Outside Jinyang City, on the Fen River, there were crowds of people at the pier. Countless people were looking forward to it. Looking at the steamer ship gradually approaching the river, the chimneys on the steamer ship rolled out of thick smoke and made a huge roar. The oars on both sides were rotating, causing a lot of water splashes.

Seeing this giant moving in front of his eyes, countless people were so nervous that their foreheads were sweating. At this moment, a whistling sound suddenly came from the boat, like a giant wolf roaring towards the sky.

This long roar scared many people on the dock to get weak legs and sit on the ground with a "thump". The timid children were frightened and cried, while more people were both scared and excited because they finally saw clearly what the rumored steamship looked like.

When the first steamship arrived outside Jinyang City through the Fen River at the beginning of the year, there were crowds of people on both sides of the Fen River. Many people could not squeeze in, so they could not witness the majestic posture of the steamship sailing with their own eyes.

In the next few months, as the steamship arrived at Jinyang Port more and more times, more and more people witnessed the true appearance of this behemoth.

At the same time, the steam crane that appeared on the Jinyang Port Pier also amazes the people who come to watch.

Everyone witnessed the giant stretching his iron arms, gently lifting the cargo weighing hundreds of hu of water on the cargo ship, panting, and putting it on the ground on the other side of the dock.

The magical power of the steam crane makes people think that it is the Vajra sent by Buddha to show off their skills, while the steamship is more people think that this is a patrol of the sea yaksha.

How could this shrill whistling sound be heard?

Seeing the fire ship slowly approaching the dock, the crowds rushed to the shore, and soldiers who maintained order struggled to push the railings to prevent the crowd from breaking through the railings and crowding people in the front row into the water.

From time to time, port personnel shouted loudly: "Don't squeeze! Don't squeeze! Everyone watch the boat in a civilized manner, don't squeeze!"

Because there are too many people coming to the port area to watch steamships every day, maintaining order is a chore. However, the government has ordered that in order to let the people better understand steamships, specific areas will be drawn up in the port area to facilitate the people to come and watch.

Many grassroots officials complained about this because Shangguan's words were enough to make the people below run away from their legs.

However, Shangguan was convinced that he allowed the port area to organize hawkers to sell various snacks and drinks in the "audience area", and used the income to make everyone's "hard work", so everyone's resentment was much less.

It is summer now, and it is really hard to maintain order at the dock under the scorching sun. However, as someone who knows a lot of "insider information", the port staff are the best candidates for many people to find solutions, so they have become vaguely attracted by thousands of people. This feeling is really good.

In addition, the government did allow them to promote steamships, so they asked questions and answered them, which attracted a lot of praise.

Regarding the sudden whistling sound from the steamer ship just now, the officials laughed: "That's a whistle, a whistle! It's just that playing the flute with steam. It's the same as playing the flute by people, but the steam is large and it's particularly loud when blowing!"

Someone asked why the freighter had masts and sails on the ship, and the officials' answers were also straightforward: "The machine and sail are both used. When sailing with the wind, the ship can go faster and save more coal!"

There were many people asking questions, but more people were attracted by the scene of the crane unloading the steamship. Everyone witnessed the supernatural powers of the crane again, and the sound of amazement was endless.

Fortunately, Jinyang had already started using steam pumps a few years ago, so the people are not unfamiliar with machines like "steam engines". Even if they have never seen them, most of them have heard of them. So when they see steamships and cranes, they will at least not be scared to think that they have seen monsters and monsters.

But these magical machinery are really incredible. Everyone can't understand that this thing can have such great strength if it doesn't eat food, grass, and only coal.

As for coal, Bingzhou, there are some coal mountains outside Jinyang since ancient times, so many people believe that it is precisely because of this that the coal-loving steamships are attracted.

Ordinary people think so, but well-informed people don’t think so. The “Shipbuilding Administration” organized by the court has now been officially established, which means that mining coal in Bingzhou is a huge profit.

There is a lot of coal in Bingzhou and the Fen River is connected to the Yellow River. Then the large amount of coal produced in Bingzhou will inevitably be continuously supplied to Chang'an. Chang'an's demand for coal will only increase. Therefore, as long as there is a mine that produces coal, the mine will be a "money spring" that will spray money.

In less than half a year, the dignitaries and prominent families in Chang'an, the wealthy families in Hedong, and the powerful people from all over the country have begun to recruit people to explore mineral veins and mine coal mines in various places in Bingzhou, and the same is true in the Jinyang area.

