Datang Daily and Chang'an Daily. A notice was published in both newspapers at the same time.
The new Jinghe Wharf was officially opened, and the warehouses, inns, restaurants, restaurants, and grocery stores around the wharf were officially put on sale. The ones with the highest price will not get it, but the one with the best stuff.
The Ministry of Rites of the Tang Dynasty officially invited envoys from various countries to attend the ceremony.
In the early morning of the next day after the newspaper appeared, before dawn, there were already tens of thousands of people watching, and all the envoys arrived at the bank of the Jing River one by one.
Li Yuanxing was sitting on the second floor of a restaurant that had not yet opened, using a telescope to see the dock in the distance.
"Your Highness, nothing goes wrong!" Cui Dunli appeared next to Li Yuanxing.
"There can be no mistakes. Is Li Chang ready?" Li Yuanxing put down the telescope and asked.
Cui Dunli nodded: "Your Highness, rest assured, everything is ready. I checked several times last night, and there will definitely be no problem. But will the Goguryeo people definitely take the bait?"
"If you don't take the bait this time, just do more things until he takes the bait!"
Cui Dunli nodded helplessly. He also hoped that he could succeed at once, otherwise it would be a troublesome thing to work hard on people and money. In Cui Dunli's eyes, there will be immortals in the war. But the King of Qin is doing the job of not letting people die in the war.
, it’s very tiring.
However, things still have to go on.
It's just that a new dock on the Jinghe River has been put into use. As the King of Qin, he will not appear in person.
Cui Dunli would not go either, but asked a clerk from Prince Qin's palace to appear and say a few words.
It was getting light, and the envoys all came to the dock. To their surprise, the dock was several feet high from the water. The highest loading dock was ten feet high and more than five feet wide.
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Li Er quietly walked into the room where Li Yuanxing was.
"Wu Lang, what are you planning to show off again?" Li Er asked with a smile.
"My three most powerful weapons, I still don't believe that the Goguryeo people are not tempted." Li Yuanxing smiled and handed the telescope to Li Er. Then he said: "The first most powerful weapon is the ship with thousands of materials. The actual load is one thousand three hundred and eighty.
As expected, the ship has not actually been completed yet, and it will take almost a month to be truly completed."
First of all, in the Tang Dynasty, the volume was ten cubic feet.
According to modern volume calculations, three materials are equivalent to one cubic meter. The load capacity of one material is about 0.35 tons, which can be understood as the calculation method of three materials and one ton.
Li Yuanxing's ship has a carrying capacity of 400 tons.
In modern times, this is a small cargo ship of the Jianghe class, but in the Tang Dynasty, it was a large ship.
There were no sails on the ship, only a huge chimney, and white gas was blowing out from the chimney. There were no boatmen pulling the ship, and there were no ropes, but the ship was speeding in from a distance.
"Brother, this ship is completely empty. There is nothing in the cabin. There is no observation tower or ship control room. But I can't wait any longer. I want them to take a look at this ship."
Ship. A ship powered solely by a steam engine, it can travel fifty miles per hour. If it is fully loaded..."
Li Yuanxing spoke, but Li Er didn't listen to a word.
Because he was attracted by the huge ship breaking through the waves.
Li Yuanxing's boat is not a flat-bottomed boat, but a pointed-bottomed boat, which is prepared for sea operations. The posture of the pointed-bottomed boat when breaking through the waves separates the water on both sides. Coupled with the high speed that the people of the Tang Dynasty could not imagine, the splashing of water makes people feel...
The madness.
The captain is ten feet long and the width is two feet. Compared with the original ships that were farther up the river in the Sui Dynasty, they are really incomparable.
Dong dong dong...
Three consecutive cannon shots were fired, three huge iron balls were shot out, and a ten-foot-high water column splashed into the river.
Everyone's attention shifted to the location where the loud noise came from. There were three cannons standing there, Li Yuanxing's high-pressure steam cannon. The surprising scene was not that four people were laboriously carrying a huge iron ball and loading it, but
Six of the gunners were from Goguryeo, and among the workers nearby, there were also a dozen people wearing Goguryeo costumes.
The sharp whistle of the steam engine was ringing.
"Let go!" the commanding sergeant ordered. Two of the three cannons were controlled by people wearing Goguryeo costumes.
After three consecutive shots, a total of nine shots, the sergeant ordered again: "Close the shots!"
Many people who were standing behind quickly ran forward, pushed the cannon behind a carriage, and then covered it with a cloth.
"Wu Lang's heart towards Goguryeo is really cruel!" Li Er said with emotion.
Li Yuanxing poured himself a cup of tea: "Really, this is just the beginning, the real fun is coming next."
Li Er moved the telescope in one direction and found the location of the Goguryeo envoy. He clearly saw the surprised look on the Goguryeo envoy's face, as well as the reaction of Yeon Gaesumun who gritted his teeth and clenched his fists.
Yeon Gaesumun's first reaction was that if the cannons were used to attack the city, then the current city wall of Goguryeo would be like paper. After the Jian'an city was destroyed, some people who escaped reported that they only heard a loud bang from the city gate, and then the city wall was like paper.
