Chapter Ninety-Five: The Tianjin River

Ge Tiangong explained to Shen Guogong in detail what it was like when the whole project was completed.

Behind the whole ship, there will be a steam engine, which will be used to drive the iron forks. Insert yourself in the sand below the river to loosen the soil and let the river wash down. Thus dredging is carried out.

Nowadays, the poor drainage of Tianjin's rivers is actually inseparable from sediment.

The rivers in Hebei, some have more sediment content, and some have less sediment content, but they gather here in Tianjin, and the sediment settles, and a lot of land in Tianjin has only recently been impacted, which is a problem, that is, this section of the river is very gentle.

When the sediment from the upper reaches settles, it forms piles of sand at the bottom of the river, so that the river channel is raised and the upstream river water cannot flow.

In fact, this situation is not only the case in Tianjin, but also in many estuaries of the Yellow River, the flatter the new coastline of the sediment impact, the easier it is for the sediment to be deposited, and the more sediment is deposited, the more likely it is that the river near the estuary will appear, which is higher than the upstream river.

Then there's the poor drainage, all sorts of breaches, backfilling, and so on.

This is the law of nature.

Although it is said that the Tianjin River has just been repaired once. However, in this era, the effect of manpower repairing the river is very limited.

Therefore, He Xi thought of using steam to drive machinery, whether it is used to dig sand, dredge, in short, to make the river flow faster.

Shen Guogong listened to Ge Tiangong's explanations, and he didn't say anything, Shen Guogong didn't understand a lot of things, but he didn't understand them. But it doesn't matter. Professional people do professional things, it doesn't matter if you don't understand it, just watch Ge Tiangong do it.

Shen Guogong said: "When will this ship be good?"

Ge Tiangong said: "Five days, five days will definitely be completed." ”

Shen Guogong said: "I will wait for you for five days." After loading and uploading, he immediately set sail and went to Tianjin. ”

Ge Tiangong said: "Yes." ”

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After all, this project was not completed within five days, and it was only after ten days that it actually came to Tianjin.

On this day, the sky has cleared. And the sun is shining, just look at the past, the two sides of the river can not see where the boundary of the river is, only some branches above the river, still holding on to the water, can prove that this is not a lake.

In the area of Tianjin, except for some places that were originally relatively high, that is, the city of Tianjin, it did not move in the flood.

In this era, the city often had a flood control function.

Even in the 21st century, some ancient cities have repeatedly made meritorious contributions in flood control. Not to mention this era.

When the weather is hot, the water vapor is steaming, humid and hot, which makes people want to drink water, but at this time, it looks like the eyes are full of water, but they can't drink it. And the flood outside the city of Tianjin, lost its turbulent waves, flowing slowly, if you don't pay attention, you can't even see the ripples of these water flows.

This made Shen Guogong secretly frightened, all this in front of him proved He Xi's previous judgment. Looking at this flow method, it takes several months for the flood to be emptied, not to mention that after soaking in water for several months, the good land will become saline-alkali land. Just to say, after a few months of delay, what will the people eat and drink?

Shen Guogong said to Ge Tiangong: "You can start. As long as this thing is done, I will give you credit, and the Ministry of Industry will definitely have a place for you. ”

Ge Tiangong said: "Yes." ”

Ge Tiangong has not slept for several days, and he is physically and mentally exhausted at the moment, but his spirit is extremely high. Immediately changed boats.

This ship, which has been modified, looks like a strangely shaped ship. The sails were gone, and many people had to be dragged with oars, or with other boats, to move. The entire stern was remodeled. Forming a working surface. The highest chimney in the middle.

Nothing else, it's where the boiler is. The boiler heats up, the water vapor pushes the machine to work, pushes things up, and then releases the water vapor, loses the water vapor support, and the lever comes down again.

