Chapter 248 The Failure of the Radio Station and the Qing School
Chapter 248 The Failure of Radio Station and Qing School
According to the agreement between Liu Quan and Zhao Xin, this time they will import 20,000 taels of silver from Zhao Xin. This includes large pieces of plate glass, calculators, matches, various woolen cloths, pocket watches, pearls, and razor blades.
Razors. In addition to these bulk goods, some enamelware and various tin cans were also brought in.
(Although there were no pocket watches in this era, there were already small clocks. He Shen had a mandarin jacket, and the buttons on it were all small clocks.)
Among these goods, the most expensive ones are 2.5-meter-long, 2-meter-wide plate glass and pocket watches, followed by pearls and electronic calculators. A flawless, 11-millimeter cultured pearl in later generations only costs more than 600 yuan.
, sold to Liu Quan for 80 taels of silver, equivalent to 7 to 8 taels of red gold, which is a little more than 249 grams; according to the price of gold in another time and space, Zhao Xin has made more than a hundred times.
The flat glass shipped from Beihai Town was in groups of five, all covered with wooden frames. Thick urala grass was spread between each piece of glass, which was extremely heavy. The Thor lifted the groups of glass through the crane on the deck.
Going to the sand ship below, this method shocked everyone on the sand ship. As for other goods, a pallet was used to tie boxes of goods to it, and then a crane was used to lift the pallet and put it on
on board.
During the process of loading the goods, even though the people on the sand boat were very careful, one set was still broken. This kind of glass shipped from Beihai Town can be sold for a high price of eight hundred taels of silver per piece when shipped to the north. It can be exchanged for one piece.
The sailor on the sand ship made a mistake and lost four thousand taels of silver in five yards. This drove Wang Ping crazy. He picked up a stick and shamelessly attacked the sailors.
He was beaten on the body, and the sailors who were beaten rolled on the ground and begged for mercy.
It is said that in the 39th year of Qianlong's reign, the then Suzhou Weaver cut a piece of flat glass 2.77 meters long and 1.7 meters wide, and was fined three months' compensation. According to the approved price of large pieces of glass purchased by Guangdong Customs at that time, such a piece
The market value of glass is six hundred and twenty-two taels, nine cents and three cents.
When Liu Zheng saw it, he quickly dissuaded him, saying that it was no problem. He had expected this to happen, so he specially prepared an extra group. This surprised Wang Ping. He did not expect that these rebels were so extravagant. In fact, Wang Ping often traveled to Guangzhou.
, is very clear about the quality and market of glass. From his point of view, even if the set of glass plates is broken, the broken pieces can be sold for a lot of money; even the broken pieces can be taken back and replaced.
Melt it and use it for cooking.
On the Flower and Bird Island, Ma Ruilin was chatting with Zhao Xin, waiting for the goods to be loaded onto the ship. However, Zhao Xin was rambling on and on, and suddenly he mentioned a big shot in the court or something, which made Ma Baishan's heart skip a beat.
Jumping.
After finally getting through an hour, the cargo was loaded and unloaded, and Wang Ping and Liu Zheng boarded the Thor together. When he stepped onto the deck, he was shocked to find that the entire body of the ship was made of iron, which made him unable to help himself.
He gasped and froze on the spot.
Ma Baishan over there received the flag signal from the sand boat and knew that the goods had been checked, so he handed the 20,000 taels of silver notes to Zhao Xin. After Zhao Xin finished counting and said there was no problem, he hurriedly left
, got on a firewood boat and fled. This conversation for more than an hour had a great impact on his heart, and he had to lose at least two years of his life.
When Ma Baishan's ship was far away and Wang Ping on the Thor was brought into the cabin to watch the western view by Liu Zheng, the men and horses brought by Zhao Xin began to take action.
The first people to land by boat were a thirty-man island defense force, followed by carpenters who built barracks and warehouses, and finally a ten-man communications team and construction team.
The reason why Zhao Xin chose Flower and Bird Island from the beginning was because it is located between Guangzhou and Beihai Town, making it suitable as a wireless signal relay station; the straight-line distance to Guangzhou is more than 1,300 kilometers, and the straight-line distance to Beihai Town is 1,600 kilometers.
Under this condition, a full-mode transceiver with a power of 100W, a VHF frequency range of 144 ~ 148Mhz, and a UHF frequency range of 430 ~ 450Mhz is sufficient.
