Chapter 6 Preparation in progress (2)

Tao Donglai clicked on the preparatory notice posts of several departments, but the content was fine, but the reply below was noisy and was very lively. Especially the military and police department, which Yan Chujie was in charge, actually issued a voting post to let the members choose the light weapons that the group should purchase. Now the intention of the military and police department to purchase weapons has been postponed indefinitely by the preparatory committee, but it is actually quite easy to do something to attract everyone's attention. Although this post states that the voting result is only a reference for future arms procurement plans and will not affect the final decision of the military and police department, more than 90% of the military and police department are currently men. Even if people who have never been a soldier and touch guns, it is difficult to suppress their enthusiasm for guns. Tao Donglai, a veteran, is of course no exception.

Regarding what kind of firearms are purchased, the dispute between the European and American and Russian teams is naturally the focus of the debate among the participants of this voting post. Almost all of the members who have experienced military service tend to be Russian teams, because the Type 56 and Type 81 guns equipped by our army are well-known imitation Russian light weapons. For example, Tao Donglai himself used the Type 56 submachine gun and the Type 81-1 automatic rifle when he was in the army, which is commonly known as the Bayi Bar. As for the Type 95 equipment that was later equipped, Tao Donglai's troops were unable to catch up with the assembly until he retired. From the perspective of these veterans, the Russian weapons are familiar, easy to maintain, and durable, which is undoubtedly the most suitable choice for military teams with militia nature like the crossing crowd.

Compared with the personal experience of veterans, the main focus of supporting European and American guns is keyboard military strategists. Although these people have no military experience, most of them have only experienced contact with guns. They have only used Type 56 semi-automatic firefighting of several live ammunitions during military training in college. However, they are mostly military fans who usually appear on major military websites. They are well-known about the performance of various light and heavy weapons, especially the reliable performance of European and American light weapons on battlefields around the world in the past decade, which is the main reason they strongly recommend.

The veterans naturally also raised various objections, especially the huge price gap between the European and American and Russian ones. The civil version of rifle that can be purchased in American gun stores now is the semi-automatic type with castrated performance. The civil version of an AK47 is only a few hundred dollars, while the civil version of the German HK416 that shines in the Middle East in recent years has cost about 3,000 US dollars. This price difference is a factor that cannot be ignored when purchasing arms. Although everyone is fighting hard, people who know guns are very clear that the industrial products such as arms with a certain technical content will eventually get what you pay for. If you want excellent weapon performance, you must increase the purchase budget, which is indeed a dilemma for decision makers.

Of course, as an old comrade-in-arms and the head of the military and police department, Yan Chujie had long exchanged opinions with Tao Donglai in private. Both of them believed that it was undesirable for all members to equip automatic weapons. This was not just a matter of procurement cost, but because the use of automatic weapons must undergo a certain degree of professional military training. The final procurement plan will definitely be mainly semi-automatic weapons, and only a very small number of professional military personnel who will serve as external force support after crossing will be equipped with advanced goods.

This is more like a poll. For the moment, because of the advantages of keyboard military strategists in terms of numbers, the opinions of supporting the European and American departments are temporarily at the upper hand. After reading the reply one by one, Tao Donglai had to admit that this decision was really bad, because in the end, no matter which side he leaned towards, he might be scolded by another faction. Although this scolding is mostly limited to the forum, it will still make Tao Donglai feel unhappy.

"Let's take a look at something else first." This post aroused Tao Donglai's interest in the small forum. He immediately clicked on the "Talk about the World" section. Seeing that the content was full of some irrelevant topics, he jumped to the "Opinions and Suggestions" section, and the content here immediately attracted his attention again.

The articles published in this section are basically ordinary members who are not department heads, and the questions and suggestions raised are also varied. For example, the content of the first post Tao Donglai checked was to suggest that the preparatory committee should introduce Hainan locals to the team, especially the Li people. Hainan dialect has Wenchang dialect, which is close to Minnan dialect, Danzhou dialect, and Hakka dialect, Lingao dialect, Li language, Miao language and other accents. Hainan's ethnic minorities are the most important. Li Autonomous County alone now has six on Hainan Island. If the time travel team wants to take root on Hainan Island, language and ethnic relations must be paid attention to. Tao Donglai recorded this suggestion with a pen and planned to gradually solve it in the subsequent preparations.

Another post is to suggest that the preparatory committee carry out crew training as soon as possible. The ID proposed a view for the member who "I won't go to work tomorrow", believing that since the preparatory committee has used the Yulin Port in Sanya as a destination for crossing, the means of transportation to transport materials must be chosen, and a large ship often requires dozens of crew members, a considerable number of them are technical positions and cannot be taken over by just finding someone, especially important positions such as the captain, the first mate, the navigator, the pilot, and the chief engineer must have sufficient staff.

