Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 893 Yuan Ziguang

To allow the refugees to spend the winter on Jeju Island and to allow the Fubo Army to move freely in the Shandong Peninsula, the Joint Logistics Headquarters must provide winter clothing.

The cheapest and most convenient solution is of course to make padded jackets and padded coats.Low cost, good thermal effect.Under the condition of sufficient material conditions, it is the first solution.

The planning institute has enough cotton cloth, but not much cotton batting for filling.The cotton planting industry in Hainan Island is mainly run by Li people. They grow cotton extensively, but their output is limited, and they do not have the habit of making cotton clothes and quilts.So locally no batting is available.

If you insist on making cotton clothes, you can only fill them with kapok.Kapok is not suitable for weaving, but its fibers are hollow and buoyant.The elders used it to make life jackets, and it was probably enough to make do with the cotton batting used as a cotton jacket-it should be enough in terms of warmth.The reserves of kapok are also considered sufficient, and some cotton-padded jackets can be made.

The Planning Institute also has a reserve of down - the feathers of ducks and geese are selected from the slaughtered ducks and geese to be of good quality and cleaned, and then stored for making down jackets in the future.However, Zheng Shangjie and other female veterans' fashion associations have failed in their attempts to make down jackets.Down jackets seem to be cotton-padded jackets filled with down, but the actual technical content is not low, especially for the fabric of down jackets. It is necessary to ensure that the down does not appear "drilling".In the old time and space, it was achieved by relying on special chemical fiber fabrics. In Lingao, pure natural textiles: no matter whether it is cotton cloth, linen cloth, Ge cloth, woolen cloth or rare banana cloth, none of them can meet the requirements.Zheng Shangjie, Ai Beibei and others tried all the materials they could find, and even considered putting a layer of oil paper on the inside, but in the end they all failed-the re-enactment of down jackets is unnecessary in recent years.

The last thing is woolen.In the past, the Planning Institute bought some of this kind of wool fabric in Macau, and seized some of it from the spoils of Goujiazhuang.After the signing of the trade agreement with the Dutch East India Company, the Dutch shipped and sold some woolen fabrics to Lingao.There are about five or six thousand horses in total, and the woolen fabrics are mainly blue, black and red.The purpose of the purchase at that time was to make autumn and winter clothing for the Fubo Army and expatriates going to the northern region.

Remove the high-grade fine wool that is too thin inside, and the remaining rough wool is a good material for military coats and blankets.Hong Huangnan knew that woolen coats were quite water-resistant compared to cotton-padded jackets that were prone to damp.For activities in areas with high humidity like the coast, woolen clothes are more suitable than cotton jackets.The navy has been wearing woolen short coats, not just out of "foreign style" considerations.

Hong Huangnan organized the joint logistics team to write a memorandum to the Planning Institute, requesting to allocate enough materials to make the winter clothes needed for the engine operation.

Make military coats and winter uniforms for Fubo army navy and army with woolen cloth.Before the winter of 1631, at least 4500 sets of woolen winter clothes should be prepared.In addition, it is necessary to prepare military boots with a warm function for the Fubo Army-it is best to have a certain waterproof function.

In order to reduce costs and save materials, navy and army woolen coats are made according to the style of short coats, and woolen or cotton military caps are supplied as matching items, and warm gloves and socks are also supplied.

According to the standards of old time and space, the warm means and socks of soldiers are generally made of wool, whichever is light, warm and waterproof.But Lingao has no wool, and certainly no wool.Hong Huangnan chose the next best thing: replace it with labor protection cotton gauze gloves that Lingao is currently widely used in factories.As for thermal socks, a similar approach is adopted: thick cotton yarn is used to weave line socks.

Such equipment is not a problem in Jeju Island. Hong Huangnan doesn't know how cold Shandong was during the Little Ice Age.These thermal insulation measures for hands and feet can still be used above zero degrees, but if the temperature drops to minus five or six degrees, it will be a bit unbearable.

Padded jackets are for refugees, Hong Huangnan wrote in the memo: the size might as well be larger—not only can they be worn, but can also be used as a quilt.The padded jacket should be as strong as possible - especially the fabric.In this way, after the refugees are sent to the south, the cotton-padded jackets that have been replaced can be disassembled and washed before being used by the next batch of personnel.The joint logistics front refers to the estimation that 1631 sets of cotton padded jackets will be prepared before the end of 10000.The warm shoes needed by the refugees were difficult to solve, so Hong Huangnan had no choice but to ignore them—anyway, the poor peasants usually couldn’t wear shoes in winter, as long as they could reach Jeju Island, their feet would not be frozen to death.

Because the clothing is too simple, and there will definitely be insufficient quantities, there must be enough sheltered buildings in Jeju Island and Shandong to protect them from wind, rain and cold, and at the same time provide a minimum security guarantee .The camp must also have transportation facilities for the transfer of personnel and supplies.

