"Smaller...smaller...that's it!"

After Qu Yongmin finished speaking, he sprayed the spray gun head towards the coal seam in the fire box. He did it very carefully and did not let go of every place. And while he was drying, he was talking to the apprentice named Changshun.

"Remember! There are some specialties in spraying fuel into the fire box. At the beginning, spray a small amount, and the air supply should not be large, otherwise smoke will be poured out. When all the coal in the fire box is sprayed with oil, the fire will burn, until it is strong, you can turn on the air supply box and then add coal to the fire box. Remember?"

"Remember! Master!" Changshun responded hurriedly, staring at the master's operating posture with his eyes, especially when the other party occasionally fiddled with the valve on the spray gun to adjust the amount of oil sprayed.

Qu Yongmin was busy for half an hour. When the coal in the fire box was burning and the fire was burning, he handed the spray gun to the apprentice who was waiting outside, and then turned his attention to the air pressure gauge.

Gradually, the number on the air pressure gauge slowly rose from 600 kPa. When it reached 1000 kPa, he opened the water pump switch, added water to the boiler, and then turned on the air pump.

At this point, the motorcycle can start.

When Yu Xiaolei and Fu Bin took a motorcycle to the platform, they looked at their watch. At 9:40, it was neither early nor late, just right!

On the other hand, after more than an hour of speeches, the opening ceremony also reached its climax, and it was time to cut the ribbon.

The big red silk that was dozens of meters long was cut into eleven pieces by the gongs and drums, and then it was taken away and distributed to the workers working in the station. It was good to take this thing back, whether it was a bellyband or a big red shorts.

According to the plan, after the ribbon cutting ceremony, the front of the locomotive would drag a bus car and a truck car with coal, and run back and forth at the dispatching station ten kilometers away at a speed of 60 kilometers per hour. Including the time of unloading there, the whole journey took more than an hour.

The first locomotives to be operated in Beihai Town were two forward-type steam locomotives, which were sealed stocks bought by Zhao Xin from a company in another time and space three years ago. After overhauling two years ago, it was transported with a Panamanian freighter, and then disappeared from the freight list when passing through a certain transit port.

At this time, the four-square-meter driver's room that could only accommodate three people was already full of crowds. In addition to Ou Yongnian and Sun Zhenyong, two chief drivers and deputy drivers, there was also a boiler worker who swung a large shovel. He had no wealth at all. The visitors could only stand on the pedal and stretched their necks to see the matter.

Before the steam train is driven, the driver, the deputy driver and the furnace driver must be ready to start. The driver's task is to preheat the cylinder, increase the temperature of the cylinder wall, and discharge a large amount of condensation in the cylinder; the deputy driver must take a few apprentices waiting on the platform, get off the car with a long-mouthed oil pot, and turn around, and oil the five friction surfaces of the flat wedge iron behind each wheel. In addition, the intermediate buffer must also be oiled.

At this time, Sun Zhenyong, who was the deputy driver, cheered on and said to the apprentices behind him: "Remember it all! As long as you park the car, the deputy driver has to come down to oil these places to reduce wear."

A student asked respectfully: "Master Sun, what if the iron wheel is parked just blocking the flat wedge iron?"

The old man nodded with satisfaction, turned around and showed a sensible expression of the deputy child and said, "Good questions! So when the location is just right when the oil is applied, you must give it enough. Not every time you park, the location can be just right for you."

After the inspection, more than 300 people who participated in the opening ceremony got on the bus. At this time, a signal light was raised in front of the station and notified that the train could be departed.

With a "sting" sound, as Qu Yongnian, who was the driver, skillfully pushed the gate to the operating position, the main air cylinder began to fill the train tube. As the pointer on the air pressure gauge turned to the six hundred and kilopa position, Old Man Sun pushed the handle again, opened the quarter valve, and then pulled the small gate to the relief position; with another "sting", the train started slowly.

"Bang~bang~bang~bang~bang~bang~bang~"

"It's moving! It's moving! The train is moving!"

In the second section of the bus, Zhu Dagui, who was sitting on a green backrest chair, felt his body suddenly rushing forward, and the scenery outside the window moved backward. The dizziness caused by his discomfort made him feel extremely uncomfortable in his chest.

After the train drove out of the platform, the driver in the cab pushed the forward gear to 55, opened the valve again, and then stepped on the drain valve on the ground on the left. Then the entire train ran away with a "click~click~click~click~click~"

With a long whistle, the steam train from Beihai Town rushed to the northeast for the first time.

Next to the railway east of Boli Station, I heard the news and saw that the strange border people of all ethnic groups were standing behind the fences on both sides of the railway. They were curious and stunned as the whistling train passed by. Fortunately, railway police and soldiers were arranged to be on duty every fifty meters next to this section of the railway, and wire guardrails were built. Otherwise, the Hezhe and Oroqen people who came from afar would have been able to stand on the railway tracks to see what was going on.