In this era of no electromagnetic pollution, such a device and a suitable antenna can basically connect all of Asia as long as the other party is not hiding in a magnet mine (VHF is used in the wilderness and at sea, and UHF is used in modern cities.)
The location of the antenna was chosen on the top of the front pit, the highest peak of the Flower and Bird Mountain that Wang Yuanfang had seen the year before. The entire erection work required four pillars to be used to mount the antenna. Regardless of the preparation in advance, there was no technical difficulty at this time.
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The first thing to do is to find a place to start digging holes. The base at each position is made of a steel pipe with an inner diameter of 10 cm and a length of more than one meter. It is inserted into the hole one meter deep. The exposed part of the ground is
More than ten centimeters, and then filled with cement; the distance between each base is one meter.
Dig up the floating soil and gravel, make a few small holes and blast them with detonators; then clean up the gravel, bury the pipe and then fill it with cement. After that, wait for the cement to dry, and then install the rhombus antenna.
This rhombus antenna was made of pure copper in the workshop. It is a rhombus with a side length of more than half a meter.
The saying "the higher the antenna, the better" is actually not entirely correct. If it exceeds the highest height or is less than the lowest height, the communication success rate will decrease.
When the height of the antenna does not exceed half of its own wavelength, the emitted radio wave has only one main wave, which surrounds the antenna, and all the power output by the transmitter is allocated to this main wave; the height of the second-level antenna exceeds half
At one wavelength, the main wave shrinks further and the number of wavelets also increases. The signal used to capture communication is the wave lobe (wavelet) closest to the ground.
The length of the antenna is calculated based on the relationship between the transmitting frequency and the wavelength. The side length of the rhombus antenna should be equal to one quarter of the wavelength. For example, the communication frequency of Beihai Town is 145.6MHz, then the corresponding wavelength is 206.04
Millimeters (speed of light divided by frequency); then converted by electrical length.
The electrical length of the rhombus antenna at 1000 to 2000 kilometers is 2.8, and the electrical height is 0.6. Then the physical side length of the antenna is the wavelength multiplied by the electrical length, that is, 576.92 mm; the antenna height is 123.63 mm. Then calculate it through trigonometric functions to get the inside of the rhombus
The obtuse angle is 130 degrees and the acute angle is 50 degrees.
In order to build such an antenna, Zhao Xin specifically asked Mr. Li, who taught physics at the education office, for advice. As a result, he was ridiculed. Zhao Xin said that he was very innocent. We were studying liberal arts at the beginning!
"A 15-meter-high antenna? Mr. Zhao, is there so much electromagnetic radiation in this era? Are you planning to connect the world and run into the universe?"
"Ah? Teacher Li, I'll be satisfied if I can contact China first. I've abandoned physics for many years and haven't studied it since high school."
"What about your junior high school? Don't tell me that you don't study physics in junior high school. Besides, I heard that Mr. Zhao is already working as an artillery sighter in the north, and he is very good at trigonometric functions. This little thing stumps you.
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Zhao Xin smiled bitterly and said: "Teacher Li, I'm just crying when I talk about this. It's just trying to catch a duck! Please help me." However, he didn't dare to say that his highest score in physics back then was only 43, and it was still bad.
I didn't even have the strength to learn it.
One acute angle of the rhombus antenna will be connected to the feeder and amplifier box, and then connected to the radio station. The other acute angle will be connected to a terminal resistor equal to the characteristic impedance of the rhombus antenna.
The communication radio station of Flower and Bird Island is located at a gentle spot halfway up the mountain. Beihai Town workers who were on board the ship first leveled the land here and set up a tent. The small diesel generator that powered the radio station was also located here.
On the flat ground at the foot of the mountain, other workers were also leveling the land with tools and building camps and warehouses. Considering that this work would not be completed in seven or eight days, after the radio station was set up, Zhao Xin asked the communicators to test the machine to see if it could work.
Can Beihai Town and Sheyang Lake Farm be contacted? The correspondent debugged the equipment and called for a long time. Beihai Town was connected, but there was no response from Sheyang Lake Station; Zhao Xin guessed that the installation there had not been completed.
The radio station and correspondents on the Sheyang Lake side were transferred to the sand boat that was sent to transport the refugees when the Thor was on its way to Keishu Island. Also taking the sand boat back with them at the same time were Shen Jingdan, Oginoto's mother and son, and Shen Xuan and Gui
born.
