Datang first village

Datang Daily, Chang'an Daily.A notice was published simultaneously in two newspapers.

The new Jinghe Wharf was officially opened, and the warehouses, inns, restaurants, restaurants, and grocery stores around the wharf were officially put on sale.Not to the one with the highest price, but to the one with the best quality.

The Ministry of Rites of the Tang Dynasty officially invited envoys from various countries to watch the ceremony.

In the early morning of the second day after the newspaper appeared, tens of thousands of people gathered before dawn, and all the envoys arrived at the bank of the Jing River without missing a beat.

Li Yuanxing was sitting on the second floor of an unopened restaurant, using a telescope to see the pier in the distance.

"Your Highness, everything is safe!" Cui Dunli appeared beside Li Yuanxing.

"There must be no mistakes. Is Chang Li ready?" Li Yuanxing put down the binoculars and asked.

Cui Dunli nodded: "Your Highness, don't worry, everything is ready. I checked it several times last night, and there will be absolutely no problem. But will the Goguryeo man be sure to 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 to succeed once, otherwise it would be a troublesome thing to spend time and money on.In Cui Dunli's eyes, there are undead in war.But the king of Qin is doing the thing of fighting and not letting the dead, which is very exhausting.

However, things still have to go on.

It's just that a new wharf on the Jinghe River has started to be used. As the king of Qin, he will not appear in person.

Cui Dunli would not go either, but instead called a small official from Prince Qin's mansion to appear and say a few words.

The sky was light, and the envoys brought them to this pier. To their surprise, the pier was several feet above the water, and the highest unloading pier was ten feet high.The width is also more than five feet.

Li Er quietly walked into the room where Li Yuanxing was.

"Wu Lang, what are you going to show off again?" Li Er asked with a smile.

"My brother's three 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 most powerful weapon is a large ship with a thousand materials. The actual load is 380 materials. This ship has not yet been completed, and it will take about a month for it to be completed."

As a matter of fact, in Datang, it is ten cubic feet in volume.

According to modern volume calculations, almost three materials are one cubic meter.The load capacity of one material is about [-] tons, which can be understood as the calculation method of three materials and one ton.

Li Yuanxing's ship has a load of [-] tons.

In modern times, this is a Jianghe-class small cargo ship, but in Datang, it is a large ship.

There were no sails on the boat, only a huge chimney, and white gas was spraying out from the chimney. There was no boatman pulling the boat, nor any ropes, but the boat came from afar.

"Brother Huang, this ship is completely empty, there is nothing in the cabin, the observation tower above, and the ship control room are all gone. But I can't wait, let them take a look at the ship. Ship. A ship powered by pure steam engines, fifty miles per hour is not a problem. If it is fully loaded..."

Li Yuanxing spoke, but Li Er didn't listen to half a word.

Because he was being attracted by the giant ship breaking through the waves.

Li Yuanxing's boat is not a flat-bottomed boat, but a sharp-bottomed boat, which is prepared for sea operations. The posture of the sharp-bottomed boat when it breaks the waves separates the water from both sides, coupled with the high speed that the Tang people can't imagine, the water splashes everywhere, but it is amazing. of madness.

The length of the boat is ten feet, and the width is two feet. Compared with the original boats far away in the Sui Dynasty, it is really different.

dong dong dong...

Three consecutive cannon shots fired, and three huge iron balls were shot out, splashing a ten-foot-high water column in the river.

Everyone's eyes turned to the location where the loud noise came out. There were three cannons standing there, Li Yuanxing's high-pressure steam cannon.The surprising scene was not that four people were struggling to load a huge iron ball, but that six of the gunners were from Goguryeo, and among the workers next to them, there were more than a dozen people in Goguryeo costumes.

The sharp whistle of the steam engine was ringing.

"Let go!" The commanding sergeant gave an order, and among the three cannons, two were controlled by people wearing Goguryeo costumes.

Three times in a row, after a total of nine shots, the sergeant ordered again: "Stop the shots!"

Many people who were standing behind ran forward quickly, pushed the cannon behind a carriage, and covered it with a cloth.

"Goulang's heart towards Goguryeo is really cruel!" Li Er said with emotion.

But Li Yuanxing poured himself a cup of tea: "Really, this is the beginning, and the real fun is next."

Li Er moved the binoculars in one direction and found the location of the Goguryeo envoy. He clearly saw the surprised expression of the Goguryeo envoy, which was the reaction of Yuan Gai Suwen clenching his teeth and clenching his fist.

The first reaction in Yuan Gai Suwen's mind was that artillery was used to attack the city, so Goguryeo's current city walls are like paper. It broke.It is very likely that it is this kind of sharp weapon, the new weapon of Datang.

Although it was used as a salute at this time, it was a real weapon, a murderous weapon.

No one paid attention to Yuan Gai Suwen, and everyone's eyes returned to the giant ship.