It's just a clumsy and heavy machine, which can't be fast at all, and you can hear the obvious beat, "Situation--- situation---- situation. ”

And this momentum, driving a huge iron claw, like Zhu Bajie's nail rake, was lowered from the boat and sank to the bottom of the river. Immediately driven by the steam engine, this nail rake slammed at the bottom of the river.

It's just that there was a problem at the first time.

The nail rake below is motionless, it is the boat that moves.

The whole ship was tilting.

Everyone was taken aback.

The boilermen are unsteady on their feet.

Shen Guogong, who was watching from another boat, also clearly saw that Ge Tiangong's ship was tilted.

Countless people focused their eyes on Ge Tiangong.

Ge Tiangong's Adam's apple moved slightly.

I couldn't help but think about what was wrong.

What's the problem? There are many, many questions here.

First of all, there is the problem of river positioning, as mentioned above, the water has completely submerged the river channel, and it is not visible from the water surface, where is the river below, and where is not the river. It is possible that when the iron claw was lowered, it was in the wrong place, and it did not catch the bottom of the river, and instead of grasping the sediment, it grabbed something else.

Secondly, there is the issue of center of gravity.

This ship is not a professional ship, but a temporary modified ship, and when it was worked, the center of gravity was not considered much before.

There is also the problem of the machine itself, which is very heavy, and the overall position is in the back of the ship, which adds to the problem of the center of gravity.

Wait a minute.

But at this moment, Ge Tiangong felt that it didn't matter.

Many problems, Ge Tiangong had prepared before, sent a lot of people to dive to confirm the river, after all, put as much coal as possible in the bow of the ship as a counterweight, and now he has done everything he can. It's rushed, but it's not too much of an oversight.

At least, given time to Ge Tiangong now, he may not be able to do better.

Give him a few months, of course, to make a better ship. But is there time?

Without.

Therefore, Ge Tiangong's decision is not to make a decision. It's just a cold look.

Seeing that Ge Tiangong didn't say a word, he just grabbed the side of the boat and looked coldly at the iron claws that sank to the bottom of the river.

So it can only be continued.

There was a strange sound of gurgling, and I don't know where it came from. A cooing sound came from the boiler, and half of the boiler burned red. The boiler burner's face is ugly, and the face is red, white, and black, three colors, rendering a thrilling feeling.

Red, naturally, is the color of the reflection flame. The white one was scared out because this boilermaker was worried that the boiler would explode.

Many advances in industry are paved with human life, and the same is true for steam engines. Although today's steam engine, in He Xi's view, is nothing at all, there have been many boiler explosion accidents. Many of these boiler explosion accidents are, in He Xi's view, low-level mistakes.

But the problem is that the illiteracy rate in Daming is extremely high, and the industry is unstable, which makes it difficult to have a constant standard for the quality of the boiler itself. In this case, both high-level and low-level errors are normal.

It can even be said that this explosion promoted the development of the steam engine.

Many times, if you don't make mistakes, you don't know how to improve.

This boiler worker is a veteran, he actually feels that there is something wrong with the boiler, but Ge Tiangong doesn't say stop, no one can stop.

As for black, it is naturally the color of coal.

It was as if a giant was dragging the ship under the water, and the bow of the ship was even tilted a little bit, out of the water. Some small things on the ship also began to shake slightly. If this continues, it is estimated that the keel of the ship will not be able to withstand it.

You know, the keel of this wooden ship has never thought of bearing such huge power.

Ge Tiangong couldn't keep his composure anymore, he was already sweating profusely, looking at the seemingly calm water.

Suddenly, a ripple was set off on the water, and the whole boat suddenly loosened, and the bow of the boat slammed heavily on the water, and the whole boat involuntarily moved forward several meters. And the Iron Claw of the Throne suddenly raised the surface of the water. And the stern of the boat, as if something was tumbling up, the originally relatively calm water, the relatively clear water, instantly turned into yellow mud soup. The kind of handful of water, most of it is sand yellow mud soup.