Chapter 934: Porters and Warriors on the Road
The mouth of the Sancha River is an important transportation thoroughfare. Youdao connects the north and the south and is connected to a Grand Canal. The most important part of the Grand Canal is the mouth of the Sancha River.
There are many rivers in this place, including the South Canal from the south, the North Canal from the north to the capital, the Lianhe River and the Fu Er River, the Ziya River that connects Hebei and Shanxi, and the Haihe River that joins nine rivers and pours into the Bohai Sea!
The so-called three floating bridges and two passes.
The first Chaoguan pontoon bridge is located on the South Canal.
This bridge connects to Hebei Street in the north. Going out from the northeast corner of the old city is the Chaoguan Floating Bridge. After passing the floating bridge and following Hebei Street, you will find the eighteen martial arts schools that Qian and Chen used to suppress.
After passing the Chaoguan Floating Bridge, you will reach the mouth of the Sancha River.
Three rivers meet here, forming a T-shaped river. To the west of the mouth of the T-shaped river is the Nanyun Canal from the south. The longest part of the T-shaped river is the Haihe River that leads directly to the Bohai Sea.
At the mouth of the Sancha River, the corner where the South Canal and the Haihe River meet, is where the Tianhou Temple is located.
Further down, the Haihe River flows southward into the Bohai Sea. After hitting the east city gate, the second pass and the second bridge across the Haihe River from the city are the Yanguan Floating Bridge.
Lock the Haihe River channel from Dagu Port to the mouth of Sancha River.
To the east of the mouth of the T-shaped river is a section of the river where the North Canal and the Ziya River converge.
This section of the river makes a bend in the Lion Forest and goes northward. At Yaowa there is another T-shaped estuary. This time the T-shaped mouth is bounded by the Admiralty River to the east and the North Canal to the west.
The North Canal made another bend in Yaowa, and on this bend was the last pontoon bridge - Yaowa Floating Bridge, which was later rebuilt into Jingang Bridge.
Three bends encircle Zhouzhu, which is surrounded by water on three sides, which is the most prosperous Lion Forest in Dagukou. It cuts off the Lion Forest and connects Yaowa Floating Bridge and Chaoguan Floating Bridge, which is Hebei Street!
North of Jingang Bridge, the North Canal and the Ziya River diverge again, and the three rivers converge to form a Y-shaped estuary.
Therefore, the three pontoon bridges just lock the South and North Canals, and the Haihe River leading to the ocean.
Surrounding the Lion Forest, a land of extreme prosperity and a golden lock and jade pass has been formed, gathering luck from all directions. Ever since Patriarch Chen Chuan sent his disciples to build the Tianhou Palace, a rough layout was laid out under the Lion Forest at the mouth of the Sancha River.
Countless earth masters, heavenly masters, and Feng Shui masters throughout the dynasties have all come to Zhigu to see this place.
A little further down the Jiuhe River from Dagukou, there are three pontoon bridges and two passes.
It means that the luck of most of the north is locked here!
The three pontoon bridges block the air coming from the north, south and overseas along the canal port waterway one by one, and firmly lock it at the mouth of the Sancha River.
This created the great fortune and prosperity of Zhigu, with the three religions and nine schools of fish and dragons coming together. It also used the second largest city in the north and the largest transportation hub as a seal to firmly suppress the thing under the Tianhou Palace!
That day, Qian Chen climbed up to Wanghai Tower to see clearly the three locks of the Golden Lock and Jade Pass, and to deduce the seal of that thing.
The reason why the Holy Maiden of the White Lotus Sect caused a severe drought in Shandong and caused hundreds of thousands of innocent souls to come was also to attack, cut off the Chaoguan pontoon bridge in the South Canal Mountain, and open the first lock!
As the sun sets in the west, Sanhe Crossing is the most prosperous place in Zhigu. At this moment, Chaoguan Floating Bridge is still crowded with people.
Even if countless people died above, so what?
If ordinary people don't take this route, they have to take the Yanguan Floating Bridge, and then go back to the Lion Forest via the Yaowa Floating Bridge, walking more than ten miles and crossing two or three floating bridges.
Everyone is looking for a living. Every day when you open your eyes, you owe a day's food.
If you don’t bump into evil spirits, you bump into poor ghosts.
No matter how scary the rumors are, it’s not as real as starving!
At this moment, both sides of the canal are even more lively. There are sailors and boatmen from the Cao Gang standing on both sides of the river. There are porters, gangsters and martial arts masters on the road. All the three religions and nine streams in Dagukou have come, and even high platforms have been set up on both sides of the river.
A group of monks and Taoist priests wearing robes danced to the great gods and walked on the Yu steps.
If you want to say what is most popular in Dagu, it must be the porters!
In this important northern town, there are at least 100,000 young people who specialize in this industry.
From the North-South Canal, the loading and unloading of ships at overseas ports, to the transportation of business in this city; from the mule-horse road to the capital, to the merchants in Hebei and Shanxi, everything is inseparable from them.
The poorest man wears a sweat towel on his head, a belt around his waist, picks up a pair of torn trousers, is shirtless or wearing shorts, and uses a pair of bare feet and iron soles to carry goods at the dock!
Those who were slightly better did not wear shoes and carried a load, so they began to carry out short-distance transportation out of and into the city.
Those with some wealth set up a man-powered rickshaw, with a foreign frame and large wheels made of fine iron and rubber. They could move people and goods with flying speed.