It was broken. It was very likely that it was this kind of sharp weapon, a new weapon of the Tang Dynasty.
Although it was used as a salute at this time, it was a real weapon, a murderous weapon.
No one paid attention to Yeon Gaesumun, and everyone's eyes returned to the giant ship.
The giant ship was slowly slowing down, but it did not enter the largest pier, but entered the third pier.
There is no need to explain this, it means that the largest 10-foot-high pier is for larger ships, and these ships are just small boats.
"Loading begins, grain, four thousand dan!" someone on the dock shouted.
A small train with fifteen consecutive carriages on the rails, pulled by a small steam locomotive, slowly drove to the edge of the pier, but at this time, there was not half a coolie on the pier.
There were just five people in work uniforms, one of whom was holding a bullhorn made of iron.
High up, the huge beam that was five feet high moved at this moment and moved to the front of the first carriage. A long rope came down and was divided into four at the bottom.
"Tie the No. 1 rope...
"No. 2...
When all four people said that they were done, the one with the tin trumpet shouted upward: "The goods are loaded, get up!"
There are two hundred sacks piled on top of a carriage. One sack weighs sixty kilograms, and two sacks weigh one stone. This is to make it easier for the coolies to carry it. It is necessary to carry a sack and still climb on board with physical strength.
Very physical.
But this rope easily lifted the weight of a hundred stones.
Four thousand stones were all loaded on the ship in just half an hour. The giant ship moved slowly, exited the dock, then turned around and left again at full speed.
"Four thousand stones, this ship is good!" Li Er praised.
Li Yuanxing smiled and pointed out the window, indicating to Li Er to continue looking.
The clerk of the Prince of Qin's Mansion stood up at this time: "Everyone should register with the dock management office regarding the dock shops. This ship is a Jindajiang-type cargo ship, equipped with two 260-horsepower steam engines. The ship is clean
It carries a load of 1,381 materials and has dual power, which means double insurance. If one part breaks down and the other one runs slowly, at least there will be a chance for repair at the shore!"
Before the official finished the introduction, a businessman shouted: "Shangguan, you don't have to be so meticulous. Can I buy this boat?"
"I'm just telling you this. This ship can be ordered and can be obtained in as soon as two months. For larger ships with four thousand materials, you may have to wait for a year!"
Four thousand materials is really shocking.
"How much!" someone asked.
"Four thousand six hundred guan. If you need to add other things, you will have to pay extra. These 4600 guan are just a boat. If anyone wants to change it into a boat, you can do it yourself. Let Yaozhou Workshop change it, and there will be someone
Let me calculate the low price for you." After the official finished speaking, he knocked on the table next to him hard: "Quiet, everyone is quiet. If you want to buy a boat, go to the Yaozhou Merchant Store in the left lane of General Tiance's Mansion to inquire.
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Four thousand six hundred strings!
For ordinary people, this is a huge sum of money. An ordinary wooden boat costs about 200 dan. The labor cost is almost 200 guan, and the wood is dozens of guan. In total, it is 300 guan. And the speed is slow.
The goods are less, and the money earned from one trip is also less.
Forty-six hundred guan, converted into modern currency, is tens of millions of yuan.
But before the Tang Dynasty, Yang Guang's ship to Yangzhou was not as big as this one, let alone high-speed. The cost at that time was 38,000 guan, and the internal decoration was not included.
Doubling the size of the ship is not as simple as doubling the wood and doubling the manpower.
Forty-six hundred guan, to the ears of businessmen, this is simply a money-losing deal by the Qin Palace. For such a large ship to be placed in the best shipyard in Yangzhou, the labor force alone will require more than 3,000 workers. Or even more, then
You want to buy a steam engine, but there is no place to buy it. The value of that thing is a mystery in the hearts of the people.
"We will order ten ships for the Sukeng Water Transport Conference. We will also order a large ship with four thousand materials. We will wait for three to five years, not to mention one year."
The ship with four thousand materials is a myth, no one has thought about it and no one has heard of it.
"The Water Games were originally a water gang in Suzhou and Hangzhou. They changed their name to a nicer name. If they always behave and obey, I won't care about their previous chaos. But Wulang, you lose money and sell the boats. After the river transport develops,
Chang'an will be more prosperous." Li Er said calmly.
"You think I'm stupid and want to lose money. I'm willing to pay, but that girl is not willing. Originally, I wanted to sell it for 3,500 guan, which is enough. But the girl said that 4,600 guan is cheap, because
Our cousin's broken boat cost 370,000 guan, so 4,600 guan is too cheap!"
"How much does it cost?"
Li Er heard the key point. This boat must not be expensive.
"This ship has three major shortcomings. First, the steam engine is too large, so it naturally takes up some space on the ship. The two steam engines, together with the water tank and the coal warehouse, take up more than 200 tons of space. In this way, from
From Chang'an to Hangzhou, if you keep the speed and walk slowly, the coal will be enough, otherwise you will need to add coal once on the way."
"Goro is just talking nonsense, how much does this ship cost?"
"Not expensive!" The smile on Li Yuanxing's face made Li Er have the urge to hit someone. (To be continued. Please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!)