Chapter 17 Small Fishing Village
Tao Donglai readily agreed to Yuan Ruoxiu's request, but it was not that simple to implement it. After all, this was Sanya in 1627. No one could guarantee absolute safety as long as they left the base, and Tao Donglai also wanted to take this opportunity to let the people from the military and police department survey the terrain near the small fishing village. It is worth mentioning that this large mountain range between the original urban area of Sanya, Shengli Port and Tiandu River has also been renamed "Shengli Ridge" by the Executive Committee. The small fishing village is located just at the southern end of Shengli Ridge. The geographical location is very critical. If there is a land offensive from the direction of Yacheng in the future, it will definitely pass by the location of the small fishing village. Although the father and son named Yu were captured last time when Yan Chujie led a team to investigate, the investigation results were very little. It would have been different if there was help from the local leading party.
In addition to people from the Ministry of Agriculture and the Military and Police Department, this team will of course also be equipped with translators. In addition, people from the communications team will also accompany them to test the signal coverage and blind spots of the existing radio stations and PHS systems. The Ministry also plans to send someone to inspect the shipbuilding level of this fishing village. If there is a shipbuilder or something, it may come in handy in the future. For field operations involving more than a certain number of people, according to the regulations of the Executive Committee, accompanying medical personnel must be provided to prevent unexpected events. So the back and forth involved the staffing arrangements of four or five departments. In order to coordinate the relationship between the departments during this field operation, the executive committee also sent representatives to participate in the operation. In the end, history enthusiast Ning Qi took the initiative to apply. For this task, he really wanted to see with his own eyes what the living environment of ordinary people in the late Ming Dynasty was like in this time and space.
When the number of people increases, coordination becomes slow. Moreover, a group of people from the Military and Police Department were divided into two groups and were sent out by Yan Chujie early in the morning. One group marched upstream along the Tiandu River and met with those from the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Energy. Together with the people, they surveyed the hydrological conditions of the upper reaches of the Tiandu River and made preparations for subsequent hydropower construction. The other team was led by Yan Chujie personally to Yulinjiao, which extends out of the harbor into the South China Sea. He planned to find a suitable place on the mountains of Yulinjiao to open an observation post in the future to monitor and provide early warning of possible threats from the sea.
As a result, the departure time of the joint action team had to be postponed until after lunch, and Yu Xiaobao and his friends were also lucky enough to taste the first meal that the cooking class really showed their skills after traveling through time-paella. This kind of exotic cuisine prepared with a variety of spices not only gave the indigenous fishermen the honor to serve foreign meat for the first time in their lives, but also won unanimous praise from travelers. At the forum that night, someone took the lead in setting up a support group for Chef Fan Wei, the chief chef of the cooking class, and even claimed to support Chef Fan to join the executive committee in the election a year later.
After lunch, the "Lightning" went to Yulinjiao to pick up a team led by Yan Chujie. Considering the familiarity of the environment, Yan Chujie was still responsible for the defense work of the joint operation team this time. At one o'clock in the afternoon, the "Lightning" carried the joint action team and the local leading party Yu Xiaobao to the west side of the harbor. This way they could save at least half the time compared to making a large circle by land. In the joint team, there are ten people from the military and police department, then three from the agriculture department, one from the communications team, one from the shipping department, one translator, one from the medical team, and a total of eighteen people including Ning Qi.
After seeing off these people, Tao Donglai immediately returned to the construction site of Base No. 1. He had to confirm in person whether the degree of solidification of the quick-drying cement for pouring the ring beam foundation had reached the construction requirements. If he hurried, the sun would be shining brightly today. Before going down the mountain, at least two to three hundred square meters of prefabricated houses can be built. Women, children and older people can be accommodated in them at night, without having to sleep in tents.
In addition, a set of no-fire brick-making machine equipment purchased by the Ministry of Construction will be unloaded from the "New World" in the afternoon. The Ministry of Industry must install and debug it as soon as possible and strive to put it into production as soon as possible. This set of equipment can use fly ash, cinder, slag and even natural sand as the main raw materials. It does not require high-temperature calcination but uses high-pressure pressing to form bricks. The brick-making speed is also much faster than the traditional brick-making method, which is very important for the early stage of travel. The gap in building materials that will inevitably be faced is simply a golden finger. But the only drawback is that this thing must run on electricity, and now the only thing that can provide high-power power generation is the marine generator set on the "New World", which is a real oil tiger. Therefore, the plan of the Ministry of Industry is to ascertain the water conditions in the upper reaches of the Tiandu River as soon as possible, strive to start building small hydropower stations at pre-planned locations as soon as possible, and then gradually build the upper reaches of the Tiandu River into a future industrial base.
It didn’t take too long for the "Lightning" to sail from the temporary pier of Victory Port to the fishing village on the west side of the harbor. In fact, if you pay attention, you can see a small building here with a telescope in the cockpit of the "New World" The wooden trestle sticks out from the mangroves on the shore. The "Lightning" carefully approached the trestle, and then the members of the joint team filed ashore. Finally, the bearded doctor Johnson also carried a big bag down to the pier: "I am a doctor, and I will go with you. Maybe there will be patients there."
