Section 184 Food Processing Centres

The Big Whale returned to Hong Kong and was temporarily retrofitted there, installing a steam-powered Dragon Mén crane on deck, as well as a hoisting winch and a dredge. In order to ensure the stability of the whale while working, the anchors were removed from several other ships and retrofitted, so that it had eight anchors.

When a converted ship staggered to the Tiger Mén, everyone was amused by its strange and ugly appearance. Of course, there are great concerns about safety.

"This crane is so high, the center of gravity is a little unstable." Yellow Paw had come with the whale to Tiger Mén, and he didn't feel much of the boat bumps along the way, but every time Lànghuā slapped the hull of the boat, the steel dragon mén squeaked and rattled - what if it flipped over.

A man who looked like an otaku wearing glasses talked eloquently: "Don't get in the way, according to my calculations, with reference to a series of comprehensive considerations such as Xing bō drag and sway coefficient, the probability of a ship rolling over is 12%. ”

"It still sounds scary."

"There is a lot more wind in the Pearl River than in the sea, so this probability will drop further."

"I hope so." Chen Haiyang also felt a little uneasy when he looked at this strange-shaped monster, but now is the time to solve the problem of existence and non-existence, and he can't pull too many safe eggs.

Lelin wept and mourned—because he was the captain of the Great Whale, and he had taken great pains to drive the ship to the Tiger Mén—after so many long and thick things had been loaded on the ship, the power system on board had not changed, it was still the original diesel engine, not only had the power not increased, but the center of gravity of the hull had changed, and it became heavy and clumsy to start. He took the helm himself along the way, and it was not easy to reach Tiger Mén at a speed of 3 knots.

"This ship is too difficult to drive...... Le Lin complained, "I should have built my mansion on Victoria Mountain, right......"

"Don't complain, check the ship right away and get ready to set sail."

On the docks of Tiger Mén Ya Niang Shoe Island, the sound of labor trumpets, the roar of military songs, the roar of steam engines, and the cries of the captives became one.

More than 4,000 people were captured and transported to Humén from all over the country, some of whom were considered hostile or threatening to their future rule, and some of whom were poor people who had been taken in from the area. They will be transported to Hainan to replenish the local population.

The Pearl River Delta region was already overpopulated at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and a large number of people poured into the mountainous areas for agricultural development. Therefore, the removal of a part of the population will not damage the local production and economy, but can reduce the pressure on the local ecological environment. The purge of a large number of gentry and large households opened up a larger business space for the local middle landlords, rich peasants and merchants.

The captives, young and old, were transported to Hu Mén by boat, where they were temporarily housed and awaited the ship to be transported to Hong Kong along with the "confiscated" booty collected from various places.

The large amount of loot brought back by the returned detachments in the past month or so was piled up in the tiger mén, and the traversers were still very unproductive, and the tables, chairs, and benches in the homes of the wealthy mén who had been "purged" were not left behind. In order to eliminate the unstable factors that may be caused by the concentration of a large number of people, the first to be transferred to Hong Kong is the population. As long as the weather and sea conditions permit, several spy ships will travel to Hong Kong every day laden with people, where they will be decontaminated and quarantined in advance.

The returning detachments also carried out a short period of rest and sanitation work in Humén, and Zhang Tumu gave all the officers and men of the detachment deworming yào, while at the same time carrying out several successive flea exterminations, a parasite that is very active in rural areas. All people with health problems are transferred to Hong Kong for treatment.

Fifteen-year-old Fu Ji carried on his shoulder a blue cloth package of xiǎoxiǎo, which his mother had given him when he left home to join the army, with a few tattered shirts and a pair of freshly made shoes - he was reluctant to wear them, even straw sandals, and hung them on his body. Barefooted, patiently waiting for a group of people in front of him to get on the boat.

His team all voluntarily defected to the Australians, so the order was very good, and he did not send people to guard them. The Australians in charge of the transport gave each of them a water hyacinth and a black leather bowl - for eating and drinking on the way.

He looked forward to being able to eat with an open stomach when he arrived at Lingao—that was the only purpose for which he went to Lingao.

Fu Ji is an ordinary country child. Originally, he didn't have a name, but he was called Fu Yaer, and later the apprentice was given a name by the master.

He began his apprenticeship at the age of twelve, and as usual he had to study for three years and help for three years. But when he had just started to "help the teacher", he was able to learn a little real skills and make a little money, but the master suddenly died.

Fu Ji and his whole family were suddenly in trouble. He learned the craft from xiǎo, and the farm work has been delayed, and the family is originally full of people and little land, in addition to the eldest brother and sister, there are three younger siblings. In addition to planting more than two acres of thin land, the family also planted some land in the village to barely survive. His family has a large population, and it is a great thing to suddenly have an extra mouth.

One day, Fu Ji squatted on the ridge of the field, his stomach growled with hunger - a bowl of thin and thin sweet potato porridge he ate in the morning had long disappeared without a trace, and the next meal could only be eaten when it was almost dark.

There is no comparison between home and when I followed the master. Although the master rarely gives him the opportunity to eat a full meal, every time he encounters a town or a big family to undertake a red and white wedding event, the leftovers can always hún a round belly. It is better to eat and drink better than to look like you will never be able to eat enough for a long time.

