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"Executive Committee Member Du," with a gentle knock at the door, a female naturalized civilian clerk gently knocked on the door of the temporary office of the Executive Committee. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Du Yande looked up, the woman was wearing a bright red short-sleeved dress, of course, this short sleeve is to be compared with the woman in this time and space, if it is counted in the old time and space, this is at most called medium and long sleeves, and the hem of this skirt is at most a third of the calf. This way of wearing is already very fashionable in Dongfang Port, and more female naturalized people now require skirts that do not exceed the calf, and the tops are long-sleeved, and I don't know how they can stand it in this hot summer. "This is a telegram that just came from the communications center, from the northbound detachment." As he spoke, the clerk walked over and handed over the folder with both hands.

"Hmm," Du Yande took the folder, but was a little embarrassed to find that there was no place on the desktop to put any more files. Now his desk is full of all kinds of things, from small pencil sharpeners to large laptops, the cables on the table are pulled everywhere, and half of the place where the mobile phone is lost in the corner of the table is about to fall out, he quickly reached out and grabbed the mobile phone again. During this period of time, many veterans have caused the screen to be damaged due to the drop of mobile phones due to work or other reasons, and the spare parts brought by the IT department have all been sold out.

With the ravages of the last typhoon, the Oriental Port Executive Committee Building, which was built with steel structure prefabricated houses, has become unusable, and now it has begun to enter the typhoon season, and working in the old Executive Committee Building will inevitably face great insecurity, so according to the discussion, the various departments in the Executive Committee Building have now been relocated to the mountainside area of Bunker Mountain. Originally, it was an area belonging to the military department, but since the military department did not have enough personnel to run this large fortress hill, an office area was temporarily lent to the Executive Committee and the various departments that were previously located in the Executive Committee building.

At the time of the relocation, more than 40 vehicles were transported, and it took three days to complete the transportation, and it took almost 10 days to officially put into operation the power supply and communication issues. Although there are still problems of one kind or another, with the official entry of the "communication center" managed by the IT department into Bunker Hill, it means that Bunker Hill has become the real center of the Oriental Port.

Du Yande opened the folder, and inside was an A4-sized piece of paper. Probably the blade of the paper cutting is a little blunt, so the edge of the paper is a little untidy, such a product is definitely not suitable for export, so such unqualified products are directly purchased by the office department of the Senate to use, the first is of course cheap, the second is also a waste utilization, after all, it is too wasteful to re-pulp the paper that has never been used.

On the paper are crooked "simplified characters", and you don't have to think that they must have been translated by a naturalized civil translator. Although the literacy rate among them is more than 500 words, and they can read and write, they still have not exercised much when they write, so their writing is really crooked like a ghost drawing. However, Du Yande was embarrassed to laugh at them, and his own words were actually not much better.

After some identification, he read the telegram, the northbound detachment had already set off from Beihai to Mingzhou a few days ago, and its current location was fifty kilometers away from Nanning. The convoy is in normal condition and well stocked. The composition of the personnel is all the personnel of the northbound detachment, plus ten Jinyi guards and the personal soldiers of the General's Mansion, in addition to a general who personally leads the team. This escort team of twenty people is actually better than nothing, which makes Liu Chuanzhi and Cen Min's people have a feeling of "focusing on participation", in fact, if there is a fight, they will definitely not be able to count on them.

The food for this convoy was provided by them themselves, but the Senate provided them with 500 yuan for accommodation and meals on the road. The convoy was composed of all the soldiers on horseback, three on horseback, and the rest on six carts, which were mainly transported grain and some spare parts that were not important when they went north, in addition to the people, were drawn by mules and horses. Although the trucks were driven by engines, the reconnaissance vehicles were still driven by manpower, so the speed of the convoy of the northbound detachment was always maintained in the range of 12 to 15 kilometers per hour. After joining this group of escorts, due to the difference in horses, the speed of the convoy was seriously disjointed, so the convoy had to slow down to adapt to these horses, so the speed of travel could only be maintained at seven to eight kilometers per hour for several days, and at the end of the day, it could advance eighty kilometers.

