"So, they come from the same time and space. [Read the latest chapter]"
"Most likely." Lin Chuan counted the cigarettes. Several people fell into silent thinking. Where did this boat come from? How did it travel through time and space to get here? Is it the disturbance of the wormhole, or is this sea area itself a wormhole: the 17th century on the sea, and the 21st century under the sea? Has anyone else traveled through time? Is he dead or alive now? If alive, where are you now? What would he think of these ambitious adventurers? Are you friendly or hostile towards them...
A series of questions circled in everyone's mind, and no one could answer them.
Everyone discussed it for a while and decided to take advantage of the fact that the sun had not set yet, to go into the water a few more times and search the boat thoroughly.
Then Zhou Weisen, Lin Chuanqing and Gao Xiaosong took turns entering the water - Gao Xiaosong knew a little snorkeling. After surveying the surroundings of the sunken ship, he sneaked into the cabin. Except for the locked cabin and the engine room with complex terrain, Zhou Weisen went in and inspected almost everything, and fished out some things.
During these 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 him hadn't been torn by sharks, he wouldn't have noticed. The carcass had been completely destroyed by sharks and various sea creatures. 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 head, it is an Indo-European race. The man was wrapped in a ship's tarpaulin, with two heavy dumbbells hanging from his feet. It looks like it was probably buried at sea. This man 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 the remains had to be wrapped up again. Fortunately, marine life has done most of the cleanup work. It is the job of the Ministry of Health to clean up the corpses after they are transported back.
They continued to expand the search around the sunken ship, but no human remains were found. There were also some deep trenches on the edge of the reef, and they were unable to search. One thing is certain, the survivors on the ship have left here after burying the dead at sea - 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. Considering that there are no traces of large-scale oil leakage in the surrounding environment, it seems that the people on top sank the ship themselves after the fuel in the ship ran out. As for why this is done, it is unknown.
"There should be at least one person on the boat and at most eight people." Lin Chuanqing reasoned.
Gao Xiaosong said: "A 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, so they 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 because they didn't want anyone to find them. They sank. It's probably to make it easier to salvage in the future."
"Maybe it's someone from the U.S. Space-Time Administration who's 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.
But everyone agreed that the ship should be salvaged. It should be a nice ship with some repairs.
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 the second action report meeting. Once it was included in the weekly bulletin - based on Xiao Zishan's proposal. The Executive Committee now publishes a government communiqué every week, reporting on various major events that occurred during the week and the operating status and notes of each department of the Executive Committee. As a manifestation of "open government affairs".
Included in the government gazette is the report on the inspection of Dongsha Island. Another is their 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 personally by Ran Yao. It was a surveillance report on Zhou Weisen and Lin Chuanqing written by a time traveler in the expedition team. The report clearly stated that 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? I've finished reading." Ma Qianzhu said with 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.
A secret meeting followed with the participation of the expedition team. Bai Guoshi's proposal to salvage the sunken ship as a whole was rejected. Although the ship was recovered and repaired, it would be extremely useful to the Crossing Group. In terms of salvage, Wang Luobin believed that there would be no difficulty - since the hull structure was well preserved and the water depth was not large, with work ability The abilities of the committee members can be salvaged as a whole.
But 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 the matter again and again and decided to keep it confidential.
"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, gadgets, etc. are all useful to us."
"You might even 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 it were an arms smuggling ship."
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 A47 in their hands.
"It's very depressing if the portable anti-aircraft missiles we need to fish out."
"Hahaha." The meeting room laughed.
"Aren't you happy too early?" 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 a sampan. And they didn't take away a lot of useful supplies. Obviously they didn't have enough manpower. A few lonely travelers , even if it’s not submerged by the sea, it won’t cause too many waves.”
"Will there be other ships together?"
"The possibility is extremely small, otherwise wouldn't it be a pity to abandon the things on the sunken ship like this? Even if they don't know that this is in 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 vote for an opponent. This is our trump card All of them came out. This is the most important thing." Wen Desi was very concerned about this.
"There's nothing we can do about this. It's 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 near the sunken ship was examined by us: male, aged between thirty-five and forty years old, of Indo-European race, and the remaining hair extracted from him was brown. He was 1.87 meters tall and very muscular. Da, the weight is estimated to be around 1oo 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 person 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 it up, the deceased was a mature man, tall and strong, who had suffered many injuries. Shi Niaoren thought: This 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 the case?" 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."