After crossing, there will definitely be no way to solve the fuel problem in the short term. At that time, these ships using mechanical power will obviously not be able to continue to be used on a large scale. For a long time in the future, it is estimated that they will still have to rely on wind power sailboats as the main carrier for crossing people on the sea. Even if some sailors can be recruited in that time and space in the future, at least a group of people who know how to operate sailboats must be able to do so. Given that the remaining time is not much and the training period for crew members is particularly long, we must find a way to implement crew-determination training as soon as possible.

Tao Donglai read several posts next. Some people suggested that in order to deal with European colonists in the future, they could consider introducing some foreigners who were interested in Chinese traditional culture; some people suggested that in order to establish their own financial system as soon as possible after traveling, coins and paper money can be prepared in a certain amount before traveling through time and space, and then taken directly to use it; some people suggested to go to Yiwu to purchase a large number of small commodities as a means to trade with Ming Dynasty and Western colonial companies after traveling through time and earn start-up capital.

There are quite a few suggestions like this. Although Tao Donglai has benefited a lot from it, it also increases the degree of headache. Although it is a good thing for these enthusiasts to check for omissions, it also adds many projects to the already arduous preparations. Just for this crew training, Tao Donglai felt that he had to spend several months learning about driving a ship.

"Manpower, the key to solving all problems is manpower!" Tao Donglai clenched his fists and secretly decided to advance the interview time of the next batch of candidates by another week.

So in late May, the preparatory committee welcomed the third batch of candidates to participate in the interview. The number of candidates in this batch directly exceeded the total of the first two batches, reaching as many as 130 people. The reason for this is not only that the preparatory committee relaxed the access principle in the face of some special objects, but more importantly, there were several long-awaited professional and technical teams among this group of people.

The first small team we welcomed was an old expert named Yuan Ruoxue from a city in the southeast coastal coastal area. He is now fifty-four years old. This time, he brought his family of three directly to Guangzhou because his apprentice Gao Huan participated in the second batch of interviews and decided to join the time travel team. Yuan Ruoxue's family of three has worked in the field of agricultural research for many years. In addition to Yuan Ruoxue himself, he specializes in cash crops, Yuan Ruoxue's wife Zhu Ping has been engaged in the research of grain crops. In addition to partially inheriting the major of his parents, the main research direction of the old couple's only son Yuan Qiuye actually is poultry and livestock. In the eyes of the preparatory committee, this four-person small team is completely a micro-agriculture institute, which is simply a giant pie falling from the sky for the time travel team.

Gao Huan's biological parents passed away early, and their relationship with Yuan Ruoxue was both master, disciple and father and son. After he returned, he talked about his experience in Guangzhou. Yuan Ruoxue was worried that he would be deceived and refused to let Gao Huan go no matter what. Gao Huan had the intention to pull Yuan Ruoxue's family into the gang. After his repeated persuasion, Yuan Ruoxue finally let go and decided to go to Guangzhou together. But Yuan Ruoxue also said the ugly words in front of him. If what Gao Huan said was indeed true, then naturally everything would be easy, and it would be impossible to join the team. But if there was a fraud, Yuan Ruoxue would definitely call the police decisively.

It is actually not difficult to let Yuan Ruoxue's family dispel their doubts. After a brief discussion, the preparatory committee decided to keep this family no matter what, even if it took a little risk, it would be acceptable. So Yuan Ruoxue's family and Gao Huan were fortunate to become the first time travelers other than the members of the preparatory committee, and visited the Ming City Wall on Yuexiu Mountain on a dark and windy night.

Going back to reality, Gao Huan was shocked by the scene he saw, just like Ning Qi at the beginning. Even though he had already been mentally prepared, the psychological shock of seeing Guangzhou City in 1626 was still irresistible. However, Old Yuan was quite calm and he still worked as a professional for most of his life: "It is said that the late Qing Dynasty was the Little Ice Age, and this climate environment is still a blank field for our current agricultural science research. I am so old that I can have such an opportunity to do field research, what else can I expect?"

This rigorous professional spirit of academic research made the preparatory committee, who had already prepared a lot of speech, completely no room for play, and could not help but feel respect for the old man. As soon as the matter was settled, Yuan Ruoxue arranged for his son Yuan Qiuye to go back to handle the resignation procedures of the whole family and Gao Huan, and he took his wife and Gao Huan straight to Hainan, saying that he would go over and inspect the landing site first.

Ning Qi also wrote a special article to publish it in the forum, praising Mr. Yuan for "an old horse in the stable and ambitious", and encouraged members to "work hard and seize the day". Although Ning Qi's writing style is full of the strong CCTV news flavor, the importance of agriculture to the time travel team is well known, so this promotional draft still caused a lot of response among the members. Many people yelled to try their best to persuade professional and technical personnel they knew to join the time travel industry. The five-member group judged the situation and decided to give full play to their own advantages. They held a meeting overnight to formulate a complete set of talent persuasion plans, and published a trial draft on the forum for members to follow the map.
Chapter completed!