Wu Fang, who was invited by Li Jieqi, made such a fuss, and Liu Lihua, who took the lead, was taken away, and the meeting could finally continue after sending off this group of army officers. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Where are we?" Yang Minghuan couldn't help but turn his head to look to the side, and the girl who made the minutes of the meeting looked down at the record and replied: "The army going to Annam has suffered quite serious losses now, and it will not be able to support the port of Champa in the short term. ”

"Yes," Li Jieqi returned to his place and sat down, opened his small notebook and looked at it. "The Army's losses were considerable, with a total of eighty-six people killed in the first battalion, and another thirty-two seriously wounded, who are still being rescued by the medical team. In addition, sixteen persons remain missing and have not been found. There were more than 130 soldiers who were slightly injured and did not affect their combat effectiveness, and all in all, only a few dozen were not injured. ”

He flipped through the pages of his notebook, "The veteran officers and non-commissioned officers were also wounded, because we had to put the enemy ashore to fight in order to assist the navy in capturing ships, so there was no way to choose the battlefield, and we could only choose a street battle that was not suitable for line tactics to fight these enemies who used close weapons, and we would suffer such heavy losses in this battle." ”

"You can't just accuse our navy of the need to capture ships!" Bu Zhongfu stood up and said, "The navy is very important for a city like ours close to the sea, we can't use the four 8154 and that anti-smuggling boat to fight the world, if we have to go out sooner or later, let's not mention, just defending the security of the port is a very difficult job for these fishing boats and anti-smuggling boats." ”

"Yes," Tang Xunliang stood up and said, "The problem of insufficient fuel has always been a constraint for our navy, and when there was a battle today, Yang Feng even wanted to try to launch the Dongfeng to ram the incoming enemy...... Fortunately, Comrade Fan stopped us, and we would not have had to pay such a great price if it had not been for the fact that these ships had not escaped to the deep sea area that we could not pursue. ”

"And what are these captive ships going to do?" Yang Minghuan nodded and asked, "It seems to be two large warships, right?" ”

"Three, one was seriously injured but not sunk, we checked, the keel of that ship was not too damaged, it was just a leak in the bottom, it just needed to go to the slipway for repairs, but we need to build a dock to refit these ships." Yang Junbo added. "This is imperative, otherwise these two galleons that are now almost intact will have to rely on the wind to fight, and their combat performance will be greatly reduced."

"You should submit a report on the dockyard matter, this is not for our Executive Committee to have the final say, and it is necessary to allocate resources through the Planning Committee." Before Yang Minghuan could finish talking to Yang Junbo, he was interrupted by Yang Junbo. "We also need to carefully search and clean the two boats, and we also need to disinfect them."

"Disinfection?" Everyone was stunned for a moment. "Did the Medinor people poison it?" Someone muttered quietly.

"It's not that kind of poison, but fleas and bedbugs, which are often prone to plague during sea voyages these days, and in addition to sepsis, which is caused by the inability to take vitamins, it is a disease transmitted by these little bugs." "Then there are rats, and the Black Death that swept across Europe was caused by rats and their fleas. ”

"Okay, the medical team will definitely cooperate with you to disinfect the ship, and you should communicate with the medical team about this first. But in the past few days, I am afraid that these two ships can only stay in the port first, and the medical team does not have enough manpower to do this. Du Yande said on the side.

At this time, Sun Wenbin, who was behind him, finally put down the inferior pencil and said to the people present, "I have calculated, I am afraid that the grain here can only last for about two months, and the gold and silver harvest in Wu'an Village is a lot, but not much grain has been harvested, so the problem we are facing now is mainly the food problem." ”

Everyone was silent, and the people here had not experienced any hardship, at best they had only been hungry for a meal or two. No one could have imagined what the food crisis would be.

"Then the Ministry of Trade should start to solve the food crisis." Yang Minghuan looked at Gu Qingqian.

Gu Qingqian nodded and said, "There is no longer enough grain in the port of Zhancheng in the south, according to the nautical charts of the Maidno people, although there are still some ports in some places to the south, they must have been plagued by the Nanban, if we want to get food, in addition to waiting for the harvest of the grain we grow ourselves, I am afraid that the only thing left is to send ships to the mainland, and we can only consider going to Mingzhou City for the time being." ”

The people present were excited, except for a few elders, no one here had seen Mingzhou City, almost all the elders here were native Chinese, after coming to this new time and space and settling in this Annan region, they always felt like a foreign country, for them to be able to go to Mingzhou City once, it was as exciting as a foreign country wanderer could go home.

"Don't be too excited, this time you will go to Mingzhou City, only the five-masted ship and the Chunxiao will be dispatched, and other modern ships will definitely not be dispatched." Gu Qingqian made a quiet gesture and explained.

