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A large cargo ship is slowly approaching the arrivals area outside the city of Vostochny Harbor, this ship is flying a large Meideno flag and the bow of the ship is written "Vinopolis" in the Meideno language. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info This is the large transport ship of Miro, the Venopolis, and the blonde Miro is standing on the observation deck of the ship's mid-mast at the port of Vostochny in the distance.

The feud is far away, and the lonely place is far away

He had guessed in his mind countless times what Dongfang Port was like, but when Dongfang Port really came to him, he couldn't help but be stunned on the spot. The first thing that appeared in front of him at this time was the lighthouse of Vostochny Port, which was built on a sandbar in the middle of the sea, and was not a small bamboo shoot at the top and a large at the bottom, but a cylindrical shape that went straight up and down. The lighthouse is twenty meters tall, and while it wasn't a tall building in this plane, it was built on a sandbar. This made Miro wonder how the Chinese could build such a tall building on a sandbar.

In fact, this is not a black technology, although this sandbar is about 800 meters away from the port, but according to the detection, it was found that there is mud and rocks about five meters below the sandbar, so the construction department used sediment to enclose a large circle next to the excavation foundation to prevent waves, and then directly excavated the foundation, and it took about three months to build this lighthouse. At first glance, this lighthouse built on a sandbar surprised the natives of the plane, thinking that the people had a secret method, which made the mystery of the Senate deeper.

The light source of the lighthouse adopts two ways, one is to lay a mirror on the lighthouse to directly reflect the sunlight during the day; The second is to install solar and wind turbines on the top of the lighthouse, which can drive a 400-watt lighting device on the lighthouse, and large searchlights are also installed on the north and south sides to scan the situation on both sides of the port sandbar. Since the lighting equipment on the lighthouse is enhanced by mirrors made in the Oriental Port, the lights can be seen from ten nautical miles away. It was daytime, and Miro could only see the top of the lighthouse shining extremely brightly under the sun's rays, and after looking at it for a long time, he couldn't help but feel his eyes dazzled, so he had to continue to scan the entire waterway into the port.

The inbound waterway is located in the northeast of the Oriental Port, about forty or fifty meters wide, and the pilot ships of the Oriental Port are busy entering and exiting the incoming waterway, bringing one after another fully loaded cargo ships into the port. Miro opened the monoculars in his hand and looked closely at the busy and rapid entry and exit of the harbor, and could not help but be startled, these pilot ships were unlike anything he had ever seen before. The boat is made up of two pontoons about 10 meters long and 3 meters wide, connected by an iron frame between the two pontoons, which float on the water like a sleigh and are particularly stable because of the two hulls.

What makes Miro very interesting is that there are no sailors paddling on these pilot boats, but there are four sets of pedals, each of which has four sailors sitting in their corresponding positions, and he has no idea how these pedals drive these catamarans, but he can see the water gushing out from the back of the hull, and it is obvious that something is pushing the hull underwater. The sailors, who sat in the footrest position of the rear group, grasped the rudder in their hands and deftly kept the hull running back and forth on the calm sea.

Miro has seen countless small boats, and he often ferries back and forth between big boats in small boats, and often sees large waves overturning single boats, and now this kind of catamaran boat has a greater advantage in resisting ordinary waves, "This is similar to the city on the sea." He couldn't help but muttered to himself.

The sailors on the side looked at him and were stunned, "Captain, how can this Eastern Port be the same as a city on the sea, isn't it built on land?"

