Chapter 233 Eliminating hidden dangers
In order to manufacture airplanes, Wang Jiankun built a simple seaplane airport on a river near the county seat, and installed a night lighting system on the cliffs on both sides.

After he went to northern Myanmar to build a new base, he never used this seaplane again.

Although that section of the river is very remote, with cliffs on both sides, generally no one goes there.

But just in case, I should take advantage of my free time now to deal with those things that shouldn’t appear.

After changing his appearance, he rode his motorcycle to the lower reaches of the Le’an River.

He arrived at the place where the small speedboat was manufactured before, and used the remaining metal and the metal brought by the motorcycle, and used his super powers to build a small speedboat.

After building the speedboat, he restored the simple dock and the cave used to hide things to a roughly similar appearance to the surrounding environment.

Then start the speedboat and drive quickly downstream.

When he reached the section of the river where the seaplane airport was, he got off the boat and walked to the beach on the left.

The J-1 and Y-1 transport planes hidden on the mountain wall were decomposed using superpowers, and the cave was sealed by mobilizing elements, with the outer layer trying to make the rock structure the same as the surrounding mountain walls.

Next, he used his superpowers to create two mountain climbing trenches, and then, with his superpowers clearing the way, he quickly climbed up the cliff and disassembled the previously made guide lights, solar panels for power generation, batteries for energy storage, etc. He tried to collect the difficult-to-collect metals and put them on the top of the mountain, so that he could mobilize them later to manufacture the corresponding equipment if needed.

After dealing with one side of the cliff, he went down the cliff while restoring the simple hiking trail, and then took a speedboat to the other side of the cliff.

The next step is to use the same method. First, go up the cliff to disassemble the things that were made before, collect the difficult-to-collect metals together and hide them somewhere on the top of the mountain, then go down the cliff to clean up the traces.

After finishing all these, he also dismantled and restored the simple dock for docking planes and speedboats.

Just like that, the original backup seaplane airport disappeared completely, and people coming here in the future will not find anything unusual.

After dealing with the largest target, he drove the speedboat downstream.

When he arrived near Poyang County, he found the cave where the Experiment No. 1 transport ship had been hidden.

It was still a process of decomposition and restoration. The transport ship hidden in the cave was decomposed and the cave was restored to its original state. The difficult-to-collect elements still remained deep in the mountain. It would be impossible to discover the abnormality without super powers.

After finishing these two places near his hometown, he parked the speedboat at a place near the road.

He used his superpowers to transform the speedboat into a motorcycle, which was quite common on the road at that time, and then drove quickly towards Hukou Town.

After arriving at Hukou Town, he first went to the vicinity of the house he had bought before and took a look at the old-model text message base station that had been installed before.

After finding that the base station was still running stably and the camouflage was intact, he left with peace of mind.

These old-style text message base stations will be dismantled one after another in the second half of the year. However, he will not be able to do the dismantling himself at that time. Instead, he will let the new human engineers sent to the country perform this task.

After leaving the house, he rode his motorcycle to the dock, pretended to be an ordinary businessman, and bought a boat ticket to Shanghai.

The inland shipping fleet he had previously founded has been officially incorporated into the management of Sihai Group and belongs to Sihai Shipping Company.

In the past two years, he has manufactured more than 30 C-200 class transport ships and handed them over to this shipping company for operation.

Since the first half of this year, the joint venture shipyard in Guangzhou has completed its technological upgrade and is able to manufacture the C-200 transport ship. Only then did he stop using his superpowers to manufacture transport ships.

He arrived at the dock at 10 a.m., and when buying the boat ticket, the conductor told him that there was a boat to Shanghai at 5: p.m. If he was in a hurry, he could take the noon boat to Nanjing and then change trains in Nanjing.

Wang Jiankun thought about it and decided that waiting here was a waste of time, so he bought a boat ticket to Nanjing and then strolled around the pier.

At this time, the Hukou Town Pier is much more prosperous than in the previous two years, and the number of berths has increased by more than 30.

At this time, there were people coming and going on the dock. Some wanted to take a short trip across the river by riding on motor boats that were converted from fishing boats.

Wang Jiankun went to take a look and found that these modified ship engines were actually motorcycle engines produced by Xingyao Group.

Looking at the degree of wear and tear, it has been used for at least half a year. It seems that there are still many capable people in China who know how to adapt.

At that time, there were indeed very few marine engines in the country, with only a few state-owned enterprises manufacturing them, and they were all large and medium-sized diesel engines, which were not suitable for small fishing boats like this.

The motorcycle engines produced by Xingyao Group are gasoline engines. They are small in size and have high horsepower, which are a perfect match for these small boats.

They modified the gearbox slightly, connected it to a long drive shaft, and then connected a small propeller to the end of the drive shaft. After starting, the gear can be adjusted like a motorcycle.

He saw a modified fishing boat about 8 meters long that was already full of passengers. He counted about 20 people, and there were also large and small bags of luggage. The boat had a deep draft, and if the wind and waves were stronger, the boat would easily capsize.

“The boat is setting sail, the boat is setting sail. Those who haven’t boarded yet can wait for the next one or take my fellow villager’s boat. I’m leaving first!” The captain shouted loudly while untying the ropes.

The passengers on the boat quickly sat down instead of standing, and held on tightly to the simple handrails.

The captain counted the passengers and then started the engine.

He was already very skilled and successfully started it very quickly. Because it was a gasoline engine, it did not produce a lot of black smoke like a diesel engine after starting.

The propeller at the tail was previously placed on the water surface. After the engine was started, the propeller also started to rotate at idle speed. The captain lifted a control lever, and the propeller gradually sank into the water, and bubbles emerged from the stern.

