The "East Coast Eagle" anchors and moors near the coast under the command of the company.

Lu Ming walked down from the bridge, patted Julian on the shoulder, and encouraged with a smile: "Good job, my sailing is long!"

Julian smiled and looked at the students of the Navigation School who were busy placing traffic boats down, saying, "To be honest, I enjoy my current life a little. These children are working very hard. As long as they persist in working like this, they will sooner or later become excellent naval officers. I know you have always been cultivating them by the standards of officers."

"Of course, they are all my children, and I've always been proud of them." Lu Ming hugged a student who was sorting out the cables next to him, touched his head and said, "Ji Wen, I'll take the exam on you later. If you get the question wrong again, I'll punish you to see the wood for a week."

"Hehe." The child named Jiwen was not afraid of him at all. After struggling out of his arms, he smiled and said, "Mr. Principal, Yuri always made the question wrong, and never saw him saw the wood for a day."

Lu Ming, who was exposed, was not embarrassed at all. He laughed and tried to kick Ji Wen, and then walked along the deck with Yu Lian while chatting.

"Julian, have you never thought about taking your family over? You see, John Ston and others have already taken their family over from the UK or the Netherlands. Why don't you? We appreciate your character and knowledge, and the children like you very much, and you like them very much, right? Why can't everyone work hard and struggle together? We might have been enemies in the past, but now we are not. You know our attitude very well. Do you have no confidence in our career?" Lu Ming asked Yulian at the seabird flying freely on the sea.

"No, it's not like that." Julian sighed, "I have no relatives in Franche-Conte, only one uncle is left. In fact, I have some unscrupulous reasons, and I hope you can understand..."

"Haha, okay, you have the right to keep your privacy." Lu Ming smiled generously, then said, "Let's go and see how the children did their first login."

The two small boats had been put down from the side of the ship and were floating on the sea. Eight students from the Nautical School and 24 Marine gunners climbed down the rope ladder.

The people who arrived on the boat first raised a small square sail. After everyone successfully boarded the boat, the sailors on the "East Coast Eagle" unbuttoned the cables to fix the boat. The crew members on the boat began to row hard. With the help of the northeast wind, the two small boats sailed towards the coast at a rapid speed.

This is the sea outside the mouth of Lake Patus Lake. At the mouth of Lake Patus Lake, there is a narrow waterway connected to the Atlantic Ocean. After entering Lake Patus through the waterway, the crew members of the two small boats will land on a peninsula on the south side of the lake (the city of Rio Grande later) to collect information on rock and animal and plant specimens. This is considered to be the navy's ride-sharing process. The navy will roughly explore the environment here in advance to reserve information for possible large-scale landing and development in the future.

Lu Ming held up the telescope and looked from a distance. He saw that the crew members on the boat measured the water depth and flow rate near the Hukou waterway. This is a very important step, because this is related to whether the large ship can directly enter Lake Patus in the future. According to information provided by Gaomo, the coal mines in this area in later generations should be near Port Alegre on the north bank of Lake Patus. In other words, if you want to develop this coal storage area, the travelers must go deep into the innermost side of Lake Patus. From a transportation perspective, it is necessary to ensure that Lake Patus can pass through large transport ships, otherwise it is meaningless to dig out the coal mine and transport it.

Lu Ming and Yu Lian looked at it for a while before leaving and turning to the sailor's lounge in the forecastle. At this time, the lounge was filled with the remaining students from the Navigation School. Each of them had a small wooden board in front of them, a charcoal pen in their hands, and was quietly waiting for Lu Ming's arrival.

Lu Ming took off the captain's captain's hat that he had been wearing on his head, then smiled at the students, and said, "Well, start recording the test questions now. The 'Eagle of the East Coast' set sail from San Vicente at a speed of 8 knots, sailed along the coast of Brazil and La Plata, drifted eastward along the west wind at the Strait of Magellan to South Africa, and then headed north along the west coast of South Africa. How many days can you reach Luanda in? You can draw the charts and routes yourself. Please note that the specific routes and time spent on each individual journey must be listed separately. You can refer to the specific parameters you learned during class. I will give you half an hour, and now start the timing, let's start, children!"