This time, Shen Jingdan was going to take Oginoto mother and son back to worship their ancestors at the ancestral hall, and kowtow to Mrs. Shen and serve tea. He also wanted to mobilize the Shen family to follow him to Beihai Town. Shen Xuan was accompanying him to persuade Shen Jingdan.
The wife, her adoptive mother, also has to prepare a dowry.
Zhao Xinyuan wanted to say that there is no need to go to such trouble, but the etiquette of these days is like this. Rich families are excessively extravagant in marrying and even sending people to death, while poor families will even resort to the extreme practice of drowning female infants in order to avoid the embarrassment caused by dowry.
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The Shen family was considered a wealthy family in Yangzhou City. Shen Jingdan didn't want Zhao Xin to look down on the Shen family, so he risked his life and bought a decent dowry to bring back to Beihai Town. Since houses, land, and shops were all
If I don’t leave, I have to buy dozens of sets of various gold and silver jewelry, furniture, and clothes for all seasons to take back.
As far as Shen Xuan was concerned, she didn't want to go through the marriage empty-handed. Although she was only Shen Jingdan's adopted daughter, the Shen family in Dongtai was considered a scholarly family at that time. If she simply married herself, she would always feel inferior to others in her life.
When Zhao Xin heard this reason, he had no choice but to agree. In order to ensure the safety of Shen Jingdan and others, Zhao Xin also wrote a letter asking Lu Shoushan to send more people to escort them back to Yangzhou.
The Thunder God stayed at Flower and Bird Island for five or six days. During this period, Wang Ping, the domestic slave sent by He Shen, did not dare to rush him. He counted the days until he couldn't hold it in any longer and then mentioned to Liu Zheng that if he didn't leave, he would be with Liu Zheng.
The person who responded in Guangzhou missed the call. Liu Zheng calmly told him that if there were no storms, it would take at most two days to reach the sea outside Macau.
When Wang Ping heard this, he was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth for a long time. He didn't expect the Thunder God to be so fast, so he could only wait calmly.
As for the Manchu Qing court, on July 27th, Liu Quan was frightened half to death, and the major incident that delayed him from coming to Flower and Bird Island to make a fortune finally came to an end.
The first clues of this matter can be traced back to the end of May. He Shen, who was accompanying the driver at Mulan Paddock, suddenly saw Wu Shengqin who came from the capital to report late one night. As a result, he learned from the other party that Cao Xibao, the censor of Shaanxi Province, was going to participate in the impeachment. Liu Quan! He said in the memorial that Liu Quan had committed several major crimes including "luxurious food and perfect utensils; relying on the power of the emperor to cheat; handing over officials and privately increasing taxes."
After He Shen was shocked to hear this, he immediately realized that the matter was not that simple. There must be someone behind it, and if he did not handle it well, it would bring disaster to himself. So he ordered his cronies to rush back to Beijing overnight and ordered Liu Quan to get rid of the prohibited items mentioned in the memorial as soon as possible. Take care of everything from beginning to end, while pretending not to know anything.
When Liu Quan, who was about to go south at the time, received the news, he was as stunned as a bowl of ice water pouring over his head. On the night of receiving the news, Liu Quan's house on Xinghua Temple Street in Shichahai was in a state of panic. Relatives of the Liu family came down. Everyone was busy moving and hiding the evidence; then, these people demolished the over-standard Liu family gate overnight and made some repairs.
Although Liu Quan wanted to kill Cao Xibao, he had to pretend to be calm. At the same time, he strictly ordered his family and servants to put their tails between their legs and restrain themselves for a period of time.
In early June, Cao Xibao, who still didn't know that he had been betrayed by his friend, delivered the memorial to the Summer Resort. After reading it, Qianlong asked Heshen face to face whether he had anything to do with it.
He Shen pretended to say that Liu Quan had always been peaceful and simple, and he was very strict with his family. He had never heard of him daring to cause trouble outside. Perhaps it was because Liu Quan was busy managing the Chongwen Gate Customs and his followers were undisciplined. As time goes by, someone may cause trouble, so please send orders to investigate the serious cases.
