"Nine times out of ten." Lin Chuan counted a cigarette, and everyone fell into silent thinking. Where did this ship come from? How did it travel through time and space to get here? Is it the disturbance of the wormhole, or is it this
The sea area itself is a wormhole: it is the 17th century above the sea, and the 21st century under the sea? Has anyone else traveled through it? Is he dead or alive now? If alive, where is he at this moment? How would he view them?
Ambitious adventurers? Are you friendly or hostile to them...
A series of questions are swirling in everyone's mind, and no one can answer them.
After discussing for a while, everyone decided to take advantage of the fact that the sun had not yet set to go into the water a few more times and search the boat thoroughly.
Then Zhou Weisen, Lin Chuanqing and Gao Xiaosong took turns in the water - Gao Xiaosong knew a little snorkeling. They surveyed the area around the sunken ship and then sneaked into the cabin. Except for the locked cabin and the engine room with complex terrain, Zhou Weisen went in and inspected almost everything.
Some things were fished out.
During these several dives, they discovered the remains of a human body, which fell under the reef far away from the sunken ship. If the oilcloth wrapped around the body had not been torn by sharks, they would not have noticed it. The body had been
Sharks and various sea creatures were completely destroyed. Octopuses and crabs are still having dinner parties on it.
In order to find out the truth, even though it was disgusting, everyone fished out the corpse.
Although there are still some muscles and skin left on the corpse, the appearance is completely unrecognizable. However, judging from the color of the remaining hair, it is an Indo-European race. This person was wrapped in a piece of oilcloth used for ships, and there were still hanging ropes on his feet.
Two heavy dumbbells. It looks like they were probably buried at sea. This person should be one of the passengers on the sunken ship.
"Do you want to take the body back?"
"Of course, this is an important clue."
So we had to wrap up the carcass again. Fortunately, marine life had already done most of the cleaning work. It was the Ministry of Health's job to clean up the carcass after it was transported back.
They continued to expand the search around the sunken ship, but no more human remains were found. There were some deep trenches on the edge of the reef, and they were unable to go down to search. One thing is certain, the survivors on the ship buried their dead at sea.
Already left here - Zhou Weisen found that one of the two sampans on the deck was missing, and some equipment in the cabin also showed signs of being taken away. Judging from the lack of large-scale oil leakage in the surrounding environment, it should be the fuel in the ship
After it was exhausted, the people above sank the ship themselves. Why they did this is unknown.
"There should be at least one person on the boat and at most eight people." Lin Chuanqing reasoned.
Gao Xiaosong said: "The sampan can only carry eight passengers at most?"
"Yes, and I think there were only two or three people when they abandoned the ship, otherwise it would be difficult to explain why they didn't take more food - if there was a shipwreck, shouldn't we take as much supplies as possible? If it were me, I would take two ships
Take all the sampans with you. Two people are responsible for one sampan and can bring a lot more things."
"It seems that there is indeed another group of people who came to this time and space, most of them Americans." Gao Xiaosong concluded, "I think we must be more vigilant. They sank the ship. Obviously they didn't want anyone to find them. They sank so hard.
It's neat and tidy, probably to facilitate future salvage."
"Maybe it's someone from the U.S. Space-Time Administration who is causing trouble."
"The Space and Time Management Bureau is also managed by Americans? At least it is under the United Nations organization."
Regardless of whether the visitor is the Time and Space Administration or an accidental participant like the Ming family in the Qiongzhou Strait, it is other people from this time and space who have come here. As for what they want to do and how the time travel group plans to treat them, this is not
It was something Gao Xiaosong and the others had to consider.
However, everyone agreed that the ship should be salvaged. If repaired, it should be a good ship.
Bai Guoshi said: "The displacement of this ship is also 100 tons, which is no worse than the 8154 fishing vessel currently used by the navy. The outer shell is not damaged. It should not be difficult to repair. And there are a lot of supplies on the ship that we can use. Soak in sea water.
