Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 827 Colonial and Trade Department
随报告的19号图就是莱布?特里尼先生绘制的港口炮台和石栈桥的全境。这是我们从船上所能见到的最好的角度。20～67号图是莱布?特里尼先生绘制的港口各个局面和港口内停泊的船只，其中25号图就是澳洲人的“圣船”。阁下提供的小册子上称该船前甲板上有一尊巨炮，但是从我们的视角无法证实。26～28号是澳洲人拥有的欧洲式的船只。29～33号是澳洲人拥有的其他船只。

I will issue a second report after Australians have regained our freedom of movement.

faithful servant of our master
Your Excellency's Most Obedient Servant

Junior Merchant van der Lantron
On February 1631, 2, at the "Magdeburg" in Lingaobopu Port
After putting down the quill, Van der Lanteron spread out the letter and took out a piece of cardboard from his briefcase. The cardboard was irregularly pierced with many holes. He covered the letter with the cardboard, compared it, and started Copy it on another piece of paper.

Seeing the young businessman working so diligently, Gonzalez couldn't help secretly laughing—now that they don't even allow the boat to leave, who are they going to send back to Batavia to deliver the letter?There are neither company shops nor other ships from Batavia.Australians never go to Batavia either.

Leib? Trini is holding a cup, and is drinking—here waiting to go ashore with nothing to do, and the sailors and soldiers on board drink as a pastime to pass the time.The ship's steward bought more than a dozen barrels of rum and fifty boxes of kvass. Everyone on the ship, except the sentry who was clearly forbidden to drink, was drunk all the time.On the deck, in the cargo hold, and next to the cannons, drunk "scumbags" were lying everywhere.There had also been a tragic incident the night before when a sailor fell asleep on deck drunk and rolled into the water in the middle of the night.The watchman found him dead when he was picked up.For this reason, Mr. Merchant had to pay eight riyals for the "corpse disposal fee", and the port authority transported the corpse to the sea for disposal.

Leib Trini had nothing to do except drinking and drawing. On the deck, he used the projection method and simple instruments to draw a rough map of the topography of the port.Then he sketched everything that could be seen on the deck of the "Magdeburg".Among them, he particularly carefully described the "Holy Ship".This huge ship is on the other side of the bay, and the shadow of the dark ship under the blue water and sky exudes a sense of beauty that fascinates him, whether it is lines or colors of light and shadow.Trini is a draftsman, and in Europe, where technology and art have not yet been completely separated, he is also half an artist.Have a natural sensitivity to beautiful things.

The holy ship emits blue smoke intermittently every day, and sometimes a puff of black smoke suddenly erupts.As Mr Triney tried to figure out what was going on on board and what the Australians were doing - his interest in the "sacred ship" was growing.

Now I see the businessman wrapping his sketchbook and letters together, carefully wrapping them layer by layer with oiled paper, stamping them with wax seals, and finally putting them in a buckskin pocket.He felt a little dazed. Although these pictures were just sketches, would it be safe to just send them away with the letter?There are dozens of days' voyage from Batavia, and any accident may cause the letter to be lost in the seabed forever.

"How are you going to send the letter?" Gonzalez finally couldn't help asking.

"I just saw a Junk boat unloading Formosa buckskins next to it—these Chinese businessmen obviously got it from Daguan. I'm going to entrust them to take it." The businessman said confidently, "Give them some money. They'll do it just fine."

Although it would take a long time to send the letter to the officers and then back to Batavia, but according to the time the ship was in port at that time, the "Magdeburg" would have to wait at least one or two months before embarking on the return voyage. .Enough letters to get back to Batavia.

Even if the letter came back to Batavia later than they did it would still have value - at least as a backup.In this era, not every ship is sure to arrive at the port after setting sail.

In the building of the Ministry of Colonial and Trade, Skade sat in his office, full of ambition and smug.At the third plenary meeting of the Senate after the annual meeting, by-elections were held for the vacant executive members.Because Skade was in charge of the daily work of the Ministry of Colonial and Trade for a long time, and often advocated such remarks as "the Pacific Ocean is the Pacific Ocean of China", he was successfully elected as the Executive Committee Member of the Minister of Colonial and Trade in the by-election.

