On July 24, 1791, a beautifully lined three-masted sailboat with white sails quickly passed by the sea south of Beihai Town. The sharp and forward-stretched bow on the calm sea was reflected like a pair of open scissors, which made the workers who were busy on the dock exclaimed for a long time.

"This boat is really beautiful."

"Yes, I heard it was a new one."

"...Sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty!" A dock worker counted twice before saying in surprise: Good guy! Why are there so many sails hanging on it? I used to see black hard sails on Rongcheng Sea."

"You don't even understand this? My second primary school heard from my husband in school and told me when I got home. There are so many sails, but it is important to be a strong wind and fast..."

This newly launched sailboat is named "Feiyun". It is the third flying shear sailboat imitated by the Beihai Town Shipyard based on the drawings and equal-scale models obtained by Zhao Xin from another time and space.

The ship is 48.46 meters long, hull length is 46.97 meters, 9.69 meters wide, 9.69 meters deep, 6.13 meters draft, and 860 tons of load. In addition to the inner keel, ribs, and stylus, the wood is continued to be used, and the other parts are made of steel from the elbow board to the deck, and then to the main mast splint, and even the rigging is also made of steel wire rope.

A total of two small diesel generators were equipped on the ship to drive three electric sail winches, an anchor, hydraulic servo, and water pump. With the assistance of the power system, driving and handling became relatively easier. Compared with the more than 200 crew members of the sailboat with the same load, the Feiyun only had 35 crew members.

Since Zhao Xin had the idea of ​​sending immigrants to the other side of the ocean, the shipyard in Beihai Town has been imitating the fly-shearing ship. The first was a 500-ton wooden fly-shearing ship. It was purely for workers to practice, and later it was given to the nautical school as a training ship. The second was the same size as the first, but it used steel and welding technology. However, because the workers were not good at mast welding and keel welding, the hull was stopped halfway.

Generally speaking, being a genius in technology is a genius, and being two steps ahead often becomes a lunatic. The use of advanced technology must be supported by industrial workers with corresponding abilities.

The reason why shipbuilding is made by using welding technology is mainly because Beihai Town lacks wood to make sea ships.

Whether it is teak or titanium, Zhao Xin needs to buy it from another time and space, or he or she has to send a ship to Macau to purchase it. Moreover, Beihai Town already has four sailboats seized from Tsarist Russia, and there are more than a dozen large-scale wide-sized ships purchased from Siam. Most of the wood is used by these ships.

Another reason is that ships built with steel are not only much cheaper than wood, but also lighter in weight and can carry more cargo and population.

In recent years, Zhang Bo has taught his welding skills without reservation. At present, the best welders in Beihai Town are in the shipyard, so there is no problem with welding a boiler or something.

However, welding boilers and ship welding are not the same thing at all. Ship welding is a highly technical and professional project. You can ignore the construction cost. There must be no problems with the strength of the material structure and use function.

Zhang Bo's welding level may be fine in general small projects, but it will not work in large projects. You should know that no matter whether it is slag inclusions, pores, or undercuts or cracks during welding, they will cause changes in the hull structure and thus affect the strength of the ship.

For example, the total amount of pores cannot be more than 5% of the working interface, which will affect the tensile strength of the weld seam and reduce the mechanical properties of the metal. In addition, the strength hazards caused by those unwelded and unfusioned parts are more harmful, and are more serious than the pores and slag inclusions, which are very likely to cause brittle fractures in the welding site.

This matter will definitely be out of the blue, and he has been busy with the oil refining industry in Beihai Town in recent years. So, the Portuguese-Chinese mixed-race engineer who supervised the entire shipbuilding project decided to take the steps back to avoid "pulling the eggs" again. After asking for instructions and obtaining approval, the keel and hull were still made of oak, while non-concentric connections such as masts, rooftop boards, deck side boards, and non-concentric connections in the superstructure all adopted riveting and welding processes.

In this way, after more than a year of repeated exploration, it was not until mid-July this year that the "Feiyun" was finally launched. The ship has now passed five days of trial voyages on the offshore, and then it will have to travel to Jeju Island and Minami Kyushu twice before the end of the year to find out the shortcomings and shortcomings in construction and make improvements.

Zhao Xin was not very anxious about sending immigrants to the other side of the ocean. Although the newly established United States has been eager to start the "Every Westward Movement", it is still wandering east of the Mississippi River, let alone the Rockies. So whether it is Sacramento or Colorado, it is still far from the doorstep of Americans.

Zhao Xin had a plan in his mind, and had not told anyone else yet. He planned to cut off a beggar at that time, so that Jefferson's plan to buy Louisiana was failed.

The problem is that Louisiana is now assigned to Spain, and it’s all the fault of Louis XVI’s father-Louis XV!

It is said that during the "Seven Years' War", Louis XV brought Spain, which was also the Bourbon royal family, and the two sides reached a family alliance to join forces with Britain and Prussia.