If you leave it in for a long time, it will be ruined.”
After returning to Lingao, the expedition team submitted two reports to the Executive Committee and participated in two action report meetings. One was included in the weekly bulletin - according to Xiao Zishan's proposal, it is now published internally by the Executive Committee at the weekly meeting.
A government communiqué reporting various major events that occurred this week and the operating status of various departments of the executive committee, and recording events. As a manifestation of "open government affairs".
Listed in the government gazette is a report on the Dongsha Island inspection. There is also a report on the sunken ship. This report is currently top secret, and apart from the parties involved, only a few key leaders in the executive committee know about it.
Ma Qianzhu soon received another report. This report was sent by Ran Yao personally. It was a surveillance report on Zhou Weisen and Lin Chuanqing written by a time traveler in the expedition team. The report clearly stated,
There was nothing unusual about them during the entire inspection.
Ran Yao waited for Ma Qianzhu to finish reading and fell into deep thought for a few minutes before reminding him: "Duke! Have you finished reading?"
"Huh? You've finished reading." Ma Qianxu showed a relaxed expression, "This is the best!"
"Yes, I personally think that the North American public is beyond doubt."
Ma Qianzhu nodded, put the report on the gas lamp and lit it. Watching it turn into ashes - Ran Yao breathed a sigh of relief. He had originally planned to take back the paper and destroy it.
Subsequently, a secret meeting attended by the expedition team was held. Bai Guoshi's proposal to salvage the sunken ship as a whole was rejected. Although the ship would be extremely useful to the Crossing Group after being salvaged and repaired, Wang Luobin believed that there would be no difficulty in salvaging it - since the hull
The structure is well preserved and the water depth is not very deep. With the ability of the work ability committee member, it can be salvaged as a whole.
However, once the ship is salvaged and towed to Bopu, the secret that an "unplanned" ship has arrived in this time and space cannot be hidden from anyone. The executive committee considered it over and over again and decided that the matter should still be kept secret.
"We first salvaged the useful materials and equipment on the ship in batches." Ma Qianxu said, "According to the report of the expedition team, there are a lot of abandoned things inside. It would be a pity if they were soaked."
"Food, medicine, tools, and small equipment are all useful to us."
"Maybe they'll find boxes of heroin, cocaine or marijuana."
"It's a pity that these things are of no use to us - it would be better if they were arms smuggling ships."
If it is an arms smuggling ship, there will definitely be a large number of weapons and ammunition on it. Although they feel that there is no shortage of light weapons, it is still exciting to have an automatic weapon such as an AK47 in hand.
"It's very depressing if what we have to fish out is a portable anti-aircraft missile."
"Hahaha." The meeting room laughed.
"Is it too early for you to be happy?" Wen Desi said slowly, "Where are the people on the ship? Don't forget this crucial matter."
"It's not a big problem." Ran Yao said, "The expedition team believed that there were so few people on the ship that they could only take away one sampan. And they didn't take away many useful supplies. Obviously they didn't have enough manpower. A few lonely travelers.
, even if it is not submerged by the sea, it will not cause too big waves."
"Will there be other ships together?"
"The possibility is extremely small, otherwise wouldn't it be a pity to just abandon the things on the sunken ship? Even if they don't know that this is another time and space, the more food and medicine are always the better when encountering an emergency at sea."
"I'm not worried that they can become a force - the five hundred of us who are fully prepared are just such a small situation, and they can't handle it. The key is that we are afraid that they will defect to a certain opponent. In this way, our
All the trump cards have been revealed. This is the most important thing." Wen Desi was very concerned about this.
"There is nothing we can do about this, it is completely beyond our control. We have no choice but to intensify our vigilance and arrest any suspicious persons or kill them on the spot," Ma Qianzhu said in a deep voice.
At this time, Shi Niaoren came to the conference room and brought an autopsy report.
"The body found by the expedition team next to the sunken ship was examined by us: male, aged between thirty-five and forty years old, of Indo-European race. It was found that his residual hair was brown. He was 1.87 meters tall and very muscular.
