So Xu Zhi hurriedly responded:

"The captain is right, Ren Ke and they looked up the information, saying that there is an open-pit coal mine on the island of Kay, it is not a small mine, and the quality is also very good, in the middle of the northbound trade route, we need a midway coal station, and at the same time it is also an ideal haven, there is a bay in the south of the island of Kay that is five kilometers deep into the land and two kilometers wide, and it is ...... here."

"Open-pit coal mines?"

Gu Jin's interest increased greatly when he heard this, and he buried his head and looked at the map carefully.

"Well, it's really necessary to go see ......."

Gu Jin looked up at the porthole under the moonlight and nodded.

"Are there cannibals there?"

"It's been determined, no! Cannibals are a specialty of Papua and mainland Australia, and that place is an uninhabited island......"

"Although it deviated more than a hundred kilometers from the intended route, I personally think it is worth landing!"

At this time, Gu Jin nodded, and then looked at everyone, obviously asking for everyone's opinions.

"Log in! This island will become our overseas colony! What's more, this is the middle point of our northbound trade route, and it must be occupied! ”

"Well, the island is backed by the island of Papua, so that we will prevent outsiders from setting foot in Papua, although there are cannibals there, as long as we have a population and an army in the future, the island of Papua will be ours!

Don't you know that Papua Island is home to the world's largest copper ore mine and famous oil and gas fields, oh yes, and one of the largest gold mines in Asia......"

So the discussion became more and more heated, and in the end, Gu Jin finally announced that he would set sail early tomorrow morning, first sail along the south coast of Papua Island, and then go north to the Molucca Islands, the destination is the Kay Islands in the south of the Moluccas Islands, and prepare to land at a place called Little Kay Island.

Once the task was decided, everyone's discussion stopped, except for those on duty at night, who yawned and went back to the cabin to sleep.

That night, Gu Jin drafted a draft of the telegram and handed it to the person on duty to send a telegram to Mornington Island, and at nine o'clock in the evening, Mornington Island called back.

The telegram was very long, and it seems that the Red Mansion side discussed the change of the route, and it informed in detail the location of the open-pit coal mine on the island, and it was obvious that Cao Limei had specifically consulted the relevant information.

The telegram also detailed the geography of the Kaye Islands and the climate of the season, and informed the fleet that the Spice Islands were prone to hurricanes this season, and that you should be cautious and take shelter for a few days rather than risk sailing.

Then came a second telegram, this time with a very simple message, just a few words - "The Fire Pond Club gives you one hundred and twenty thumbs up for this landing, and your actions will change the geographical pattern of the forces of all parties, and will also change history!" ”

June 15, Mornington Island.

After Nicole and Pride left, there were only twenty-five male laborers left in the Red Mansion, except for the women and young children. Despite this, everyone is not idle, and a lot of work is still slowly moving forward. These days, male laborers are mostly working in shifts in quarries, cement factories and brick factories.

Because hydropower stations and future industrial construction require a large number of bricks, tiles, cement and other building materials, while all kinds of construction machinery can still play a role, and the oil is enough, we hope to reserve some construction materials as much as possible.

Of course---- there is another meaning in this although everyone is not sure whether they can bring back the labor force from this trip, but if they are really brought back, these labor force will definitely need to build housing and resettle.

However, as far as the current situation is concerned, the reserves of various basic building materials are far from sufficient, so it is necessary to take precautions.

In addition, of course, there is the need for industrial construction projects.

Therefore, during this period, everyone basically produced various building materials, and the rest of the time was spent on the research of industrial equipment in the cave, except for going to Lao Zhu's ranch to help.

Fortunately, it is now the slack season, and everyone uses the shift system to go out to work, which also allows many people to have some free time, so the cave has been more lively.

In short, since the departure of the Nicole and the Pride, although various projects have been stalled, the people in the Red Mansion have become busier.

As the saying goes, God rewards hard work, and we have recently made many breakthroughs in industrial technology development.

Among them, the most noteworthy is that Quan Yishan and two young doctors who stayed behind---- Fang Hong and Huang Lei, have begun to study the production process of batch penicillin.

Since the establishment of the Chemistry-Medicine Laboratory, this industrial project has been fully supported by everyone, as long as it is the requirements put forward by the laboratory, it is to provide equipment for equipment, and manpower to manpower.

Under his chairmanship, Dr. Quan Yishan is worthy of being a senior pharmacist with international accreditation, and the laboratory has officially begun to produce penicillin by semi-continuous fermentation process.

Although this production is still in the trial stage of accumulating process data, the doctors have confidently announced that penicillin will soon be produced in small batches, and that both yield and purity will be improved.

Because with the help of the chemical group, they have made a decisive technological breakthrough: recently they have finally synthesized the penicillin industrial salt.

Of course, because of the limited production conditions, if you talk about the quality of these industrial salts, it is almost shoddy, but both the members of the chemical team and the doctors are convinced that this is only a temporary state, so although the semi-continuous fermentation process developed by Dr. Quan is more complicated, because they have sufficient process information at hand, this is a big shortcut compared with the way when the old world first began to produce penicillin based on experience.

Not only that, but the doctors are ambitiously announcing that they will come up with the first generation of cephalosporins on this basis! Within three years!

Although almost no one believed that they would succeed when the doctors announced the plan, Quan and his team told everyone that this was actually a conservative estimate and that it was actually very likely to be ahead of schedule! In short, the doctors are confident in this.

And Quan Yishan also believes that the fleet voyage will inevitably have some gains, at least to establish a fixed trade route, so doctors have begun to brew the future drug business plan, although the specific marketing plan has not yet come out, but they have determined that they will set up a pharmaceutical company within the year.

The company's main products include penicillin and sulfonamide anti-inflammatory drugs from the chemical group's coal and coke chemicals, wound disinfectants, and some well-established and effective Chinese patent medicines – because they have a large number of formulas, many of which are ancestral recipes that have been kept secret in the old world.

Of course, the company is still only in the initial stages of gestation, and even the name of the company has not been decided.

On the other side of the cave, Mr. Zhao is leading the members of the chemical industry team to prepare for two major projects - the experimental installation of the alkali chemical equipment and the coal coke chemical equipment.

Although the work progress of the chemical group is still only in the dismantling and installation of karst cave equipment, Mr. Zhao said that if he is given dozens of laborers, their chemical team will dare to install all the complete sets of equipment for joint alkali chemical and coal coke chemical industry in the entire karst cave! And it will be put into production before the end of the year.

Mr. Zhao's explanation of this plan is that because these processes are mature processes in the old world, we are already familiar with them, and the benefits of micro equipment are like this, the yield after investment may be small, but the installation and operation are relatively easy.

In addition, the metallurgical group's Quanzhen Haihua Li An Hengtong they are not idle, the brothers are free to study the cupola furnace iron-smelting process in the karst cave these days, they hope that this year at least the pyrite boiling furnace and three-meter cupola furnace in the karst cave can be installed in the Xiliu Estuary Industrial Zone, especially the pyrite boiling furnace, the metallurgical group hopes to cooperate with the chemical group, become a part of the three-acid and two-alkali chemical system.