After Gu Yunkun and Zhou Lei introduced the situation, Wang Zhaoxing made a report on the matter of finding gold in Dengzhou that the traverser was most concerned about. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Although Sun Qing has discovered a huge gold mine on Sanshan Island, it is very troublesome to mine. According to Sun Qing's estimates, the annual gold output of Sanshan Island can only be about five or six thousand taels, which is equivalent to less than 50,000 taels of silver. The traversers were disappointed with this number, but there was nothing good to do.

In view of the situation in these places, the General Assembly came up with several resolutions after discussion. Lin Zhaolong formed an escort team in Yanchang County to transport crude oil to Dengzhou, and Wang Zhaoxing transported the oil and refined gold back to Yulin Bay from Dengzhou. At the same time, although Xia Yang repeatedly stated that he would take a year off to accompany Descartes, the crossing conference still instructed him to be responsible for building an oil refinery to refine oil, and to make diesel fuel that could move 777 as soon as possible.

There was no change in the work of Datong, Xuanfu and Dengzhou, and the crossing meeting only instructed people in a few places to hurry up and plant tobacco and dig gold.

Zhang Guodong made a suggestion to the crossing conference that no one could think of, to transform the Pearl of the East China Sea. Qiu Peng asked the Military Commission several times to approve the launch of two large warships of more than 1,000 tons in order to cope with the impact of the launch of the British Sea King, but the problem of silver could not be solved, and Yulin Bay could not come up with hundreds of thousands of silver to build a warship. Now that Gu Yunkun has extracted crude oil, Zhang Guodong wonders if it is possible to transform the Pearl of the East China Sea into a warship, after all, it is useless to stop there.

"Ladies and gentlemen." Zhang Guodong flipped through a few pieces of paper with the parameters of the East China Sea Pearl, "Although our 777 has high speed and strong firepower, it also consumes a lot of fuel, and its engine is 15,000 horsepower. The East China Sea Pearl is also an iron-hulled ship with a displacement of 2,000 tons and a maximum speed of 20 knots, the key is that it consumes much less fuel than the 777. ”

Zhang Guodong looked at the document again: "The Sea King has a total length of 51 meters, a width of 14.7 meters, a depth of 23.17 meters, a draft of 6.8 meters, a displacement of more than 1,600 tons, 4 decks, and 102 to 104 guns. At 65 meters long and 15 meters wide, our East Sea Pearl is larger than the Sea King. We can strengthen the defenses of the Pearl of the East China Sea and install cannons, so that it can also become a giant warship of this era. ”

The conference had a heated discussion on Zhang Guodong's proposal, and most people agreed with this plan. It is much easier to transform the East Sea Pearl into a battleship than to rebuild a thousand-ton battleship, and the 777 can be used as a last secret weapon that should not be used until the last resort, because the 777 shells cannot be refilled.

However, there are also some people who have put forward a different opinion, and neither the Donghai Pearl nor the 777 can be changed, and the two ships will be used as a means of transportation to evacuate Yulin Bay in the most urgent situation. Because no one can say whether the current Ming Dynasty government and Yulin Bay can finally block the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Wang Jian, who married a daughter-in-law and had the most children, persuaded these opponents with a reason: "We basically have families now, and there are a lot of wives and children." When more than 300 of us crossed over, the East China Sea Pearl was almost full, even if we really had to evacuate Yulin Bay one day, could a East China Sea Pearl ship fit so many of us, wouldn't you really want to leave your wives and children and run away by yourself. ”

This bill was passed, and Qiu Peng was given a new task to transform the Pearl of the East China Sea.

