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The chief naturally wore the winter military coat as he wished, to be honest, the design of this military coat was originally very reflective of the male figure, don't look at this "leader temperament military uniform" sold to the natives, even if there is no special armed belt, it is like other fake military uniforms with a white wide belt at the belt position. The coat was not a vertical strap on both shoulders, but in the style of a monogonal armed belt, and of course only a narrow white cloth belt was sewn on it.

The chief was so pleased with this design that no one in the whole of Orchid Island could wear the same clothes as him, and the effect of his armor belt style being different from everyone else was equivalent to indicating his status. At this moment, the chief wore a Penny hat with a widened brim, and in order to prove his status, all the places where the hat was used to hold camouflage such as branches were fixed by him with the feathers of the bird. What's even more eye-catching is that his hat is not the same as everyone's "green hat", but a red hat with all kinds of feathers pinned to it, don't discuss the camouflage effect, anyway, this hat can be clearly seen from a hundred meters away.

The arrival of these fake military uniforms instantly set off a "military uniform wind" on the island, and all residents of Orchid Island, as long as they are men, will wear them on their bodies. And because it was ordered at the same time as summer and spring and autumn clothes, the quantity was quite large, and almost every male resident of the island had such a set. The status of the island can be easily distinguished from the clothes of these male residents of the island, and if they are of high status, they will definitely wear a full set of spring and autumn clothes, and wear a green high hat on their heads, which are strangely pinned with various leaves, turtle shells or feathers, and both feet are wearing a new style of "splint drags". The status is average, there is no hat to wear, and there is no turn to spring and autumn clothes on the body, in this somewhat cool day, you can only wear short-sleeved shirts and shorts in summer clothes to hang around, most of the feet are directly barefoot, if you can meet a "splint drag", it means that he must have a friend with status, and the relationship with him is still very good. As for the kind of person who wears a pair of shorts or a short-sleeved shirt, although the status is still a little, there should be several brothers in the family, so they can only wear clothes and pants in turns every day, and shoes can only be worn in two rotations.

Such a strange situation made Guo Hao feel unbearable to look at it directly, but the natives on the island were full of interest, in their opinion, wearing such a military uniform was status, not to mention them, even the natives on other islands began to be able to easily distinguish the status reflected in these clothes, and they were all in the way, but all this looked like a beggar gang meeting in Guo Hao's eyes.

However, the members of this group of beggars brought him a lot of good news, as much as twenty tons of oil shale were transported by fifty multihulls on an indigenous island, and not only was it of excellent quality, but they also said that it was picked directly outside, and it was not sorted at all. This means that the oil shale reserves on their islands are very high, and it is necessary to set up a mine directly on the island for this purpose. If the reserves can be estimated to be large enough, the port of the East has a complete set of oil shale refining equipment brought from the old world, and it can even set up a factory on that island for production. In addition to oil shale, there is also copper ore, yes, copper ore, and the various "peacock feather" pattern ores carried by more than 20 multihulls on the other island have been identified as copper ore, totaling about six and a half tons. There are many such minerals, but due to the low capacity of the natives, the use of the deck of these catamaran trimaran direct transportation, not only is it inefficient, but the loss caused by the wind and waves at sea is also considerable, even if it is winter, the natives still lose more than a dozen sailing ships of various types in the monsoon season, resulting in the loss of three dead and five missing.

In order to let the natives focus entirely on ore mining, Guo Hao specially gathered the "talkers" of these islands together and held a meeting, at which Guo Hao put forward the proposal given by the Ministry of Commerce and Trade of the Senate, and the Senate participated in the operation, sending a transport fleet from each island to transport ore or products to Orchid Island first, and then loaded on a free ship and transported directly back to Dongfang Port. In order to realize this vision, the port of the East will send personnel and materials, first to build a cement wharf and a small train on Orchid Island to transport the unloaded materials, and when completed, to build a small wharf at the main ore export port so that the ore can be loaded quickly. By taking care of the transportation in their hands, the "contractors" on each island can concentrate on the ore production of the islands without worrying about transportation.

Naturally, the Ministry of Commerce and Trade did not make this suggestion for everyone to get rich together, and they now encountered a very embarrassing problem, that is, the Hong Kong Freeship was so successful that the 800-ton cargo capacity could easily carry out all the materials that could be mined on all the islands along the way. It is for this reason that a large number of "fortune ships" and "wide ships" that were originally used for maritime transportation can only be left idle. Even if some departments still retain a few Fuguang ships on the means of transport, at most they are running a branch line transportation, so there are almost 30 ships that are idle at the moment in Dongfang Port due to excess capacity.

However, although these ships are idle, they will not let the natives drive them, not to mention that the natives can drive small sailing ships between the oceans, and even can determine the direction according to the constellations in the sky, but they are helpless against this kind of ship that requires the cooperation of many people to drive smoothly, and they do not know how to drive. This is why when they were the main force in the invasion of Annam, they were able to easily gather tens of thousands of troops on a certain island, but there was no way to project these forces on a large scale, so they could only rely on the assistance of the Medenor people, and had to share the spoils with the Medeno people.

It is not difficult to teach the natives to drive boats, but once they learn to steer boats, it will be difficult for these islands to limit their progress, and they may even carry out large-scale migration or invasion in ethnic groups, which will seriously affect the security of Annan and surrounding countries. This is the same as the Medenor people restricting their capacity and forcing them to rely on the Medeno for large ocean shipping.

