Under the promise of Wen Dehei's "teaching the secret method of building Western ships", Zhang Ji began to work with great enthusiasm, and he selected some people to work with him. Wen Desi was very interested in ancient shipbuilding, so he stayed with Li Jun's platoon to watch shipbuilding. However, the navy showed a completely different interest, not only did Fubo go back and forth every three to five days, but also successively transported the non-commissioned officers and students assigned to the navy to Baitu, and gave them to the machine as a short-term laborer, learning the intuitive experience of shipbuilding. Although future naval architects were trained in the Jishu School, the Navy felt that it was necessary to train officers who knew a little bit about shipbuilding - if possible, the shipyards of the future should be controlled by the Navy.

Wen Deji knew very well about the Navy's Xiao Jiujiu, but his own hobby made him have a natural preference for the Navy, so he turned a blind eye in a pretending to be confused, and continued to communicate with Zhang Ji Shu across time and space.

Wen Desi discovered that Zhang Jiji was actually a master modeler, and he could make all kinds of models of sea ships with very simple carpentry tools, which could not only be built, but also accurately proportioned and easily disassembled. It turns out that this is his jishu secret, to put it bluntly, it is an equal scale magnification method. It's a bit primitive, but it's very effective. He knew that European shipbuilders had used a similar approach, and that the rule of making a model for every ship built was a remnant of this method.

Zhang Jiji knew very little about mathematics and geometry, and his level of drawing was equivalent to graffiti, but he kept in mind all the data of the size, structure, and dimensions of these ships, which made Wen Desi very impressed - many skilled craftsmen in ancient China, many of whom were illiterate and did not understand algorithms, but they could rely on the experience of generations to make ingenious items, and they did have their uniqueness.

Seeing Zhang Jiji making a ship model, Wen Desi couldn't help but itch. Anyway, there is nothing to do to supervise the shipbuilding, so let's just start making a model of a brig first, and with the model, it will be easier to communicate with Zhang Ji.

He has always been a survival freak and carries basic weapons, food, and tools with him wherever he goes. The materials here are convenient, so he immediately found the materials and started to make them.

Zhang Jiji admired Wen Desi, a "learned person", who could also make delicate ship models. In his opinion, learned people are all dancers and writers, and he has never seen anyone who can do such a craftsman's work by himself. Every day after work, he would go to Wen Desi's house to see the model of this Western ship, and the two of them would also exchange their experience in making ship models, and Wen Desi would also take the opportunity to tell him some simple knowledge about the shape of the ship and the shape of the sail.

When Wen Desi lived a leisurely life of making models in Baitu, the travelers were busy working in Bopu and Bairen City day by day. There are a myriad of projects to be launched, and there are shouts everywhere about the lack of materials and labor, and Ma Qianzhu, who is a member of the Planning Commission who presides over the daily work, has become the busiest person. They are busy with the distribution of materials, the allocation of labor, and the coordination of the relationship between various departments -- there is often a great deal of controversy over who should use the limited materials and labor first. This kind of controversy will be mixed with personal grievances that slowly develop in work and life after D-Day. And the personal grievances between the leaders of the professional groups will become a contradiction between the two professional groups. Any small matter can cause debates and quarrels, and the members of the Executive Committee have to be constantly busy mediating disputes. Xiao Zishan once sneakily looked for Ma Qianzhu, asking if he would take back the spears of the team leaders.

“weishenme？” Ma Qianzhuo thought that the current situation was so dangerous, and he also wanted to distribute the pistol to everyone.

"In case the quarrel heats up, an impulse-" Xiao Zishan made a gesture of pulling out his gun.

"No, no, Zishan, are you psychopathic?" Ma Qianzhu disagreed.

In addition to being busy with such daily routine work, Ma Qianzhu, who is the chief of staff, also has to ask military questions.

The success of the raider operation in Baitu Village injected a shot of stimulant into the group, and the new army and the weapons manufactured by the people who had been trained by the people through the crowd withstood the test of actual combat, which made the people in the industrial and military mouths very excited.

Ma Qianzhuo was not as excited as the crowd. Although he did not participate in this expedition, he also knew from Xi Yaya's mouth that the various problems exposed in the whole process were generally known, and the state of the army was not as optimistic as the masses imagined. Stepping up the training of troops was the only way to go, and despite repeated opposition from the mechanical sector, he raised the priority of ammunition production to the first place. This caused the lead reserves in the industrial sector to drop sharply, and Ji Siwei also reminded him that the chemical sector no longer had much nitrate reserves, and the fire yao manufacturing used up a large amount of saltpeter, and the nitric acid manufacturing almost completely stopped.

"If we defeat it, what's the use of having so much nitric acid?"

Ji Si shrugged his shoulders and didn't argue with him. Ma Qianzhuo did not know the important role of nitric acid in the modern industrial system, but at present, there are dangers lurking everywhere, and there are possible enemies everywhere, so he has to use all kinds of force.

There has been no response since the message of the peace talks with Zhucai Lao was transmitted by Shi Shixi, and he had no clue whether he was fighting or fighting. Ma Qianzhuo wondered if the little pirate leader had delivered the message. The traverser was currently ignorant of the situation of the various maritime groups, and the news from Guangzhou was often vague and confusing. The only thing that can be obtained now is the movement of the various maritime groups in the first year of Chongzhen (1628) compiled by the intelligence data group from the pile of historical materials.