This problem was solved, and Jiang Beiming began to introduce the situation in Beijing and Wu Sangui again: "The 5,000 flintlock pistols ordered from us by the Ministry of War have been sent to Beijing, and Zhang Hai is now selecting and training the fast gun team of the Ming Dynasty. These 5,000 people are the elite selected by the officer training corps from Beijing and the important towns of the Nine Frontiers with the consent of Chongzhen, and the training methods will be exactly the same as those of the Yulin Army. ”

"Who's going to pay for the training fee?" Sun Dalei shouted, "Won't it be us coming out again?" ”

"This is from the Ming Dynasty government." Jiang Beiming explained, "Chongzhen now knows that Huang Taiji also has a fast gun team, so he is also a little anxious, and he has issued a holy decree that the household department must try its best to solve the training expenses of the fast gun team." ”

"But if you train like that." Zeng Guangxian asked, "Their combat effectiveness will also be strong, right?" ”

"We've thought about it too." Jiang Beiming said with a smile, "Like the Vietnamese New Army, the squad and platoon commander must arrange all our people, and we must ensure that we can absolutely control this fast gun team." ”

"But the fast gun team is 5,000 people." Wang Zhaoxing calculated in his heart, "There are only more than 100 people in your current officer training corps in Beijing, so do you still have to send people to Beijing?" ”

"I'm afraid so." Jiang Beiming replied, "Chongzhen also agreed that we should send another 500 people to Beijing. ”

"That." Wang Zhaoxing was a little speechless, "Then when can I go to Japan?" ”

In fact, Jiang Beiming didn't say something, he talked to Zhang Guodong alone after returning to Yulin Bay, and Jiang Beiming has always been worried about what to do if he can't control this fast gun team in the future. After all, this is not in Vietnam, but training in Beijing, and perhaps a compliment from Emperor Chongzhen, a reward can offset a few days of preaching by the officer training corps.

But Zhang Guodong reassured Jiang Beiming, and he told Jiang Beiming about the rifled gun. At present, Shen Daxing can produce almost 120 rifled guns every month, and at this rate, it only takes more than a year to form an infantry regiment equipped with rifled guns.

"About Wu Sangui's question." Jiang Beiming saw that no one asked questions, and continued, "You already know the contract we signed with Wu Sangui, Wu Sangui is very satisfied with the samples we sent, and wants to invite me to go to him once, but I haven't answered yet." ”

"Beiming." Xu Lang sat down and asked, "What did Wu Sangui ask you to do with him, do you want to go?" ”

"I want to go too." Jiang Beiming replied, "I want to see the real situation of the Guanning defense line, if Tao Min really wants to enter the customs from Guanning next time, we might as well have a countermeasure." But this has to go through the conference to get an idea, whether to go or not, what to do. ”

After arguing for a long time, the meeting finally pushed the matter to the Military Commission, and the Military Commission itself decided.

The last question of the conference was about the arrangement of Descartes. Xu Lang, Xia Yang, Qin Zhigang and others jointly submitted a motion to the conference, recommending the appointment of Descartes as the vice president of Wanzhou Academy and the deputy director of the Military Research Institute.

Descartes has now decided to live in Yulin Bay, and these days Xia Yang and Qin Zhigang and others have discussed with him a lot of mathematical and physical problems, especially about the wave-particle duality of light, because this is what Descartes lacks. Fan Qiuming, who rushed back from Datong, even had a long talk with Descartes all night, and Descartes was deeply shocked by the knowledge of Xia Yang, and he felt more and more that the Ming Dynasty was the real temple of science. It's just that Zheng Jiang is tired these days, and his poor French can't translate those professional mathematical and physical terms, but fortunately, Zheng Jiang brought a French-Chinese dictionary with him at the beginning, and he barely expressed the meaning of both sides.

This bill, like Song Yingxing at the beginning, was quickly passed.

After the crossing conference was over, Tan Jing and Han Wantao returned home together.

"Lili." Han Wantao picked up his daughter and kept teasing.

"Daddy, Daddy." Han Li, who is almost four years old, hasn't seen her father for a long time.

