Chapter 12 Raising pigs and jumping into the sea, raising dogs in a daze
Seeing how poor the other party was, Gu Kun offered to send them some supplies.
Unfortunately, Gao Jianxiong and his gang were disciplined and could not accept gifts from the people, so they paid the money in the end.
However, Gu Kun was able to live up to his conscience, because he only charged the cost based on the purchase price in Lanfang, and did not include the freight for transporting it thousands of miles away.
Eating the fresh fruits that Long Wu carried back from the ship, including bananas, pineapples, mangosteens, and mangoes, several soldiers soon burst into tears.
Chen Li stewed a large pot of meat, then brought the pot back to the island and asked everyone to sit around and eat together.
The meat is all frozen meat that was originally stored in the freezer of the fishing boat. It is not very fresh, but it is definitely much more delicious than canned food.
Because the swordfish she caught during the day failed to hold on and died in the end, Chen Li had to cut open the fish overnight, bleed it, cut it into pieces, and freeze it in the freezer. Naturally, other frozen food in the freezer had to be freed up.
Gao Jianxiong was still trying to eat slowly at first, but soon he was infected by the ravenous devouring of his soldiers, and he also joined the ranks of eating haese.
As he ate, he wiped his mouth in embarrassment and explained self-deprecatingly: "It's so delicious. I'm not afraid you'll laugh. We've been eating canned food for two months."
"You are all warriors, this is what you should do." Gu Kun smiled weakly, wanting to knock himself out.
He was very hungry, but he couldn't eat randomly after the surgery. It was really painful to watch others eat, and his eyes glowed green.
Compared with the other young soldiers, Gao Jianxiong finally knew a little bit about the world, and he also saw something was wrong. He quickly slapped the other three people on the head hard, and each of them was wet with rain and dew, and laughed and cursed:
"Can you please stop eating so loudly? Look at the way you eat. There are wounded people lying here. If you eat loudly again, go out and eat in the rain!"
That tone and posture were just like Li Yunlong eating a banquet with the Japanese and lecturing the monks about their eating habits. This sentence seems to be something that should be left in this chapter to complain about, but my hand disease has recurred, and I actually wrote it in the text. Everyone
How can you still make jokes? The trouble with people is that they are good teachers. I am sorry for the majority of jokers. The scene is brilliant. By the way, the book has been signed.
The cabin on duty was very small, with only one bed, so there was no way around it.
In the 1990s, the conditions on the coastal defense frontline of the Weisha Islands were so difficult. If an island was nominally guarded by four soldiers, they would not be provided with beds for four people to sleep at the same time, because they would have to take turns to patrol.
Just like those beds on ancient submarines, three people shared a bed, and each person occupied the bed strictly in a time-sharing manner for eight hours a day.
Of course, Gu Kun was embarrassed to see his master being kicked out, so he quickly said: "It's not necessary. I'm already very embarrassed for occupying your bed. How about you go sleep on our boat tonight? We have a hammock, so why don't you go sleep on our boat tonight?"
It’s going to be pretty bumpy.”
The reason why Gu Kun could not sleep on the boat was not because he was not good at water, but because he was afraid that the bumps and shaking would tear the newly sutured incision.
Gao Jianxiong thought for a while and allowed the two soldiers to board the boat. The others remained on the island, preparing to stay up all night.
Gu Kun still wanted to persuade, but Gao Jianxiong stopped him: "We are here to endure hardships. This is the land of China. If there are not a single Chinese left on the island and they are all foreigners, how will it be appropriate? This is a matter of principle.
, you don’t need to persuade me.”
Gu Kun's momentum dropped. He was so impressed by the other party's righteousness that he couldn't say anything anymore. He just defended himself: "I didn't mean that. I'm actually Chinese too."
Gao Jianxiong: "You are talking about ethnicity, and I am talking about nationality. It is a matter of right and wrong. One thing is the same and one cannot be vague. I only let you go to the island because you speak Chinese and are Chinese. Today
If you encounter a Vietnamese ship, you will definitely not let it go. Who knows if it is a conspiracy."
Gao Jianxiong became excited as he spoke, and he didn't know if it was to show off or something, so he rolled up his sleeves and showed off his scars.
It turned out that there was an old wound on his elbow that had been penetrated by a bullet. He pointed to the wound and said proudly: "I have been a soldier for more than ten years and participated in the battle to seize the island with the Vietnamese eight years ago. According to my
I have no qualifications, and I haven’t studied much. It would be good to be a fourth-level sergeant major. The reason why I am now a second-level sergeant is all due to the hard work of this gun. So I have always been very vigilant and always on guard against Vietnamese.
."
Chen Li and Gu Pan on the side were a little frightened, and Gu Pan couldn't help but curiously asked.
When Gao Jianxiong saw that a woman was interested, he became even more proud. He said vividly: "Back then, the Vietnamese did not dare to declare war with us, and we did not declare war. They just wanted to create the fact of established control and land on more islands. They did not follow us."
We fight.
We were also given fatal orders from above, not to fire the first shot, not to create international disputes, and only to defend ourselves. The two sides stood on a big rock and faced each other. Our instructors had no choice, and finally came up with the idea not to shoot first.
The capture-the-flag style of play forced those Vietnamese to lose their composure first.