"Why? If we can dispatch the Dongfeng, one point and 30,000 tons, or a big iron ship, we will deter so many natives just by stopping here now, whether it is the sea race or the natives of An Yun City, which one is not afraid when you see it? Bu Zhongfu was a little unwilling, "The five-masted ship is just a sand boat, this kind of flat-bottomed boat is about the same as driving on the shallow and sandy waterway, this kind of long-distance transportation is a bit unsightly, and the ship only has a cargo capacity of about 300 tons, and the Dongfeng has more than a dozen ships." ”

"That's right, but does our Dongfeng still have enough fuel to go to Mingzhou City and come back? Hundreds of nautical miles, there will definitely be no long enough trestle and pier to dock there, not to mention that the sailors of the Wu Kingdom will be frightened as if they were facing a great enemy. In addition, although it can carry 13,000 tons of cargo, how can it be transported on the ship? Gu Qingqian asked with a smile, leaving Bu Zhongfu speechless, "When the time comes, if we stop in the open sea and carry it through a small boat, then our location will be exposed, you must know that the Dongfeng is the largest and most deterrent ship in this time and space, and there is no one." There must be a lot of forces that want to fight it, and it will be very irritating to be able to deal with these unexpected enemies at sea at that time. ”

Gu Qingqian smiled and put the notebook on the table, stood up and said, "We still have a way to solve the food problem, and that is to trade with An Yun's gentry and big households. ”

"Trade with them?" Someone asked.

Gu Qingqian nodded, "Yes, that's right, trade with these big gentry." We have seized a large amount of gold and silver property in Wu'an Village, which is of no use to us at this stage, and copper coins can still be used in industry, but what about gold? What about silver? These things don't add value when they are in a warehouse. We might as well put this amount of gold and silver directly into the local market of Anyun and buy grain from the local gentry. ”

"You can think about it." Du Yande agreed, but also expressed concern. "But you must know that the landlord is always very concerned about making money, if there is some commercial fraud such as big fighting in and small fighting, what should we do?"

Yang Minghuan in the back was a little speechless, "We have just set foot in Wu'an Village, this is a real level, I believe that no one will challenge our right to speak here in the past few years, right?" When purchasing grain, they don't use their units of measurement, they use ours, kilograms and kilograms, and use our scales, they sell if they are happy, and they are not happy to leave. ”

"Yes," Du Yande couldn't help but shrug his shoulders, "I forgot about this stubble, that's right." ”

"So take this opportunity to get the bank up, right?" Shui Wangtai immediately expressed his opinion, "We can issue banknotes from the grain bank channel by purchasing grain, and those who sell grain can exchange the banknotes for silver coins through the bank, so that we can open up the channels for using our banknotes." ”

"No way, right?" Objections were raised below.

"If you are allowed to convert banknotes into silver from banks, then there will definitely be a situation where you will come back with as many banknotes as you issue in the vault. The common people have no confidence in paper money at all, and the Daming treasure banknote has exhausted the credit of the banknote...... "Gu Qingqian paused, "Oh, it's the Dawu treasure banknote, the people don't trust this kind of paper money to be used as money, so it is impossible to cause circulation, if it is not circulated, then the paper money is meaningless." ”

"That's right," Sun Wenbin laughed, "I remember that Chang Kaishen's reactionary clique also issued silver yuan bills in addition to gold yuan bills before fleeing from the mainland to Taiwan, but because no common people believed in the credibility of the artillery party, they ran on silver dollars in banks, resulting in the death of silver yuan bills within three days." ”

Shui Wangtai did not give up at all, "Oh, then the problem of paper money can be postponed a little, we can first build the structure of the bank, which can provide loans for agricultural and industrial construction, so that our currency can circulate in the market and invigorate the local economy, only when the economy is active, money will not be swallowed up by the silver black hole." Only when the economy is active can this market grow stronger and stronger. ”

"The growth of the market will also bring a series of problems, especially in terms of public security," Du Yande glanced at the elders of the public security department sitting in the back, "We must be able to strictly grasp the local public security situation on our own land, and we must not let the signs of crime emerge in Dongfang Port." Once the criminal syndicates have taken root, it is easy to eradicate them in the future, and it is easy to collude with the ruling departments, and at that time, it will be difficult to shake their foundations. ”

"There won't be any problems on our side," Shen Bin raised his hand and stopped talking, Tan Lian next to him stood up and held his notebook and said, "Beiqiaotou Town is the jurisdiction of Zhancheng Port, with the acquiescence of Princess Ji, we have done a very good job in the security sweep of Beiqiaotou Town, so far theft has rarely occurred, and the situation of gathering crowds to gamble has been eradicated, and the future law and order model of Dongfang Port will also be carried out according to this model." ”