After giving some brief instructions on what was going on on Prison Island, after lunch, Lin Fu took a long boat to the boat. He was worried that he would fall into the water in this weather - this was the disadvantage of not having a dock.
Boats have to drink a certain depth of water and cannot completely lean on the river beach. Small boats can be connected to the river beach with planks. The draft of a thousand-stone ship, especially a pointed-bottomed boat, is almost more than one foot deep, and the slope of the river beach into the water is very small.
The water that is one foot deep often has to be 13 to 14 feet away from the shore, and a long wooden board that is 13 to 14 feet long is needed to connect it to the river beach. Such a long board requires wood from trees that are hundreds or even thousands of years old. Even so.
, goods and people can go down to the river beach and go from the river beach to the river embankment. It is far less convenient than having a pier. Although there is a pier outside the east city of Jiangning and north of Jiuweng Bridge, the Jiuweng Bridge pier is right next to it.
On the middle channel of the Jinchuan River, the Jinchuan River is only 17 or 18 feet wide. A few more ships can block the entire river, so the Jiangning government only allows official ships and military ships to park there.
If you want to transport goods conveniently, you have to build a wharf in an open river mouth or directly on the river bank.
"I heard Jingzhong say, are you building a dock and a warehouse here?" Lin Mengde jumped on the boat. Zhou Pu and Wu Qi stood up and gave their seats to him and Lin Jingzhong.
"Well," Lin Fu nodded. He was not so particular on the boat. He picked up the iron kettle and heated the cup with hot water. Then he gave Lin Mengde the cup that Zhou Pu and Wu Qi drank from. Lin Jingzhong refilled the tea, "I
We cannot leave Prison Island casually, so I asked Jingzhong to invite Uncle Mengde over for discussion."
"If yesterday, I felt that this matter was too difficult to handle, I might not have bothered to make this trip." Lin Mengde didn't care about Lin Fu. He now regretted why Lin Fu was not a disciple of his family. He picked up the cup
He took a sip of tea, which was Iron Curtain High Foam Tea. He put down the cup, looked at Lin Fu, and asked, "Do you make the decision on everything on Prison Island?"
"Uncle Meng De's news is really fast." Lin Fu smiled.
"How can you be unhappy? Gu Wuchen escorted nearly two hundred people into the city, and I could hear it even with my ears covered..." Lin Mengde said.
"That's right for now. Master Gu sent Yang Shi to help me on the island." Lin Fu then answered Lin Mengde's question just now.
Lin Mengde nodded. He had visited Gu Mansion more than once or twice. He knew everyone around Gu Wuchen. If Gu Wuchen didn't trust Lin Fu, he would have sent Yang Pu or Ma Chao to Prison Island to contain Lin Fu. He would not have sent Yang Shi.
This hairy boy.
Although Jiangdao Prisoner was a low-level official from the ninth rank, Lin Mengde was not the kind of person whose eyes were only blinded by his rank, especially when Gu Wuchen made such a big move to clear Jiangdao Prison.
From the action, he could also guess that Gu Wuchen was going to rebuild the prison city on Jinchuan Prison Island. The size of the official position was secondary, the key was to have real power, and whether the real power had other uses.
If all the heavy-duty prisoners in Jiangdong and above were imprisoned in the prison city in the future, it is not difficult to imagine how strict the security of Jinchuan Prison Island at the southern end of Chaotiandang will be in the future. It is only one mile away from Jinchuan Prison Island by water. Naturally,
It can radiate the defense force of Jinchuan Prison Island.
Lin Mengde stroked the beard on his chin and thought for a moment, then said to Lin Fu: "I heard that Jiyunshe got business posters from Moling County, with a principal of 20,000 taels of silver, but they wanted to build a dock and a warehouse by the river.
, 20,000 taels of silver can't even be used to make a bottom..." Lin Mengde naturally knew that the principal of 20,000 taels of silver was just a false promise. He really couldn't imagine where Lin Fu could get 20,000 taels of gold. He even doubted that Ji Ji could get it.
Yunshe was an empty shell, except for the money that those foreign horse dealers got from buying horses in Shanglin. Lin Mengde was still suspicious of where those foreign horse dealers came from.
