Chapter 1312
Incomprehensible Information
Chapter 1312 Incomprehensible Information
On the land of Hainan Island, the population density is relatively low in the eastern coastal areas.Counties like Wenchang, Qionghai, Wanning, and Lingshui here are basically populated by agriculture, and their residences are scattered, far below the population density of the west coast.Because the executive committee arranged another inspection team to visit various parts of the east coast, when they left Haikou, they had already completed all the tasks of this inspection, and there was no need to stay on the way.After Yu Xiaobao solicited everyone's opinions, he ordered to go directly south along the east coast and return to Sanya.
The voyage from Haikou to Sanya is more than [-] nautical miles, and even if there is no stopover, it will not be completed in a short while.Although Liu Shang wanted to go back to Sanya earlier to deal with Liao Yuan's affairs, but this ship was not equipped with Haihan's most advanced steam propulsion device, so he could only rely on God's blessing and the captain's command to run as fast as he could. No matter how anxious you are, you can only hold back.
Regarding navigation technology, Liu Shang can only be regarded as a half layman. At most, he can roughly distinguish the direction according to the sun, and he is not qualified to participate in the ship's route planning and command work.The only thing that can help is probably to silently pray that there will not be any drastic weather changes on the way, and let this long journey around the island take a few more days.
The other people on the boat were not as eager as Liu Shang. Although this errand had caused them to leave Sanya for more than half a month, they were almost always served with delicious food and drinks throughout the journey. The courtesy that Sanya enjoys is much higher. This so-called imperial envoy treatment made every member of the inspection team gain a lot of weight during this period.Although this mission has been completed, many of them will probably use it as a talking point for a long time.
Of course, although the errands of visiting various places are over, the work of the inspection team is not over yet. They must also summarize the areas they are responsible for and submit corresponding written reports.Liu Shang took advantage of this aspect. Because he was temporarily arrested as a strong man, he was only responsible for the preaching work, and he was not needed to sort out the economic and trade status quo in various places. He was the only one who was the most important during the return trip. laid back.
The busiest person on board is probably Yu Xiaobao, the leader of the team. Not only does he have to compile and summarize the economic and trade data on behalf of Liu Shang, but also the reports written by everyone must be handed over to him for review. Then he will report the results of this inspection and the problems found to the Executive Committee.The inspection team visited many cities and counties along the way, and there are quite a lot of content to be recorded. Even if Yu Xiaobao is very energetic, he will not be able to finish reading so many documents in a short while, so Yu Xiaobao was hardly on board during the return trip Show up, stay in the cabin and seize the time to check for omissions and fill in the gaps in the report written by the gang.
Everyone is busy with their own affairs, and it's not easy for Liu Shang to act like he's doing nothing. He happens to have a lot of written materials submitted by the local government at hand. These materials are basically statistical data on people's livelihood, and they can't be said to be classified, so even if Liu Shang is a temporary member of the inspection team, and he can also read the contents.Of course, he has been in the inspection team for more than ten days, and he is quite familiar with these colleagues, and he is quite appreciated by Xiaobao, but no one treats him as an outsider anymore. He wants to read these materials. No one thought there was anything wrong.
What Liu Shang is most interested in, of course, is related to the steam engine and the military. After weighing it, he first took the steam engine information-even if he can understand the military information, it will not be of much help to Daming. If Han is really going to declare war on Ming Dynasty, then all the officials and gentlemen in the southeast coastal area can wash their necks and wait now.
Regarding the report on the use of the steam engine, each place visited by the inspection team submitted a written document, and the information was summarized and fed back to the Haihan Industry Department. Equipment and related manufacturing technology will be further improved.At the same time, the executive committee also needs to decide on the promotion and application scope of steam engines in the next few years based on these reports.
What Liu Shang is interested in about the steam engine is mainly the operating principle and manufacturing process, as well as the industry fields that have been put into use in Haihan.However, the manufacture of steam engines was all concentrated in the Tiandu Industrial Zone in Sanya, so these reports did not mention much about the aspects he was interested in.However, for the application of the steam engine in actual production, the content recorded in these materials is much more detailed than the information he learned on the spot.
