Early the next morning, the three of them met outside Dadongmen and went to the big world together.
They were not rich people, so they could not afford to ride in a sedan or a rickshaw, so they could only walk in a rickshaw. Fortunately, it was already autumn, and the weather was much cooler than in summer. The three of them went on their way early, so they felt relaxed.
The big world of the Australians began to be built soon after they retreated from the city of Guangzhou.
The land along the road from Dadongmen to the Great World is just a mudflat on the river bank. Not to mention houses and fields, there are not even many decent big trees. There are some deserted graves and graves scattered among the smoke and grass. Australia
Since people came here to build the Great World three years ago, they first built a road to connect the Great World with the city of Guangzhou. So before the Great World opened, the connection with Guangzhou was already established.
Naturally, the road was paved in accordance with the usual luxurious style of the Kun people, using a mixture of gravel and black cinders. It was wide and flat, with drainage ditches on both sides, and kapok trees were planted.
For more than three years, most of the items that could be purchased from Guangzhou on the Great World construction site were transported on this road, and various craftsmen and strong workers in the city also walked along this road to work. Dadongmen
The nearby residents are also used to the sound of the sirens calling for work at the Great World Construction Site every morning.
There were already a lot of pedestrians on the road at this moment, and most of them were going in the same direction as them. Most of them were "short-clothes gangs", laborers who worked hard. There were also some small vendors selling food, carrying burdens and pushing carts, and there was an endless stream of people.
Go to the construction site.
However, there were also some sedan chairs mixed in the flow of people, and some looked like businessmen, riding donkeys and leading their young apprentices, slowly heading towards the big world.
Huang Huangkun was surprised when he saw that there were many people with kun hair among the vendors and laborers. Could it be that there were many fake kun hair here? Looking again, these people still wore Ming Dynasty uniforms, and they didn't look like "fake kun hair".
", and asked Wu Dai quietly what was going on.
"These are local people. They have worked for the Kun people for a long time. They also imitate the Australians' hair style." Wu Ji said, "They say they are so clean and easy to take care of."
"The government doesn't care?"
"It is better for the government to do less than to do more. Who is willing to offend the Australians for this?"
"It's truly lawless!" Huang Xunkun said angrily.
Less than half a mile away, I saw workers inlaying long iron bars on the road. Wu Dai said that this was the Kun people's ox-pulled railway - many people had seen the Kun people using oxen to pull the railway.
Trucks of building materials are walking on the road - I heard that in the future, for just a few cents, you can ride to the big world by the Pearl River. In addition to the trucks pulled by oxen, there are also small railway cars running on the repaired road section. As long as two people press up and down, it will
Walking like flying.
"This is not a railway for oxcarts, but a track for Kun Thieves' steam trains." Huang Hankun looked at the track under construction and said worriedly. "It won't be long before Kun Thieves' small train can reach Dadongmen.
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"You have to experience this." Wu Ji said with great interest, "I heard that their little train does not use oxen and horses to work, but only boils water and boils fire. I have never understood it, but now I can see it with my own eyes!"
Huang Xunkun secretly smiled bitterly. This train is naturally a very useful object. The railway is 10%, and it only takes a moment for the thieves to reach the East Gate, not to mention it is easy to pull the cannon. It is not so much that it has built a thoroughfare to the big world.
, it is better to say that it is an iron chain around the neck of Guangzhou City.
But even if I say it, what's the point? The government doesn't dare to ask, let alone the scholars like Yuyuanshe.
The group of people continued to move forward, and after walking not far, they saw a spire tower rising from the ground. Under the spire was an arched stone door--according to Wu Kai, this was the main entrance to the big world.
The people of Yuyuan Society are very interested in everything about Australians, so naturally they will not let go of the specimen of the big world right in front of them. Every ten days and a half, there are always people from the society who come here to have a look - Wu Ji can count
Do is one of the most popular people here.
"The shape of this tower is like a red-haired man," Wu Ji said, "but there is one thing I don't understand: why is the top floor hollow on all sides? Some people say it is for hanging a big bell, but this tower has not been built yet
It has been more than a year, and I haven’t seen a hanging bell, but I have sealed it up with reed mats. I don’t know how to explain it.”
Huang Huangkun knew that this "bell" was not the other "bell". He shook his head and said: "Brother Wu Xian, this bell is not the big bell hanging in the bell and drum tower of the temple, but the Australian bell..." He thought about how to explain it.
, "There are probably some wealthy families in Guangzhou city."
"Could it be the floor-to-ceiling Australian clock in Mr. Liang's house?" Wu Dai was a little skeptical. "I've seen that clock before. It's very novel. It's just the size of a wardrobe."
"Australian clocks can be big or small. The small ones can be carried in your arms, and the big ones can be placed on the bell tower." Huang Hankun shook his head, "There are several bell towers like this in Lingao. The bells are rung every half an hour.
