Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 602 People on Ship A

Then he found the Planning Institute and applied for lead, tin and antimony.These are the three necessary metals for casting lead type.Especially antimony, without antimony, not only the use effect of lead type is greatly reduced, but also the life span will be shortened.

"It would be better if there was bismuth." Zhou Dongtian vaguely remembered that this kind of thing was also needed for casting lead type.

"Bismuth is definitely not. Lead and tin are fine. Antimony is a little bit harder." Wood said.

The reason why it is difficult to say is that there is no antimony in China, on the contrary, there is a lot of antimony in China in this time and space, whether it is ore or metal products.The problem was that people at the time confused antimony with tin.The largest antimony mine in the world, the tin mine in Hunan, was mined in the Ming Dynasty. At that time, it was thought that it was a tin mine, so it was named so.

Since there is no concept of antimony, Guangzhou Station can only say that it wants to buy tin when buying antimony. As for whether it is tin or antimony, it has to be shipped back for metal composition analysis.

"So far, no antimony has been bought." Wu De said, "However, Guangzhou Station has sent people to Hunan to buy antimony. If you are not too anxious, just wait a few days."

In addition to making lead type, antimony is also useful in making pyrotechnics.The combined needs of several aspects made the Guangzhou station finally send a special procurement team—the long-distance exploration team also sent people together—to go to Hunan.By the way, go to Jiangxi and Hubei to see if there are any non-ferrous metal minerals that have been developed in this time and space.Several provinces in the Huguang area are major mining provinces.

"Hehe, why don't you just come to me directly, I have antimony here." When Zhou Dongtian came to the last stop - the Ministry of Metallurgy to discuss the casting of lead type, Ji Silently smiled and patted him on the shoulder.

"You have?!" Zhou Dongtian regained his energy.

"There are indeed some private goods." Ji Wusheng nodded, "the quantity is not much. This thing can increase a little every now and then, and the quantity is not much. I am too lazy to report it every day, so I want to accumulate more and report together. Anyway, antimony is not rare, Nobody suspects me of embezzlement."

He took him to a warehouse of the non-ferrous metal workshop of the Ministry of Metallurgy. A dozen antimony ingots were lying in the warehouse, and there were more than a dozen boxes filled with fragmented antimony ingots that had not been re-melted, all of which were small in size.

"It's really yours! Where did you get it? Didn't it mean that you never bought antimony?"

"It's true that I haven't bought it, but there is antimony in the money." Ji Wusheng said.

The non-ferrous metal workshop under the Ministry of Metallurgy has a long-term task, which is to melt down copper coins and scrap metal objects collected from various channels, refine and recycle them.Whether it is copper coins or various scrap copper and rotten iron, they are actually alloys, containing various non-ferrous metals, which can be recycled after purification.

"The most recovered are all kinds of privately minted small copper coins. Local people say that there is a lot of lead in them. In fact, not only lead is mixed with tin, but also a lot of antimony."

As for daily utensils, most of them are pewter ware and tin ware, and many of them contain antimony mixed as tin.Such piecemeal recovery of these antimony.

"Although it's not too much, it should be enough." Ji Wusheng said, "If you find it useful, I will immediately report the number to the Planning Institute. After the formalities, it will be done."

"It's a little less, but it's enough for the time being." Zhou Dongtian thought, since he has sent people to purchase the follow-up antimony, it will come in a steady stream.

After solving the problem of casting materials, he handed over the rest of the casting process and printing machine manufacturing to a group of engineers in the machinery factory - they will choose the best movable type printing machine solution according to the information.

Zhou Dongtian only put forward one request: it is best to design two different printing machines, one is a small machine that can be hand-cranked by workers or an animal machine, and the other is a large machine that uses machine power.The former is going to be put on the territory of Daming to set up a printing factory in the future.Especially Nanjing.Zhou Dongtian is already preparing to repeat the past events of Leizhou in Nanjing, destroying the engraving and printing industry in Sanshan Street in Nanjing in one fell swoop, and establishing a brand new printing empire.The latter is of course used in the occupied areas of the crossing people.

He asked the Planning Institute for a batch of "purified" apprenticeships, and planned to send them to Hu Qingbai to study.

"These apprentices don't need to be taught anything else. The key is to teach them how to read characters. It's not about [-] commonly used characters and it's over. They need to know at least [-] Chinese characters." Zhou Dongtian said, "And they need to know both simplified and traditional characters. "

"Good guy, you are too demanding. You have to learn so much in three months?" Hu Qingbai clicked his tongue, "You have to force-feed ducks and corporal punishment education."

"It's up to you. If corporal punishment can be given to female students, the teachers can also choose female apprentices when they are full of enthusiasm. If you want to be stronger, I will point to them to type type." Zhou Dongtian said, "Yes, I still need to understand Pinyin, pinyin must be good!"

Knowing pinyin is mainly for the convenience of word checking.If there is an all-in-one casting machine, this requirement can actually be omitted.