The coal-carrying steamship itself consumes a lot of coal, while the coal-carrying steamships to Jinyang north are definitely not empty. A large amount of Guanzhong's output and grain will be continuously transported to Jinyang, unloading the cabin, and then filling up the coal to return.

This means that the business opportunities in Jinyang skyrocketed sharply, which is a good opportunity for everyone to make a fortune.

Among the crowd watching on the dock, two young people looked at the wonders in front of them, and couldn't calm down for a long time. After a while, they walked out from left to right.

After finally leaving the crowd, they came to a big tree on the edge of the port area. The two looked back at the direction of the dock. After a long time, one of the slightly thin men asked, "How about it, Wu San, have you made up your mind?"

"Well, I've made up my mind." The warrior replied, and then asked back: "Where are you, Wen Bao?"

"Think it clearly." Xu Wenbao replied with a smile, and then added: "Go and learn to fire the ship."

"Oh? Didn't you say you wanted to start a mine before? Is this very profitable?"

After hearing the warrior's question, Xu Wenbao smiled and said, "You, hehe, you must also want to learn the steamship, right?"

The warrior nodded, and the two of them walked out while talking.

Xu Wenbao and the warrior were fellow villagers. Xu Wenbao was born into a civilian family, and the warriors were different, and they were born into an official family.

But because of the decline of family, the third-ranked warrior in the family relied on buying tofu to support his family at a young age, while Xu Wenbao did some small business.

The two have a good relationship and are thinking about saving money to do big business together. They originally saw that building construction inside and outside Jinyang City had a great demand for wood, so they planned to do wood transactions, but now the situation has changed.

Mining and mining is a huge profit-making transaction, because from now on, there will be no need to worry about selling coal, and you can sell as much as you can. If you start mining, you can't make a lot of money. The only reason is that you don't have enough coal mining.

Xu Wenbao and the warriors planned to start a mine, but after careful understanding, they felt sad: the powerful people in Chang'an, the aristocratic families in Hedong, the local tyrants in Bingzhou, and the wealthy merchants in Jinyang, all of them were eager to recruit people to start a mine, but they couldn't compete.

There is a lot of coal in Bingzhou, so there are always places to mine. The problem is that you have to hire skilled workers. At least you have to find the veins so that you can not lose money when you start mine.

Now, skilled miners are being recruited by big investors, and they can't get the small amount of money.

If you follow the original idea, it is not bad to do a timber business, but this will miss an excellent opportunity.

That opportunity is to do shipping and ship shipping.

Xu Wenbao and the warrior both thought of shipping, because according to reports from multiple sources, the General Administration of Shipbuilding and Merchants will not always monopolize the shipping of steamships. When the steamship develops, private ship owners will be allowed to engage in shipping of steamships.

This is a way to get rich, but they also know that to engage in this industry, they must first understand the tricks.

Not to mention anything else, steamships are said to be difficult to serve. If they become ship owners in the future, hire ship bosses and ship workers to drive the ship, if they do not understand the inside story of the steam engine, they will easily be deceived and take advantage of it.

First of all, how to control the coal consumption, the ship owner does not know the inside story, so the boss of the ship said that he would burn as much coal as he would, and it would be easy for the other party to take advantage of this.

Secondly, the owner must know the maintenance cost of the steamship, otherwise the shipper will have to exchange for some money if the component is broken. The owner does not know the inside story and will easily be taken advantage of by the other party.

Also, if the steam engine fails, it may be that a small accessory worth tens of cents is broken, but the shipman said that it was a accessories worth tens of cents of people were broken, and the ship owner would be cheated of money by the other party if he didn't know the details.

Therefore, if you want to engage in steamship shipping, the ship owner must hire reliable technical workers to check, but this is difficult, because there are too many monks and too little porridge, and even if you invite good people, you still have to provide delicious food and drink, so it is better to learn it yourself.

After learning craftsmanship, I spent a few years working in this industry. After becoming proficient, I became the owner of the ship and did shipping.

This is what the warrior and Xu Wenbao think, but if you learn skills, you have to become a disciple. No one knows where the master is.

But now I know.

In Jinyang City, a new "technical school" has been opened recently, which specializes in recruiting people to learn how to fire a ship, but students must sign a contract and must work for the General Administration of Shipbuilding Investment and Trade for several years after graduation.

The emergence of this school was a timely rain. The warrior and Xu Wenbao made up their minds to go to the school to learn skills and learn to fire the ship.
Chapter completed!