Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1145 Clock Tower Project
The Netherlands is a country with religious freedom, so the Boncourt family enjoyed religious freedom when they were in the Netherlands.But since they got on the ship of the East India Company, they had to abide by the rules of the East India Company: anyone must participate in the Protestant prayer ceremony, otherwise they would be punished as rebellious.

This worried the two teenagers who left their hometown for the first time.So after hearing that there was a Catholic church here, they decided to go to the church for confession.

"Sister, let's walk slowly." Westley said, "The road here is very good."

The roads here are surprisingly good, and only the most developed and prosperous cities in the Netherlands can see such perfect roads: Although the road surface is not paved with stones, the road paved with black gravel is smooth and level, with Stone shoulders, and drainage ditches.

The newly planted trees on the side of the road are already lush and lush. Although the tree shape is still too short, it also blocks a lot of sunlight.

Cretia was a little worried and asked, "Should we ask a guard to escort us to the church?"

"No need, it looks very safe here." Westley said excitedly, "This place brings me back to the Netherlands. Everything is so clean and orderly. Let's go."

The guards of the trading house have been ordered to allow them to move freely in the designated area, so they will not interfere with their leaving the trading house.

The distance from the commercial building to the church is not very far, but it takes more than 10 minutes to walk. The two walked slowly along the road, breathing the fresh air with sea breeze, while admiring the busy construction scene on the construction site along the road, Wei Sterry is very interested in everything on the construction site: steam cranes, human-powered dump trucks, mixers...these silly, big, black and thick construction machinery and construction vehicles that are high-yielding have aroused this boy's endless interest.

"It's a pity that I didn't bring a sketchbook..." The boy said excitedly and regretfully, "I must go to the sketchbook when I come back from church!"

"Okay, okay." Cretia said with a smile.

The two walked for a while, and found a new road parallel to the road in front of them—no, the road is not very accurate, it should be said that it is two iron rails lying on the wood. It has been extended to the distance.

"Sister, this is the track." Westley said, "I heard from the sailors that the Australian wharves have this kind of track that can run heavy vehicles-the same as the British quarry. almost."

The work of laying the track was temporarily suspended because the track was not delivered in time. Only the materials used for the roadbed and some equipment were piled up.Unable to restrain his curiosity, Westley got off the road and climbed onto the embankment.

Westley squatted down, began to study the rails and sleepers, and then carefully looked at the connection of spikes.Cretia knew her brother's hobbies, so she stood aside and waited for him.

"No roadbed!"

After walking a few steps, Westley heard someone shouting—he couldn't understand Chinese, so he could only look blankly at the place where the voice came from.

But I saw a human rail car speeding towards the track.Westerly looked at the car curiously, and said to Cretia, "I think it would be quicker if we could take this thing to church..."

While they were talking, they saw a young woman pressing the rail car back and forth by herself, and the two saw that it was Zhong Xiaoying.These days, Zhong Xiaoying came to the store to chat with Cretia every day, and taught him Mandarin by the way.The two have become good friends.

Zhong Xiaoying wiped the sweat from her forehead: "Huh? It's you? Why didn't you rest in the shop and climbed up the railway?"

"The pox we planted has healed." Cretia said first, "There is a church over there, we decided to go and have a look."

Westley stepped forward and greeted in stuttered Cantonese: "Miss! Can I take a ride?"

Zhong Xiaoying shook her head with a smile, and said with gestures: "This car is not safe..."

Westley shrugged his shoulders helplessly, and suddenly had an idea, took out a beautiful little cloth bag from his pocket, and shook it at the woman: "I'm not taking your car for nothing, I have a present..."

Zhong Xiaoying still shook her head.It was Cretia who had a way, she went up and talked and gestured with Zhong Xiaoying, and finally Zhong Xiaoying smiled at them: "If this is the case, come up..."

Westerly was overjoyed, jumped into the car at once, and looked at the rail car curiously, as if he wanted to ask anything.Zhong Xiaoying knew what he meant, and waved her hands again and again: "I only know how to use it, don't ask me what's going on - you should ask my lord father."

"Dr. Zhong? I will definitely ask for advice." Westley was full of curiosity about Zhong Lishi, "Where is he now?"