Miro rolled his eyes, "I'm talking about the pilots," he said, pointing to a speedy pilot, "I don't know how they managed to make the dinghy run so fast at sea"

In fact, the predecessor of these pilot ships is the tour boat of the major parks in the old time and space, these tour boats use pedals such as paddle wheels and bicycles, such products are OK to walk in the pond, if they go to the sea, they are destined to have cups, so Liu Shenhong of the design department designed these boats, first of all, the same pedal as Rolls-Royce, although the pedal stroke is shorter, but it can be more labor-saving. Secondly, the paddle wheel on the old design was canceled, and the propeller was adopted, because most of the position of the paddle wheel is on the water, so a large part of the power efficiency of driving the hull will be lost, and the propeller will be used to drive the ship forward because of all the potential water surface, so that these pilot ships have obtained stronger power than the paddle wheel drive. The entire hull drive part of the hull uses a large propeller shaft through which the power generated by the ship's four pedals drives the propellers. In terms of power, Liu Shenhong continued to use the more skillful "clutch" used by Rolls-Royce, so that the power generated when driving the propeller was more uniform, and this kind of pilot ship once reached a maximum speed of ten meters per second during the hydrostatic water test, even in the shallow sea and harbor with waves, it can easily reach a speed of five meters per second, which is simply a divine object that uses the secret art of the aborigines. Liu Shenhong once wanted to change the steering rudder to the front, but soon found that although such a design can make the steering action more flexible, it is easy to cause fatigue of mechanical parts and damage the steering system prematurely. What is even more annoying is that these naturalized pilots do not know when they have begun to learn to race in the sea, and these half-monk boatmen often can't control the shoals on the shore, and the rudder is often directly broken in the shallows or damaged when the rudder is ahead. After several painstaking repairs, the design department held a special meeting to discuss and directly turned the rudder to the rear of the hull, so that even if the bow of the ship washed ashore, the rudder and propeller were still on the water, which could effectively reduce the chance of damage.

As a result, these awe-in-the-light pilots moved nimly along the waterways, and even the larger ships behind them were a little unable to keep up, so it wasn't long before merchant ship owners began to ask for these pilots to be able to tow cargo ships into the port. At first, the pilots were afraid to tow a merchant ship that was forty or fifty meters long and six or seven meters wide, but after several subsequent experiments, it was found that two pilots could tow these mountain-like freighters in the harbor at a speed of about three or four meters per second, although the speed was not high, but it was not very difficult. Therefore, now the task undertaken by these pilot ships has become to tow cargo ships in and out of the port, of course, this is to be charged separately, but the captains in and out of the Oriental Port often do not care about this diversion fee, so many cargo ships have one or two pilot ships in front of the front towing the behemoth in the rear slowly into the port.

The enemy is the most troublesome in the enemy's place

At first, Miro didn't believe that such a ship could tow his own merchant ship, but when the pilots of the Oriental Port fixed the towing rope to the stern of the ship and began to step on the pedals together, he knew that he was wrong, not only could they tow, but also did not seem to be slow, which was much better than when they had to lower their dinghy and paddle themselves to tow when they entered other ports.

When the ships entered the port, Miro saw a row of six long wharves, each of which was more than 100 meters long and about 40 meters wide, with iron rails and cranes. Unlike the cranes seen elsewhere, these cranes do not have a squirrel cage or push rod for human output, and only one person sits on a small high platform in front of several control rods. Behind the crane was a large tin can, and I don't know what it contained, and there was a chimney not far away emitting black smoke.

"Captain, Captain" Miro looked down, it turned out that the second mate was calling himself under the mast, and hurriedly slid down the rope and fell to the deck, only to find that there was a pilot who had just boarded the boat, and the pilot saw Miro coming down, nodded at him and said, "Hello Captain, I am the captain of the 035 pilot boat, number 0351, may I ask what kind of cargo is the main cargo on your ship?"

"Do you need to file a tax return?" Miro saw a lot of tax collectors at various ports, "what kind of tax collection is carried out?"

