Lu Ming

"However, energy can be stored." Cao Chuan added: "As of today, I have accumulated the energy of 9 crossings."

Hearing this, Xia Xianze raised his eyelids and asked slowly, "Then do you know what we lack most now?"

"People?" Cao Chuan thought for a while, and asked back, not very sure.

"That's right." Xia Xianze knocked on the table: "To be exact, it's a traveler like you and me. Without anyone, everything is impossible to talk about."

Then his expression suddenly became a little unnatural: "Since my old white rat has successfully survived, I think President Cao will turn into a midnight madman when he goes back, and kidnap beggars all over the world?"

"How is that possible?" Hearing this, Cao Chuan smiled awkwardly: "You are in a special situation. I'm thinking about it temporarily. As for how to send people here in the future, um, I haven't figured out the routine."

Xia Xianze had an expression on his face, "It's not what I expected": "A nouveau riche is a nouveau riche. Even if you have money, you won't use it. Fortunately, I already thought about it for you last night."

After saying this, Lao Xia put on a big-name pose to start the class, and after clearing his throat, he began to speak: "According to the current situation, even if we set up a grass-stage team, at the beginning, there are not dozens of people who have passed through the game. Not turning."

Seeing Cao Chuan nodded, he continued: "In the future, you will need to continuously transfer people and supplies between the two worlds. We have requirements for people, such as those who have studied medicine, those who have let go of guns, and those who raise Those who have passed through pigs... In short, the traversers who come here in the future must have some professional skills, and it is not enough to just look for beggars."

He paused and then said: "The same is true for supplies. I saw guns and bullets in the box last night. In the future, there will be more and more contraband items that are necessary, so don't be in a hurry when you go back this time. When looking for a traveler, the first thing you need to do is change your nationality."

"what!?".

Xia Xianze ignored him and continued on his own: "The first step is to use the money you sell antique furniture to invest in immigration. Don't go to those big countries with a sound legal system, I personally recommend St. Kitts, no residency requirements, passport Visa-free for many countries, and it’s a tax haven, which is important to you.”

Chapter 38

Just as Cao Chuan's brain ditch engine was desperately searching for the word "Saint Kitts", Lao Xia continued: "The point is freedom, tax avoidance is secondary, don't confuse it. After that, remember to Go hire some business lawyers, investment advisors or something, don’t be afraid to spend money, money will come, don’t forget that you have the resources of the world behind you.”

"The third step is to use the above people to help you build an international business organization. This organization must have a series of counterpart industries under the sun, such as furniture factories, to digest the resources you brought back and purchase the materials we need. The rest The shadowy part of the game is used to select and recruit traversers, as well as to remove traces after the fact."

Hearing this, Cao Chuan thought for a while: "I generally understand what you mean. I will start the specific operation after I go back this trip. You can wait for my news."

Xia Xianze was worried and warned: "Remember, the transport department will change its location after a few shots, and everything is for the purpose of concealment. Also, now is the most difficult starting stage, so for the time being, don't drag your family and bring your mouth. , both parents died, the type of Scorpio Lone Star is good."

Cao Chuan laughed: "Like you?"

Xia Xianze sighed helplessly: "When you go back, you'd better get some business in Africa, where there are millions of Chinese people who come out with their heads up. It's normal for these unlucky ghosts to feed lions, and they don't see dead bodies, so they are more suitable for us. Here." Having said that, he shook his head again: "Alas, I'm just a ghost now, helping you figure out your compatriots, and my heart is bitter."

"Everyone is going to be the owner of the ball. What are you sighing? I call the shots. When we all succeed in the revolution in the future, I will give you New Zealand for your retirement."

"It takes six days to go back and forth, and each trip is only 22 cubic meters. With this amount of transportation... well, before I die of old age, it would be nice to be able to overthrow Daming. Uh-huh, don't forget about New Zealand, but the Maldives if you want to share. There is still hope.”

"Haha, okay, okay, you have the final say, Maldives, just Maldives."

Cao Chuan laughed, stood up, waved his hand to release the empty carriage in the ring: "Since it's all clear, let's hurry up and fill me with the furniture I bought yesterday."

Xia Xianze: "..."

Half an hour later, looking at the full compartment filled with mahogany furniture, Lao Xia wiped the sweat off his brow, turned to Cao Chuan and said, "Remember to order some 22 cubic sealed boxes when you come back in the future. , The volume of the cargo must be calculated in detail, and if there are many people, use compressed oxygen tanks to hold on for 3 minutes, and no inch of space can be wasted."

"Oh, so what is the most urgent need right now?"

"It's nothing urgent. You can do it. In short, fill it up. Even a reinforced concrete lighter is better than empty."

