The seeds of Haiyingcai can also be used to extract oil. Although the number of Haiyingcai seeds harvested this year is limited, it still provides some valuable oil. Lu Wenyuan's three meals a day are fried in this oil.
Lu Wenyuan ate lunch at the farm alone. It was said to be a "special offer", but in fact the quality was really pitiful. The best dish on the table was diced bacon and scrambled eggs from Tianchu Factory, plus a few plates of vegetables - so-called
The vegetables are actually dried vegetables and pickles shipped from Lingao. In Shandong in November, you can’t even see any green vegetables, let alone fresh vegetables. The only vegetables that can be called fresh are the local vegetables that have been stored in cellars.
Baicai, Lu Wenyuan’s life secretary made a cabbage and shrimp skin soup.
After having lunch at the farm and taking a short rest, Lu Wenyuan went to inspect the refugee camp without stopping. The refugee camp is located on the leeward and sunny side of the island - even so, it is still bone-chilling. Because it is a temporary building, the entire
It was a wooden structure shack that was quickly built and had poor thermal insulation. In addition, he did not have many cotton-padded clothes to supply. He relied entirely on the stone stoves with flues installed in each longhouse for heating, which consumed a lot of fuel every day.
It is difficult to collect enough firewood during the lean years - there is almost no straw in the fields, and the forest coverage in Dongsanfu is not high.
Fortunately, there are quite a lot of coal-producing places in Shandong, and there are quite a few small coal mines, and the price is not expensive. Using his connections in the Shandong church, he was able to easily purchase coal and transport it to Longkou by ship.
As soon as he lifted the thick curtain of the long house, a smell mixed with sweat, body odor and coal odor hit his nose, and Lu Wenyuan couldn't help but frown.
He looked up at the long transom windows near the roof. They were all open at last - otherwise someone would have been killed. There was no sign of smoke pouring from the chimney.
The roof is sloped and equipped with several glass skylights, which surprised many refugees and thought that this kind-hearted Mr. Lu was extravagant. In fact, this was just to use more sunlight and use less fuel.
The passage is made of rammed earth, with raised earth bricks on both sides - there is a flue below to use the waste heat of the stove - and it is covered with thick wheat straw and dried seaweed. The refugees are crowded in groups like this.
Keep the temperature together.
The temperature in the room can barely be maintained at around ten degrees, which is basically guaranteed not to freeze anyone to death.
Lu Wenyuan made a tour. There were only old, young, women and children in the house, and all the young and strong men had been taken out to work. At present, a fortress and trench protected by a bastion were being built around the refugee camp. The farm could not produce agricultural products in winter.
We can only build more infrastructure.
After looking at all the houses, I went to the kitchen and checked the sanitation and food rationing conditions. Special relief rations shipped from Hong Kong were used here. The local food prices are very high. The quality is second to none, and Lu Wenyuan has already got it right.
There is no hope of replenishing food supplies.
In addition to relief rations, at his request, "milk substitute powder" was also shipped from Lingao - rice flour with a small amount of sugar to ensure that as many children as possible can be saved. Lu Wenyuan inspected the kitchen very carefully.
Carefully, he had a very clear account in his mind: the Cheka had a table that quantified the consumption of each type of food in the relief program to grams, and required each kitchen to strictly abide by it.
There was nothing wrong with the accounts and inventory. Finally, he paid special attention to whether the cook, who was a naturalized citizen, had any signs of gaining weight, and wondered whether he should weigh him - Lu Wenyuan, like all the elders, did not believe in morality.
After leaving the kitchen, he asked the attendants around him for the hundredth time: "Is there any new news?"
"Report to the chief, not yet."
"Yeah." A gust of cold wind blew, and Lu Wenyuan couldn't help but shrink his neck and tightened his cloak - the winter of the Little Ice Age was really hard to cover! He found that he had frostbite and pain on his feet.
It's itchy again. I tried the chilblain ointment from the Ministry of Health but didn't find any effect.
What worries him more than the severe cold is that, according to his experience, if the temperature has dropped to this level in early November, the sea surface in Longkou Bay is likely to freeze when it is the coldest.
If it is just thin ice, the problem is not big. Lu Wenyuan is very afraid that the sea will eventually form an ice surface that can be walked on. The water depth is not large and the relatively closed bay can easily form thick ice. The Bohai Bay will be in the winter of the 21st century.
A large area of the city will be frozen. In this case, the wicker edge he set up on the sand embankment will lose its function of delaying the enemy, and the farms and refugee camps will be directly exposed to the enemy's edge. The fortifications he is currently repairing are exactly where the enemy was.
of such worries.
He cast his eyes on the beach. In addition to the women working on the beach, fishing for kelp and drying sea vegetables, a group of strong men were running along the beach in the cold wind wearing vests and shouting slogans. One was stout and had a pot haircut.
A man wearing a vest followed beside him, shouting loudly from time to time.
This is the Chen Sigen detachment of the special reconnaissance team that arrived here not long ago. After arriving, they are stepping up cold training. With them here, Lu Wenyuan feels a little relieved - the machine guns they are equipped with are powerful weapons.