There was another thing that made the natives fanatical about production, and that was the first batch of "shells" that the Hong Kong had brought from the Oriental Port - shiny silver horns. That's right, due to the humidity in the air on the island, the industrial system of the Senate at this stage can not produce banknote printing paper with strong water resistance, and the "banknote printing paper" used in the RMB issued and circulated in the Oriental Port is actually not much different from the printing paper of ordinary materials, anyway, if it is really damaged in circulation, it is a big deal to recycle and reprint it. However, this cannot be the case on the islands, and the issuance of this currency will probably have to be circulated on many islands in the Pacific Ocean for a long time, and it will be difficult to return to the economic system of the Senate, and unless the Gaode Bank sets up branches and branches on their islands, there is little hope of seeing this money again in this life.

In fact, Shui Wangtai was also very interested in the direction in which the money might go, and this batch of currency was theoretically the same as the currency issued locally in the Oriental Port, but some minor changes were made when making the mold, for example, the side teeth of these silver coins circulating in the Oriental Port are all vertical parallel teeth of the same distance, but this time the Pacific Islands made the parallel side teeth that are obliquely to the right side when the national emblem is facing upwards. In addition to the side teeth, there are also subtle changes in the pattern, for example, although the original pattern of the North Star under the east wind on the national emblem is still roughly the same at the moment, but a small dot has been added next to the North Star, which means that the aborigines under the leadership of the North Star of the Senate have also been added, and a small island has been added to the sea in the distance, which means that it is circulating on the island. On the front of the denomination, in addition to wheat ears and rice and gear satin garlands, coconut and pineapple motifs are also interspersed to give it a more tropical feel.

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The currency of the Oriental Port is all made of silver, which is full of weight and precious metal, and the material of silver can greatly reduce wear and tear, withstand oxidation and corrosion, and can effectively reduce wear and tear if circulated on the Pacific islands. In addition, these renminbi coins are beautifully made, the images are clear, and the shape and weight are all the same, so since the day the Hong Kong arrived on Orchid Island, the natives have accepted the value of this currency - but because they have no mathematical concept, there is no real recognition of the denomination value on it, and it is only traded by its size and weight, and even on the first day these currencies are put on the market, there are already economically active aborigines who have carried out the work of exchanging shells and silver coins in the local area. They exchanged the silver coins they got into shells that could be circulated, and then took these shells to undeveloped islands to buy local land resources and slaves for mining and planting, and then transported the obtained products to Orchid Island and exchanged them for silver coins, effectively taking advantage of the different price differences between two or more places to earn a lot of value.

Of course, these economic activities are not within the scope of the Senate's agency for commerce and trade stationed in Orchid Island, and Guo Hao's sole responsibility here is to ensure the smooth supply of various minerals on Orchid Island and the surrounding islands. Now the deserted beach before Lanyu is now full of natives who come here to trade, especially next to the Ministry of Commerce and Trade and the military camp, a small house is being built, many people wander in between, looking for a good opportunity to make a fortune, even if there is no chance to get rich, it is still at least a meal a day - with the arrival of the construction team sent by the Oriental Port, ships carrying building materials and construction materials are coming, and there are more and more Chinese on the island, These naturalized people and elders from the mainland could not adapt to eating tropical fruits such as bananas and pineapples every day, so they still had to prepare at least three meals a day in the canteen of Orchid Island. However, even if the chef prepares the number of people, it is always impossible to avoid the leftovers, and it is impossible to throw them away, so the canteen decided to directly process the leftovers or increase the amount of them to those who come to the island and have no food and shelter for the time being.

Of course, it is not unconditional to see people, and those who come must at least be able to read the simplified words "Chinese" on the blackboard next to the food distribution to get a meal. Although these characters are just simple words such as "one, two, three, four, five" or "you, me, and him", it is very difficult for these natives who have no concept of Chinese square characters or even have no concept of words. The natives had a very hard time reading, but they were still full of energy driven by food, and several education workers who had been sent from the Oriental Port worked tirelessly to correct the tongue pronunciation of the natives in front of them, correct the "ridiculous" pronunciation from their mouths, and when they felt that they could pass, they would give a bamboo chip to the natives who had passed, and let him go to the distribution place to get a meal.

For the natives, these dishes full of spices and salt are simply delicious, and there are many spices in the Pacific islands, but they have no ability to combine various spice systems to create such a delicious dish like the chefs of Port Orient, let alone so many unseen and unheard of ingredients, that they almost swallow their tongues when they eat them. The natives' madness for these meals was almost in the sky, and they even hunted wild animals all over the island—in front of the labor tools provided by the Oriental Port, even the wild boars that used to be fatal were not particularly scary at the moment, and it was not uncommon to go up and overturn them with two hoes. The wild animals were delivered to the barracks near the beach, and the food buyers in the canteen bought the game directly from them for money, inspected by the quarantine department, and then processed and delivered to the kitchen to be turned into a variety of delicacies.

These delicious meals not only attract the "studious" natives, but also those who have not learned things also want to eat, but they really can't remember these "square words", in order to satisfy their cravings, the canteen has to adopt a compromise plan, that is, to pay money.

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