"Get it 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, you don't have to be so excited," Wu De comforted, "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. Lingao was captured.
"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 serves at the Foreign Trade Commission. Specialized in dealing with Lingao County Government. Recently, he has been studying diligently the procedures of the county government in the Ming Dynasty, and is preparing to "collect taxes" and take over the county government as soon as the opportunity 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.
He went directly to the county prison chief about this matter. 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 was found at the beach and was imprisoned in the county government office after being sent.
"Is anyone still there now?"
"He'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. It doesn't even have a single 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 or anything like that.
The results of Xiong Buyou's investigation disappointed everyone on the executive committee - it seemed that this person was unlikely to be a sailor on the sunken ship.
The plan to salvage shipwreck materials was approved. Lin Chuanqing and others are still in charge. In order to ensure the safety of salvage, the Executive Committee dispatched a fishing vessel to perform the task. The ship also brought many supplies and equipment needed for salvage. All crew members are carefully selected and guaranteed to be absolutely pleasant and not too talkative.
Fu Buyer came out of the office building of Tiandihui 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 my customer groups. When I held a promotion meeting, I saw several small landowners in neighboring villages who had less land than my own signed service contracts. It was said that Australians from the Tiandi Society would go to the countryside to deliver seeds and help with farming, but I only got what I wanted. Get an order for ten chickens and engage in order-based breeding. Now he was very anxious - he had dozens of chickens in his own yard, could he still be like a poor barbarian and raise chickens on credit? Australian seeds are what matters most.
He hurriedly ran to ask the clerk of Tiandihui.
"That's right," the clerk said, "you only have fifty 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 one hundred acres. At the same time, you personally manage the planting. Producing grain farmers.”
Fu Buer doesn't understand what a middle peasant is, but he understands that his land area is not enough. At a loss for words, he could only hesitantly say that his land was not just 50 acres, but 100 acres - in fact, he owned 200 acres of land.
"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. It doesn't matter what kind of representative he is, he has to give his land to the thieves for nothing. The quarrel made him hesitate and take a gamble - he still took the title deed to the Tiandi Meeting for inspection.
"Two hundred and twenty-seven acres." The clerk checked the land deed. "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 couldn't read, so he had to ask the clerk to read it to him. In fact, this was a contract, stipulating the rights and obligations of both parties. The seeds, fertilizers and pesticides provided by Tiandihui are charged based on quantity, and technical service fees are also charged. This one costs money, that one costs money. After hearing this, Fu Buer wanted to back down. Last I heard, the first year is the promotion stage. Except for seed and technical service fees, other fees are waived. Then he breathed a sigh of relief and made the pledge immediately. I 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 was Zhang Youfu, a capable person in the county. Zhang Youfu is now a consultant to the Civil Affairs Committee, and he can receive a consultant's allowance every month - according to the traditional classification method, Zhang Youfu is a scumbag, specializing in consulting for the Civil Affairs Committee when dealing with local people. Wu De watched him very closely, and would not give him a title to confirm, nor let him work alone, lest this person pretend to be powerful and act recklessly. Destroy the reputation of the crossing group.
Zhang Youfu does not have much land and has no enthusiasm for land management. He was mobilized by Wu De to participate in the Tiandi Association - he didn't think it mattered, since he usually left it to the long-term workers to plant. Australians are willing to do whatever it takes to help them farm.
In addition to them, there are also some small and medium-sized landowners and rich farmers in various places. Most of the land is between 100 acres and 300 acres. As expected, most landowners in the county have doubts about this matter. Although many people came to inquire about how to buy seeds, they recoiled when they heard that they had to join the Tiandihui to obtain technical services. In the end, there were eleven planting service customers in the first phase. One of them was something no one expected - it was the teachings of the county school.
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.
Wang Ci, the county magistrate, is an old scholar and has been a "poor official" in the county for many years. In the Ming Dynasty, Lingao's education was still advanced in Hainan. In addition to the county school, there were also two private "academies". Among them, the famous Molixuan Academy on the Wenlan River can be traced back to the Song Dynasty. Private schools in rural areas are not uncommon. However, the situation of the county school is quite bad! ~!