Liu Shang glanced at the reports submitted by various cities and counties, and summarized the use of steam engines in several aspects, such as the use environment, actual power, water and coal consumption, maintenance cycle, and use problems.Looking at it in this way, it is easy to compare the differences in performance and material consumption of steam engines used in various places.
Almost all the high-power steam engines are concentrated in the industrial zone from Changhua to Shilu. Whether it is the steam locomotive running between the two places, or the various steam pulverizers and conveyor belts used in the mine, the steam rolling mill and The steam hammer is the big guy in the steam engine.The steam excavator that Liu Shang was particularly concerned about was also mentioned in the report submitted by the Shilu Mine. The technicians of the mine proposed many design details that needed to be improved, mainly focusing on the mechanical transmission. There are also detailed drawings attached to the article, but these drawings are all detailed drawings of one of the parts. Even if Liu Shang looked over and over again, he still didn't understand where the part was located on the machine.
In such a situation, Liu Shang could only complain that he was not knowledgeable enough. Even if he was handed the blueprint in front of him, he still couldn't understand the content like a heavenly book.However, he also noticed that it was mentioned in the article that the working efficiency of this steam engine "can outperform a hundred miners". In this way, although its manufacturing and use costs are not low, it is quite cost-effective for Haihan. After all, according to the report , Only two people are needed to operate this steam engine, and another two are responsible for shoveling coal and adding water.
Four people can complete the workload of hundreds of labors. This kind of work efficiency is far difficult to achieve with other power sources such as wind power, water power, and animal power.Moreover, according to the article, this steam excavator still has great room for technological improvement. In the future, through technological improvement and increase in the number of launches, it will surely be possible to further reduce operating costs and increase production capacity.
Moreover, it is also mentioned in the article that it is recommended to put such equipment in mines outside Hainan Island, such as Heitugang Coal Mine, Nanhai Tin Mine, Shandong Fushan Copper Mine, etc., so as to be able to accumulate experience in various geographical and climatic environments, and use It can be used as a reference for future modification and upgrading of steam excavators.
Liu Shang didn't know if he didn't look at it, but he was startled when he saw it. It turned out that Haihan had quietly occupied many mines in various places, and it also mentioned a gold mine in a certain place in the north of Taiwan Island, but Liu Shang I am not familiar with the place names of Taiwan Island, and I don't know the exact location of this gold mine.Based on Haihan's mining capacity, this gold mine must have contributed a lot of wealth to it. The construction achievements witnessed on Hainan Island should more or less have the contribution of this gold mine.
Liu Shangxin said that this way of collecting information is not bad. Just look at the relevant report of the steam engine, you can know the information of the mine currently being mined in Haihan, and there is no need to go to various places to investigate and implement it.But after thinking about it, maybe I only had this chance to see this kind of information, so I hurriedly read the content related to the mine several times, and remembered all of it in my mind.
Liu Shang actually doesn’t know how useful this information will be to Daming, but since there are mines in Daming territory, he feels that it is necessary for the imperial court to grasp the information, so as not to be passive for a long time and keep the Haihan people silent The ground took advantage of the loophole.
It's just that Liu still doesn't know that the Fushan Copper Mine in Dengzhou, Shandong has been put into operation in the second half of last year, and the local smelting facilities have also been officially put into use this year.At present, there are more than a thousand local employees working for Haihan in the Fushan Copper Mine alone, and about three to five tons of copper ingots are shipped to the south by sea every month.Although the current annual output is less than [-] tons, this is already one of the few self-produced copper resources under the control of Haihan.
There are also copper mines buried in the Shilu Mine, but the current output is not much better than that of the Fushan Copper Mine. Therefore, Fushan is still a very important source of resources for Haihan. For this reason, the Shandong Expeditionary Force also deployed a certain scale of troops locally. , operating the mine like a military fortress.Last year, the Shandong Dengzhou garrison wanted to move this place, but it also suffered a lot from the hands of the Haihan Army.If Daming is really determined to take this place back from Haihan, I'm afraid the Dengzhou garrison alone won't be able to do it.
