After Zhao Huan interned for three months, he was transferred to work in Xingyao Bay.

His new position is Customs Inspector, responsible for the import and export supervision, customs assessment and collection, and anti-smuggling of Lucky Star Yaowan.

There are more than 20 people under his command to assist him in his work, and he is a proper official with real power.

Promotion at the end of the internship period is also a novelty in auspicious officialdom.

The General Administration of Customs of Xingyaowan is a second-level authority, subordinate to the Ministry of Finance and Taxation, and supervised by the Government Council and Xiangyuan.

After the Xingyao River was dredged, Xingyao Bay began to be dredged, and the progress was extremely fast.

Dock No. 1 of the Navy Yard to the west has been formed, and docks No. 2 to No. 4 are being built.

Built in Dock No. 1 is a type of naval warship, 100 meters long and 35 meters wide, equipped with 20 3-inch and 4-inch naval guns.

Liu Zhi is studying, and he is now the deputy of the Marine Corps, the kind that leads the team to charge into battle.

The plan to open the sea was a year late, so Liu Zhi trained there for a year.

Now that his wife is pregnant again, the old lady washes clothes and does chores for the military department, and it is not a problem to support the two of them.

Liu Zhi also wanted to open it, and if he died, his mother, wife and children could also have a settlement. If you are lucky enough to live, it is a gift from God.

So he trained and studied very hard, there was hope of living, and no one wanted to die.

It's just that his identity is still classified, and no one in the Marine Corps knows about it.

"Liu Tou, it's time for class. ”

"It's coming. ”

To the west of the wall at Shine Bay, a new five-storey building has been built, which is extremely majestic.

There are six gilded characters on it: Jixiang Naval Academy.

This is a teaching building, surrounded by archives building, united front building, office building, staff headquarters and other buildings, which can be used as the front-line command of the navy.

Liu Zhi is studying military theory, which is a compulsory course for officers at the grassroots level.

If you pass the assessment and have excellent grades, you can continue to study at the next level, and then you will be an officer at the company and platoon level.

In addition to theoretical learning, they need to learn to wrestle.

Real one-hit killing skills.

Today's great white shark has expanded to more than 600 people, and its combat power has increased instead of decreasing.

The sailors of the river fleet became the sparring partners of the Navy to the Marine Corps.

Sometimes the two sides are scattered into the jungle and practiced in real combat until one side is all 'killed'.

Sometimes simulated encounters at sea, with hand-to-hand combat between the two sides.

The worst thing is the offensive and defensive drill in a specific environment, each time many soldiers are injured, ranging from bruised skin and swollen faces to severe injuries to muscles and bones, and so far, two people have died unexpectedly.

If you want to say who the river fleet hates the most, it must be the great white shark, after all, they have suffered an old crime in their hands, who told them to recruit fatality.

However, it is precisely because of the drills close to actual combat that the quality and combat effectiveness of the personnel on both sides have been rapidly improved.

As Liu Zhi, he is the most ordinary big-headed soldier.

But his instinct stimulated by his strong desire to survive made him stand out and be promoted to become a grassroots officer.

"The Marine Corps is an independent branch of the Navy, it is an amphibious combat force composed of various arms that can carry out rapid landings and undertake coastal and island defense or support tasks, is a fist to deal with local wars and military conflicts, and is also a 'sharp knife' for joint offensive operations, and plays a pivotal role in modern warfare. ”

The instructor emphasized the importance of the Marine Corps, and the classroom was filled with young people in white uniforms, with short flat hair, who looked particularly energetic.

"You are lucky to be in the Marine Corps and to be an honorable junior officer. The higher the status, the greater the responsibility, and the fate of more than ten or even dozens of people is in your hands. Even if you are sorry for yourself, you must be worthy of your brothers, so you must study hard in the three-month tactical theory course, not for anything else, just to come back alive. ”

The food at the Naval Academy is good, and there are chickens, fish, and eggs.

In order to improve the combat effectiveness of auspicious soldiers, the logistics department conducted a tender for military supplies for the kingdom.

