Chen Li only had a chance to take a closer look at the dinghy, there were three or four people on board, some were standing at the back of the boat, holding a steering wheel in their hands, and others were coming in and out of a small room in the center of the hull, and they didn't know what they were doing in it. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThe dinghy had no sails or oars, the bow split the waves and moved quickly in the sea, and the stern set off a raging wave that they could feel in the boat behind.

The people on the other boats were very curious like Chen Li, you must know that these people have been sailing on the sea for a long time, and they can't be more familiar with the things that are going on the sea, but this kind of boat that is not big, but can run on its own without sails and oars in the water must have attracted their attention, and all the people flocked to the bow of the ship to watch the Western scenery. But the people in the dinghy paid no attention to these attentions, they just went about their business seriously.

Chen Li suddenly noticed something strange, there were more wooden things floating on the sea at this time, these things were inverted triangles, small on the top and large on the bottom, and there were lanterns on the top, maybe they could be lit at night. The boatman beside him leaned over and whispered, "Master, this is evil. ”

Chen Li was taken aback, "What? Could it be a pirate? ”

"It's not pirates, it's these things, and the location is evil." The captain in charge of navigation whispered beside him, "I have been walking this sea route for many years, and now these things floating on the sea surface are exactly the same road, which is the waterway that leads from the inner ocean to the outer ocean. ”

There are a lot of things that the captain didn't say, and he didn't dare to talk about them casually, knowing that the waterway separated by these floating things on the sea was a channel with a fairly deep water depth. In the early years, he also measured the depth of the water in the channel, and now the deepest part of the channel is at least eight to nine zhang deep. Of course, it was prepared for ships to come in and out of about this depth. But what ship has such a heavy draft now? The captain quietly estimated in his heart that this ship should be at least more than fifty zhang long, and such a ship is far inferior even if it is a legendary treasure ship, how can there be such a big ship? Could it be that this is specially prepared for the safety of large fleets entering and exiting the waterway?

Chen Li didn't think so much, the boat in front of him is naturally Chinese, he is a little strange now, Chinese always have something strange to appear, at the beginning those vehicles that do not need mules and horses to now these boats without sails and oars, "Maybe your own lumber mill can also produce these in the future?" He thought with a snicker.

The fleet came to the vicinity of Liyumen half a day later, and the owner of the ship was still standing next to Chen Li at this time, introducing the situation here to him, anyway, there were Chinese boats in front to guide the way, and the matter of driving the boat was not for him to do it himself, so it was better to stand at the bow and see the scenery more.

"Well, here," said the shipowner, pointing to some of the huts on the northern shore, "there is Lei Yue Mun, a fishing village, and there are many carp here, so it is called Lei Yue Mun." There is a lot of fish here, and every three to five days, boats from Mingzhou City come to collect the catch. There are also a lot of farmers in the vicinity, and they catch fish every day...... Lo and behold, those are the Tanjia boats. ”

In the distance, there were some small boats docked at the seashore, and the people on the boats were busy carrying the catch, one by one. Although it was not clear from a distance, it was clear from the movements of the men that they were all very happy, as if their catch had been sold for a good price. There are a few people on the shore who are checking the catches sent to the shore, and there are a lot of double ** carts next to them, and many people are throwing fish into the carts. Chen Li smiled and said, "It seems that someone should have dragged their fish away with a car." ”

"That's not right!" The shipowner exclaimed curiously, "It's a hundred and ten miles from the nearest town, and wouldn't it break down in the middle of the way to transport it by cart?" ”

"Also," Chen Li couldn't help but be curious, "Since these people use carts to transport their catches, the place where the fish are used must be close to the left." He muttered to himself as he looked left and right, only to notice something in the shape of a droplet floating in the air to the northwest.

At this time, many people also saw the thing, "Behold, there is something in heaven! "What a weird thing, what's that?" "It's weird, how can this thing fly?" "What does it look like skin?"

