the Victory could only be honestly hung behind the Dongfeng and dragged forward under unfavorable wind speed and direction. Although it is said that hundreds of tons of weight are dragged behind the Dongfeng, but because the ship is loaded with only some empty silos, rope nets, cables, and about two tons of silver coins, it is far from 10,000 tons, so don't look at the Dongfeng behind the towing fleet of hundreds of meters, but it can still easily and leisurely follow the No. 4 cruiser in front of the road at a speed of about twelve knots while surveying and walking.
The carrying capacity of the Dongfeng reached 10,000 tons, and the grain purchased by the Beishang detachment in Zhaoqing and Mingzhou this time was 120,000 stones, which was converted into a modern unit of about 7,200 tons, and the purchase price they gave was about 60,000 taels in total, although this price was lower than the CIF price of the grain transported by the Medeno people to Dongfang Port, but it was already higher than the highest price that the rice shops in Zhaoqing and Mingzhou could sell grain now, even after deducting the cost of transportation, there was still a lot of profit.
The grain merchants are naturally very interested in such a high price of grain, but everyone is a little worried, because after all, this is sent to Hong Kong Island to sell, and if there is a natural disaster along the way, it will be empty. Therefore, many grain merchants are still worried, but they have transported 1,7800 stone of grain out, which is probably the load of a large fortune ship and Guangzhou, if it is really lost, it is just a boat, if it is earned, more grain can be sent over, anyway, the ship from Mingzhou to Hong Kong Island is all along the Pearl River, and it is not a big deal to come in the morning and evening. Like Chen Li, there are really few grain merchants who are really honestly transporting about 30,000 stone of grain from Zhaoqing all the way south.
In fact, everyone still had a pimple in their hearts at the beginning, so much food, not to mention transporting it, even if it was unloaded, it was a large place, if it was really transported in one go, how could it be reloaded on the ship? However, when they saw the figure of the Dongfeng Wei'an, this question had already been thrown out of the clouds, just kidding, such a big ship can probably hold more than 100,000 stone grain, right? I'm really salty and eating turnips, so I'm not worried.
In the control room on the ship, Zhang Zefeng was sitting in front of the console with Erlang's legs crossed, holding his mobile phone and playing games. In order to let Zhang Zefeng have something to do, he also specially assigned Zhang Zefeng to go down to the engine compartment to test the engine and do maintenance by the way. But Zhang Zefeng was too lazy to do this, he brought more than 20 naturalized apprentices, where could he use it himself? Isn't this just arranging for the naturalized apprentices to work, while he himself sits next to him and plays games. At first, he instructed the apprentices to work from time to time, but later he didn't bother to say what the apprentices didn't understand, so he threw a thick operation manual for the apprentices to check by themselves, and he himself continued to play with his mobile phone.
Although these mobile phones are all customized goods of Huaqiangbei, the quality of copycat products is always very difficult to say, even if the procurement department spends a lot of money to purchase mobile phone parts directly from various accessories factories, but when it is sent to the factory foundry, it still can't resist the mobile phone manufacturers stealing beams and changing pillars, although the hardware can not be changed, but it still can't stop the determination of the foundry to make a black hand, and the batteries of many mobile phones are very undurable after crossing. After the inspection of the procurement department, the original mobile phone battery has been quietly replaced, not only the power has been reduced, not to mention that it is easy to bubble, so that many veterans are indignant, if it were not for the fact that there is really no way to run back to find trouble, I am afraid that I would have rushed to the foundry to smash it.
The mobile phone in Zhang Zefeng's hand is a shrunken version of these batteries, he played in the bilge for less than an hour, the battery power began to alarm, and he didn't want to wander around the engine compartment with nothing to do, so he ran directly to the control room, where the whole boat can charge the mobile phone - only here.
Yang Feng was operating the crane boom on the deck at this time, and he was very busy, and before he came out, in order to prevent someone from going in and messing around in the control room, he had already locked the control room. But Zhang Zefeng is a veteran, he is very good at finding a way, and he is a mechanic on the ship, so it is not difficult to open the hatch of the control room from the outside, so it didn't take too much time to open the hatch.
Sitting in the cockpit, Zhang Zefeng finally had something to do, and he didn't know how long he would drift at sea, so more than a dozen USB ports were installed in the control room, which were specially provided for charging mobile phones or mobile devices. At present, in order to load the cargo, the original solar panels on the deck of the ship have been removed, and only some are left on the top of the ship to ensure the normal operation of the radar and other electronic equipment - if you do not use solar power generation, then you can only choose to use auxiliary engines to generate electricity, which is too fuel-intensive.
After playing for a while, the phone's battery was not yet fully charged, and he felt that it was not interesting, so he paced near the radar display and looked. There were echoes everywhere nearby, some were land, some were ships, and he could only look at them curiously, he didn't have Gu Fulin's ability, and he couldn't judge the course and speed of the ship through these.
