Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 391 People on board

"So, they come from the same time and space."

"Probably nine out of ten." Lin Chuan counted the cigarettes, and several people fell into silent thinking.Where did this ship come from?How did it travel through time and space to come here?Is it the disturbance of the wormhole, or is this sea area itself a wormhole: the 17th century on the surface of the sea, and the 21st century under the sea?Has anyone else traveled through it?Is he dead or alive now?If alive, where are you now?What would he think of their group of ambitious adventurers?Be friendly or hostile to them...

A series of question marks hovered in everyone's minds, and no one could answer them.

After discussing for a while, we decided to take a few more dives into the water before the sun went down, and search the boat thoroughly.

Then Zhou Weisen, Lin Chuanqing and Gao Xiaosong went into the water in turn—Gao Xiaosong knew a little bit of snorkeling.After surveying the surroundings of the sunken ship and sneaking into the cabin, Zhou Weisen went in and inspected almost all of them except the locked cabin and the engine room with complex terrain, and fished out some things again.

During these few dives they found the remains of a human body, down on the reef farther from the wreck.If the oilcloth wrapped around his body hadn't been torn apart by the shark, he wouldn't have noticed.The carcass has been completely mutilated by sharks and various sea creatures.Octopus and crabs still have dinner parties on it.

In order to find out the truth, despite the disgusting fact of doing it, they fished out the body.

Although there are still some muscles and skin left on the corpse, it is completely invisible, but judging from the color of the remaining hair, this is an Indo-European race.The man was wrapped in a ship's tarpaulin, and two heavy dumbbells hung from his feet.It appears to have been buried at sea.This person should be one of the passengers on the sunken ship.

"Do you want to take the corpse back?"

"Of course, this is an important clue."

So the wreck had to be rewrapped, but the marine life had already done most of the cleaning.It is the job of the Ministry of Health to clean up the corpses after they are transported back.

They continued to expand the search around the sunken ship, but no human remains were found. There were still some deep trenches on the edge of the reef, and they could not go down to search.One thing is certain, the survivors on the ship have left after burying the dead at sea - Zhou Weisen found that one of the two sampans on the deck was missing, and some equipment in the cabin also showed signs of being taken away.Judging from the fact that there is no trace of a large-scale oil spill in the surrounding environment, it should be that the people on board sank the boat after the fuel in the boat was exhausted.As for why it is done this way, it is not known.

"There should be at least one person on board, and at most eight people." Lin Chuanqing reasoned.

Gao Xiaosong said, "The sampan can only hold eight people at most?"

"Yes, and I think there were only two or three people when we abandoned the ship. Otherwise, it would be hard to explain why we didn't take more food. If there is a shipwreck, shouldn't we bring as much supplies as possible? If I were me, I would take two Take all the sampans. Two people are in charge of a sampan, so you can take a lot of things.”

"It seems that there is indeed another group of people who came to this time and space, and most of them are Americans." Gao Xiaosong concluded, "I think we must be more vigilant. They sank the boat because they obviously didn't want anyone to find themselves. It is upright, probably for the convenience of future salvage."

"Maybe it's someone from the U.S. Space-Time Administration."

"The Space-Time Administration is also managed by the Americans? At least it is under the United Nations organization."

Regardless of whether the visitor is the Space-Time Management Bureau or an accidental participant like the Ming family in the Qiongzhou Strait, other people with this space-time came here anyway. As for what they want to do and how the time-traveling group plans to treat them, this is not Gao Xiaosong and the others were thinking about it.

It was agreed, however, that the ship should be salvaged.It should be a fine ship with some repairs.

Bai Guoshi said: "The displacement of this ship is also 100 tons, which is no worse than the 8154 fishing boat used by the navy now. The shell is not damaged. It should not be difficult to repair. And there are many materials on board that we can use. Soaked in sea water After a long time, it will be ruined.”

After returning to Lingao, the expedition team submitted two reports to the executive committee and participated in the second action report meeting.Once it was included in the weekly bulletin—according to Xiao Zishan's proposal, now the executive committee will publish a government bulletin internally every week, reporting various major events that happened this week and the operating status and records of the various departments of the executive committee.As a manifestation of "government affairs openness".

Included in the government gazette is the report on the investigation of Dongsha Island.Another is their report on the wreck.This report is currently top secret, except for the parties involved, only a few main leaders in the Executive Committee know.

Ma Qianju soon received another report.This report was sent by Ran Yao himself, and it was written by a traveler in the expedition team to monitor Zhou Weisen and Lin Chuanqing.The report clearly stated that they did not have any abnormalities during the entire investigation.

Ran Yao waited for a few minutes before Ma Qianju fell into deep thought after reading it, and then reminded: "Duke Gong! Have you finished reading it?"

"Huh? Finished." Ma Qianzhu showed a relaxed expression, "This is the best!"

"Yes, I personally think that the North American public is beyond doubt."

Ma Qianzhu nodded, sent the report to the gas lamp and lit it, watching it turn into ashes—Ran Yao was relieved, he originally planned to take back the paper and destroy it.