Chen Li's eyes were sharp, and he saw that there was a rope under the thing floating in the air, the length of the rope was quite long, it looked like it should be fifty or sixty zhang, the rope was fixed on a mountain that was not too big, and the wind in the air should be relatively strong, and it was blowing the monster around in the air.

As the fleet approached, someone began to exclaim, "There's someone on that thing!" As more and more people saw it, the exclamations of exclamation came and went in the fleet, and almost everyone put down what they were doing and looked at the strange thing.

That is the hot air balloon, the advantage of the hot air balloon is mainly that it can be easily prepared for take-off, the air stay time is long, after being fixed with a cable, it is more convenient to observe the ground situation around about ten kilometers, and the observation of the sky can be observed dozens of kilometers away, which is the only magic weapon used for long-distance observation before the airship plane has not been able to board the ship.

In the gondola of the hot air balloon, a few people were standing in the gondola, many of them looking around, and they were now in the same position as Victoria Harbour in the old plane, which was the best deep-water port in the legend, good enough for the British to "legitimately occupy" it after overthrowing the invincible Manchu Qing Dynasty to secure their rights in the Far East.

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Chen Li did not understand the meaning of hot air balloons, but this was not the first time he had seen hot air balloons, and when the Chinese had just arrived in Zhaoqing, they had already seen hot air balloons floating in the distance when they were waiting outside the Shili Pavilion to greet them. Later, he saw a hot air balloon floating in the air many times outside Zhaoqing, and although he had never climbed up, he was sure that the Chinese were militaristic weapons. He knew more than just its name. "Oh, I know, it's called a hot air balloon."

"Oh, my lord knows where this thing came from." "Master, let's give you some explanation." The people on the ship surrounded him in a gossiping manner, and surrounded him in the middle like a star holding the moon.

Chen Li immediately felt the pleasure of "I know you don't know", and he proudly talked about it in this group of people. It was impossible for him to know the function of the hot air balloon, but he couldn't stand a Ruqi who showed off the science popularization to them after getting drunk in Mingfang Building.

That night, someone asked curiously how the Chinese took the initiative when they were ambushed by bandits, and Lu Qi was originally a showman, and after two cups of yellow soup in his stomach, he was even more drunk and courageous, and his mouth was simply idle, and he told the whole process of annihilating the six-way eye to break the Zhaiwang bandit group cleanly. Chen Li's concept of hot air balloons was made clear at that time, and he was naturally full of curiosity about the principle of hot air balloons. Originally, this was confidential information, and it was impossible for these natives to know it, but they met a drunken Lu Qi, so he explained the principle of the hot air balloon clearly and again and again, and now Chen Li also sold this knowledge point to the people on these boats.

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"It was raised by hot air." Someone next to him sighed, "It's amazing, you can come up with such a solution!" ”

"What's so hard about that? During the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Kongming made Kongming lanterns based on the principle of hot air, which was necessary for marching and fighting. Some people are not convinced, and some people echo from the side, "That is, it is nothing more than my Chinese ingenuity, but I was just learned by these barbarians." ”

"How can it be said to be a barbarian? This Chinese is a descendant of my Chinese people, who fled the war in the early years, and now they are just returning. "What you said is not right, it is difficult for those who enter the summer to be Xia, and those who enter the summer are not Yi, and there are fewer Yi people in Mingzhou City?" Now aren't they all wearing the clothes of my Great Martial Dynasty and learning the words and deeds of my Great Martial Dynasty? Although these people are my Chinese seedlings, if they have lived overseas for a long time, they will inevitably live together with the Yi people, and they will inevitably be contaminated with the habits of the Yi people, and even completely razed. Now even if you come back with something, it's still just an overseas barbarian. ”

Some people nodded and some shook their heads, arguing over these things. However, Chen Li's attention was not on them, his attention was already attracted by the mountain tethered to the hot air balloon rope, this mountain was square and angular, not at all like the mountains he had seen before, he couldn't help but pat the boatman with some curiosity and asked, "Why does that mountain look a little strange?" ”

"I think so too." The boatman nodded, and the captain next to him looked at it and said curiously, "No, this is a sea, when will a mountain emerge again?" Everyone looked at the mountain and talked about the strangeness of the mountain.

