However, some of the children in this group cannot even be said to be orphans, because the Holy House does not know whether the fathers of the children are still alive, especially the children of some Portuguese sailors, who have children with local Han women and have established families, but many of them have not been heard from after going to sea, so for these would-be widows with children, the Holy House of Mercy usually has various forms of funding, but if the mother is also gone, the Holy House will immediately take in these children.

That's the basic situation for the kids.

More than 100 children disembarked and were put on wagons parked on nearby railroad tracks, and the steam locomotive started slowly and panting, and went straight to school with a loud rhythm amid the cheers of the children.

In order to avoid panic in these children in an unfamiliar environment, the careful ladies of the Red Mansion also sent all the female students of Sunflower Girls' School to meet by the gangway of Nicole, but obviously they thought too much, this group of children was not only panicked and afraid, but very lively, and there was no sense of cringe when they first arrived in the unfamiliar environment, and for this feeling, the women in the Sunflower School were also familiar with it more than half a year ago, and the ladies of the Red Mansion thought that maybe they were accompanied by the crew next to them. After all, the crew has been with the children for more than a month.

Of course, the children's knee-jerk of being wary of a group of strangers when they first arrived, but it quickly dissipated under the women's smiles, and even so, the lady still felt that the group of children were a little too quick to adapt.

However, they soon learned that the root cause was in the crew of the Nicole, because the children were completely open on the Nicole, especially the boys, who had been playing with the crew on the ship for a long time.

As for the girls, they have also been crazy for more than a month with Zezilia and the three girls of Liping Courtyard, and it has been proved that the children are extremely adaptable to the surrounding environment and the most sensitive.

Usually, children who grow up in a relaxed environment are more lively, bright and courageous and confident, and children who grow up in a repressive environment are introverted and cowardly and have low self-esteem, and there are countless examples of this.

Therefore, both Han Yu, the principal of Zhuyuan Public School, and Xia Xiaoou, the principal of Sunflower Girls' Public School, were deeply surprised by the liveliness of this group of children, and it seems that this group of children has completely embarked on the path of bear children under the leadership of the crew.

However, this is not without side effects, and since then, in order to allow these children to sit quietly in the classroom and listen to the lessons, several full-time teachers have spent considerable energy, of course, this is a story for another time.

Just over 100 metres from Railway Line 9, Zhuyuan Public School already has a makeshift train station – steps made of bamboo to make it easier for passengers to get on and off the train.

A concrete pavement stretches from the train station to the entrance of the school, opposite the gate of the Sunflower Girls' School, which in a few years will be a bustling commercial street, but now, apart from the two schools opposite the gates, the only building with some commercial elements is a bamboo building on stilts, which was the first store of the department store.

At present, the school buildings and classrooms of Zhuyuan Public School are only a few rows of tall bamboo buildings, the playground is a mixed sand land compacted by the road roller, and the school wall is also a circle of bamboo fences.

Needless to say, the daily operation of the school, for Principal Han Yu, everything is a familiar routine, with the experience of sunflowers first, and the ladies of the Red Mansion are also experienced full-time teachers, so the placement of these 30 children is very smooth.

On the other hand, on the sunflower side, because of the sudden influx of a large number of underage girls, it was very busy for the ladies for a few days before it gradually stopped.

Considering that the partners who returned from the voyage were very hard, the Supreme Executive Committee decided to give everyone two days off, so in these two days, except for the crew who took turns on the ship to assist in unloading at the dock, most of them ate and slept in the Red Mansion, and those who had wives and children stayed in the dormitory of the Red Mansion with their wives and children and did not go anywhere.

Of course, those who have objects in Sunflower School are not idle for these two days, and in the evening, there are groups of people who visit and visit.

The so-called long-term love, this voyage has made everyone a caring person, and they have more or less brought back various gifts to the girls.

Those who don't have girls are bragging and chatting in the dormitory or conference room all day long, and the fire pond club and vegetable garden club have also quickly resumed various activities, and after several trips to the sea, they have become more and more sensual about the experience of the new world, and their horizons have also broadened a little, so there are more and more topics of interest to everyone.

Because of the various materials brought back from this overseas purchase, compared with the relative leisure of the crew, the members of several industrial groups at home have become busier than in the past.

This voyage procured a total of more than 800 tons of various cargoes, including the procurement items proposed by various professional groups, and the types can be said to be varied.

The bulk commodities are mainly rice, timber, cotton and linen, various metals and concentrates, including both Champa rice seeds for agricultural research and edible rice.

There are also various kinds of wood, from the precious red ebony to the relatively ordinary rosewood, which is not used to make furniture, but is used in Wang Gong's auxiliary shipbuilding and Boss Luo's machine processing factory.

As for cotton and linen, metals, concentrate sands, silk, tung oil, red mercury, sulfur and other materials, most of them are what textile mills, metallurgical groups, chemical groups, and Xiao Fei want, and the demand for these raw materials is also increasing in the increasingly large development projects of the industrial world.

However, there are still some things that have not been procured in time, such as Yunnan Baiyao, which doctors have asked to buy.

In order to obtain Yunnan Baiyao, Sun Lao specially discussed with the four Chinese in Macau, and the Chinese businessmen responded that this kind of medicine is something that the government prohibits from leaving Yunnan, and the current situation in Yunnan and Guizhou is chaotic, and the mountains and roads are difficult, this business is too difficult to do.

However, the Zhong family later said that they would send people into Yunnan to buy, but the cost could be very expensive.

Mr. Sun called back to the doctors in time to explain the situation, and also mentioned the issue of procurement costs.

However, the doctors' answer was: get us a jar back at all costs!

The doctors' explanation is simple - although we have detailed technical information and are preparing for our own production, there is still a great need for some real physical samples for analysis. Therefore, no matter how expensive it is, it is not afraid, once its own production is successful, the profit is unimaginably large, and this investment in the early stage is really nothing......

So Sun Lao agreed with the Zhong family's family that Yunnan Baiyao would be guaranteed to be delivered next time he arrived in Macao.

By the time all the bulk cargo brought back by the fleet was unloaded, it was already the afternoon of the next day.

At this time, led by Gu Jin, including Luo Zhengyi, Zhao Xihe, Wang Xue, Quan Zhenhai, Huali and other key members of the industrial group, as well as Chengdong Huanghai and others from the mechanical group, they got on the train from the gate of the cave and went to the Red Wharf, this time they were going to receive the last cargo on the Nicole-Dutch flintlock pistol.

Although it was still a holiday, many people heard that the people from the industrial group were going to see the flintlock pistol, and they all consciously joined the team as onlookers, and as a result, more than a dozen people, including Li Sanduo, Zhu Beiguo, Xu Zhi, Ren Ke**, etc., followed Captain Gu and them on the train.

Half an hour later, everyone boarded the deck of the Nicole together, and then entered a ground cabin, Gu Jin opened the hatch, pointed to a few bundles of long cargo bags wrapped in oilcloth on the ground, and said to several industrial bigwigs at the scene, it was one of the most advanced firearms of this era: Dutch flintlock pistols, a total of one hundred and twenty, costing three thousand taels of silver, this thing is really not cheap, Captain Gu sighed at the end.