Chapter 36: Rookie
During the meeting, Gu Kai used a voice recorder to record the opinions and speeches of each member, and he had to use this to sort out a brief report and make a report on today's actions when the executive committee held a regular meeting in the evening. (Baidu search update is the fastest and most stable) (.) After the action summary meeting, the time has unconsciously reached noon, and it is still during the patrol period, and it will definitely not go back to Shengli Port for a lunch, and it just so happens that there are enough people today, so everyone held a small dinner party on the deck of the "Feisu".
Johnson was not idle on the boat in the morning, catching more than a dozen large and small marine fish, which were used to take care of the dishes at this time. The ship's kitchen stove used to use liquefied gas stoves, but now it has become idle without the supply of liquefied gas, but this little thing does not bother these people who are accustomed to life at sea. Roger and Morgan lifted the barbecue grill and iron rack out of the cabin, followed by Shi Diwen carrying a large plastic bag with fine charcoal in his hand. On such a sunny day, it's a great time to have a barbecue with friends on a yacht by the sea, but it's still working hours and it's not enough to take out the whiskey from the ship's treasured collection for a drink.
A week ago, the first charcoal kiln was completed and put into operation not far from the No. 1 base, and this kind of low-tech project is naturally pediatric for the cross-public, who has a large knowledge reserve. Two or three people were in charge of technical guidance, directing the local fishermen who came to work to complete the whole process from digging the earth to build the kiln to the first kiln charcoal firing. The carbon monoxide leakage that the Executive Committee had been worried about did not happen at all, and the nearly 500 kilograms of charcoal burned in the first cellar were completely qualified after inspection, so they immediately allocated all the charcoal to the shipping department, which had already reported several times, and the drying room for marine timber had already been completed and waiting for the charcoal to be in place.
It is not only the shipping department that is waiting for charcoal, but also the metallurgical department is eagerly awaiting the supply of charcoal, and the Tiandu iron ore will soon be mined, and the charcoal required for large-scale ironmaking is simply astronomical for the current pitiful output. In addition, the Ministry of Industry is trying to persuade the Executive Committee to launch a batch of steam engines and gas engines that use charcoal as an energy source. Even the Ministry of Agriculture sent a report to the Executive Committee detailing the importance of carbon disulfide made from charcoal as a raw material in the production of agricultural pesticides. The Executive Committee had to hurry up and build a few more charcoal kilns, but in the short term, it may be difficult to change the shortage of charcoal, and this imbalance will continue even until a stable supply of coal is available.
Of course, this is just thinking in my heart that no one will say it, after all, Gu Kai is also a person who has infiltrated the high-level of the Executive Committee, and in the future, if the North American Gang wants to form the military organizations such as the Maritime Expedition Fleet, the Marine Corps, and the Special Operations Team that they longed for, I am afraid that they will have to rely on Gu Kai to help them in the Executive Committee.
After a sumptuous seafood feast, the afternoon still has to continue the routine maritime patrol mission. Tom Wang asked Gu Kai for his opinion to see if he wanted to send him back to Victory Harbor first. Gu Kai hesitated for a moment but decided to stay, wait for the end of the afternoon patrol mission and then return to Hong Kong together, and then take the last ship to deliver supplies to Base No. 2 in the evening to the upstream to attend the daily meeting of the Executive Committee.
The two sailing ships set off again from the seashore, then separated left and right, and headed southwest at intervals of about two kilometers. After sailing about three nautical miles out of Luhuitoujiao, the two boats turned back together and headed southeast. After about an hour of leisurely cruise, Morgan, who was standing at the bow of the ship with a telescope, exclaimed, "Hey, look north!
On the sea in the distance, a Chinese-style Fu boat is slowly sailing south around Yulin Point, which is naturally the sailor Haicang ship that was captured a few days ago. At present, the Ministry of Maritime Transport is conducting intensive training, and it takes half a day to sail out to sea every day. It has to be said that the training arranged by the Ministry of Shipping was indeed fruitful, because since the day before, only ten Ming sailors have been transferred to the charcoal kiln and the wood drying room as laborers, and now the crew sailing out to sea is all crossing the crowd. Perhaps their movements are still a little clumsy, and their ability to grasp the direction of the wind at sea is not so strong, but it only took half a month to master the basic Chinese sailing boat posture skills, which is not an easy task.
A wicked smile appeared on the corner of John Wang's mouth, and he picked up the walkie-talkie next to him: "Lightning, Lightning, do you see the ship to the north? Let's go over and say hello together!"
"OK! I hope the kids won't be scared into peeing their pants!" came the unbridled laughter of several ABCs from the other end of the intercom.
