Yang Fan made up his mind that no matter what Chongzhen called him, he would not go back.
Let him handle the matter of establishing slaves by himself. Yang Fan has given up the choice.
Anyway, I was beaten to the end by him, and the military power was completely lifted. Now, in addition to an empty title without a fiefdom, there is also a Suiyuan provincial capital that is almost no man's land. Basically, he has stood aside and hung up.
Yang Fan raised his middle finger to express his deep contempt for His Majesty's behavior of always facing forward instead of backward.
Yang Fan returned to Vladivostok and immediately summoned Chen Zuwang. He was now the commander of the Sea of Japan Fleet. The seven small clipper ships built in the early stage were all assigned to the Sea of Japan Fleet.
The smallest of these ships is more than 200 tons, and the largest is more than 500 tons. There are also a dozen Siamese ships worth 2,000 tons, which were bought from Macau. These ships form the Sea of Japan Fleet.
The Siamese ship is a Western hull plus Chinese sails. It can be regarded as a design that complements each other's strengths. The Chinese sails are more efficient in propulsion when the wind is insufficient. It is better to use the wind when the wind is against the wind.
Yang Fan directly chose three 500-ton clipper ships and five 2,000-ton Siamese ships. He set sail and went to Temple Street at the estuary of Heilongjiang. When they went, Yang Fan and his two ladies were still sitting in the royal car.
Flying Shear. However, the entrance of Heilongjiang is in the narrow strait between the mainland and Sakhalin Island. It is inconvenient for large ships to travel. When the time comes, we will need to change ships to enter Heilongjiang.
This time going north is different from before.
At this time, looking out through the floor-to-ceiling glass door of the bedroom, the Sea of Japan is filled with white waves and rolling swells. At this time, the cold air from Siberia blows from the land to the ocean. Once there is a strong wind, huge waves will be set off.
The swell rushed to the balcony, overflowed over the balcony, and then fell back into the sea with foam. Fortunately, the boat was strong enough and well-sealed, so water would not enter. However, the swell was half a meter high over the balcony, which still scared the wives.
scream.
Because the waves on the bow of the ship were too severe. The waves were seven to eight meters high, with a dark color, and undulated like mountains. A five thousand-ton sailboat was no different from a leaf in the sea.
Lin Yuan held the steering wheel and aimed at the huge waves and rushed head on.
He was very calm, and it was not uncommon for him to encounter sea conditions that were much more serious than this. At this time, he had to lower the sails and use the steam engine and propeller to drive him straight into the waves. If he faced the waves sideways, the ship would capsize.
The ship began to shake violently. Due to the rising waves, the bow of the ship pitched forward and backward very severely, and the roll also reached 15 degrees.
If the furniture is not fixed to the floor, it will definitely slide on the ground. All kinds of things on the table will clatter to the ground.
Yang Fan was okay, and Xiao Niangpi was okay, but Lin Yueru, Mei Xiang, and Chen Xi all started to get seasick.
Yang Fan originally wanted to leave them in Vladivostok, but they refused and insisted on following. Now it was better, they all began to suffer. The previous voyage did not encounter high sea conditions, and they regarded the sea as enjoyment. Now they are all vomiting.
There was a ruckus.
Xu Xiu brought a stack of plastic basins to the ladies to catch vomit.
Yang Fan quickly found seasickness medicine for them. They stopped vomiting after they took it. The child was placed in a cradle with a level, so it would not be affected. She was sleeping soundly, and Miss Yang was still eating her fingers.
In the evening, they all didn't eat, so they drank some millet porridge and sour radish kimchi. Otherwise, it would be more uncomfortable to have nothing in their stomachs. In the second half of the night, the strong wind stopped and the sea returned to calm, and they fell asleep.
The north wind was howling at sea, and the temperature dropped to more than ten degrees below zero. The glass was frozen.