"It's not a tax return, Mr. Captain," the pilot smiled at him and nodded, "We have to go to different wharves according to the cargo on board, Pier 123 is a bulk cargo transfer terminal, and Pier 456 is a dock that uses a crane to lift the whole cargo. ”

"What is the whole cargo" Miro couldn't help but be confused, can the goods be transported in other ways I saw the pilot smile and said to a huge iron box that was being lifted in the distance, "That's a container, it is a unified standard cargo box made according to the standards of the Senate, and the goods are all concentrated in the container, which can quickly load and unload bulk materials." If it is bulk cargo, you must go to the front pier 123, where there are special silos that can be lifted by crane. ”

"Some of the cotton and wool that I shipped on my ship, mainly from the South Seas, are now in pockets and in the hold. I've heard that these are the industrial raw materials needed by the Senate, so let's enjoy the low tax," Miro said to the pilot, "I don't know how much tax I need to collect."

The pilot was stunned for a moment, "We are now tax-free for major industrial raw materials, including cotton and wool, and wool also has raw material procurement subsidies, since you are in pockets, then it should be bulk cargo, so go to the second pier, the sixth berth is now empty." The pilot pointed to an empty berth in front of Pier 2 in the distance.

The enemy is not far away, and he hates to be lonely

"What's going on with the container" Miro was stunned for a while and looked at the container hanging on the crane in the distance, "Can I load this ship?"

"Yes, captain," said the pilot, "you only need to modify the cargo hold, open a window, your ship is a five-masted one, there is a container in and out of the cargo hold, if you want to consult the container problem, you can go ashore to the port management office to ask, but you should be careful, because without a physical examination, you can only move freely in the port area, you can not enter the trade area and the veteran area, forced entry is to be caught and put in a labor camp for re-education through labor." ”

"That's why" Miro couldn't help but be stunned, he couldn't walk casually when he got ashore, he could only walk around the port area, "so what should the sailors on my ship do if they want to go ashore to relax"

"If you want to find a woman, there is a garden, if you want to drink, there is a bar, there is everything in it, even if you want to gamble, there is a special casino." In addition, there is also a lottery event, so you can participate in the lottery at any time. In contrast, there is nothing good about going to the trade area and there is nothing to play, it is a trading station for large transactions, and the average sailor will not go there at all. By the way, you're a Bible reader."

The enemy is not the ghost, and the ball hates the sun

Miro was stunned again and couldn't help but nodded, "Yes, friend, why are you asking this?"

"There are a lot of naturalized expatriates who are petitioning to build a church in the port, and I see that you are also a Maidno person, and you should also believe in the Bible, and you can also go to the port authority to consult the petition process."

This sentence made Miro's heart skip a beat, "Foreign naturalized people"

"Yes, a few months ago some of my Medeno sailors were captured in battle, and then they chose to be loyal to the Senate, and now many of them have become naturalized citizens like me, and many of them are serving in the navy. By the way, you see, that ship is. ”

Miro looked in the direction of the pilot's finger and saw a sharp ship, on which many sailors in white sailor uniforms were running up and down the deck and aft tower, and this sharp ship was setting sail for the port. However, the distance is relatively far, and I can't see the faces of the people on them clearly, and I can only roughly see that the hair exposed by the hat on their heads is both blonde and red, and only a few people have black hair color. Out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a metallic gray sheen, which seemed to be a large iron plate in a trance. Miro hurriedly looked at it, only to see that the figure of the sharp ship seemed to be blocking a big ship, and he was about to take a closer look, when he heard the sailors on the side suddenly shout, "Steel giant, steel giant"

The deck suddenly boiled, and the sailors on the two ships followed also exclaimed the same words to the side of the deck, pointing at the distance, at this time, the sharp ship slowly sailed into the port and exit channel, revealing the shadow of the blocked ship, and what caught the eye was really a huge ship of steel, this giant ship of steel was longer than its three freighters combined, even if it was a sharp ship, the length of the two ships could not compare to this giant ship. Miro was really stunned at this time, it turned out that the legend that the Chinese had a huge steel giant like a mountain without sails and oars turned out to be true, only to see the bow side of the ship with white paint written "Dongfeng".

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