For the Group, the Hainan Island market and the mainland market are completely different concepts. The Yazhou market opened by the crossing group now has a population of just over 20,000, and the population of Hainan Island as a whole is more than 200,000. However, the population of Guangzhou alone is already several times that of Hainan Island, and even in this era of small population, Guangzhou has a population of nearly one million, making it one of the largest cities in the entire Far East.

The large population means a huge consumer market, and in addition to the high-end market of glass products, the Executive Committee believes that the daily necessities of private salt can also achieve excellent sales. The wholesale price of private salt given by the Ministry of Commerce to agents is 50 taels of silver per 1,000 catties, which seems to be extremely low, but as long as the shipment volume is large enough, the profit is also considerable. In Guangzhou alone, hundreds of thousands of taels of silver can be made in the salt business every year, and the executive committee will definitely not let such a good market be placed in front of it and not occupy it. And the low wholesale price not only leaves enough profit margin for the agent, but also leaves them room for price reduction competition, if they encounter peer competition, then they can rely on lower costs, through guò price reduction means to defeat the opponent simply and powerfully.

If "Fu Ruifeng" does have the ability to operate private salt, then they will definitely come to buy again soon after selling this batch of private salt. And if the other party does not ask for purchase again, it means that the agent needs to be considered again. However, the shopkeeper Li patted his chest and made a package ticket, saying that his boss was powerful in Guangzhou, and such a trivial matter as selling illegal salt was not a problem at all. It's just that whether this business can be done for a long time, the shopkeeper Li said that it still depends on the boss's decision, after all, this is not a legitimate business, and it will be a troublesome thing if he is caught by the Salt Lifting Division in Guangzhou.

At present, the Yanchang Commune is already undergoing the transformation of its production process, and half of the locally produced soil cement is being transported to the Yanchang to build a large area of cement salt drying ponds and crystallization ponds. According to the work plan submitted by Anzay, the director of the Salt Works Commune, as long as the technical renovation works go smoothly, there will be no pressure on the salt production this year to exceed the 1,000 tonnes originally estimated by the Executive Committee, and it is expected that this figure will be increased by half to 1,500 tonnes of salt production within this year. This production is already seven to eight times the total salt production of all salt farms on Hainan Island, and has reached three times the salt demand of the entire Hainan Island, in addition to meeting the current needs of local sales and chemical production, it has the ability to start selling to a larger market. (Baidu search update is the fastest and most stable dìng) (.)

This is already quite impressive at the level of production in this era, but the Executive Committee and the Ministry of Chemical Industry know that this is far from the upper limit. Later, after the irrigation device is changed to more efficient steam power, the salt production capacity of the Yanchang Commune is expected to reach more than 30 tons per mu per year, and the production capacity of the entire commune will exceed 4,000 tons per year.

Although the plan to buy a ship and hire a crew has not yet been written, the Executive Committee can't wait to start preparing for the route exploration of Shengli Port Hongji Port. To be on the safe side, the fleet was still the two catamarans, the Fei Su and the Blitz, which were fast and stable at sea, much more reassuring than the other wooden Chinese sailing boats.

At the same time, the living conditions on both ships are relatively good, and the crew can have their own cabins, which is absolutely important for people who are adrift on the sea. As long as they brought enough supplies, both ships could sail at sea continuously for more than half a month without docking for supplies.

The only regret is that the liquefied gas stove on board has become a decoration, and the crew can only use charcoal and barbecue grills if they want to cook during the voyage, which is obviously not easy to operate on the undulating sea, and the slightest carelessness may even cause a fire.

As for the selection of members for this special operation, the selection of the North American gang as a whole is undisputed, and with the existence of the six of them, the military police department and the maritime department can occupy a few fewer places, and give up the limited number of members to professionals in mining exploration, building construction, and logistics management. Because this field trip involves the establishment of overseas bases in the future, the Executive Committee is also quite cautious in the selection of expedition personnel, and its rigor even exceeds the previous two teams sent to Yazhou, and it is very likely that some members of the expedition team will become the first batch of builders and garrisons of the sub-bases after this.

In terms of the preparation of materials, the executive committee also gave the green light to the expedition team, almost responding to their needs, and all kinds of ingredients, vegetables and fruits were provided in unlimited quantities. As for the most important issue of armaments, the Executive Committee had nothing to worry about, because the North American gang's arsenal of arms was enough for them to wage a skirmish.