The ordnance is produced and sold by itself, and the private sector is not allowed to produce it privately.

Military uniforms and backpacks were outsourced to Jixiang Garment Factory.

Since it is a sea trip to explore a new continent, there are enough armor, and there are countless pockets and hidden buttons, each of which is carefully designed.

There are combat uniforms for naval battles, and there are camouflage uniforms for marine corps for landing operations, and the key parts are sewn with alloy steel plates, which shows the determination of the military department.

In order to increase the individual defense, hundreds of sets of additional armor were also prepared, and as long as the ship was loaded, all the items that could be used were put on board in order of priority.

Metal fittings such as kettles were outsourced to hardware factories.

Improved products such as compasses and telescopes were supplied directly from the royal factory.

The dilemma is the military rations.

The navy is not an army, and without military rations and bark and grass roots to deal with, once the supply at sea is insufficient, there is only a dead end.

It is not uncommon to sail at sea without supplies for months, so it is necessary to store enough food and fresh water.

Fresh water needs to be simply sterilized and filtered, otherwise it will deteriorate and stink after three to five days.

The auspicious way to deal with it is to filter it through charcoal, boil it and drink it.

In order to prevent scurvy, the logistics department has prepared seaweed and stored a certain amount of legumes to replenish vitamins.

In addition, pickled products are indispensable, and vegetables and meat are marinated and then sterilized at high temperatures and stored in canned food.

Under auspicious conditions, commonly used vegetables and meats can be kept in canned food for three months, and pickled products can be kept for up to half a year.

If you keep it cold with ice, it may last longer.

According to this standard, there are two winning bids, one is Aiji Vegetables, and the other is a canned products factory in Hudong New District.

Yang Erjia's vegetables are in good condition and at excellent prices, and they have always been the suppliers of canteens of government functional departments, with a good reputation.

The canning factory in Hudong New District, after using high-temperature sterilization, is conducive to preservation, and is currently the only canning factory.

Although the taste is average, it is nutritious.

Aiji Vegetables also uses this storage technology, so that the vegetables can be stored for a long time.

Some other small vegetable planting enterprises and breeding industries have automatically become raw material suppliers for these two winning bidders, but the profits are less.

In order to enhance the security, the research institute has designed a shallow warehouse supply ship, which can place pigs, sheep and other small poultry in the cabin to breed and eat and slaughter.

The ship's steam boiler can also maintain a supply of distilled water for about a week, which adds another insurance.

The four-inch naval gun has been mass-produced, and the actual damage effect is more than twice that of the three-inch naval gun.

The institute is working on improving the fuse of the flowering shell so that it burns at a controlled rate, so that the length of the fuse can be changed according to the distance of the shelling, so as to achieve the maximum killing effect.

The four-inch naval gun is equipped with a flowering shell, even if it encounters unknown dangers, Wang Xuan believes that he can deal with it calmly.

"Have you sorted out all the travelogues about the surrounding sea conditions?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, the General Staff is sorting out the context and making it a nautical chart. ”

Sorting out the travelogue is Wang Xuan's whimsical approach.

He didn't know how people used to go to sea, but that didn't prevent them from sharing what they had done.

The environment around the Xingyao Continent can only be known from the travelogue, although it cannot prove the authenticity, but it is better than the blind luck of two eyes.

In addition, Jixiang publishes recruitment advertisements everywhere to recruit people with experience in going to sea, and the treatment is preferential.

Although they are all old men, they are all treasures in the eyes of the Admiralty, and their experience and experience can save the entire fleet at a critical moment.

The auspicious weather is mild, and that's because of the east and west mountains.

But the sea is unobstructed, and once the wind rises, it must be accompanied by big waves.

Strong winds, showers, large waves, and possible reefs, whirlpools, etc., are the fleet's worst enemies, killers hidden in the dark, and cannot be guarded against.

When they come, how powerful they are, these have to be judged by experience.

Only the old people who have been to the sea before have this experience.

Now these old men are training in sea navigation.

They spend the whole day in the lake and are not allowed to get off the boat unless necessary.

