The land of Jiangnan in February is still shrouded in the cold winter, and spring will have to wait for at least a while. However, even so, the sun is still warm at noon, and the warm sunshine covers the two sides of the river. Under the blue sky, the green river water is rolling eastward. Several small fishing boats are leisurely rippling along the river. The fishermen on the boat sprinkled the fishing nets to the water from time to time.

For fishermen on the river, this is the last fishing season. In a few days, it will be the "fishing ban period". The spring fishing ban system implemented by the Ming Dynasty has been implemented for ten years. Now the people of the Ming Dynasty have adapted to this system. Moreover, the government has also provided corresponding subsidies to fishermen. The subsidies are not much, and each household has three stones of food, which can barely maintain the livelihood of the family.

Just as the fishermen were splashing the nets, a long sound suddenly came from a distance.

“Woo…”

The fishermen stopped moving one after another and looked in the direction where the sound came. They saw a wisp of black smoke rising slowly at the junction of Tianshui. Not long after, a black shadow drove towards here from the junction of Tianshui.

"What's that!"

The sharp-eyed fisherman screamed.

The boat coming from the upstream didn't look big, but the boat was different from an ordinary boat. There was no towering mast on the boat. A lonely chimney stood on the deck, constantly spitting out the rolling black smoke.

"Can the ship catch fire?"

"Hurry, come and save people!"

The enthusiastic fishermen put away their fishing nets and rowed their boats toward the "fire" ship. When they approached and wanted to save people, they found that the people on the boat did not seem to be in a hurry.

Did you get it wrong?

"It seems that the smoke came out of the chimney!"

As the fishermen watched, the boat continued to move south.

Black smoke column!

It was spitting out from the chimney.

"Add coal!"

Standing on the bridge, Zhang Ying ordered.

At this time, he was completely immersed in the beauty of the machine, with the roar of the steam engine in his ears. When his body felt the wind in the river, his legs also felt the tremor from the hull.

This is the power of the machine!

“Speed ​​up the speed!”

With Zhang Ying's order, the ship speed increased again.

The boat speed is getting faster and faster, and the people on the boat are getting more and more interested, especially as there are more and more ships on the river, their interest is getting higher.

Even in the afternoon, when Zhang Bin asked if he would return to the flight, Zhang Ying smiled.

"Why do we have to return? Third brother, the coal on the ship is enough for us to sail to Nanjing. Think about it, what kind of sensation will cause in Nanjing when we arrive in Nanjing!"

sensation!

So do you still need to think about it?

If you close your eyes, Zhang Bin can guess what kind of sensation this steamboat will cause in Nanjing when they arrive in Nanjing!

At that time, I'm afraid it will alarm the whole city!

This... is of course a good thing.

Thinking that in the next few days, all the newspapers in Daming would report this news, Zhang Bin was so excited. Maybe the Navy would come to the door and place an order for the shipyard!

"Is there enough coal?"

"enough!"

"Then let's go to Nanjing?"

"Go to Nanjing!"

Zhang Ying nodded.

"Not only do you have to go to Nanjing, but you also have to enter the Qinhuai River!"

All night, the steamship continued to go down the river and sailed along the river to Nanjing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

The next morning, as it got closer and closer to Nanjing, there were more and more ships on the river. The boatmen and sailors on the boat were all looking at the big ship without masts in shock and the thick smoke it emitted.

How did this ship move?

Amid the doubts of everyone, the whistle sounded again in the sky!

With the roar of the steam engine, the steamship named "Thousand Miles Joe" left sailboats behind in everyone's surprise.

"See, Brother San, from now on, there will be no more slurry ships, and even sailboats will be eliminated by it. Sooner or later, one day!"

When the steam ship "Qianliju" which was spitting out black smoke appeared near the dock in Xiaguan, Nanjing, it immediately caused a sensation. Not only the sailors and captains on the ship all looked at the curious eyes, but even the people on the shore looked at the river in the sound of its whistle.

"Look, that ship has no sails!"

"It's not that there are no sails, it has water wheels!"

"Why is that water wheel going so fast!"

Feeling the eyes that people cast, Zhang Ying was so excited that he was so excited that he was completely immersed in

In his opinion, the trembling hull is the power that the machine should have!

This kind of power is by no means comparable to human power, it is the power of science!

When Zhang Ying was addicted to the power of machines, he never thought that in another world, he had served as the Grand Secretary of the Wenhua Palace and the Minister of Rites in the Qing Dynasty. Now in the Qiansheng Dynasty, he was born in a family of officials, and he was completely off the line.

In fact, he was not the only one who went astray. Even his son Zhang Tingzan was attracted by the roaring steam engine. Even after he got on the boat, he had sat there, staring at it with his eyes straight at it, as if he was admiring a toy.

Perhaps, boys have an instinctive love for machines, especially for the power of machines.

"Get closer to the shore, so that everyone can see clearly!"

When the boat approached the river bank, Zhang Ying even ordered people to pull the whistle a few more times. As the whistle sounded again and again on the river, everyone on the shore was alarmed. The bank of the Yangtze River was crowded with people, and people were looking at the fast sailing ship on the river with their toes.

"Why is that ship so fast?"

"He doesn't have a paddle?"

"Is it a wheel used? Is it a wheel boat?"

"How come the wheel boats smoke?"

"Is it a steamship?"

"What is a steamship?"

"Just like a train, loading the steam engine onto the ship, isn't it a steamer ship!"

It seems that there are people who really know what they know. It’s not surprising that this is Nanjing, the imperial capital of the Ming Dynasty. There are nearly 20,000 students in the Imperial College alone, and other schools, academies, and knowledgeable people are gone.

However, no matter how knowledgeable you have, no one had ever thought about loading a steam engine on the ship in the past. Now, looking at the steam ship sailing on the river and the slurry paddling the waves on the river surface, no matter who understands or doesn't understand, he is still cheering at the river in surprise.

Amid the cheers of everyone, Zhang Ying slowly calmed down, but Zhang Bin was excited and rubbed his hands from time to time and said to himself.

"This is all right now. The reputation of our shipyard has been made. Tomorrow, no, today, today's newspapers in Nanjing must say that we are, a thousand-mile horse, a thousand-mile horse! This is really a thousand-mile horse on the water!"

Actually, what kind of horse is there!

It is clearly... it is just a golden ship. With this ship, his shipyard will definitely receive countless orders. The silver flows to his home like water.

Just as he was admiring, a boatman suddenly came over and reported softly in his ear.
Chapter completed!