There is no port facility construction in this time and space, and there is no wharf that allows large ships of the Fubo Army Navy to directly dock and berth.The former refers to the plan to build a 1000-ton simple wharf at the transshipment sites in Dengzhou and Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and a 3000-ton wharf to be built in Jeju Island and Taiwan’s Kaohsiung area.

山东方面需要建立2~3万人口规模的临时营地，江浙方面需要建立1~2万人口的临时营地。根据殖民贸易部的建议：济州和高雄地区还需要建立能容纳5万人规模的接收检疫营地。建设这些营地的建筑材料一部分现地调达一部分从香港运出。大概需要运输3000吨的建筑材料和设备。

In addition, the Ministry of Health estimates that the refugees need about 10 tons of medical supplies and water purifiers per month.At the same time, set up a water purification plant with a daily treatment capacity of 2 liters in Shandong, and set up a water purification plant with a daily treatment capacity of 5 liters of drinking water in Kaohsiung and Jeju Island.

In order to ensure the needs of steam power equipment and civilian fuel in Jeju Island and Kaohsiung, the two places each need 1000 tons of coal per month.

Set up a ship replenishment station in Kaohsiung and Jeju Island, and carry out simple repairs on the ships at the same time.At present, the shipbuilding industry does not have the ability to set up a wide range of points, nor does it have enough workers and large machinery.Hong Huangnan intends to build only a small number of simple facilities in the local area - such as beach slipways, simple winches and booms.Store some marine materials.Three additional repair ships were refitted.Equipped with professional workers, equipment and tools, they are on duty in the ports of Kaohsiung and Jeju Island in turn to maintain and repair ships.

Hong Huangnan was slightly taken aback after reading the draft of the supply plan that Qianzhi had just compiled.The scale of Operation Engine is really not small. Compared with Operation Giant, although the types of materials transported have decreased, it far surpasses Operation Giant in terms of quantity and transportation mileage, and the complexity of the organization is no less than that of the old time and space.

"We have to take one step at a time." Hong Huangnan thought, "First settle the basic necessities of life, then the matter is considered half successful."

The early morning light shines on the land of Lingao.

The melodious bells jingled and jingled——in the industry serving the country, all metals belonged to the Senate, and metal bells were extremely rare objects.

With the ringing of the bell, many passwords sounded in a large area of ​​red brick and wooden structure houses by the Wenlan River:
"stand up!"

"salute!"

"sit down!"

This is Fangcaodi National School.The backbone of the Senate education system - the cradle of the empire's future elite and backbone.

Following the password of each class monitor, the students started the first class of the day.

As soon as the door of the simple white wood classroom opened, a young man in his 20s, wearing a blue homespun "cadre uniform" hurried in.He has all the characteristics of an otaku: glasses, obesity, messy hair... probably the appearance of Hirano Kota in "School of the Dead" and Hashida Zhi in "Stones;Gate".But he is indeed one of the few qualified teachers among the elders.

"stand up!"

Fangcaodi National School has been established for more than two years, and the daily classroom etiquette has been fixed according to the habit. This time traveler named Yuan Ziguang has long been used to this kind of life.He bowed back at 60 degrees to the second-grade students in the upper elementary school of the national school who stood up and bowed 45 degrees to him.Then he scanned the entire classroom with his eyes.

A class of [-] people is silent—the Fangcaodi National School implements a co-ed class system for men and women.Although in the old time and space, the education of men and women divided into classes or even separate schools has gradually become a fashion for the petty bourgeoisie and the rich.If but in this time and space, breaking the social barriers between men and women and promoting modern relationships between men and women is an important task for the elders to "change customs".Except for a few professional classes that are single-sex classes, they are equally divided between men and women.

The classrooms of Fangcaodi National School are very similar to the rural primary schools in underdeveloped areas where Yuan Ziguang once went to "exchange".Simple white lime walls, wooden windows, unpainted white blank desks and chairs.Even the rough wooden board with peeling black paint on the back of the classroom, which is specially used for blackboard newspapers, is so similar.

He paid attention to the latest publicity bulletin on the blackboard - "Pay close attention to students' ideological development and theoretical indoctrination, which is one of the primary tasks of veteran teachers."This sentence was printed on a document that was recently conveyed to the People's Committee of Education and Fangcaodi. It made it difficult for the full-time veteran teachers headed by Hu Qingbai to adapt, because the document mentioned several "one of the top tasks". As for what exactly constitutes a "priority task", there is disagreement.

According to the latest "Public Opinion Guidance" document published by the Announcement Department on the blackboard newspaper, Hu Qingbai's chosen topic was "Natural and Man-made Disasters in the Ming Dynasty"-each class will also conduct evaluations.The content in it includes what the students found from the materials in the library according to the guidance of the instructor, as well as the students' own personal experience.The dense white chalk writing almost covered the blackboard, and the header was poorly drawn: Yuan Ziguang could barely see that it showed a broken basket and a skull.

(End of this chapter)