The noisy crowd finally dispersed, whether they believed it or not, they always had to sleep, but I am afraid that most people would lose sleep this night. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At the temporary round table in the captain's room, there were 6 people sitting around, 2 Xiucai from the Ming Dynasty, Captain Zhang Guodong, Professor Lu Tianxiang, Ms. He Yun, the wife of the old professor, and Liu Jun, a translator who could not be regarded as a translator. There were several plates of dishes on the table, as well as a bottle of liquor.

"Please, two." Lu Tianxiang picked up the wine glass in front of him. Although there is a language barrier, there is still something to be said, especially China's wine culture has a long history, even if you don't need to speak, everyone understands the action of holding a cup.

The two Ming Xiucai also hurriedly picked up their wine glasses, the slightly taller and fatter one on the left is called Lin Chao, and the one on the right is slightly shorter and thinner called Lu Xing, the two are Xiucai in the same year, both from Qiongzhou. The middle and late Ming Dynasty was the time when China's commodity economy was abnormally developed, and it also gave birth to heretical thinkers like Li Zhen. These two are not dead scholars, especially their families are also well-off. This time, the two met together, to practice Dong Qichang's purpose of "reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles", and prepared to travel around Hainan. Seeing that it was getting late today, I was about to rush to Yazhou to stay, but I met Jiang Beiming by mistake, and I was taken to the ship in a daze.

Since they were sober on the ship, these two people thought that they would definitely die if they fell into the hands of thieves, and they all held the determination of "Kong said to be benevolent, and Meng said to take righteousness". Later, seeing that although the people on the boat behaved strangely, they had no intention of harming them, so the two slowly put their minds at ease, but the ship was full of strangeness, especially after seeing the bright ceiling lights in the restaurant, the two felt more and more unreasonable, not the ghosts and gods and could not explain.

Seeing that after the two finished drinking, they did not put down the wine glass, but turned over and looked at the glass in their hands, Lu Tianxiang smiled slightly, turned around and took the pen and ink, wrote a few words with a brush on a piece of white paper, and handed it to the two. When the two of them received it, they didn't feel that their eyes lit up, and they had a thin gold body. What was written on the paper was "Dare to ask the two benevolent brothers Taifu".

Lin Chao hurriedly picked up the pen and wrote down a few words: "Student Lin Chao, the word Pengfei." Lu Xing took the pen and wrote a few more words than Lin Chao, "Student Lu Xing, the word Yunlong." Dare to ask the old gentleman, but I am a Ming person."

The two sides went back and forth, speaking with words, but the communication was smooth, but Liu Jun, who was sitting with him, was depressed at home.

Lu Tianxiang said that the traversers were relics of the former Song Dynasty from overseas, and they were naturally descendants of China, who encountered a storm at sea and drifted here. He also said that he would let the two of them rest easy, and once they went ashore, they would immediately send them home. The two of them were completely relieved. The banquet lasted for more than an hour, and the two sides dispersed happily.

The banquet was over, and there were 3 more people left in the captain's room, except for Zhang Guodong and Lu Tianxiang, Xu Lang was called up from the quilt and sat aside with sleepy eyes. Jiang Beiming returned to his speedboat. Xu Lang was called because both Zhang Guodong and Lu Tianxiang felt that this young man was thoughtful and responsible, so he was also a person who could discuss things together.

"Xiao Xu." Lu Tianxiang said, "You've been tired all day, and it's hard for you to call you so late, but we still want to hear your opinion, what should we do next?" ”

Xu Lang lit a cigarette, took a deep breath, felt that the sleepiness dissipated a little, so he said: "Okay, then you're welcome, tell me what you think." First, I don't think it's possible for us to go back to the 21st century. A miracle can only happen once, and a second time it can't be called a miracle. Second, since we can only stay, where do we go? There are only 16 years left in the Ming Dynasty, and I don't think I can go to the mainland, and it will be chaotic in a few years. If you go south, it is a good choice, the Philippines, Indonesia, but first, there are Westerners there now, and second, we don't have enough oil. I remember Captain Zhang you said that you would drive another 800 nautical miles at most. So we can't go, at least not now. Not to mention Australia and the Americas. Vietnam, Vietnam is a good place, but unfortunately it's not the time, now is the time of the Great War between the North and the South, I think it started in 1627, that is, the year before. ”

"Yes, 7 times in total, plus the previous year, a total of 8 times, until 1672." Lu Tianxiang said, "I didn't expect you to have a lot of historical knowledge. ”

"Huh. Show amateur skills in front of an expert. Xu Lang laughed twice, "Taiwan, we can't go either." Because if we go to Taiwan, we will inevitably clash with the Dutch and Zheng Zhilong, with our current 2 ships, a few guns, and 300 people, do we have that strength? So we can only have one choice, and that is Hainan. This is because, first, the emperor of Hainan is far away, and he is isolated overseas, and the forces in the Central Plains, except for Guangdong, may be difficult to meddle in. Second, Hainan Island fell into the hands of the Qing army, it should be in 1651 Du Yonghe surrendered, that is 22 years later, these 20 years, Hainan is relatively stable, we can use these 20 years of time, develop ourselves, after all, we are ahead of nearly 400 years. Third, there were a lot of immigrants in Hainan at the end of the Ming Dynasty, how many there were, I don't know this, it is estimated that there are hundreds of thousands, so that we at least have a population base, 20 years of development, even if one day in the future we can't change history, prevent the Manchu Qing Dynasty from entering the customs, even if we can't keep Hainan, then we will build more ships, and then it will be easy to run away. ”