The result of the war was that the Bourbon brothers lost their misfortune. When the Paris peace talks, the then British Prime Minister Earl Butt, who was responsible for the sharing of the meat, did not intend to ced Havana, the other party's colony, for the purpose of winning over Spain, but Prussia did not agree.

The final agreement was that Spain had to ced Florida, but Cocarlos III disagreed and expressed that it would continue to fight. Louis XV could no longer fight, so he transferred the French Louisiana area to Spain as compensation, and peace came.

Should we start war with Spain in the name of taking back Luzon, or wait for Napoleon to come to power in a few years? Zhao Xin hasn't thought about it for a while.

The former will undoubtedly break out of a war from land to ocean, which is not possible with the strength of the North Navy today; while the latter has to wait too long, and he is really unsure of being foolish with Napoleon and Jefferson.

Let’s get in touch with the French first and take a step at a time. It’s best to make time and find the rhythm, step by step ahead of the Americans, and make a private deal with Napoleon. Wouldn’t Jefferson pay $12 million? Then he will pay $15 million.

The "Dollars" in this year are just silver coins, and yellow metals are precious metals. Calculated by time, Hamilton will issue the "Coin Crime Act" next year. At that time, the silver content of each "Dollars" silver coin will be determined to be 240,566 grams, and 12 million US dollars is less than 289 tons of silver.

(The silver content of a Beihai Yuan is 6.9005 grams, so the ratio of one dollar to the Beihai silver dollar is 3.4862:1.)

Is silver still a problem with Zhao Xin? Currently, there are five caves in Beihai Town that carry silver bars alone, and each cave has two basketball courts in size, which are almost filled.

"Follow me."

On the beach, Zhao Xin held his arms and looked at the Feiyun in the distance, took back his thoughts from 108,000 miles away, and then said stupidly to Wang Zhenyi beside him.

More than ten seconds passed, Wang Zhenyi did not respond, and his eyes turned from the sea to the sky, so Zhao Xin repeated it again.

“Where to go?”

"Siberia, Chiyan City on the banks of the Qian River, I tell you, the rocks on the banks there are all red, and they are beautiful at dusk. You have nothing to do to row a boat, look at the scenery, touch a fish, no, catch a fish or something, how great it is."

"What about my family?" Wang Zhenyi bit her lower lip. In order to avoid being implicated, her family received it from Jiangning Prefecture at the end of the year before yesterday.

Zhao Xin turned his head and smiled, "Why don't they go with you? Then build a hospital and let your father be the director."

Wang Zhenyi gritted her teeth and said, "Do you think my father is not busy enough now, and he is planning to exhaust him?" As soon as she finished speaking, she sighed softly and said, "I have no name, how can I speak to them?"

"Well......"

Zhao Xin didn't dare to answer the conversation. Forget it, if you don't go, don't go. At worst, you can come back a few more times. So when he and Wang Zhenyi parted, they returned home from the beach. When they saw A Miao walking out, they casually said, "A Miao, will you follow me in two days?"

"Really?!" Ah Miao stopped moving, staring at Zhao Xin with big eyes blankly, which meant "I heard right?"

"It's even more real than real gold. This time we took a boat and the distance was quite long. I'm afraid we won't be able to get there in less than a month or two. Will we go?"

"Of course I have to go!" Ah Miao almost jumped up happily, with joy in her eyes. She then asked again, "Come on Duofu?"

"If you want to bring it, take it with you." Zhao Xin laughed and said that the day for the beautiful girl to accompany her cat petting is coming again.

In fact, the reason why he wanted to take the boat was to take advantage of this opportunity to see all over the place along the way. First, he wanted to know how the people from the pass lived, and second, he wanted to see the current living conditions of the border residents in the Ussuri River and Heilongjiang.

Now that Beihai Town is becoming larger and larger, more and more officials are appointing and promoted. The time travelers are currently high and in charge of a large number of stalls. Even Chen Qingsong rarely has time to go downstairs and is plagued by a large number of documents and affairs every day.

Are the people satisfied with the officials who took the photo? Are they satisfied with the Beihai Business Company? How much impact will the arrival of a large number of immigrants in the pass have on the living environment of border residents? What contradictions do the two sides have?

Zhao Xin plans to take this opportunity to see it with his own eyes and listen to it with his own ears.

In the early morning of July 27, Zhao Xinhe and Duofu A Miao boarded the carriage with Shen Xuan and his sons, Wu Siyu, Zhao Liang, Yu Deli, Li Ji, Zhinai and Wan Zao's wife.

As for King Duofu, he looked back at the "wives, concubines, children" lying on the roof, walls and doors, and meowed with his mouth wide open, as if he was saying that the king had gone to the mountains and rivers. He was going to take a good look at his house, and then he jumped into the carriage with a light leap.

In addition to twenty disguised guards, Wang Zhong was also on the list of those who accompanied Zhao Xin this time. Wang Zhong has been in Beihai Town for several years. He has been to Boli Town as far as he has been to attend the train opening ceremony and has been looking for an opportunity to go to the upper reaches of Heilongjiang. When he left, the 56-year-old Duan Yukai temporarily took over as the vice principal of the primary school; at the same time, the position of the principal of Lao You was also replaced by a teacher Li who taught physics.

