After sailing out of Victory Harbor, the two ships did not rush to the road, but handed over the ships to a group of rookie sailors to operate, and a few old birds were only responsible for directing their actions. This is also to allow the new sailors to adapt to the life of the voyage more quickly, after all, the training camp a few days ago was just a circle at home, training for a few hours a day before going ashore, and this trip may have to stay on the ship for several days, that feeling is completely different from the training camp. Fortunately, the group of team members selected by the executive committee are not bad, and so far no one has been found to have strong seasickness.

Because the section of water from Shengli Port to Yazhou has been familiar with the road many times, this time the expedition team did not choose to sail all the way close to the coastline, but directly took the sea route after bypassing Luhuitoujiao, sailing from the southern tip of the east and west islands of Sanya Bay, and straight into Nanshanjiao.

The fleet made a brief stop at the mouth of the Ningyuan River near Yazhou, completing another small task of their trip, bringing a small hot water boiler and a bundle of pipe parts processed by the Ministry of Industry to the Yazhou Office. The Cliff Office, which had been notified in advance, asked Zhang Guang to hire an ox cart to wait here, but because there was no hoisting equipment on the "Feisu", everyone could only build a gangplank to unload the huge boiler onto the dock, and more than a dozen men were busy carrying and moving for nearly half an hour before the big guy weighing nearly 300 pounds was loaded onto the ox cart.

Leaving the Ningyuan estuary and setting off again, because the route to the west began to become unfamiliar, the old crew took over the piloting work, and chose a relatively stable offshore route, recording the coastal conditions against the map while taking the route. At this time, the black technology of crossing the public comes in handy, and someone directly takes photos of the coast, and then arranges them in the order of traveling along the route, and marks some of the more important geographical identification locations. In this way, when the next crew runs this route, they have a very clear reference, not just a boring written route record.

About two hours later, the fleet arrived at Yingge Tsui in the southwest corner of Hainan Island. In later generations, the largest salt field in southern China, Yinggehai Salt Farm, was located here. Bordering the sea is an alluvial plain of tens of square kilometers, and in later generations most of this plain was used to build salt works, and in the eighties of the twentieth century, the annual production of sea salt here reached 270,000 tons, which is an astronomical amount in the 17th century.

The Yinggehai area has always been an important area in the development plan of the Executive Committee, and the salt works here can be built in a very large area, at least ten times the size of the salt works commune outside Shengli Port. However, the executive committee is still suffering from manpower bottlenecks, and has no time to carry out large-scale development here, and can only do a little preliminary survey and preparation.

According to the information at hand, the expedition team knew that there was a very large bay hidden behind a narrow estuary, and in view of the very limited water depth in the area along the beach, the flotilla docked at the coast, lowered the rubber assault boats from the boats, and entered the bay area through the narrow estuary of Guò for investigation. As this is an unfamiliar area that has never been visited, for safety reasons, only four heavily armed North American gang members are on board.

After the assault boat sailed into the bay, Tom Wang was in charge of driving the boat, Roger was in charge of guarding, Morgan was holding a photographic device to record the topography and landform here, and Qiao Zhiya, a chemical expert, collected water samples at different locations and used simple detection methods to determine the salinity of the seawater here. At this time, the area was not developed as a salt pan for production, and the entire coastal mudflats were not inhabited. In fact, even in later generations, there were only more than 10,000 residents in Yinggehai Town, which was far less than the population density of other coastal areas.

The other members of the expedition stationed on the coast were not idle, they took out several fishing rods according to the instructions of a few old birds, and stood on the side of the boat and began to fish. In later generations, it was one of the famous fishing grounds in the South China Sea, and various fishery resources were very abundant, but in the current untouched environment, the fish schools near the sea are also very dense, and the rod often only takes a minute or two to react when thrown into the sea. By the time the team that had gone to the bay returned, they had already caught seventy or eighty fish of all sizes.

So the expedition team, in accordance with the tradition of the old seamen, once again held a barbecue dinner on the seaside. Some of the team members only joined the group today, and everyone has now gathered together and introduced each other again.

As always, the Military Police Department accounted for the majority of the expedition, and 10 of the 17 members of the team belonged to the Military Police Department, including six members of the North American Gang. Three of the remaining seven are members of the mining exploration team under the Ministry of Industry, and they will complete the initial exploration tasks of the Hongji Coal Mine. In addition, the maritime department is accompanied by two people, who are mainly responsible for the preparation of route maps and the preparation of logbooks, and also undertake part of the hydrological and sea state exploration tasks. One of the remaining two was a colleague from Qiao Zhiya's Ministry of Chemical Industry and the other was sent by the Ministry of Agriculture to inspect rice cultivation in Vietnam.

