A few days after Wei Hong returned to Xin'an, the Governor's Palace received a telegram from Nicole:

"It will leave the Red Pier on time at 8 a.m. tomorrow and will target the port of Sin'an City, and it is expected that after five to six days of sailing, the Nicole will arrive at the Blue Pier."

Immediately, Sun Lao also sent a telegram from the Red Mansion: This time, the Nicole has brought some new industrial equipment related to the ammunition factory to Xin'an City, and has also brought enough ordnance to the garrison, including 600 Type 57 rifles, 100 Federation Type 1 single-shot handcuffs, and 60 Type 59 single-shot bolt-action rifles newly developed by the Shuguang Machinery Factory.

Sun Lao also said in the telegram that Dr. Quan also went to sea with the ship this time, and he would serve as Nicole's ship doctor for this trip.

Hou Xianglin was very excited to hear the news, because Zezilia was not in good health recently because of pregnancy, Hou Xianglin once planned to send his sister to Mornington Island for recuperation, after all, there were doctors and medical equipment, but he was very worried that his sister would not be able to withstand the bumps of the journey when she was pregnant on the ship, and when she was in a dilemma, she heard that Doctor Quan was coming, and she put some snacks, and immediately called back to the Red Mansion and said that she hoped that Doctor Quan would bring some medicine, and then described the condition in the telegram.

Xiao Pingguo and the others knew that the reason why Doctor Quan got on the boat was said to have been specially arranged by Sun Lao, which was quite a bit of a meaning to let the doctor come out for a vacation.

Recently, Dr. Quan and Du Na gave birth to a daughter, Du Na was taken care of by the ladies of the Red Mansion during the confinement of the Red Mansion, and there was no need for Dr. Quan to worry about it, but the relationship between Brother Quan and Dr. Quan was still tense, but the face seemed to have warmed up, so Mr. Sun suggested that Dr. Quan, who was in a better mood, get on the boat and go out for a walk, and it happened that the pharmaceutical factory on Wanshan Island also needed Dr. Quan to guide and guide the business, and Wuzhou Pharmaceutical also had plans to build a pharmaceutical factory on Zixia Island, so it was obviously necessary to go to inspect it, so Dr. Quan went to sea like this.

There is also good news for Xin'ancheng: this time, Nicole will send six hygienists personally trained by Dr. Quan to Xin'ancheng, all of whom are boys and graduated from Zhuyuan Public School.

According to Gu Jin's plan, two of these apprentices would replace the doctors as ship doctors on board the Nicole—these apprentices had been trained to almost the level of the Old World Hygienists.

The remaining four apprentices will join the Sian An garrison as part of the Red Mansion's intensified support for Si An Castle.

The appointment of the hygienist is actually a part of Gu Jin's long-term personnel arrangement for the Nicole - in the future, not only will the ship doctor be replaced by the students of Zhuyuan Public School, but even the ordinary crew will gradually be replaced by the students of the nautical training class.

Gu Jin's plan is to spend about two to three years starting next year to replace all the traversers one after another - the replaced traversers will intern for a period of time on the new ships built by Wang Gong, and then they will serve as captains, first mates, boatswain, and chief engineers of these new ships.

Immediately, Boss Luo and Teacher Zhao called separately and explained some information about the ordnance support to Xin'an City this time.

Boss Luo said that this 59-type rifle uses cloth shell combined ammunition and manual loading, because of the successful research and development of Baisha Group, this rifle has finally completely got rid of the original level of flintlock pistol and turned into a rifle in the true sense.

Immediately after that, Boss Luo said: This rifle is still in the trial stage, has not yet been finalized, the reason why we handed it over to you is to test the indicators of this gun on the battlefield, so as to facilitate the improvement in the future, so please use the Xin'an City Garrison as much as possible, as for the ammunition, the Baisha Group has asked Nicole to bring you 5,000 rounds of combined ammunition with cloth shells, in addition to the production equipment of this ammunition.

