"So, it's from the same plane."

"Ten of you." Lin Chuan counted a cigarette. Several of them fell into silent thought. Where did this ship come from? How did it travel through time to get here? Is it a disturbance of a wormhole, or is the sea itself a wormhole: the 17th century on the surface and the 21st century below? Has anyone else crossed over? Is he dead or alive now? If so, where are you at the moment? What would he think of their group of ambitious adventurers? Is it friendly or hostile to them......

A series of question marks swirled in everyone's minds, and no one could answer them.

After discussing for a while, they decided to take advantage of the fact that the sun had not yet set, so they would go down a few more times and search the boat thoroughly.

Then Zhou Weisen, Lin Chuanqing and Gao Xiaosong took turns to go into the water - Gao Xiaosong would snorkel a little. Surveying the area around the wreck, and diving into the cabin, except for the locked cabin and the engine room with complex terrain, Zhou Weisen almost went in to inspect it and fished out some things.

During these dives, they found the remains of a human body, which landed under a reef far from the wreck. If it weren't for the tarpaulin wrapped around his body torn by a shark, he really wouldn't have noticed. The corpse has been completely destroyed by sharks and various sea creatures. Octopuses and crabs still have dinner parties on it.

In order to find out the truth, despite the disgusting facts, everyone fished out the corpses.

Although there were still some muscles and skin on the corpse, it was completely unrecognizable, but judging by the color of the hair remaining, it was of an Indo-European race. The man was wrapped in a ship's tarpaulin and had two heavy dumbbells on his feet. It looks like it was probably buried at sea. This man was supposed to be one of the passengers on the wreck.

"Do you want to bring the remains back?"

"Of course, it's an important clue."

So I had to wrap the wreckage again. Fortunately, most of the clean-up has been done with the marine life. It is the job of the Ministry of Health to clean up the remains after they are brought back.

They continued to expand their search around the wreck, but no more human remains were found, and there were deep trenches at the edge of the reef that prevented them from descending. One thing is certain, the survivors of the ship had left the place after burying the dead at sea - Zhou Weisen found that one of the two sampans on the deck was missing, and some of the equipment in the cabin had been removed. Judging from the fact that there are no traces of large-scale oil leakage in the surrounding environment, it should be that after the fuel in the ship ran out, the people above sank the ship themselves. As for saying that Weishenme is going to do this, it is not known.

"There should be a minimum of one person on board, a maximum of eight people." Lin Chuanqing reasoned.

Gao Xiaosong said: "The sampan can only be multiplied by a maximum of eight? ”

"Yes, and I think there were only two or three people when they abandoned ship, otherwise it would be difficult to explain that Weishenme didn't take more food with him - if he was shipwrecked, shouldn't he bring as much supplies as possible? If it were me, I'd take both sampans with me. Two people are in charge of a sampan, and they can carry a lot of things. ”

"It seems that there is indeed another group of people who have come to this plane, most of them Americans." Gao Xiaosong concluded, "I think we have to be vigilant, they sank the ship, obviously because they didn't want anyone to find out. It was sunk upright, probably to facilitate future salvage. ”

"It's not like it's someone from the U.S. Time and Space Authority."

"The Time and Space Authority is also under the management of the Americans? At least under the United Nations. ”

Regardless of whether the person who came was a space-time authority or an accidental entangler like the Ming family in the Qiongzhou Strait, anyway, there were other people from this time and space who came here, as for what they wanted to do, and how the crossing group planned to treat them, this was not something for Gao Xiaosong and them to consider.

However, it was agreed that the ship should be salvaged. It should be a good ship if it is repaired.