In view of the danger of this mission, the Executive Committee did not arrange for any more female members to join the team. However, this group of guys who rarely have a chance to let off the wind obviously don't care much about this, most of the team is leaving Victory Harbor for the first time after the crossing, and the purpose is a very famous scenic spot in the future, this is definitely a rare good errand.

Tian Yeyou of the mining exploration group is not tall and has a dark complexion, and it is almost difficult to distinguish him from the mountain people of the Li and Miao tribes just by looking at his appearance. He worked in the North China Geological Survey Bureau for several years before crossing, and has always been engaged in field mining exploration work, and he is also a technical expert from a professional class in the crossing group. Tian Yeyou muttered while nibbling on the grilled fish: "These guys on the executive committee are finally a little bit humane, it's not easy to see us squatting in the mountains for a month or two, and they know that they will arrange for us to travel at public expense." ”

Tom Wang asked curiously, "Haven't you stayed for so long?"

Tian Yeyou said angrily: "One or two mining sites are not so easy to find. We have been in the mountains since April, and we were ordered to come out of Litong last week, and we have been prospecting for mines in Damao. The phosphate and manganese ore in Damao are not as shallow as the Tiandu iron ore, and they will come out with a few hoes, and we have to instruct the Li miners to erect tunnels and teach them how to dig veins underground without burying themselves alive. I've been sleeping in the wild for thirty or forty days, and if you look at a few of us with this complexion, as long as we change our clothes, we can go directly into Li Tong and pretend to be Li people!"

Qiao Zhiya smiled and comforted: "But it shouldn't be too tiring to go to Hongji Port this time, I read that the ore veins over there are very shallow, and there are many places that are even open-air, you just need to go directly to collect samples." ”

Tian Yeyou shook his head and said: "General coal is easy to find, but anthracite and coking coal still have to work hard, especially coking coal, which only accounts for 10%-15% of the reserves of coalfields. ”

"It's better to prospect for minerals in a scenic coastal area than to nest in the mountains and forests?" Wang joked with a smile.

Tian Yeyou nodded and said: "It is said that the scenery of Halong Bay is beautiful, and I wanted to take my girlfriend to see it before I crossed, but unfortunately I have not been able to make the trip." ”

"Did your girlfriend join you in the crossing?" asked Qiao Zhiya curiously.

Tian Yeyou's face darkened, and he shook his head and said, "It's divided." The main reason is that I spend at least two-thirds of the year running around in the wilderness, how can I fall in love well? let alone get married. Once I saw the news that Mr. Tao and they organized a crossing on the Internet, so I simply resigned, left all the savings from my work for the past few years to my parents, and then went to Guangzhou to join the gang. ”

Qiao Zhiya sighed and said, "This is really a sad story. ”

"What's even sadder is that after the crossing, there is no change at all from before the crossing, the same wilderness, the same loneliness. Tian Yeyou's face didn't show sadness, only deep helplessness: "I was thinking about whether I could change my career after crossing over, be a landlord or something, bully and oppress long-term workers, **** Yahuan, and also experience the life of a young man." As a result, I didn't expect it to be the same as before, and it was dozens of days after entering the mountain, and I basically only dealt with stones and mud. ”

"Don't be so frustrated, it'll get better slowly. I think that within two or three years at most, all of you who are engaged in technical work will be promoted. The future Haihan Republic will not only need politicians, but also a large number of technical officials to be able to hold it up. Wang Tom saw the future direction more thoroughly, and comforted him and said: "It is estimated that when the two places of Hongji and Shilu are developed, your main mission will change, and then you will definitely set up a relevant technical school, and invite you technicians to be teachers, so you will not have to toss around so much at that time." ”

Tian Yeyou smiled and said: "I'm afraid I'm afraid that I'm used to running outside, and if I want to ask people like us to sit in the office at that time, I will feel that I can't stay." I have already figured it out, this time I will go to the inspection to see what the living environment there is, if the environment is good, simply come back and apply to the executive committee for permanent residence, anyway, there will definitely be a need for knowledgeable people to supervise the process of mining. ”

"Resident overseas, you have to think about it carefully!" Wang Tom shook his head and said, "No matter how good the environment of that place is, life is definitely not as convenient as the base camp." ”

"Not necessarily, besides, Vietnamese brides are so famous, and I would also like to see the benefits of Vietnamese girls. Speaking of women, Tian Yeyou couldn't help but open his mouth and laugh, revealing two rows of white teeth.