Mr. Zhao asked the ammunition factory in Xin'an City to arrange the production of this new type of ammunition as soon as possible, as in the past - the production of this high-tech key part is still on Mornington Island.

Mr. Zhao also said that in view of the fact that the 57-style rifle is still the standard equipment of the garrison, and the 57-style hand @ grenade @ bullet and explosive @ medicine bag are currently very popular in the market and have great profits, so the above products cannot be discontinued.

For this reason, the Xin'ancheng Ammunition Factory definitely needs to expand its scale, so please Xiao Weifang and your brothers pay more attention to the affairs of the ammunition factory, after all, Gui Xianning will not be able to come back for a while, and as for the installation and production of new equipment, Hou Kang and the two have been entrusted with temporary responsibility.

Then Sun Lao sent another telegram saying that today's regular meeting of the Senate had decided that the Nicole would arrive in Sin'an City on the return journey with 300 Han families from the Leizhou Peninsula -- a total of more than 1,500 male and female immigrants, which was a major move to develop the buffer zone on Timor Island.

The Red Mansion plan is that all of these migrants will be sent to the copper mining area in the mountains south of Okusi City for resettlement, and if the resettlement is successful, these migrants will become the main force in the development of the mine, Cao Limei said that these Han immigrants will be recruited with good salaries to work as miners of Aotuo Mining.

Mr. Sun said that if these plans are successful, more Han Chinese immigrants will be sent in the later stage.

So I ask you to hurry up and appease all insecurity in the mountains southwest of Oku as soon as possible, so that these migrants can settle down in the copper mining area and start construction of the mine when they arrive.

Then Sun Lao added a time schedule to Xiao Pingguo and them - hoping that Xin'ancheng can solve the security problem in the mining area before the Spring Festival next year, so that this group of Han people can enter smoothly.

Sun Lao also informed Xin'an City that soon, Cao Limei, chairman of the Aotuo Group, will lead an exploration team composed of graduates from Zhuyuan and Sunflower to the Oecusi copper mine to carry out exploration operations, and plans to complete the preliminary exploration work of the mine around the Spring Festival next year to prepare for small-scale mining.

In addition, after the Spring Festival next year, as a supporting facility for the mine, the "Oceania United Railway Company" in Chengdong will join the buffer development industry, and the company is ready to build a railway from the copper mining area to the wharf of Okuxi City.

To this end, the board of directors of the "Northbound Fund" will invest a total of no less than 500,000 taels of silver in the two companies to ensure the completion of this major overseas project.

Mr. Sun also said that once the Oecussi copper mine is put into operation, we will achieve self-sufficiency in this important raw material and possible associated non-ferrous metals---- such as lead, tin and other minerals, obviously this will not only completely change our import and export trade pattern, but also greatly increase our trade profits, so this project is of great significance and cannot afford any mistakes.

Xiao Pingguo, who received this series of telegrams, and his brothers immediately became nervous - the task is very clear, but there is considerable difficulty, although Sun Lao did not rush too much in time, but looking at the situation on the island, the brothers also knew in their hearts that the time could not be delayed for too long, otherwise, not to mention the mine development industry, that is, those Han immigrants who could have been sent here may be sent to Zixia Island for resettlement because of public security concerns, which is definitely a loss for Xin'an City.

So Xiao Pingguo immediately sent more than a dozen scouts through the Luoka tribe to investigate the copper mining area, and two days later, the scouts of the Luoka tribe brought news about the mountainous area southwest of Oku.

The news is a bit disturbing---- although a few months earlier the siege on the eastern outskirts of Oecussi had cleared out the rebellious natives of the mining areas within a 30-kilometer radius in the southern mountains, a few months later, there were traces of the activities of the rebel tribes, this time it was said that a powerful indigenous tribe from the southern tribe of the mountains had appeared, the Dunno tribe that had attacked the wooden walls of the city in the early days of the city.