Lu Ming

Chapter 67 Before Sailing ([-])
The scene of seeing off is very standard and very common, that is, there are more people in fancy clothes, and there are all kinds of clothes in ancient and modern times.The transition of the crew is like this, Huang Ama riding a motorcycle, mixed with joy in solemnity.

According to the original plan, the expedition team formed by the traversers should have set off more than ten days ago.The reason for the delay to this day is that the management is inexperienced - the marine equipment is not supplied on time.

But it's also not appropriate to put the blame entirely on management—the company's current so-called management has neither that much authority nor a little legitimacy.The current leaders, big and small, have grown savagely in the environment where new shareholders are rolling in. Except for Xia Xianze, who is the default, other department managers such as Feng Jun and Wang Liguo still need to be cultivated. For the time being, their prestige is not enough. .

The consequence of the weak management is that any material application involving "import" will go through a period of inter-departmental buck-passing before it can be implemented.No way, now there is a lack of people who make the final call.Chairman Cao, the only one who can handle all this legally, never intervenes in these matters.

Of course, Mr. Cao also has reasons.Not to mention that he often disappears for a period of time, and even if he doesn't disappear, it is impossible for him to designate who is in the top position - everyone is really unfamiliar.

Although he "recruited" all the travelers from the old world, at that time, Cao Chuan's only criterion for selecting these people was "this person is not convenient to 'please' go to the Ming Dynasty".
As for whether this person has leadership ability, whether he can repair or drive a car, these are all out of consideration.Except for Xia Xianze, who had practiced the first hand, the others did not have in-depth exchanges with Cao Chuan.

These are all the reasons why the radar, weapons, diesel and outboards requested by the Navy ended up being delayed.A bit LOW, but that's what it is.When Cao Chuan finally got the order from the Navy, returned to the old world to complete the procurement, and returned to deliver the goods, it was already several days later than the original plan.

After that, things went smoothly for a while: navigation radar, weather radar, sonar, including the machine gun mounts on the front and rear decks were quickly installed.The exciting Browning M2HB heavy machine gun also debuted at this moment. In order to compete for the limited opportunity to test the gun, several people exposed their vulgar side.

It didn't take long for the joy, then the trouble: no one had ever installed a Swedish OXE diesel outboard on the butt of a medieval sand boat before.After the people in the mechanical department got the real thing and measured it again, they found that not only the pick and place of the movable wooden rudder at the stern, but also the structural strength of the stern, and the pick and place of the outboard motor, etc., a series of problems should be considered.
The final solution was to re-measure the three existing sand boats that were suitable for conversion, and then spend the time customizing special steel slides and stern reinforcements from the old world, and this was done.

This small problem that was originally common in craftsmanship was unexpectedly met with a wave of complaints.No way, the current situation is that no matter which department, as long as the "import quota" is squeezed additionally, it will definitely be sprayed.

At present, the company seems to be strong and strong, and all kinds of equipment are sufficient, but the most important "delivery times", in fact, did not save much.The ring in Cao Chuan's hand can only accumulate enough energy for one-way transmission every three days.If you don't count the half of the delivery times back to the old world, then Cao Chuan can only send goods to the new world 5 times a month, 22 cubic meters each time.

The company's increasingly large personnel and materials must rely on this transportation volume to grow and develop.In the early stage, it is good to say that the largest transport unit is people, and most of the other daily necessities of firearms and ammunition are stored.However, once the infinite equipment required for future industrialization is considered, this amount of transportation is obviously a drop in the bucket.

As of the day the fleet departed, the situation was not optimistic.In the past six months, the number of crossings that Cao Chuan has saved is actually only 18.This number has to be divided by 2, that is to say, at most 9 boxes of goods can be delivered continuously from the old world at the moment, and after that, it will take six days to wait slowly.

In such a severe situation, it is no wonder that everyone is strictly guarding against "imported materials".

After the motor was finally tested at sea, the effect was good: once there was a need on the ocean, everyone could pull up the movable wooden rudder at the stern, and then use the 200-horsepower outboard. The machine card is put down on the external rail.Next, in milliliters, the precious diesel fuel will start to be consumed, and the square-headed and stern-shaped sand boat will now transform into a headwind that can rush towards the enemy or run away at a speed of at least 5 knots in the headwind.
After everything was ready, I looked back in the dark, only to find that the plan made at the beginning had been delayed beyond recognition. Bureaucracy killed people.
You must know that the upcoming winter is extremely important in the traveler's plan: there are no typhoons in the winter, and the mosquitoes are not so rampant, and the vegetation is relatively sparse for everyone to clean up the savages.This winter is the best time for the traversal forces to gain a firm foothold in the big members. It can be said that every day is very important.

Now that the time has been delayed, let's quickly make up for it.Fortunately, the rest of the commonly used materials in the plan were already prepared, so various goods were stuffed into the bilge overnight, including food, weapons and ammunition, tents, and even 84 disinfectant and other daily necessities were all loaded onto the ship.

Right now there is not a single regular soldier, but there are so many people, the "Army" group who have long been reduced to prison guards, this time they finally waited for the dawn of hope.Apart from anything else, we gathered enough NO.15 people to come out of the mountain, and excitedly escorted 80 "workers" from Moyun Temple overnight, and one of them ran away in the dark.

In this way, the preparations before departure were completed in a hurry.The first two boats set sail. The bigger "Dog's Eye" had a funny name, which some people joked about when they bought the boat.

This three-masted, 33% new sand boat is 7 meters long and 2 meters wide. Although it is called a thousand materials, its displacement is just over 100 tons, and its deadweight is less than 80 tons. Bought at a premium.After stuffing a batch of raw silk for trade, porcelain, cloth, daily necessities, as well as 20 "Class B laborers", 20 "Class C laborers", 15 passers-by and 50 crew members, Akira was already Dangling, brain full of fat.

The smaller "Yuandou" has only 700 materials. The name is from the former owner of Mingren, and now it is also full of people and goods.Both ships were equipped with some inconvenient later-life items, which were also tightly wrapped in tarpaulins, and they would not be too late to untie them after going out to sea.

The first batch of more than 30 traversers would naturally not include Chairman Cao Baobao.The uncertain future, the wilderness thousands of miles away, the various risks on the sea, and such a high-risk journey, everyone agreed that only the CEO can go from victory to victory.

(End of this chapter)