Not far away, curling smoke rose from the Humén Village, where the thieves who had beaten away the officers and soldiers or the Australians were cooking lunch. Like the landlord Lao Cai, they eat three meals a day. This alone made Ran Fu Ji envious to death.

When the Australians came to Tiger Mén, they fought a big battle with the officers and soldiers, and they beat the officers and soldiers to the ground, and thus occupied the Tiger Mén. The people in the vicinity had gone out and hid for a few days. A few days later, seeing that they had nothing to disturb, they turned back to the village. The Australians did not commit any crimes in the nearby autumn, that is, they did not rob or set fire to or rob NV people, but only sent people to ask the villages to pay any "burden", and the burden was not too big, and the Australians themselves sat in charge, and asked the big households to come out of the big heads, and the xiǎo households came out of the xiǎo heads, but they didn't make any trouble. I just heard that there is a big village nearby that relies on the fact that there are many people and many people are in the clan, and they built a village to resist, but they were wiped out in one day. He was killed and arrested by the Australians. The family that presided over the resistance not only had the entire clan's belongings taken away, but even the ancestral hall was demolished. The big families in this area are making a lot of noise.

But for the Fu Ji family, the Australians have little impact on their lives. Fu Ji still couldn't eat enough, and one day he followed his neighbor to Humén Village to sell vegetables and jī ducks. Ever since the Australians settled in Humén, nearby villagers have been selling vegetables and fresh jī ducks, geese and eggs in xiǎo boats – according to the Food Management Ordinance, when the Fu Bō army procures ròu food from the private sector, it only procures poultry eggs and aquatic products as long as the situation permits. The Chinese are natural merchants, and they do not ask for vegetables and eggs, but quickly adapt their goods to the needs of their customers.

Fu Ji had seen the appearance and equipment of the Fu Bō army when the Australians had gone to the countryside to assess the "reasonable burden", and this time, he saw the quality of life of the Fu Bō army, the soldiers ate large bowls of rice, and there were no limits, they ate as much as they liked, and there were fish for dinner, and there was a large pot of vegetable soup with eggs...... I swallowed my saliva when I saw it—this kind of day was better than that of the big landlords in the village, and this rice alone was dried by the landlord's family with a few slices of dried sweet potatoes.

He couldn't help but ask the neighbors who came with him: "Uncle, are they being treated today?" ”

"What to eat, Australians eat like this every day. I also eat three meals a day," the neighbor said enviously, "If Lao Tzu hadn't started a family and had three bone dragons to raise, he would have followed the Fu Bō army, even if he died in battle, he would have been willing."

These words moved Fu Ji's heart, instead of starving at home, going out to work and not knowing and having nowhere to go, it was better to go to the Australians and pull him down. At least a few years of comfortable life. He thought about it for a few days, and then secretly went to Tiger Mén for a second time to see the soldiers' daily lives. I think he did these things too. He proposed to his family that he would go to the Australians to join the army.

Even though his parents knew that once they joined the army, they might never come back and might die somewhere, but the family was in a very difficult situation, so they had to agree.

When I went to Dehu Mén Village, I saw that there were really a lot of people who came to join the army, not only young people, but also half-grown children like him, and even old men and nv people Xiǎo children - the food supply of the Fu Bō army was so good that there were many poor people in the vicinity who wanted to come to "join the army". Chen Haiyang ordered not to refuse those who came, not to avoid the old and the young, and to eat all the male NVs. Not only are you welcome to join the army, but it's best to bring your family with you. So came a great number of people with their families, tormented by poverty and hunger, who had lost their courage and prudence, and were willing to go wherever they could be promised a full meal.

Fu Ji stripped naked in a shed for people to see, then was looked at his teeth and asked a few simple questions such as age and name, and then stamped his handprint on a piece of paper as requested. He didn't recognize and didn't care what was written on paper.

Coming out of the shed, he was shaved his hair, took a shower, and got a clean old uniform. Even if they become a member of the "new immigrants", according to the people who manage them, the newcomers must be sent back to Lingao to practice for a few months before they can be regarded as officially "joining".

The newcomers lived in separate barracks waiting to board the ship, and their food was worse than that of regular soldiers, but the thick rice porridge with fish and vegetables still made him cry with happiness - although there was only one bowl at a time, he could eat three meals.

Thinking of arriving in Lingao, officially becoming a soldier for the Australians, and eating a sumptuous meal with an open belly, Fu Ji was extremely moved by such a prospect.

"Fu Ji" Just as he was patiently waiting to get on the transport ship to "Happiness of Eating Enough", a person who looked like an Australian bookkeeper suddenly appeared.

"Yes," he said, following the rules he had learned in the camp, he raised his hand, "here I am"

"You're Fu Ji?"

"Yes—" He was a little uneasy.

"You're a cook?"

"xiǎo people have studied for three years as apprentices......"

"Come out, don't go just yet. The food center is short of people, so you can go straight to work there. The clerk said in an unquestionable tone, "Follow me."