A secret meeting with the expedition was then held.Bai Guoshi's proposal to salvage the sunken ship as a whole was rejected. Although the ship is extremely useful to the Crossing Group after being salvaged and repaired, Wang Luobin thinks it is not difficult to salvage—since the hull structure is well preserved and the water depth is not large, it can The ability of the committee members can be salvaged as a whole.

But once the ship is salvaged and towed to Bopu, the secret that an "unplanned" ship has also arrived in this time and space cannot be hidden from anyone.The executive committee considered and decided again and again that this matter should still be kept secret.

"Let's first salvage the useful materials and equipment on the ship in batches." Ma Qianju said, "According to the report of the expedition team, there are a lot of abandoned things in it. It's a pity that it has been soaked."

"Food, medicine, tools, and gadgets are all useful to us."

"Cases of heroin, cocaine, or marijuana might be fished out."

"It's a pity that none of these things are useful to us-if only the arms smuggling ship."

If it is an arms smuggling ship, there will definitely be a large number of weapons and ammunition on it.Although they feel that there is no shortage of light weapons, it is still exciting to have an automatic weapon such as an AK47 in their hands.

"It's depressing to fish out a portable anti-aircraft missile."

"Hahaha." The meeting room laughed.

"Aren't you happy too early?" Wen Desi said slowly, "Where are the people on board? Don't forget this crucial thing."

"It's not a big problem." Ran Yao said, "The expedition team thought that there were so few people on board that they could only take away one sampan. And they didn't take away a lot of useful supplies, obviously not enough manpower. A few lonely travelers , even if it is not submerged by sea water, it will not cause too much waves."

"Will there be other ships together?"

"The possibility is extremely small, otherwise, wouldn't it be a pity to just throw away the things on the sunken ship? Even if they don't know that this is in another time and space, it is always better to have more food and medicine in case of an emergency at sea."

"I'm not worried that they can become a force - our 500 people are fully prepared and it's just such a small situation, and a few of them can't handle it. The key is that they are afraid that they will take refuge in a certain opponent. In this way, our trump card It's all exposed. This is the most important thing." Wen Desi was very concerned about this.

"There is no way to do this, it is completely beyond our control. We have to order to strengthen our security, and if we find any suspicious persons, we will arrest them or - kill them on the spot -" Ma Qianzhu said in a deep voice.

At this time, Shi Yanren came to the meeting room, and he brought an autopsy report.

"The corpse found by the expedition team next to the sunken ship has been checked by us: male, aged between 35 and 40 years old, of Indo-European race, and his residual hair is brown. He is 1.87 meters tall, very muscular, and weighs It is estimated to be around 100 kilograms."

"It's a strong man—"

"That's right, everyone will be more interested in listening." Shi Yanren said, "According to the skeleton and remains of the corpse, this person was injured many times in his life, including gunshot wounds..."

"Shot to death?"

"No, the gunshot wound is an old wound. According to the healing state of the bone, it should have happened many years ago."

……

To sum it up, the deceased was a man in his prime, tall and strong, and had suffered many injuries.Shi Youren thought: This should be a soldier.

"At least he is a person who deals with danger." Ran Yao said, "It should be a soldier or a law enforcement officer."

"The Space-Time Administration is also a law enforcement agency."

"Don't tell such cold jokes."

Ran Yao suddenly remembered something.

"Do you still remember that in the few days after D-Day, our observation post outside the county once reported something?"

"what?"

"A European prisoner is being escorted in the Ming army team heading to the county for reinforcements."

"I don't remember. Is there such a thing?" Several people pricked up their ears.

"Of course." Ran Yao said, "Li Jun and Wei Aiwen witnessed it. Their report should be in the file room."

"Call here!"

The report contained very little content on the matter, except that a prisoner of European appearance was found in the team, without any details.

"There is such a thing! Is he still in the county jail in Lingao?" Wen Desi cried out after seeing it.

"I never asked—"

"Tell Xiong Buyou to go to the city immediately to investigate this matter. Is this European still in Lingao, has he brought anything, what has he said, where is he now..."

"Mr. Wen, you don't need to be so excited," Wu De comforted, "You forgot something, the time is not right."

According to Ran Yao, the appearance of the Europeans was only a few days after D-Day, and the distance from Dongsha Islands here, even if this European-looking person came from a boat, he could not have arrived in such a short time Lingao was captured.

"Space-time disturbance is hard to tell!"

At Wen Desi's insistence, Xiong Buyou, who was teaching Mandarin in a national school and learning the dialect by himself, was suddenly given the task, and he didn't understand what was going on for a while—he didn't remember any Europeans in the county!

Xiong Buyou is now working in the Foreign Business Committee, dealing with the Lingao County Government.Recently, he is studying the procedures of the county government office in the Ming Dynasty assiduously, and he is preparing to "collect taxes" as soon as the time comes, and take over the county government office by the way.For this purpose, he has been in frequent contact with all kinds of people in the county government, and from time to time he has given small favors, and after a few months, he has become very familiar with everyone.

For this matter, he went directly to the prison boss in the county government.The cell boss told him with certainty that at the same time as they arrived, a Westerner was escorted by the vice-lord. He heard from them that he was found by the seaside, and that he was locked up in the county government after being sent.

