Lu Ming

Chapter 109 Strategic stalemate
The fairy days of eating and sleeping are finally over, and the laborers started to work again today.As soon as they entered the kiln area and saw those steel monsters that appeared out of nowhere, shining with metallic luster, Ming people began to feel uneasy.

Naturally, the people who traveled through didn't care what their subordinates thought, and the workers were ordered to line up in a row to observe how the equipment was operating at a close distance.The next moment, amidst the rumbling sound, the thigh-thick wood was swallowed by the iron teeth, and the trembling workers immediately knelt down in the horror live broadcast.

Comrade Yao Zhesheng, who never regarded himself as an outsider after crossing, devoted himself to work with full enthusiasm at the first time, saw such an ignorant scene, rushed into the crowd and kicked and pulled while swearing, but pulled up. It was probably the same mood when one after another knelt down to Zhi Zunbao and beat his subordinates in front of Chun Shisanniang-hate that iron can't make steel.

It’s hard to straighten all these goods, and then. No, then, let’s observe the teaching, stand by the machine for a long time, and overcome the fear.

In fact, the core power system does not require many workers. From the crusher to the steam turbine, most of the operations are automatic. The most manual labor for workers is nothing more than moving branches, wood, sawdust and shavings to the conveyor belt.For equipment such as boilers and steam turbines, there will always be industrialists on duty next to them. It is still a mystery when natives who understand these equipment will be trained.

Including brick yards and wood factories, due to the generation of electricity, the number of manual workers will be minimized, and small forklifts, which are necessary for warehouses, will soon be fully equipped.

The Dutch and Bandas still fought up and down Newport Creek.The red hairs are a little bit lucky, and they are responsible for cleaning the river and vegetation on the lower reaches of Xingang Creek. decrease.

As of today, there are less than 20 Dutch people who have died due to various reasons, and it is expected to maintain zero casualties in the next few days: This is something that the big office has specifically confessed. Mr. Nuiz will return from Japan soon. If you find that all of your subordinates are dead, you will feel a little bit embarrassing.

The Banda people are not so lucky. There is a reason why Taiwan is called "Formosa" by the Spaniards.

The kiln area base is located in the middle reaches of the Xingang River, which is relatively east of the Tainan Plain and is close to the shallow hills at the foot of Alishan. However, the Banda people’s pioneering activities to the upper reaches of the Xingang River, as the altitude gradually increased, the death rate also increased. is gradually increasing.

The dense vegetation in the hills made it difficult for the Banda people to move.

The Alishan system is below 800 meters above sea level, covered with evergreen arbor forests such as camphor trees, banyan trees, acacia trees, wild longan, eggplant, etc. Broad-leaved plants and shrubs, yellow vines occupy every inch of land under the feet, and the original vegetation merges into a green ocean, just like the waves in the sea, without any fear of invasion from outsiders.

After the Banda people advanced 2 kilometers upstream of Newport Creek, the death rate began to increase rapidly.Even if the time-traversing people have issued them a full set of labor insurance uniforms, a full set of tools brought by later generations, and they can receive timely treatment after injuries, they cannot withstand the crazy killing speed of malaria and work-related injuries.

Of the more than 100 Banda people in the early days, there are now only 70 left, and the death rate exceeds 30%.Now every day before going to work, a supervisor with an infrared thermometer will irradiate everyone's necks. Once a person with a high temperature is found, he will be taken away immediately—the sick person will be transferred by boat to the bamboo shed on Weidao Island, Beixian Observe, here, all those who play the pendulum will be smashed to death with a hammer, and then buried at sea.

The few patients who stay the course and end up with a cold diagnosis get a few aspirins and no sulfonamides and no antibiotics because the forum debate about drug resistance isn't over yet.

Crossing the ideal "5 kilometers" absolute mosquito defense circle, due to the excessive consumption of cannon fodder, we had to temporarily stop.With the kiln area as the center, only 2 kilometers of vegetation was cleared in the direction of Alishan in the east. The northern area across the Xingang River has not been done at all, and only the direction of Chikan in the southwest is acceptable.

In short, the road is tortuous and the future is bright. As time goes by, the situation of strategic stalemate will be broken sooner or later. In the end, it must be the environment that loses, rather than a certain force that is striving to develop industrialization.

The waves are rolling, the sea and the sky are connected, and the afternoon sun is warm and bright. The Gouyan fleet, which departed from Hangzhou, has already completed most of the journey on the Taiwan-Zhejiang route. The fleet of three thousand-shipping ships is on the middle line of the Taiwan Strait Form a line-shaped fleet and cut through the waves.

The distant glory has long been a thing of the past. After 200 years, Zheng He's descendants have fallen behind in navigation and have been reduced to the point where they can only observe the landmarks along the way with the naked eye.In this period of time, the colonists, armed with the ever-developing mathematics, astronomy, and navigation, can cross the vast Pacific Ocean to East Asia every year, while the shipowners of the Ming Dynasty are still carrying the ancient needle road, along the Go north and south along the coastline.

They can sail far to Pattani, Manila, and Batavia, because these places have coastlines and various island chains along the way to shelter from the wind and indicate the direction.

But they don't have the ability to sail along the center line of the Taiwan Strait at their doorstep: the average width of the strait is 300 kilometers, and there are no landmarks in sight, only sea water. It only takes a dark night, or a storm, and the open ship will lose its way. I don't know. Whether they are in North Korea or in Guangdong—they don't have the ability to use the stars in the sky to guide them.

The fleet of traversers, because of the installation of technological equipment brought by later generations, the vast deep sea has instead become a barrier during navigation.The Taiwan-Zhejiang route pioneered by the fleet in the early days has been gradually improved. As long as the sea conditions permit, the leading navigation ship now tends to sail along the middle of the strait to avoid possible troubles. It will not change its course until the latitude is close to Tainan.

Yang Er carried the urine bucket and walked up step by step from the bottom of the bilge. This time it was finally his turn to let the air go.Go up to the deck, facing the toilet pit at the stern, dump all the contents of the urine bucket into the sea, and then use the wooden bucket next to it to bring up the sea water, and after cleaning the urine bucket, he can finally lean on the side of the boat and take a few breaths of refreshing sea breeze up!

Today's Yang Er has a bald head, and the purple-red birthmark on his face is still eye-catching. His upper body is the cheapest double-breasted gown of moon white homemade cloth, his lower body is moon white homemade cropped trousers with ankles exposed, and he wears straw sandals under his feet. The image is not fashionable, but if you wrap a moon white cloth towel around your head, you can try to take a look at the northern Shaanxi style.

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