After many days of labor, hundreds of cubic meters of timber had accumulated in Yulin Fort. These timbers have been piled up in the compound of Yulinburg. Bai Guoshi knew that the best way to store wood was to store it with water. Wood soaked in fresh water is insulated from the air and can not rot for a long time. But this requires sufficient water surface, which is not available near Yulimburg.

If the dry storage method is adopted, it is simple and easy, the rainy season in Yulin has not yet arrived, and it dries quite quickly, but if the wood is transported away by the method of boat towing in the future, the dry wood will quickly absorb water and sink at sea, which will bring great trouble to the towing.

Therefore, he can only use the wet storage method that has a certain effect on the wood, but is the most convenient. The harvested wood is stacked in piles, each about 25 cubic meters, covered with branches and leaves, and regularly watered to maintain a certain humidity every day.

But this method of preservation should not exceed three months at best, otherwise the wood will be damaged. According to Wang Luobin, they will re-send ships to arrive in 30 days at most, and it is estimated that it is not a big problem to pile up for a month.

There was a lot of leftover material from the logging, and Bai Guoshi arranged for all these branches to be collected and dried on the beach to be used as firewood for Yulin Fort. I also chose some thicker branches to burn charcoal. The fire power of charcoal is more stable and calorific than dry firewood, which is more convenient to use.

Then the whole Yulinbao devoted themselves to the work of coconut picking. The near-shore coconuts have been almost already harvested by the fleet, and they are starting to go deeper inland to pick them, and they can pick hundreds of them every day. In the evening, everyone splits the coconut and drinks coconut water. The excess coconut water is poured into clay pots and stored in a refrigerated well. Dried coconut meat.

Wang Tao saw the coconut meat drying on the beach with palm leaves, drank coconut water and walked around, and suddenly remembered Ah San, coconut meat is often used as an ingredient for curry in India, so he made a mutton curry with coconut meat, mutton sent by Master Hu, pumpkin and seasonings left by the fleet. The hot, fragrant and spicy curry sauce was poured over the freshly boiled haode rice, and although the sailors were new to the spicy taste of chili peppers, they felt that it was a novelty, but everyone had a great time eating it. That day happened to be a Friday, so Wang Tao became the inventor of curry rice, and laid the habit of eating curry rice every Friday in the future.

Huxun's activities attracted Hu Xun's attention, and he crossed the bay to visit the newly settled residents under the pretext of sending haode clothes. Wang Tao made curry rice again, and ate Master Hu's mouth red, plus a cup of cool and delicious coconut water, Master Hu was addicted. Ask for the recipe for this curry rice and ask where does this spicy taste come from? Wang Tao knew that chili peppers should have been introduced to China during the Wanli period, but apparently they didn't know that there was such a crop here, so he told him that this was chili peppers, which came from outside the territory. Hu Xun asked for some seeds to go back and plant, but Yulinburg had no seeds except for chili powder, which is chili paste, so he only gave him a bag of chili powder.

Hu Xun asked them if they were harvesting a large number of coconuts and cutting wood for overseas trade. He was very familiar with overseas trade, and said that he had never seen a foreign ship transporting dried coconuts so far, so Wang Tao hurriedly asked, are there any merchants in Qiongshan County who have come to buy dried coconuts?

"I've heard that there are merchants in Yazhou who have come to collect dried coconuts, but they don't come often. Wenchang is only two days away from Qiongshan by sea, and there are more than 100 times more coconuts there than here. The road is close, so why bother here to buy copra here. Besides, it is several days away from Yazhou City, and it is even more out of reach. ”

Wang Tao thought to himself, the dried coconut merchants in Qiongshan were not as tightly controlled as he imagined. Lin Quanan, this guy is either lazy and fabricating reasons, or he has never come to such a barren place. But after thinking about it, he is a businessman, and he always goes to the city to trade, and it is naturally not the same way as a pioneer team like himself.

"It's not a secret," Wang Tao said, "brother, I opened an oil extraction workshop in Lingao, specializing in this dried coconut oil extraction." Sold to overseas Australia, you can make a lot of money, but Lingao does not produce coconuts, so I look around. ”

These words were specially said to Hu Xun, making him feel that this was an opportunity for cooperation. I didn't expect Mr. Hu to care about this matter at all, only played a few haha, and said that people from the county would come to the countryside in a few days, and they could just help them deal with the matter of establishing a village, but they would inevitably have to send some entertainment.