"understood."

Cao Chuan stretched out his hand to put the carriage into the ring, turned his head and said, "Then, you can stick to your post. When I come back next time, the team will definitely grow."

"Hurry up and leave, I plan to go around Hangzhou City this afternoon."

"Oh, so unrestrained? Chu San doesn't need me to explain it again?"

"Okay, as far as your immortal-cultivating acting skills are concerned, I'll understand after listening to it once. Isn't that just fooling the ancients? Don't worry, I'm definitely better than you in this respect."

"Oh... then... Bye".

After saying this, Cao Chuan waved at Ma Xianze, then disappeared in front of him.

More than a month after the two bad guys who worked so hard to cross planes to overthrow Daming broke up...

On May 1627, 5 AD, the fifteenth day of the fourth lunar month.

The blue waves are surging, the sea and the sky are connected, the little slanting sun sprinkles on the Qiantang River through the cloud scales, and the afterglow is reflected on the Chinese fishing boats dotted with stars.

A flat-bottomed sand boat is riding the sunset, going up the river and heading straight for the mouth of the Tang River.

Standing at the bow of the boat was a burly man with a height of six feet and five inches, looking into the wind.The man's facial features were rigid, and he was dressed in a boater's attire: his head was wrapped in blue cloth, a jacket with two breasts, a pair of calf-nosed trousers on his lower body, and his bare feet gave him the appearance of a water bandit.Just inadvertently, the M9 pistol in the holster on his back betrayed his identity—yes, this guy is a time traveler.

Standing on the bow of the boat, Liu Zhe sighed and habitually touched his newly installed dental implants.This habit has only recently been cultivated. Every time this time, he will remember the moment when he had just finished his teeth.

Liu Zhe is from Weihai. Born in a single-parent family, he went to the military academy when he was 19 years old. During this time, he experienced the death of his old father and the shock of divorce.He stayed in the army until he was 30 years old, and finally changed his career as a captain.

Due to his lack of connections, he was kicked out by the local government to work in a state-owned enterprise after retiring from the army as the manager of a security company.A year later, he was dumbfounded, and the factory was flattened by the developer... Just when he was desperate, he accidentally saw an online recruitment advertisement one day.

The advertisement is very simple: a company has opened up a market in a small African country, and is now sincerely inviting all kinds of talents to the country, not afraid that you are incompetent, but afraid that you cannot endure hardships, once admitted, the monthly salary starts at [-], in brackets (dollar).

Perhaps it was because the fire in his chest hadn't been extinguished, or because he wanted to change his current situation of a poor man without a house and no car, Liu Zhe accidentally clicked on the webpage.

After that, things were logical. After receiving the information, the other party arranged an online interview soon, and within two days, a prepaid medical examination card from a local hospital was first mailed.

In line with the simple idea of ​​whether to go or not, and to mix up a free physical examination first, he rushed to the hospital - physical examinations are very expensive these days.

However, when he stood at the door of the hospital a few days later, stroking the two expensive Nobel implants in his mouth, he deeply felt: There is still a true love in this world.

A company that has not even signed a contract is so generous that it is willing to arrange a physical examination of 4 yuan for future employees, plus a "commonly used vaccine package in Africa" ​​and a dental implant worth 9000 yuan. What kind of spirit is this?What kind of ambitious company is this?How can a company that cares so much about its employees not reap the hard work of its subordinates?

With simple gratitude, Liu Zhe let go of all his concerns, even though the company repeatedly emphasized to him that Africa was dangerous and that he might not be able to contact China and his family in the future, the bachelor resolutely sent the contract he signed.

After receiving the $[-] settling fee that was then hit on his card, he asked his two friends to have a good meal, mailed some money to his ex-wife, and packed his bags with excitement. , holding the first-class air ticket sent by the company, and set foot on the flight to South Africa.

At South African airports, he met four other new hires from the wave.Five people who are full of expectations and longing, thinking that they have joined the second Huawei and will become the owners of the company in the future, and they have embarked on the road to a small country in East Africa.

After a long dirt road, broken bus and lion tour, a few people finally came to the manor arranged by the company's boss on the coast of East Africa.

The next few days tasted a little weird. The five people, under the guidance of the mercenaries in the manor, became addicted to guns. Liu Zhe also drove the boss's small private sailboat for a few laps to the sea.Just when everyone was whispering in private, they finally saw "Mr. Cao" who came back from abroad.

After that, there is no after.

Young and rich, and approachable, Mr. Cao greeted them in the villa with a smile on his face. He stood up and poured half a glass of Bordeaux for each of them. Then everyone was in the toast of Mr. Cao's "Conquer the world and share wealth and honor." Drink together.

