It is said that since the founding of Beihai Town seven years ago, a large number of machinery and equipment have emerged in an endless stream, not to mention the two large iron ships, the Thor and the Thunder. Although there are still new immigrants who respond to the tractors on the fields.
Out of curiosity, I stood on the ridge of the fields during spring plowing and autumn harvest and watched, but most people would not regard these machines as monsters.
For example, Zhu Dagui and other village representatives who were invited to attend the train opening ceremony have long been accustomed to tractors, cars, inland watercraft and sailing boats.
In Zhu Dagui's view, there are endless magic weapons in the pockets of gentlemen. Whatever they take out is good and will definitely be of great use. So after seeing the steaming locomotive, most people just stick out their tongues and admire it.
Then the focus of the discussion turned to how fast this thing could run and how much stuff it could pull.
Only Wang Zhong, Hong Liangji and others were shocked and pulled Zhao Liang to ask questions to explore the operating principles in order to prove it from Confucian knowledge.
In the history of another time and space, the first officially operational railway in China was not the one outside Xuanwumen in the capital, but the Wusong Railway built by the British. This line ultimately only ran for one year before being taken back by the Qing Dynasty.
and dismantle it.
So some people said that the Manchus were corrupt, ignorant of science, and often took off their pants and farted. In fact, the British secretly built this railway without telling the Qing court, which made officials headed by Shen Baozhen worry about the great powers at the time.
By building railways to expand their power and infringe on road rights, other countries will follow suit, so they must be demolished no matter what. Of course, the Qing Dynasty would not dare to play tricks on the British, so they could only spend money to buy them back, and then
Use dismantling as a disguised warning.
In 1881, the Tang-Xu Railway, which the Qing government presided over the construction and completely controlled by itself, was officially opened to traffic.
As for the so-called destruction of Feng Shui, the reason behind it is either the common people taking the opportunity to cause trouble because of the lack of money for land acquisition, or the conflict of interests between conservatives and reformists in the court. Throughout the ages, this has always been the case, and no one is stupider than the other.
Where to go.
After everyone from Beihai Town arrived, the opening ceremony officially started at 8:30 am. First, Zhao Xin took the stage and gave a speech, which took 10 minutes. The content was nothing more than working together, working hard, and working together for the new project.
What will happen to China tomorrow?
In another time and space, Zhao Xin occasionally participated in this kind of ceremony. Usually at this time, he would look attentive while sitting below, silently greeting the other person's family. Unexpectedly, the situation would change.
, and now he has become one of the people standing on the stage to speak, but I don’t know if anyone is also sending cordial "greetings".
All in all, on April 2nd, the Khabarovsk Railway Station was full of elites. The major "carrots" of the Beihai Town Railway Construction Committee came to the stage to speak one after another. When a foreman named "Yu Jinfa", who was a worker representative, came to the stage to speak, this
Seeing Zhao Xinna, who was sitting in the front row, became nervous, his legs went weak and he almost knelt in front of the microphone.
After more than forty minutes, the speech finally ended, and Zhao Xin and others immediately went to the platform to cut the ribbon. The dozens of meters long red silk was cut into eleven pieces amidst the noise of gongs and drums, and then was taken away and distributed to
Those workers who work in the station. This thing would be very good whether it can be used as a bellyband or red pants.
According to the plan, after the ribbon-cutting ceremony, the locomotive will drag two passenger carriages and run back and forth between Khabarovsk and the dispatch station ten kilometers away at a speed of 60 kilometers per hour. Including the time to visit the dispatch station, the whole journey will take an hour.
How many hours.
The first batch of locomotives used in Beihai Town were two forward steam locomotives. These were sealed stocks that Zhao Xin bought from a company in the north in another time and space three years ago. After being overhauled two years ago, they were transported to a Panamanian freighter.
Then when passing through a certain transit port, it mysteriously disappeared from the freight manifest.
Several steam engine enthusiasts in the power plant were willing to go to the cab and follow him, but when they told the man in charge, Master Sun, the old man said impatiently: "Drive? I think you are rushing to drive into the river.
It’s almost the same! Stay where it’s cool!”
"Master Sun, how can you say that? After all, I have visited the train museum and assembled a steam train model. I am much better than your apprentices."
"Really? Can you kid read the water meter? Do you know how high the water level should be?"
“Isn’t it enough to keep the boiler without water shortage?”
Master Sun, who was in his early sixties, rolled his eyes and simply ignored him.
At this time, the four-square-meter cab that could only accommodate three people was already fully packed. In addition to the driver, co-driver, and two apprentices wielding shovels, there was no room for luxury. Several enthusiasts had no choice but to return in despair.
Went to the first carriage and sat down.
In fact, these people are only interested in steam machinery, and no one has ever driven a steam train. In their minds, they all think that train drivers are very majestic and interesting, but in fact, the hard work of train drivers is unimaginable to ordinary people. The so-called "seeing from a distance"
He looks like someone fleeing from famine, up close, he looks like a beggar, but up close, he looks like someone from the locomotive depot." This is a true portrayal of the early railway people.
