Riverside Police.

Chapter 188 "The Police Captain"

The name and number of the ship became 012 of Linghai Tug 001 again, towed [-] barges, after a day and a half of waiting, they finally passed the lock and entered the first lake in the north section of the Grand Canal - Shaobo Lake!

Shaobo Lake in the evening, the lake and the sky are the same color.

It can be seen faintly that the trees on both sides are shady and lush, like a long green dragon, coiling around the clear lake water.

Overlooking the lake, the mist is vast, and the fish and sails are dotted, which is endless.Looking back suddenly, the cargo ships are still shuttling like weaving, witnessing the prosperous past and present of the Grand Canal.

There are many boats on the riverside section of the Yangtze River, but the river is also very wide.

Only when you enter the Grand Canal can you really feel how dense the ships are.

Looking around, there are boats in front, back, left, and right.

Judging from the name and number of the ships, there are fleets and on-engine ships from more than a dozen provinces and cities including Jiang, Shandong, Henan, Hui, Shen, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi.

Even if you enter the section of Shaobo Lake with a wide water surface, you still have to be careful not to hit or be hit by other people's boats, and you must always pay attention to the water depth to prevent grounding.

Captain Wang's order came again from the intercom.

"Attention all boats, all boats, get ready to row your oars!"

"Received on the [-]st."

"Received on the second."

"No. [-] received it, ready to shake the scull."

……

After confirming that the crew of the thirteen towed barges loaded with yellow sand had all been received, Captain Wang shouted, "Before the scull!"

Following Captain Wang's order, the fleet slowly adjusted its course under the tow of Linghai Tuo 012.

This is not an official navigation code, but an instruction passed down by the inland river fleet for many years, and it is a bit like a boatman's chant if it is an instruction.

To shake the scull means to adjust the course.

Before the scull, it means that the whole fleet must turn the rudder to the left, and behind the scull means to turn the rudder to the right.

You must know that this is a long dragon composed of 40 barges with a single ship length of more than [-] meters, each of which is several hundred meters long. It is not easy to turn or turn in such a narrow channel.

This requires that the tugboat driver must have superb operating skills, and the steering and the vehicle are all operated by one person, commonly known as self-pull and self-sing.

Unlike the navigation operation of large ships, the steering vehicles in the wheelhouse are all completed by the helmsman and the first mate or second or third mate on duty.

It is no exaggeration to say that the captain of a seagoing ship may not be able to drive such a towing fleet well, and such a fleet is precisely the main force of inland water transport.

Thirteen barges loaded a total of more than 300 tons of yellow sand. If it were on the shore, more than 100 ten-ton trucks would be needed to transport it away.

Its transportation cost is much lower than automobile transportation, and it is more economical than railway transportation.

But Han Yu never thought of learning the driving skills of towing a long dragon, because it cannot be learned in three or four years, and there is no time to learn it now.

Plans are always better than change.

After entering the Grand Canal, the first two fleets to scramble to transport coal were "cut off" by the fleet and individual hanger boats that entered the Grand Canal from the Li River.

The waterway is narrow, and the traffic rules on the water must be obeyed. It is not possible to overtake a boat just by thinking about it.

What's more, it is more difficult and dangerous for the fleet to surpass the fleet, and the distance between them is just getting farther and farther.

In addition, when waiting in line to pass the lock, the fleet and the on-engine ships had to be anchored separately, and the accompanying on-engine ships were also "broken up".

Thinking of seven or eight fleets and hundreds of on-engine boats waiting outside the Shaobo lock, Han Yu almost dared to conclude that the 103 fleet towed by Linghai Tug 518 and the accompanying dozen or so off-engine boats had already been pulled away. It took nearly a day and a half of the voyage.

It is completely impossible for Xu Suo to catch up with the fleet behind Xu, unless the vanguard fleet on his side finds a place to anchor and wait.

But it is unrealistic to sit and wait. You must know that this is a fleet, including the seven on-engine ships that caught up, and a total of [-] ships engaged in water transportation.

Each ship has to pay so much fees and insurance every year, and the shipping company has to pay wages to more than [-] crew members.

Individual on-board ship owners also need to calculate the cost.

If the ships that pass through the lock first dock and berth for 24 hours, the economic loss will be tens of thousands.

The reason why those water bandits dared to blackmail the state-owned fleet was not only because they were numerous and powerful, but also because they knew that the fleet would not dare to tangle with them.