In addition, according to their respective physical conditions, the military doctors developed a diet and a physical recovery exercise program.

The reason why these old sailors are still willing to set foot in the unpredictable expanse of the deep blue is mostly for their families, and a small part is to pursue the glory of the brave.

In Jixiang, you can become a naturalized citizen after joining the army.

After joining the army, not to mention the generous salary, the naturalized family members can also enjoy the treatment of military dependents, and their work and life will be much more convenient.

If there is an accident, you can also get a generous pension, so when you are older, there is no pity to die.

Some veteran sailors who have pursuits still want to go to sea again to meet the magnificent new world and relive the thrill of life and death.

At the beginning of May, the Military Hospital and the First People's Hospital held an academic exchange meeting, attracting nearly 1,000 foreign doctors.

The main purpose of this academic exchange meeting is to discuss the use of surgery.

In this area, the military hospital has absolute authority.

With this meeting, experts from the military hospital conducted three demonstrations of appendicitis resection surgery, all of which were complete successes.

For a time, the reputation of auspicious medical skills was shocked, and there were countless people who sought medical treatment.

The reason why this exchange meeting is held openly is to promote auspicious medical skills on the one hand, but in fact, the most important thing is to seek a prescription.

There are so many formulas of traditional Chinese medicine, whoever has a good recipe will regard it as a family heirloom, and will not pass it on to the outside world.

Jixiang took advantage of this meeting to exchange medical skills for prescriptions, which is justified.

For foreign doctors, it is a great opportunity to be able to use prescriptions in exchange for learning this kind of 'disembowelment' treatment technique, and few people can withstand the temptation.

In addition, some prescriptions that are urgently needed by auspiciousness will also be publicly purchased on preferential terms.

By the end of May, nearly 100 prescriptions for bruises, headaches and brain fever had been collected.

Even home remedies for gastroenteritis have been collected in two.

In order to prevent germ infections on unknown continents and islands, Wang Xuan hit the idea on the cinchona tree.

The dry bark, root bark, twig bark and seeds of the cinchona tree contain about a variety of alkaloids, the most abundant of which is quinine, which is a good medicine for malaria.

Wang Xuan prepared a lot of bark and roots to prevent malaria from raging.

As for extracting the alkaloids in it, there is nothing that can be done about it for the time being.

In addition, the Ministry of Health has also purchased many anti-drug and anti-drug drugs in case of emergency.

The sea is not Xingyao Lake, and drifting on the sea for a long time is a great test of the psychological quality of the first-time seafarers.

In order to prevent accidents, the institute also specially designed a cruise ship, which is much larger than the one in Xingyao Lake.

The cruise ship is fully equipped, there are all kinds of leisure and entertainment venues, and most importantly, there are women on it.

This time Wang Xuan did not object, the first time he went to sea, the sea conditions were good, if the sea conditions were not good, and he lost some manpower, Wang Xuan was really worried that the rest of the people's psychological defense line would collapse.

This time, he appointed Da Gaoqiang as the commander of the fleet, and he had the power to seize life and death.

There is a shortage of people in the navy, Song Feng's qualifications are lower, and Zhao Qiang is not suitable, so he can only go up.

Perhaps in three or five years, the Naval Academy will train a group of excellent ship commanders, and then there will be much more choice.

In order to get a better field of vision, Wang Xuan made the first hot air balloon out of flax, with a load of only 50 kilograms.

Hot air balloons have no power to fly, so they can only be tethered to ships with ropes, and sailors fly in hot air balloons to guard at high altitudes.

For this position, the Admiralty and the Air Force were in a fierce battle, and each wanted to be the first 'birdman'.

In the end, the air force was lost, and Wang Xuan felt that he owed the air force a lot, so he used it as a small compensation.

These preparations are only a small part of the huge expedition team.

Not only auspicious people pay attention to it, but also Daxia, Hu Yue and even the Western Zhou Dynasty also attach great importance to it.

Everyone knows that this is the window to a new world, and the unknown is the most attractive.