After that, a few people lively loaded their luggage into a "truck". The next moment, the door of the car closed suddenly, and everyone floated up in the air. Fortunately, the car was full of cardboard boxes at the moment, which was crowded, so no one was there. Headed off.

When the five people came out of the carriage door again, they were already in the back garden of Tangzhuang.A quirky old man with shoulder-length hair in a mess, wearing a T-shirt inside and a brocade robe outside, was stooping to look at them carefully.Standing next to the smiling "Mr. Cao", seeing this strange scene, Liu Zhe chrysanthemum tensed: "Isn't it a trap of a gay organization?"

Chapter 39 Radish Meeting ([-])

In the early morning of the next day, the five people who didn't know what to do were stuffed into the cabin, and after they were forced to travel around Daming Hangzhou City, an old man surnamed Xia who claimed to be the CEO of the company couldn't wait to "assign" the group of demented fools. Work".Liu Zhe and another fellow sufferer were assigned to operate the newly purchased sandboat, and the other three were assigned to the Ministry of Infrastructure.

In the future, the five "mentally handicapped first phase" members who were repeatedly used to ridicule themselves joined the revolutionary work in the strange and inconceivable way.

Although everyone has entered the state quickly or slowly, without exception, they have gone through a mental journey from incomprehensible to non-violent non-cooperation to the fact that I was in the first three rows. In short, the process was a little twisty, but the result was it's the same.

There is no way, right now there is no human rights in Tangzhuang, and the Ming Dynasty government will not make decisions for the traversers. If you really can't think about it, you can jump into the river—the Qiantang River is right outside the door.However, after so many days, no one jumped...

Just as Liu Zhe was standing on the bow of the boat, facing the sea breeze, and once again fell into memory, someone suddenly bumped his shoulder: "What are you thinking, so fascinated?"

Bai Hongda, a former seafarer and a fellow prisoner of the same period.Running a boat is a professional counterpart to Bai Hongda, so he was assigned to sail a boat from the beginning.

When Liu Zhe heard the question, he turned his head and glanced at the black and black skinny, who was also dressed as a fisherman. Bai Hongda, who was playing with a depth sounder in his hand, replied angrily, "I miss my poor wife. , what else can you think of?"

"Don't talk about it, where did you get your wife, Xia Xianze wants all bachelors, okay?" Here, Bai Hongda smiled: "But it's okay, the brothers will buy a few Zhou Zheng maids first, the Ming Dynasty. Ah, hey, I like it."

"How many maids are there?" Liu Ke sneered when he heard this: "Do you think Lao Xia is the kind of person who spends public money with maids for you?"

"Shit, he just came a few days early to take the pit. In the end, it's still one vote. Right now, we have [-] people. Besides, the money is all from Mr. Cao, not Xia Xianze. I'll go back to me today about this matter. Just talking, I want to see how many people are unwilling to buy maids."

"Hey, listening to you say that, it seems like a lot of fun, doesn't it?"

"Hey, you are just being stupid in the army, always wanting to listen to the command. Lao Xia is a grass-headed king, and the CEO hat is self-appointed! Mr. Cao just acquiesced. Pooh, if he dares to stop you today Everyone, let him see what democracy is on the spot, and I said, don’t be lazy when the time comes, raise the hand of democracy, and the bed warmer will make the bed, understand?”

Someone heard this, his eyes glowed, he nodded again and again, and said with determination: "Understood, I understand too much, just take a look!"

As the two people chatted happily, the square-headed and square-brained sand boat at the foot also seemed to be cheerful, chopping the waves, swaying the sails and turning the rudder, all the way to Tangzhuang.

Today's Tangzhuang is no longer as desolate as it used to be.In the small river branch at the door, dozens of people were covered in yellow slurry, wearing only crotch-wrapped laborers, digging mud in the river in full swing.Along the straight line between Hewan and Tangzhuang, there are still groups of people digging a half-meter wide ditch. In the distance, outside the back wall of Tangzhuang, you can see bamboo and wood scaffolding built, and craftsmen are climbing on it. Climb down, a busy scene.

The sand boat slowly stopped a hundred meters away from the river.

There were still three empty tank boats parked in front of them. The boatmen were shouting their horns and carrying out long strips of cobblestone from the bilge. The porters on the bank were sweating like rain, pushing the cobblestones to the construction site with a wooden wheelbarrow. go.

After Liu Zhe waited for the boat to stop, he beckoned to the fire chief to explain a few words, and then he and Bai Hongda jumped off the boat and walked to the village.