After several black carriages left the city, they had just gotten faster. The carriage that was leading suddenly stopped suddenly. Zhao Xin, who was sitting in the second car, was talking to Wang Zhong, also waved. He was about to ask what was going on when he saw Wukanbe, who was the guard, come over and salute, "Sir, something happened. It seems that someone was waiting for you on the side of the road."

"Who?"

"You'd better take a look for it yourself."

Zhao Xin got off the carriage suspiciously, and saw a woman standing seven or eight steps away, wearing a veil-covered hat, a moon-white plum blossom with a vertical collar and a slanted shirt, a light green pleated silk skirt with a slightly edge exposed on her lower body, and a stone-blue double-breasted cloak. The first two sentences in a poem written by someone immediately emerged in his mind: the faint fragrance suddenly hits, the cold and beautiful pavilion.

However, what is obviously incompatible with this outfit is that there were two large cowhide boxes lying beside the woman, which looked stupid and thick.

"You are here." After saying a nonsense, Zhao Xin asked another nonsense: "Did your father and your mother agree?"

The lice on the bald man's head - something obvious, I really don't agree with it. Wang Zhenyi, the two big boxes, could not move them alone.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! Wang Zhenyi spat lightly and looked at Zhao Xin through the veil and said, "No! I made an appointment with Mr. Rong Fu to see the scenery of thousands of miles of the north country together, but I just took a ride along the way."

At this moment, I heard Wang Zhong’s hearty laughter behind me, and then said, “Your Highness, that’s true. Brother Xichen came to Wang personally to mention this matter the day before yesterday. Please ask me to take care of Deqing along the way.”

Hehe, Zhao Xin smiled and stopped the guard who wanted to help carry the box. He showed that he could pick up a big box with one hand and put it on the luggage rack behind the carriage. Wang Zhong looked straight and said he was careful.

Speaking of which, Beihai Town has built many roads in recent years, opening mountains and exploding rocks, and building bridges when encountering water, which greatly improves the traffic conditions in the northeastern region. These roads basically adopt the construction standards of another secondary highway in time and space.

For example, in mountainous areas, the width of the roadbed is 8.5~10 meters, and the width of the road surface is 7.0 meters, and single-sided drainage ditches are built; in plain and hilly areas, the width of the roadbed is 10~12 meters, and the width of the road surface is 7.5 meters, and double-sided drainage ditches are built.

Due to the seasonal permafrost environment in the northeast and the large precipitation in summer and winter, basically all the main roads connecting the two places have a total pavement thickness of more than 120cm and are divided into 4 to 5-layer structures. During construction, each layer needs to be repeatedly crushed with a roller before proceeding to the next step.

Generally speaking, at the bottom is a 40 cm thick gravel cushion layer, followed by 40 cm thick cement mixed gravel; after it is completely dry, a layer of 20 cm thick cement mixed gravel is laid on top, and then 20 cm thick medium-grained asphalt concrete.

There are two main sources of paving asphalt in Beihai Town, one is coal-coking asphalt after coking in the steel plant, and the other is petroleum asphalt from the Kuyedao Oil Refinery.

With roads, someone must maintain roads. New-style highways cannot be like ancient post roads, with stations only seventy or eighty miles away. Considering the problem of transportation, currently the main roads in Beihai Town have a small road maintenance point every 20 kilometers and a road maintenance station for 100 kilometers.

Most of the road maintenance workers were from the former Qing Dynasty postmen, and there were poor households among the border residents; there were also some families who came from the inner palace and were not suitable for urban life. In addition to maintaining roads, repairing road pits and dredging, these road maintenance workers also had the work of guarding and patrolling the surrounding mountains and forests and maintaining communication lines.

All stations and workers are affiliated with the Transportation Committee established by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, which is separate from the railway project. The current main person in charge is a power plant crossing group named Ding Yan, and the deputy are Sima Jianghan and Motoki Ryonaga from the island country.

The reason why Ding Yan was awarded this position is mainly because he was responsible for concrete mixing projects in the power plant project, and he was also an engineer. However, Ding Yan is usually busy with the new power plant project in Boli Town, and he has two days a week to deal with the affairs of the Transportation Committee, and most of the work is handled by two deputy.

Because Sima Jianghan and Motoki Ryonaga participated in the railway construction survey and became naturalized last year, they naturally joined the Transportation Committee. Sima Jianghan's name was not changed, and his real name was quite good; while Motoki Ryonaga changed his name to Mu Shiqing, who was his previous name.

These Lan scholars from the island country have been here for two years, and everyone is eager to learn "New Tang Dynasty". They mainly focus on clinical medicine, agriculture, mathematics, astronomy, physics, transportation, etc. As for many knowledge and technologies in industrial technology, they are not currently open to them.
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