Of course, although it is indeed difficult to fully master the technology of sending and receiving telegrams, Xiao Fei and Captain Gu do not have high requirements for the students, but they are some ordinary telegrams and common passwords.

However, in this era when the fastest speed of information transmission is only 800 miles and the speed of horses is urgent, no matter how slow the receiving and receiving telegrams are, the communication speed is also against the sky, so as long as a person is not too stupid and is willing to put in a little effort, it is still no problem to master telegraph technology, after all, everyone is still young.

As for the professional radio communicator positions of the two ships that went to sea this time, they are currently held by Gu Jin and Li Sanduo in turn, after all, the two of them have passed this aspect, of course, Zhu Beiguo and Xu Zhi also joined the radio communicator training a while ago, and their academic performance is among the best, these two people are the first batch of captains recognized by everyone, and they themselves know hard work.

And Peng Qiang and Hu Xiaolin also learned well, in everyone's minds, these are the new generation of captain candidates.

Therefore, there are actually quite a few people on these two ships who can communicate by radio, most of them are just different in proficiency, and there are enough people on duty in turns, which is enough to ensure the smooth flow of radio communication for 24 hours.

The next topic is the specific route and target port, obviously the former is Captain Gu's business, and others have no say at all.

As Gu Jin, who has been running for 20 years and has been a captain for 10 years, Nanyang is a very familiar sea area for him, and he has been to many ports before crossing, so the fleet should take that specific route, and everyone listens to Captain Gu.

As for the final destination port, in fact, it has long been decided in everyone's minds - it must be the port of Holo in the Kingdom of Sulu.

Because there may be Han girls there, well, at least maybe there are, and it is enough to know that.

According to Zhu Beiguo, the total population of Holo City and the port and the surrounding area may be 200,000, and the port city is located in the northern part of Holo Island.

Holo Island is located in the center of the island chain of the Sulu archipelago, and the entire archipelago is across the sea from Mindanao, which was the political, economic and transportation center of the Kingdom of Sulu.

The Sulu country has a long history, according to research, as early as the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties appeared in the annals, and in the Tang and Song dynasties, there was trade with the northern continent, and it is said to be an ancient and prosperous port city in the Nanyang region.

Zhu Beiguo's inference about the Chinese and Chinese girls there a few days ago stimulated everyone's imagination, although Zhu Geguo emphasized that this was just an inference, everyone was still willing to choose to believe.

In fact, another reason to go to Holo is the idea of pretending to be a slap in the face, after all, it is a pirate country, and if we have to, we can also treat them like pirates, and we can get by with our conscience......

At this time, Cao Limei said that she hoped to go to sea this time to survey the peninsula in the eastern part of the Australian mainland, especially a place called Weipa.

"It's the most famous bauxite field in the Old World, it's an open pit, it's easy to mine, and the bauxite is of high grade......"

Cao Limei just explained briefly, and everyone immediately nodded in agreement, and then Huali of the metallurgical group said on the spot that with labor in the future, we will build a smelter there, and aluminum is our strategic material.

As a result, the final route of the fleet was as follows:

From Red Wharf, sail east to the southern part of the Cape York Peninsula and then north along the coastline, passing through Wepa for a landing survey to obtain bauxite specimens.

Then continue along the coastline north to the south shore of Papua Island, whether to land on Papua Island at that time, Gu Jin said that it will be decided according to the situation.

The fleet will then sail west along the coastline off the south coast of Papua Island into the Sea of Arafura.

For safety reasons, the fleet will try to move between the islands so that they can always find shelter in the bay from tropical storms.

Although when I was sailing in training, I had to deliberately sail in the wind and waves, but when I really started to go to sea to do business, of course, safety came first, and I avoided it if I could.

Next, the fleet will cross the Arafura Sea and navigate the complex coastline and islands off the west coast of Papua before entering the waters east of Sulawesi.

The next step is to go directly north to Holo Port, the whole voyage is about more than 3,000 kilometers on one side, and more than 6,000 kilometers round trip.

On the map, this is not too far, and according to the economic speed of the Nicole and Pride - an average of eight to ten knots, it can be reached for about a week of continuous sailing day and night.

In other words, it takes about half a month to make a round trip, of course, this is just a simple mileage, not including the time for landing, contacting indigenous people and doing business.

Obviously, this voyage is only theoretical, and the actual route is much more tortuous and the speed is greatly reduced.

At present, the possible time to avoid ocean storms has not been counted, and the sea surface navigation is not completely straight, so Gu Jin believes that the entire voyage may reach tens of thousands of kilometers, plus the time of landing and exploration, the voyage period may be extended to more than 20 days, if the business is not so smooth - this is almost certain, then this trip to sea will probably take about a month, which is still a conservative estimate.

Therefore, the fuel on the Nicole was still quite tight, and Gu Jin took the opportunity to ask, should he provide more coal for the Nicole?

Everyone was speechless when they heard it, Captain Gu said so, so what else can I do, hurry up and dig coal!

It seems that in the period between the end of the meeting and the time before departure, the crew had to do two things: train and dig coal.

The meeting finally decided that before going to sea, all the labor force is still divided into three teams, those who are ready to go to sea, one team gets on the boat to participate in training, the other team goes to dig coal, and the other team follows Kangda Hou Xianglin to the factory or construction site by video, either to go to various industrial groups to work, or follow Lao Wang Lao Zhu to do chores, and the work of the three teams is still one round every two days according to the custom.

At the same time, it is stipulated that people who do not go to sea do not participate in shifts, and these people either do research in their respective industrial groups or go to construction sites, so the work is relatively easy.

At the end of the meeting, Gu Jin also announced the personnel appointments for the voyage: the captain of the Nicole is Gu Jin, the first mate is Xu Zhi, the chief engineer is Irush, the boatswain Li Junming, the ship's doctor and chef is Duan Leyue, and the maintenance mechanic Huang Hai.

Pride Captain Li Sanduo, First Officer Zhu Beiguo, Chief Engineer Peng Qiang, Boatswain Hu Xiaolin, and Ship Doctor and Chef are Dai Xiaoshan.

Except for Huang Hai and the doctors, the rest of the above candidates are recognized by everyone as having the best results in sailing training these days.

As for the distribution of the crew, it is completely determined by the ranking of the results and the degree of seasickness during the usual training, and the ones with good training results, no seasickness or relatively light degree are on the Pride, and the rest are on the Nicole.

However, in order to avoid too much bitterness, a two-ship shift system was also stipulated, and it was tentatively determined that every three to four days, the crew of the Pride should go to the Nicole to "rest for a day", and during the rest period, the crew of the Nicole would go to the Pride to replace them, except for the leaders of the Pride, because they were currently unreplaced.

Then, the list of people who went to sea this time was finally determined: there were fifty-six people in total.

This includes all the high school students and some younger young people, such as the four brothers Wei Dongli, Wang Liwan, Lan Bo, Xiao Pingguo and others.

Twenty-four of these people were aboard the Pride, and the rest were aboard the Nicole.

As is customary on board, all crew members work twelve-hour shifts, and there are no days off for all on board during the voyage.

The meeting also determined the supreme commander of the fleet, Gu Jin was appointed commander-in-chief of the fleet, and then also designated the command replacement sequence, when the supreme commander was unable to perform his duties, the second commander was Li Sanduo, followed by Zhu Beiguo and Xu Zhi.

The above is the main content of this meeting, considering that everyone has been working hard recently, Sun Lao announced that he will continue to rest today, and from tomorrow, everyone will go to their respective posts, and the work should be done, and the training should be trained......