Along the way, Liu Yeqiang complained a lot about the road situation in telegrams, and they even bought a few hoes and poles in the second village they passed by shortly after leaving Beihai City, and the roads were often rutted forty or fifty centimeters deep. The lightweight reconnaissance vehicles in their vehicles are okay and can maintain a speed of eight kilometers per hour and go straight through, but the heavier trucks cannot rush directly and are often stuck in ruts and unable to advance or retreat, and have to be pulled out by people. In the end, the reconnaissance vehicles in front were all carrying hoes and shovels, and they were three to four kilometers ahead of the convoy. While reconnoitering the road conditions, they will also use the hoe and shovel carried by the car to fill in the rotten places on the road surface, so as to reduce the difficulty of driving for the convoy behind.

This is not what the reconnaissance vehicle should have done, and with the damage to the official road, it is difficult to carry out work such as filling the soil, especially in the case of repairing the road while reconnoitring, the driving speed of the reconnaissance vehicle is very slow, and it has even been directly caught up by the convoy behind it several times. This situation is certainly not suitable -- if the road is built, then there is no point in the reconnaissance vehicle going out to reconnoitre, and now the three elders of the northbound detachment are discussing this problem at great length, but they have not been able to find a solution to it.

Du Yande smiled helplessly, good guy, I knew that the road situation was so bad, it was better to transfer a road repair team to follow all the way north. But when you think about it, it is even more impossible, and the efficiency of road repair is unlikely to be higher if the number of people in the road repair team is small, but if there are more people, it is even more troublesome to provide their food and accommodation. He couldn't help but rub his temples, such a tricky matter should be left to the northbound detachment to solve by itself. It is said that the general will not be affected by the life of the monarch outside, even if there is an idea here, it is troublesome not to say that it is sent in the past, and it is often necessary to deviate from the actual situation, but it may make a fuss.

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The Oriental Port Dock Tavern, located in the center of the docklands, is a three-storey brick and wood building. With a soft "squeak", several Medeno sailors in short clothes pushed open the wooden door of the tavern, but the sound of the door did not attract the attention of the insiders in the slightest.

Now this 600-square-meter hall is full of people, many sailors are sitting at their tables drinking and having fun, these wooden tables and chairs are made by the lumber mill according to the style of outdoor picnic tables and chairs in the old world, easy to use, there are quite a lot of people to sit, but also because it is made of solid wood, strong and durable, can also be directly combined by several rectangular tables as a large dining table, very popular with the maritime merchants and sailors who come to drink.

The wine in the tavern is also the "Oriental Port Rum" brewed in Oriental Port, these wines are not made in the same way as the Old World South American rum, they are made of pineapples - in order to obtain more purchase permits, the merchants of Medeno basically purchase according to the purchase list given by the Ministry of Commerce and Trade of the Oriental Port, but until now, the Ministry of Commerce and Trade has not been able to find rubber, pineapples, tomatoes and other products originating in the Americas, and when discussing the Americas with the maritime merchants of Meednor, They all talked about him one by one, and they didn't want to talk about it.

Fortunately, the various seeds purchased by the agricultural sector before the crossing can be counted in tons, and pineapples are among them. Pineapples are plants that prefer a warm environment, and their growth peaks when the surface temperature can be maintained at 29-31 degrees Celsius, and stops growing when it rises above 43 degrees Celsius. These little ones are now happily growing on dozens of acres of farm land, having harvested once not long ago. In addition to providing the elders with food and making canned pineapples in sugar water, there was still a large amount of pineapples that could not be consumed, so they were sent to the brewing department of the food factory to make wine. Pineapples, like sugar cane, are rich in sugar, and the resulting liquor is delicious, almost indistinguishable from old-world rum. In addition to pineapples, the brewery also adds lychees to the sake brewing materials, and there are quite a few lychee trees in the middle of the trees near Port Orient, and the lychees begin to ripen around May, and in addition to being used for canning, a large number of lychees are also used to make sake and increase the taste of the sake.