However, these things are too far away for Liu Shang. What he can think about now is only limited to the environment he is in contact with. Things thousands of miles away can't be considered so comprehensively.He couldn't even judge whether the information he had obtained and submitted would bring Da Ming the initiative or trouble.
Although Liu Shang has an excellent memory, these reports full of numbers quickly made him dizzy. It is not an easy task to understand and write down these boring numbers.When he finished flipping through the pile of documents and was going to rest for a while, he suddenly found that it was already dark outside, and he didn't even remember whether he ate or not at noon, but he was not really hungry.
After hastily eating dinner, Liu Shang, like everyone else, continued to fight at night.The lighting used on this ship has a glass lampshade and an anti-overturn design, so candles are generally not allowed at night.
In the evening of the next day, Liu Shang finally saw the Yulinjiao Lighthouse on the deck in the distance, which was a sign guiding ships to enter the port at night.The ship departed from the military port on the Luhuitou Peninsula, but when it returned, it had to enter the Victory Port to dock, because there were a lot of information and supplies on the ship that needed to be sent to the Victory Fort for storage as soon as possible.
Looking at the coastline getting closer and closer, Liu Shang couldn't help but feel a little uneasy. The questions he worried about along the way will soon have answers.If Liao Yuan made a mistake because he couldn't keep in touch while he was away, there would probably be people from the security department or the police department waiting on the pier to arrest him and bring him to justice.
Of course, the possibility of this is actually not great. Liu Shang also knows that there is a device on this ship that can transmit sound for thousands of miles. If Liao Yuan exposes his identity in Sanya and implicates himself, then the Haihan people can notify him through the radio. Yu Xiaobao, control himself first.However, Yu Xiaobao's attitude towards himself has not changed much along the way, which may have shown that his unfounded worries are superfluous.
The sailboat docked at the dock of Shengli Port before nightfall, and the port center had deployed dozens of workers in advance to wait for unloading at the dock.Liu Shang stood on the side of the boat and looked around, and saw that there were only two or three police officers smoking in the distance on the shore, and they didn't look like they were here to arrest people, so he felt very at ease.
After everyone disembarked, Yu Xiaobao announced the disbandment, and everyone went back on their own.In the end, only Liu Shang remained, and he didn't know whether he should go back to the training center in Luhuitou Peninsula or to the house he rented in Sanya Port.
After Yu Xiaobao asked him what was going on, he asked him to find a hotel at Victory Harbor to stay for one night. He would come to Victory Fort tomorrow to sign the contract and pay the labor fee for this errand by the way.Of course, the money for staying in the hotel tonight can also be reimbursed.As for the training courses of the Propaganda Department, Yu Xiaobao said that he would come out to say hello to the people in the Propaganda Department and help him make arrangements.
Liu Shang gratefully sent Yu Xiaobao away, but he was not in a hurry to find a hotel near the port area, but called a rickshaw and rushed to the Sanya port area.He had already figured it out just now, no matter what, he had to contact Liao Yuan first to confirm the other party's movements.
Liu Shang didn't go back to the place he rented in Sanya Port, he went directly to the shop where Liao Yuan applied for.However, in order to avoid suspicion, he didn't dare to go directly to the door to find Liao Yuan by name. He could only get off the car near the store, and then walked over, trying to see if he was lucky enough to meet Liao Yuan outside or his men.
Liu Shang was really calm, he waited on the side of the street for about half an hour, and finally saw a familiar face, it was the person who came to this shop with Liao Yuan to be a martial artist, and he was also the same person before. Live in the same yard with yourself.He quickly walked out of the dark, went up to greet him pretending to meet him by chance, and then asked about Liao Yuan's recent situation.
Although the man was Liao Yuan's subordinate, he didn't know Liu Shang's real identity. He thought he was just a storyteller who happened to live in the same courtyard, so he had no defense against him, so he responded casually: "Brother Liao took it." The errand ordered by the boss, I left for Guangzhou a few days ago, and I am afraid that I will not be able to return until next month."
