Chapter 124 Humanitarian Rescue
While the expedition team members were still soundly asleep, the executive committee had already begun to calculate the current maritime transport capacity on hand and gauge whether it could undertake the transportation of construction materials and population for overseas mining.
At present, the Executive Committee has on hand a second-hand Fuzhou ship with a material of 400 yuan that was just purchased. The two ships captured in the early stage, Fuzhou ship and Guangzhou shipyard, are slightly smaller in tonnage. These three ships can run cross-sea routes, but their speed is not as fast. Catamaran sailing boats are so fast, and the distance needs to be carefully calculated. Moreover, according to the information sent back before the expedition team returned, in the future, sailing ships from Victory Port to Hon Gai are likely to abandon Victory Port - Yazhou - Yingge Tsui - Changhua - Phu Sui Chau Island - Ha Long Bay ——This originally planned route of Xingang sailed directly northwest from Yinggezui, crossed the Beibu Gulf and arrived in Thanh Hoa area. After loading the immigrants there, it went north along the coast of Vietnam and passed Cat Ba. After the island, it turned eastbound and crossed Halong Bay to reach New Port.
The new route is about a hundred nautical miles longer than the previously planned route. According to the speed of the Chinese sailing ship and the time it will take to stop on the way, the one-way sailing time will be at least two days longer than the original one. There are two main difficulties with this new route. First, the distance from Yingge Tsui to Thanh Hoa is about 180 nautical miles. It will take a Chinese sailing ship at least two days to complete this cross-sea voyage, and there is no intervening A stop like Fushuizhou Island will be a big test for crew members who have never run this route. Another difficulty is that the fleet has to accept immigrants to board the ship in Thanh Hoa. It still needs one and a half to two days of sailing before arriving at the new port. How to ensure sufficient food and drinking water supplies and maintain order on the ship during this period? It is also a problem that needs to be solved urgently.
In addition, the contradiction between material transportation and population transportation is also a problem that plagues the Ministry of Shipping. At the beginning of the construction of the port mine, a large amount of materials will need to be transported from the base camp, but if too much materials are loaded on the ship, it will not be able to load too many people on the coast of Vietnam. And if the population carried is too small, it will greatly delay the construction of the new port and the development of the mining area.
A group of people from the Shipping Department were quarreling over whether to recruit people or goods. Later, even the people from the executive committee joined in. The two sides started a war of words, neither of them willing to admit defeat. In the end, it was the mature and prudent Tao Donglai who came forward to calm down the war: "We fought and fought, but in the final analysis we still don't have enough transportation capacity. It's just like we didn't have enough manpower at the beginning of time travel. No matter how we try our best to arrange it, there will be obvious consequences." gaps appear. In my opinion, the opinions of the expedition team should be the main one. After all, they are the only ones who have personally visited these places. I think their opinions should be more reasonable.”
At nine o'clock in the evening, the sleepy expedition team members were woken up. The heads of various relevant departments have now rushed to Base No. 1, waiting to use their action reports as a reference for the next preparation plan. In order to help them recover from their sleep as quickly as possible, the executive committee even prepared hot face wash and ice-cold drinks.
After a while, the expedition team members, who had withstood the stimulation of both ice and fire, reluctantly cheered up and walked into the conference room. They were greeted by endless applause from the leaders of the traveling group, large and small. Although they had already experienced a similar scene when they disembarked at the dock in the afternoon, seeing the sincere admiration on the faces of the onlookers, the expedition team once again felt the importance of this operation.
As for who should make the report on this expedition, the best candidate is undoubtedly Wang Tom. Wang Tom, who was entrusted with such an important task by the Executive Committee for the first time, performed perfectly in this operation. Not only did he successfully complete all inspection projects and determine the location of the new port, but he also solved the problem that had troubled the Executive Committee for a long time. The problem of labor force allowed Xingang to have a long-term and stable population import channel in the planning stage. In addition, during this expedition to an unfamiliar environment that lasted nine days and covered nearly a thousand nautical miles, none of the members suffered serious illness or casualties. As the captain, Tom Wang also played an important role.
The Executive Committee and relevant departments attach great importance to this work report. Although the expedition team has handed over detailed electronic documents and logbooks of this operation, everyone still wants to hear the personal opinions of the parties involved. After all, there are many subjective opinions. Things cannot be reflected by relying on paper data. The personal explanations of the parties involved are more helpful for everyone to understand the true intentions of the specific actions of the inspection team during this process. And everyone is also interested in hearing Wang Tom’s opinions and views on material preparation, population transfer, and new port construction.
