Eggs, it's really no wonder that Dongfang Harbor, the crossing people brought six pairs of chickens when they crossed, including broilers and laying hens, but there is a problem here, these chickens have been looking for a place to hide in the chicken pen since they crossed over, and they don't eat much, not to mention laying eggs, they haven't grown anything, and now they are thinner. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Info Originally, several veterans in charge of poultry breeding at the agricultural port said that these chickens were new to a place, and the unfamiliar environment was a little nervous, which was normal, but now it is the fourth month, and the egg production is still very low, and these chickens have no intention of hatching eggs. Up to now, the production of eggs in the crossing is still very low, and there is no egg that can be taken out except for barely enough to ensure that the underage elders can take out one egg a day.

This thing made Tang Shuai so worried that his white hair came out a lot, eggs were a common ingredient in the old time and space, but they were very few in this time and space, and they were almost invisible, although they had seen old hens sold in the farmers' market in Dongfang Port, but the price of those old hens was not cheap, not to mention, the key was that they could not lay eggs. At present, the ingredients and condiments he cooks are getting less and less, although he has always been known for his delicious dishes when he opened a restaurant in his early years, but now it is simply difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice. He also approached the executive committee several times, but several people in the executive committee were also at a loss - the executive committee can't control this chicken if it doesn't lay eggs, so you can't kill the chicken to show the chicken, right?

Sun Wenbin can only reply to everyone who asks when there will be eggs to eat - when will the chickens start laying eggs in large quantities, and when will it be resolved.

At the moment, no one knew that Zheng Zhihu's cold snort was aimed at the egg, and they all thought that they were dissatisfied with Du Yande's sigh, Xu Wei hurriedly pulled Zheng Zhihu and quietly comforted him, and Gu Qingqian on the other side also looked at Du Yande with doubtful eyes.

"What's wrong? Lao Du, what is worthy of your sigh like this? A veteran of the Ministry of Commerce on the side came over and asked.

Du Yande couldn't help but smile bitterly, "It's not a problem with oil shale?" All this good oil shale has been delivered, and we don't know where it came from. ”

"yes," the patriarch nodded.

Xu Wei's ears were sharp, and he hurriedly asked, "I don't know what the rock Mr. Du is talking about?" ”

Du Yande was stunned, the distance between them was a full five meters, and he could actually hear the whispers here, what kind of ear is this Xu Wei?

But after thinking about it, people are also people who have been on the sea all year round, and maybe they have seen it, so they immediately opened a slip for a naturalized citizen to take a few pieces of oil shale ore from the warehouse and show them.

Oil shale starts, Xu Wei couldn't help but shake his head on the spot, he has never seen this kind of stone. The Traversal side didn't have much hope in the first place, and was ready to continue to negotiate the terms of the business just now. A hand reached out from the diagonal thorn and picked up a piece of oil shale ore on the table. Everyone was stunned, and turned to see that it was Zheng Zhihu. Zheng Zhihu picked up this oil shale with a big grin, "Isn't this an oil stone?" ”

Zhou Lihang, who was present, immediately jumped up, "Have you seen it anywhere?" ”

Zheng Zhihu was stunned for a moment, "This thing is everywhere in the Nanban territory, but it's just far away. I wonder what you want to do with this broken stone? It is dirty and smelly, and it will also produce oil stains when it accumulates, which is not easy to clean. ”

The traversing crowd immediately boiled, Du Yande rushed to Zheng Zhihu in three steps and two steps, holding his hand that did not hold the ore with both hands and trembling like chaff for a while, "May I ask Mr. Zheng where this oil stone is the most in Nanban?" ”

Zheng Zhihu was taken aback by Du Yande's almost crazy move, and couldn't help but take his hand back like an electric shock, "This thing is not unusual, there are many islands in the territory of Nanban, and some islands are even entire mountains. ”

Du Yande immediately turned around and rushed out, which startled several people in the Zheng family, and I don't know if this "executive committee" suddenly lost his mind.

Out of the conference room, Du Yande went straight to the Navy Headquarters and rushed into the duty room to see that Bu Zhongfu and Yang Junbo were bragging about it. As soon as the two of them saw Du Yande rushing in, sweating profusely and panting like a cow, chickens and dogs jumping, and hurriedly took out their mobile phones, and watched the radio - there was no battle alarm, why did Du Yande rush in so quickly? Could it be something?