"Is anyone still there?"

"It's long gone, and I sent it directly to Fucheng. It's probably a red-haired man from Xiangshanao who fell into the water when he was shipwrecked."

"Has he brought anything or clothes with him?"

"What else can fall into the hands of the vice master?" The jailer said with a smile, "Besides, it was picked up from the sea, and there may not even be a whole piece of clothes on it, so there is nothing there."

As for the origin of this person--there is no expert in Lingao County, and the red-haired man can't speak Chinese, so naturally there is no such thing as interrogation records to read.

The results of Xiong Buyou's investigation disappointed the members of the executive committee—it seemed that this person was unlikely to be a sailor on the sunken ship.

The plan to salvage the sunken ship was approved.It is still in the charge of Lin Chuanqing and others.In order to ensure the safety of salvage, the executive committee sent a fishing boat to carry out the task.The ship also brought a lot of materials and equipment needed for salvage.All crew members are handpicked to ensure absolute reliability and no talkativeness.

Fu Buer came out of the office building of Tiandihui in a daze, and he still couldn't turn his mind for a while-did he do right or wrong this time?

Because I only said that I had [-] acres of land when I signed up, I became a "middle peasant" when dividing the customer group.When the promotion meeting was held, I saw several small landowners in neighboring villages who had less land than myself signed service contracts, and said that the Australians from Tiandihui would go to the countryside to deliver seeds and help plant the land, but I just got it. Get a list of ten chicks, what kind of subscription farming.This made him very anxious-chicken, there are dozens of them in his own yard, can he still have chickens on credit like a poor savage?Aussie seed is what matters.

He hurried to ask the clerk of the Tiandihui.

"That's right," the clerk said, "You only have [-] acres of land, but you are just a middle peasant. The seeds you want are planting technical services. Right now, they are only available for self-owned land of more than [-] acres, and at the same time, you personally manage the planting Producers of grain."

Fu Buer doesn't know what a middle peasant is, but he understands that he doesn't have enough land.At a loss for words, he had no choice but to stammer and say that his own land was not only fifty mu, but one hundred mu—in fact, he owns two hundred mu of land.

"Then you have to get the land deed first—there is no evidence for what you say."

When Fu Buer returned home, he was scolded by his wife again, saying that he was burnt with lamp oil and insisted on jumping into the fire pit.It doesn't count if you are a representative, and you have to give your own land to the thieves for nothing.This quarrel made him take a gamble -- he took the land deed to Tiandihui for inspection.

"220 seven acres." The clerk inspected the land deed, "They are all grown by themselves? No tenants for others?"

"It's all grown by the young ones with their slaves and long-term workers." Fu Buer replied.

"Okay, just sign this contract."

Fu Buer couldn't read, so he had to ask the clerk to read it to him. In fact, this is a contract, which stipulates the rights and obligations of both parties.The seeds, fertilizers and pesticides provided by Tiandihui are all charged according to the volume, and technical service fees are also charged.Hearing this fee and that fee, Fu Buer always wanted to retreat.Finally, I heard that the first year is the promotion stage, except for the seed and technical service fees, others are exempted.Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief, and immediately placed his bet.I thought that as long as I received the seeds in the first year, I would not participate in your Laoshizi Tiandihui.

At the same time, Zhang Youfu, a capable man from the county, also participated in the Tiandihui.Zhang Youfu is now a consultant of the Civil Affairs Committee, and can receive a consultant's allowance every month-according to the traditional classification method, Zhang Youfu is a traitor and a dog's leg, specializing in consulting for the Civil Affairs Committee when dealing with local people.Wu De was very strict with him, and he didn't give him a confirmed name, and he didn't let him do things alone, so that this person wouldn't pretend to be a tiger and act recklessly.Destroy the reputation of the time travel group.

Zhang Youfu doesn't have much land, so he doesn't have much enthusiasm for land management.Participating in the Tiandihui was mobilized by Wu De to participate - he didn't think it mattered, anyway, he was entrusted to the long-term workers to plant on weekdays.Australians are willing to toss about what kind of world will help farming.

In addition to them, there are some small and medium landlords and rich peasants from all over the country.Most of the land is between [-] mu and [-] mu.Unsurprisingly, most landlords in this county had doubts about this matter. Although many people came to inquire about how to buy seeds, they flinched when they heard that they had to join the Tiandihui to obtain technical services.In the first phase, there were altogether [-] customers in the planting service industry.One of them was beyond anyone's expectation—it was the instruction of the school in the county.

No one expected that the old Mr. Dong Hong, the teacher of the county school, would do such a bold thing. In fact, he had no choice but to do so.

The county instructor Wang Ci is an old scholar, and he has been a "poor official" in the county for many years.In the Ming Dynasty, Lingao education was still developed in Hainan. In addition to the county school, there were two private "academies". Among them, the famous Molixuan Academy by the Wenlan River can be traced back to the Song Dynasty.Private schools in rural areas are not uncommon.However, the state of the county school is quite bad.

(End of this chapter)