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Qiao Zhiyong!

Could it be that this letter came from Qiao Zhiyong?

Lin Yizhe resisted the urge to read the letter and stood quietly aside.

Shen Baozhen pondered for a while, opened the envelope, and when he took out the letter paper from the envelope, the piece of paper that he was carrying with the letter paper attracted Lin Yizhe's attention.

It is a slightly yellowish white paper, densely covered with a large number of red seals of different shapes and patterns, and heavy brush handwriting, which looks like a calligraphy. But when Lin Yizhe saw the eye-catching words on it, "Remitting 50,000 taels of silver with a ticket", his heart was shocked, and he immediately understood what it was.

This is a money order of this era!

And Shen Baozhen is obviously no stranger to money orders, and when he saw this money order and the amount written on it, his hands couldn't help but tremble.

Shen Baozhen opened the letter paper and read it eagerly, the letter was very short, and after a while, after Shen Baozhen finished reading it, the corners of his eyes were already wet.

"There is no way to go...... God bless the good people, I can't imagine that if I plant the good cause one day, I will get the retribution today......" Shen Baozhen choked up and handed the letter paper in his hand to Lin Yizhe.

Lin Yizhe took a deep breath and looked at the letter.

This is a handwritten letter from Qiao Zhiyong to Shen Baozhen:

“…… The construction of steamships is unprecedented in China, and the prosperity of the shipyard will change the passage from now on, which will be of great benefit to the merchants and people...... When the merchant ship was pirated at sea, the ship "Wannian Qing" bravely rescued it, destroyed the foreign pirates, and towed it back to Hong Kong. The crowd of people in the boat are all grateful for the great virtue. …… Today, I heard that the shipyard needs money turnover, and I will give 50,000 taels of silver, hoping to help alleviate the emergency. …… Zhiyong always thinks about the difficulties of national affairs, and often thinks about retribution. If there is still a need in the future, you can temporarily borrow money from this number without any interest. …… I hope that in the future, the shipping administration will be prosperous, the sea will be calm, the business and travel will come and go, and there will be no more suffering from robbery, then what the servants wish will be enough......"

After reading this letter, Lin Yizhe was moved in his heart.

He didn't expect that at the most difficult moment of the shipyard, it was Qiao Zhiyong, who was far away in Shanxi, who reached out to help!

"This ...... That's life-saving money! Shen Baozhen looked at the bill of exchange in his hand steadily, his voice was already choked, Lin Yizhe saw that Shen Baozhen was in ecstasy, and his body seemed to be unstable on his feet, so he hurriedly stepped forward to support him and sat down on the chair.

"There are such anxious and righteous people in the world...... Shen Baozhen looked at the bill of exchange in his hand and said with tears in his eyes, "I really don't know how to thank him......"

"Qiao Gongxin has already said that the shipbuilding is prosperous and the four seas are the greatest reward for him." Lin Yizhe forcibly suppressed the excitement in his heart and comforted Shen Baozhen, "The coming day is long, uncle doesn't have to rush to ...... for a while"

"Then I have to say thank you...... Kunyu, quick, get a pen and paper, and I'll write him a letter back......" Shen Baozhen said.

Lin Yizhe agreed, immediately took the four treasures of the study, spread the paper and polished the ink on the table, and helped Shen Baozhen write a reply to Qiao Zhiyong.

Hangzhou City, Yuanbao Hutong, Hu Xueyan private.

Hu Xueyan, who had just had lunch, was taking a walk in the back garden to eat. After being robbed of the yellow coat and demoted to a fine, Hu Xueyan was angry, and he was sick, and after the treatment of a famous doctor, he finally recovered in the past few days, at this time he respected the doctor's advice, and walked with his wife and concubines in the garden to enjoy the flowers.

"Master, Zuo Gong has sent a letter."

The housekeeper said, handing over a letter that Zuo Zongtang had just sent to Hu Xueyan.

Hu Xueyan took the letter and didn't open it immediately, because he knew that this time Zuo Zongtang would definitely not have anything good to say in the letter.

After the housekeeper retired and the wives and concubines hid by the goldfish pond in the distance and gossiped, Hu Xueyan took a deep breath, opened the envelope, took out the letter paper and looked at it.

Sure enough, as he expected, Zuo Zongtang scolded him again in the letter this time, which means that if you do such nonsense again, I won't be able to protect you, and then the western expedition to the military needs and other needs are very urgent, and it is clear that he is reaching out to him to ask for "protection money", telling him that he still has to protect you, etc.

"Sure enough...... Anyway, this is also human nature, hum! ”

After reading the letter, Hu Xueyan sneered self-deprecatingly, but the corners of his mouth twitched, and what he said in his mouth was obviously not very consistent with what he thought in his heart.

Putting down Zuo Zongtang's letter, Hu Xueyan took a sip of tea, and it was easy to calm himself down.

Hu Xueyan remembered that although this conspiracy was unsuccessful, after all, it caused Zuo Zongtang and Shen Baozhen to turn against each other, and successfully plunged the shipmaster into a financial crisis. He imagined the anxious and hesitant appearance of Shen Baozhen and Lin Yizhe at this moment, and his heart was very happy.