Zhou Dongtian didn't stop, and rushed to Skaide's place again, asking to sign up for the "trade investigation group to the south of the Yangtze River".The purpose is naturally to investigate the printing industry in Nanjing.

"There is no inspection team to the south of the Yangtze River. There are only trade inspection teams to Liaodong and Southeast Asia. Those who go to the south of the Yangtze River are the people who opened the business station. Are you going?"

"I'm going!" Zhou Dongtian affirmed.

"Okay, but you have to talk less when you go, and you must obey the command on the way."

"No problem, I'm mainly going to see it. I won't be here soon."

The news of the establishment of two trade expeditions from the north and the south has moved the hearts of many people who are interested in sending abroad.Many people are daunted by the training they will receive when they are dispatched to Daming, but they don’t need to be “Minghua” when they are dispatched to Southeast Asia or Liaodong. More than a dozen people from the expedition team came at once.

The purpose of sending the Southeast Asian expedition team is to conduct a thorough investigation of the situation in Southeast Asia.Especially the case of collecting the Dutch.According to the assessment of the Foreign Intelligence Service: The Dutch are the most threatening European opponents of the Travel Group.Therefore, the investigation of the Dutch East India Company is a matter of urgency.

Lando spat, and the saliva flew to the dark sea and disappeared immediately.

He was unemployed, and had been unemployed for a long time.He had not found new work since his unsuccessful expedition with Aragones.

After Aragones' ship and Liu Xiang's fleet reunited, they tried again to gain a foothold near the mouth of the Pearl River. There was no need to do what Jalanzani instructed him to do to keep them from succeeding.Liu Xiang just wanted to use the power of the Spaniards to attack Zheng Zhilong and warn him not to "overstep the boundaries", but he didn't really want to let them gain a foothold.

As a result, Aragones fought a battle with Zheng Zhilong's men as the main foreign aid of Liu Xiang's fleet in a confused encounter.In terms of performance, the Countess of Scarborough performed very well. With the tall hull of the galleon and superior artillery fire, Aragones fully satisfied his desire for combat performance and taught "China barbarian".

But when Zheng Zhilong's fleet began to release fireboats, Aragones had no choice but to turn around and run away. If he lost this galleon, he would be finished.As a result, the patchwork crew on board ran aground the Countess of Scarborough in a panic, and was immediately besieged by countless "junk ships".The sailors of Zheng's family swarmed up and killed all the Malay sailors on the deck who had lost their fighting spirit.Just when Aragones was about to die in Huangquan, Liu Xiang's boat came up and finally saved his life.But the Countess of Scarborough, the luxurious "Spanish lady", was completely reduced to Zheng Zhilong's captive after being trained in a bad way at the Bopu.

Lando almost died in the chaos. In fact, Aragones was able to reach his allies to rescue him because of the VZ68 submachine gun that Lando hid on his body. As sailors, the enemy stopped in fear of the fierce firepower.A group of Zheng's sailors then installed cannons on the deck, preparing to bombard the mizzenmast.Lando used a submachine gun to shoot the names one by one, and finally stopped this attempt.

After being saved, he repeatedly thanked God—Wes Lando had never been a devout believer, and he had never encountered such a dangerous and desperate situation in his more than ten years as a mercenary.If Liu Xiang's men didn't come to rescue him, he would be stuck on that ship, unable to use all his abilities, and he would either be chopped into several pieces in the end, or forced to jump into the sea—most likely he would also be drowned alive.

"If I knew it earlier, I should have gone to Manila to mess around."

Weiss Lando, an Italian-American, 35 years old, participated in the Bosnian War as a volunteer, first for the Muslims and then for the Croats.After no war, I started a small-scale arms smuggling business with a few partners.As soon as the business started to pick up, it lost hands in Iraq, lost most of the goods, and was finally hunted down in the mainland.In desperation, he took the last bit of goods and prepared to go to Thailand to sell to the local gangsters.

Just one day before their arrival, they suddenly encountered a strange storm on the South China Sea—the sky was clear one minute before, and the wind suddenly blew up the next minute. It felt like the ship was being sucked by a vortex.Lando even vaguely remembered that the sky in the distance was still blue and there were no storm clouds.Then they all lost their memory.

When he woke up, there were only three of the five people on board.One of them is dead.Lando tried to continue sailing, but found that the GPS navigation system became blank, and all the data returned to 0.All navigational aids were useless, and even the radio was dead blank, save for the hiss of electricity.Even the Inmarsat phone lost signal.

The remaining two men used sextant tests to prove that their aircraft had deviated from the original course by more than [-] nautical miles.This data surprised them-the chart showed that they had arrived not far from Dongsha Island.

This made Landu and the others panic. Dongsha Island is the territory of the Taiwan army, and there are marines on it. If one's own ship is inspected, the law of any country will not allow smuggling of weapons. How can this be passed? ?Moreover, Taiwan is more loyal to its own motherland than itself to its own motherland. If it is caught, it will definitely be sent back.A couple of federal felony felonies and a bar for years without parole, and I'll be spending the rest of my life in orange jumpsuits.