"Do we have a ship that we can sail far?" Du Yande finally smoothed out his breath, and asked, "The kind that can drift south across the ocean." ”

As soon as the two of them heard this question, they immediately relaxed, it was not a battle alarm, "How far is it?" Offshore or far sea? Bu Zhongfu asked.

Du Yande was also stunned, he didn't know where Nanban's territory was at all, so he told the news he had just heard from Zheng Zhihu in detail.

"Let's do this," Yang Junbo listened to Du Yande's narration, "I remember that the battle report mentioned that our special reconnaissance team once captured the staff officer of the Nanban Command, right?" Since the Medeno people have been adrift at sea all the year round, they must be quite familiar with this chart, so it is better to ask the two captured staff officers directly. ”

"There is another point," Bu Zhongfu added on the side, "there are very few of our ships that can carry out ocean-going exploration at the moment, although the 8154 can wander in the near sea, and the far sea can go out by gritting its teeth, but if it encounters a storm or something, it will definitely die, and there is also a fatal constraint, that is, the lack of fuel, our current diesel reserves have bottomed out, and we are allowed to go out on patrol less than once a month." 8154 uses a 441 kilowatt diesel engine, this 600 horsepower diesel engine consumes the same fuel as playing, and it consumes more than 100 kilograms of diesel in an hour, and we can't afford to consume it at all. ”

"By the way, didn't someone in the base before the crossing propose some biodiesel? Why haven't we developed biodiesel yet? Yang Junbo asked curiously.

"Don't mention biodiesel, do we have gutter oil now?" Du Yande couldn't help but smile bitterly, now Tang Shuai is coming to him every day to ask for oil, lard must be hopeless, although vegetable oil finds some oil crops, but the amount is too small, a day's output can't catch up with a day's consumption, gutter oil is definitely not to be counted on, as for bagasse and other things at all, even if there is, it will take a long time to ferment to get out.

"Then I'm afraid we can only hope for sailboats now." Yang Junbo's eyebrows fluttered as he spoke, and at a glance, he knew that he wanted to let his sail fleet plan be in the limelight.

"Your Chunxiao?" Bu Zhongfu couldn't help twitching the corners of his mouth, "Your boat runs slowly, if you encounter an enemy situation at sea, you can barely fight a dozen, but if you can't beat and damage the oars, you can only wait for death on the sea." Besides, if it encounters a large fleet, the ammunition reserves on the ship will probably not be enough. When the time comes, you can't beat others, and you can't escape from others, I think you should do something? ”

"What then? Is it to tow a cruiser to sea with a sailboat? Yang Junbo couldn't help but feel a little depressed, and finally got on an expedition mission that had the opportunity to cruise in the ocean, but he was said by Bu Zhongfu to be useless.

"Let's not talk about endurance, if we go to find oil shale, we will definitely have to go ashore, what is going on ashore? It's definitely going to be the Marines. Bu Zhongfu said and sat on the desk next to him, "Without the Marine Corps, I definitely don't say anything about going ashore, that is the territory of the Nanban who can eat people raw, if there is no protection, they won't come to the full banquet of the Han Dynasty?" ”

Du Yande and Yang Junbo both nodded, and Bu Zhongfu continued, "If the Marine Corps wants to be able to protect the exploration personnel, we will say that the scale of the exploration personnel is about ten people, and there must be a scale of twenty to forty people to achieve the basic protection capability, and then we also have surveyors to carry out mapping operations, that is to say, the scale of exploration and surveyors and personnel responsible for protection alone can be hundreds at will, plus ammunition reserves, food and drinking water, they must occupy a considerable tonnage." Even if we only bring a RO desaliner, food is a big problem. ”

"What then?" Du Yande is a little anxious, as long as the fuel problem is solved, it will be a great improvement for the industrial system of the entire Oriental Port. Although the materials of the steel mill are sometimes good and sometimes bad, the casting department said that this is not too much of a problem, and the existing materials can make ordinary diesel engines, the premise is to have diesel and lubricating oil. So now it's basically all about everything but the east wind, and this east wind is far away where you don't even know where it is.

"We don't have enough available ships to carry out ocean-going exploration, and it's impossible to solve it ourselves." Bu Zhongfu slapped his leg, as if he had directly burst the soap bubble in Du Yande's mind.

