1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 124 Humanitarian Rescue
While the expedition members were still soundly asleep, the executive committee had already begun to calculate the current maritime capacity on hand to measure whether it could undertake the transportation of construction materials and population in the early stage of overseas mining.

At present, the executive committee has a second-hand blessing ship of [-] materials that has just been purchased. The tonnage of the two Fuchuan and Guangzhou Shipyard seized in the previous period is slightly smaller. These three ships can run cross-sea routes, but the speed is not high. The catamaran is so fast, and the voyage needs to be carefully calculated.And according to the situation sent back before the expedition team came back, in the future, sailing from Shengli Port to Hongji is likely to abandon Shengli Port-Yazhou-Yinggezui-Changhua-Fushuizhou Island-Halong Bay ——Xinggang, the originally planned route, sailed directly from Yinggezui to the northwest, crossed the Beibu Gulf and arrived in Thanh Hoa area, loaded immigrants there, and then went north along the coast of Vietnam, passing through Cat Ba Island before turning eastward, crossing Halong Bay to Xingang.

The new route is about 180 nautical miles longer than the previously planned route. According to the speed of the Chinese sailboat and the time it will take to stop on the way, the single-sided sailing time will be at least two days longer than the original one.There are two main difficulties in this new route. One is that the distance from Yinggezui to Tsing Hoa is about [-] nautical miles. It takes at least two days for Chinese sailboats to complete this cross-sea voyage, and there are no floating islands in the middle. A stop like the island will be a big test for the crew who have never run this route.Another difficulty is that the fleet needs to sail for one and a half to two days before arriving at Xingang to accept immigrants to board the ship. How to ensure sufficient food and 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, there will be a large amount of materials that need to be transported from the base camp, but if too many materials are loaded on the ship, it will not be possible 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 progress of the mining area.

A group of people from the shipping department fought all over to get people or goods. Later, even the people from the executive committee joined in.In the end, Tao Donglai, who was mature and prudent, came forward to quell the flames of war: "After all the fighting, in the final analysis, we still don't have enough transport capacity, just like we didn't have enough manpower at the beginning of our time travel. In my opinion, the opinions of the expedition team should be given priority, after all, only they have personally traveled to these places, so I think their opinions should be more reasonable.”

At nine o'clock in the evening, the expedition team members who had been sleeping drowsily were called up. The heads of various relevant departments have already rushed to the No. [-] base, waiting to use their action reports as a reference for the next preparation plan.In order to help them recover from sleep as soon as possible, the executive committee even prepared hot face wash water and iced cold drinks.

After a while, the expedition members who had endured the double stimulation of ice and fire reluctantly cheered up and walked into the meeting room. They were greeted with endless applause from the big and small leaders of the time travel group.Although they had already experienced similar scenes when they disembarked at the pier 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 will make the report on this expedition, the best candidate is undoubtedly Tom Wang.Tom Wang, 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 the inspection projects, he also confirmed the location of Xingang, and he also solved the problem that had troubled the Executive Committee for a long time. The problem of the labor force has allowed Xingang to have a long-term and stable population input channel at the planning stage.In addition, during this mission in an unfamiliar environment that lasted nine days and traveled nearly a thousand nautical miles, none of the members suffered from serious illness or casualties. As the captain, Tom Wang also contributed a lot.

The executive committee and relevant departments attach great importance to this work report. Although the expedition team has submitted the detailed electronic documents and logbooks of this operation, everyone still wants to hear the experience of the parties. After all, there are many subjective opinions. Things cannot be reflected by paper data, and the personal explanations of the parties will help everyone understand the true intentions of the expedition team's specific actions during the process.And everyone would also like to hear Tom Wang's opinions and opinions on material preparation, population transfer, and Xingang construction.

Tom Wang walked to the front of the meeting room, facing the mass of black heads below, suddenly felt a little nervous, which seemed completely different from the nervousness he used to face when he was facing the stormy 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 the laptop on the desk, opened the content of the document he had prepared in advance, and started the report of the inspection operation in a slightly blunt tone: "Dear colleagues, the content of my report is divided into three parts. It is divided into three main parts, one is the schedule explanation of this operation, the second is the explanation about the completion of the specific inspection projects, and the third is the on-site answer to the questions of colleagues. Some of the places that need to be supplemented, I will invite them here Team members from this time will assist. Let me first talk about the schedule of this inspection..."

Once talking about his profession, Tom Wang regained his ease.He first briefly explained the itinerary for the nine days, and then focused on why he made such an arrangement.Especially in the selection of the route and the design of the voyage, Wang Tom’s professional opinions are undoubtedly extremely authoritative, and he also explained this part in the most detail. How to use a Chinese-style sailboat with a slower speed to run these routes in the future , he also gave some of his own opinions.

The descriptions of each investigation project made the audience feel more clearly the difficulties encountered by the expedition team during this operation and the efforts they made to overcome these difficulties.During the explanation, Tom Wang used a projector to show some graphic and video materials to the participants to deepen their understanding of the local environment.

When the participants of the Ministry of Construction saw the real image of the port area, combined with the contour map drawn by the expedition team, it was more vivid and real, and it was also convenient for them to make a more targeted construction plan.And when a large number of war refugees gathered at the Qinghua River Estuary appeared on the screen, everyone's attention became more concentrated.At that time, the investigation team convened some fleeing people to do the investigation and videotaped the whole process. Because Tom Wang didn't understand the vernacular, he called another investigation team member to the stage to explain instead.The performance of these refugees has greatly strengthened the determination of the Executive Committee to introduce the labor force from the local area. If the Executive Committee still had various concerns about whether it was possible to introduce immigrants before, after seeing these videos recorded on the spot, those concerns were all eliminated. Forget about it, the Executive Committee only needs to consider how to solve the problem of insufficient capacity.

After the video interview ended, Tom Wang's investigation report came to an end.The participants once again gave warm applause to the excellent performance of the expedition team during the operation. If the previous applause was a kind of vague admiration, then after Tom Wang’s detailed report for more than an hour, This sense of admiration has become very clear.

The next time is Tom Wang's Q&A session. Tao Donglai first raised a question that all participants are concerned about: "If we want to remove a large number of people from the coastal areas of Vietnam, such as Thanh Hoa, what will happen? Will it arouse the vigilance and hostility of the local government?"

This issue is indeed very important. In this era when national boundaries and nationalities are not so clear, the large-scale transportation of people from a certain coastal area by a crossing group is very likely to be regarded by the local regime as a plunder of the population under its rule, resulting in Whether it is in Vietnam or in Ming Dynasty, this is a situation that may happen.And the current time-traveling group has neither the intention nor the power to provoke a national-level opponent, even if this country is called "monkey country" by many time-traveling people, even if they can't cross the sea to attack the old nest of the time-traveling group, but want to It is not difficult to disrupt the plan of the Traveling Group on its own territory.

"According to our observation and understanding, the Le 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 which is only 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 a certain ability to organize, then there will be no large-scale fleeing scene we have seen. I think the army of the Le Dynasty may not know how many people have fled to the north, let alone know these Where did people end up. In my opinion, the entire eastern coast of Vietnam is an undefended area, and if we have enough transportation capacity, we can even just evacuate the area.”

"That means we won't encounter any trouble from the local government?" Tao Donglai asked.

"Not at all!" Tom Wang shook his head and said, "And I suggest starting immigration as soon as possible. This will not only meet our population import needs, but also serve as a humanitarian rescue operation for war refugees."

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