Quickly start the engine and go out to sea, but the magnetic compass and Tacan navigation system are completely disordered.The needle on the compass circles slowly, unable to point to true north at all.Lando and the others kept complaining, and in the midst of the chaos, the fishing boat sailed to a deserted island, and the oil was almost running out.

It was on this deserted island that Lando first realized that something strange or frightening had happened to him.He used sextants and charts to measure and calculate countless times, proving that he was on Dongsha Island.

But don't talk about Taiwan's Marine Corps here, there is no trace of an army stationed at all - Lando has been to many deserted islands, as long as someone has lived on the island for a long time, there will be traces left.If an army has been stationed, there will be more artificial traces left - at least a reinforced concrete reservoir will be left, and the foundations of the barracks and outposts will definitely be preserved.But there are only traces of some local fishermen who have been there.

All electronics remain silent.But the radar screen was completely blank—Lando knew that the area around Dongsha Island was on the route to Taiwan, and there should be many cargo ships passing by.But the radar showed only a handful of small reflections that appeared to be fishing boats.

No one can explain this problem.Lando could only think that his sextant was inaccurate.

After some discussion, the two surviving people decided to abandon the boat—the fishing boat was out of fuel, and there were some munitions on it.They first disposed of the corpses of their companions, then packed up the belongings on the ship, opened the sea valve, and sank the ship carefully.The location was carefully chosen so that it could be easily scooped up later—in his vision, he would be back in a few months.

Encountered storms and waves on the way, the rowboat capsized, and was rescued by a group of strange fishermen—the broken fishing boats and strange appearance of this group made him think that he was in a corner of Indonesia. In the end, he was confused He was sent ashore, and was escorted by men in armor with spears——it was only then that he realized that he had encountered something incredible.

After a series of twists and turns, he was finally handed over to a man who looked like a European priest.The priest asked him about his origin in several languages, and he finally understood one—Italian.

From Father Anders, Lando knew that this was "the 1627th year after the birth of the Lord Jesus".He screamed and fainted on the spot.

When he woke up, he had arrived in Macau.After staring at the street scene in a daze, Lando still admitted the reality—a person who lives at gunpoint will never admit defeat to the environment.He immediately resumed speaking Italian, which he had mostly forgotten. With his limited knowledge of history, Lando knew that people who could speak English were not welcome among the Portuguese.

Lando slowly made a appearance by running errands for Father Anders. He claimed that he was a descendant of a noble family in a village in Parma, Italy, and had served as a volunteer in the Balkans—the latter was true, but the former was not. Complete bragging: Lando's grandfather was born in this village, and he was very impressed with a run-down noble family in this village, and he often talked about this family with little Lando.Lando's so-called descendants of the Palma family were based on this family.Even the coat of arms was slightly modified after plagiarism.

The only thing that is a bit of a problem is the often blurted English.Lando had no choice but to claim that he had been a prisoner of the British and had spent several years in England.As for how an Italian became a prisoner of the British, Lando had no choice but to continue to make up nonsense that he had served the Catholic king of Spain-this is not lacking in Italians, and he was captured in the campaign to support the Irish. The British caught.

However, when he talked about this issue, he firmly stated that he only went to fight for a living, not to admire His Majesty the King.He had a definite feeling that the local Jesuit chiefs valued the interests of the Portuguese far more than their Spanish king.

However, it is still difficult for a modern person to live in Macau in the 17th century. He has almost nothing. The most frightening thing is that everyone doubts his origin.

Fortunately, Lando dabbled in historical issues a little, and he had a taste of religious fanaticism when he was fighting for money in Bosnia.Knowing that he would better show a little religious fanaticism appropriately, otherwise the priests might soon take him to the barbecue because of their incompatibility.

So Lando had to go to church every week to watch mass—he was baptized in Catholicism when he was a child, but he never went to church as an adult—and he also went to confess from time to time, and fasting on Friday was also strictly implemented.When the forty-day fast came to him, Lando experienced the feeling of extreme hunger for the first time. He only ate one meal from morning to night, and the days when he could not eat meat were not something modern people could bear.He felt weak for almost a month, so he had to live on stinky salted fish and eggs every day.

Apart from this deadly fast, life in the seventeenth century was a nightmare.There are nasty parasites everywhere, and it's hard to get a bath -- it's worse than the backcountry North Africa he's been to, where many small cities have good steam baths available.There is no fresh food, and salted meat and salted fish form the main part of the meal.The red wine that comes all the way is rare and expensive, and tastes like vinegar.He also sometimes eats in Chinese restaurants - although the taste is completely different from what he eats in Chinatown, most of them are fresh vegetables and meat.

The hygienic situation is frightening, but fortunately he is well-informed and patient.The most frightening thing is the toilet. After visiting once, Lando decided that he would rather go to the suburbs to find a bush to settle than use the toilet in the official residence, and he found that most people, whether Chinese or European, have no concept of toilet paper.He had to spend the money he earned to buy paper to solve the problem -- and paper was expensive here.

(End of this chapter)