The watchtower on the top of Taiping Mountain has just been completed - there is no Hong Kong Governor's Office here in this time and space, only a deserted area. The Hong Kong project team of Lingao Construction Corporation under the command of Shi Dafu spent several months to open up a feasible area here.
A small piece of land was leveled out on the top of the mountain, and a three-story stone watchtower was built to monitor the entire island and the nearby sea.
The observation tower itself also doubles as a radio transmission tower. With its good terrain advantages and pure radio environment, it serves as a communication center connecting Zhejiang in the north and Lingao in the south.
On the top platform of the watchtower, several senators were "looking over the mountains and small mountains". They were wearing various uniforms and were surrounded by orderlies, secretaries and maids.
A gray-haired and dark-skinned senator looked down at the ships of the Ocean Fleet at the anchorage and said: "The navy is very strong now! What a pity! We are backward people who can't catch up..."
Li Di, who was wearing a staff ribbon, laughed: "Boss Lin! You are not in the Navy. When it comes to military rank, your rank of lieutenant colonel is rare in the navy."
"How can it be compared?" Lin Chuanqing, who was wearing a navy uniform, shook his head repeatedly, "I am a fisherman - the Fishery Corps. To put it bluntly, I am a fisherman in military uniform - which is the same thing as the production company in the army: a third-level soldier
The year is spent farming and raising pigs.”
"Fishing is also revolutionary work." Hong Huangnan said, "Your fishery corps is much more important than the production company of growing vegetables and raising pigs - the meat-eating problem in the past few years has been solved by you. I still count on you.
Fisheries give us more protein." He pointed to the shadowy Lantau Island in the distance, "The purified population there are all waiting to eat seafood porridge!"
Lin Chuanqing laughed: "Commander Hong - no, Director Hong, I will accept the high hat. I understand the meaning of fishing. I just see the young men going out to fight with meat and meat, and I feel very envious!"
He touched the stubble of his well-groomed hair: "Of course fishing is my specialty, but I also often want to let it go, right?"
Everyone laughed when he said this, and Li Di said: "How about you also appoint a fishery fleet admiral in the future? First go to Japan to cause a fishery dispute or something, and then you can bombard Sakai Port."
"It's such a waste to bombard Sakai Port. It is a commercial port, and if you occupy it, it will be a good cow." Hong Hongyin showed greed in his eyes. As the commercial person in charge in Hong Kong, he is not satisfied with the current commercial business in Hong Kong.
Very satisfied.
Hong Kong's business activities have developed greatly. As the outer port of Guangzhou, Hong Kong's transportation superiority is far better than that of Huangpu, Macau and other places. Especially after signing a trade agreement with the Dutch and opening Hong Kong as a trade port, the Dutch
The fleet regularly sails to Hong Kong to conduct trade here.
Although the trade with the Dutch is highly profitable, the scale is too small after all. There are not many ships from the Netherlands to China, only dozens of voyages every year. For people in the 21st century, it is really pitifully small.
Because the Ming Dynasty blocked the Pearl River Estuary, it canceled the Portuguese's right to enter Guangzhou for trade. In the original history, the Portuguese in Macao failed to obtain permission to reopen the port through various activities and fell into a great crisis.
中. But in this time and space, the Macau Municipal Council has no choice but to turn its attention to Hong Kong - Australians can enter and leave the Pearl River Estuary as if they are in uninhabited territory, and the government dare not ban them. Moreover, the Australians have semi-open consular business in Guangzhou.
The organization made it extremely convenient to transport and sell goods. So some Portuguese businessmen switched to Hong Kong to carry out trading activities. Hong Kong Yin discovered that Hong Kong was now acting as a trade "window" - a window that could communicate with the outer sea and the mainland.
Flood Yin welcomes the Portuguese very much: they have the ability to pay and have sales channels, and all their business activities in Hong Kong will bring income to Hong Kong: from rent, port usage fees to taxes.
The Portuguese also feel that Hong Kong is quite advantageous as a window: they no longer have to face the greedy Ming Dynasty officials and Chinese businessmen who often default on payment. The disadvantage is that profits are not as generous as in the past - Australians know the prices of various commodities very well.
However, these alone cannot satisfy Hong Hongyin's "ambitions". He often looks towards the mainland - where are the real gold mines to be developed.
Unfortunately, the current situation is not yet ready for gold mining. Hong Hongyin can only look at the ocean and sigh.
His eyes turned to the bottom of the mountain. Rows of warehouses had been built in Causeway Bay and Central, and large steam cranes had been erected one after another - Hong Kong's appearance as a logistics center had already been initially revealed. Driving from Hainan and Guangzhou
Ships unload large amounts of cargo here every day, and all kinds of materials are piled up.
It's a pity that these goods have nothing to do with him - they are all materials needed for engine operations. However, he was worried for a while - Hong Kong's defense force is not enough. In addition to a company of sailors, it is the armed patrol boats of the Hong Kong Squadron of the Navy.
