The "East Coast Eagle" anchored near the coast on the orders of the company.

Lu Ming walked down from the bridge, patted Yu Lian on the shoulder, and encouraged with a smile: "Good job, my captain!" ”

Yu Lian smiled, looked at the students of the navigation school who were busy putting down the traffic boat, and said, "To be honest, I kind of enjoy my life now. These kids are working hard, and if they keep working like this, they will become great naval officers sooner or later. I know that you have always groomed them to the standards of officers. ”

"Of course, they're all my kids, and I've always been proud of them." Lu Ming hugged a student who was arranging the cable next to him, touched his head and said, "Jiwen, I will take an exam for you in a while, if you make a mistake in the question again, I will punish you to sawing wood for a week." ”

"Hey, hey." The kid named Jiwen was not afraid of him at all, and after struggling out of his arms, he smiled and said, "Mr. Headmaster, Yuri has always done the wrong question, and I haven't seen him sawing wood for a day. ”

Lu Ming, who was exposed, was not embarrassed at all, Ha Lu Ha Da Yan laughed and wanted to kick Ji Wen, and then walked along the deck with Yu Lian and chatted.

"Yu Lian, haven't you thought about taking your family over? You see John Ston and they've all brought their families from England or the Netherlands, so why don't you bother? We appreciate your character and knowledge, and the kids love you, and you love them, don't you? Why can't we live and struggle together? We may have been enemies before, but not anymore, and you know our attitude very well. Don't you have faith in our cause? Lu Ming looked at the seabirds flying freely on the sea and asked Yu Lian.

"No, it's not like that." Julien sighed, "I don't have any relatives in Franche-Comté anymore, only one uncle left. In fact, I have some unavoidable reasons that I hope you can understand......"

"Hehe, well, you have the right to keep your privacy." Lu Ming smiled generously, and then said, "Let's go, go and see how the children's first landing went." ”

Two small boats had been lowered from their sideboards, floating aboard the sea. Eight students from the Navigation School plus 24 gunners who had turned into Marines climbed down the rope ladder.

The first to arrive raised a small square sail, and when everyone had boarded the boat, the sailors of the "East Shore Eagle" untied the cable holding the boat, and the crew of the boat began to paddle hard, and with the help of the northeast wind, the two boats headed towards the shore at a fast speed.

This is the sea off the mouth of Lake Patus. After entering Lake Patus through a narrow channel at the mouth of the lake that connects it to the Atlantic Ocean, the crews of the two small boats will land on a peninsula on the south side of the lake (later the city of Rio Grande) to collect information on rocks and flora and fauna. This can be regarded as a free ride for the navy by the industrial and agricultural departments, and the navy will take a rough survey of the environment here in advance to reserve information for possible large-scale landing development in the future.

Lu Ming held the telescope and looked from afar, only to see that the crew of the small boat was measuring the water depth and current speed near the waterway of the mouth of the lake at this time, which was a very important step, because it was related to whether the big ship could directly drive into Lake Patus in the future. According to information provided by Gaumo, the coal mines in this area were supposed to be located near Port Alegre on the north shore of Lake Patus. That is to say, if you want to develop this coal reserve, you must go deep into the innermost part of Lake Patus, and from the perspective of transportation, you must ensure that Lake Patus can pass large transport ships, otherwise it is meaningless to dig out the coal and transport it.

Lu Ming and Yu Lian watched for a while before leaving and moving to the sailors' lounge on the bow floor, which was filled with the remaining students of the navigation school. Each of them had a small wooden board in front of them, a charcoal pen in their hands, and were quietly waiting for Lu Ming's arrival.

Lu Ming took off the captain's hat that he had been wearing on his head, then smiled at the students and said, "Hmm, now let's start recording the test questions." The Eagle of the East Coast set sail from São Vicente at a speed of 8 knots, sailed along the coasts of Brazil and La Plata, drifted east to South Africa on the west wind at the Strait of Magellan, and then north along the west coast of South Africa. You should draw your own charts and routes, please note that the specific routes and time spent on each individual voyage should also be listed separately, and you can refer to what you have learned in class. I'll give you half an hour, start the timer now, get started, kids! ”

Lu Ming and Yu Lian paced back and forth in the sailors' lounge, watching the children's problem-solving process from time to time. In addition to nautical knowledge, these students also learn mathematics, geography and basic physics, and they are taught by a group of middle school teachers who have traveled through the congregation, and even the textbooks are written by themselves. In this age when knowledge is wealth, these children are in some respects quite knowledgeable compared to the naval officers of Europe.