In front of Tangzhuang Gate is also very lively at this time.The two men dressed as masters were sitting there to settle accounts, and behind them were three or five young men with knives, and the "cabinet heads" from all walks of life were surrounding the masters to settle the day's wages.Liu Zhe and the two knew that their cattle were tall and big, they looked like bandits, and they didn't wait much in places with many people, so they walked into the village with their heads hooked silently.

Due to the construction in the backyard, the passers-by have been staying in the partial courtyard recently.After the two went in, they found that everyone was there, having dinner around two square tables.Even Chairman Cao Da, who has always been elusive, was there, with a ponytail in a suit and T-shirt, and slammed his chopsticks against a plate of large yellow croaker.

The people at the two tables are very impressionistic: monks in cassocks with three-millimeter skirts, Taoist robes and wigs thrown aside, Taoist priests in shirts, half-length hair not short, and fleshy Toutuo outside. People from the rivers and lakes who wear Liu Zhe's head wrapped in blue cloth and short shirts...the atmosphere is peaceful and the style of painting is weird.

Seeing that Cao Chuan was eating fish, Liu Zhe and Bai Hongda hurriedly walked up to say hello - but all the travelers who figured out their situation after the incident, now there is no one who doesn't want to approach Cao Dongtao.Who let the family be the only master of the living materials? If you don't have a good relationship now, what if you want to watch a new show one day?

Cao Chuan is also very satisfied with the employees now. Everyone's mental outlook is good, and the speed of their thinking changes is also very fast. Xia Xianze's screening theory is very accurate: one runs to the wild land, is willing to fight with war, AIDS, kidnapping, black The uncle's dealings, just to sell a few pairs of jeans, will not refuse to go to another wild place to be a master.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but silently gave Lao Xia a few likes.

It was almost after the sky darkened that everyone was able to wipe out two tables of pure natural dishes. One by one, they weighed their stomachs, and they were satisfied and did not want them. Of course, Mingren would not understand the resentment of the transmigrators for the wild large yellow croaker.

Seeing that everyone was eating about the same, Xia Xianze began to call everyone into the house.

Travelers have always been uncomfortable with the cramped and dim room layout of the ancients, so they usually haunt outdoors.Today is a special situation, everyone walked into the main room, and it took a long time to sit down.

With a few snaps, the four antique solar lanterns lit up in the dimly lit hall.The soft white light reflected on the eighteen faces, and the atmosphere at this moment was a bit strange. It seems that all conspirators throughout the ages have held meetings like this?

Xia Xianze looked left and right, cleared his throat, and began to speak: "Everyone is quiet, this is the initial stage, and there are still many newcomers who need to quickly enter the state, so we will operate in a corporate model for the time being. We will open in the future. After the base is established, it's not too late for everyone to discuss the great cause of building a country. Well, people have been getting together all the time, and it is rare that Mr. Cao is here today, so let's have a formal meeting to make up for our homework. Well, the first item Ah: From today onwards, our time-travel company officially kicks off! Everyone applauds!"

There was a burst of uncoordinated applause... After a quick scan, Lao Xia remembered the two people who were lazy and didn't applaud, and then said: "The following is the second item: I will give you a summary first."

Chapter 40 Radish Meeting ([-])

He took out a book from his pocket, and said while looking at it, "As of today, there have been eighteen people who have come to the Ming Dynasty. At present, there is a real estate property under the company's name, um, it is Tangzhuang, and there is another sand boat. , automatic weapons, reinforced concrete, and some living materials, I have a list here for details, and you can find me later for reference."

"Because the main focus of the previous period was on 'receiving' new people and getting familiar with the environment of the Ming Dynasty, the company has only launched two plans at present. One is the renovation project of Tangzhuang, and the other is Hangzhou Bay. As for its offshore surveying and mapping project, below, the managers of the two plans will report separately."

Having said that, Xia Xianze raised his chin towards Liu Zhe: "Let's talk about the sea first."

Liu Zhe got excited and wanted to stand up subconsciously, but then he found that the room was too crowded, so he started to speak in embarrassment: "Well, the specific situation is this: some time ago, the company bought a sand boat through the Liu family's relationship, and by the way recruited We have hired a group of boatmen. Several of our colleagues in the maritime industry have taken turns to go out to sea these days. At present, they have been able to operate sand boats proficiently. The hydrological conditions in the Hangzhou Bay area have also been recorded. Mapping."

"Have you found any problems?" Lao Xia asked with his mouth open.

Liu Zhe nodded: "People, people's problems."

