While the members of the expedition were still asleep, the Executive Committee had already begun to calculate the current maritime capacity at hand to gauge whether it could undertake the transportation of construction materials and people in the early stage of overseas mining.

At present, the Executive Committee has a 400-material second-hand ship on hand that has just been purchased, and two ships from the previous seizure of the ship and the Guangzhou ship are slightly smaller in tonnage, and these three ships can run cross-sea routes, but the speed is not as fast as that of the catamaran, and the voyage still needs to be carefully calculated. Moreover, according to the information sent back by the expedition team before its return, it is very likely that in the future, the sailing ships from Shengli Port to Hongji will abandon the originally planned route of Halong Bay New Port on Changhua Fushuizhou Island in Yingge Tsui, Yazhou of Shengli Port, and sail directly northwest from Yingge Tsui, cross the Beibu Gulf to the area of Thanh Hoa, load the local immigrants and then go north along the Vietnamese coast, until they pass Cat Ba Island before turning eastward and crossing Halong Bay to reach Xingang.

The new route is about 100 nautical miles longer than the previously planned route, and the one-sided sailing time will be at least two more days longer than the original one-sided voyage at the speed of a Chinese sailing ship and the time it will take to make a stop. There are two main difficulties in this new route, one is that the distance between Yingge Tsui and Thanh Hoa is about 180 nautical miles, and it will take at least two days for Chinese sailing ships to complete this cross-sea voyage, and there is no stop like Fushuizhou Island in between, which will be a big test for the crew who have never run this route. Another difficulty is that the fleet needs to accept migrants to board the ship in Thanh Hoa, and it will take a day and a half to two days to sail before arriving at New Port, and how to ensure sufficient food and drinking water supplies and maintain order on board the ship during this time is also an urgent problem to be solved.

In addition, the contradiction between the transportation of goods and the transportation of people is also a difficult problem for the Ministry of Shipping. At the beginning of the construction of the port mine, there will be a lot of supplies to rely on the base camp to transport, but if there are too many supplies on the ship, then it will not be possible to load too many people on the coast of Vietnam. If the population is too small, it will greatly delay the construction of the new port and the development of the mining area.

A group of people in the shipping department fought for whether to pull people or goods, and later even the people of the executive committee joined in, and the two sides fought a war of words, and they were both unwilling to admit defeat. In the end, it was Tao Donglai, who was old and serious, who came forward to quell the war: "Fighting for it, in the final analysis, we still don't have enough capacity, just like the manpower we didn't have enough at the beginning of the crossing, no matter how we try our best to arrange, there will be obvious gaps." In my opinion, it is still necessary to rely on the opinions of the expedition team, after all, they are the only ones who have personally traveled to these places, and I think their opinion should be more reasonable. ”

At nine o'clock in the evening, the members of the expedition who were sleeping in a daze were called, and the heads of various relevant departments had now rushed to the No. 1 base, waiting to use their action reports as a reference for the next preparation plan. In order to help them recover from their sleep, the Executive Committee even prepared hot face wash and cold drinks.

After a while, the members of the expedition team who had experienced the double stimulation of ice and fire barely bred up their spirits and walked into the conference room, and they were greeted by the long-lasting applause of the leaders of the crossing group. Although they had already experienced a similar scene when they disembarked from the dock in the afternoon, seeing the sincere admiration on the faces of the onlookers, the expedition team members once again felt the importance of this operation.

As for who will report on this expedition, the best person is undoubtedly Tom Wang. Tom Wang, who was entrusted with such an important task by the Executive Committee for the first time, was perfect in this operation, not only successfully completed all the inspection projects and determined the location of Xingang, but also solved the labor force problem that had plagued the Executive Committee for a long time, so that Xingang had a long-term stable population import channel in the planning stage. In addition, in this unfamiliar environment expedition that lasted nearly 1,000 nautical miles during the nine-day voyage, none of the members were seriously ill or injured, and Wang Tom, as the captain, also contributed a lot.

Although the expedition team has handed over the detailed electronic documentation of the operation and the logbook and other relevant information, everyone still wants to hear the statement of the person concerned, after all, there are many subjective things that cannot be reflected on paper, and the personal explanation of the person concerned is more helpful for everyone to understand the true intention of the specific actions of the expedition team in this process. And everyone is also eager to hear what kind of opinions and opinions Wang Tom will have on the preparation of materials, population transfer and the construction of the new port.