Beginning in 1789, the Beihai Town Railway Construction Committee opened a railway technical branch in Khabarovsk, affiliated with the Beihai Town Technical School, specializing in training railway technical workers.
There are many inns in life. For the hundreds of thousands of refugees from Daiqing, the emergence of Beihai Town led to a major turning point in their lives, and the emergence of the railway school also meant a new beginning for some of them. Eight years before and after
More than a hundred young people have become members of the working class from farmers.
Several teachers at the Railway Technical School are all veteran railway people invited from another time and space, with an average age of over sixty years old. Zhao Xin negotiated five-year contracts with them. After teaching the first batch of students, they will continue to work.
The mission will be over after two years, and then you will consider whether to retain the employee based on your personal circumstances.
The Khabarovsk Locomotive Depot consists of four workshops including operation, maintenance, equipment, and fuel, two turning sections, four locomotives, and 500 ungraduated apprentices. Because there are few vehicles, each vehicle has a crew of 12 people.
, the driver, co-driver and stoker rotate in shifts.
It is not easy to become a train driver in Beihai Town. You must go through four stages: school, apprenticeship, stoker, and assistant driver. You must also go through at least one year of experience and examination before you can be promoted to a driver. Overall,
It would take five years at the earliest.
According to the suggestions of several old masters, after one year of theoretical study, students from railway technical schools officially enter the two-year apprenticeship period, combining theory and practice. After graduation, they can become formal stokers, and stokers must work for at least one year.
Only those who have worked for more than 20 years are eligible to take the co-pilot test, and the co-driver needs to work for another year before he can take the driver's test. Therefore, it takes five years at the fastest to become a locomotive driver, which means you need to burn fire for three years and do machine parts maintenance for one year.
Only by working in oil can you be qualified to be a driver.
Such a learning method is actually counterproductive. According to the opinions of those old masters, it takes at least seven years to go from apprentice to driver. Drivers and co-drivers must not only understand practical operations, locomotive construction principles, fault analysis and maintenance, and technical regulations
, movement regulations, and signals must be mastered. Fortunately, the outer northeast of this time and space is vast and sparsely populated, and the demand for skilled labor is urgent, which gives those apprentices room to perform in advance.
Taking into account the level of the apprentices, the current four locomotives are operated by time-travelers, and only a few apprentices who have learned particularly well are qualified to use the big shovel to burn the boiler.
Before a steam train starts, the driver, co-driver and stoker must prepare for departure. The driver's task is to preheat the cylinder, increase the temperature of the cylinder wall, and discharge a large amount of condensate in the cylinder;
The apprentice on the platform got off the car with a long-mouthed oil can and went around to oil the five friction surfaces of the flat wedge iron behind each wheel. In addition, the intermediate buffer also had to be oiled.
At this time, an old man named Wang, who was the co-driver, was refueling and casually said to the apprentices behind him: "Remember! As long as the car is parked, the co-driver will have to come down and oil these places to reduce wear and tear."
A student raised his hand and said: "Master, what if the position of the iron pulley when it stops happens to block the flat wedge iron?"
The old man nodded with satisfaction, turned around and said with a teachable expression: "Good question! So when the position is just right for oiling, you must give it enough. Not every time you park, the position will be just right for you.
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After the co-driver completed the inspection, more than 300 people attending the opening ceremony got on the bus. At this time, a signal light was raised in front of the station to notify that the train could depart.
With a "push" sound, as the driver, Mr. Sun, expertly pushed the gate to the operating position, the main air cylinder began to charge air into the train pipe. As the pointer on the air pressure gauge moved to the position of 600 kilopascals,
Old Man Sun pushed the handle again, opened the valve a quarter, and then moved the small brake to the relief position; there was another "stab" sound, and the train started slowly.
"哐~哐~哐~哐~"
"It's moving! It's moving! The train is moving!"
In the second passenger car, Zhu Dagui, who was sitting on a green chair with a backrest, felt his body suddenly rush forward. At the same time, the scenery outside the window also moved backward. The dizziness caused by the discomfort made him feel extremely uncomfortable in his chest.
After the train left the platform, the driver in the cab pushed the forward gear to 55, opened the valve again, and then stepped on the drain valve on the left side of the ground. Then the whole train "click~click~click~"
Started running.
With a whistle of "Woo~~", Beihai Town's steam train galloped across the land of the outer northeast for the first time.
Beside the railway east of Khabarovsk station, border residents of all ethnic groups who came to see the strange thing after hearing the news stood behind the fences on both sides of the railway, watching the roaring train passing in front of them with curiosity and shock. Thanks to this
Railway police and soldiers were placed on duty every 50 meters along a section of the railway, and wire guardrails were built. Otherwise, the Hezhe and Oroqen people who had come from afar would have wanted to stand on the railway track to see what was going on.