"This is Hong Kong!" He took a deep breath and pushed open the glass window of the control room, and the smell of the sea soon came to his face. The ship was flanked by land on the left and left, and on the left was Hong Kong Island, which was quite large, and from his current position he could not see the sea on the other side of the island, only land. The island of Hong Kong was full of trees, but in some places there were small houses and small piers, and some small boats roaming around, and he could see many people standing in small boats looking at his own Dongfeng. "Hillbilly." He muttered, and turned his head to the right side of the ship, which was the Kowloon of the old plane, but there was nothing on it except for the small fishing village of Lei Yue Mun.
"It looks like the fish buyers are starting to come back." Zhang Zefeng muttered to himself, picked up the telescope placed aside and looked into the distance. Like Dongfang Port, their main way to solve the problem of food is through fishing, even when the Dongfeng is loading grain, they do not directly take the grain from the Dongfeng to start preparing the food. At present, there are quite a few personnel of the Planning Commission on the ship, and they are pasting the warehousing list, and it is quite cumbersome to make double copies.
In the distance, the people pushing and pulling the cart from the fishing village of Liyumen are returning, this group of people are the accompanying personnel of the food department, of course, there are also some personnel of the Planning Commission, all the things that are paid are done by the people of the Planning Commission, and the rest of the people only need to work. Not far from the shore was a makeshift shed, empty on all sides, with only a lot of thatch on top. Beneath the shed were several movable stoves, chimneys sticking out of the thatched canopy, and smoke was blowing outward, and the food department was already lighting a fire, waiting for the fish to come back and start cooking.
Zhang Zefeng couldn't help licking his lips, saying that after living in Dongfang Port for more than half a year, he didn't know how much he ate when he ate fish, and it was all raw and fierce seafood like a fake, but he was tired of eating it, but now he was interested in eating these freshwater fish. It's a pity that the scales of freshwater fish are really thick, and there are more than 30 naturalized people who are responsible for preparing the food, and they are busy using scaling removers to remove scales and cut fish on the roadside every day, and they are very busy. Today's food is definitely fish porridge again, I don't know why, the fish porridge eaten in Dongfang Port is completely different from the one here, and the taste here is much more delicious. You must know that during this period of time in Dongfang Port, everyone began to carry out a food quota system, and there was a limit on how much to eat in the veteran's canteen, and the previous buffet style has now become a table of eight people, four dishes, one soup, two meat and two vegetables, and the rice cannot be eaten casually.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but touch his stomach, it seemed that during this time, his stomach had deflated a lot.
"Meow, why did I come here?" Such a question suddenly popped up in his mind, in the old time and space, he was just a mechanic on a ship, although his level was not high, but he had five or six thousand a month, and the only thing that didn't go well was that he had to get on the ship to get paid. Once you get on the boat, you have to drift at sea for more than half a year, and returning home is like being missing. However, although the work at that time was not smooth, it was still in the information age, and when I got off the ship at a foreign port, I could still surf the Internet in a nearby Internet café and report my safety to my family. But now this is hundreds of years ago, and what he meows is a parallel space, Hainan Island is gone, and I don't know what happened to my family? He suddenly remembered his parents in his mind, and sighed, this time and space travel journey is gone, for his own home, even if he is dead, thinking of this, he couldn't help but murmur again, "Alas-it's good to have a sister." ”
Near the cafeteria, there was a tent that had also been set up, and there were many people lining up with white things in their hands. Zhang Zefeng knew that there was the checkout office, which was exactly the same as the grain purchase in Dongfang Port, and the grain quality must first be sampled and inspected before the purchase could be determined, and after it was determined, it would be weighed at the place where it was weighed. The people on the ship put bags of grain on the barn one by one, and after weighing, they registered the weight on a piece of paper, and when all the weighings were completed, the personnel of the Planning Commission would re-examine one side and then stamp them. The grain merchant took the piece of paper and lined up at the checkout to receive the grain payment in order.
It is said that these grain merchants do not have the slightest aversion to this way of weighing as the big households in Annan. Although Zhu Yuanzhang specially ordered someone to make a set of buckets and determine the standard unit in order to prevent the grain officials from pumping water when collecting grain when establishing the new dynasty, as long as those small officials are determined to draw water from the grain endowment, there are always more ways than difficulties. But at present, the Chinese use this way of weighing makes them feel very comfortable, is how heavy is heavy, directly look at the weight, and every time before the board, they will call the grain merchants over to look at the scale on the scale, and after putting the grain down, this number will be reduced, this group of Chinese grain collection things are done in a bright and straightforward way, so that they have nothing to say, can only praise.
As for the method of carrying grain, they could not understand it, from the place where the grain was carried to the place where it was weighed, there were cut logs laid flat on the ground and arranged into walkways, so that people would not easily slip and fall when walking on them. From the weighing place to the loading place, there is a thick iron plate with a wooden walkway laid underneath, and the silos used to carry the barns full of grain are metal carts that look very strange, and these cars have long wheels under them, and there are two metal arms in the middle that can poke under the silos, and fork these barns together with the grain, and then several people push the car to the landing craft docked at the loading place, these cars can not only move flexibly on the ground, It is also possible to easily lift the warehouse board loaded with seventeen or eighteen stones of grain high and low, as if it is completely effortless, such a thing, see the grain merchants itching one by one, many people are asking these Chinese, to see if such a car is sold, if you can buy one back, in the future to store grain or something, it will be much more convenient.
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