301 Spending money is like running water
Dayuan Island is now bustling and prosperous.
Supplies from all over the world were loaded and unloaded on Dayuan Island, and since Hongmen showed his hideous minions, the Ming Dynasty began to completely block their coastline.
If you don't blockade it, it won't work, the Hongtang fleet on the sea comes and goes wantonly, as long as you find the remnants of the Ming Dynasty sailor fleet, or sympathize with the elements of the Ming Dynasty's sailors, you will directly rush up and simply cut them down neatly.
After the fall of Qiongzhou, the Ming Dynasty organized a final counterattack on the Leizhou Peninsula, trying to take advantage of the narrow coastline between the Leizhou Peninsula and Qiongzhou Island to transport a group of tens of thousands of southwestern tribal troops to help the Ming army regain the lost territory.
The indigenous armies of Muwangfu in Yunnan and Wolf Soldiers in Guangxi were still loyal to the Ming Dynasty when the Ming Dynasty was in such a weak situation as it is now, and were willing to send troops to fight back.
However, the Ming Dynasty Navy Army itself is not angry, and the local armed forces such as Mu Wangfu and Guangxi Wolf Soldiers may have amazing combat effectiveness on land, but when facing a group of Hongtang Navy fleets that exist like giant whales on the sea, although the narrowest part of the Qiongzhou Strait is only dozens of miles, it is like a moat, separated between the Ming Dynasty and Hongmen.
In the end, the alliance of ethnic minority tribes and the 60,000 troops organized by the two Guangwei requisitioned and dispatched only fifteen or sixteen miles to the sea, almost one-third of them became the souls of the dead under the sea, giving a feast to the many sea creatures in it.
Since then, the Ming Dynasty has never thought about the idea of organizing a fleet of sailors to directly attack the headquarters of Hongmen from the sea.
Even in order to prevent the ubiquitous and free sea attack of the Hongtang Navy fleet, the Ming Dynasty army picked up the defensive tactics that they had lost for a long time to deal with the Japanese invaders.
Since Hongmen has decided to make a move on Da Ming, naturally he won't? The Ming Dynasty had more opportunities, for the Ming Dynasty regime that shifted its center of gravity to the south and began to enjoy the dividends of the Age of Discovery, at the beginning of the war between the two sides, Li Tianyang had already issued a blockade to the soldiers under his command to block the channels of trade with the Ming Dynasty, so that the official trade of the Ming Dynasty was suspended.
With the backing of a strong sailor, the moment Li Tianyang's order was issued from the north, it already meant that ports like Quanzhou Yuegang and Guangzhou had lost the objects of trade.
In the East of this era, no person or force could turn a blind eye to the orders issued by Hongmen.
When Hongmen's order reached the ears of all parties through channels such as Qixintang and Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, it was not only for the interests of their firms, but also for the sake of their relationship with Hongmen and other factors, everyone also temporarily stopped cooperating with the Ming Dynasty.
Anyway, although Hongmen cut off trade with the Ming Dynasty, this does not mean that Hongmen has no way to smuggle all kinds of specialties of the Ming Dynasty from the Ming Dynasty's seaside defense line.
As long as the various forces transport the goods to the huge and prosperous port of Keelung County on Dayuan Island, they can also collect the goods they want, although the value of these goods is a few points more expensive than before the war between Hong and Ming, but in the face of the rich benefits of ocean trade, these cost fluctuations are not enough to make everyone's heart ache.
"Door master, the fifty tons of gunpowder, one thousand tons of grain, and five thousand muskets ...... shipped to Tianjin Wei this time have all been loaded onto the cargo ship, and they can be sent to the north just waiting for you to sign and speak."
In Li Tianyang's office, the workload is actually much less than before, as the staff of the middle and grassroots government departments gradually become familiar with their own work, and the government departments have been improving their working methods, etc., so that the documents that were previously placed on Li Tianyang's desk are gradually being replaced by various departments? shared the burden.
In addition to those important and influential things, which need to be reported to Li Tianyang and wait for his approval, even if Li Tianyang is in charge of the Keelung County Government, most of the work does not need to be solved by Li Tianyang, the mastermind, and it will be solved at the middle and bottom levels. Get.
"Where's the supplies we have in stock?"