The richest people led camel teams, horse teams, donkey carts and mule carts, and traveled continuously from the capital to Dagokou.
At this moment, most of the porters in Zhigu had arrived at the mouth of the Sancha River.
Speaking of which, the gangsters can only control a few thousand porters. Most of them are pulling rickshaws, half are working with mule horses, driving shops, and operating gambling and prostitution opium dens. The total number of people is only a few thousand...
As for the sailors and porters who rely on these two large canal gangs, there are almost tens of thousands of them!
Others include fishing shops, overseas ports, and foreign chambers of commerce, all of which add up to hundreds of thousands of young people.
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At this moment, there were so many people in the area surrounding the mouth of the Sancha River. The nervous court sent out a river patrol camp, and the patrol camp was maintained. The garrison in the military city also left the city, and even a Beiyang fleet stayed outside Tianjin Port.
Woolen cloth!
In fact, these more than 100,000 young and strong laborers rely on two canals and one port to make ends meet.
The Red Mansion Ghost Ship and the Yin soldiers took advantage of the passage to attack the mouth of the Sancha River in order to cut off the livelihood of more than 100,000 people.
To put it bluntly, these people are enough to rebel!
If the mouth of the Sancha River is really cut off, and the livelihood is lost for ten and a half months, and if someone is willing to raise their arms, the capital is not even a hundred miles away from here, and the change of dynasty will be a matter of the blink of an eye.
In fact, because there is the shadow of the White Lotus Sect behind the Red Mansions Ghost Ship.
Many officials in the imperial court felt that there must be such a calculation behind this incident.
Accompanied by a whistle, the steam engine in the small steamer spewed white smoke, sailing upstream from the Haihe River to the side of the Chaoguan pontoon. Dozens of small boats followed the command of the big ship sailing in the center of the river.
Flags waved and gradually formed a row.
On the steamer, several foreigners with tall noses and deep eyes used a crane to lift an anchor chain from the deck.
As thick as a human body, dull and dull, the black iron chain glowed with a cold light!
The foreign sailors on the deck used all their strength to drop the four anchor chains removed from the foreign ship on both sides of the ship's side.
"Drummond!" At the northeast corner of the city, a big-nosed foreigner wearing a Camelot gentleman's tuxedo and bow tie put down the monocular in front of him and said to a blue-eyed foreigner wearing a robe and coat beside him: "
Why are you helping these Eastern Continentals? I heard about their 'duel' today, it's ridiculous! Pulling up a ghost ship, they think this can save their canal shipping?"
"What they really want to do is to ask us to form a partnership to help them manage and dredge this long and magnificent canal!"
Kadoorie, a foreigner with a big nose, had a trace of greed in his eyes.
The lawyer Drummond next to him saw it and felt a little disdainful, but he still explained in a good voice: "Sir Kadoorie, you really should have seen their duel yesterday. It was mysterious and cruel that even the devil could not imagine.
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"This nation is so ancient!"
"It's so old that their mysticism is integrated with this nation. If Master Isaac only established the four elements of 'potions', 'secret', 'spirituality' and 'spells' a few decades ago! Then this
Nations have already integrated these into their culture and traditions.”
"They are not those ignorant and barbaric peoples in the New World, nor are they mysterious and declining civilizations like India and the Ottomans."
"Here, the extraordinary power has not yet faded."
"Their population is large enough to accumulate powerful spiritual power and symbols, and this nation is naturally conservative when it comes to the dissemination of knowledge. They are taciturn and have simply carved the blockade and secrecy of information into their bones."
"Secret, yet happy to legend, this extraordinary law seems to be their national character."
“Here, it’s called ‘the grapevine’!”
Drummond sighed: "This tradition makes the 'secretness' of their civilization too powerful, you know? These coolies below who rely on the transportation industry for a living, they are all those who have set out on the road, extraordinary apprentices!
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Kadoorie looked at the crowds of people along the river bank, the porters with sweat towels on their heads and bare feet, and couldn't help but widen his eyes.
"They are all?"
"How is it possible? Are the extraordinary people in this country crazy? If the 'secret' is spread so widely, then the extraordinary power will drop to an extremely weak level, and it will not even be visible at all! Such an apprentice, such an apprentice is worse than a
A strong man with a baton!"
Drummond said calmly: "Yes! These people who set foot on the road have very weak supernatural power. They even don't know that they have set foot on the road, entered the mysterious world, and became extraordinary apprentices."
"To them, everything is rules and traditions!"
"The extraordinary apprentice known as the 'Porter', whose only ability is called iron feet! The secret of promotion requires running barefoot on the road, letting the gravel and gravel wear down the soles of the feet, leaving bloody footprints. These footprints
If you extend it for ten miles, you can enter the mysterious world and accumulate spirituality."
"But the first level of porters who know the way only have this ability."
"That is to have a pair of iron feet that have excellent endurance and are not bad at running. You can run barefoot on gravel roads!"
Kadoorie thought that there were more than 100,000 people in this city, and all of them were extraordinary people with a pair of indestructible feet.
The scene of hundreds of thousands of extraordinary troops with a pair of iron feet, coming over the mountains and plains, appeared in my mind.
Even though he is a true hawk in the Kingdom of Camelot, he has always wanted to open the door to this ancient and conservative country.
Thinking about this scene, I couldn't help but shudder!
Chapter completed!