Chapter 36 Rookie
During the meeting, Gu Kai used a voice recorder to record the opinions and speeches of each member. Later, he had to use this to compile a brief report to make today's actions when the executive committee held a regular meeting in the evening. report. After the action summary meeting, it was already noon without realizing it. We were still on patrol, and we definitely wouldn’t go back to Victory Port just to have lunch. It happened that there were enough people today, so everyone went on the "Speed" "A small dinner party was held on the deck.
Johnson had not been idle on the boat in the morning. He caught more than a dozen large and small sea fish, which was perfect for cooking. The kitchen stoves on the ship used to use liquefied gas stoves. Now that the supply of liquefied gas is gone, they have become unused items. However, this little thing cannot trouble these people who are accustomed to life at sea. Roger and Morgan carried out the barbecue grill and iron rack from the cabin, followed by Shi Diwen carrying a large plastic bag containing fine charcoal. In this sunny weather, it is really pleasant to have a barbecue party with friends on a yacht by the sea. The only regret is that it is still working time and it is inconvenient to take out the whiskey collected on the boat and have a drink. .
A week ago, Chuanzhong's first charcoal kiln was built and put into operation not far from Base No. 1. This kind of low-tech project is naturally child's play for Chuanzhong who has a large amount of knowledge reserves. Two or three people from across the country were responsible for technical guidance and directed the local fishermen who came to work to complete the entire process from digging the soil to build the kiln to firing the charcoal in the first kiln. The carbon monoxide leakage that the Executive Committee was originally worried about did not occur at all. The nearly 500 kilograms of charcoal burned out of the first cellar were fully qualified after inspection, so they were immediately allocated to the Ministry of Shipping, which had already complained several times - —The drying room for ship wood has been completed long ago and is waiting for this batch of charcoal to arrive.
It’s not just the Ministry of Shipping that is waiting for charcoal, the metallurgical department is also eagerly looking forward to the supply of charcoal. The Tiandu Iron Mine is about to be mined. The charcoal required for large-scale iron smelting is simply too little for the current pitiful output. Astronomical figures. In addition, the Ministry of Industry is also trying to persuade the Executive Committee to launch a batch of steam engines and gas engines that use charcoal as energy as soon as possible. Even the Ministry of Agriculture sent a report to the Executive Committee detailing the importance of carbon disulfide produced from charcoal as a raw material in the production of agricultural pesticides. The Executive Committee had to seize the time to build several more charcoal kilns, but it may be difficult to change the situation of charcoal supply exceeding demand in the short term. This supply and demand imbalance will even continue until Chuanchuanzhong gets a stable supply of coal.
However, these worries do not exist for several members of the North American Gang. Let the bureaucrats on the executive committee take their time to worry about it! Of course, this is just what I think in my mind and no one will say it out loud. After all, Gu Kai is now a member of the executive committee. In the future, the North American gang wants to form the maritime exploration fleet, marines, and special operations team that they dream of. A similar military organization would probably have to rely on Gu Kai's help in the executive committee.
After eating a sumptuous seafood dinner, we still have to continue our routine maritime patrol mission in the afternoon. Wang Tom asked Gu Kai's opinion to see if he should be sent back to Victory Port first. Gu Kai hesitated but decided to stay and return to the port together after the afternoon patrol mission was over. Then he took the last boat to deliver supplies to Base No. 2 in the evening and went upriver to attend the daily meeting of the Executive Committee.
The two sailboats set off again from the seaside, then separated to the left and right, heading towards the southwest sea at an interval of about two thousand meters. After sailing about three nautical miles out of Luhuitoujiao, the two ships turned back and headed southeast together through radio contact. After this leisurely cruise lasted for about an hour, Morgan, who was standing on the bow with a telescope and looking out, shouted: "Hey! Look to the north! Our little friend has appeared!"
On the sea in the distance, a Chinese-style fortune ship was slowly sailing south around Yulinjiao. This was naturally the navy Haicang ship captured a few days ago. The Ministry of Shipping is currently conducting intensive training, and they have to spend half a day sailing out to sea every day. It has to be said that the training arranged by the Ministry of Maritime Transport is indeed very effective, because starting from the previous day, the only ten Ming army sailors have been transferred to the charcoal kiln and wood drying room to work as laborers. Now the crew members who sail the ships are all the same. Travel through the masses. Perhaps their movements are still a little clumsy, and their ability to grasp the wind direction at sea is not that strong, but it only took half a month to master the basic Chinese sailing posture skills, which is not easy.
A smirk appeared on John Wang's lips, and he picked up the walkie-talkie next to him: "Lightning, Lightning, have you seen the ship to the north? Let's go over and say hello!"
"OK! I hope the kids won't be so scared that they wet their pants!" The unbridled laughter of several ABCs came from the other end of the intercom.
