Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 172

Under Wen Desi's promise of "teaching the secret method of building Western large ships", Zhang Jiji started to rush to work with great enthusiasm. He selected some people to work with him.Wen Desi was very interested in ancient shipbuilding techniques, so he stayed with Li Jun's platoon to watch the shipbuilding.The navy showed a completely different interest. Not only did Fubo go back and forth every three to five days, but he also successively transported the non-commissioned officers assigned to the navy to Baitu to work as part-time workers for Zhang Machine and learn the intuitive experience of shipbuilding.Although future naval architects are trained in technical schools, the Navy believes that it also needs to train officers with a little knowledge of shipbuilding technology-if possible, the shipyards of the future should be controlled by the Navy.

Wen Desi was very clear about the little Jiujiu of the navy, but his own hobbies made him have a natural preference for the navy, so he turned a blind eye in the way of pretending to be confused, and continued the cross-time and space technology exchange with Zhang Jiji.

Wen Desi discovered that Zhang Jiji is actually a master model. He can make all kinds of sea ship models with very simple woodworking tools.It turns out that this is his technical secret, to put it bluntly, it is the proportional magnification method.This method is somewhat primitive but very effective.Wen Desi knew that European shipbuilders had also adopted a similar method, and the rule of making a model first for each ship built was also the result of this method.

Zhang Jiji knows little about mathematics and geometry, and his level of drawing is equivalent to graffiti, but he has firmly memorized all the data of the size, structure, and dimensions of these ships, which makes Wen Desi very admired—— Many skilled craftsmen in ancient China were illiterate and did not understand algorithms, but they were able to rely on the inheritance of experience from generation to generation to make ingenious items. They do have their uniqueness.

Seeing Zhang Jiji making a model ship, Wen Desi couldn't help but feel itchy.Anyway, there was nothing to do in supervising shipbuilding, so I simply made a model of a two-masted schooner first. With the model, it would be easier to communicate with Zhang's machine.

He has always been a survival maniac, and he has basic weapons, food and tools with him wherever he goes.The materials here are convenient, so he immediately found materials and started to make them.

Zhang Jiji admired Wen Desi, a "learned man" who could make delicate ship models by hand.In his opinion, all learned people are good at writing and ink, and he has never seen someone who can do such a craftsman's work by himself.After work every day, I would go to Wen Desi's house to look at the model of this western ship. The two of them would also share their experience in making ship models. Simple knowledge of sail shape told him.

When Wen Desi was living a leisurely life of making models in Baitu, the traversers were busy working in Bopu and Bairen City every day.There are thousands of projects to be launched, and people are shouting about the lack of materials and labor everywhere. As a member of the planning committee, Ma Qianzhu, who presides over the daily work, has become the busiest person.Busy with material distribution, labor deployment, and coordinating the relationship between various departments - who will use the limited materials and labor first will often cause great disputes.This kind of controversy will be mixed with personal grievances that slowly formed in work and life after D-Day.And the personal grievances between the leaders of the professional groups will eventually become the contradictions between the two professional groups.Any trifle gave rise to debate and quarrels, and the members of the Executive Committee had to be constantly busy mediating disputes.Xiao Zishan once approached Ma Qianzhu furtively, asking if he had taken back all the guns of the team leaders.

"Why?" Ma Qianju thought that the situation was so dangerous now, and he still wanted to distribute pistols to everyone.

"In case the quarrel reaches a fever pitch, an impulse—" Xiao Zishan drew his gun.

"No, no, Zishan, are you a psychopath?" Ma Qianzhu disagreed.

In addition to being busy with such routine work, Ma Qianju, as the chief of staff, also had to take care of military issues.

The attack on Baitu Village has successfully injected a dose of stimulant into the group. The new army and weapons manufactured by the crossing crowd have withstood the test of actual combat. It's been ten years, and I've seen the real battle and won it.

Ma Qianju was not as excited as the crowd.Although he didn't participate in this expedition, but from Xi Yazhou's mouth, he also generally knew the various problems exposed in the whole process. The state of the army was not as optimistic as the masses imagined.Stepping up troop training was the only way. Regardless of repeated opposition from the mechanical department, he raised the priority of ammunition production to the first place.This caused the lead reserves in the industrial sector to drop sharply. Ji Situi also reminded him that the chemical sector did not have much nitrate reserves. The production of gunpowder used up a lot of saltpeter, and the production of nitric acid had almost completely stopped.

"If we are defeated, what is the use of so much nitric acid?"

Ji Si shrugged back and didn't argue with him any further.Ma Qianju didn't know the important role of nitric acid in the modern industrial system, but at the moment there were dangers everywhere, and there were possible enemies everywhere, so he had to resort to military action.

Shi Shishi sent out the message of the peace talks with Zhucai, but there was no response, and there was no clue whether it was peace or war.Ma Qianju doubted whether the little pirate leader had delivered the message.The traveler is currently ignorant of the situation of the various sea groups, and the news from Guangzhou is often vague, making Ma Qianzhu confused.The only thing that can be obtained now is the movement of various maritime groups in the first year of Chongzhen (1628) compiled by the intelligence data group from the historical materials.