The two sailing ships tacitly turned around and headed towards the Haicang ship. John Wang handed over the steering wheel to Johnson, and ran under the mast himself to handle the sails. These two catamarans purchased from Poland both use a sloop sloop, the area of the mainsail and foresail together is more than 200 square meters, plus the shallow draft of the streamlined hull, as long as the wind direction is right, it is easy to run at sea at a high speed of 12 to 15 knots, and even at the top speed can run an amazing speed of 20 knots, which is simply a survival against the sky for a lucky ship with a maximum speed of only six or seven knots in this time and space.
The rookie crew drove the Haicang ship obviously couldn't even run at a speed of six or seven knots, and the temporary captain Sun Changmi was directing the crew to pull the rope together to adjust the sails, and when he turned around, he saw two sailboats drawing a beautiful arc on the sea and heading towards him.
"Damn foreign devils, don't you get tired of playing like this every time?" Sun Changmi scolded angrily. Obviously, this is not the first time that some people have played a prank.
The two sailing boats soon approached from a kilometer away, one on the left and the other on the right passing the side of the ship at a very high speed, and the distance between the ships was probably less than five meters, and the crew could even clearly hear the whistles and laughter coming from the sailboat. Without waiting for the crew to put down their hanging hearts, the Haicang ship violently tossed from side to side, and the crew members who were unstable in their standing directly turned into rolling gourds, and the ship immediately became scolding.
"These damn Yankees know how to show off their might! You have the ability to go to Iraq and Afghanistan to fight enough! There is a kind of don't leave after work, see you at the gate of the base at dinner, and the uncle will teach you how to be a man in minutes!" The sailboat had already sailed out two or three hundred meters away, and the ship's first mate, Xie Chun, was still lying on the railing of the stern tower and shouting at the sail shadow in the distance.
This Xie Chun is also a talent, before crossing in film and television, publishing, catering, energy and other industries, the last job was actually in the maritime department to do shipping management, it is said that he was stabbed at work Lou Zi was resigned by the unit, and then angrily participated in the crossing. This person has a wide range of hobbies, and has studied a lot of things, and after deciding to participate in the crossing, it took a lot of effort to choose a department suitable for his own play, until the executive committee recruited all those who knew the knowledge of ships to participate in ship piloting training, and he was directly assigned to the shipping department by Ning Qi, who was in charge of personnel.
Although Xie Chun is not a shipbuilding professional, he is not as good as professionals like Yue Zhiyun and Sun Changmi, but he has also worked in the maritime department, and he also knows some navigation knowledge. However, in view of the fact that Xie Chun had "made mistakes" at work, it was not his turn to be the captain for the time being, so he could only be aggrieved to be the first mate.
Xie Chun is not a big official, but his political consciousness is not low, and the standard self-work is five-one, that is, the five-mao party that brings its own dry food. After the North American Gang applied to join the crossing operation, Xie Chun was the one who sprayed this the most on the forum. Xie Chun believes that the addition of these Yankees will bring a very bad liberal ideology to the crossing team, and this kind of thinking is extremely dangerous in another time and space that requires close unity in order to survive and thrive. But later, after repeatedly weighing the pros and cons, the executive committee finally agreed to join the North American Gang, and Xie Chun continued to write an article on the forum angrily saying that this was "a time bomb planted for the entire crossing team".
In the past few days that the rookies have been training on the Haicang boat, almost every time they encounter these two sailing ships of the North American Gang, they will be **** like today, and Xie Chun has long been dissatisfied with this. It's just that at present, the housekeepers of the executive committee have gone to the No. 2 base, and they can't find a formal way to complain, so they can only scold and scold like this.
Sun Changmi knew very well that even if Xie Chun went to make trouble again, it would be useless, and the reason why the Executive Committee would ignore issues such as nationality and ideology and introduce these people was mainly because of their ability. I have to admit that it is difficult to find a few people from the existing crossing crowd who can be like these Yankees, who can be both crew members and soldiers, and each has professional skills, at least the king Tom who is said to be very good at sailing, Sun Changmi knows very well that his navigation skills and experience are definitely better than himself and Yue Zhiyun, and this kind of thing is often impossible to teach or learn in schools.
At this time, it is useless to fan the flames, Sun Changmi went over and patted Xie Chun and said: "Okay, let them be proud for a few days! When our shipyard starts to build ships, their role at sea will become smaller and smaller." When we build heavy artillery battleships in the future, their little sampan will only drool on the side!"
Xie Chun spat into the sea fiercely, gritted his teeth and said, "Let's see, there are times when they regret it!"