Although there were quite a few meetings of the Far Eastern Company, the content of the meetings was rarely formal, and there were basically no stupid, big, and empty phenomena. Even the company's final spring and fall meetings were very fast-paced, and the first day went straight to the topic.

The heads of each department began to take the podium separately to present the work plan for the new year, and submit the budget of their respective departments to the board of directors of the company for review.

This process was quite calm, and the heads of their respective departments first bragged about the grand blueprint of their departments this year, and then poured some bitter water, saying that they were in tears, as if they were possessed by Meng Jiangnu.

Everyone is fighting for acting, anyway, they are all asking for a sky-high price, and they will pay back the money on the ground. Although it is calm on the surface, but secretly all departments are sleepless all night, gathering a group of heads to study countermeasures.

After each day's meeting, the board committee will meet overnight to study the budget situation of each department this year, and make a comprehensive consideration and planning based on the actual situation of the company.

In the second half of the spring session, it was at its most intense. The Board Committee came up with a rough plan for this year's budget and discussed it with various departments at the meeting.

The battle has finally begun, with the heads of all departments going into battle shirtless, and the departments and boards of directors and committees of each department are all caught in a fierce battle of tearing apart.

A few days later, the Spring Sessions finally came to an end, and everyone who attended the meeting was exhausted. All departments have their own harvests, some people are happy and some are worried.

But this year, the company has significantly relaxed the approval of the budget, as long as it is not too outrageous, it has basically been approved. Therefore, after the meeting, all departments of the company were basically satisfied.

Although the Spring Festival meeting is over, the board committee will continue to meet. One of the issues on the agenda was the dispatch of advance teams. Develop colonies overseas. However, there were great doubts about Qiao Haipeng's proposal to make the San Francisco area the first colony.

Everyone did not have a negative attitude towards his suggestion, but appreciated Qiao Haipeng's plan to occupy San Francisco, gain a firm foothold, and then go south to Central America.

However, the majority of the committee agreed that the colony was established at this stage in the San Francisco area on the west coast of the Americas across the Pacific Ocean. Some of them are too hasty, and it is necessary to settle the Southeast Asian islands and the South Pacific region such as Australia and New Zealand in advance, and then proceed with the next step of the plan to open up colonies across the Pacific.

In the final vote, Qiao Haipeng's proposal was not adopted. But Li Ming's proposal for a supplementary plan was unexpectedly approved. That is to establish a foothold on several strategically important islands in the Pacific Ocean in preparation for the future plan to cross the Pacific Ocean and establish a colony on the west coast of the Americas.

While exploring Australia, New Zealand and other regions, the company has sent a small expedition fleet to explore several strategically important islands in the Pacific region, including Saipan, Midway, Marshall Islands, Hawaiian Islands, Wake Island and other islands.

All members of the Board of Directors. There was some support for this proposal, and the company would inevitably cross the Pacific Ocean and establish colonies on the west coast of the Americas. Therefore, of course, the preliminary preparations must be done well, these islands are of great strategic importance in modern society, and now to establish a foothold there, it should be used to lay a few steps and set up a ladder for crossing the Pacific Ocean in the future.

After the study and discussion of the board committee, it was decided to establish a military port on the southern coast of Luzon. Formation of the Far Eastern Exploration Fleet. It has jurisdiction over the Southbound Exploration Squadron and the Pacific Exploration Squadron.

The personnel of the exploration fleet will be drawn from the various fleets of the Admiralty and the guerrilla fleet, the predecessors of most of the members. They are all from the pirates of the southeast coast and the northern sailors of the Ming Dynasty. In addition, there are also backbones drawn from the Death Army Group Army and the Outer Northeast Indigenous Militia Brigade.

The members of the fleet are all veterans who have served in the Far East Company for many years, and their military qualities are extremely excellent, and they are the backbone of various units, and they are loyal to the Far East Company.

Members of the Exploration Fleet have a strong individual loadout, with a Type 28 Revolver% gun, a double-barreled Shotgun or Type 28 Sniper Rifle, a jungle knife and grenade rounds, smoke and gas rounds, and Varss rounds as standard.

It is also equipped with a variety of wilderness survival equipment. Including backpacks, fanny packs, tents, sleeping bags, tents, hammocks, mosquito nets, raincoats and other field covers. There are also various portable tools such as survival knives, hand axes, wire saws, and field items such as oil lamps, lighters, and ropes. A lot of supplies such as medicines, first-aid kits, and field food have also been prepared.

The first exploration fleet was equipped with eight ships and is currently being refitted at the Luzon shipyard with improved aircraft and sailing ships. The displacement was all less than three hundred tons, and high-power steam power was installed. The coal-carrying and water-carrying tanks were enlarged. And each ship was reinforced by various means.

The ship is equipped with searchlights, generators, pumps, radios and other equipment. It is also equipped with four speedboat lifeboats equipped with oil extractors and four ordinary lifeboats. The speedboat lifeboat can also be used as a river exploration vessel temporarily.

Each Explorer Sailboat is equipped with two second-generation long-barreled 70mm guns and four detachable water-cooled heavy guns, which are more than enough to deal with any external threat. The ship was additionally equipped with a disassembled 70-mm infantry gun, which provided the necessary fire support for the landing crews.

All members of the Exploration Fleet are currently coming from all over the country to receive a month-long training in tropical jungle survival in Luzon, followed by a month-long training internship at sea and a month-long wilderness survival training on some uninhabited islands.

Many areas of this era were in a wild area, and there were many areas without the slightest human track, poisonous insects, snakes, pythons and wild beasts were everywhere, and tropical malaria had to be guarded against, and the living conditions were extremely bad.

Most outdoor enthusiasts in modern society are engaged in outdoor sports for the purpose of leisure and entertainment, and even true wilderness survival enthusiasts are not at all comparable to the areas and environments they explore in this era.

Exploring in the tropical primeval forest is extremely dangerous, and various tropical dangerous animals such as poisonous snakes, crocodiles, poisonous mosquitoes, and spiders will be in extreme danger if you are not careful. Ordinary people have to undergo a lot of training to survive.

Even so, when you arrive in the real primeval forest, you will encounter all kinds of crises and die at any time. In order to survive, unthinkable extremes must be employed. When you are short of water, you drink your own urine, have no food and even eat maggots in your feces. (To be continued.) )

PS: This chapter was reviewed again, and it took a long time to change it before it was issued