After the captain slowly increased the gear, the speed of the drive shaft became extremely fast, the splashes and bubbles at the stern became larger and larger, and the heavy fishing boat began to slowly accelerate towards the center of the river.

“My fellow countryman, this boat has so many people on it, and it looks shaky and dangerous. Aren’t those people on the boat afraid that the boat will capsize?”

Wang Jiankun was getting bored while waiting and saw a few people nearby who seemed to be waiting for a boat, so he pulled them aside to chat.

“Of course I am afraid, but this kind of boat is cheap. The big state-owned boats over there are very stable, but the ticket price is twice that of this boat, so most people will take this kind of privately modified boat.”

“Why doesn’t the government step in and tell them not to load so much? Otherwise, if there’s a strong wind, they’ll probably capsize in the middle of the river.”

“Control? We can. The Yangtze River is so long. If so many people are not allowed to board here, the boatmen will go to other places to pick up more passengers. Their tickets are so cheap. How can they make money if they don’t pick up more people? So we can’t control it. The boatmen can only pray to the Buddha for protection and hope that they don’t encounter strong winds on the river.”

After listening to this, Wang Jiankun thought about it and realized that this was indeed the case. The government currently lacked ships and it was impossible to send out so many ships to patrol the river.

In addition, the state-owned cross-river ships are very good and the schedules are widely spaced. Nowadays, there are few bridges on the Yangtze River, but more and more people and goods need to cross the river, so the birth of this modified ship is inevitable.

In the past, some fishing boats would do part-time transportation, but there were fewer people and less cargo, so they were rarely overloaded. Now that the economy on both sides of the Yangtze River has begun to develop rapidly, these fishing boats have more work to do.

The engines and gearboxes of the Xingyao Group only provided them with a kind of mechanical power, so there was no need for him to care.

However, he felt that the country’s inland waterway transportation potential was still very large. Since the state-owned units and shipyards were too busy and could not keep up with the pace of economic development, it would be better to let Sihai Group and Xingyao Group provide some more assistance and open a few more small and medium-sized shipbuilding factories in the upper and lower reaches of the Yangtze River to specialize in manufacturing small and medium-sized inland transport ships to help people on both sides of the strait solve the problem of crossing the river.

Thinking of this, he walked towards the motorcycle and used the satellite communication device in the trunk to contact Chen Xingdong and Pan Hua, asking them to cooperate to expand the domestic inland transport ship manufacturing and shipping company.

After arranging the tasks, the ship to Nanjing was about to depart. He was on a C-200-class transport ship of Si Hai Shipping, so the motorcycle could be brought on board without the need for additional packaging.

He drove his motorcycle to the dock and showed the ticket to the ticket inspector.

The ticket inspector saw that there was only one motorcycle written in the luggage column, so he used the intercom to notify the captain above and controlled the crane to lift Wang Jiankun’s motorcycle into the cargo hold.

About 10 minutes later, the ticket inspector rolled up the gangway and announced the departure via the intercom.

After playing the broadcast, the captain increased the engine horsepower, drove the boat away from the dock, and headed downstream to Nanjing.

Wang Jiankun was taking a short trip, so he chose the hard seats upstairs. He looked around and found that the hard seats were full, while the soft seats and the compartments downstairs seemed half empty.

Sihai Shipping’s transport ships are famous for their speed. Most passengers seek punctual departure and short sailing time, so the occupancy rate has been relatively high since its operation.

The ship stopped at Anqing and Wuhu, with people getting on and off the ship, but the cargo did not move much. It was not until it arrived at the Nanjing terminal that Wang Jiankun saw all the cargo unloaded.

After he got off the boat, he easily bought a ticket to Shanghai, and the boat only needed to wait for one hour before departure.

He then rode his motorcycle for a stroll around the pier.

As a former capital, Nanjing has developed very well.

There are many warehouses near the dock, most of which are used to store ore, coal and semi-finished steel products.

In addition to warehouses, there are also many large and small mechanical processing factories. Wang Jiankun used his super powers to investigate and found that many of them are collective enterprises or individually contracted.

It seems that the policies here are relatively relaxed, and the private economy is gradually developing towards manufacturing, not just commerce.

However, he found that the quality of products produced by these factories was still very low, and the technical content was also very low. Most of them were daily necessities for ordinary people, such as iron buckets, iron pots, iron spoons and copper basins. The machine tools and equipment used were all outdated and had very poor precision.

However, this is the norm in the domestic manufacturing industry at this time. Because people’s daily necessities are transitioning from wood products to metal products, the existence of these low-end manufacturing industries effectively solves the people’s demand for metal products.

Wang Jiankun feels that he still has a long way to go. To lead such a large nation to transform from low-level industry to high-level industry, he needs more patience and more investment.

However, this long journey was to deal with some hidden dangers left over from before, so he left after a rough inspection.

After arriving in Shanghai, he did not go to meet those acquaintances he had made before. Instead, he continued to disguise himself and built a modified fishing boat on an uninhabited section of the river, and went to the place where the small submarine was built before.

After arriving there, he disassembled the small submarine into its various elements in the same way as before, sealed them in the mountain, and the cave was restored to its original appearance.

After finishing all these, he went to Jinshan Wharf, boarded a fishing boat driven by a new human, and headed to the East China Sea.

He removed all mobile base stations within 12 nautical miles of the mainland and restored the rocks to their original appearance.

Because the global satellite communication system had been completed at that time, communications at sea had been switched to satellite communications, and the people who used it were all people in the fishing and shipping industries, so it didn’t matter if there were no mobile base stations.

There are also some large base stations offshore that can forward messages, so the text messaging machines in Guangdong and Fujian provinces can still be used.

Of course, once the SMS base stations jointly operated with domestic companies are built, he can send people to dismantle the base stations he had installed before.

(End of this chapter)