He is well developed and his weight is estimated to be around 100 kilograms."
"He's a strong man——"
"That's right, everyone will be more interested in listening next." Shi Niaoren said, "According to the bones and remains of the corpse, this man suffered many injuries during his life, including gunshot wounds..."
"Being shot to death?"
"No, the gunshot wound is an old injury. Based on the healing condition of the bone, it should have been many years ago."
…
To sum up, the deceased was a mature man, tall and strong, who had been injured many times. Shi Niaoren thought: he should be a soldier.
"At least he is someone who deals with danger." Ran Yao said, "He should be a soldier or law enforcement officer."
"The Space-Time Management Bureau is also a law enforcement agency."
"Stop telling such cold jokes."
Ran Yao suddenly remembered something.
"Do you still remember something we reported at our observation post outside the county in the days after D-Day?"
"What?"
"In the Ming army heading to the county for reinforcements, a European prisoner was escorted."
"I don't remember. Is this happening?" Several people pricked up their ears.
"Of course." Ran Yao said, "Li Jun and Wei Aiwen witnessed it. Their reports should be in the archives."
"Bring it in quickly!"
This report contained very little about the matter. It only reported that a European-looking prisoner was found in the team. There were no details at all.
"Is this happening? Is he still in the county jail in Lingao?" Wen Desi shouted after seeing it.
"I never asked——"
"Tell Xiong Buyou to go into the city immediately to investigate this matter. Is this European still in Lingao? Has he brought anything, said anything, and where is he now..."
"Mr. Wen, don't be so excited," Wu De comforted you, "You forgot something, the time is not right."
According to Ran Yao, the appearance of Europeans was witnessed just a few days after D-Day. It is so far away from the Dongsha Islands that even if this European-looking man came from a ship, he would not have been able to arrive in such a fast time.
Captured in Lingao.
"It's hard to tell about space-time disturbances!"
At Wen Desi's insistence, Xiong Buyou, who was teaching Mandarin in a national school and learning dialects on his own, was suddenly given the task. He didn't know what was going on for a while - he didn't remember any Europeans in the county!
Xiong Buyou now works for the Foreign Commercial Committee, specializing in dealing with Lingao County Government. Recently, he is studying the procedures of the Ming Dynasty County Government, and is preparing to "collect taxes" and take over the county government when the time comes. For this purpose,
He has been in frequent contact with various people in the county government, and he has also extended small favors from time to time. Over the past few months, he has become very familiar with them.
Regarding this matter, he went directly to the prison boss at the county government office. The prison boss told him with certainty that at the same time as they arrived, a Westerner was escorted by the deputy. They said he found him at the beach and sent him to him.
After that, he was detained in the county government office.
"Is anyone still there now?"
"It's long gone. He was sent directly to Fucheng. He was probably a red-haired man from Xiangshan'ao who fell into a shipwreck."
"Did he bring anything or clothes with him?"
"What else could be left behind if it fell into the hands of the deputy?" the prison boss said with a smile, "Besides, it was fished out of the sea, and it doesn't even have a complete piece of clothing on it, so what else could be there."
As for the origin of this person - there is no official in Lingao County, and the red-haired man cannot speak Chinese. Naturally, there is no interrogation record to be seen.
The results of Xiong Buyou's investigation disappointed everyone in the executive committee - it seemed that this person was unlikely to be a sailor on the sunken ship.
The plan to salvage the sunken ship's materials was passed. Lin Chuanqing and others were still in charge. In order to ensure the safety of the salvage, the Executive Committee sent a fishing boat to perform the task. The ship also brought many materials and equipment needed for salvage. All
Our crew members are carefully selected to ensure absolute reliability and non-garrulousness.
Fu Fuji came out of the Tiandihui office building in a daze, and his mind still couldn't wrap his head around it for a while - did he do the right thing or the wrong thing this time?