Li Tianyang nodded, motioned to put this document on the table, and waited for him to look at it before signing his name and sending it down.
"Thirty percent of the saltpeter raw materials in the warehouse have been used, and the sulfur is not much lacking because we have mineral deposits, but we can make up for it as we use."
Miao Yuanzheng of the secretariat was clear about most of the trivial matters in Hongmen, which was their job as a secretary, and when Li Tianyang inquired, he reported the accurate figures.
"It was the previous Qiongzhou Shilu Mine, which was affected by the war and was suspended for almost two months, and before we launched the war to capture Qiongzhou, the Shilu Mine was the primary target of the Ming Court Government, and the losses were imminent, and it has not fully recovered."
"After this batch of firearms is delivered, we want to manufacture another number of weapons, I am afraid that it will be delayed for at least a month because of the quantity of steel."
Miao Yuanzheng replied to Li Tianyang with a somewhat worried look on his face.
Dr. Zhang Yao, who understood the cause and effect, had no other expressions and actions except for sympathy for Chen Yu.
The matter is so big, it is no longer something that she Zhang Yao can do independently, although she is the main person in charge of this transformation plan.
The colleague who violated the regulations and had injected the virus reagent without authorization is now used as a guinea pig to observe the symptoms of the virus reagent on the human body.
This is also the best consequence that Chen Yu had thought about before injecting the drug, if there is really that possibility, the virus reagent has achieved the purpose of their research and development, not only will the ALS disease that he has been afraid of be far away from his life, but at the same time, he may not really be secretly detained because of this, and become a prisoner without freedom.
You must know that the knowledge that you have been studying hard all these years is more than 99% of the human beings in this world, and I believe that those people above will not let their talents go to waste.
"Well, there's still a little time to eat, I'm a little hungry."
On the ninth day after being imprisoned, Chen Yu was not subjected to any abuse, except that he was treated as a guinea pig and put on various instruments to prevent him from getting out of this fully enclosed cage.
Even for some of his reasonable requests, the experimenters outside the cage were very cooperative and met him in a timely manner.
"Okay, wait a minute!"
Since Dr. Chen Yu was imprisoned, Yang Xu has gradually begun to take on more affairs in the laboratory, but now he is mainly responsible for taking care of Dr. Chen Yu, who takes care of the confined space.
And in the laboratory, which is only a wall away, dozens of monitors are displaying real-time images, and the owner of the images is the imprisoned Chen Yu.
"The target metabolic rate has been further improved, which is 5.01% higher than when the observation device was first brought and 5.01% higher than that at the same time yesterday."
"The target body temperature rose to 38.3 degrees Celsius, an increase of 0.2 degrees Celsius from the same period yesterday."
“……”
In the monitoring room, all kinds of data were recorded in real time, and finally summarized and handed over to Dr. Zhang Tao, the top person in charge of the laboratory.
At this time, Dr. Zhang Yao's face was not very good, because she still had several other experimental reports in her hand, and the fifteen experimental mice that matched Chen Yu's injection, the last survivor suddenly showed acute symptoms such as convulsions, rapid heartbeat, and hyperthermia at 8:14 this morning, accompanied by mania and increased aggression, and showed signs of brain death after thirteen minutes, and finally caused a dominolo reaction to declare death, which was almost exactly the same as the symptoms that occurred when the other nineteen mice finally died.
From the injection of reagents to the final death, the death time of this batch of mice all occurred in 70~73 days after the injection.
Holding this report, Zhang Yao also looked at Chen Yu's figure on the monitor with pity, and she didn't know whether to tell him this report at this time, or continue to hide it, so that she could keep her last bit of hope.
However, scientific experiments are like this, the difference is a thousand miles, Chen Yu, who was desperate to inject the reagent, saw the effect of the experimental mice, and did not wait for the final verification of the experimental results, rushed to self-injection, and the result was very likely to be his own life, which is not unavoidable to be an irony.
Now under the monitoring of various instruments, the subtle changes in Chen Yu's body, although they are different from the changes on the mice, can be profoundly consistent in the general direction of development.
"Huh?"
Just after reading the report on the experimental mice, when he turned to the next report, Zhang Yao's brows furrowed suddenly.