Due to the weather, the Shandong detachment of the northward detachment that was originally planned to arrive a week ago did not arrive on time by ferry. The main force is still stranded in Taiwan. Only one advance company carrying four 48-pound naval guns landed on the scheduled date. Now it is in full swing
Build artillery emplacements.
He looked at his watch. Today was November 1, 1631. According to the normal historical trajectory, yesterday, October 31, 1631, Kong Youde, who was sent to Liaodong by Sun Yuanhua to reinforce the Ming army, returned to the army.
When passing through Wuqiao, due to lack of supplies, his soldiers "grabbed food on the spot" and clashed with local gentry. The whole army was in commotion, Kong Youde was kidnapped, and a mutiny broke out. A Dengzhou Rebellion that lasted for nearly two years officially began.
prelude.
Although Qimu Island is quite remote, it is within the territory of Huang County, and it is the place where the rebels and officers and soldiers repeatedly clashed. In the highly mobile situation of the rebels, who are mainly cavalry, no one can guarantee that the war will not spread to this place.
, Lu Wenyuan must have sufficient means of self-protection - especially now that the northward detachment has not yet been in place.
He looked at the sea, hoping to see the black smoke and sail shadows of the fleet on the horizon, but there was nothing - the sea was empty.
Lu Wenyuan sighed and walked back - on the bastion, the soldiers were doing artillery drills in full swing. Some people simply took off their thick woolen jackets and practiced in only single clothes. But the atmosphere did not change.
Infected. He returned to the meeting room at the farm gloomily and asked his secretary again, "Is there any new news from Taiwan?"
"There is no new news." The secretary replied, but she added a new situation: a telegram was sent from Yizhou ten minutes ago.
The content of the telegram was to inquire about the reception capacity of the Qimu Island refugee camp. If possible, he planned to transfer some of the refugees to Qimu Island.
Zhang Daochang has made brilliant achievements in the direction of Yizhou. Using the power of the Dadianzhuang family, he has not only established a firm foothold, but also carried out the operation of taking in refugees in the name of charity. Not long ago, he experimentally transported a group of refugees to Yizhou.
sent a group of refugees to Qimu Island to verify whether the refugee transportation route he planned was feasible.
"Call back to Yizhou and don't send any more refugees for the time being. The current situation in Shandong is unclear and it may be difficult to keep the roads open..."
While he was dictating the contents of the call back, Chen Sigen walked in - this muscular man with a well-proportioned figure and a red face, who was a fitness coach. While wiping his sweat with a towel, he said with a smile: "Would you like to follow me and take a sauna every day and then work out again?"
Exercise will keep your whole body warm and you won't be afraid of the cold in winter."
"Thank you. I don't plan to steam it first and then freeze it." Lu Wenyuan said feebly, taking out a seal from his inner pocket and stamping it on the message, "Send it out immediately."
After Chen Sigen arrived on Qimu Island, he immediately built a sauna by himself, took the soldiers to use the sauna every day, and then took them to run in the wilderness wearing vests - according to him, this is to improve the body's cold resistance.
Best way: Finns and Russians both love saunas.
Lu Wenyuan sent his secretary and then said to Chen Sigen: "Old Chen, if the rebels attack now, do you think we can withstand it?"
Chen Sigen was stunned for a moment, then immediately laughed: "It's not about whether we can withstand it, it's about how we can fight more beautifully..."
"That's a bit of an exaggeration - Kong Youde still has more than 2,000 capable Liaodong cavalry."
"Have the cavalry ever heard of machine guns?" Chen Sigen said, "Let alone machine guns. My detachment is full of automatic weapons. Basically, after a round of concentrated fire, the enemy will definitely disperse. It is difficult to fight an annihilation battle. It is impossible to fight a rout battle.
Question." He patted Lu Wenyuan on the shoulder - the force was so strong that he almost fell down, "Besides there are the advance company and those cannons, this alone is enough for Kong Youde to drink a pot."
Although Chen Sigen said this, Lu Wenyuan was still a little worried. He had sent a group of spies to be active on the road leading to Huang County every day in order to detect the arrival of the rebels in time.
Chen Sigen was not interested in Kong Youde - Kong Youde's fate had already been decided when the Senate decided to intervene. He led the special reconnaissance team to participate in Operation Engine. In addition to providing special warfare support for the entire operation, he also had another responsibility
mission.
The basic attitude of the Engine Operation Command towards the Dengzhou Rebellion is "ordered chaos," which means that the turmoil should be expanded to the entire Dongsan Prefecture, create as many refugees as possible, and then accommodate them. However, they
After all, the country's military projection and personnel transport capabilities are limited, and the number of people that can be rushed at each period of time is limited. In order to avoid losing too much population and social wealth, the chaotic situation must be controlled and "rhythmic" at the same time.
Make sure that the places that should be messy are in chaos, and the places that shouldn’t be messy are absolutely not messy. (To be continued.