Because I only said I had fifty acres of land when I signed up, I became a "middle farmer" when dividing the customer groups. When I held a promotion meeting, I saw several small landowners from neighboring villages who had less land than myself signed up.
He signed a service contract, and it was said that Australians from the Tiandi Society would go to the countryside to deliver seeds and help with farming, but he only got an order for ten chicks, what kind of subscription-based breeding. This made him anxious.
——Chickens, he has dozens of them in his own yard, why should he be like a poor barbarian and raise chicks on credit? Australian seeds are the most important thing.
He quickly ran to ask the clerk of Tiandihui.
"That's right," the clerk said, "you only have 50 acres of land, and you are just a middle farmer. The seeds you want are planting technical services. At present, they are only for self-owned land of more than 100 acres. At the same time, you personally manage the planting.
Producing grain households."
Fu Bu'er didn't understand what a middle peasant was, but he understood that his land area was not enough. He was at a loss for words, so he could only hesitantly say that his land was not just fifty acres, but one hundred acres - in fact, he owned two acres of land.
One hundred acres.
"Then you have to get the land deed first - you just have nothing to prove."
When Fu Buyer returned home, he was scolded by his wife again, saying that he had to jump into the fire pit because the lamp oil burned his heart. Being a representative didn't matter, and he had to give his land to the thief for nothing. This quarrel
The trouble caused him to give up and take a gamble - he still took the title deed to the Heaven and Earth Society for inspection.
"Two hundred and twenty-seven acres." The clerk checked the land deed and said, "They are all grown by me? Are they not leased to others?"
"They are all grown by me as a child with my domestic slaves and long-term workers." Fu Buer replied.
"Okay, just sign this contract."
Fu Buer didn't know how to read, so he had to ask the clerk to read it to him. In fact, it was a contract that stipulated the rights and obligations of both parties. The seeds, fertilizers and pesticides provided by Tiandihui were all charged according to quantity, and at the same time,
They charge technical service fees. This fee and that fee made Fu Buer want to back off. Finally, he heard that the first year is the promotion stage, and except for seeds and technical service fees, other fees are exempted. Then he breathed a sigh of relief, and now
I made a pledge and thought that as long as I received the seeds in the first year, I would not join your Laoshizi Heaven and Earth Society.
Also participating in the Tiandihui is Zhang Youfu, a capable person in the county. Zhang Youfu is now a consultant to the Civil Affairs Committee and can receive a consultant's allowance every month - according to the traditional classification method, Zhang Youfu is a traitor and a scoundrel.
, specializing in serving as a consultant to the Civil Affairs Commissioner when dealing with local people. Wu De looked at him very closely, and would not give him a confirmed name, nor let him work alone, lest this person would act arrogantly and corrupt the time travel.
The reputation of the group.
Zhang Youfu doesn't have much land, and he has no enthusiasm for land management. He was mobilized by Wu De to participate in the Tiandi Association - he thinks it doesn't matter, since he usually leaves it to the long-term workers to farm. Australians are willing to go to any trouble and Tiandi Association will help.
It's also good to farm.
In addition to them, there are also some small and medium-sized landowners and rich farmers from various places. Most of the land is between 100 and 300 acres. As expected, most of the landowners in the county have doubts about this matter, although many
People came to inquire about how to buy seeds, but they backed down when they heard that they had to join the Tiandihui to obtain technical services. In the end, there were eleven customers in the first phase of the planting service industry. One of them was unexpected -
It is the teaching of the county academy.
No one expected that Mr. Dong Heng, the teacher at the county school, would do such a bold thing. In fact, he had no choice but to do so.
The county's eunuch, Wang Ci, was an old scholar and had been a "poor official" in the county for many years. In the Ming Dynasty, Lingao's education was still developed in Hainan. In addition to the county school, there were two private "academies"
" Among them, the famous Molixuan Academy by the Wenlan River can be traced back to the Song Dynasty. Private schools in rural areas are not uncommon. However, the condition of county schools is quite bad.