"Traces of the CII. virus were found on the rats five miles away from Chen Yu's residence, and it is very likely that the members of the security department rushed into Chen Yu's residence to arrest him, causing the virus to leak!"
"The scope of tracking of the CII. virus is now being expanded, but based on the current data, the situation is not optimistic, and it should be reported to the higher authorities immediately!"
The content of this report made Zhang Yao's pity for Chen Yu that had just risen in his heart suddenly turn into nothing, and even when he looked at Chen Yu at this time, there was a little more anger and grief in his eyes.
Experiments like theirs should have been in a confined space until they were completely finalized, and every step required extra care.
In the past few days, every time they have experimented and every time they may have been exposed to the experimental virus, they need to go through thorough anti-virus before they can return to their normal living quarters. However, in the end, because of Chen Yu's selfishness, it is very likely to cause very serious damage to the entire society, just like the technological riot twenty years ago, how not to make the wise Zhang Yao feel disgusted with it.
"Pangu, has the 018913 report been reported?"
Turning on the communicator, Zhang Yao shook off the emotional emotions in her mind and tracked the situation reported to the staff outside the laboratory.
"Yes, Dr. Zhang Yao, the report has been uploaded to President Feng Sihai of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and President Feng Sihai submitted the report to the Ministry of National Defense and the National Security Bureau at the same time after assessing the possible consequences of the report."
Pangu replied in a magnetic voice without the slightest change in emotion.
"Are there any other contingencies outside the lab?"
Zhang Yao continued to ask.
"I'm sorry, but you don't have enough authority to get the emergency response issued after the report is escalated."
“……”
Zhang Yao's expression froze, as the highest-ranking researcher of the Institute of Biology, her authority was even higher than that of the director of the Institute in some aspects, if even she could not obtain information about the outside world, then the consequences of this matter must be very serious.
"Beep!"
The video communication suddenly rang out, and Zhang Yao connected the communication smoothly.
"Dr. Zhang Yao, is it convenient now?"
What caught Zhang Yao's eyes was the slightly vicissitudes of the old face of Feng Sihai, the president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, at this time, he did not have the usual kind smile on his face, but stared at Zhang Yao who was a little sloppy in front of the screen with a heavy face.
"Convenient."
Zhang Yao nodded in acknowledgment.
018913"After obtaining this report, the Ministry of Health and the National Security Bureau finally decided to ask me to make a request to you: carry out all material resources, promote human experiments and experimental analysis of reagent No. 10654, and obtain a detailed report on the impact of the virus on the human body as soon as possible!"
"Is it really that bad?"
Although he is a rational scientist, thinking about the most likely scenario, Dr. Zhang Yao couldn't help but ask a question that should not have been asked with a little expectation.
"Dr. Zhang Yao, as the developer of the reagent, you should be very aware of the possible impact of the reagent leakage, don't have any luck, what we can do now is to dig out the various transformations of the reagent as quickly as possible, and at the same time study the right solution!"
Dean Feng Sihai's words broke the illusion in Dr. Zhang Yao's heart.
"By the way, from now on, your institute will implement the strictest security measures, and unless a solution is developed, or an order is issued from above, the biological institute will be under full martial law."
"Work hard, Xiao Zhang, it's up to you!"
"End of call."
Under the subtle noise of the dual-electrode thruster like a buzzer, Wuzhi 30 was like a ghost in the night sky, dragging its slender blue ionic wind tail and moving quickly in the direction of the Northwest Institute of Biology in Xinjing City.
In the cabin, together with Zhang Song, the nine members of the Falcon Commando Team are all closing their eyes at this time, except for the guy Maoyan, as a sniper who should be the most calm, he is the most lively in the team, and the most idle guy on weekdays, even at this time, he does not forget to look around, sometimes picking up the game console in his hand to play two, and sometimes overlooking the entire night sky through the fuselage glass.
"Five kilometers from the target, you still have three minutes to prepare!"
In the cab, the driver reminded them in time and pulled Zhang Song back from closing his eyes and recuperating.
"Dress up!!"
"Prepare for a plunge!!"
The well-trained team members quickly completed all the preparations for putting on protective suits and equipping them with weapons, and as the three cables hung down, the nine team members glided down the open hatch and landed smoothly on the open grass.