When they woke up in the morning, they recovered. Although they were still dizzy, they were able to eat. Although the indoor temperature was constant at 25 degrees, there were ice flowers on the portholes.
The beautiful ice flowers made the wives happy. They all ran to enjoy themselves and play.
These ice flakes are radial and hexagonal like snowflakes. No two ice flakes are the same. Yang Fan is too lazy to care about these boring things. What's so good about window grilles? He is studying the map.
The Royal Clipper cannot enter Heilongjiang because the water there is only 3-4.5 meters deep. The Royal Clipper is 133.8 meters long, 16.5 meters wide, and has a draft of 5.5 meters. It will be stranded if it enters. So it can only be berthed in the river.
In the bay outside Haikou.
Yang Fan had to transfer to a small boat to enter Heilongjiang. To go upstream, he had to use a steam engine boat.
Three days later, the Royal Clipper and three clipper ships finally arrived at the mouth of the Heilongjiang River.
The Heilongjiang estuary is not an estuary delta like the Yangtze River or the Yellow River, but a bay, the Heilongjiang Drowning Valley, or the Amur Drowning Valley. The length is about 185 kilometers, the maximum width is about 40 kilometers, and the average depth is between 3 meters and 4.5 meters.
Heilongjiang disappears after entering a wide bay here, somewhat like an estuary bay like Sydney.
Here the Heilongjiang River flows into the Heilongjiang Drowning Valley in the north of the Tatar Strait connecting the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan, facing Sakhalin Island (Sakhalin Island) across the sea.
Drowning valley refers to an ancient river channel preserved underwater, which is a common coastal landform on subsidence coasts. When the main stream is submerged, the tributaries of the submerged section flow into the sea alone, which is called "Duanwei River".
Yang Fan stood on the bow of the boat with his hands behind his back, observing this deserted land. Not to mention the human habitation, there was not a single rabbit around. It was infinitely desolate, infinitely lonely, and a feeling of desolation came to his mind.
"Let's use this as an anchorage. The big ship will park here and wait for the Siamese ship to arrive. Zu Wang, I'll take your ship to go upstream." Yang Fan said.
The ladies were so seasick that they were not taken with them. They were allowed to recuperate on the Royal Clipper at the mouth of the river. At the same time, they kept an eye on the ice situation in Heilongjiang and used the radio to contact them at any time. Don't freeze Yang Fan's boat in the river.
"Sir, there are no people in Jiangkou, let's go directly to Temple Street." Chen Zuwang said.
"Well, let's go to Temple Street."
Chen San quickly turned the steering wheel. Now he is an old helmsman. Under Chen Zuwang's step-by-step guidance, he has grown into a qualified helmsman.
Woohoo! As the whistle blew, three small clipper boats headed towards the Heilongjiang inland waterway. The draft of these three boats was only 1.5 meters, so they could completely go upstream to the Onan River.
Temple Street is 80 kilometers within the river mouth. It is located on the north bank of Heilongjiang. Both sides of Heilongjiang are mountainous. Only here there is a small flat land near the river. This is the seat of Nurgandusi.
The three ships soon arrived at Temple Street. Yang Fan looked curiously at this ancient city built in the Tang Dynasty.
There are no walls in the entire ancient city, only a wooden fence. Most of it has collapsed. The city covers an area of about one square kilometer. There are hundreds of wooden houses. You can see a few people moving around.
In the north of the city, Yang Fan saw a temple with three courtyards. The building was relatively grand. However, it was in disrepair and half of the main hall collapsed. The roofs of other houses were also covered with grass, and branches stretched out from the snow on the roofs.
Seeing three white sailing ships of 500 tons docking, the people in the city were a little panicked. They rang the bronze bell in the temple. The bells sounded melodious and sweet.
Soon, four to five hundred people ran out with spears and crossbows. They looked at these white, outrageously beautiful sailing boats with vigilance. They didn't know who they were.
Yang Fan was shocked when he saw these people. These people were all Han and wore Han attire.