At Linghaituo 012, there are only three police officers, Han Yu, Ma Jintao, and Lu Xiangping, and Zhu Baogen, Liang Xiaoyu and other joint defense members.

Although Captain Wang is also a member of the joint defense team, he has to take turns driving with Captain Fan.

If they encounter a situation, they must first ensure the safety of navigation. Even if they tow thirteen barges to safe waters to anchor in the shortest time, they cannot be of much help due to their age.

As the "marshal captain" of the vanguard fleet, Han Yu is responsible for the safety of the entire fleet and the seven accompanying ships, and the pressure can be imagined.

He returned to the command cabin, turned on the radio again, and called out worriedly: "Xu Suo and Xu Suo, this is Han Yu, please answer if you receive it! Xu Suo and Xu Suo, please answer if you receive it!"

"Got it, what's the matter?"

"We have entered Shaobo Lake, have you reached the lock?"

"There are too many boats ahead, so I can't drive fast. I just asked Captain Gu, and he said that it will take about twelve o'clock at night to get to Shaobo Gate."

Although 001 has become Linghaituo 012.

But there are police officers, guns and even high-pressure water cannons on board.

Not only is Xu Sanye not worried about the safety of the vanguard fleet, but he is also full of confidence in his apprentices.

He sat leisurely in the "restaurant" and radio room of Linghaituo 103, looked up at the operator, crossed his legs, smiled and asked with a cigarette in his mouth: "Salted fish, you just passed the gate, Uncle Shao Are there many boats over the lock?"

"a lot of."

Han Yu looked down at the waterway map, and said with a bitter face: "Xu Suo, you will definitely have to queue up when you arrive. I guess you won't be able to come until tomorrow afternoon at the earliest."

Xu Sanye subconsciously asked: "So I can't catch up with you guys."

"Unless it docks and stops to wait for you."

"We can't stop and wait. We are here to help shipping companies recover their losses, and we can't add economic losses to others."

Xu Sanye knocked on the soot, and continued: "Besides, you are faster than us and have the advantage of being faster than us. If you arrive at the pier for unloading yellow sand a day or two earlier, you can stagger the unloading time at the pier, otherwise you will have to wait when the time comes. "

In fact, the leading fleet arrived at the unloading dock one or two days in advance, and not all barges could unload at the same time.

After all, this is an inland river, the wharf is very small, and there are few berths, so they have to be unloaded one by one.

More than 300 tons of yellow sand, if the degree of mechanization of the wharf is not high, it may take two or three days to unload.

However, what Han Yu was thinking about now was not unloading, so he couldn't help but say, "Xu Suo, I'm worried about you, you only have two policemen and two joint defense team members!"

"Although there are only two policemen on my side, including myself, we have guns, so what are we afraid of?"

Xu Sanye stubbed out the cigarette butt, and smiled again: "Besides, I can mobilize the crew. In the past, the crew did not dare to resist mainly because they had no support. Now I am their courage. As long as I am here, even if thirty or fifty water bandits come I can take it!"

"Xu Suo..."

"How did your child become a mother-in-law? You don't have to worry about me, you just take care of your side. It's the same sentence, you have to start the crew, you have to rely on the crew. If you really encounter water bandits, you can't go directly to do it." , pay attention to collecting evidence."

"Yes!"

"I asked the Fish Bureau to use the small tape recorder equipped for you to record every word they said."

"clear."

"Furthermore, if there is a fish that slipped through the net, you can chase it, but you must pay attention to safety. After all, we are not very familiar with the situation of the canal, especially at night, so don't chase it too far."

"I know."

"That's it. If there is any situation, please contact me in time."

"Ok."

"Wait." Xu Sanye thought about it and then urged: "Reporter Wang is with you, no matter what happens, you must ensure his safety."

Han Yu hurriedly said, "Don't worry, Xu Suo, as long as I'm here, nothing will happen to Reporter Wang."

After finishing the call, Liang Xiaoyu ran over to call for dinner.

Han Yu put down the communicator, looked up and asked, "Xiaoyu, which boat is Reporter Wang on?"

"On the No. [-] ship, he interviewed the crew for a day, and he is still writing in the cabin of the No. [-] ship."

"Did you ask him to eat?"

"Called, he said wait a minute."

"Then let's wait a while."