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As for the militiamen of Luochen's Agricultural Reclamation Unit, although they claim to be soldiers and civilians, they actually don't even have a rifle. They are only armed with standard spears and machetes. Moreover, the entire Agricultural Reclamation Unit is used for infrastructure construction in addition to clearing wasteland and farming.
There was not much time for training on the construction site - Hong Hongyin had deep doubts about their combat capabilities. If they were attacked, it would be difficult to ensure the safety of the massive supplies stored here. By then, he would be one of the main persons in charge of the Hong Kong area.
, I definitely can’t eat it and walk around.
Such days of worry lasted until summer, when troops from Lingao finally arrived in Hong Kong. In addition to the increase in naval strength, the northward detachment and the newly formed security forces also gradually sailed to Hong Kong Island. Now the troops on Hong Kong Island are strong, and only
There are nearly 2,000 people in a northbound detachment, not including the security forces that were just transported a few hundred meters away.
While a group of people were giving advice, Luochen's female secretary came to report: The reception to celebrate the third anniversary of D-Day has been prepared. Please invite the leaders to come over and officially start.
D-Day is the day when they came to this time and space. It is very commemorative. In a sense, it is equivalent to the National Day of the Senate. Therefore, the Senate designated it as a "remembrance day". D-Day was commemorated in 1629 and 1630.
Due to internal and external troubles in Japan, there were no other activities other than simply holding a dinner party for the elders and improving the food.
But this year, despite Operation Engine, after all, their surrounding environment has been greatly improved, and their material conditions are not what they used to be. In order to strengthen the cohesion of the naturalized people and the centripetal force of the indigenous people, the Senate held some simple activities before and after D-Day.
For celebrations, in addition to Lingao, all counties and commercial stations under the control of the Senate will hold dinner parties and receptions. The former is to reward the backbone of the naturalized people, and the latter is to entertain the indigenous collaborators.
The reception is held in the lobby outside the shopping mall, in the form of a buffet. It is roughly the same as the New Year reception in detail. Although Hong Kong is far away from Lingao, it is very close to Guangzhou, and you can easily buy a lot of fresh food from Guangzhou.
The food is not inferior to Lingao in terms of richness.
In the shopping station hall, long tables covered with snow-white tablecloths are already filled with dishes and tableware. The dishes here are "Australian" - through the spread of Ziminglou, various modern dishes favored by the elders have been
Gradually it spread in the Guangzhou area. The chefs at the Hong Kong base were transferred from Lingao and were trained in cooperative restaurants.
Hong Hongyin saw several large plates of sushi and sashimi placed on the table. The fresh raw fish had an attractive luster. It was definitely a rare thing in this time and space. Although among the elders of Lingao, sashimi and sushi were not surprising.
, but this is the first time this has been done in Hong Kong - there were no cold storages in the city before, and there were no freezing facilities on fishing boats. The caught fish could not be stored in the cold chain, and raw food such as sashimi was never made for safety reasons. Furthermore,
, in the past, it was rare to catch fish suitable for sashimi locally.
"Old Lin, this is all your fault." Hong Hongyin said with a smile.
The South China Sea is one of the main habitats for yellowfin tuna and bonito in the Pacific. Yellowfin tuna was expensive in the old days. Skipjack is the smallest tuna. Although the price is not as high as that of the famous bluefin and yellowfin, in this country
Time and space are still rare delicacies. Tuna are deep-sea fish. They mainly live in the cold water layer of about 20-50 meters in the deep sea area. They often dive below 100 meters. Therefore, their bodies contain a lot of fat and myoglobin, so they appear red. For
The elders who lack red meat are really charming.
However, ordinary fishing boats in the Ming Dynasty were not navigable enough to enter blue water. Only a few large nets with a depth of tens of meters were brought with 8145 - all of which were used on the Beibu Gulf fishing ground. This kind of nylon trawl net was also used by the Senate Group.
It cannot be made. Therefore, the fishery detachment stationed in Hong Kong has always been able to fish with small nets. The catch is very small and the economic value is not high.
In order to solve this problem, Lin Chuanqing decided to switch to fishing. He converted a towed sailboat that the naval combat force had eliminated from the fishing column into a longline fishing boat.
This kind of ship tows a cable several kilometers long, and a series of buoys are hung on the cable. Each buoy hangs a 50-meter-long suspension line, and each suspension line hangs
Tethered to 20 hooks, this boat goes out to sea twice a month. As long as the sea conditions are good, it can always bring back a boatload of pretty impressive catches. In addition to tuna, mackerel, sea bass, there are also swordfish, swordfish,
Rare things like big sharks.
The results of the trial were satisfactory. Lin Chuanqing immediately submitted a report on converting several ships into longline fishing vessels. The Navy Ministry agreed to his request. On the one hand, increasing protein supply was everyone's wish. On the other hand, the Navy considered the need to strengthen the South China Sea.
Patrol in the direction. The fishing action of fishing boats is also a kind of patrol.~.< Shuhai Pavilion>-~