Tom Wang walked to the front of the conference room, facing the dark crowd of heads below, and suddenly felt a little nervous. This seemed completely different from the nervousness he had felt when facing rough waves at sea. Tom Wang knew this was because he was a complete novice in politics and had never made such a speech in a similar situation.
Tom Wang took a deep breath, put his laptop on the desk, opened the document he had made in advance, and started the report on the inspection in a slightly stiff tone: "Dear colleagues, the content of my report is divided into three parts: There are three main parts: the first is the schedule description of this operation, the second is the description of the completion of the specific inspection project, and the third is the on-site answers to colleagues’ questions. I will ask for some additional explanations. Next, let me talk about the schedule of this inspection..."
Once he talked about his major, Wang Tom regained his composure. He first briefly explained the nine-day itinerary, and then focused on why he made such arrangements. Especially in the selection of routes and the design of voyages, Wang Tom's professional opinions are undoubtedly highly authoritative, and he also explained this part in the most detail on how to use slower Chinese sailing boats to run these routes in the future. , he also gave some opinions of his own. The description of each expedition project allowed the audience to clearly feel the various difficulties encountered by the expedition team during this operation and the efforts they made to overcome these difficulties. During the explanation process, Wang Tom used a projector to show some graphic, textual and video materials to the participants to deepen their understanding of the local environment.
When the participants from the Ministry of Construction saw the real images of the port area, combined with the contour maps drawn by the inspection team, it became more vivid and realistic, and it was easier for them to make more targeted construction planning plans. And when a large number of war refugees gathered at the mouth of the Thanh Hoa River appeared on the screen, everyone's attention became more focused. The expedition team convened some of the refugees to conduct an investigation and videotaped the entire process. Because Wang Tom did not understand the vernacular, another expedition team member was called to the stage to explain on his behalf. The performance of these refugees has greatly strengthened the Executive Committee's determination to introduce labor from the local area. If the Executive Committee had previously had various concerns about whether to introduce immigrants, after seeing these field-recorded videos, those concerns were all eliminated. With that out of the way, the executive committee only needs to consider how to solve the problem of insufficient capacity.
After the interview video ended, Wang Tom's inspection report came to an end. The participants once again gave warm applause to the outstanding performance of the expedition team during the operation. If the previous applause was still a vague sense of admiration, then after more than an hour of detailed report by Tom Wang, This feeling of admiration has become very clear.
The next time was for Wang Tom to answer questions. Tao Donglai first asked a question that all the participants were concerned about: "If we want to transport a large number of people from the coastal areas of Vietnam, such as Thanh Hoa, what will happen?" Will it not arouse the vigilance and hostility of the local authorities? ”
This issue is indeed very important. In this era when national boundaries and nationalities are not so clear, the behavior of large-scale transportation of people from a certain coastal area by crossing groups is very likely to be regarded by the local regime as plundering the population under their rule, thus causing The other party's hostility or even further hostile behavior, whether in Vietnam or Ming Dynasty, this is a situation that may happen. The current time-traveling group has no intention and ability to provoke a national-level opponent. Even if this country is called the "Monkey Country" by many time-traveling people, even if they cannot cross the sea to attack the time-traveling group's home base, they want to It is not difficult to disrupt the Cross Travel Group's plan on their own territory.
"According to our observation and understanding, the Li government in the north has very limited control over the people. Their troops are only stationed in some major cities, and there are no military personnel stationed even on the coast just one or two hundred miles away from the capital. I have to say that their military defense awareness is very poor, which is probably one of the reasons why this country has been in constant war for hundreds of years." Wang Tom first talked about his own understanding, and then began to answer Tao Donglai's question. : "If the local government still has certain organizational capabilities, then there will not be the large-scale flight we have seen. I think the army of the Le Dynasty will not know how many people have fled to the north, let alone these Where did the people end up? In my opinion, the entire eastern coast of Vietnam is an undefended area. If we have enough transportation capacity, we can even evacuate that place directly.”
"Does this mean we won't encounter trouble from the local government?" Tao Donglai asked.
"Absolutely not!" Wang Tom shook his head and said: "And I suggest starting immigration as soon as possible. This will not only meet our population import needs, but is also an act of humanitarian relief for war refugees."
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