"Hehe, look how you guys have made this year!"

Now that the Spring Festival is approaching, the Hu Mansion is also busy around the Spring Festival, a festive and peaceful atmosphere, Hu Xueyan put away Zuo Zongtang's letter, and walked comfortably among the wives and concubines, watching them feed the koi in the pool.

The wives and concubines laughed and threw a handful of fish food into the pool, attracting groups of koi to compete for food, Hu Xueyan looked at the koi jumping out of the water to grab food, as if he saw the scene of the shipmaster craftsmen gathering at the government office to ask for money, and couldn't help laughing happily.

"See how long you can make it? When the time comes, you have to beg me obediently! ”

What Hu Xueyan never expected was that on the Spring Festival (January 30, 1870) of the ninth year of Tongzhi, the shipyard was spent in a joyful atmosphere.

A few days before the Spring Festival, the workers received their salaries and red envelopes one after another, and happily bid farewell to Shangguan and their companions and went home for the New Year.

At the beginning of this year, in addition to the successive completion of the two warships "Meiyun" and "Fuxing", there was also an important piece of good news. That is the "Labert" type tugboat dock on the shore of the Harbour Master's River, which has since been completed, and the Harbour Master has since had his own dock.

The "Labert" type dock is neither an ordinary dry dock nor an ordinary floating dock, and its design was first created in France, at that time only France had built one, and the dock of the shipyard completely surpassed the former in terms of scale and sophistication. Originally, when planning the shipyard construction plan, Riyige and others recommended the shipyard to excavate and build a stone dry dock, but due to the unsuitable geology of the shipyard area at the beginning, it was prone to water seepage or collapse accidents, and after the stone dock was rebuilt in Qingzhou, because of the long construction time and huge cost of the dry dock, the shipyard funds were not very abundant at this time, so the construction time was shorter and the tugboat was more economical.

The tugboat dock is located on the river bank of the shipyard and is 35.9 meters wide and 97.4 meters long. Its components are mainly purchased from France, and are divided into two parts: underwater and onshore. The mud was excavated in the water near the river bank, the foundation was laid, and the dock base, consisting of 42 iron frames, was installed, and all of them were installed in the water on the morning of March 26, 1870. Fearing that the tide would impulse the iron frame, the workers filled the gaps between the connecting frames with stones, and the base was 11.2 meters high near the river bank, and the height of the section near the river was only 0.3 meters, and the whole base was like a slope stretching from the river bank to the middle of the river.

After installation, workers installed two more rails on the surface of each frame to carry the tugboat's tire frame. The 42-piece tire racks are divided into two groups, 17 pieces of 37.7 meters long and 25 pieces of 59.7 meters long, so that small boats and medium-sized boats can each use one section without having to start the entire tugboat machine, and if a large boat is docked, only two groups of tugboats can be started at the same time. Corresponding to 42 pieces of tugboat tire frame, a steam engine with a power of 44 horsepower is installed on the shore of the tugboat dock to drive 42 tugboats, and there are steel cables in the tugboat machine to connect to 42 tugboat tire frames respectively, and the ship sails to the top of the tugboat tire frame at high tide, and automatically sits on the tire frame at low tide, and the warship can be pulled horizontally from the water to the shore by starting the tugboat.

The towyard of the shipmaster adopts the method of horizontal traction to tow the warship into the dock. The advantage of using horizontal traction is that it can ensure that the entire warship can be pulled out of the water, and once the longitudinal traction is too large, it may occur that because the length of the tugboat track is not enough, half of the warship is out of the water, and the other half is still in the water.

The dock was designed to tow warships with a displacement of up to 2,500 tons, and the project was completed in the spring of 1870 under the guidance of French engineers. On April 3, the tire frame of the small tug was first started for testing, and the "Changsheng" steamer was towed ashore, which took two hours. On April 7, the "Fuxing" slowly approached the river bank and moored above the tire frame of a 59.7-meter-long medium tugboat, becoming the first warship to test this group of machines, and the 25 tugboats were started together, and the "Fuxing" was pulled ashore four hours later. After that, "Wannianqing" was close to the tugboat dock, and the small and medium groups of tugboat tire frames were started at the same time, and they also went ashore steadily in four hours. Since then, the basic maintenance equipment of the shipyard and warship has been solved, and there is no need to rely on foreign shipyard oil repair.

After the completion of the tugboat dock, the renovation project of the "Wannian Qing" began in full swing.

Because the "Wannian Qing" ship renovation project was directly undertaken by the imperial court, and the wages were directly allocated by the household department, which was more secure, it became a competitive target for the shipyard craftsmen. In order to prevent scramble, Lin Yizhe proposed that "those who have an old mother to support are preferred; Scholars with real talents are preferred; The family has a wife, sons and daughters first", and promised that "the wages of those who have not been worked will be paid, and the reward will be delayed for one year", and the shipyard craftsmen "feel very fair", so that the renovation project of the "Wannianqing" can be carried out smoothly.

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