Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 574 Customs
Compared with the squirrel cage cranes used in Europe at the same time, the Lingao version of the squirrel cage uses a transmission and a cam controller, which not only improves the output efficiency, but also prevents casualties caused by sudden reversal.

The squirrel cage transformed by the technology of the 21st century is much better than what Quark Qiong has seen in terms of efficiency and safety.Even for a trader like Quark Qiong who knows little about engineering technology, the benefits of this loading and unloading mode are obvious: a flatbed of goods can be loaded and unloaded in a few minutes, and less than ten people are used in total.If it is carried by manpower, it will take one or two hours.

Quark? The deepest feeling after being poor in Daming is that Daming seldom uses animal power and machinery, but has a tendency to abuse human power. He once discussed this issue with Li Luoyou. Li Luoyou explained that machinery is of course used to It is convenient, but a machine always saves a lot of labor and virtually takes away the jobs of these people.

"Although it's a bitter meal, it must be something to eat, right?" Li Luoyou despised the red-haired man who didn't know how to govern the world.

On the one hand, Li Luoyou was very interested in machines, and he often inquired about them from European missionaries and businessmen, and ordered books.On the one hand, it rejects the practical use of machines.This made Quark Qiong not very able to understand his thinking logic, but Daming's extremely cheap manpower still left a deep impression on him.Especially the clerks in the Li Luoyou company were paid unimaginably low by Quark standards.

It is no wonder that his repeated suggestions to Leroy to import certain British machinery for use in his industry were rejected.And Li Luoyou also plausibly said that he was "doing a good deed" by not introducing machines, because using machines would fire redundant employees and ruin their livelihoods.

Was it doing good deeds or cheap labor that made this big businessman refuse to use machines?Quarks probably want to be both.

There is only one kind of machine that this big businessman will never refuse to anyone-that is, things that cannot be done by purely relying on people.Like a gun-making machine.

At this time, the big businessman was fascinated by this loading and unloading method.Even the fear just now gradually disappeared.Flatbed trucks and container trucks run back and forth on the track, some are propelled by manpower, and some are arranged in a row and start by themselves.Some cargo is loaded onto the ship at the berth, and other cargo is unloaded from the ship.The tower crane was constantly turning up and down, and the goods were constantly flowing. This speed and frequency made Li Luoyou dizzy.

The goods shipped have everything, and all the goods shipped from Lingao are well packaged, either in crates of the same size, or in neat straw bags or bales or sealed rattan baskets and bamboo baskets.There are jars wrapped with straw ropes.There are also various marks and patterns on it, and Li Luoyou can barely see the words "fragile" and "handle with care" written on some boxes.

The things that come in are not so neat.But it looks much more complicated: some are brown rice and rice, some are sugar, and there are pieces of wood, and some flatbeds are loaded with pig iron from Guangdong—recently he has been telling his subordinates to hoard pig iron for casting cannons Raw materials, I have already learned a lot about the shape and standard of this kind of goods.He has been wondering why the supply of pig iron is so tight.Now that he saw the mountains of iron-turned iron bars on the flatbed truck, he knew the reason why the price of worthless cold goods would rise so high in the past-the scale of Australians' purchase of pig iron far exceeded his level.

What does Australia need so much pig iron for?Li Luoyou was surprised that among the various Australian products they sold, there were very few items that required a lot of iron.After the iron flowed in, it must have been hoarded.

Could it be that they are building weapons to plot rebellion?Li Luoyou shivered.

But more is still black coal, and most of the box cars are loaded with black coal.Australians' appetite for pig iron and coal appears to be astonishingly large.

The boss of the boat advised: "Masters, after getting off the boat, you have to go through the customs and inspect the customs. You should hurry up and pack your luggage and get off the boat."

Li Luoyou originally expected Runshitang to send someone to greet him on the pier, so he waited on the deck for a while, seeing that the guests on the nearby ships had all left, but still no one came to greet him, so he had to ask the young master to prepare disembark.

