The wiretapping/listening records of the Dutch East India Company's trading hall are the highest priority materials, and they will be transcribed and sent to Zhao Manxiong's desk the next morning. In accordance with the agreement reached at the weekly joint security meeting, this material was also copied to the Police Headquarters and the Foreign Intelligence Service.

Zhao Manxiong personally studied these high-level materials as soon as he entered the office every day - the Executive Committee did not want to be disturbed by any outside shili during the engine operation.

Among the foreign shili, the Portuguese and the British are weak, and the Spaniards are distant and lazy; There is a certain liliang, and the only ones who have a vital interest in them are the Dutch.

The officers were very important to the East India Company, and it is difficult to say how the Senate's development of Kaohsiung would have caused them to react.

"Let the Dutch fully understand the horrors of being our enemy." At the planning meeting before Operation Engine, the response to the possible reaction of the Dutch was to use intimidation to force them to act rashly.

Judging from the eavesdropping/listening/reporting, it is clear that Trini's work has had a very good result - whether intentionally or unintentionally, the Italian desperately boasted of the force of the Senate. Zhao Manxiong knew very well that a person in a comfortable and comfortable environment would not have much interest in waging war.

Living a comfortable life, doing the job he loves, being paid a lot of money, and having Lori and Shota by his side - Trini would not want to fight a war to end his current situation unless he is mentally disturbed.

The conversation between the two men did not exceed most of his speculations: including the East India Company's thoughts and attitudes, sending a large ship to Lingao when it was not the trading season. The purpose is clearly not just to make money. The Magdeburg's mission was apparently to pick up information.

He then looked at the reports on the surveillance of the East India Company's trading halls, especially the activities of the servants in the trading houses. Ufo believed that at least one of the servants was doing some kind of secret work.

According to the report, the servant was very active. He is often active in Lingao, and has traveled to all places where foreigners are allowed to reach. The port of Bopu has almost reached the point where it is necessary to visit once a day - the public excuse is to buy the catch.

Zuihou is the report of the letter inspector of the General Directorate of Political Security stationed at the General Post Office. The General Post Office took over the post transmission system of the original Ming government. A postal route from Lingao to various counties in Hainan was opened, and a post office was set up in each county. However, these branches are currently only responsible for the transmission of official correspondence from departments, enterprises, and military units under the Senate, and sī letters are limited to naturalized people and a small number of natives who have dealings with the crossing group.

The postal inspection method is to open all the letters of some individuals and departments, and the other part is to be sampled. Zhao Manxiong skipped the other parts and directly found the postal inspection report of the East India Merchant House.

Letters from the Dutch Merchant House were normally delivered by the servant of the Merchant House to the East India Company's merchant ships returning to Batavia or on their way to Dayuan. When there were no East India Company ships, they were handed over to Chinese merchant ships bound for the two places. Regardless of the method of consignment, the General Directorate of Political Protection always had a copy before leaving the port.

Letters were encrypted, but any encryption in the 17th century was a mere child's work for the General Directorate of Political Protection. Each letter is declassified and translated. A few more copies were transcribed and sent to the "relevant authorities" - since the Dutch were the object of attention, the postal inspection reports concerning them were accompanied by the original manuscripts of the letters.

Zhao Manxiong carefully read the report and recent letters, and was generally satisfied: it was exactly what they wanted to achieve from their "Spread the Power" campaign.

However, this is only for the current merchant staff, for the Fan who has just arrived? It is difficult to say whether Transtron will have the same effect. Is it necessary to target Fan at all? Transtron launched a new "declaration of force". It is a topic that Zhao Manxiong needs to consider.

There are many ready-made things to "declare force": whether it is Project 901 in the harbor, the new artillery that the Army has recently tested, or even the not-so-new typewriter, it is enough to shock the Dutchman.

The question is. Excessive flaunting of force is sometimes perceived as a form of "covering up weakness". Zhao Manxiong was very worried that there was a group of self-proclaimed smart people in Batavia who would judge like this.

"If only the cheese was unambiguously understood." He said. I thought of the 2300 Project, which is now in full swing -- if it is successfully completed, it will be a very astonishing military progress. Pity. Fan? Transtron may not be able to accurately grasp the power of it.

Or Jean Fan? See the fleet of steam engines of the Senate—as a seafaring people, van? The Transtron would not fail to understand the power of the steam engine battleship.

The location of the 2300 project is Lingao Special Chemical Complex. Although this consortium belongs to the Ministry of Chemical Industry, it is far from the chemical enterprises under the Ministry of Chemical Industry, and many of the workers working in the chemical plants have never even heard of such a company.