"Yuri! Don't peek at other people's problem-solving process! Lu Ming slowly walked behind a half-grown child with blonde hair and grabbed the child's ear.

Yuri was so frightened that his charcoal fell to the floor, and a chuckle rang out in the room.

These children have only been studying for a year, and their previous foundation is very poor, many of them have no contact with mathematics at all, and their logical thinking skills are not good. Lu Ming spent a lot of effort to teach them, and he treated these children equally, and spent almost all of his time on them. Sometimes, in order to figure out a problem that he is not good at, Lu Ming often takes the initiative to ask teachers to teach children who do not understand.

Rao is so, although the level of these children has grown rapidly over the past year, the knowledge they have mastered is still somewhat insufficient, and specific to a certain individual, the difference has always existed, after all, everyone has different talents.

"It's time!" Lu Ming pinched his watch and said, after each child stopped writing, he and Yu Lian went down to put everyone's small board up, and there was their solution process to the question.

"Yuri. Oh, my God! I told you to go to Luanda, where did you go? Santiago? You went to the Pacific Ocean?! Lu Ming shouted exaggeratedly with a small board, causing everyone to laugh.

"Kyle, you are truly the most intrepid explorer among us, you actually reached Lorenzo-Marques, did I let you go around the Cape of Good Hope?"

"Oliver, you're a little worse than Kyle, but you've managed to discover the Gold Coast."

"Johnson, you're on the wrong course. By your present course, you may still be floating at sea when you run out of provisions. ”

"Nick, you're scarier than Johnson, did you manage to get around Tierra del Fuego and want to be with penguins for the rest of your life?"

"Only...... Jiwen, only Jiwen has the right answer! Lu Ming put down the last small board, rubbed his forehead, and said, "It's a pity, only Jiwen answered correctly." The monthly assessment bonus of 10 yuan will be enjoyed by Jiwen alone, of course, you can let him have a treat. ”

Ignoring the children's ensuing fights, Lu Ming and Yu Lian returned to the bridge. At this time, Wang Qinian, member of the Navy Commission, was discussing with some artillery officers who had crossed through the group to apply to the Executive Committee for an increase in the establishment of the Navy; after all, the "Eagle on the East Coast" was about to officially enter service after returning from sea trials, and its personnel had not yet been settled.

Lu Ming is actually not worried about whether the executive committee will approve Wang Qinian's request, is this not clear, the ship has already been built, and she can still be left empty. The "East Coast Eagle" has a crew of 30 people, some gunners and a small number of marines, and most of the positions in it have long been targeted by a large group of people, many of whom have even gone to Wang Qinian to carry out activities before the ship is launched.

To be honest, Lu Ming, the acting captain of this ship, doesn't want to be at all. After the sea trials of this ship, his agency mission will be over, and he has no idea of competing for any position with others, he just wants to hurry back to school and stay with the children. The 33rd class of 90 students who had been enrolled two months earlier in the Navigation School was about to enroll, and a bunch of things were waiting for him in the school, and he had to make it all proper so that it could not affect the students' studies. As for Captain Shenma's Commander Shenma, I'll leave it to others.

In the afternoon, the two boats finished their mission, rowed out of Lake Patus, and then boarded the "East Shore Eagle" one by one with the help of the sailors on board.

With the help of a group of veteran sailors, eight students from the 32nd class of the Navigation School not only recorded the hydrological information of the waterway of the lake mouth and the southern part of the lake, but also logged in to collect some rock and plant specimens and draw a simple map. No Indians were encountered during the whole process, and no signs of human activity were found at the landing site. When they returned, the last mission of the East Coast Eagle was completed.

Three days later, the "East Coast Eagle" returned to the port of Tatantan, and the sea trials were a complete success.

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