Bai Guoshi said: "The displacement of this ship is also 100 tons, which is no worse than the 8154 fishing boat used by the navy now. The shell is not broken. It shouldn't be too difficult to fix. And there are a lot of supplies on board that we can use. After soaking in the sea water for a long time, it will be ruined. ”

After returning to Lingao, the expedition team submitted two reports to the Executive Committee and participated in the second action report meeting. One was included in the weekly bulletin - on the proposal of Xiao Zishan. At present, the Executive Committee publishes a government gazette within the weekly meeting to report on the major events that have occurred during the week and the operation status and records of the various departments of the Executive Committee. As the embodiment of "open government affairs".

Included in the Government Gazette is a report on the expedition to Dongsha Island. The other is their report on the shipwreck. The report is currently classified as top secret, and is known only to a few key leaders of the Executive Committee, except for the parties involved.

Ma Qianzhu soon received another report. This report was sent by Ran Yao himself, and it was a surveillance report on Zhou Weisen and Lin Chuanqing written by a traverser in the expedition team. The report makes it clear that there was nothing unusual about them throughout the expedition.

Ran Yao waited for a few minutes after Ma Qianzhuo finished reading it and fell into contemplation for a few minutes before reminding: "Dugong! Have you finished reading it? ”

"Huh? I'm done. Ma Qianzhuo put on a relaxed expression, "This is the best!" ”

"Yes, I personally think there is no doubt about the North American public."

Ma Qianzhuo nodded, sent the report to the gas lamp and lit it, watching it turn to ashes - Ran Yao breathed a sigh of relief, he had planned to take back this piece of paper and destroy it.

A secret meeting was then convened with the participation of the expedition. Bai Guoshi's proposal to salvage the wreck as a whole was rejected, although the ship was extremely useful to the crossing group after it was salvaged and repaired, and Wang Luobin thought that there was no difficulty in salvaging -- since the hull structure was well preserved and the water depth was not large, it could be salvaged as a whole with the ability of the engineering committee.

However, once the ship was salvaged and dragged to Bopu, there was a ship "outside Jihua" that also arrived in this plane, and the secret could not be hidden from anyone. The Executive Committee considered and decided again and again that the matter should be kept secret.

"Let's salvage the useful supplies and equipment on the ship in batches." Ma Qianzhuo said, "According to the report of the expedition team, there are a lot of abandoned things inside. It's a shame that the bubble is broken. ”

"Food, medicine, tools, and small equipment are all useful to us."

"I might even get boxes of heroin, cocaine, or marijuana."

"It's a pity that none of these things are of use to us - if only they were arms smuggling boats."

If it is an arms smuggling ship, there will certainly be a large number of weapons and ammunition on it. Although they felt that there was no shortage of light weapons, it was enough to have an automatic weapon such as an AK47 in their hands.

"It's a man-portable anti-aircraft missile to be fished out, and it's depressing."

"Haha." The room laughed.

"Aren't you rejoicing too soon," said Wen Deji slowly, "what about the people on board?" Don't forget this crucial thing. ”

"It's not a big problem." Ran Yao said, "The expedition team thought that there were so few people on board that they could only take one sampan. And they did not take away a lot of useful supplies, apparently there were not enough manpower. A few lonely traversers, even if they are not submerged by the sea, will not make too many waves. ”

"Will there be other ships together?"

"It's incredibly unlikely, otherwise wouldn't it be a pity to just throw away the things on the sunken ship? Even if they don't know it's on another plane, it's always better to have more food and medicine in an emergency at sea. ”

"I'm not worried that they'll be able to become a shili - it's only a small situation for us five hundred people to be prepared, and a few of them can't do it. The point is that they are afraid that they will cast a certain opponent. So that all of our hole cards are out. That's all that matters. Wen Desi is very concerned about this.

"It can't be helped, it's completely out of our control. I had no choice but to order to strengthen vigilance, and if I found any suspicious person, I would arrest them or kill them on the spot," Ma Qianzhu said in a deep voice.

At this time, Shi Yuanren came to the conference room, and he brought an autopsy report.