Just as he was talking, Ma Jintao came from the stern of the boat, looked back at the "long dragon" behind him, held the cabin door and asked in puzzlement: "Salted fish, if you want to talk about the radio station, there is also 001, why did Xu Suo stay on 103. "

"The power of the 103 tugboat radio station is higher than our radio station. The building of our Linghai Shipping Company is taller, with a total of six floors, and a very high and large antenna is installed on the roof. Xu can contact his hometown on 103, and he can pass through his hometown. Call the Fish Bureau."

Han Yu closed the logbook, thought about it and smiled: "In the past, there was no taller building in the county than the shipping company. Every time people from the shipping company went to the county for a meeting, people from other units joked that the people from our shipping company were the top leaders. .”

Ma Jintao asked: "Doesn't the Xu Institute have a satellite phone? If you want to contact the fish bureau, you can directly call the satellite phone. Why do you have to go to such trouble?"

"Xu Suo has a satellite phone, but the phone bill of the satellite phone is very expensive, tens of yuan per minute, who can afford it!"

Just as Ma Jintao realized it, Liang Xiaoyu asked curiously, "Dried salted fish, how many locks are there on the canal?"

"From south to north, there are eleven ship locks, including Shiqiao, Shaobo, Huai'an, Huaiyin, Siyang, Liulaojian, Suqian, Zaohe, Liushan, Jietai and Linjiaba. on the North-South Passage.

There are more ship locks leading to the canal from other inland rivers and lakes. The reason why we and Xu Suo were "scattered" is because there are many ships from various cities along the river to enter the canal. "

I waited for a day and a half for one lock, how many days will I have to wait for so many locks...

Before coming here, Liang Xiaoyu thought that all the ship locks in the whole country were the same as the Bailong Port ship lock, and he only had to wait for half a day at most. He couldn't believe that the ship locks on the Grand Canal were so busy.

He scratched his neck and asked puzzledly, "Why do you need to build so many locks for such a good river?"

Ma Jintao said without hesitation: "Collect money. You can charge for building a ship lock. Think about how much you can charge for so many ships going through the lock in a day!"

"Brother Ma, this matter is not as simple as you think."

"Then why are there so many locks?"

"The water level of the 30-kilometer channel has a drop of more than [-] meters. How can we adjust the water level without building locks, and how can we ensure that the water depth of the canal is navigable? If we don't build locks, how can we adjust the water level to prevent floods and droughts?"

Seeing that the two seemed to understand, Han Yu explained patiently while gesticulating with his hands: "The locks mentioned just now have set up the 400-kilometer Grand Canal into ten shipping steps.

Without these locks, the canal would not be navigable at all, and it is unknown how many people along the coast would be displaced by the flood. "

Ma Jintao was stunned, and then asked: "These locks are all built now. Wouldn't it be navigable when there were no locks before?"

Han Yu is very familiar with the Grand Canal, he has been here countless times with his parents when he was a child.

As for the history of the Grand Canal, it is also very precious.

He took a sip of water from the tea mug and said with a smile: "People of the older generation said that there was no lock on the Grand Canal in the past, but a stone dam was built in the Grand Canal to raise the water level of the canal, and the river overflowed from the dam. In the past, it is guaranteed to be able to sail.”

"How can the boat sail when the dam is built?"

"At that time, there were no boats as big as they are now. There were only small wooden boats of a few tons, at most a dozen tons. When the boat crossed the dam, if it was a launching boat, the cabin was covered with wooden boards and tied firmly. Like a ram, it plunges directly into the water from the dam, and then emerges from the water."

Han Yu smiled and continued: "If it's a boat on the water, you have to use a rope to hold the wooden stakes on the upstream bank, turn the winch, and pull the wooden boat across the dam. This is how water transportation was done in the past, and it was said that The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, but the waterway does not really lead directly to the capital.”

"What's the name of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal if it can't go directly to the capital!"

"In fact, I didn't really pass it. When I arrived in Huaiyin, I had to change horses and walk for a while, and then change boats, so there is a saying called south boats and north horses."

We have to eat dinner, but we can't eat it together without waiting for Reporter Wang.

Anyway, being idle is idle, Han Yu decided to teach them the ship locks on the canal again, and continued: "The earliest modern ship locks on the canal were built in [-]s. At that time, there were only Shao Bo and Liu Laojian in the northern section of the river. Two locks.

One was built by the Kuomintang government, and the other was built by the Japanese devils.They built gates in these two places, mainly considering that these two places are important waterways, and one man guards the gate, and ten thousand people cannot open it.

