The scene of seeing off is very standard and very common, that is, there are more people in strange costumes, and there are all kinds of clothes worn in ancient and modern times. This is how the crew transitions, Huang Ama rides a motorcycle, solemn and mixed with joy.

According to the original plan, the expedition team formed by the traverser should have set off ten days ago. The reason for the delay to this day is still the inexperienced pot of the management - the marine equipment was not supplied on time.

But it's also inappropriate to put the blame entirely on management, which now lacks neither that much authority nor any legitimacy. The current big and small leaders have grown up savagely in the environment where the new shareholders are rolling in, except for Xia Xianze, who is considered to be the default of everyone, other department managers such as Feng Jun and Wang Liguo still need to be cultivated, and for the time being, their prestige is not enough.

The consequence of the weakness of the management is that any application for "imported" materials will go through a period of prevarication between departments before it can be implemented. No way, there is a lack of people who have the final word. Chairman Cao, the only one who can handle all this legally, never interferes in these things.

Of course, Mr. Cao also has a reason. Not to mention that he often disappears for a period of time, and even if he doesn't disappear, he can't be arrogant about specifying who is in the position - everyone really doesn't know each other.

Although the traversers were all "recruited" by him from the old world, the only criterion for Cao Chuan to select these people at that time was that "it was inconvenient for this person to 'invite' to the Ming Dynasty......

Whether the person has leadership skills, whether he can repair cars or drive, these are not considered. Except for Xia Xianze, who was the first to practice, the others did not have in-depth exchanges with Cao Chuan.

These are all the reasons why the Navy's application for radars, weapons, diesel, and outboards ended up being delayed. It's a bit LOW, but that's what it is. By the time Cao Chuan finally got the Navy's order, returned to the Old World to complete the purchase, and came back to deliver the goods, it was already several days later than originally planned.

After that, things went smoothly for a while: navigation radar, weather radar, sonar, including machine gun mounts on the fore and aft decks were quickly installed. The blood-boiling Browning M2HB heavy machine gun also made its debut at this moment, and in order to compete for the limited opportunity to test the gun, a few people exposed their vulgar side.

It didn't take long for the joy to come to trouble: no one had ever installed a Swedish OXE diesel outboard on the butt of a sand boat in the Middle Ages before. After the people in the mechanical department got the real thing and measured it again, they found that it was necessary to consider not only the removal and placement of the movable wooden rudder in the stern, but also the structural strength of the stern, as well as the access and placement of the outboard motor, and so on......

The final solution was to re-measure the three existing sand boats suitable for retrofitting, and then take the time to customize the special steel slides from the old world, as well as the aft reinforcements.

This kind of small problem in the process, which was originally common, unsurprisingly encountered a wave of complaints. There is no way, the current situation is that no matter which department, as long as the "import quota" is squeezed out, it will definitely be sprayed.

At present, the company looks strong and has sufficient equipment, but the most important "number of deliveries" has not actually saved much. The ring on Cao Chuan's hand can only accumulate enough energy for a one-way transmission every three days. If you don't count the half of the teleportations that return to the old world, then Cao Chuan can only send goods to the new world 5 times a month, 22 cubic meters each time.

The company's increasingly large personnel and materials rely on this transportation volume to develop and grow. In the early stage, it was good to say that the largest transport unit was people, and most of the other guns, ammunition, and daily necessities were stored. However, when one takes into account the infinite amount of equipment required for future industrialization, this is clearly a drop in the bucket.

As of the day of the fleet's departure, the situation was not optimistic. In the past six months, Cao Chuan has saved only 18 crossings. This number is also divided by 2, which means that at the moment, you can "send up to 9 boxes of goods" from the old world in a row, and then you have to wait for six days.

With such a grim situation, it is no wonder that everyone is strictly guarding against "imported materials".

The final test of the motor at sea was still good: once there was a need on the ocean, everyone could pull up the movable wooden rudder in the stern, and then clamp the 200 horsepower outboard motor on the external steel rail and put it down. Next, in milliliters, the precious diesel fuel will begin to be consumed, and the square-headed and square-stern sand ship will now be transformed, capable of rushing at the enemy at a speed of at least 5 knots in the headwind, or running away......

When everything was ready, I looked back and realized that the plan I had made had been delayed, and the bureaucracy had killed people......

You must know that the upcoming winter is extremely important in the plan of the traverser: there are no typhoons in winter, mosquitoes are not so rampant, and the vegetation is relatively sparse so that everyone can clean up the wild people. This winter is the perfect time for the crossing forces to gain a foothold in the big man, and it can be said that every day is important.

Now that the time has been delayed, let's hurry up and make amends. Fortunately, the rest of the commonly used materials in the plan had already been prepared, so all kinds of goods were stuffed into the bilge overnight, including food, weapons and ammunition, tents, and even 84 disinfectant and other daily necessities were all carried onto the ship.

At present, there are no regular soldiers, but there are many of them, and the "army" group that has long been reduced to prison guards has finally waited for the dawn of hope. Not to mention that there were enough people on the 15th to go out of the mountain, and 80 "workers" in the Moyun Temple were escorted overnight, and one of them ran away in the black light.

In this way, the preparations before departure were completed in a hurry. The first to sail were two boats, the larger "Dog's Eye" with a funny name, which some people joked about when they bought the boat.

This three-masted, eighty-percent new sand ship is 33 meters long and 7 meters wide.2 Although it is known as a thousand materials, but the displacement is more than 100 tons, and the deadweight ton is less than 80 tons. After stuffing in a batch of raw silk, porcelain, cloth, and daily groceries for trade, as well as 20 "Class B laborers", 20 "Class C laborers", 15 traversers and 50 crew members, it was already swaying and full of fat.

The smaller "Yuandou" has only 700 materials, and its name was given by the previous Ming shipowner, and now it is also stuffed with people and goods. Both ships were equipped with some posthumous items that were inconvenient to display, and they were also tightly wrapped in oilcloth, and it was not too late to untie them after going to sea.

Among the more than 30 traversers who set off in the first batch, there will naturally be no baby pimple Chairman Cao. The uncertain road ahead, the wilderness thousands of miles away, the various risks on the sea, such a high-risk journey, everyone unanimously felt that only the CEO could go from victory to victory.