(End of this chapter)
On the land of Hainan Island, the population density is relatively low in the eastern coastal areas.Counties like Wenchang, Qionghai, Wanning, and Lingshui here are basically populated by agriculture, and their residences are scattered, far below the population density of the west coast.Because the executive committee arranged another inspection team to visit various parts of the east coast, when they left Haikou, they had already completed all the tasks of this inspection, and there was no need to stay on the way.After Yu Xiaobao solicited everyone's opinions, he ordered to go directly south along the east coast and return to Sanya.
The voyage from Haikou to Sanya is more than [-] nautical miles, and even if there is no stopover, it will not be completed in a short while.Although Liu Shang wanted to go back to Sanya earlier to deal with Liao Yuan's affairs, but this ship was not equipped with Haihan's most advanced steam propulsion device, so he could only rely on God's blessing and the captain's command to run as fast as he could. No matter how anxious you are, you can only hold back.
Regarding navigation technology, Liu Shang can only be regarded as a half layman. At most, he can roughly distinguish the direction according to the sun, and he is not qualified to participate in the ship's route planning and command work.The only thing that can help is probably to silently pray that there will not be any drastic weather changes on the way, and let this long journey around the island take a few more days.
The other people on the boat were not as eager as Liu Shang. Although this errand had caused them to leave Sanya for more than half a month, they were almost always served with delicious food and drinks throughout the journey. The courtesy that Sanya enjoys is much higher. This so-called imperial envoy treatment made every member of the inspection team gain a lot of weight during this period.Although this mission has been completed, many of them will probably use it as a talking point for a long time.
Of course, although the errands of visiting various places are over, the work of the inspection team is not over yet. They must also summarize the areas they are responsible for and submit corresponding written reports.Liu Shang took advantage of this aspect. Because he was temporarily arrested as a strong man, he was only responsible for the preaching work, and he was not needed to sort out the economic and trade status quo in various places. He was the only one who was the most important during the return trip. laid back.
The busiest person on board is probably Yu Xiaobao, the leader of the team. Not only does he have to compile and summarize the economic and trade data on behalf of Liu Shang, but also the reports written by everyone must be handed over to him for review. Then he will report the results of this inspection and the problems found to the Executive Committee.The inspection team visited many cities and counties along the way, and there are quite a lot of content to be recorded. Even if Yu Xiaobao is very energetic, he will not be able to finish reading so many documents in a short while, so Yu Xiaobao was hardly on board during the return trip Show up, stay in the cabin and seize the time to check for omissions and fill in the gaps in the report written by the gang.
Everyone is busy with their own affairs, and it's not easy for Liu Shang to act like he's doing nothing. He happens to have a lot of written materials submitted by the local government at hand. These materials are basically statistical data on people's livelihood, and they can't be said to be classified, so even if Liu Shang is a temporary member of the inspection team, and he can also read the contents.Of course, he has been in the inspection team for more than ten days, and he is quite familiar with these colleagues, and he is quite appreciated by Xiaobao, but no one treats him as an outsider anymore. He wants to read these materials. No one thought there was anything wrong.
What Liu Shang is most interested in, of course, is related to the steam engine and the military. After weighing it, he first took the steam engine information-even if he can understand the military information, it will not be of much help to Daming. If Han is really going to declare war on Ming Dynasty, then all the officials and gentlemen in the southeast coastal area can wash their necks and wait now.
Regarding the report on the use of the steam engine, each place visited by the inspection team submitted a written document, and the information was summarized and fed back to the Haihan Industry Department. Equipment and related manufacturing technology will be further improved.At the same time, the executive committee also needs to decide on the promotion and application scope of steam engines in the next few years based on these reports.
What Liu Shang is interested in about the steam engine is mainly the operating principle and manufacturing process, as well as the industry fields that have been put into use in Haihan.However, the manufacture of steam engines was all concentrated in the Tiandu Industrial Zone in Sanya, so these reports did not mention much about the aspects he was interested in.However, for the application of the steam engine in actual production, the content recorded in these materials is much more detailed than the information he learned on the spot.