Li Luo was used to being done by the elder, so naturally his servants took care of him.In less than a moment, the servants finished tying up the luggage, surrounded Mr. Li, and the group disembarked in a mighty manner.

In addition to the iron road on the embankment, there is also a pedestrian road. The road is paved with unknown materials. The gray hard road is smooth and smooth. There are signs on both sides of the road that say "Keep to the right".It doesn't count if there is a sign, and the road is simply painted with white arrows.One side is "going" and the other side is "coming".

Li Luoyou and his group walked on the right side as indicated by the arrow.At the end of the embankment stands a long house. The house looks square. There is a bell tower standing in the center like a church in Europe. However, there is no bronze bell hanging on it, only a huge circular hole. Covered with wooden boards.

The building is very strange, the strangest thing is that there are many doors.There is a large empty field ahead.There are not many people now, and it is empty.It can be seen that there are many big signs erected in the empty field, saying "local", "long-term valid", "short-term valid", "temporary", "customs declaration", "quarantine registration", "refugees", "green channel" ...

Li Luoyou didn't know what it meant when he came here for the first time.Quark is also inexplicable about this set of things.While he was wandering, a person in a blue double-breasted jacket came up to him:

"Is this your first time coming to Gao?"Li Luoyou noticed that there was a piece of cloth stamped on this person's chest, on which the word "Customs" was written respectfully.

In this way, this is the customs set up by the Australians, but the customs mainly collect taxes and pump water, and now the Australians do not pump water. What is the use of these so-called "customs" officials?

"Exactly." Sao Ye quickly went up to answer.

"Have you brought any goods?"

"No cargo."

"Please take the temporary passage." The man pointed.

Li Luoyou originally thought that the existence of quarks would cause some trouble.But the other party was obviously not interested in the red-haired man.

Sao Ye walked along the aisle to take a look first, and then came back and said: "Master! There is still a line to do business inside, you sit here for a while, and let the younger ones do it."

"Go." Li Luoyou ordered, and chose a place with a sunshade. The servants beside him hurriedly opened two stools with folded legs, and asked the master and Quark to sit down. Tea was poured out of a white copper thermos pot, and hand towels were delivered.Quark had a penchant for snuff, and the boxes were brought up immediately.

This behavior made people in the square look sideways.Li Luoyou is someone who is used to enjoyment, so he didn't think there was anything wrong with it.On the contrary, Master Han coughed and said in a low voice, "Master, isn't this a bit ostentatious---"

"It's okay." Li Luoyou thought that this time he came here to get in touch with Australians, otherwise he wouldn't need to contact Yang Shiyi.Australians probably knew by now that he was coming.

Drinking hot tea, Li Luoyou looked around, and saw that the place was extremely clean, with people of all colors coming in and out, walking in different ways, doing different things, and those who hesitated a little, lingered and watched, and there were some in blue coats People stepped forward to give pointers, and they seemed to be in order.

Li Luoyou nodded secretly, opened a folding fan with Zhu Zhishan's inscription on it and shook it lightly, his eyes swept aside, and his hands shook.It turned out that there were three houses on one side of the square, and there was a wooden sign at the door, with a nondescript regular script written in thick ink: "Daming Lingao County Bopu Inspection Department", not to mention that this sign was not in line with the Ming system at all. , The inspection department of Daming stands beside the majestic customs of the Australians, which makes people feel ironic.

At the gate of the inspection department, there was actually a soldier of the inspection department wearing a public uniform standing guard with a whistle stick. He looked decent, but the soldier's monk-like hair exposed that this person was actually a "kun", or Said to be called "false Kun".

This group of Australians is interesting.Just as he was thinking, Sao Ye trotted all the way over and greeted him on one leg; "Go back to the master, the deputy over there insists on you filling out some forms in person, and the little one can't make any sense after talking for a long time—"

"Come here and do this ceremony." Li Luoyou put away his fan and stood up, "Let's go, we'll talk later."

There was a long counter in the room, and there were several people with stamped "Customs" on the back. Li Luoyou noticed that they were all young, no more than 20 years old.In front of each person was a stack of blank paper, European-style dipped inkwells.There are also Chinese-style Four Treasures of the Study

"This is our master." Sao Ye said with great momentum.The clerk looked up at him:
"To fill out the form, literate?"