But as the ship approached, the mountain in his eyes began to look more and more strange, if this is really a mountain, it is inevitably too square, although the lower part of the mountain is relatively wide, but it is not like an ordinary mountain that is washed by the sea full of reefs, and the top of the mountain is also square, there are a few very strange-looking trees at the top, and there are a few branches on the top of the tree that are constantly turning.

"Master Chen, if the little one is not mistaken......" The guy looked at it for a while, and his voice began to stutter, "Could it be that this is a boat?" ”

"Boat?" Chen Li and the shipowner asked in unison, but they actually had the answer in their hearts. The mountain in front of you doesn't look like a mountain in any way. As they got closer, they could already see the mountain swaying with the slight swing of the waves, and there was certainly no mountain floating on the sea in this world.

At this moment, there was a square boat dragging a barge from the direction of the water gate, and the leading ship was also sailless and oars, and on closer inspection, it seemed that there was no deck, and the cabin was full of pockets, and a large net was covered with the pockets, and I don't know what it was for. The tugboat dragged the barge closer to the "mountain", gradually slowed down, and came to a stop on the surface of the sea, the water gently lapping against the hull, and several people on board stood up, crawled around the net, and pulled out a few cables with a metallic sheen.

"Look at the mountain! There's something! Someone exclaimed, and a branch came out from the side of the mountain, and under the branch were several cables, and a hook was hung from it, and as the cable was slowly released, the hook slowly drooped downward, until it reached the tugboat's hold. The people inside were busy for a while, and then they made a blind gesture up the hill, and saw the hook begin to go up the rope again.

Amazingly, several cables hung from the hooks, and under the cables there was a very large plank of wood, which was piled with bags of grain, and the net on top was supposed to cover it from slipping off when it was lifted. But now this situation makes all the people who see it can't help but stand on the spot, the grain on this wooden board is not one or two hundred catties, this gratifying people are veterans of carrying things, at a glance can be estimated, at least more than twenty stones of grain are loaded on it, although this weight is not particularly medium, but it is not just a branch of a tree can be hung up. At the same time, another branch seemed to stick out of the mountain, and the hook that hung down slowly fell on the barge behind it, and the people on the barge were busy for a while, and they also hung the planks containing the grain on the hook, and soon the grain of about the same weight was lifted up.

As their ship began to move to the side of the mountain, the crew, who could see the situation, immediately let out a burst of exclamations in the fleet, "That's the ship!" "It's huge!" "It's an iron ship! How does iron float on water? "This ship is so wicked! How do you travel without a sail oar? ”

The bow of the steel giant ship is painted with three big characters "Dongfeng", which is the pride of Dongfang Port, the 10,000-ton giant ship Dongfeng. Since receiving that the grain merchants are unwilling to risk going to Dongfang Port to deliver grain, Gu Qingqian is also at a loss, the grain merchants of the Wu Dynasty are unwilling to send it, and the Meideno Sea is not willing to send it, so you can't watch the grain being starved to death, right? Transporting food along official routes is inefficient and is also threatened by bandits, so they are reluctant to transport food by land. After a long discussion by the Executive Committee, it was finally decided to use the Dongfeng, which had been parked in the Oriental Port, for transportation.

According to the plan, the Dongfeng went north along the coast, entered Hong Kong Bay, anchored in the harbor, and the accompanying landing craft and barges were responsible for transporting grain from the shore to the Dongfeng, and then used the crane on the Dongfeng to lift the cargo directly into the hold. Although these small ships with Stirling engines could not travel as fast at sea as steam engines, they had the advantage of being light and shallow in draft, and they were not much slower. The main task of the small boat is to mark the channel before the arrival of the Dongfeng, and is responsible for guiding the fleet to the unloading place after the arrival of the grain fleet, or towing the grain ship to the unloading place for unloading, which provides a great role in the loading process.

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