Liu Shang glanced at the reports submitted by various cities and counties, and summarized the use of steam engines in several aspects, such as the use environment, actual power, water and coal consumption, maintenance cycle, and use problems.Looking at it in this way, it is easy to compare the differences in performance and material consumption of steam engines used in various places.
Almost all the high-power steam engines are concentrated in the industrial zone from Changhua to Shilu. Whether it is the steam locomotive running between the two places, or the various steam pulverizers and conveyor belts used in the mine, the steam rolling mill and The steam hammer is the big guy in the steam engine.The steam excavator that Liu Shang was particularly concerned about was also mentioned in the report submitted by the Shilu Mine. The technicians of the mine proposed many design details that needed to be improved, mainly focusing on the mechanical transmission. There are also detailed drawings attached to the article, but these drawings are all detailed drawings of one of the parts. Even if Liu Shang looked over and over again, he still didn't understand where the part was located on the machine.
In such a situation, Liu Shang could only complain that he was not knowledgeable enough. Even if he was handed the blueprint in front of him, he still couldn't understand the content like a heavenly book.However, he also noticed that it was mentioned in the article that the working efficiency of this steam engine "can outperform a hundred miners". In this way, although its manufacturing and use costs are not low, it is quite cost-effective for Haihan. After all, according to the report , Only two people are needed to operate this steam engine, and another two are responsible for shoveling coal and adding water.
Four people can complete the workload of hundreds of labors. This kind of work efficiency is far difficult to achieve with other power sources such as wind power, water power, and animal power.Moreover, according to the article, this steam excavator still has great room for technological improvement. In the future, through technological improvement and increase in the number of launches, it will surely be possible to further reduce operating costs and increase production capacity.
Moreover, it is also mentioned in the article that it is recommended to put such equipment in mines outside Hainan Island, such as Heitugang Coal Mine, Nanhai Tin Mine, Shandong Fushan Copper Mine, etc., so as to be able to accumulate experience in various geographical and climatic environments, and use It can be used as a reference for future modification and upgrading of steam excavators.
Liu Shang didn't know if he didn't look at it, but he was startled when he saw it. It turned out that Haihan had quietly occupied many mines in various places, and it also mentioned a gold mine in a certain place in the north of Taiwan Island, but Liu Shang I am not familiar with the place names of Taiwan Island, and I don't know the exact location of this gold mine.Based on Haihan's mining capacity, this gold mine must have contributed a lot of wealth to it. The construction achievements witnessed on Hainan Island should more or less have the contribution of this gold mine.
Liu Shangxin said that this way of collecting information is not bad. Just look at the relevant report of the steam engine, you can know the information of the mine currently being mined in Haihan, and there is no need to go to various places to investigate and implement it.But after thinking about it, maybe I only had this chance to see this kind of information, so I hurriedly read the content related to the mine several times, and remembered all of it in my mind.
Liu Shang actually doesn’t know how useful this information will be to Daming, but since there are mines in Daming territory, he feels that it is necessary for the imperial court to grasp the information, so as not to be passive for a long time and keep the Haihan people silent The ground took advantage of the loophole.
It's just that Liu still doesn't know that the Fushan Copper Mine in Dengzhou, Shandong has been put into operation in the second half of last year, and the local smelting facilities have also been officially put into use this year.At present, there are more than a thousand local employees working for Haihan in the Fushan Copper Mine alone, and about three to five tons of copper ingots are shipped to the south by sea every month.Although the current annual output is less than [-] tons, this is already one of the few self-produced copper resources under the control of Haihan.
There are also copper mines buried in the Shilu Mine, but the current output is not much better than that of the Fushan Copper Mine. Therefore, Fushan is still a very important source of resources for Haihan. For this reason, the Shandong Expeditionary Force also deployed a certain scale of troops locally. , operating the mine like a military fortress.Last year, the Shandong Dengzhou garrison wanted to move this place, but it also suffered a lot from the hands of the Haihan Army.If Daming is really determined to take this place back from Haihan, I'm afraid the Dengzhou garrison alone won't be able to do it.
