Chapter 143 Steamed Wooden Fish

After walking south from Erfang Town for about four or five days, we crossed the Yellow River and arrived in the north of Luoyang.

Among them, Zhang Zichen and Zuo Qianhu were sitting on the Tiger's Head Bench. Naturally, Tang Yan would not squeeze into the Tiger's Head Bench with them. If he hadn't been waiting for them, it would have been a trivial matter for Tang Yan to travel a thousand miles a day. And Wang Jinjue was sitting on his flesh and blood puppet. His flesh and blood puppet ran as fast as an ox or a horse, no weaker than a tiger running like a tiger.

The whole journey was along mountain paths, with few passers-by until we came to the edge of the Yellow River.

The place where the Yellow River meets Shanxi and Henan is the right foot of the "Ji" shaped river course of the Yellow River. There is a lot of mud and sand in the Yellow River. It is not particularly large, but it is quite a lot.

Especially there are several steamboats on the river, puffing out black smoke, which is very magical.

During the past few days traveling with Zuo Qianhu, Tang Yan and the others learned that the so-called demon power is "steam power", which was first invented and used by demons.

The monsters who discovered the power of monsters are the Three Black Mountain Monsters.

The so-called Tianya Pot Fairy, Linglong Machine Fairy and Black Mountain Old Demon respectively.

According to Zuo Qianhu, Tianya Huxian and Linglong Jixian used demon power equipment on a small scale at first. After the Black Mountain Old Demon discovered it, they used demon power vigorously, thus occupying the Wushan area. Demon power technology has also been spread, and now it has been developed for decades.

From the perspective of the first people who were exposed to the power of steam, just boiling water has so much energy. This is not demonic power. What is it?

Very simple and easy to understand.

There are just so many flaws that Tang Yan and the others don't know where to complain.

Yaoshou, the monster uses a steam engine, which is indeed a bit outrageous.

This bitch...

After the monster invented the monster power machine, businessmen in the south began to imitate it and used it to push huge forging hammers, millstones, etc. The effect was very good and it could do many things that human power could not achieve. Later, a genius invented the steam car, which suddenly changed people's travel. It was sought after by the powerful and made a lot of gold and silver.

Now, many people are working together to study steam engines. The power of steam is getting bigger and bigger, there are more and more tricks, and its functions are getting stronger and stronger.

Jin Yiwei's Tiger Head Chariot is the master of all things.

Developed exclusively for Jinyiwei by "Daming Yaoli No.3 Factory", it was very prestigious during the Zhengde Dynasty. It’s just that in Zuo Qianhu’s words, there has been no new version for 20 or 30 years, and it is not as powerful as before.

The main reason is that the current emperor Jiajing spends too much money.

Several ferry boats on the Yellow River saw one of Tang Yan and his men waving their hands in a demon-powered car, and one of them came over.

"Master, do you want to cross the river?" The owner of the boat shouted to Zuo Qianhu.

These days, who doesn’t know Jin Yiwei’s Hutou Ben?

"Exactly, a few of us are about to cross the river, and we have to trouble the boatman. Don't worry, the boatman will certainly not pay you less for the ferry fare." Zuo Qianhu said.

In fact, Hu Touben can fly over, but that is for emergency use and will damage the durability of Hu Touben's parts. Normally, Zuo Qianhu would not turn on airplane mode unless there was an emergency.

"Come on, sir!" The boat owner is an old man in his fifties. He has been on the river all year round, and his skin is tanned and red. His boat was a wooden steam boat with a small draft, about thirty to forty meters long. There were sails on the boat, and presumably it could be used for sailing when the wind was favorable.

The deck of the wooden ship is just big enough for Hutou Ben. Behind the deck is a steam boiler room. There were a lot of dry firewood piled next to the boiler. It was obvious that the ship was not burning black oil (petroleum) or coal and stone, but firewood.

Therefore, the power is relatively weak, and it is just used for ferrying on the Yellow River and transporting goods over short distances.

"Hey, boatman, how many golden carps are there on your boat?" Zuo Qianhu saw a wooden pool on the boat with several golden carps with yellowish scales in it.

"If the official likes these golden carps like mine, I will give them to the official." The boatman saw Zuo Qianhu staring at the carp and said quickly, in their opinion, having a guard with a tiger-headed and running golden clothes , they are all high-ranking officials who are rarely seen in ordinary times.

Zuo Qianhu shook his head quickly and said, "I'm just curious. It's not easy to catch fish in the Yellow River flood season right now. It's not easy for boatmen to still catch carp."

"Thanks to this demonic boat, if it were my old boat, there would still be something wrong with it during the flood season," the boatman said.

"Compared to your fish, if I sell it to Luoyang, I will definitely get a better price." Zuo Qianhu said.

"It's too far to sell it to Luoyang, so it's better to sell it to Qifu Temple." The boatman said.

"Monks also like to eat fish?" Wang Jinjue asked.

The boatman said: "I don't eat much. The Buddha of Qifu Temple always dislikes the fish bones and likes to eat mutton. This fish was released by the Buddha as a gift to the distinguished guests."

"Release animals? How to release animals?" Wang Jinjue asked curiously.

"It is said that every year, dignitaries and dignitaries come to Qifu Temple to offer incense and worship Buddha, and donate a lot of money for incense in order to earn incense. The Buddha of Qifu Temple fishes out a piece of incense from the Eight Treasures Merit Pool in the temple. The golden carp was tied with a red string with his name written on it and released into the Luohe River."

“Releasing the golden carp is a great merit!”

"..." As a modern person, how could Wang Jinjue not know what was going on. There are still a lot of routines in Qifushi Temple!

Tang Yan is in the boiler room. He is actually quite curious about steam engines. After all, modern people have access to steam engines, which are steam trains.

The hot steam is sent to the cylinder through the steam pipe, and then the valve controls the time when the steam reaches the cylinder. It enters the slide valve chamber through the main steam valve and the throttle valve, and is controlled by the slide valve to alternately enter the left or right side of the cylinder to push the piston to move.

The piston was pushed, making a clicking sound. With the high temperature of the boiler burning, the boiler room was hot and noisy.

Next to the boiler room, there was a cupboard.

The cupboard was cleaned by the ship owner. On it was a one-foot-high Buddha statue, which looked like Sakyamuni. What surprised Tang Yin was the iron wooden fish and the jianzhi in front of the Buddha statue.

The jianzhi was the stick for hitting the wooden fish.

The wooden fish was as big as a palm, and it made a dull sound when hit by the jianzhi.

The reason why Tang Yin was surprised was that the jianzhi was a small steam pipe extending from the boiler, which was fixed on a frame and pushed a small piston. The jianzhi was lifted up when the piston was pushed once, and it was put down when it was pulled back once.

This is a steam automatic wooden fish!

This is simply a world-famous painting!

"Zichen, Jinjue, come and take a look!" Tang Yin quickly called Zhang Zichen and Wang Jinjue over.

Zhang Zichen was drinking sour plum soup and looking at the Yellow River when Tang Yin called him over. He was still curious about what it was.

Then... C language came out of his mouth.

Not to mention Wang Jinjue, Niu language also came out of his mouth.

For a while, a small boiler room was filled with C language and Niu language.

They had certainly seen electronic wooden fish and cyber prayer wheels on the Internet. But hearing others say it and seeing it with your own eyes are two different things!

Kou Ya! Guess where this wooden fish is made.