After Skade was elected, the first thing he did was to move - in his opinion, the original Colonial and Trade Department was too small to meet his ambitions and the current expanding business volume.Fortunately, there has been a lot more vacant land in Bairen City since the construction of the elder's "Anjulou" started.He re-occupied a piece of land and built the building of the Ministry of Colonial and Trade.

The so-called building is actually a converted waste from the simple dormitory in the past.Most of the veterans now live in apartments, and many accessories for simple houses have come out.The heat insulation efficiency of the sandwich panel with colored steel plate and foam layer is not very good.So it was decided to use it as a wall only, add a wooden frame wall inside the outer wall, and fill it with diatomaceous earth, a natural thermal insulation material.

Because the sandwich panels of the simple house can be installed quickly, his construction plan was not rejected by the Planning Institute.It took the construction company a week to build the house.

From the outside, the Xinde Colonial Trade Department building looks very strange. It is a strange building composed of two three-story buildings with a vaulted roof between the buildings.The ground floor of the small building is made of bricks, and the upper two floors are made of color steel plates.A vaulted wooden roof supported by wrought iron trusses was added between the two roofs.Installed with glass sunroof.The front and rear of the vault are closed with brick walls, so that it becomes a building with offices on both sides and a high hall in the middle.The whole building smells like a cottage.

Skade likes the full-height vaulted hall of Lingao Construction Corporation very much—the sand table model on the planning display platform below is really magnificent!So he wanted to do the same.In this way, standing on the balcony of the chief's office on the third floor, he can condescendingly look at the sand table and the busy staff around him, fully satisfying his desire to overlook the world.

Under this vault, there are various sand tables.Skade believes that the work of the Ministry of Colonial Trade is often similar to the staff department, but it is just an economic staff department.The basic skill of staff operations is to make gestures on maps and sand tables.

Therefore, the hall is filled with various sand tables, the largest of which is the sand table of the entire East Asian sea area. All merchant ships and open commercial outlets owned by or contracted with the traversers are displayed in the form of small flags and models. In this big sand table.

Huge maps and tables hung on the walls.One of the tables is the operation diagram of the trade goods flow. Various business data are filled in different colored cards and hung on the operation diagram on the wall.It makes the wall look like a colorful chessboard.Once a day there was an exchange of information between the Colonial Trade Office and the Naval Shipping Office, the Harbor Office, the Director of Manufacturing, and various foreign stations with radios.The female clerks holding long forks changed the hanging position of the card according to the information and requirements.Below the running chart, a group of people called "calculators" sit in a small office cubicle, using slide rules and dip pens to continuously calculate the data handed to them.

They were selected from among the naturalized people who had obtained a C-type diploma, and were taught a certain mathematical calculation method by force-feeding.Each of them is only responsible for memorizing one calculation formula.The work I did was to fill in the submitted data into the formula, and then use pen calculations and slide rules to deduce the results.The purpose and principle of calculation are not important at all, as long as the results can be calculated correctly, they are qualified calculators.Because of repeated mechanical practice, their calculation speed is very fast
Every few months, they learn another formula, this is to ensure they are interchangeable
Through sophisticated management methods, which ships have left the port, which are in berth for loading and unloading, and which ships are currently empty.What kind of goods are carried on each ship; the variety and quantity of import and export demand this month can be checked at any time.The Senate and all departments can get a forecast of when a certain material will arrive in a certain direction at any time-if nothing unexpected happens.

The Colonial Trade Office had no ships of its own—something Skelder had been nagging at.When the Dabo Ship was established, he strongly demanded that the company be under the control of the department, but in the end it fell into the hands of the Ministry of Communications and the Navy, which made him worry-the Ministry of Colonization and Trade without ships, this is really a big deal joke!

He was, of course, incapable of resisting the Navy's attempts to monopolize shipping.I had no choice but to swallow my anger for the time being and prepare to talk about the directly-controlled shipping company after the shipyard in Hong Kong ships on a large scale.Now.The focus of all missions must revolve around the actions of the Ministry of Colonial Trade in Hongji!If he could solve the coal supply problem that plagued the Senate once and for all, his voice would be much louder when he was meeting with the Executive Committee and the Senate.The request is more "reasonable".

"Whether a request is 'reasonable' depends on how important you are in the group." Skelder often said this sentence.

He looked down from the large glass window beside his desk: in the hall, several veterans and naturalized staff of the Colonial Department were busy around a newly built sand table. The map stakeout and the survey data reported in front are corrected.

(End of this chapter)