"That's right." Seeing that the two of them didn't speak, Xu Lang suddenly realized that he seemed to have overlooked something, "What do the two of you think of the Manchu Qing?" I just said that the Manchus should be prevented from entering the customs, what is your opinion? ”

"That's it." Lu Tianxiang said slowly, "Actually, I have studied the history of the Ming and Qing dynasties for so many years, and I won't talk about him in the late Qing Dynasty, at least at this time, the Ming Dynasty may be able to be transformed, but the Manchu Qing Dynasty may be difficult." ”

"No matter who it is, if it can't be transformed, it will be replaced." Zhang Guodong continued, "What Mr. Xu said is similar to what Lu Lao said just now, listening to the analysis of the two of you, it seems that we can only have such a choice, Hainan." ”

"But I'll say the same thing." Xu Lang finally said, "This is not something that a few of us can decide, let alone the three of us can decide, how to do it, tomorrow depends on the opinions of the big guys." ”

Another round of the rising sun jumped out of the sea. Xu Lang is still standing in the same place yesterday and smoking quietly, but there is no noise of yesterday beside him.

"Stop throwing cigarette butts into the sea."

Xu Lang looked back, and Cheng Yiyi didn't know when he was standing behind him.

"What are you afraid of, now it's the ocean of the Ming Dynasty, and there's no pollution."

Cheng Yiyi pursed her lips and didn't say anything.

"What? Looking for me? Xu Lang asked.

"What do you think? You are only allowed to watch the sunrise, and I am not allowed to enjoy the splendid scenery of the Ming Dynasty? ”

"Thirty years of hard work, four hundred years ago in one night. You can really see it. ”

"What's the way you can't see it?" Cheng Yiyi held on to the railing and took a deep breath, "Be at peace with what you encounter, and follow the customs." ”

"It's a good one to be at peace with what happens, and follow the customs of the locals." Xu Lang couldn't help but look at this girl carefully.

"Don't look at me like that, do I have a 。。。。。。 behind my back?"

Cheng Yiyi hurriedly turned around, but nothing happened behind her, and when she turned back, she saw Xu Lang smiling evilly at her and said, "I just don't know if the girl will be able to be at ease with her in the future at weddings and funerals, and follow the customs of the countryside?" ”

"Huh? What do you mean? Cheng Yiyi was stunned for a moment, but immediately understood, "Your mouth, you can die if you don't hurt people." ”

"Hehe, let's go."

"What are you doing?" Cheng Yiyi asked puzzled.

"Eat, hurry up, we have to have a meeting in a while. And I'm afraid it's going to be open all day. ”

"How do you know?"

"Well, I can pinch it." Xu Lang smiled slightly, turned his head and walked towards the restaurant, leaving Cheng Yiyi who gritted his teeth.

In last night's deep talk, Lu Yunxiang, Zhang Guodong and Xu Lang came up with a rough plan, and at Xu Lang's request, they will continue to discuss it all today, and even vote in the end.

There were more people in the restaurant than yesterday, and all the people who crossed the restaurant except for the 10 naval soldiers who left behind on the speedboat 777, all the rest came to the restaurant. By this time, everyone had finished breakfast and were quietly waiting for the meeting to begin.

Zhang Guodong first introduced the current situation and the analysis of last night's situation, and finally came to the conclusion that he could only stay in Hainan for development. Regarding these, early this morning, they were relieved by radio to Jiang Beiming and Lin Zhaolong on the No. 777 speedboat, and the navy basically agreed, so Zhang Guodong took out this plan and announced it in public. Of course, the announcement also explains who made the idea and judgment, and why only these few people did these things.

The result was surprisingly smooth, and the expected discussions and arguments did not take place. Although a considerable number of people, or the vast majority of people, still hope to return to the 21st century, but after listening to Zhang Guodong's speech and Fan Qiuming's introduction to wormholes by Ph.D. Fan Qiuming, a doctor of physics, of course, basically all people do not understand. Everyone thinks that going back to the 21st century is almost impossible. In that case, let's stay in the Ming Dynasty honestly.

The meeting immediately moved on to the second item, where all the traversers were registered. The details of the registration can not be more detailed, age, gender, ethnicity, blood type, occupation before crossing, hobbies, specialties, family relationships, height and weight, etc., but everything that can be thought of is basically printed on a form. In addition, there is a note column where you can write suggestions or things that are not on the form.

More than an hour later, the statistics came in.

There were a total of 319 travelers, 269 males and 50 females; 25 children over 50 years old, 6 children under 18 years old, the oldest 11 years old, the youngest only 4 years old; There are 7 family combinations, 6 couples with children, and one is Lu Tianxiang and his wife.

Regarding the professional aspect, the navy, crews and teachers took the lion's share. 45 active duty Navy, 10 Marines; 76 crew members, cooks, waiters on board the Pearl; There are 56 teachers at the Teachers' College, 6 retired Army personnel and 4 civil servants, including a police officer. 122 other people.