Chapter 1052: The guest asked where my home is, the door is facing the river, and the boat is a leaf

But now, fortunately, Shen Mo has encircled the location where the old wine might be hiding in the port area of ​​Tongzhou. This area is equivalent to one-quarter of the entire old city of Tongzhou, which makes it much less difficult.

So Song Wuhui and Cheng Wuhen immediately took on the job and began to prepare for the search operation in great intensity.

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If a modern person comes to the port area of ​​Tongzhou, he will definitely have an illusion. That is, they come to the "Ancient Town of XX" during the long holiday of modern times.

Here, because every inch of land is valuable, the flowers and trees in the yard have been pulled out. Rows of houses and warehouses have been temporarily built, and all of them have been rented out.

The streets are crowded. When you walk into any house, you will find that the passage there is so narrow that it cannot be turned around.

The first thing people who come here to work and look for opportunities after getting ashore is to find a place to live in the port area, so the mobility of migrant population here is also very high.

In addition to these people, big businesses in various places have also set up their own offices in Tongzhou. They have sent people to squat at the factory gate all day long, waiting for each batch of products to leave the factory, and they are snatching away by the people they have long waited for here.

Various trading companies also set up warehouses here, plus the industry associations of each industry, as well as fellow townspeople set up by merchants from Guangdong, Fujian, Liangzhe, and various places. Countless institutions have made this port area mixed, and people of all kinds have filled the place.

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But something new happened at the port today, but it made the port area empty.

Almost everyone ran to Tongzhou Port by the river to see something fresh, so they couldn't find a cup of tea in the teahouse - because Dr. Tea and Mr. Storyteller had all gone to the empty house.

Everyone gathered in the port, and for a while, the streets by the river, roofs, and even the branches were filled with people.

At this moment, on the distant river surface, there was neither sail nor oyster on a strange black ship. He saw white smoke rising from his body, swaying on the river like a monster.

This guy is actually a steamboat!

Today is the day when the steamship "Black Fish" was launched to test sail. As soon as it appeared at Tongzhou Port, it attracted the attention of those people at the port.

Afterwards, people here rushed to tell each other, slowly attracting everyone in the entire port area towards the riverside.

The displacement of this boat is only 250 tons, which is smaller than a slightly larger fishing boat in later generations. However, in this era, it has become an extremely huge creature.

Today, this Blackfish still uses the traditional structure of iron-ribbed wood shell. However, in order to test military performance, it still wrapped a layer of two-mm thick steel plate as armor on its exposed wooden hull.

The steam engine equipped on this Blackfish is the latest model with 500 horsepower. The size of this steam engine is only one-quarter of the size of the steam engine used in later trains, and the horsepower is only one-sixth of the steam engine of trains.

However, when he pushed this big ship and was rolling in smoke and dust on the river, people of this era still felt the shock of seeing the Dragon Prince come out of the water with their own eyes.

"See? Have you seen? Turning around? Hey! This guy is not a little temper! Look at him, he will hum twice in a while!" From time to time, a few fussy screams came from the crowd.

Then, as they looked at them, the huge steamship roared from the distant river surface, and drove straight towards the port!

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Although this is just an experimental steamship, the effect it brings is enough to make the Southern Song people regard it as a monster at this time.

In their opinion, this monster spitting white smoke not only makes a heavy breathing sound, but also comes from the heart of the river to the dock. Seeing this scene, the onlookers' surprise was no less than that of later generations who saw a giant alien flying saucer parked above their city!

For a moment, people on the dock were talking. All the guesses about what this thing was, and all kinds of bizarre ideas were spread.

After the smoke-producing steamship gradually approached the dock, the waves rolling on the water behind the boat, but the dark hull slowly turned in direction and slowly leaned towards the dock.

When the black ship got closer, the people watching felt that it was pitch black and tall, like an unknown giant!

At this time, among the crowd watching, the sound of marveling and the sound of constantly breathing in the air.

Someone said in a gloomy tone in the crowd: "I don't know how many paddlers this big guy has to eat to run so fast in the water..."

Before he could finish his words, he suddenly heard a loud whistle sounding "Huh!"!

This kind of train whistle sound is blown through the air holes using high-pressure steam. Even people who are used to hearing the roar of trains in later generations will suddenly be shocked when they hear it up close, let alone people from this era?

When I heard the roar of the steam engine, I saw the people watching the fun on the shore, and I was shocked!

They all retreated involuntarily, and climbed up on the surrounding street trees and watched the fun, and even fell down like ripe fruits.

For a moment, the port area was in chaos!

At this moment, among the crowd watching the fun, there was a young man looking at the residents around him who were fleeing behind in a disdainful way.

He shook his hand and shouted to the people around him: "It's okay, it's okay! This thing doesn't bite people!"

"This is the steam engine whistle, which is to remind everyone to pay attention!" The young man smiled bitterly and explained to the people around him:

"You will know over time in the future that there will be more and more steamboats on the river. In addition, it is not because it has eaten the pulp hand that it can run so fast!"

When I heard this person's words, many people around me stood up.

Then, when they saw the young man's appearance, they immediately turned their convincing eyes to him, but they were a little more convinced of what he had just said.

It turned out that this young man was wearing a school uniform of a Tongzhou university.
Chapter completed!