Sending Hu Xun away, Wang Tao was slightly disappointed. Originally, he thought that this old man Hu would take the initiative to ask to participate in the cause of collecting coconut and logging - after all, Yulinbao has few people and little strength, and with a local snake like Hu Xun joining, there will be an extra layer of protection in the local area, not to mention that there will be a lot more manpower. It turned out that there was no reaction at all.

He didn't expect that a wealthy family in a remote place like Master Hu had extremely limited knowledge, and he had long been accustomed to plucking the feathers of geese, waiting for the days of filial piety, where would he be willing to do such a laborious industry. Whether it is logging in Yulin Fort or picking coconuts, as long as you give him some benefits, as for whether you can have greater profits, it is not in the scope of consideration.

Bai Guoshi said: "It's a pity that Anyoule City and those in his Zhuangzi are outnumbered, otherwise we would have no problem lighting all the coconuts." ”

Lao Di said: "Ya just occupies the pit and doesn't." After that, he simply destroyed him. The population inside was all merged into Yulinbao. ”

"In a few months, as soon as our large group of immigrants comes, Master Hu will definitely not be able to sit still, and there will naturally be a showdown at that time. Is it to obey our leadership, or is it ready to isolate itself from the people. Wang Tao sighed, "If you don't participate in such an opportunity to defect to the revolution -- at least you can mix with democrats, and it is always no problem for your children and grandchildren to join the local CPPCC. ”

Sigh to sigh, the work of collecting resources is still being done. Because of boredom after work, Yulinbao often sends electricity to each other with Lingao Main Station and Changhuabao to exchange life conditions and personal feelings. Ding Ding was inspired after seeing the telegram they sent at the newspaper receiving desk of Lingao Telecom, so he used the materials on the telegram, took up the fresh pen, added oil and vinegar to write an essay on "Yulin Port Night Talk", signed "Nantian Sentinel" published in the "Lingao Times", but did not expect to be very popular among the people, so he designated Wang Tao as a special correspondent. Every few days, he would write a newsletter, which he edited and serialized. Wang Tao lived up to expectations, and immediately wrote another one after receiving the telegram. Ding Ding worked non-stop and revised the polish overnight. After arranging the layout, he handed over the manuscript to Zhou Dongtian to engrave wax paper early in the morning, ready to be printed.

Unexpectedly, the newspaper was not printed, and Ding Ding received a call from Zhou Dongtian.

"The newspaper can't be printed," Zhou Dongtian said helplessly, "I received a notice from the relevant department at a higher level: There is a leakage problem in the series of essays in Yulin Port's handwritings, and the Times can only be printed after they can be deleted." In addition, the issue of the newspaper which I published a few days ago is telling various places about the collection. He added, "It is also said that in the future, all articles in the Times that publish such news must be sent for inspection before they are printed."

"Who has to be brain-dead!" Ding Ding almost jumped up, after the D day, he and Pan Pan were two husband and wife shops, with no funds and no treatment, basically a black household, and finally survived until the "Times" was mixed with the official establishment, and now suddenly there is a familiar "notice from the relevant departments at the higher level"!

"MMD, I haven't written about the corruption of the executive committee! I'm going to be an official first! Ding Ding immediately found the compound of the executive committee.

After entering the compound, he hesitated again: as long as the traverser is an individual, he has the experience of entering the agency to do things, and he knows that the "higher-level relevant departments" covered by clouds and mountains and fog are the most difficult to find, and he has it when the notice is issued. Once you want to find it. No one will admit that they are the "relevant departments".

After thinking about it, I decided to go to the printing room to find Zhou Dongtian and inquire about the inside news. Although he is engaged in printing, he has been working part-time in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and since the reason is the so-called "leakage" issue, it is very likely that the relevant department is the Ministry of Internal Affairs or the Ministry of Intelligence.

Zhou Dongtian really knew something, and said that this matter was a call from Ran Yao. Of course, Ran Yao Ding Ding knew that it was originally the work of the public security team, and he was transferred to the Internal Affairs Committee after the adjustment of the organization.