"The body that the expedition found next to the wreck was examined by us: male, between thirty-five and forty years old, of Indo-European descent, and the remaining hair from him was brown. He is 1.87 meters tall and very muscular, and weighs around 100 kilograms. ”

"He's a strong man—"

"That's right, everyone must be more interested in listening to it below." "Based on the bones and remains of the body, this person had suffered multiple injuries before his death, including gunshot wounds......

"Shot to death?"

"No, gunshot wounds are old wounds, according to the healing status of the bones. It must have been many years ago. ”

……

To sum up, the deceased was a man in the prime of life, tall and strong, with many injuries. Shi Yuanren thinks: This should be a soldier.

"At least he's a man who deals with danger." Ran Yao said, "It should be a soldier or a law enforcement officer." ”

"The Temporal Authority is also a law enforcement agency."

"Don't talk about this kind of cold joke."

Ran Yao suddenly remembered something.

"Do you remember an incident that was reported at our observation post outside the county in the days after D-Day?"

"What?"

"In the ranks of the Ming army that went to the county seat for reinforcements, a European prisoner was escorted."

"I don't remember. Is there such a thing? Several people pricked up their ears.

"Absolutely." Ran Yao said, "It was witnessed by Li Jun and Wei Aiwen. Their debriefing should be in the archives. ”

"Hurry up and transfer it!"

The report said very little about the matter, except that a European-looking captive had been found in the ranks, and there were no details.

"There's this! Are people still in the county jail of Lingao? Wen Deji saw it and shouted.

"Didn't ask—"

"Tell Xiong Buyou to go into the city immediately to investigate this matter. This European is still not in Lingao, has he brought anything, what has he said, where is he now......"

"Mr. Wen, you don't have to be so excited," Wu De comforted, "You forgot a little, the time is not right." ”

According to Ran Yao, witnessing the appearance of the Europeans was only a few days after the D day, and the distance from the Dongsha Islands here, even if this European-looking person came from a ship, it was impossible for him to reach Lingao and be captured in such a quick time.

"Space-time disturbances are hard to say!"

At Wen Desi's insistence, Xiong Buyou, who was originally teaching Mandarin in a national school and learning dialects by the way, was suddenly given the task, and he didn't know what was going on for a while-he didn't remember that there were any Europeans in the county!

Xiong Buyou now works for the Foreign Business Commission. Specializing in dealing with Lingao County. Recently, he is assiduously studying the work process of the county government in the Ming Dynasty, and is ready to "collect taxes" as soon as the time comes, and take over the county government by the way. For this purpose, he has been in frequent contact with all kinds of people in the county government, and from time to time he has also given small favors, and he has become very familiar with them in a few months.

For this matter, he directly went to the head of the cell in the county office. The cell boss told him with certainty that at the same time as they arrived, a Westerner was escorted by the vice-master, and he heard that they had found him by the sea, and after they arrived, he was locked up in the county office.

"Are people still alive now?"

"It's long gone. Sent directly to Fucheng. It is about the red-haired man of Xiangshan Ao, who was shipwrecked and fell into the water. ”

"Did he bring anything or clothes with him?"

"What else can fall into the hands of the deputy master?" The cell boss said with a smile, "Besides, I was fished up from the sea, and I don't even have a piece of clothing on my body, so there will be anything anywhere." ”

As for the origin of this person - there is no general affairs in Lingao County, and the red-haired people can't speak Chinese, so naturally there is no such thing as an interrogation record to see.

Xiong Buyou's findings disappointed the members of the Executive Committee - it seems unlikely that this person is a sailor on the sunken ship.

The programme for salvaging the sunken material was adopted. It is still Lin Chuanqing and others who are in charge. In order to ensure the safety of the salvage, the Executive Committee sent a fishing vessel to carry out the mission. The ship also brought with it a lot of materials and equipment needed for salvage. All the crew members are carefully selected to ensure that they are absolutely kao and not too talkative.

Fu Fuji came out of the office building of the Heaven and Earth Society in a daze, and his mind still didn't turn for a while--did he do it right or wrong this time?