"Wan Tao, what should I do next?" Tan Jing sat down a little melancholy, "According to the resolution of the conference, my next step is to negotiate with Wang Kezong about renting land in Qiongzhou Mansion, but you say that I am a woman, go and talk to Wang Kezong about these things, can he ignore me?" ”

"Then who made you the chairman of the committee, and who will go if you don't go?" Han Wantao put down his daughter and smiled, "Don't worry, I've already thought about it for you." ”

"Really?" Tan Jing asked, "What are your good ideas?" ”

"It's really inappropriate for you to talk to Wang Kezong as a woman." Han Wantao said, "Now the crude oil of Gu Yunkun has not been shipped back, and Xia Yang is fine. Pham Thu Minh is still the head of his international liaison office, and he has not returned to Datong now. Wouldn't it be okay to grab these 2 people in your hands first, and let them go to Qiongzhou with you to find Wang Kezong? ”

"But can they be willing, I see that their minds are now on Descartes."

"No problem, even if the two of them still want to find Descartes, that person Zheng Jiang has to rest." Han Wantao said with a smile, "You don't have to worry, I'll ask them out, and then call Xu Lang and Jiang Beiming, and let's sum it up together." ”

In the private room of Yulin Bay Hotel, Han Wantao and Tan Jing were the hosts, and Xia Yang, Jiang Beiming and others were all invited over.

"Ladies and gentlemen." Han Wantao raised his wine glass, "My daughter-in-law is really chasing ducks to the shelves when she becomes the chairman of the committee this time, so we invite you here today because there are some things I still want to discuss with you, and we all give ideas and help." ”

"Sister Tan's business is our business through the group, that is, our own business." Everyone raised their glasses, "Wan Tao, don't worry, we will definitely help Sister Tan." ”

"Sister, thank you." Tan Jing raised her glass and toasted.

"Sister Tan has a good amount of alcohol." This is the first time Xu Lang has drunk with Tan Jing, "I'll give Sister Tan another drink." ”

Han Wantao took the cup in front of Tan Jing: "I'll drink it for her, don't get my daughter-in-law drunk, you have to get down to business." ”

"Sister Tan, Wan Tao." Xia Yang got down to business, "Go and rent land with Wang Kezong, this is the collective decision of our last committee. There are too few places we can control now, and population and resources are still a big problem. The army of Dongying Operation has never been full, and Beiming has to take hundreds of people to Beijing this time, and I am afraid that it will not work if he does not get some leased land. ”

"I know that, too." Tan Jing asked, "I want to ask, how did you talk to Wang Kezong when you went to Qiongzhou Mansion." I don't know much about these things that Lu Lao and you did before, and I don't know much about it, and I'm a woman, can Wang Kezong see me? ”

"Sister Tan, you don't need to look for Wang Kezong directly." Xu Lang said, "If you want to find Chen Mincheng for this kind of thing, he can make a decision, and Wang Kezong will not come out." ”

"But if you look for Chen Mincheng, he may not be able to see me." Tan Jing still has some doubts.

"That's easy to do." Xu Lang's thoughts are the same as Han Wantao's, "Just let Lao Xia and Qiuming go with you, a former chairman and a liaison director are all professional counterparts." ”

"Sister Tan, it's no problem for us to go with you, anyway, Lao Fan hasn't gone back now." Xia Yang said, "But how do you tell Chen Mincheng after you go, I'm afraid we really have to discuss it." ”

"What else can I say." Han Wantao asked, "Just say no to the same as when you rented Yulin Bay?" ”

"I'm afraid it won't work." Xu Lang replied, "We already lived in Yulin Bay at the beginning, which was a fait accompli, Chen Mincheng knew that he couldn't get rid of us, and there was still silver, so he agreed." But now our forces have not touched other places in Qiongzhou Mansion, if he rashly talks to Chen Mincheng about renting land, he will have other ideas. ”

"Xu Lang is right." Fan Qiuming added, "If we still follow the original model, we will have to pay local taxes in addition to paying land rental fees, which we will definitely not be able to do now." ”

"That's what you say." Han Wantao shook his head, "What should I do then?" ”