It was only recently that the Executive Committee learned that not all of the arms purchased by the North American Gang at their own expense were transported to Base 1 for unified storage, and in fact they only brought ashore a few hundred guns of various brands and models and some ammunition, and most of the ammunition has been used by the North American Gang at the bottom of the ship's hold as ballast. The ammunition weighing up to two tons includes nearly 30,000 rounds of ammunition for various firearms, dozens of kilograms of C4 plastic explosives and detonators, a small number of American-made M67 grenades, police flash grenades and smoke grenades, and so on. In their ammunition depot there are even several M16A1 anti-infantry mines.

One of the conditions of the North American Gang's initial entry was that the Executive Committee would recognize their private property and would not expropriate their private belongings without consent, including the two catamarans and their own munitions. Since the crossing, the two sailboats have been used almost always as tools of the Military Police Department, and the North American Gang has also moved most of their guns into the arsenal of Base 1, so no one has raised any objections to the North American Gang's possession of firearms. But when the North American gang's reserve ammunition was exposed, it caused a small shock in the military police department and the executive committee.

Due to various reasons, although the crossing group purchased 300 Type 56 guns overseas, there were only more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition, so it took a lot of time to count the ammunition and recover the cartridge casings after each battle, so that the bullets could be reloaded when the technical conditions were mature. But when it was revealed that the North American gang's ammunition reserves were several times larger than that of the military police department, it made some people a little restless and armed with a large amount of arms, and it was difficult to guarantee that any of them would have a different heart, after all, everyone knows that the lighthouse nation has some insane disease of slaughtering innocent civilians with guns every year. Of course, in the eyes of some public elites, this is also a massacre of "democracy" and a manifestation of "freedom".

This news spread more and more, and then it also set off a lively debate on the forum, from the amount of ammunition reserves to whether the crossing group should take the development route of military expansion, and finally even the ratio of the number of kills to the ammunition consumption during World War II, anyway, keyboard military experts will not care whether there will be the kind of combat intensity in World War II in this era, and the most important thing is to give examples to prove that their opinions are correct and the other party is purely underdeveloped.

This controversy lasted for more than half a month, and the pros and cons were spatting enough to set off a tsunami in Victory Harbor. In the end, the North American Gang had to hold an on-site defense meeting to answer the questions of various immortals. So everyone learned that the real situation of the ammunition stockpile was announced by the North American gang itself, and their purpose in doing so was not to show off force, but to let those who had been worried about the military police department's ammunition stock too small after the crossing a little more relaxed, at least until the military industry could produce flintlock pistols in batches, the army had enough ammunition reserves to support a few small and medium-sized battles.

Perhaps the North Americans had other ideas for not reporting the situation to the Executive Committee at the beginning of the crossing, but that no longer matters. It has been nearly 100 days since we traveled to this era, and everyone realizes that in order to survive well in this era, it is the best choice to attach to the powerful collective of the Crossing Group. Even those who are as strong as the North American Gang also know that if they leave the Crossing Group, then at best they can be a pirate leader in Southeast Asia, and it is absolutely impossible to establish a modern industrial system. Without the division of labor and cooperation of hundreds of people, it is difficult to support a rational social structure to achieve various construction goals.

After the defense meeting, in order to reassure the crossing public, the North American Gang still moved most of the ammunition reserves into the arsenal of Base 1 and accepted the unified management of the Military Police Department. However, according to their prior agreement with the Executive Committee, the ammunition remained the private property of the North American Gang, and they were still free to use it, provided that the Executive Committee was informed of its reasonable use.

In addition to the automatic rifle and pistol configuration of each person, the armed personnel in the expedition team were also equipped with an M249 squad machine gun just in case, while Morgan, who had better marksmanship, picked an additional M200 sniper rifle as a firepower supplement. With a capacity of only 7 rounds, this sniper rifle has a very high accuracy and has the longest effective range of any modern sniper rifle, and its actual combat capabilities far exceed those of the more famous Barrett and AWP sniper rifles. Of course, the price of the M200 with such powerful capabilities is also expensive, and Morgan spent a full 14,000 dollars to purchase this desert camouflage livery treasure on the black market, and if it weren't for the importance of this mission, Morgan might not have been willing to take it out to see the light.