However, these things are too far away for Liu Shang. What he can think about now is only limited to the environment he is in contact with. Things thousands of miles away can't be considered so comprehensively.He couldn't even judge whether the information he had obtained and submitted would bring Da Ming the initiative or trouble.
Although Liu Shang has an excellent memory, these reports full of numbers quickly made him dizzy. It is not an easy task to understand and write down these boring numbers.When he finished flipping through the pile of documents and was going to rest for a while, he suddenly found that it was already dark outside, and he didn't even remember whether he ate or not at noon, but he was not really hungry.
After hastily eating dinner, Liu Shang, like everyone else, continued to fight at night.The lighting used on this ship has a glass lampshade and an anti-overturn design, so candles are generally not allowed at night.
In the evening of the next day, Liu Shang finally saw the Yulinjiao Lighthouse on the deck in the distance, which was a sign guiding ships to enter the port at night.The ship departed from the military port on the Luhuitou Peninsula, but when it returned, it had to enter the Victory Port to dock, because there were a lot of information and supplies on the ship that needed to be sent to the Victory Fort for storage as soon as possible.
Looking at the coastline getting closer and closer, Liu Shang couldn't help but feel a little uneasy. The questions he worried about along the way will soon have answers.If Liao Yuan made a mistake because he couldn't keep in touch while he was away, there would probably be people from the security department or the police department waiting on the pier to arrest him and bring him to justice.
Of course, the possibility of this is actually not great. Liu Shang also knows that there is a device on this ship that can transmit sound for thousands of miles. If Liao Yuan exposes his identity in Sanya and implicates himself, then the Haihan people can notify him through the radio. Yu Xiaobao, control himself first.However, Yu Xiaobao's attitude towards himself has not changed much along the way, which may have shown that his unfounded worries are superfluous.
The sailboat docked at the dock of Shengli Port before nightfall, and the port center had deployed dozens of workers in advance to wait for unloading at the dock.Liu Shang stood on the side of the boat and looked around, and saw that there were only two or three police officers smoking in the distance on the shore, and they didn't look like they were here to arrest people, so he felt very at ease.
After everyone disembarked, Yu Xiaobao announced the disbandment, and everyone went back on their own.In the end, only Liu Shang remained, and he didn't know whether he should go back to the training center in Luhuitou Peninsula or to the house he rented in Sanya Port.
After Yu Xiaobao asked him what was going on, he asked him to find a hotel at Victory Harbor to stay for one night. He would come to Victory Fort tomorrow to sign the contract and pay the labor fee for this errand by the way.Of course, the money for staying in the hotel tonight can also be reimbursed.As for the training courses of the Propaganda Department, Yu Xiaobao said that he would come out to say hello to the people in the Propaganda Department and help him make arrangements.
Liu Shang gratefully sent Yu Xiaobao away, but he was not in a hurry to find a hotel near the port area, but called a rickshaw and rushed to the Sanya port area.He had already figured it out just now, no matter what, he had to contact Liao Yuan first to confirm the other party's movements.
Liu Shang didn't go back to the place he rented in Sanya Port, he went directly to the shop where Liao Yuan applied for.However, in order to avoid suspicion, he didn't dare to go directly to the door to find Liao Yuan by name. He could only get off the car near the store, and then walked over, trying to see if he was lucky enough to meet Liao Yuan outside or his men.
Liu Shang was really calm, he waited on the side of the street for about half an hour, and finally saw a familiar face, it was the person who came to this shop with Liao Yuan to be a martial artist, and he was also the same person before. Live in the same yard with yourself.He quickly walked out of the dark, went up to greet him pretending to meet him by chance, and then asked about Liao Yuan's recent situation.
Although the man was Liao Yuan's subordinate, he didn't know Liu Shang's real identity. He thought he was just a storyteller who happened to live in the same courtyard, so he had no defense against him, so he responded casually: "Brother Liao took it." The errand ordered by the boss, I left for Guangzhou a few days ago, and I am afraid that I will not be able to return until next month."
(End of this chapter)