1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 36 Rookie

During the meeting, Gu Kai used a voice recorder to record the opinions and speeches of each member. He had to use this to compile a brief report and make today's actions when the executive committee held a regular meeting in the evening. report.After the operation summary meeting, it was already noon before I knew it, and it was still during the patrol period. I would definitely not go back to Victory Harbor to have a lunch. It happened that there were enough people today, so everyone was on the "Flying Speed". ' had a small dinner party on the deck.

Johnson didn't stay idle all the time on the boat in the morning, and caught more than a dozen large and small sea fish, which happened to be used for cooking at this time.The kitchen stove on the ship used to be a liquefied gas stove. Now, without the supply of liquefied gas, it has become an idle item, but this little thing can't help these people who are used to life at sea.Roger and Morgan carried out the barbecue grill and iron rack from the cabin, and Shi Diwen, who followed behind, carried a large plastic bag containing fine charcoal.In this sunny weather, having a barbecue party with friends on a yacht by the sea is really a pleasant thing. The only regret is that it is still working time, and it is inconvenient to take out the whisky collected on the boat for a drink. .

The first charcoal kiln of Chuanzhong a week ago was completed and put into operation not far from the No. [-] base. This kind of low-tech project is naturally a pediatrics for Chuanzhong, who has a lot of knowledge reserves.The local fishermen who came to work were led by two or three chuanzhong in charge of technical guidance and completed the whole process from digging the earth to build the kiln to firing the charcoal in the first kiln.And the carbon monoxide leakage, which the Executive Committee was worried about, did not happen at all. The nearly [-] kilograms of charcoal burned out of the first cellar were completely qualified after inspection, so they immediately allocated all of them to the shipping department, which had complained several times— - The drying room for marine lumber has long been completed waiting for the charcoal to arrive.

It is not only the shipping department that is waiting for charcoal, the metallurgical department is also eagerly looking forward to the supply of charcoal. Tiandu iron ore will be mined soon, and the charcoal required for large-scale iron smelting is simply enough for this poor output. Astronomical numbers.In addition, the Ministry of Industry is also trying to persuade the Executive Committee to launch a batch of steam and gas engines using 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, which is made from charcoal as a raw material, in the production of agricultural pesticides.The Executive Committee had to hurry up and build a few more charcoal kilns, but in the short term, it may be difficult to change the short-term supply of charcoal.

However, these troubles do not exist for several members of the North American Gang, let the bureaucrats of the Executive Committee slowly get rid of the headaches!Of course, this is just a thought, no one will say it. After all, Gu Kai is now a member of the executive committee. In the future, the North American Gang wants to form the maritime expedition fleet, marine corps, and special operations team that they long for. Such a military organization, I am afraid that it has to rely on Gu Kai to help a lot in the executive committee.

After eating a sumptuous seafood meal, we still have to continue the routine maritime patrol in the afternoon.Tom Wang asked Gu Kai for his opinion to see if he should be sent back to Victory Harbor first.After hesitating for a while, Gu Kai decided to stay and return to Hong Kong together after the patrol in the afternoon. Then, he took the last boat to deliver supplies to Base No. [-] in the evening to go upstream to participate in the daily regular meeting of the Executive Committee.

The two sailboats re-started from the sea, then separated left and right, and headed for the southwest sea at an interval of about 2000 meters.After sailing out of Luhuitoujiao for about three nautical miles, the two boats turned back and headed southeast together through radio contact.After such a leisurely cruise lasted about an hour, Morgan, who was standing on the bow of the ship holding a telescope and looking out, shouted loudly: "Hey! Look north! Our little friend has appeared!"

On the sea in the distance, a Chinese-style lucky boat is slowly sailing southwards around Yulin Corner. This is naturally the navy Haicang boat that was captured a few days ago.At present, the Ministry of Shipping is engaged in intensive training, and it takes half a day to sail the ship every day.I have to say that the training arranged by the shipping department is indeed very effective, because from the previous day, the only ten Ming sailors have been transferred to the charcoal kiln and wood drying room as laborers. across the crowd.Perhaps their movements are still a little clumsy, and their ability to grasp the wind direction at sea is not that strong, but it took only half a month to master the basic Chinese sailing stance skills, which is not an easy task.

A smirk appeared on the corner of John Wang's mouth, and he picked up the walkie-talkie next to him: "Bliksem, Lightning, do you see the boat to the north? Let's go over and say hello together!"