Because he only said that he had 50 acres of land when he signed up, he became a "middle peasant" when he divided the customer group. When the promotion meeting was held, I saw that several small landlords in neighboring villages who had less land than their own land had signed service contracts, saying that the Australians from the Tiandi Club would go to the countryside to send seeds and help with farming, but they only got the list of ten chickens, and what kind of ordering breeding. This made him anxious - chickens, there are dozens of them in his own yard, and he is still guilty of raising chickens on credit like a poor barbarian? It's the seeds of the Australians that matter.

He hurriedly ran to ask the clerk of the Heaven and Earth Society.

"Yes," said the clerk, "you have only fifty acres of land, but you are a middle peasant. The seeds you want belong to the planting jishu service, and at the moment it is only for the grain households who own more than 100 acres of their own land, and at the same time they are personally in charge of planting and production. ”

Fu Buji doesn't know what a middle peasant is, but he understands if he says that his land area is not enough. He was speechless for a while, so he had to say that his land was not only fifty acres, but one hundred acres -- in fact, he had two hundred acres of his own land.

"Then you have to get the title deed first--there is no basis for the words."

When Fu Buji returned home, he was scolded by his wife again, saying that he was confused by lamp oil and had to jump into the fire pit. It doesn't matter what the representative is, he has to give his land to the thief for nothing. This noise made him take a gamble - he still brought the title deed to heaven and earth to inspect it.

"Two hundred and twenty-seven acres." The clerk checked the title deed, "It's all home-owned?" Didn't give it to someone else? ”

"They are all small and grow them with domestic slaves and long-term laborers." Fu Fuji replied.

"Okay, you can sign this contract."

Fu Fuji couldn't read, so he had to ask the clerk to read it to him, in fact, this is a contract, stipulating the rights and obligations of both parties and the like. The seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides provided by the Tiandikai are all charged on a pay-as-you-go basis, and a jishu service fee is also charged. This fee and that fee, I want to retreat when I hear it. Zuihou heard that the first year was the promotion stage. Except for seed and jishu service fees, others are exempt. Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief and draw a charge at the moment. I thought that as long as I received the seed in the first year, I would not participate in your Raushzi Heaven and Earth Association.

At the same time, there is also Zhang Youfu, a capable person in the county. Zhang Youfu is now an adviser to the Civil Affairs Committee, and receives a monthly consultant allowance -- according to the traditional taxonomy, Zhang Youfu is a Han Jian dog-legged person who specializes in serving as an advisor to the Civil Affairs Committee when dealing with the locals. Wu De looked at him very closely, did not give him a confirmed name, and did not let him do things alone, lest this person be a fox and a tiger and act recklessly. Corrupt the prestige of the Crossing Syndicate.

Zhang Youfu doesn't have much land, and he has no enthusiasm for managing land. He was mobilized by Wu De to participate in the Heaven and Earth Society-he felt that it didn't matter, anyway, he was entrusted to the long-term workers to plant on weekdays. Australians are willing to toss what the world will help with farming.

In addition to them, there were also a number of small and medium-sized landowners and rich peasants everywhere. The land is mostly between 100 and 300 acres. As expected, most of the landlords in the prefecture were suspicious of the matter, and although many people came to inquire about how to buy seeds, they retreated when they heard that they had to join the Heaven and Earth Society to obtain jishu services. There are a total of 11 customers in the planting service industry in the first phase of Zuihou. One of them was something that no one expected—it was the prefectural school of the school.

No one expected that the old Mr. Dongyan, the teacher in the county school, would do such a bold thing, in fact, he was also helpless.

Wang Ci, the county's prefect, is an old talent, and he has been this "poor official" in the county for many years. In addition to the county school, there are two private "academies", and its famous Jasmine Xuan Academy on the banks of the Lan River in Chinese dates back to the Song Dynasty. Private schools in rural areas are not uncommon. However, the situation of the county school is quite bad

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