The Vietnamese were also afraid of causing trouble and did not dare to kill first, so they often fired at the arm of the flag-capturer as a warning. This shot was taken when we were pulling out the Vietnamese flag, as were many of the brothers who were confronting each other on other islands.
The arm was shot first.
But those Vietnamese didn't get any benefits either. After they fired the first shot, they were quickly wiped out by my comrades, and the rest surrendered and were captured by us."
After hearing this, Gu Kun didn't dare to comment.
I can only say two words, admire.
Long Wu on the side had always listened to Wanwan's propaganda. Now after listening to Gao Jianxiong's personal narration and seeing his wounds with his own eyes, he began to doubt his life.
"Brother Gao, you are a man. The radio stations I used to listen to all said that after the opening up, you mainlanders were greedy for life and fearful of death. You were like flies and dogs, and you are still so poor. Today I realized that what you heard was false. I feel ashamed."
Gu Kun was very satisfied with the effect. He lay there and lectured Long Wu: "There are still many times when you need to feel ashamed. When you go to Guangdong with me, I will know that you have been deceived all these years. You need to open your eyes and see the world."
, don’t be a frog in the well, anyone who follows Oceania will end up badly.”
Gu Kun is telling the truth, because he was reborn in the era of artificial intelligence. He really knows that in the era of artificial intelligence, Oceania-style folk culture has become a burden to climb technology, just like taking jujube pills.
So when he said these words, the confidence he exuded was not comparable to those who brainwashed people against their will.
Considering the prestige Gu Kun had accumulated during this period, Long Wuzhen temporarily believed it.
Long Wu felt ashamed and naturally brought the topic back to the living conditions. Seeing the hardships of these warriors, he couldn't bear it and asked:
"Brother Gao, you said that you often eat canned food here for several months, so why are there so few other supplies? Is it because of transportation difficulties? I have seen the chart, and it is only two and a half days' sail from Hailan Island. Ordinarily,
The freight is not expensive if it’s by ship.”
Gao Jianxiong lit up a cigarette and took a puff: "You don't understand the situation. There are countless things that Hailan Island can do. It has only been developed for a few years and is mainly focused on developing tourism.
If you count the two-and-a-half-day flight, that's to Yalong City. But prices in Yalong are quite expensive, and the supplies are all shipped from the northern continent."
Gu Kun nodded when he heard this: "That's the truth. When calculating transportation costs, you can't calculate it from Yalong, but from Guangdong or the Special Administrative Region."
Yalong City was originally a tourist city. Later generations of Chinese people went there to spend their holidays, but they realized that prices in the entire city were very expensive.
Long Wu took note of it humbly and asked: "Even if we start from Guangdong Province, the cargo ship will arrive in four days if we drive faster. It shouldn't be so difficult. For a ship as big as ours, based on your exchange rate,
It only costs 10,000 yuan to travel for half a month, and I can make two round trips."
Gao Jianxiong sighed: "It's not a matter of distance. First of all, the islands here are too small and have no facilities. As you can see, this is directly on the beach. A 200-ton fishing boat has to stop dozens of meters away from the shore and wade into the water."
Move things ashore. Even Yonglin Island, the largest island in Weisha, is nothing more than a pontoon trestle tied up with ropes.
In addition to the lack of a dock, the other reason is that there are fewer people and less demand, so more supplies are transported, and it takes a long time to eat them all. If there are less transports, the cost is higher each time. One ship costs 20,000 yuan a month.
, you haven't calculated the sailor's salary yet, right? Just transport supplies to the soldiers on the dozen islands and reefs here. Each island costs 2,000 yuan, so the four of us are 500 yuan each.
I don’t know if the average salary in China today is 300 yuan. As soldiers, the state takes care of food, clothing, and housing, and it’s good to have a few dozen yuan in cash. How can we make the country bear an additional 500 yuan per capita stationing cost?”
After hearing this, Long Wu finally fell silent. He thought that the problem was not that comprehensive, and he was too lazy to use his brain when it was complicated.
On the other hand, Gu Kun, who was lying there with nothing to say, thought about it and quickly found the key to the problem.
He smiled and said: "Brother Xiong, I didn't expect you to think clearly. You seem to be a leader."
Gao Jianxiong also laughed: "Don't underestimate me. I think about such trivial things every day. How can I not understand it?"
Gu Kun continued his analysis: "In this way, the biggest reason for the difficulties here was that the scale of demand could not be increased, and the marginal cost of having a transport ship make a special trip was too high.
But why hasn’t the country thought of organizing fishermen to come here to fish and help carry some goods along the way? If the fishing boats don’t come here specially, but the fishing route originally passes through here, then the cost can’t be spread, right?”
Gao Jianxiong: "For fishermen from eastern Guangdong and Hailan, the fishing boats were very small in the past few years and they didn't come here very often. In recent years, there have been more powerful fishing boats, but it's too close to Da Nang. It's okay to pass by occasionally.
If you stay for a long time for work, it is easy for the Vietnamese to expel you.
In the end, fishermen will still settle accounts. If you know that you can't make a profit, you still set sail from the east coast of Guangdong and drive south for four days to catch fish. Why not go deeper into the center of the South China Sea? There are fewer boats and fewer people there, so you can catch more fish on average.
.The closer you get to the west coast of Vietnam, the less fish there are, and you run the risk of competing with Vietnamese fishermen, so no one does this business.”