So he left the compound again in one breath and came to the compound of the Internal Affairs Committee, which was rarely visited, but was stopped by two sentries at the door. Because he had neither registered for an appointment in advance nor had a pass to enter the compound, the sentry was adamant that he would not be allowed to enter. After being furious and assuming the prestige of the chief, he still declared a failure - "If you don't register, you can't enter without a pass, this is an order." Sentinels speak Mandarin unfavorably, but this sentence is very familiar.

Ding Ding was kicked out of the door like a defeated rooster, and was about to report back to the club to look through the address book to find Ran Yao's mobile phone number and then theorize, but saw a fat man coming out of the yard with a shy stomach. Seeing this scene, he slowly paced over and asked, "What's the matter with this comrade?" ”

"You still call me comrade! It's only been a few days since D-Day landing! Ding Ding was angry, and the bull head shouted to the horse's mouth, "I want to see Ran Yao, Ran Yao, you come out for me!" You persecute free speech! This momentum has long attracted onlookers in the core area of Bairen City, but the Internal Affairs Committee is in a remote location, and no one pays attention to it.

"Don't shout, Ran Yao went to Bopu to host a meeting, you are Ding Ding, right? Let's talk. "The fat man is still amiable.

"Who are you?"

"Oh, I'm a clerk of the committee, little man." The fat man was smiling.

This is the first time that Tintin has entered the compound of the Internal Affairs Committee. As soon as I walked into the courtyard with blue bricks as the wall and long thorny plants on the walls, I felt a cool air rushing straight up from my feet, and I couldn't help but shiver. There is a two-story building with two wings in the courtyard, and many trees are transplanted in the courtyard to shade the courtyard.

The fat man let Tintin into a simple room not far from the door, where some furniture and stationery were placed, probably where the visitors were received. Someone brought a cup of tea. Ding Ding sneered:

"Is this inviting me to tea?"

"It's okay to drink plain water." The fat man had a soft face, "We don't have coffee here." ”

Ding Ding immediately said the matter of restricting the publication of the press release. What is the meaning of such a so-called "secrecy", Weishenme can't let the general public know the latest situation of the current crossing group? Do you still have the awareness to respect the right to know of the vast number of people who travel through it?

"This one. Respectful, of course. The House Committee is just an ordinary body. The fat man smiled tepidly and did not answer his question directly, "How many copies of Lingao Times are printed every day now?" ”

"Three hundred." Ding Ding said stupidly that he originally wanted to print thousands of copies, but there were gaps in ink, paper, and printing equipment.

According to the figures reported by the Times to the Planning Commission, more than half of these newspapers went to the traversers, including departments, enterprises, and reading rooms in dormitories, and some of the rest were sent to the county government. Some are sent to Dongmen City for retail, right? ”

"Yes. If more resources were allocated to me, the circulation would be even more—"

"The more the Times is circulated, the louder the voice of our propaganda and the greater the impact on the indigenous people. This is the stated policy of the Executive Committee. "But you think: when the newspaper reaches the natives, a lot of news spreads inadvertently."

"That's it? After that, should Mr. Wen, Ma Dugong and other newspapers take a pseudonym and put a code on their faces? Don't publish anything in the newspaper, just write that today is safe, or simply publish some tirade by Du Wen! ”

"Don't be in a hurry." The fat man is still drizzling, "I read the series of reports in Yulin Port, and it is very good." The evaluation is also very high. The reason why the Internal Affairs Committee did not agree to issue such an article was that it was concerned about the safety of the comrades who had gone to the overseas station -- the time, place, people, and equipment in the report were all there, and if the newspaper was leaked out to Liu Xiang or other unfavorable figures -- the small fortress of a dozen people was not destroyed in an instant. ”

Tintin was horrified. It was indeed his negligence to think so. But he was unwilling, and said stiffly: "This place in Yulin is not called Yulin now!" Where did the people of the Ming Dynasty have the ability to reason? ”

"Dadonghai is still called Dadonghai." The fat man said, "There is also Anyoule City, which is the name of this time and space, how could the people of the Ming Dynasty not know?" Even An'an Amusement City is written out opposite Yulin Fort, how can it be clear? ”

Ding Ding was speechless, obviously thinking that he was reasonable, but he was pressed up by the other party's big hat, and it was irrefutable. The interests of the crossing crowd come first, and it cannot be said that the personal safety of these people is not as good as everyone's right to know