Then he said: "Right now these boatmen are temporary workers and are not very reliable. We usually need to hide a lot of secrets, which is very troublesome. Also, these boatmen are also confused about our behavior of hanging out in empty boats every day. It is urgently needed now. , is a group of 'our own people' who can receive our initial training, and the addition of communication and power systems to the ship is also on the agenda."

When Liu Zhe said this, the report was completed.

"The manpower problem has already been planned." Xia Xianze raised his hand: "I have discussed this with President Cao, and we need to solve it together with Pingfengzhai. As for the ship modification, it must be implemented after the personnel are in place. Right now we are short of professionals and equipment."

Having said this, Xia Xianze turned his head to look at Cao Chuan, and after seeing him nodding, he said to a bald monk in his thirties with a dark complexion: "Let's talk about the sea first, Chen Dong put Tangzhuang here. Let's talk about it."

Chen Dong passed through the company's infrastructure. Before he was tricked, he designed roads and bridges in Africa. He was a professional.When I heard his name, I slowly fumbled out a pile of reports from the jade-colored cassock: "Then I'll talk about the project."

The slow person gave a report in a slow manner, and the whole room was drowsy after hearing it.Excluding those boring data on earthwork, cost, labor, etc., the entire Tangzhuang renovation project is actually four small projects: dredging the river bay, excavating the underdrain, building a new fence and renovating the backyard.

These projects correspond to the aspects of transportation, safety, and the transformation of the living environment of the passers-by.

Xia Xianze began to consider the future development plan of the traversers after the "Covenant in the Back Court".However, he was a bare commander at the beginning, and he didn't even have anyone to discuss with. He knew that this kind of thing could not be decided by one or two people, and he didn't have that right.So after the first batch of five traversers came, Lao Xia started the above two plans first-no matter what the future plans, these two things are necessary.

Although Liangyuan is good, it is not a hometown to stay for a long time.The Jiangnan area has always been the base camp of the reactionary gentry. The so-called "Hangzhou Bay Surveying and Mapping Project" is actually a preparation for everyone to run away in the future, ahem, to develop a new base.

As for the renovation of Tangzhuang, there is nothing to say about the expansion of the private port, just for the convenience of shipping and unloading goods in the future.

Digging underground canals from the direction of the Tang River is mainly to solve the problem of drinking water for travelers: Hangzhou has been one of the cities most affected by tides until the 21st century. There are changes, and the seawater will pour back in the dry season.

The passers-by didn't plan to carry water from the salty well in the yard, so there was this underdrain—a reservoir was built directly in the backyard, and when the water in the pond was qualified for salinity, the hand pump was used to store water.

Considering that under some extreme circumstances, the crossing forces may be "stricken" by the reactionary masters of the Ming Dynasty, so the defense system of Tangzhuang must be strengthened.

This kind of situation is really possible: a fake monk with a strange accent, a weird behavior, a fake Taoist priest, a thin, withered, yellow-toothed guard, who rewards you with a shot for a disagreement, and then calls each other, the conflict escalates, and the army will suppress ...

This situation holds, at least logically.

Based on this anxiety, the traversers decided to build a new six-meter-high wall on the outer layer of the original wall of Tangzhuang, and also add a camouflaged turret and a step walkway. In the worst case, this wall will be To become the Ming Dynasty version of the Somme!

The materials for the new walls are all made of blue stones—the tank boats will naturally not load rice grains when they return to the south, and when the local products in the north are insufficient, most of them use stone ballasts, which are cheap and plentiful.Of course, the cheap price is only for the traversers: the existing silver ingots of a certain faction are calculated in cubic meters...

The last is the reconstruction of the back garden: the old house is torn off, and the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty will lay the foundation and build the four walls under the guidance of the passers-by, and then they will have nothing to do with them. The owner later made it with reinforced concrete.

In short, after the completion of the entire Tangzhuang renovation project, the traversers will have a safe, closed and comfortable base.After that, photovoltaic panels and antennas will be "imported" to charge equipment and communicate remotely. Those 22 cubic boxes brought by Cao Chuan have a strong "imported" smell every time they are opened. .

Even if the large troops move to other places in the future, Tangzhuang can also be used as a distribution center for materials and personnel.

Following someone's slow summary, the drowsy time travelers in the room finally woke up, and there was a burst of impatient applause, and CEO Xia also clapped his hands with a wry smile: "Chen Dong's work summary is very good." Details, this, very good! Well, the next issue is the most important topic of today, it is very simple: Where will our forces build factories and chimneys next?"

The voice fell, and the room suddenly became quiet for a while. Lao Xia looked around and asked a little puzzled: "Why, isn't this problem already there? I see that everyone has been discussing it very vigorously these days. You're welcome, everyone here is the company's partners, and they have the right to speak.