There is no bell on this bell tower, so it probably hasn't been built yet. It's very difficult to build such a big bell. Even in Lingao, the bell towers have been empty for several years."
"I see."
The three of them walked along the track for a while, and the big world was in front of them. The appearance of this big world was very strange. It was said to be a business, but it was as large as a small city.
At this moment, they were standing on the mound by the roadside, and they could roughly see that the big world by the river was a huge pentagon. Huang Henkun remembered that he had seen it in Huang Ping's mathematics book: This is called a regular pentagon.
The length of each side is about one mile. Huang Xunkun took a breath of cold air: This scale is enough for a county in Hainan. Is this what Kun Thief calls opening a business? He is obviously building a city!
Huang Huangkun has been in battle for a long time, is familiar with military affairs, and also knows a lot about the Australian city defense architecture. He can see at a glance that this world is exactly the same as the various military forts and camps built by the Kun thieves on Hainan Island: they are all so-called
The "bastion": the walled city is in the shape of a pentagon, with a small fortress on each convex corner. This so-called bell tower is exactly a convex corner fortress.
I'm a little relieved that the two wings extending from the bell tower are not built with city walls, but two open colonnades, which don't have a strong military meaning. Some of them are still covered with bamboo scaffolding, and most of the others have been completed. On the thick stone pillars
It is embossed with patterns and looks majestic. Through the colonnade, you can see that the interior is a large square. The site has not yet been leveled and is filled with yellow sand, gravel and various materials. In the center is a thick and ferocious black iron frame tower that has been built in recent years.
The talk of the town of Guangzhou, whether rich or poor, high or low: a steam crane.
This steam crane is strong and strong, capable of lifting heavy objects and rotating freely. What confuses the citizens of Guangzhou most, including the scholars of Yuyuan Society who are interested in studying "Kun Studies", is: this tower crane is
How do you grow taller by yourself?
The lively citizens watched the iron tower machine rise from more than one foot high to seven or eight feet high as the buildings in the big world got higher and higher.
How to raise the height of the hanging tower has become a topic of constant discussion in many teahouses and restaurants throughout the city, and there is also endless debate in Yuyuan Club. For this reason, Master Lin also hired several carpenters and coppersmiths with excellent skills.
I watched this machine on site. It’s just that you can’t get close to the construction area. I watched it from a distance several times and couldn’t figure out why.
It can only be seen that it is built and raised section by section. However, the tower is so high, and the iron frame of each section is so huge and heavy. It is obviously not dragged up by manpower or pulleys.
.Furthermore, there is a long cantilever and a small iron frame glass house at the top of the tower. It seems completely impossible to increase the height layer by layer.
At this time, they were not in the mood to talk about this matter, and just followed the flow of people into the big world.
There was originally a bamboo fence surrounding the Great World construction site from a distance. At this time, the fence doors were open, and there were road signs at the door: "Working" on one side, and "Investment" on the other side.
The group of people walked in the direction of "Investment" following the road signs. All the people who were crowded along the road were businessmen doing business. The three of them followed the flow of people through the colonnade and entered a large square filled with building materials. Several people
Everyone was stunned: What kind of house is this!
Not only Zhang and Wu, who were in Guangzhou, had never seen the main building in front of them, but Huang Hankun, who came from the "Kun Thief's Lair", had never seen it either.
The building in front of you stands in the middle of the square and is entirely made of stone. The gorgeous stone exterior wall has long, tall and narrow windows, and the glass shines on it. This building is not only a five-story building, but also
Each floor is higher than their usual floors. The main entrance of the magnificent building is as high as two floors, supported by stone pillars in the middle. On both sides of the high steps are a pair of unusual-looking stone lions with ferocious faces and ribs.
There are two wings. There is another bell tower above the main entrance. Looking closely, this building is not square. Like the outer wall of the Great World, it is also a regular pentagonal building. There are towers on each of the five corners. From the two wings
Spreading out like wings are two-story buildings that connect to the two towers on the outer wall of the Great World.
"So high! It's just, it's just..." Zhang Yu stammered, suddenly feeling that his walnut pastry shop was finished, and that his efforts to come here were in vain.
"This height is almost as high as a pagoda." Wu Yi tried to calm down and looked up at the building. In ancient China, buildings were rarely built, and the few buildings were mostly two stories. The only real high-rise buildings are pagodas.
Religious buildings. Although the height of some towers can be equivalent to the twenty or thirty-story buildings of later generations, their construction area is small and they have little practical value.
While Huang Hankun was amazed, his heart suddenly sank: I had never seen Kun Thief build such a magnificent building in Lingao. Why did he spare no effort to build such a magnificent building just outside Guangzhou?
Xiang Zhuang's sword dance was aimed at Pei Gong. The so-called big world they built was clearly a declaration of war against the imperial court. This big world is not a glamorous and glamorous Australian-style world, but an out-and-out majestic pass! (