"I can't fight to the end. Besides, even if I have some money, there are too many places to use it," Lin Fu said, "That's why I came to discuss with Uncle Mengde."
After Lin Mengde and Lin Jingzhong boarded the boat, the boat left the mouth of the river and sailed slowly westward along the river bank.
When the wharf was built in Shanglinli, Lin Mengde was still young. Later, when the wharf was expanded, he participated. He knew how difficult it was to build a wharf at the mouth of the Shiliang River and Shanglin River. At this time, it was necessary to build a wharf on the riverside.
The dock is more difficult.
Lin Mengde looked at the bank stones eroded by the river water, pointed to the river beach under the boat, and said to Lin Fu: "We need to pile stones all the way to the center of the river where a thousand-stone boat can stop. It will be almost thirty or forty feet away."
The pier will be built with stone - the waves in the river are too big, so earth will definitely not work. Even if you use stone, you will have to drive large wooden piles to the bottom of the river and use huge rocks to weigh it down. This project is too big, and it will be difficult for the Jiangning Prefecture to take charge of it.
, If you want to rely on the power of several businesses..." This was Lin Mengde's first on-site inspection. The more he thought about it, the more he became discouraged. Building a small dock on the riverside would cost hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.
How many businesses are willing to take this risk with their money?
"No, no, no, it's not as difficult as you imagine, Uncle Mengde. There are two ideas for building a dock. One is to build a high platform with deep water, and the other is to dig a water channel to create a high platform. The current common practice is to build a high platform with stones.
It extends to deep water to facilitate the berthing of ships. Jingzhong and I have carefully studied it. Uncle Mengde, look at this river beach. We hired people to dig out a deep channel from the river beach to allow ships to sail in and berth directly on the shore rocks.
It greatly saves manpower. The only difficulty is that the deep water channel will be silted up by river mud from time to time, so people need to be sent into the water regularly to clear out the silt..."
"..." Lin Mengde was stunned. He thought he had a lot of knowledge, but he didn't expect that building a dock could be based on this idea. Think about it, in the final analysis, it is just to find a way to avoid shallow cargo ships with deep drafts.
Is it convenient to load and unload goods?
"Have you ever asked the builder for details?" Lin Mengde asked.
"Everyone I asked about it found experienced masters. At first, they didn't believe it was possible to build a wharf on the riverside. They brought good wine and meat to the riverside and took a closer look. They all thought that they could give it a try," Lin Jingzhong
Said, "We also drew up a complete countermeasure based on the changes in the river water in different seasons. Choose a stone bank, the steeper the edge, the better. If the stone bank is too high, you can cut stone steps, which is better than building a stone platform to the center of the river.
It saves a lot of effort."
Lin Mengde nodded. It is of course easy to cut stone. First, pile firewood to heat it, and then boil cold water. Once it is cold and then hot, the stone will collapse into a large piece. It does not take much manpower to cut a stone step that leads directly to the river beach.
Compared with building a high platform in the middle of the surging river, it is indeed much easier to dig a deep channel. Even if the water channel is dredged in the future, it will be easier. After all, after building a high platform, it will save effort to guard against solar erosion and lunar eclipse of the river water.
Lin Mengde was wondering: Why is such a simple method not commonly used? After thinking about it, I understood that this method is only suitable for stone banks, preferably natural stone banks. If the bank is made of earth, dig deep under the roots of the earth bank.
Water channel, isn't this convenient for earth embankments to collapse?
Lin Mengde looked at the river bank and thought, no wonder Lin Fu chose this place to build his warehouse. These rugged stone banks are made of stone even to the bottom. Even if they are dug ten feet deep, there is no fear that the stone bank will be washed away by the river.
Lin Fu and Lin Mengde were taking a boat in Lin Jingzhong to inspect the site suitable for digging a deep channel to build a dock. They heard the sound of horse hooves. The sound of horse hooves stopped at the river embankment above their heads. Lin Fu was wondering: Who is riding there at this time?
I came up to the river embankment to see the scenery, and looked up. In the blink of an eye, Song Jia's charming face looked over.