The planning of Lingao's special chemical complex was modeled after a fire plant of 156 projects that year. Its main task is the production of gunpowder and **.

With the continuous expansion of the scale of the army and the needs of civilian engineering, the early handicraft workshop-style production scale and laboratory-style production process have become far from meeting the demand.

In particular, the lack of a sufficient number of relatively safe fierce forces has greatly limited the use of both military and civilian applications. So much so that the military stockpiles of firearms can only be kept at a low reserve level. The ammunition in the army's reserves, in addition to ensuring the army's training on weekdays, is only one for combat use. The artillery ammunition reserves on the ships of the Navy are also generally not in line with the base.

The Planning Institute is well aware of the current predicament, so it officially began to plan and build the first-class fire enterprise - Lingao Special Chemical Consortium more than a year ago.

Lingao Special Chemical Complex covers a vast area - a vast area of Lao Maozi, and the factory covers an area of several thousand acres. Even so, it was only planned according to the old space-time shrinkage ratio more than ten times. The site is located on the edge of the high mountain and hilly area. It is a slope where the bedrock begins to emerge. The soil layer is very thin, and there are rocks and ditches everywhere, and the project is very difficult. The advantage is that it is remote and desolate, there are almost no homes and arable land around, and the terrain is high, so it will not be flooded by typhoons.

Because in the fire factory, all kinds of fire and precursors are concentrated together. Once a chain reaction occurs, Lingao's existing industrial zone is afraid of half of the reimbursement. It is already very unsafe to stay in the industrial area.

Fire ** This kind of thing, the finished product is actually very safe, and the unsafe is the intermediate precursor, many of which are in an unstable state, and can only be temporarily stable by relying on strict process specifications. However, the workers of this plane have little idea of craft discipline. Even in the previous fire plant, the fire plant strictly followed the militarized management, and often carried out extremely severe punishments, and even the death penalty and joint sitting, but did not completely eliminate all kinds of minor accidents.

The rate of casualties at the fire plant is kept secret and is never reported in the internal bulletin, and naturalized citizens do not know that there is such a place unless they work at the factory. The selected workers are also as bachelors as possible.

Even by various means, the impact of the accident is minimized. Once a small accident cannot be dealt with in time, it will become a major accident. Relocating to this barren area would at least minimize the damage in the event of an accident -- even if the main production of black powder exploded, once a sufficient amount of gunpowder exploded, the effect would be very strong -- and the explosion at the Wang Gong factory was horrific enough.

The planning of the special chemical complex is still a serious violation according to the safety standards of the old time and space. Because this factory not only produces pyrotechnics, but also manufactures various finished ammunition, and also undertakes scientific research tasks.

"We are at least much stronger than the production conditions of Huangya Cave......" Xu Yingjie said with a reluctant smile after looking at the planning map. He already had an extra scar on his outer arm - a scar from a piece of glass that had been blown up during the production of the mercury six months earlier.

"It's also better than the current security conditions. Otherwise, sooner or later, our brothers from the Ministry of Chemical Industry will become one-eyed dragons and tuǐ. It is also inevitable to enter Cuigang in advance. Ji Huisi, the head of the Ministry of Chemical Industry, said. Not to mention such a thing as fire**, even the production in the chemical plant often scares him.

It is true that there are a few ** enthusiasts in the Ministry of Chemical Industry who are not afraid of death, but courage does not bring safety - everyone still wants to see the day when the revolution is victorious - of course, it must be intact.

"In terms of safety requirements, everyone should try to mention them, don't be afraid of trouble, afraid of consumption. As long as it can be satisfied, the Planning Institute will definitely meet all of them. "Safety comes first." ”

After more than a year of construction, the factory has not yet been built, or it is not known when it will be completed. According to the plan, a large number of artificial barriers were to be built between the various facilities to block the impact bō, usually an earthen embankment 20-30 meters high, in order to direct the impact bō and the burning material into the air - in order to avoid the splashing of rocks in the explosion, no stones could be used.

After the basic civil works were completed, less than 10% of the embankment work was completed. Many earthen embankments had to be made up of thick layers of soil on the inside of the stone pile. The factory went into production. The traditional way of safety ditch continues to be used. Construction of the earthen embankment will continue. For safety reasons, it is no longer possible to use steam-powered engineering equipment that breathes smoke and fire, and can only rely on manpower: the army and the labor camp, and when necessary, use modern machinery.