The Medeno sailors walked to the bar and looked around the hall to see that there were no more seats, so one of them, who looked like the leader, asked in non-standard official dialect, "Is there still a place to sit?" ”

"There's a box up there." The bar attendant gestured towards the second floor, "No. 201 has just been vacated. ”

The sailors looked up in the direction of his fingers, and a waiter came out with a broom and a dustpan, and in his pocket there seemed to be a number of bottles - bottles needed to be recycled to reduce the winery's expenses.

"We want it, how much?" The leader nodded and asked, and the bar attendant took the No. 201 bamboo plate from the room number plate on the wall and held it in his hand, "Five pieces of money, and drinks are counted separately." ”

The leader took out five silver coins from his pocket and slapped them on the bar, "I want it," he said to the people next to him, "I'll go sit down for a while, and you can order your own drink." ”

"Old Rocky is so generous!" "It's not the same when you're paid!" "Thanks! Ten bottles of Oriental Port Rum! The gossiping sailors quickly filled the bar. The leader, known as Old Rocky, looked left and right, and found nothing unusual, and gestured in the direction of the door.

A man in a dirty red burqa stood up unobtrusively and paced slowly up the stairs, and old Rocky followed in his footsteps, never daring to overtake the man. Coming to the door of room 201, Old Rocky took a step forward and showed the bamboo sign to the waiter at the door, who nodded and opened the door, and left. In front of the bar downstairs, the bar waiter put one glass bottle after another on the bar, and another handed out a wooden cup. The sailors opened their bottles one after another, laughing, and began to drink, one by one, with smiles on their faces.

"Old Rocky, no one is following us, is there?" The man in the red burqa walked into the room and asked Old Lodge quietly. The latter quietly pushed the door open a crack and looked out, "No, my lord." ”

"Well," the man took off his red burqa, laid it on the table, and sat down on the stool in front of it. Old Rocky hurriedly opened the cabinet on the side, took out two glass wine glasses from it and placed them, the reason why the box costs a five-piece usage fee is mainly because there are all the things needed in it, and the best products are used, the glass wine glass is a luxury even in Oriental Port, but as long as it is not broken in the box, the user can use it casually. Just as he was about to get the wine, he heard the man say, "No, try not to drink, drinking too much will affect the mind, I need to concentrate now." ”

As he spoke, he snapped his fingers with his right hand, and then poked his left index finger at the glass, and the tip of his index finger actually produced a blue light, and then a white mist was produced in the outer circle of the light. Immediately after that, the inner layer of the glass was covered with a layer of white mist, and then the white mist on the inside of the glass condensed into small water droplets, which gathered into a small half cup of water after a while. The man took the cup and handed it to old Rocky, and then he did it again on another cup, and got a small half cup of water.

"It's really an imperial mage," said old Rocky, shaking the cup and looking at the small half glass of water inside, "The spell that creates water out of thin air is really exquisite!" ”

"What is this?" The mage smiled a little self-deprecatingly, "Compared with this group of Chinese in Dongfang Port, this spell is useless at all, the clean fresh water we drank on the ship is filtered out of the seawater filter they made, that is a few tons of water, say filter is filtered, if I make water, I can't make it for decades." Not to mention the glass right now. As he spoke, the mage shook the glass in his hand, "It's so clear, so clean, it's amazing, if we can use such a vessel in our alchemy, it can reduce a lot of trouble." ”

"I heard that this can be ordered directly from the Oriental Port, as if I saw glass instruments in their export product catalog when I followed the shipowner to the Ministry of Commerce and Trade of the Chinese last time, and it really has all the same equipment as alchemy." Old Rocky said hurriedly.

His words caught the mage's attention, "Are you saying that the Chinese also know alchemy?" Old Rocky nodded, "I think so too, if they don't know, how can they make so many unbelievable things?" ”

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