The two sailboats turned around in a tacit understanding and headed towards the Haicang ship. John Wang handed the steering wheel to Johnson and ran to the mast to sail the sails himself. These two catamaran sailboats purchased from Poland both use single mast sails. The combined area of the main sail and the foresail exceeds 200 square meters. In addition, the streamlined hull with a very shallow draft makes it easy to sail as long as the wind direction is correct. It can run at high speeds of 12 to 15 knots at sea, and can even run at an astonishing speed of 20 knots at top speed. This is simply unparalleled for the Fuzhou ship whose maximum speed in this time and space is only six or seven knots.
Apparently the Haicang ship driven by the rookie crew could not even reach a speed of six or seven knots. Sun Changmi, the temporary captain, was shouting at the top of his lungs to instruct the crew to pull the ropes to adjust the sails. When he turned around, he saw two ships. The sailboat drew a beautiful arc on the sea and headed towards him. "Damn foreign devils, don't you get tired of playing like this every time?" Sun Changmi cursed angrily. Obviously, this is not the first time some people have pulled a prank.
The two sailboats soon approached from a thousand meters away, one on the left and the other on the right passing by the side of the Haicang ship at a very high speed. The distance between the ships was probably less than five meters, and the crew could even The whistles and laughter coming from the sailboat were clearly heard. Before the crew members could relax, the Haicang ship began to violently bump from side to side. Some crew members who were unsteady immediately turned into gourds, and curses immediately broke out on the ship.
"These damn Americans know how to show off their power! How dare you go to Iraq and Afghanistan to fight! Don't leave after work if you dare. I'll meet you at the gate of the base at dinner. I will teach you how to behave in minutes!" The sailboat has already sailed out for two or three hundred years. Meters away, the ship's first mate Xie Chun was still lying on the poop railing, shouting and cursing at the sail shadow in the distance.
This Xie Chun can be regarded as a talented person. Before time travel, he worked in many industries such as film and television, publishing, catering, and energy. His last job was actually in shipping management in the maritime department. It is said that he was punished by his employer because of a big mistake at work. I resigned, and then angrily joined the time travel. This person has a wide range of hobbies and has studied a lot of things. After deciding to participate in time travel, he spent a lot of time choosing a department suitable for his performance. Until the executive committee recruited all people who knew ship knowledge to participate in ship driving training, he Ning Qi, who had just been put in charge of personnel, was directly assigned to the shipping department.
Although Xie Chun is not a marine major and cannot compare with professionals like Yue Zhiyun and Sun Changmi, he has worked in the maritime department and knows some navigation knowledge. He is better than others in the maritime department where professional talents are relatively lacking. People who become monks on the way are much better. They are better than those who are better than those who are not as good as those who are below. However, since Xie Chun had "made mistakes" at work, the position of captain was not yet his turn, so he had to settle for the position of first mate.
Xie Chun is not a big official, but his political consciousness is not low. He is a standard ***, that is, a member of the Fifty Cent Party who brings his own dry food. After the North American gang applied to join the time-travel operation, Xie Chun was the one who complained the most about it on the forum. Xie Chun believes that the addition of these Yankees will bring extremely harmful liberal ideas to the time-travel team, and this kind of ideas is extremely dangerous in another time and space that requires close unity to survive and develop. But later, after repeatedly weighing the pros and cons, the executive committee finally agreed to join the North American gang. Xie Chun continued to write an article on the forum angrily complaining that this "planted a time bomb for the entire time-travel team."
During the days when the rookies were training on the Haicang ship, almost every time they encountered these two sailboats from the North American Gang, they would be teased by them like they were today. Xie Chun had long been dissatisfied with this. It's just that the stewards of the executive committee have all gone to Base No. 2. They can't find a formal way to complain, so they can only vent their anger by swearing.
But Sun Changmi knew very well that it would be useless even if Xie Chun went to the top to make trouble about this matter. The reason why the executive committee would ignore issues such as nationality and ideology to introduce this group of people was mainly because of their abilities. I have to admit that it is difficult to find a few people among the existing time traveling people who can be both crew members and soldiers like these Americans, and each has their own professional skills. At least that Wang Tom who is said to be very good at sailing. , Sun Changmi knew very well that his navigation skills and experience were definitely far superior to his and Yue Zhiyun's, and this kind of thing was often neither taught nor learned in school.
It is useless to fan the flames at this time. Sun Changmi went over and patted Xie Chun and said: "Okay, let them be proud for a few days! When our shipyard starts construction and starts building ships, their role at sea will become smaller and smaller. When we wait When heavy artillery battleships are built in the future, small sampans like theirs will only be left drooling next to them!”
Xie Chun spat fiercely into the sea, gritted his teeth and said: "We'll see, there will be times when they regret it!"
(End of chapter)