On June 13th, Liu Quan, who received the edict, set off from Beijing and arrived in Rehe five days later. After meeting Heshen, the two of them naturally had to do a full set of performances. So Heshen did not say a word in the excerpts that day. Not mentioning Cao Xibao, he only said that Liu Quan had arrived in Rehe, that he had been interrogated in person, and that the interrogation records had been submitted. But this was just Liu Quan's one-sided statement, and I'm afraid it cannot be accepted. However, the princes and ministers who stayed in Beijing to handle matters should probably be questioned. At that time, Liu Quan could not stay in Rehe, so he immediately sent "appropriate" people to escort Liu Quan back to the capital and handed him over to the king of Beijing and other ministers for trial.
On the same day, nine people including Prince Yonglang of Yi, Prince Yongrong of Zhijun, Prince Mianen of Dingjun, Minister of Military Aircraft Ji Huang, Minister of Internal Affairs Debao, and Ji Yun, who were in Beijing, received Qianlong's four-hundred-mile urgent edict. After that, I immediately interviewed Cao Xibao.
Cao Xibao said that I didn't know Liu Tuzi (Liu Quan), and I didn't know about his management of Chongwenmen. I just heard that Liu Tuzi's house and food were perfect, so I took a closer look when passing by Xinghua Temple Street. The house is very tall. Liu Bald is just a slave, so how can he have the money to build such a tall and spacious house? I am afraid that there are too many followers in He Zhongtang's house, and I am afraid that he may use the master's name to cheat; the family members cannot be inspected and controlled when they are doing things outside. Unfortunately, I will be affected by this in the future. So I just put it into practice without any solid evidence.
The next day, after receiving the memorial from Beijing, Qianlong already understood that this was Cao Xibao who wanted to participate in the impeachment of Heshen, but he did not dare to say it clearly, so he used his slaves to trick him. The old emperor then continued to issue orders to the responsible ministers in Beijing.
, saying that if He Shen committed corruption for personal gain and provided evidence, I would punish him. However, Minister Wang’s family in Beijing also has many slaves, and a family like Quan’er would probably have a lot of houses. I heard that Ah
The Gui family has more servants and housing than Quan'er's family, so why is no one suing? Cao Xibao wants to sue, so he must provide real evidence. We can't let him make empty excuses anymore!
By this time, rumors were already circulating in the court that the man behind Cao Xibao was Ji Yun. When Ji Yun saw that he was going to be implicated, he quickly distanced himself in the memorial.
On June 19, Liu Quan returned to Beijing and said the same thing. He didn't know him, he didn't know. My family had some savings and a little more house, but nothing else.
On June 22, the Metropolitan Procuratorate sent a court official and the Infantry Commander's Yamen sent a division officer. They went with their men and Cao Xibao to Liu Quan's house to look at the house. When Cao Xibao arrived at Xinghua Temple Street,
Look, I’m dumbfounded!
The original appearance of the over-made house door has completely changed. The hexagonal carved column door hairpins have been changed from four to two; the animal head shop (door knocker) previously painted with red paint has been changed to the most common Liuhe door knocker.
Bronze ornaments are on display; the most obvious one is that the original golden pillar door (named after the door stands between the golden pillars at the front and cannot be used by non-officials) has been changed into a Ruyi door for ordinary people, while the door nail on the original red lacquer door is a
All disappeared, and the red paint was changed to black paint.
When we entered the courtyard, we saw that there was nothing luxurious. The Liu family members were all wearing patched clothes. There were no cameras or videos in these days, so Cao Xibao could only bow his head and admit defeat.
So the ministers of the King of Beijing reported that Cao Xibao had falsely accused Liu Quan and insinuated He Shen, and that they should be handed over to the ministry for discussion. Liang Guozhi, Dong Gao and other Qing faction leaders who were behind the instigation saw that the matter had come to this, and they also distanced themselves.
, Shangzhezi requested that Cao Xibao be punished.
In July, Cao Xibao, who was ordered to go to Rehe, bowed his head and admitted after being questioned by Qianlong in person that he was acting presumptuously and only reported based on hearsay. He also said that this was the year of the provincial examination, and he wanted to make the emperor remember it by giving an excerpt.
Be like the examiner.
On July 18th, the edict came down. "If you follow the ministry's proposal and you are demoted, you will get what you deserve." After all, the imperial censor was an official, and he did not check the reality for a while, so he entrusted him with the scholar's roundabout view.
It is true that I have made a statement, and I will be exempted from surrender. I will change my favor to dismissal and stay in office, and this encyclical will be known to both China and foreign countries."
On July 27, Cao Xibao wrote a thank you note.
At this point, the Qing Dynasty's attempt to get rid of Heshen failed.