Chapter 5: A Difficult Start

After the plenary meeting, with the establishment of the relevant working groups, everyone entered into the orderly work under the leadership of their respective team leaders, collecting stones and collecting wild fruits. In short, all the old people and children went out, and none of them were idle.

In addition to this, the current landing site is named, some say it is called Huaxia, some say it is called China, and some even say that it is called Xijing, because it is located in the west of Australia.

A name made the young crossing group of young men quarrel, if it weren't for Chen Jun and a security guard standing next to them, the two sides who were blushing and arguing would have staged a full martial arts.

In the end, the executive committee had no choice but to announce that the name of the base should be taken from the first word in the original name, that is, Man, and it would be called Manchester City Base in the future.

As for the arrangement of the people on the Ming Dynasty sailboat, Zhao Shijie made a temporary arrangement for them, those who can farm will go to open up wasteland and farm, and those who can't follow everyone to collect stones and dead branches, in short, they can't be idle. After arranging everyone, Zhao Shijie walked into the current office of the Executive Committee with a tired expression with a statistical table, and walked into the utility room of an island base with everyone who crossed together.

"It's really tiring to communicate with these people from the Ming Dynasty, the local dialects they speak are so mixed that they are almost becoming United Nations, and you have to use both words to find out what each of them will do in their profession. I think the popularization of Mandarin is very necessary, and in a few days, we must popularize Mandarin for these Ming people, otherwise it will be a big problem to communicate. ”

Looking at Zhao Shijie, who was tired and complaining, Zhou Aiguo smiled and comforted: "Take your time, everything will be fine." Let's talk about the statistics of the supplies on board and the supplies on the shore. ”

"The total number of supplies on the ship and on the shore has been counted, about five tons of instant noodles, two tons of rice, and a few other canned food. It adds up to enough for more than 1,000 of us to eat for three months. What is most lacking now is vegetables, because the Sea Blue cruise ship is a short voyage, so there are not many vegetables in stock. However, I have arranged for people to reclaim the wasteland and plant it, and the immigrants have some seeds of various vegetables on them. ”

"There are five buildings on the shore, with a total area of about 2,000 square meters, of which only the granary and the utility room are intact. Among them, there are more things in the utility room, and there are no statistics yet. Both the shipyard repair plant and the wind farm desalination plant have some degree of damage and need to be repaired. ”

"The good news is that one of our tourists on board happens to be an electrical engineer, and he and the electrical repairman on the Sea Blue checked the condition of the wind farm and said that it can be repaired, but the bearings in the main engine are somewhat damaged, and I believe it will not be long before we can use electric lights at our Manchester City base."

"Xiao Zhao, what is the most important problem we have at present, besides the lack of vegetables." Zhou Aiguo looked at Zhao Shijie and continued to ask.

"Well, there are a lot of problems, for example, we need tools to build a house, let's take the simplest wooden shed, we need to cut wood, but we don't have more than ten axes, let alone saws and the like."

"There is also a vegetable planting base that we are about to reclaim, and there is also a lack of hoes and plowshares, so I think the first problem we need to solve at present is to build an earthen kiln first, and then make a batch of simple tools as soon as possible by mining iron ore, otherwise it will be difficult for us to carry out a lot of work."

"I'll also talk about my opinion, in addition to the lack of tools, we are currently facing a threat from beasts and Australian aborigines, the beast is okay, the key is that once the Australian aborigines attack, it will be at least dozens of people and hundreds of people to attack, although we have a certain number of weapons but it is still too few. After inspection, there are only 10 Type 95 assault rifles that can be used, and there are about 2,000 rounds of ammunition, and if the equipment of the gun repair factory can be transformed into a manufacturing plant to make a few guns, the members of our security team can basically ensure the safety of all personnel. Chen Jun spoke his mind. It was to be hoped that the Executive Committee would pay attention to the issue of weapons.

"I think so, during the day, the security team is responsible for the guard patrol, and at night we all go back to the ship, and when the house is built, we will move off the ship." Wang Tiehammer suggested.

"Captain, I mean to minimize the danger in the vicinity, we can capture the natives or drive them further afield." Chen Wenqing waved his fist, and his face showed a fierce light.

"This doesn't seem to be good," Ren Shuangxia said with a frown and some disapproval.

"I think these free laborers are good, as the saying goes, there is strength in numbers, although these natives are not very smart, but it is still okay for them to dig and mine stones, build riverbank dikes, and this kind of coolie." Liu Yun said with a smile on his face, harmlessly.

"The affairs of the indigenous people will be discussed in the future, so let's stop today's meeting." Zhao Shijie saw that Sister Ren seemed to have the heart to say a few words to educate Liu Yun, so he quickly changed the topic and said that he ended the meeting.

Liu Yun glanced at Zhao Shijie and glanced at him, meaning to talk after the meeting. The two went to a roadbed construction site.

"You are not in favor of arresting the natives, my proposal speaks for most people, don't look at the fact that the men have only been on the shore for a few hours, I have heard most of the lads have this idea, they call it the rescue of the barbarian humans, and lead them on the road to prosperity. It's a great thing to spread civilization, don't you want to do it? ”

Poof, Zhao Shijie couldn't help it when he heard the words "spreading civilization", these people can really talk about it. "What is the spread of civilization, if these indigenous descendants recall this history in a few years, they will definitely describe us as invaders, just as we often describe wild boar skins."

"No, it's not the same, wild boar skin is at least a semi-feudal and half-slave society, the aborigines of Australia are in the Stone Age, we take them to work and teach them to produce their own materials, this is definitely a help to them, this is a kind of progress for their race, you know?" Liu Yun emphasized with a righteous face, as if this thing was really great.

"Although I agree with your point of view, the premise is that you want everyone to realize this, such as that we are really threatened by the natives or really have limited human resources, under this premise, those opponents will naturally agree, obviously now is not the time." "Timing." A smile appeared at the corner of Liu Yun's mouth: "Maybe it will come soon." ”