But it has also made some contributions to both sides of the strait. The old people on the shore said that because of the Liulaojian ship lock, the century-old floods in Siyang, Huaiyin and Huai'an were avoided. "

Ma Jintao thought about it and asked: "Now that there is a ship lock, can it go directly to the capital?"

"It can't get through. After the Grand Canal was diverted from the Yellow River in 1855, it has never been navigable north of the Yellow River. The only way to go to Beijing is by sea."

Han Yu stood up, stretched his waist, and smiled again: "However, in the southern part of my country, from Weishan Lake in Xuzhou, via Suqianluoma Lake, Huaihe River in Huai'an, Yangzhou Gaoyou Lake all the way south, until the Yangtze River, the shipping has been going all the way. Very smooth."

Ma Jintao was about to ask whether the waterway of the Grand Canal south of the Yangtze River was open to navigation, when Lu Xiangping's call suddenly came from the intercom.

"Salted fish, salted fish, a few small boats came from the east lake."

"How many?"

"I can't see clearly, there are five or six."

"Can you see how many people are on the boat?"

"I can't see clearly either."

"Is it coming for us?"

"It should be. Their small boats seem to be equipped with hangers, and the speed is very fast."

"How far is it from us?"

"Seven 800 meters."

"Continue to monitor and never reveal your identity."

"clear."

The so-called small boats are small iron boats cut and welded from waste diesel barrels or gasoline barrels.

This small boat is really insignificant on the canal transportation line of the Jiangbei section, which is hundreds of miles away, but it really played an important role in solving problems at critical moments.

People on board use it as a transportation boat. For example, if someone is sick, they use the small boat to send them ashore for hospital treatment, or go ashore to buy some daily necessities.

In case of an accident, it can even be used to save people or escape.

However, in the past few years, with the increasingly busy transportation of coal from the north to the south, "iron brothers" in small boats have appeared on the hundreds of kilometers of the Jiangbei Canal, and in just a few years it has become a prairie fire. The wind of stealing coal with small boats followed.

It has been reported by the media before that in the past three or four years, thousands of tons of coal have been lost every year in the northern section of the canal.

The tin canoes are not only the chief culprit for stealing and transporting coal, but also the preferred tool for some villagers along the canal to "rely on water" and "get rich".

Like ants, they nibble away at the coal transported by the passing fleet, bringing extremely dissonant notes to the smooth water transport and the stability of social order.

However, from what we have learned before, the law and order around Shaobo Lake is relatively good, and water bandits are not very rampant.

Han Yu was surprised and didn't dare to take it seriously. He exchanged a glance with Ma Jintao, and raised the intercom again: "Attention all ships, all ships, there are a few small boats coming towards us, please wake up the crew on duty. Crew, hurry up and prepare according to the third plan!"

"No. [-] ship received."

"No. [-] ship received!"

……

After confirming that both the crew of the barge and the owner of the motorboat had received it, Han Yu raised the walkie-talkie again: "Captain Wang, if it is really a water bandit, they will definitely go to the bridge to look for you first. Lu Xiangping is watching and will go when the boat arrives." The cab protects you."

"I'm fine, I have electric batons."

"Be careful with electric batons."

Liang Xiaoyu was not idle. From the moment he received Lu Xiangping's report, he took the key from Han Yu and ran to the crew cabin below to open the gun storage to get the gun.

Han Yu took the micro-punch from him, and reminded: "You are not allowed to shoot without my order."

"I know."

"Brother Ma, you too."

"Don't worry, we know the severity."

"Okay, hurry up and hide."

As soon as Han Yu finished speaking, Ma Jintao took five or six dashes and ran to the bow, lifted the tarpaulin, and hid under the fire water cannon.

In a blink of an eye, several joint defense members ran over from the towed barge, and with the help of Liang Xiaoyu, they also got under the tarpaulin used to cover the high-pressure water cannon.

Radio stations are very expensive and cannot be smashed by water bandits.

Han Yu locked the door of the command cabin, quickly ran to the stern, lifted a tarpaulin and got in.

The water bandits on the canal always yelled at the crew, "I'm afraid you won't touch me, I'm afraid I won't touch you, and if I do, I'll pay you."

Han Yu held Wei Chong tightly and secretly thought that I am here today, waiting for you to touch me, waiting for you to blackmail me!
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PS: The update is late, here is the [-]-word chapter!
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