Fu Ji followed the clerk to a xiǎo shed in a daze, and then it became clear that he was originally asked to be a "fire head army". This is not a difficult task, he has been an apprentice for three years, and he always has at least the ability to cook and cook.

"You don't need to cook and cook." One of the clerks sitting behind the desk said, "Will you kill Jī and kill the duck?" ”

"That's what I mainly did when I was an apprentice." Fu Ji said, "Even killing pigs has helped......"

"That couldn't be better." The clerk said and picked up a card, filled in something on it, and then Jiāo gave it to the low-level clerk, "Take him to purify and treat it according to the food doctor level"

Fu Ji was taken to shave his head again, take a bath, and cut off his nails. His whole body was thoroughly examined to see if there were any wounds or skin diseases, zuihou, and after everything was normal, he had to drink several kinds of bitter yào water. Zuihou, he was taken to a separate stockade by the river, and in a room at the mouth of Mén, he was met by an Australian. The man was completely different from the others, tall, a fat man, with two pieces of glass inlaid with a black-framed tortoiseshell shell on his face, and a long strip on the left xiōng of the uniform, sewn with colorful sè xiǎo pieces of cloth.

"From today onwards, you will be a member of the Field Cooking Processing Center." Wren looked him up and down for a long time, then looked at his hands and nails, "Always pay attention to personal hygiene" and then he pouted, "Read it to him" A young uniform NV child next to him immediately read aloud the hygiene system of the cooking processing center: you must take a shower when you go to and from work every day, you must use féi soap to wash your hands, and you are not allowed to leave your hair and nails......

"Remember everything?"

"xiǎo's ...... Understand ...... "After hearing all this, Fu Ji was already dizzy. He didn't have time to digest it all, so he had to say that he remembered.

"Okay, bring it in. In the future, I will have to educate regularly. Wren frowned, "Hygiene habits are not something that can be developed in a day or two."

Fu Ji was taken to this heavily fortified camp in a daze. As soon as he walked in, his eyes widened. When did a building of this magnitude come into existence?

In order to support the needs of long-term operations, the task force has set up a large field cooking logistics processing center equipped with mobile gas cold storage in Humén.

Rows of simple houses and bamboo huts stand on the high ground by the river, and a steam chōu water machine is emitting black smoke and roaring, and the river water is constantly flowing. The river water is purified and disinfected in the filter tank here for primary purposes and then supplied to the troops. A strange large boat leaned against the shore with a huge rectangular wooden box as large as a house, and above the wooden box was a huge reed mat awning. It looks ugly and weird.

This is a refrigerated ship. This wooden box is actually a mobile gas cold storage converted from a 40-foot container. In order to keep warm, a layer of wood structure insulation interlayer was added to the outside of the box. It is filled with multiple layers of diatomaceous earth and kapok. Gas for refrigeration is supplied by a gas generator installed on board the ship - it can also be supplied from shore. This reefer can refrigerate 22 tons of frozen cargo. The only drawback is that there is no power plant yet, which is towed and sailed by a daihatsu boat.

The clerk first led him into a large bamboo shed: "The place where you work is in the division workshop. This is a place to take a shower and change clothes, and you have to take a shower and change clothes here every day before entering the workshop. And then you can go into the workshop, understand? ”

"Xiǎo's knowing." Fu Jixiang's rules here are really big, and he has to bathe and change his clothes even if he kills a jī duck.

"It's not allowed to casually string mén here, you can work in which workshop you work, and you are not allowed to leave." He pointed to a steaming bamboo shed not far away, constantly emitting water vapor, "There is a slaughterhouse workshop, it is full of boiling water, don't go in casually if you have nothing to do, beware of being scalded to death"

Fu Ji worked in the machining center in this way. His job is to divide the raw embryos. The acquired jī ducks and geese were slaughtered in the slaughtering workshop and then soaked in boiling water before being sent to the workshop where he was.

The so-called workshop is a very tall temporary building built with máo bamboo, reed mats and ropes by combining modern architecture and traditional shack craftsmen. Ventilation. The rows of windows near the top of the shed are not glazing, but have screens to keep mosquitoes and flies away. When it rains, the rolled up reed mat can also be lowered with a rope to cover the rain, which is very ingenious. The workers in charge of the division work in such workshops.

There was a strange smell in the workshop - he didn't know it was the smell of disinfectant water. More than a dozen workers with cutting knives are on the table to divide and process the slaughtered poultry.

He had never done such a strange job: whether it was a master or any other cook, most of the jī duck dishes were made with a whole jī duck. Sometimes he would also use jīxiōng 脯 or jītuǐròu for cooking, but this was the first time he had seen a jī directly divided into pieces like this.

And the clean habits are stricter enough to make Fu Ji feel that he is blowing máo and finding faults. After going to the toilet, there is a special person to monitor the washing of hands, and the hand washing must be done with féi soap. Nails should be checked every seven days, and if there are more, they must be cut off immediately. As for the hair and beard, of course, it is even more impossible to keep - everyone's head here is as light as jī eggs.

The clothes were changed every day - he didn't know who was doing the laundry, but he did have clean clothes to change every day, and even the oil slip around his body was clean.