It just so happened that he was on duty at the communications center today, and while listening to the noisy conversation on the public channel, he decided to read this information as soon as possible, so that he could take the place of the staff headquarters that did not yet exist and draw up an operational plan.

As the number one enemy of the traversers, Zheng Zhilong's troops had also officially accepted Zhao'an in July of this year, achieving his goal of controlling foreign trade through his legal identity. His accomplice Li Kuiqi defected "because of the uneven distribution of spoils", which may have involved the interests of foreign trade.

In September of the first year of Chongzhen, Li Kuiqi "seized the ship and carried it back, recruited the rebels, and was embarrassed by Zhilong...... On the ninth day of December, Kui Qi connected with Chen Shengyu and Zhong Liu (that is, Zhong Bin), and on Wednesday the gang entered the old Huyu Island with more than 400 ships. ”

Li Kuiqi was very strong when he rebelled, and he actually took Zheng's ships and guns away, and it is said that Zheng only had dozens of ships and 600 soldiers left. Judging from Li Kuiqi's appeal, his strength is no less than Zheng Zhilong. However, Ma Qianzhu did not believe this figure, if Zheng Zhilong's army really only had "dozens of ships and 600 soldiers" left, he would not be able to fight Li Kuiqi for more than a year, and it would be impossible for him to sign a trade contract with the Dutch on October 1, 1628 (the fourth day of the ninth lunar month) as the largest maritime group along the coast of China.

For the crossing group, the battle between Zheng Zhilong and Li Kuiqi is extremely beneficial to them, at least these two sea liliang forces will not come to attack them for the time being, whether it is to fight to promote peace or to pay tribute to sue for peace, they only need to face Liu Xiang Group and Zhucai Old Group.

This "only" is also a bit stressful, and Ma Qianzhu put down this report with a lot of thoughts. From beginning to end, this information rarely mentions how many military liliang these pirates had, and the numbers in the historical books are all approximate and worthless. How do people deal with this? However, it is no wonder that military intelligence is not the strong point of those who engage in historical materials, and it seems that it is still necessary to rely on the military's own intelligence system, and the formation of a military intelligence network of local people seems to be an urgent matter.

Now the training battalion has been initially formed, the arms industry has grown, four fishing boats have been refitted, and the heavy projectiles have been replaced with 70mm breech-loading guns. With these fishing vessels present, the situation for the traversers at sea is much better - there are no ships on this plane capable of challenging them. A few days ago, after Lin Shenhe's efforts, the original bump grenade fuse was also built, according to Shiyan data, the detonation rate is 80%, which is quite considerable, and copper is to be used.

The source of copper, however, is a bit strained. Although Guo Yi has held this channel high, it is still quite difficult to buy copper. and now increasingly skeptical of their purchases: so much pig iron, saltpeter and copper are unknown; kept transporting all kinds of foreign goods (all of which were the trophies of Goujiazhuang), which couldn't help but make Master Gao think of some not-so-wonderful content. Recently, he has inquired in many ways, and the transshipment warehouse on Youyuzhou has also been secretly inspected several times.

Kwok Yat suggested that it would be better to occupy Hong Kong Island, or at least establish a base on the island to facilitate the transfer of supplies. In addition, he also proposed that Macao should be connected as soon as possible. Entrepot trade overseas through the Portuguese.

Occupy Hong Kong Island. Ma Qianzhuo thought that this idea was not bad, but Hong Kong Island is much more sensitive than Lingao, right under the nose of the dignified provincial capital, the key place of the Pearl River Estuary. If you want to occupy it, you have to prepare for a big battle with the Ming army. At the moment, the five or six hundred of them are really a little overwhelmed.

To fight and build, it is really a dilemma. Ma Qianzhu now understands that Weishenme often mentions "winning time for peacebuilding" in another time and space, which is really too important. The army and navy are like two gold-devouring beasts vying for the first place, not only eating up a lot of their resources, but also occupying a lot of useful manpower.

While he was meditating, he suddenly heard someone shouting in the public channel: "Enemy! The enemy appears! There was chaos in the channel.

Ma Qianzhu roared: "This is the officer on duty and the chief of staff!" Shut up, everyone! The person who called the police immediately reported your identity and location! Shaozong, we need a separate communication channel! Be quick! ”

Go to a separate communication channel. The voice calmed down for a moment: "I am Liu Zheng of the long-range exploration team, I went with the team to look for peat this morning, and at 9 o'clock in the morning, I met the enemy 25 kilometers east of Bairen City. Retreat immediately, just back into range of the wireless network. The enemy is about 1 hour away from us. ”

"How many enemies are there? What equipment? ”

"There are probably hundreds of people, I can't see any equipment in the distance, it seems that there are muskets, there are a small number of cavalry, there are no cannons!"

"Ming army or pirates?"

"There is no uniform costume, and there is no armor, about pirates!"

Damn, it seems that Zhucai Lao called, this kid doesn't seem to pay attention to our olive branch at all!

"Go back to the city immediately, and report back if there is a situation!"