"He's at the customs, to be precise: on the bell tower of the customs—the big clock is being installed." Zhong Xiaoying said, "Hold the handle over there and press it down. By the way, we have to work together... "

Zhong Xiaoying and Westley pressed the rail car together and headed towards St. Anthony's Church.On the way, Westley kept asking: "Can I have a look at the big clock that Dr. Zhong is installing? I am very interested in these machines—" It seemed that he was worried that the request would not be accepted, "I asked an artist I have learned the trade of metalworking and carpentry, so I can help."

These words were a bit difficult for Cretia, who had a very elementary level of Cantonese, and she had to do her best to basically express her brother's meaning.

"Of course." Zhong Xiaoying said with a smile, "My father's carpentry skills are not good, and he will be very happy to have free workers."

Cretia asked: "There are so many people here, did you immigrate from China?"

"That's right. There were no civilized people in Taiwan. There were only headhunters."

"You are amazing." Cretia said sincerely.Although Daxuan has existed for many years, it is still a deserted trading post. If it weren't for the city of Zeelandia, which was under construction, Daxuan wouldn't even be considered a town.

"The Senate is amazing." Zhong Xiaoying showed an expression of infinite admiration on his face.

The church set up by Lingao Church in Kaohsiung is small in scale and is a small wooden church.This church and the Taoist Temple of New Taoism live next to each other: the two are separated by a road.The two sides are living in peace, and the purpose of both is the same: to continue the battle of "eradicating heresy" that started from Qimu Island.He Ying's instructions to the two churches clearly require them to "save souls" with the strictest stance.

The missionaries sent from Macau single-mindedly defeated the new Taoism in the battle of "saving souls", and were so fanatical in the battle of "eradicating heresy" in the refugee camps that the priests accidentally contracted infectious diseases and were called by the Lord.Because there was no one in Macau to send for a while, Lingao Church sent John Dermot.The red-haired Irishman is happy to be free from the endless work of painting stained glass and painting murals, and happily arrives at the job.

However, when Zhong Xiaoying accompanied the siblings into the church, John Dermot was still squatting by the wall painting murals with a sad face.There is no decoration in this prefabricated chapel manufactured by Lingao Construction Corporation, and he has to do it all by himself.

And the matter is not over yet, ever since this browbeater Zhong Yuan arrived in Kaohsiung, he has been coercing and luring him to make iron hands and numbers for the big clock—even specifying that he should use curlicues.

John Dermot found it difficult to juggle the three tasks of beautifying the church, saving souls, and serving the Senate.Especially the first two are of paramount importance to him.However, thinking of the teachings given to him by the president before he set off, he dared not refuse Elder Zhong's request.

Today, Elder Zhong Yuan appeared again. Just when he had nothing to do, the appearance of Zhong Xiaoying and his party temporarily freed him from the predicament——Dr. Full of curiosity, keep asking this and that.

"Mr. Zhong, may I go and see the mechanism inside that big clock?" Westley finally asked.

"Of course, you won't rest for a few days?"

"This kid can't wait..." Cretia laughed, "Dr. Zhong, you can rest assured that my brother can work metal and wood. You can use him."

"Okay, you can come to the customs bell tower to find me tomorrow." Zhong Lishi nodded, "Xiaoying and I have been living in the customs these days."

"Then can my sister and I live at the customs? That way we can consult you day and night." Westley said.

Zhong Lishi thought for a while: "Yes. But you need to apply to the store and go through the necessary procedures."

The next day, the Westley sister and brother moved into the customs building with their luggage——Although Kaohsiung Customs has been in operation, the actual business volume is very small, and there are many vacant rooms above the second floor. After the siblings found a room to live in Westley couldn't wait to join the construction team building the clock.

There are several craftsmen on the bell tower, most of them are carpenters, and the leader is Marinxi, a refugee from Shandong.

Marinxi has been sent to Jeju Island since he found his life in the ice sea.stayed there for forty days.He is a craftsman, and he was looked at differently in the refugee camp. He was soon incorporated into the directly subordinate labor team and participated in the construction of Jeju Island.The quality of food obtained naturally is better than that of ordinary refugees.

In a few months, he got a C-type diploma.Then it was transported to Taiwan to be transferred back to Lingao to enrich the technician team of Lingao Construction Corporation.However, Ma Linxi's craftsmanship made him a little famous, so he was stopped by Hong Laojun and incorporated into the engineering team directly under him.Shi Dafu felt that he was a talented person, so he taught him some simple drawing techniques.

(End of this chapter)