The huge ship was slowly slowing down, but it didn't enter the largest pier, but entered the third pier.

This need not be explained, it means that the biggest pier ten feet high is for larger boats, and these boats are just small boats.

"Start loading, grain, four thousand shi!" Someone shouted on the pier.

A small train with fifteen consecutive carriages on the rails and pulled by a small steam locomotive slowly drove to the edge of the pier, but at this time, there were no coolies on the pier.There were only five men in overalls, one of whom was holding a megaphone made of iron.

At the high place, the huge beam with a height of five feet moved at this moment, and moved to the front of the first carriage. A long cable came down, and the bottom part was divided into four.

"Rope number one fastened...

"Number Two...

When all four people indicated that they were done, the one with the tin horn shouted to the top: "The goods are packed, let's go!"

There are two hundred sacks piled on top of a carriage, one sack weighs sixty catties, and two sacks weigh one stone.This is to make it easier for the coolies to carry. It takes a lot of physical strength to carry a sack on the back and climb onto the boat.

But this rope easily lifted the weight of a hundred stones.

The four thousand stones were all loaded on the ship in just half an hour. The huge ship moved slowly, exited the dock, and then turned around and left again at full speed.

"Four thousand stones, this boat is not bad!" Li Er praised.

Li Yuanxing smiled and pointed out the window, signaling Li Er to continue watching.

At this moment, a small official from Prince Qin's Mansion stood up and said, "Everyone should register at the management office of the dock. This ship is a cargo ship of the Jin Dajiang type, equipped with two 260-horsepower steam engines. The net load of the ship is 380 horsepower. The [-] has one material, dual power, that is, double insurance, in case one fails, the other will run slowly, at least there will be a chance to repair it when it lands!"

Before the little official finished his introduction, a businessman shouted: "Shangguan, you don't need to be so detailed, can I buy this boat later?"

"I'm just telling you all this. This ship can be ordered, and it can be obtained in two months at the fastest. If it is bigger, it may take a year to wait for a four thousand ship!"

Four thousand materials, but it is really scary.

"How much!" someone asked.

"[-] guan. If you need to install other things, you need to pay extra. This [-] guan is a boat. If someone wants to change it into a puller, you can change it yourself. Let Yaozhou Workshop change it, and someone will change it. I will give you a small price." After the little official finished speaking, he knocked on the table next to him vigorously: "Quiet, everyone is quiet. If you want to buy a boat, go to the Yaozhou Commercial Hall in the left alley of Admiral Tiance's Mansion. !"

Four thousand six hundred!

For ordinary people, this is a lot of money.An ordinary wooden boat costs about [-] shi, the labor cost is almost [-] guan, and the wood is dozens of guan, which is also [-] guan.Moreover, the speed is slow, the goods to be pulled are less, and the income for one run is also less.

Four thousand six hundred guan, equivalent to tens of millions of yuan in modern currency.

But before the Tang Dynasty, Yang Guang's boat to Yangzhou was not as huge as this one, let alone high-speed.The cost back then was [-] guan, not counting the interior decoration.

Doubling the size of the ship is not a simple algorithm such as doubling the wood and doubling the labor.

3000 guan, to the merchants' ears, this is simply a money-losing business for the Qin Palace. Such a large ship, placed in the best shipyard in Yangzhou, requires more than [-] workers for labor alone.Even more, if you want to buy the steam engine, there is no place to buy it. How much that thing is worth is a mystery in the hearts of the common people.

"I am ordering ten boats for the Sukeng Water Transport Fair. Another big boat of four thousand materials will be ordered, not to mention one year, even three to five years."

The four-thousand-material big ship is a myth, no one has thought about it, and no one has heard of it.

"The water transportation meeting was originally the water gang of Suzhou and Hangzhou. It was changed to a nice name. If you have been obedient and obedient, I don't care about their previous chaos. But Goro, you sell the boat at a loss. After the river transportation develops, Chang'an will be more prosperous." Li Er said unhurriedly.

"You are a fool to lose money. The younger brother is willing to lose money, but the girl is not willing. Originally, the younger brother wanted to sell [-] guan, which would be enough. But the girl said that [-] guan is cheap, because Our cousin's broken boat cost [-] guan, so [-] guan is too cheap!"

"How much is the cost?"

Li Er heard the key point, this boat must not be expensive.

"This ship has three major deficiencies. One is that the steam engine is too large, which naturally takes up some space on the ship. The two steam engines, together with the water tank and the coal storage, take up more than 200 yuan of space. In this way, from Chang'an To Hangzhou, if you keep your speed and walk slowly, you will have enough coal, otherwise you will need to add coal once on the road.”

"Goro is talking nonsense, what is the cost of this boat?"

"Not expensive!" The smile on Li Yuanxing's face gave Li Er the urge to hit someone.