In the early morning of July 15, it rained lightly. The privateer fleet, which had been anchored in Bordeaux for eight days, was finally ready to set sail.

More than 900 immigrants boarded the five ships of the privateer's fleet, and it took them several hours to complete the boarding process. Follow-up immigration is still ongoing, and in September the Pasquier family's merchant ship Butterfly will head to the East Coast to load cargo, when they will carry a second group of migrants to Port Vostochny.

The officers and sailors of the privateer fleet rested in Bordeaux for a week, and were now in good spirits. It's been half a year since I came out, and I don't know how Lu Dao's family is, and the officers and men of the Navy can't wait to fly back now.

Xu Xin also rushed to the dock to see off the navy. Of course, there was one more person he saw off - Mo Ming, the head of the intelligence station, decided to return to the port of Orient with the ship once, personally ask the "bureaucrats" of the General Administration for money, people, and equipment, expand the strength of the Bordeaux station, and then strive to expand the merchant station (intelligence station) all the way to Toulouse, Albi, Montpellier, La Rochelle and Marseille, covering the entire south-western part of France. During the time he returned to China, the work of the intelligence station would be presided over by Inspector Sun Heiqi, but under Xu Xin's moderation until Mo Ming returned to Bordeaux again.

When everything was ready, the "East Coast Eagle" and "Red Trout" were the heads, followed by the "10 August", and the "Beagle" and the "Sea Writer" were behind, and five warships, laden with immigrants, booty and some cargo, split the waves and sailed towards the South Atlantic.

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In mid-October, the privateer fleet met the "Common Market," the second ship of the "10 August" class battleships that had gone to sea for sea trials and cruises, off the coast of Zhenhai Fort.

Due to the adequate preparation before the voyage: adequate preparation of food (especially fruits and vegetables), the relatively good physical condition of the migrants, many temporary anchors during the voyage and relatively spacious living space, the mortality rate of the migrants and the crew during the three-month sea voyage was greatly reduced, with less than ten crew members and about a few dozen migrants dying for various reasons, and the vast majority of them reached the east coast safely.

The new arrivals poured onto the decks, looking apprehensively at the city on the shores of the Ctesera. What a majestic city!

The French buns, accustomed to the cramped and cramped Bordeaux and the small towns in the countryside, couldn't help but open their mouths wide when they looked at the magnificent city in front of them, which had a circumference of more than four thousand meters, a height of more than six meters, and several sharp protruding walls. In particular, the many cannons placed on the city walls and salients made the hearts of these immigrants from the Old World feel a strong shock.

There are such magnificent cities in the New World! It seems that this is completely different from the primitive and wild Quebec that those merchants say!

Oh, God! How many horses and countless sheep and beef cattle were grazing in the grassland outside the city!

The rippling artificial reservoir is home to a large number of birds; The cute otter plays freely among the aquatic plants, and from time to time grabs a fat big fish and puts it in its mouth to chew and eat; On the shore of the reservoir, foxes stare at the waterfowl floating on the water...... The beautiful, rich scenery made the newcomers feel dizzy – a feeling of bliss.

The sturdy trestle and breakwater, the majestic shore defense battery, the striking lighthouse and the towering pulley boom all say that this is a modern and excellent port. The harbor is moored with many ships, some trading merchant ships, some warships, and some even fishing boats from La Plata and Brazil, all neatly moored in their own dedicated docks, and everything seems to be in good order.

The breakwater keeps the turbulent waters of the South Atlantic out of the embankment, and the swells inside the embankment are gentle and the water is clean. Unlike the port of Bordeaux, where there is a lot of garbage, rotten wood and even corpses floating on the water, there is no other unpleasant smell in the air except for the faint salty smell of seawater.

The port is also bustling. A large number of two- and three-story brick buildings have been erected on the edge of the dock yard, and according to the Chinese and Spanish signage hanging at the entrance of the building, most of these buildings are commercial facilities such as general retail stores, commercial hotels, pubs, restaurants, pawnshops, etc. Since the revelation of the Spanish spies, the crew members of the temporarily docked ships have been forbidden to enter the city walls, and they can only choose to operate around the docks, and the East Coast Republic of China is not uncommon to earn the little money in their pockets. As for the visits of foreign envoys or important business partners, the reception staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the East Bank Republic of China will arrange for them to live in the Dongfang Hotel in the city.

Overall, it's a nice, clean and tidy port. At least in the New World, there is no port that can match it in these respects.