Yang Junbo also sat back on the stool a little depressed, "If only those two Victory-class ships could be used." ”

The Victory-class is a Sharp-class battleship captured from the Medeno Navy, which has been parked in harbor since it was captured by the Crossing Crowd in December due to its lack of ability to modify the ship. Now that the two Victory classes are moored next to the Dongfeng, even the Maidno people are exclaiming that this Dongfeng is not much smaller than their own sea city.

According to the modification plan proposed by the Crossing Navy, the original sail cable system of the Victory class could be used, but a steam propulsion system would be added, and a large paddle wheel would be added to the rear for propulsion. At the same time, 72 guns of various types on the ship were sent to the steel factory for refurnace, although these cannons can be regarded as militaristic weapons in this time and space, but in the eyes of the traversers, this kind of cannon that can only throw bowling balls is not as powerful as the spring cannon. In the revised plan proposed by the Navy after discussions, the Victory class will be equipped with 10 spring guns and 20 1628 carrier-based machine guns, with a crew of 400 people, and according to their calculations, such a large warship with a displacement of 3,600 tons can reach a maximum speed of 10 knots.

But the problem is that the installation of a steam propulsion system is almost equivalent to an overhaul, and the slipway of such a ship with a displacement of more than three thousand tons does not need to be considered, there is no such force to pull her up. There is only one option for overhauling such a vessel, and that is dry docking.

Although the proposal to establish a dry dock had been submitted to Yang Minghuan twice, the executive committee had rejected the proposal at several meetings because there seemed to be too many things that seemed much more important than dry dock at that time. But now that oil shale has appeared, everything that previously seemed important is less important than dry docking.

"Yes, if you want the Victory class to be usable, you must build a dry dock immediately, this thing can't be repaired today and tomorrow, the cement curing period alone is at least twenty-eight days." Bu Zhongfu pointed to the electric light in the duty room as he spoke. "Let's just say that the hydropower unit we engaged in before, because of the lack of maintenance time on the front of the pressure pool, it was only a few days to put into use, and now Pan Dai is complaining every day that there are cracks in many places in the pressure front pool, and I am afraid that the pressure front pool will be overhauled after the cement plant is officially put into operation."

"In addition, the dry dock for 3,600-ton ships is not small, and the ships we want to build in the future must not only use 3,600 tons, so it is best to build a 5,000-ton dry dock in one step and directly build a 5,000-ton dry dock. A dry dock of 5,000 tons is quite large, not to mention the dimensions of the Victory class, so it must be at least 120 meters long, at least 20 meters wide, and at least 8 meters deep. In addition, a large number of iron castings and nails are needed for modification, and the bottom of the ship must be removed from attached barnacles and other organisms, and tar must be brushed to prevent corrosion and moth. ”

"Oh my God, so many things?" Du Yande couldn't help but sigh.

"Yes," Yang Junbo said, "There is basically no difference between ship overhaul and shipbuilding, and the wood used is also very strict, for example, the wood used must be dried for two years, and we don't have it at all, our wood is dried in the drying workshop for twenty-four hours and then taken out and used." If you want me to say, all the brick and wood houses we have built now have hidden dangers, and they have not been treated with mothproof, and if there is a termite infestation, we will have a big problem here. ”

Du Yande couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded, he had never been in contact with shipbuilding at all, and now when he heard Yang Junbo and Bu Zhongfu say, he couldn't help but be deflated, if the dry dock is built, at least it will be half a year later, and then until the wood is dry, this ship will not be useful next year.

"So the Navy can't do this exploration now?"

"With the strength we have, this is impossible." Bu Zhongfu said very simply.

Yang Junbo has a lot of ideas, "I have an idea, but it's a bit rancid." ”

"Say it," Du Yande felt as if a person who was about to drown suddenly grabbed a life-saving straw, "I'm not afraid of bad ideas, as long as it's a useful idea, it's definitely not a bad idea." ”

Yang Junbo nodded and said, "Let's directly use the captured Medeno sailors and captains, plus some of our marines, and go directly to the sea to survey." We are all talking on paper, but they have all crossed the ocean, they are definitely not afraid of ocean sailing, and they have much more experience than us. What do you think of this? ”