Johnson took the initiative to ask for help, and Ning Qi and Yan Chujie naturally would not object. Although there was a medical staff member in the team originally, the reason why this guy was assigned to the medical team was because he worked in a chain pharmacy before time travel. In terms of professional level, he must be Can't compare to a regular doctor like Johnson who has a medical license. Besides, Johnson himself is also a non-staff member of the Military and Police Department, and he is probably more familiar with firearms than most people in the Military and Police Department. Except for Yan Chujie, the ten people in the military and police department all carried 56 and a half, while Johnson had an HK416 hanging on his body and a MK23 pistol stuck in his leg. Out of caution, Ning Qi just applied for a MK23 on the ship. As for how to open and close the safety, aim and shoot, he still learned from Johnson. The psychological comfort effect is probably far greater than the actual combat significance.
Carrying more than a dozen guns to investigate a fishing village is not to kill a chicken with a knife, but the executive committee has long formulated various codes of conduct, especially for forward reconnaissance operations in unknown areas. A variety of plans have been prepared. There are clear regulations on team member configuration, travel mode, contact information, weapon equipment, etc., order first and then avoid chaos. In addition, one thing that the Executive Committee particularly emphasizes is to "strategically despise the enemy and tactically attach importance to the enemy." Even if the opponent may only be a guard soldier, a Li or a peasant, we must absolutely ensure complete suppression by force. Any loss of manpower will be an unacceptable and significant loss to the group.
Of course, regulations on paper are one thing, but they may not be given the same level of attention in actual implementation. For example, many people in this joint action team regard this investigation operation as "observing and experiencing the Ming Dynasty" Fisherman's Life" an outdoor activity. After landing, there was no formation to speak of, and they were chatting and laughing towards the inland fishing village.
There were two small fishing boats impounded on the beach, but the people from the Shipping Department thought they were of little value after looking at them. This kind of four-meter-long fishing boat is too small, and the manufacturing process is not very technical, so I just used a camera to take pictures of the boat for data preservation. There were several old fishing nets hanging on stands next to the fishing boat, and everyone was able to truly see the fishing nets woven by ancestors from hemp fiber and rags. It is indeed not an easy task to use such nets to fish in the sea.
The fishing village is not far from the coast. After passing through the mangroves near the sea, you can actually see several thatched houses peeking out from the woods. The living conditions of these fishermen are very difficult in the eyes of modern people, because there are no brick kilns and other building materials production areas nearby, so when they build their houses, they can only cut down wood for the walls, thatch for the roof, and use yellow mud and straw for the roof. Walls or walls made of rubble are considered to be in relatively good condition in the village. No household in the village raises poultry or livestock, and there are even no watchdogs in the entire fishing village, which shows the embarrassment of the fishermen here. Yu Xiaobao also took the team to visit his home. There was not even an iron pot in the house, and he relied on two old earthen pots for cooking. The most valuable thing was probably the two earthen jars of grain placed under the bed board. , and nearly half of them were received from Chuanchuanzhong yesterday. Everyone thought it was terrible to see it. Ning Qi even thought that the poor families he saw when the school organized teachers to go to poor villages to show love were much better than the Yu Xiaobao family. Ning Qi noticed that there seemed to be no human activity in the fishing village, so he asked the translator to ask Yu Xiaobao. Yu Xiaobao's explanation was that the villagers were afraid of being robbed by pirates in the past. It was estimated that they would not dare to come back from the mountains until the group of people who went to trade today came back. This answer disappointed Ning Qi. He originally expected to recruit a group of laborers from the fishing village as soon as possible, but now it seems that this timetable will have to be postponed by at least a day or two.
At this time, Yuan Ruoxiu made a request and wanted to see the land reclaimed by the villagers. Naturally, no one would object to this originally planned arrangement, so the team walked out of the village under the leadership of Yu Xiaobao.
The so-called reclaimed land is actually a rice field where the villagers cut down a forest and then burned it, and then introduced the water from the mountain spring and stream. It is only about twenty acres in size, with several vegetable fields planted in the middle. Yuan Ruoxiu noticed that these paddy fields had not been cultivated intensively, and the growth of the seedlings could only be described as "pitiful". With this level of grain cultivation, the yield per mu would definitely be worrying. In addition, Yuan Ruoxiu also noticed that there are no commercial crops grown here, which makes sense when he thinks about it. The fishermen here still have problems filling their stomachs, let alone using the cultivated land to grow some non-food crops.
Yuan Ruoxiu and his two subordinates began sampling water, soil and food crops, and the people in the communication team also began to take out communication equipment for debugging. The others were sitting on the ground around them, smoking and drinking.
Ning Qi took out his PHS and prepared to call back to the headquarters to report the situation. Before dialing, Zhang Guang from the communication team said: "The PHS signal here is not good. It is probably because the signal transmission power at the headquarters is not strong enough." , you wait for me to climb up the tree and give it a try.”
Before Zhang Guang traveled across time, he was working as a field worker for Netcom in a small city in the north, specializing in equipment maintenance. Naturally, this kind of professional talent was recruited by Menghe into the Ministry of Information Industry, and then assigned to the communications team as Wu Zhuo's deputy. When Tao Dong came to assign tasks today, Zhang Guang also took the initiative to ask for help. This kind of field signal detection work was very familiar to him.
Zhang Guang had probably climbed base station towers before. He hugged a tree and climbed up a few times. Then he found a thick branch to stand on and raised the signal detector in his hand.
Ning Qi put his forehead with his hand, raised his head and said to Zhang Guang, who was standing on a tree branch five or six meters high: "Be careful, don't fall!"
Zhang Guang grinned and said: "Don't worry, I have been climbing the tower for seven or eight years and I have never fallen..."
Before Zhang Guang finished speaking, a whooshing sound suddenly floated in the air, and then Zhang Guang screamed and fell from the tree!
(End of chapter)