The new bankrupt textile workers and their families were placed in a quarantine area under the health bureau outside the wharf for a 15-day quarantine period. During the quarantine period, they will be taught the rules and regulations of the East Coast, elementary military training, and language instruction.

As for the specially collected children, according to the plan of the Executive Committee and the Government Council, they will be sent to the Luoqia area in the south overnight. There, the Executive Committee established a new unit directly under the leadership of the Executive Committee, the Executive Committee Guards Corps. This particular unit – or rather, this particular unit – is made up entirely of children under the age of 12, and the average age may be less than 10 years old.

At present, the development focus of the East Coast Republic is one west and one north. "West" refers to the Changshanbao Iron Ore Project, which has just dredged a complete transportation channel; "North" refers to a series of factory constructions near Ping'an Fort at the northern end of Yahu Lake. Comparatively speaking, Luo Qia's side is basically a barren area.

In order to accommodate these children, the Executive Committee mobilized the already extremely tight manpower to build a simple port on the basis of the facilities left by the Spaniards to transport supplies. In addition, benefiting from the good habit of the people of the east coast to turn it into a fortress and fortress whenever they settled in an unfamiliar place, the Executive Committee also built a small fortress with a circumference of 700 meters, the Corps Fort.

The regimental fort was made of a mixture of masonry and concrete, with two gates, and 12 small and medium-caliber guns on the walls. The city walls are equipped with wells, toilets, canteens, bathhouses, warehouses, dormitories, schools, training grounds, weapons depots, etc., which are enough to accommodate five or six hundred people at the same time.

Immediately outside the city walls is a large area of land under reclamation. According to the plan, these lands will all be planted with long-staple island cotton, which is in line with the main theme of the development of the textile industry throughout the country, and secondly, through a certain intensity of labor to exercise the hard-working quality and spirit of unity and cooperation of these children. Each field is subdivided into each person's name, and the growth of cotton in the field at that time is also a major item for the instructors of the cadet corps.

The 73 boys and girls who arrived earlier had already been assigned to classes there for several months. In contrast to what is taught in compulsory primary education schools in general, more content is taught in corps schools. In addition to the traditional Chinese, mathematics, art, nature, ideology and politics, the school also imitates the old time-space university education model, and sets up public courses and professional courses.

Public courses include: "Fundamentals of Law", "Development of Military Techniques" (until the 30s of the 17th century), "Historical Commentary" (Chinese history during the Apocalypse), "Elementary Economics", "Elementary Psychology", "Elementary Sociology", "Elementary Management Arts", "Historical Evolution of Religion", "International Relations", "Industrial Competition and Development", "Foreign Chinese" (choose one foreign language such as Spanish, French, English and other foreign languages).

All students spend the first five years studying traditional and common courses, and after five years, the instructors of the cadet corps will be divided into classes according to each individual's talent and grades, and they will be exposed to specialized courses. The professional courses are mainly divided into humanities and social sciences, economics and management, natural sciences and military affairs, and the ratio of students in each category is fixed at 1:1:2:3.

For example, in the military category, they will be exposed to the "Military Staff System," "Artillery Techniques and Tactics," "Geotechnical and Barracks Techniques," and "Cavalry Tactics" compiled by the War Department, as well as the "Illustration of Signal Flags for Maritime Navigation," "Theory of Artillery Warfare on the Battle Line," "Ocean Currents and Routes," and "The Art of Fleet Command" compiled by the Navy Department.

The teaching materials of these courses are all compiled by the collective wisdom and painstaking efforts of the traversals, and they are definitely the core part of the competitiveness of the traversal. The Executive Committee has high expectations for the Cadet Corps, because it is not only a military organization, but also a cradle for cadre training. Crucially, these students are still very young and almost all of them are orphans, with no one to rely on in the local area. Obviously, the instructors and the executive committee with whom they spend their day and night will be the object of their closeness and allegiance.

The Cadet Corps will implement closed management and set up a strict work and rest system. Every Monday to Friday from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. for class time, Saturday all-day training, Sunday morning labor, afternoon rest for half a day, busy farming season work and rest system separately.

The Executive Committee intends to rely on the 10-year uninterrupted education to build the Corps into its own basic plate through ideological indoctrination, value guidance, and heuristic teaching. Ten years later, the members of the Cadet Corps began to enter the business, the government, and the military, and they would become the most powerful arm of the Executive Committee to rule the country and show its will.

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