Not even polite words, let alone the word "Master".Just as Sao Ye was about to reprimand him, Li Luoyou nodded, "I can read a few words."

"That's great, you can fill it out yourself." He said and gave him a blank piece of paper, "There are pens and inks ready-made."

Li Luoyou picked it up and saw that many words and sentences had been pre-printed on the white paper, including various contents such as name and year of birth.Some are like staying in a guest book in a hotel, but the content is much more detailed.

He thought about it, took a pen and began to fill in. Li Luoyou used a pseudonym called You Shucheng.He just filled in this name, wrote his occupation as "businessman", his place of residence was Foshan, and the purpose of coming here also wrote "businessman".

The last is the number, name and gender of the attendants.Li Luoyou filled it out one by one, and exchanged it to him, and the other party picked up a stamp and stamped it after a little browsing.

"Take a fingerprint." The clerk handed over a box of red ink pads.

Li Luoyou did press his fingerprints when signing the contract when his business was not big in the past-this is a common business practice.I didn't expect the Australians in Lingao to do this too.

The form was then handed to a person next to him.

After double-checking, the person took out a sign from the drawer. The sign was made of thick paper, very hard, and half the size of a book.The clerk tore off a long strip of paper from the form that Li Luoyou had filled out and pasted it on the signboard with paste.Then use a bamboo iron-tipped dip pen to start writing something on the sign.

"You must carry this sign with you at all times during your stay in Lingao." The clerk said, "The sign is valid for 30 days. Return the sign when you leave Lingao. If you want to stay in Lingao for longer than this time, you must Go here or the local police station to re-register and get the license.”

He emphasized his tone to express his solemnity: "...the brand is very important, don't lose it, and register it as soon as possible if it is lost or damaged!"

Li Luoyou took it over and took a look. The back of the sign said "Temporary Visa", and the torn strip of paper was pasted underneath.It is a cuboid composed of thick and thin black lines, and there is a row of Arabic numerals below it.

In addition to his registered name, place of origin, and occupation, there is also a "date of issuance" on the front, and a line of words at the bottom: "The validity period is 30 days from the date of issuance."

Li Luoyou noticed that not only he had this signboard, but Master Han, Sao Ye and even every servant came over and received the same signboard, and those who could not read were written by the clerk.

After receiving the certificate, Li Luo walked along the counter from the tour group.Behind the counter are a few young women wearing blue cloth gowns and cloth hats like wontons. The gowns are very slim and they look very handsome.The ticket cloth on the chest reads "Quarantine".

Behind these women are four or five men and women in short black jackets, belts around their waists, and disc-shaped hats. The ticket cloth on their chests says "police" - Li Luoyou knows this A small piece of cloth actually listed their errand.

The woman took the sign in Li Luoyou's hand, looked at it and shouted: "Foshan!"

A woman behind him immediately flipped through a large book, and replied loudly after a while: "There has been no epidemic in Foshan for the past [-] days."

Then the woman asked Li Luoyou a series of questions: Have you had a fever recently?Do you have a cough?Also carefully looked at his complexion.It made the old man feel very uncomfortable——on weekdays, when women saw him, they either lowered their eyes in trepidation or shyness.

"Have you had any illness recently?"

After getting a negative answer, the woman shouted: "Pass!" Then she stamped a stamp on Li Luoyou's signboard. Li Luoyou took a closer look and found that the stamp was blue with four words engraved on it. : "Qualified for quarantine".

Then came Quark, who still asked these questions, Li Luoyou suddenly heard: "Have you ever had syphilis?"

"As God bears witness, no!" Quark flatly denied.

"What about gonorrhea?"

"no!"

"Come inside, please," said the woman.

"Why?" Quark felt a little uncomfortable, "I'm not sick, I'm healthy!"

"Just a little while." The woman was not accommodating, and a few strong men with sticks behind her forced her over.

(End of this chapter)