It just so happened that today he was on duty in the communication center, listening to the chaotic conversations on the public channel, he decided to read this information quickly so that he could replace the non-existent staff department and formulate a combat plan.

As the No. [-] enemy of the traversers, Zheng Zhilong's department has also officially accepted the recruitment in July of this year, achieving his goal of controlling foreign trade through legal status.His accomplice Li Kuiqi defected "due to the uneven distribution of spoils", which may involve the interests of foreign trade.

In September of the first year of Chongzhen, Li Kuiqi "snatched the ship and carried it away, recruited rebels, and made things difficult for Zhilong... On the ninth day of December, Kuiqi contacted Chen Shengyu and Zhong Liu (that is, Zhong Bin). The boat entered the old Wuyu Island for a battle."

Li Kuiqi was very powerful when he rebelled, and he took all Zheng's ships and guns with him. It is said that the Zheng family only had dozens of ships and 1628 soldiers left.Judging from Li Kuiqi's appeal, his strength is no less than that of Zheng Zhilong.But Ma Qianju doesn't really believe this number. If Zheng Zhilong really only has "dozens of ships and 10 soldiers" left, he will not be able to fight Li Kuiqi for more than a year, nor will he Probably signed a trade contract with the Dutch on October 1, [-] (the fourth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar) in the name of the largest maritime group on the coast of China.

For the Transmigration Group, the battle between Zheng Zhilong and Li Kuiqi is extremely beneficial to them. At least these two sea forces will not come to attack them for the time being. Whether it is to promote peace by fighting or paying tribute, they only need to face The Liuxiang Group and the old Zhucai Group are gone.

This "only thing" was a bit stressful, and Ma Qianzhu put down the report with full of thought.From the beginning to the end, this information rarely mentions how many military power these pirates have. The figures in the historical records are all approximations and are worthless.How does one deal with this?But it's no wonder that military intelligence is not the strong point of those who work on historical materials. It seems that they still have to rely on the military's own intelligence system. It seems that the establishment of a local military intelligence network is an imminent thing.

Now the teaching camp has initially formed an army, and the arms industry has also grown. The four fishing boats have been refitted, and the heavy projectiles have been replaced with 70mm breech-loading artillery.With the presence of these fishing boats, the situation of the traversers at sea has been greatly improved - there are no ships in this time and space capable of challenging them.A few days ago, through the hard work of Lin Shenhe, the original touch grenade fuze was manufactured. According to the test data, the detonation rate is 80%, which is quite impressive, and it is made of copper.

The source of copper is a little tighter.Even though Guo Yi held this channel high, buying copper was still quite difficult.Moreover, Gao Ju is now becoming more and more skeptical about their purchases: so much pig iron, saltpetre and copper are missing; content.Recently, he has been inquiring in many ways in his words, and the transfer warehouse on Youyu Island has also been secretly inspected several times.

Guo Yi suggested that it is best to occupy Hong Kong Island, or at least establish a base on the island to facilitate material transfer.In addition, he also suggested that contact with Macau should be established as soon as possible.Overseas entrepot trade through the Portuguese.

Occupy Hong Kong Island.Ma Qianju thought the idea was not bad, but Hong Kong Island was much more sensitive than Lingao, it was right under the eyes of the majestic provincial capital, at the mouth of the Pearl River.If you want to occupy it, you have to prepare for a battle with the Ming army.Right now, the five or six hundred of them are really powerless.

To fight and to build, it is really a dilemma.Ma Qianju now understands why it is so important to mention "winning time for peaceful construction" in another time and space.The army and navy are like two gold-swallowing behemoths vying to be the first, not only eating up a lot of their resources, but also occupying a lot of useful manpower.

While meditating, he suddenly heard someone yelling in the public channel: "The enemy! The enemy appears!" The channel was suddenly chaotic.

Ma Qianju roared: "This is the duty officer and chief of staff! Everyone shut up! The person who called the police just now immediately reported your identity and location! Shaozong, we need a separate communication channel! Hurry up!"

Go to a separate communication channel.The voice calmed down a bit: "I am Liu Zheng from the long-distance exploration team. I went with the team to look for peat this morning. I encountered the enemy 9 kilometers east of Bairen City at 25 am. I retreated immediately. I just retreated to the wireless network coverage Within range. The enemy is about an hour away from us."

"How many enemies are there? What equipment?"

"There are probably hundreds of people. I can't see what equipment is in the distance. It seems that there are muskets, a few cavalry, and no artillery!"

"Ming army or pirates?"

"No uniform, no armor, probably pirates!"

Damn, it seems that Mr. Zhucai is calling, this kid doesn't seem to care about our olive branch at all!

"Go back to the city immediately, and report if there is any situation!"

(End of this chapter)