Ten days later, Fukang'an, who was based in Wula City, Jilin, received a report from a spy. The four-rail thousand-mile avenue built by Beihai Town to the north of Huntong River had been completed. I don't know what evil method Beihai Town used to make it possible.
A black steel monster with white smoke was dragging two carriages, with at least hundreds of people sitting on them. The monster moved with astonishing momentum. It only took a little more than a stick of incense to cover more than 20 miles.
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"With one stick of incense, hundreds of people walked more than 20 miles...not good!" After thinking for a long time, Fukangan suddenly stood up from his seat, his face turning a little pale.
In ancient times, an hour was divided into eight quarters, that is, four quarters above and four quarters below. Each quarter is approximately 15 minutes in later generations. A stick of incense lasts a quarter of an hour and can travel twenty miles. Doesn’t it mean that one hour can travel a hundred and sixty miles?
You can walk a thousand miles in ten hours!
Fukangan was shocked by this incident. In his opinion, with such a "steel monster" in Beihai Town, wouldn't it be true to travel a thousand miles in a day? If Beihai Town mobilizes troops in the future, thousands of people can travel in half a day.
You can travel thousands of miles away!
Who can handle this? You must know that it is only more than 2,000 miles from Wula, Jilin, to the capital! When he set out from the capital to Xi'an to suppress bandits, more than 60 bearers took turns to change along the way, and two more were left.
How many months?
At present, from top to bottom in the Qing court, the one who knows the strength of Beihai Town best is Marshal Fu. Although the Qing Dynasty has not taken any action in the past two years, in fact, Guan Nei has been working hard to strengthen its troops and strengthen the training of green camps in various places.
With the handover of the 500,000 refugees completed, hundreds of agents tasked with spying openly sneaked into various places in Beihai Town. However, the more news spread, the more fearful the ministers from Qianlong to the lower officials became.
Not only can the iron oxen and iron horses help with farming, but boatloads of workers from island countries are busy building roads and laying "iron slides" in the mountains and forests day and night. It is even more difficult to understand what the value of those places is.
?It makes no sense at all to spend huge sums of money just for ginseng and mink skin!
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! For the Manchu monarchs and ministers, the layers of fog that have covered Beihai Town over the years have not only not been lifted, but have made it even more difficult to see through. Not to mention Zhao Xin
The mystery of his life experience, just where Beihai Town's financial resources came from, made the Manchu emperors and officials of the Qing Dynasty break their heads and couldn't figure it out.
After fighting with Zhao Xin for so many years, Qianlong was shocked by the high military pay of the Beihai Navy. As for armaments, the Qing Ministry of War concluded based on statistics from previous battles that Beihai Zhenguang was better equipped with "guns" and explosive ammunition.
The expenses are astronomical.
Where did he get so much money? You must know that Zhao Xin has been conquering all over the world these years. In the eyes of the Manchu monarchs and ministers, the money in Beihai Town is like a sea of flowers!
According to the analysis of the various currencies issued by Beihai Town in recent years by the Baoquan Bureau of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the fineness of Beihai silver coins is consistent and the balance of weight is beyond imagination. Even for copper coins, the copper content of the version issued at the beginning and last year was different.
There is no difference at all. What does this mean? It means that Beihai Town has an extremely sufficient stock of silver and copper, a stable market, and ample finances.
Trade with island countries? People from Niangan Department and Heshen have checked many times in Nagasaki. The gold and silver earned by Beihai Town from island countries in the past three years is only more than two million taels at most, and only two-thirds of it. Cashed, the rest are gold and silver notes.
Searching for gold placer mines in Lenji Island? The problem is that people from Niangan Department and Fukang'an have also checked, and the gold placer mines are enough to support the annual income of more than 100,000 taels.
A certain minister speculated that there might be large-scale gold and silver mines outside the customs, and Beihai Town relied on this to support it? However, this is even more impossible. It has been 174 years since the Qing Dynasty was established as the capital, and Nurhaci During the Hehuang Taiji period, he fought in various places in Jilin and Heilongjiang, and brought the Hezhe, Xibo, Oroqen, and Daur tribes under his command. If there were any large gold and silver mines, Qianlong must have known about them long ago.
Later, when the news came that Zhao Xin led his troops to defeat Tsarist Russia in the Nebaikal region, a group of people led by He Shen speculated whether Zhao Xin would loot and plunder to support military expenses after conquering Oros. Otherwise, Why did he fight all the way to the Yenisei River?
However, when the news came back from Outer Mongolia, Qianlong, his son and He Shen were disappointed again. Beihai Town did not plunder at all, but exempted the head tax from the occupied areas.
When will Zhao Xin take action? Now this matter has become the most concerned issue for the Manchu and Qing court.
On April 5, 1791, Zhao Xin, Liu Sheng, and Fan Tong, who returned to Baibai'er City from Boli Town, held a closed-door meeting for three days. At this military meeting, Zhao Xin came up with a plan composed of He drafted an "Outline for the Implementation of the Outer Mongolia Campaign".
He set the launch time of the entire campaign in early July.