Ten days later, Fukang'an, who was in Wula City in Jilin, received a report from a spy that the Qianli Avenue built with four steel rails built north of the Huntong River in Beihai Town had been completed. Beihai Town used some evil method to actually allow a black steel monster with white smoke to drag two carriages, with at least hundreds of people sitting on it. The monster was in action and walked for more than twenty miles in just one stick of incense.

"A stick of incense makes hundreds of people walk for more than twenty miles... not good!" Fu Kangan thought for a while, suddenly stood up from his seat, his face turning a little pale.

In ancient times, an hour was divided into eight quarters, which is four quarters at the top and four quarters at the end of the world, each quarter was about 15 minutes in later generations. A stick of incense was one quarter of an hour, and it could walk twenty miles. Wouldn't one hour walk one hundred and sixty miles? It could walk thousands of miles in ten hours!

This matter is not a big deal. Fu Kangan was shocked. In his opinion, if Beihai Town has such a "steel monster", wouldn't it be true that traveling thousands of miles a day? If Beihai Town is dispatched troops in the future, thousands of people will only take half a day to rush thousands of miles away!

Who can deal with this? You must know that it only took more than 2,000 miles from Wula, Jilin to the capital! He set out from the capital to Xi'an to suppress bandits, and more than 60 sedan chairmen took turns to change along the way, so he had been walking for more than two months.

At present, from top to bottom in the Qing court, the person who knows the best about the strength of Beihai Town is General Fu. Although the Qing Dynasty has not made any moves in the past two years, it has been preparing for war and strengthening training in green camps in various places.

With the handover of 500,000 refugees, hundreds of guys who were on the mission of spies were infiltrated all over Beihai Town. However, the more news came back, the more scared the ministers from Qianlong to the lower ministers.

Not only can iron cattle and iron horses help farm, but boats of laborers from island countries are busy building roads and paving "iron slides" day and night in the dense forests of mountains and forests. What is the value of those places? Is it completely unreasonable to spend huge sums of money just for ginseng and mink!

For the Qing monarchs and ministers, the layers of fog that Beihai Town has been covered in over the years have not only not been revealed, but is even more incomprehensible. Not to mention the mystery of Zhao Xin's life experience, just where the wealth of Beihai Town came from, the Qing monarchs and ministers can't figure out even the Qing monarchs and ministers can't figure out the minds.

After fighting with Zhao Xin for so many years, the North Navy's military pay was shocked by Qianlong. In terms of military supplies, the Qing Dynasty's Ministry of War concluded based on statistics from previous battles that the expenditures on "guns" and flowering bullets in Beihai Town were astronomical figures.

Where did he get so much money? You should know that Zhao Xin has fought everywhere in recent years. In the eyes of the Qing dynasties, the silver in Beihai Town is a sea of ​​flowers!

According to the analysis of various currencies issued by the Baoquan Bureau of the Ministry of Revenue in recent years, the quality of Beihai silver dollars is consistent and the balance of the portion is beyond imagination. Even copper coins are no different from the version issued last year in terms of copper content. What does this mean? It shows that Beihai Town has extremely sufficient silver and copper stock, stable market and abundant finances.

Trade with the island country? The people from Kayao and Heshen have checked many times in Nagasaki. The gold and silver that Beihai Town earned from the island country in the past three years was only more than two million taels, and only two-thirds of the cash was cashed out. The others were gold and silver notes.

Searching the gold and sand mines on Lengji Island? The problem is that the people from the sticking rod and Fukang'an have also checked it. The gold and sand mines will last for a year, which will only have a profit of more than 100,000 taels.

A minister speculated that there would be large gold and silver mines outside the pass, and Beihai Town supported it with this support? However, this was even more impossible. The Qing Dynasty has been in the founding of the Jin Dynasty for 174 years. Nurhaci and Huang Taiji fought in Jilin and Heilongjiang during the period of time, and included the Hezhe, Xibe, Oroqen and Daur tribes under their command. If there were any large gold and silver mines, Qianlong would have known it long ago.

Later, when news of Zhao Xin leading his troops to defeat Tsarist Russia in the Nebaikal region came, the people led by Heshen speculated that Zhao Xin would plunder and loot after conquering the land of Oros to support military expenditure, otherwise why would he have to fight to the Yenisei River?

However, when the news from Outer Mongolia came back, Qianlong and his son and Heshen were disappointed again. Beihai Town did not plunder at all, but instead exempted the captive tax in the occupied areas.

When will Zhao Xin take action? Now this matter has become the most concerned issue in the Qing Dynasty.

On April 5, 1791, Zhao Xin, Liu Sheng, Fan Tong and Zhang Jingxuan, who returned to Baibaier City from Boli Town, held a three-day closed-door meeting. What they focused on was a "Outer Mongolia Battle Implementation Outline" drafted by the North Navy Staff and revised by Zhao Xin.
Chapter completed!