"OK! I hope the children won't be scared to wet their pants!" From the other end of the walkie-talkie came several ABC's unbridled laughter.

The two sailboats turned their direction tacitly and headed towards the Haicang boat.John Wang handed over the steering wheel to Johnson, and went to sail under the mast himself.The two catamarans purchased from Poland all use sloops. The combined area of ​​the mainsail and the fore sail exceeds 12 square meters. With the streamlined hulls with very shallow drafts, it is easy to get the wind direction right. It can run at a high speed of 15 to 20 knots at sea, and it can even run at an amazing speed of [-] knots at top speed. This is simply a heaven-defying existence for a lucky boat whose maximum speed in this time and space is only six or seven knots.

The Haicang ship driven by the rookie crew obviously couldn't even run at the speed of six or seven knots. The temporary captain, Sun Changmi, was instructing the crew to pull the ropes to adjust the sail together. When he turned around, he saw two The sailboat drew a beautiful arc on the sea and sailed towards him.

"Damn foreign devils, don't you get tired of playing like this every time?" Sun Changmi scolded angrily.Obviously, this is not the first time someone has made a prank.

The two sailboats soon approached from a distance of [-] meters. One left and one right passed the side of the Haicang ship at a very high speed. The distance between the ships was less than five meters. The crew could even The whistles and laughter from the sailboat were clearly heard.Before the crew members' hearts were put down, the Haicang ship violently swayed from side to side, and the crew members who were unsteady immediately turned into rolling gourds, and the ship immediately scolded.

"These damned Yankees know how to show off their power! You have the ability to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan! Don't leave after get off work. I'll meet you at the gate of the base at dinner, and I will teach you how to be a man in minutes!" The sailboat has sailed for 300 meters Far away, Xie Chun, the first mate on the ship, was still lying on the railing of the stern building, yelling and cursing at the shadow of the sail in the distance.

This Xie Chun is also considered a talent. He has worked in various industries such as film and television, publishing, catering, energy, etc. before crossing. His last job was actually in shipping management in the maritime department. Resigned, and then angrily participated in the time-travel.This person has a wide range of hobbies and has studied a lot of things. After deciding to participate in the crossing, it took a lot of work to choose a department that suits him. Until the executive committee recruited all people who knew ship knowledge to participate in ship driving training, he Ning Qi, who was only in charge of personnel, was directly assigned to the shipping department.

Although Xie Chun did not come from a major in shipbuilding, he is no match for professionals such as Yue Zhiyun and Sun Changmi, but he has worked in the maritime department and has some knowledge of navigation. The people who have become monks in the middle of the journey are much better, and they are considered to be better than those of others.However, in view of Xie Chun's "mistakes" in his work, the position of captain is not yet his turn, so he can only be wronged to be the first mate.

Xie Chun is not a big official, but his political consciousness is not low. The standard *** is the [-] cents party who brings his own dry food.After the North American Gang applied to join the crossing operation, Xie Chun was the one who sprayed the most about it on the forum.Xie Chun believes that the addition of these Yankees will bring a very bad influence to the crossing team of liberal ideas, and this kind of thinking is extremely dangerous in another time and space that requires close unity to survive and develop.However, 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 and ranted that this was "a ticking time bomb for the entire crossing team."

During the days when the rookies were training on the Haicang boat, almost every time they encountered the two North American sailboats, they would be molested by them like today, and Xie Chun had long been dissatisfied with this.It's just that the stewards of the executive committee have all gone to Base No. [-], and they can't find a formal way to file a complaint, so they can only swear at it.

However, Sun Changmi knew very well that it would be useless even if Xie Chun went to the top to make trouble. The reason why the Executive Committee ignored the issues of nationality, ideology and other issues to introduce this group of people was mainly because of their ability.I have to admit that it is difficult to find a few people from the existing traversing crowd who can be both crew members and soldiers like these Yankees, and each has professional skills, at least the Wang Tom who is said to be very good at sailing. , Sun Changmi knew very well that his sailing skills and experience definitely surpassed himself and Yue Zhiyun by a large margin, and this kind of thing was often something that could not be taught or learned in school.

It is useless to fan the flames at such a time. Sun Changmi went over and patted Xie Chun and said: "Okay, let them be proud for a few days! When our shipyard starts to build ships, their role at sea will become less and less. Wait for us. When we build heavy artillery battleships in the future, small sampans like them will only be drooling on the side!"

Xie Chun spat fiercely into the sea, gritted his teeth and said, "Let's see, there will be times when they regret it!"

(End of this chapter)