Chapter Thirty-Three: Good West and East
Chapter 33 is good
Dream up all the way to observe, what a good place it is, but much better than Xinshengtun, but there is no gold mine, or Lingqiantun is not good here, the place is also big, there are mountains and water, there are many fish in the water, when he got on the boat by the river, he saw that there were fish swimming in the water, the method of fishing in these years and months must be more backward fish, if you find a way to make a good net, you can use these two boats to catch a lot of fish, in addition to eating yourself, you can also make dried salted fish wholesale quasi-money, if you don't use this place, That's a bit of a shame. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
I have to think of a way, to make full use of this place, even if only engaged in breeding is also a good place, the riverside fish, ducks and geese, the use of mountain vegetables, water and grass to raise chickens and pigs, after thinking about it, sit on the boat and watch the other side of the Songhua River, all the slopes under the mountain can not live people, the trees on the mountain are tall and dense, the boat travels two miles, the high place on the west bank only sees a small piece of uninhabited land, and then the two sides of the river down the river are all big mountains and forests, nearly 30 miles in the uninhabited. It was boring to look at it, and Uncle Tou and his sister were on the boat in front of them again, so they had to go into the shed to rest.
Starting from the boat ride in the morning, all the way to the river with a smooth wind, the water volume is very large and deep, the boat line is smooth and fast, after more than five hours, the two boats arrived at the waters of Jilin Province before dark. This distance is also too far, dream of watching the flow of the mountain range around the Fujiang River in Jilin Province, surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the water on both sides, the momentum is extraordinary, along both sides of the river, the north bank of the soil and grass houses and blue brick and tile houses everywhere, there are many bricks or wood as the shop, forming a grain and rice shop, porridge shop, wine and food shop, garment shop, grocery shop, mountain goods shop, utensils shop and so on; The shadow of the house behind the woods on the south bank appeared, isn't this Changchun? Where is this? There is a river and water, it should be Jilin City.
Jilin City is the only city in the name of the provincial capital and the name of the city, I have been to Jilin in the past, this river is very similar, although there were many high-rise buildings at that time, but looking at the riverside can still feel some similarity, whatever, you will know in the future. Suddenly, there was a sudden sound of the machine in front, and I dreamed of looking at the left channel in front of the left side of the sound source, a small steamer with a wooden hull was emitting thick black smoke, and it was fast to the left side of the body, the small steamer was more than one zhang wide and three zhang long, and the draft would not exceed two meters, and there was a slightly larger cargo barge behind it, and there was a small steamer at this time?
Dream of watching the small steamer approach, in front of the small steamer there is a ship boss at the helm, there are a number of shipwrights in the ship, one of them a black and strong coaling shipwright, is shoveling to a small steam engine boiler to add coal, so that the boiler in the furnace is burning red, the ship is emitting small black smoke, the steam turbine makes a sudden roar of small machines, driving the hull on both sides of the paddle wheel to rotate rapidly, so that the wheel blades quickly row the river, producing a great driving force, pushing the hull to move forward quickly, paddle steamer? This ship is old enough.
Dream estimated that the speed of this small steamer is about 7 to 8 knots, which is basically the same as the speed of 7 or 8 knots of modern ordinary sailing ships! However, this small steamer is a boat sailing against the current, it is like a small motorized water plow, plowing two layers of waves in the river, rolling and rushing to the river on both sides of the river quickly. Although this thing is old, but it is also good west and east, if you get two to run back and forth between the Weisha River and the Jilin provincial capital, it will be much faster, and the carrying capacity is also large, and our small wooden boat can not be compared, and the wooden boat is too slow, a small steamer more than 12 meters long, how can it also pull more than 15 tons of goods, but also can tow barges, if it is also more than 10 meters long barges, how can it also pull more than 20 tons of goods, if you drag two that is more than 50 tons of goods, and fast, this year is really good West and East.
The working principle of this small steamer should be to burn coal in the small steam engine boiler, that is, through boiling water to vent, inlet compression, burst exhaust, push the blades of the paddle wheel on both sides to rotate and stroke quickly, and push the small steamer to move forward quickly; In fact, the manufacturing process is not complicated, as long as there is a small steam engine boiler can be built, but according to this year, the horsepower, performance and other aspects of this small steamer should be the most advanced.
I dreamed of looking forward while thinking about the boat, and there were still a lot of manpower wooden boats in front of the left, slowly rowing forward against the current, and the speed was too slow. At this time a small pier appeared on the shore, with only a few wooden boats; Then there was a small wharf, where there were many wooden boats, two small steamers and two barges; At the third pier, there were only wooden boats, and they docked here to go ashore.
This is a wharf in the capital of Jilin Province, the head of the man took everyone ashore, there were guys with three big carriages with sheds to pick up, Mengqi and the head of the uncle sat in the first car, Juan'er and they were the second, the guards put their guns in the third car and followed, and the group went in the carriage.
On the way, I asked about the situation in Jilin Province, this side of the river is the main urban area, and the opposite side of the river is Jiangnan, which is now occupied by the Han family, and there are more than 1,000 civilian households over there who are very chaotic and unsafe, and the head uncle does not let Mengqi go to Jiangnan; Mengqi asked the head uncle about the small steamer, and the head uncle said that there are only three small steamers in Jilin Province, all of which were built by the official family a few years ago, and now only one small steamer is still in use, often transporting goods to the Jilin Machinery Bureau, and the other two small steamers have not been used at all, and have been parked at the second wharf; Dream asks why not? Isn't that a waste?
Toubo said that this kind of small steamer is larger, can pull hundreds of loads of goods at a time, and can also tow barges, barges can also pull hundreds of loads of goods, and can also tow two when busy, but because the goods that need to be transported by ship here have not been much, the number is not large, just some grain ships, and this small steamer is too coal-burning, and the price of coal here is very high, the cost of transporting goods with a small steamer is too large and too expensive, and it is convenient to hire a private steamer to save money, and there is no need to hire a professional shipwrecker, so there are two small steamers that have never been used.
And now the use of the small steamer, or three or four years ago after the Jilin Machinery Bureau came, specifically for their own pull goods to use, these three small steamer is Tianjin Fachang Machinery Shipyard five years ago, that is, Guangxu six years sent people to Jilin Shipyard to build, I heard that the use of the shadow of the foreign stove of the foreigners, spent a lot of silver, now put it in a waste, the official also dismissed a lot of shipwrights, this troubled times are not good to live.
I dreamed of it, this little steamer is not very easy to get if it is an official family, forget it later, if you have the opportunity to talk about it, how much is this hundreds of loads? It's about 180 pounds a load, whatever, let's learn about the Jilin Machinery Bureau first......