Wang Xinyu stood on the dock and watched with satisfaction as the railway soldiers boarded the ship one after another. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Now that the war on the mainland, Wang Yuyou is in charge, and Yao Qisheng is also coming back soon, two military divisions plus a large group of famous generals, and he does not need to go to the battlefield in person for the Northern Expedition. The matter of commanding logistics and dispatch in Wuchang City was solved by a group of civilian officials appointed by Wang Yuyou, and Wang Xinyu did not need to think about these matters personally, so he decided to stay in Dongfan for a few months to supervise the construction of ironclad ships.

With the steam engine, Wang Xinyu can't wait to build an ironclad ship, as long as he builds an ironclad ship, his huge fleet will not need wind power, and it can reach any corner of the world. Imagine that in the future, ironclads will appear in Europe, and which fleet of Western countries will be able to match?

However, Wang Xinyu seems to be thinking a little too simply, the ironclad ship is not so easy to build, first of all, the power of the steam engine at this stage is not large enough, even if the ironclad ship is barely built, the speed is estimated to be only three to four knots, which is a little faster than a human walking speed.

The railroad soldiers boarded the ship one after another, the bell rang, and the transport ships raised their full sails and slowly left Dongfan Island.

Yu Zhenxing stood on the deck, looking at the seagulls soaring on the sea, the blue sea, and the blue sky, which made people feel very comfortable, recalling that he was just a miner back then, but now he has become an official officer and soldier of the Ming Army, and he is also a small officer, and he can get a salary of four silver dollars a month, which has changed too much.

At present, the Nanyang Company began to issue silver dollars, although a dollar is less than a tael, but it can be used as a tael of silver. Nanyang Bank also standardized copper plates, which were divided into large copper plates and small copper plates, with one silver dollar for one hundred large copper plates and one large copper plate for ten small copper plates. There were also gold coins on top of the silver dollar, and ten silver dollars were exchanged for one gold coin.

In fact, the silver dollar was equivalent to the 100-dollar bill of later generations, but it was much more powerful than the 100-dollar bill, equivalent to the 100-dollar bill of later generations. A gold coin is equivalent to a thousand pounds sterling.

The transport fleet sailed on the sea, at this time it was already the eighth month of the lunar calendar, and the typhoon basically would not come again, but the southeast wind was still blowing on the sea, and the fleet sailed at a speed of twelve knots with the help of the wind. In this great migration of railway troops, all the transport ships used were flying scissor carriers.

At present, Nanyang Company has built seven large shipyards, in addition to Singapore Shipyard and Yanping Shipyard, there are also Qiongzhou Shipyard, Dongfan Shipyard, Xiamen Shipyard, Guangzhou Shipyard and Shanghai Shipyard, which are capable of building 19 large ships at the same time. Among them, the only shipyards that can build battleships are the Singapore Shipyard and the Shanghai Shipyard, and the other shipyards can only build warships below the transport ship or cruiser.

It was no longer a problem to build a flying clipper ship, and in those days there were abundant timber resources, and the dried fir wood could be used to build various transport ships, unlike the need to use oak or iron wood to build a warship.

With seven shipyards, clippers were built in large quantities like dumplings, greatly increasing the transportation capacity. In addition to these seven shipyards, there are a number of small shipyards such as Annam Shipyard, Fuzhou Shipyard, Ningbo Shipyard, Coconut City Shipyard, Pontianak Shipyard, and several shipyards in Japan are basically controlled by Nanyang Company. Although these small shipyards could not build large ships, they could build small ships such as pole mineboats, river gunboats, and privateers.

The speed of the clipper ship is twelve knots, which is relatively fast. Although these ships are all cargo ships, a petty officer like Yu Zhenxing still has a four-person cabin to live in, and the conditions in the cabin are relatively comfortable, the room is by the window, there are open windows, and the cabin is lit with whale oil lamps. The ship's general cabin has a shared toilet and flushing facilities. Officers and officers have two-person rooms with separate toilets. As for the ordinary railroad soldiers, they lived in a passenger cabin converted from a cargo hold, a cabin, which was temporarily paved with three layers of hanging bunks, without windows, and only vents to the deck.

A total of more than 30,000 railway soldiers went out to fight, and after arriving in Shanghai, the scale of the railway soldiers will be expanded, and some auxiliary soldiers and civilian soldiers will also be incorporated into the railway soldiers. With the northern expedition of the troops, the scale of the railway troops will also expand rapidly, and it is expected to expand to more than 100,000 people. With the railway, the problem of logistical support was solved, and hundreds of thousands of troops went out on the march, which no longer became a headache.

After three days and three nights of sailing, the fleet slowly sailed into the mouth of the Yangtze River, and after arriving at Wusongkou, it entered the Huangpu River.

"It's finally here! Been on the island for several years! Finally back to the mainland! Looking at the buildings on the shore and the city gradually enlarged in his eyes, Yu Zhenxing was obviously very excited.

On the wharf by the Huangpu River, there is a large passenger ship with a white body and a beautiful shape. This beautiful mail ship caught the attention of the railroad soldiers, and when the fleet passed by the side of the mail ship, everyone couldn't help but take a few more looks.

This is the latest transoceanic mail ship, the ship is named Yunmeng Princess, this is a displacement of 1,000 tons of large clipping ship, a total of four cabins and two cargo cabins, in order to increase the comfort of the ship, there is no cabin, only first class, second class, third class and fourth class, all cabin windows can be opened, there are restaurants, toilets and other facilities on board.

Just when Yu Zhenxing and others were looking at this beautiful big mail ship with envy, on the Huangpu River, an old farmer from the countryside who had entered the city was also looking at this ship with envy.

The old farmer was covered in mud, with a hat on his head, a sloppy beard, and a dirty face covered in oil and mud. He glanced at the mail boat by the river a few times, and then asked a passer-by: "May I ask this little brother, how do you get on this boat?" ”

Passers-by pointed out the way to the old farmer: "You can go over there and queue up to buy a ticket and get on the boat." But looking at you, you don't look like someone who can afford a ferry ticket. What, want to get outside? ”

The old farmer replied: "Yes, the family has been hit by the war, and the family is gone, so there is only one person left, who heard that there are mountains of gold and silver outside, and wants to go out for a walk." ”

"If you can't afford a ticket, you can go to the special immigration yamen to register, and you can get on the ship for free." Passers-by said.

How dare this old farmer go to the yamen to register! He knew that once he was recognized, he would definitely be arrested, and it would be light to be beheaded, and maybe Ling Chi would be executed!

After much consideration, the old farmer turned around and went back to the city, where he found a small inn to live in. After he changed into a set of clothes, when he came out of the inn, he became a middle-aged man dressed as a rural landlord. The man walked to the mail boat ticket gate and followed a group of people in line to buy tickets.

"Sir, where do you want to buy a ticket to?" A ticketing girl asked.