Tom walked to the front of the conference room, facing the black head below, and suddenly felt a little nervous, which seemed completely different from the tension he had when he faced the rough seas at sea. Tom Wang knew that this was because he was a complete novice in politics and had never made such a statement in a similar situation.

Tom Wang took a deep breath, put the laptop on the lectern, opened the content of the document he had done in advance, and began the report of the inspection operation in a slightly stiff tone: "Colleagues, my report is divided into three main parts, one is the schedule of this operation, the second is the description of the completion of the specific inspection project, and the third is to answer the questions of colleagues on the spot. If there are some things that need to be explained, I will ask the team members to help you with this time. Let me start with the schedule of this expedition......"

Once he talked about his profession, Tom Wang regained his skills. He first briefly explained the nine-day itinerary, and then focused on why he made such arrangements. Especially in the selection of routes and the design of the voyage, Tom Wang's professional advice is undoubtedly highly authoritative, and he also explained this part in the most detail, and he also gave some of his own opinions on how to use a slightly slower Chinese sailing ship to run these routes in the future.

The explanations of the various expeditions made the audience feel more clearly the difficulties encountered by the expedition team in this operation and the efforts they made to overcome these difficulties. During the presentation, Tom Wang used a projector to show the participants some graphic and video materials to deepen their understanding of the local environment.

When the participants of the Ministry of Construction saw the real image of the port area, combined with the contour map drawn by the expedition team, it was more vivid and realistic, and it was also convenient for them to formulate a more targeted construction plan. And when the large number of war refugees gathered at the mouth of the Thanh Hoa River appeared on the screen, everyone's attention became more focused. At that time, the expedition team summoned some of the fleeing people to conduct a video of the whole investigation, and because Wang Tom did not understand the vernacular, he called another expedition member to the stage to explain instead. The expression of these refugees has greatly strengthened the Executive Committee's determination to bring in the local labor force, and if the Executive Committee had all its previous concerns about whether or not to bring in immigrants, after seeing these field recordings, those concerns have been put out of the way, and the Executive Committee only needs to consider how to solve the problem of insufficient capacity.

After the interview video ended, Tom Wang's inspection report came to an end. The participants once again gave a warm applause to the excellent performance made by the expedition team in the course of the operation, and if the previous applause was a relatively vague sense of admiration, then after more than an hour of detailed reporting by Wang Tom, this sense of admiration has become very clear.

The next time was for Tom Wang's Q&A, and Tao Donglai first raised a question that the participants were all concerned about: "If we were to transport a large number of people from the coastal areas of Vietnam, such as Thanh Hoa, would this cause vigilance and hostility from the local regime?"

This is a very important issue, and in an era when borders and nationalities are not so clear, it is very likely that the mass transport of people from a coastal area by the crossing group will be perceived by the local regime as a captivity of the population under its rule, resulting in hostility or even further hostilities on the part of the other side, whether in Vietnam or in the Ming Dynasty. And the current Crossing Group has no intention or ability to provoke a national opponent, even if this country is called the "Monkey Country" in the mouths of many Crossing Groups, even if they are unable to cross the sea to attack the Crossing Group's lair now, it is not difficult to disrupt the Crossing Group on their own territory.

"According to our observations and understandings, the government of the Li Dynasty in the north has very limited control over the people. Their armies are only stationed in some major cities, and there are no military personnel stationed even on the coast just one or two hundred miles away near the capital, and I have to say that their sense of military defense is very poor, which is probably one of the reasons why the country has been at war for hundreds of years. Wang Tom first talked about his understanding, and then began to answer Tao Donglai's question: "If the local government still had a certain organizational capacity, then there would not be the large-scale exodus we have seen, and I think the army of the Li Dynasty will probably not know how many people fled to the north, let alone where these people ended up." In my opinion, the entire east coast of Vietnam is an undefended area, and if we have enough capacity, we can even just empty it. ”

"Does that mean we won't get into trouble from the local regime?" Tao asked.

"Not at all!" Wang Tom shook his head and said, "And I have started to immigrate, which can not only meet our population import needs, but also be a humanitarian relief act for war refugees." ”