Lu Ming and Yu Lian were paced back and forth in the sailor's rest room, watching the children's problem-solving process from time to time. In addition to learning navigation knowledge in class, these students also had to learn mathematics, geography and basic physics. What they taught were the group of middle school teachers who traveled through the crowd, and even the textbooks were compiled by themselves. In this era when knowledge is wealth, these children were quite knowledgeable in some aspects compared with those European naval officers.

"Yuri! Don't peek at other people's problem-solving process!" Lu Ming slowly walked behind a half-grown child with blond hair and grabbed the child's ear.

Yuri was so scared that the charcoal pen fell to the ground, and a chuckle rang out in the room.

These children only have just one year of study, and their foundation was very poor before. Many people had never been exposed to mathematics and had no logical thinking ability. Lu Ming spent a lot of effort to teach them. He treated these children equally and spent almost all his time on them. Sometimes in order to figure out a problem that he was not good at, Lu Ming often took the initiative to ask teachers to teach individually for children who did not understand.

Even so, although these children have grown rapidly over the past year, their knowledge is still insufficient. For a specific individual, differences have always existed. After all, everyone has different talents.

"Time is up!" Lu Ming said, pinching the watch. After every child stopped writing, he and Yu Lian went down to collect everyone's board, which contained their answers to the questions.

"Yuri. Oh my God! I asked you to go to Luanda, where did you go? Santiago? You went to the Pacific Ocean?!" Lu Ming shouted out exaggeratedly with a small board, which caused everyone to burst into laughter.

"Kyle, you are the most fearless explorer among us. You have arrived in Lorenzo-Maguis. Have I asked you to go around the Cape of Good Hope?"

"Oliver, you're a little worse than Kyle, but you've managed to find the Gold Coast."

"Johnson, your route is wrong. Follow your current route, you may still be floating on the sea when you are exhausted."

"Nick, you are even more terrifying than Johnson. You have successfully bypassed Tierra Tierra and want to be with the penguins for the rest of your life?"

"Only... Ji Wen, only Ji Wen's answer is correct!" Lu Ming put down the last small board, rubbed his forehead, and said, "I'm sorry, only Ji Wen's answer is correct. The monthly assessment bonus of 10 yuan will be exclusively enjoyed by Ji Wen. Of course, you can let him treat you."

Ignoring the children's subsequent fights, Lu Ming and Yulian returned to the bridge. At this time, Navy Commissioner Wang Qinian was discussing with some artillery officers who crossed the road to apply to the Executive Committee to expand the naval organization. After all, the "East Coast Eagle" will officially enter the service after returning from the sea trial, and the personnel have not yet been settled.

Lu Ming was actually not worried at all whether the Executive Committee approved Wang Qinian's request. Isn't this obvious? The ship has been built and she can't be left empty. The "East Coast Eagle" has a rated crew of 30, as well as some gunners and a small number of Marine soldiers. The large number of positions inside have been targeted by a large group of people, and many people even went to Wang Qinian to conduct activities before the ship was launched.

To be honest, Lu Ming didn't want to be the agent captain at all. After the sea trial of the ship was over, his agency mission was over, and he had no idea of ​​competing for a position with others. He just wanted to return to school and stay with the children. The 90 students of the 33rd class who were recruiting students two months in advance were also enrolled. There were a lot of things waiting for him in the school. He had to make all of this properly and not affect the students' learning. As for Captain Shenma, Commander Shenma, please leave it to others.

In the afternoon, two small boats finished their mission, rowed out of Lake Patus, and then boarded the "East Coast Eagle" one by one with the help of sailors on board.

Their mission was quite successful. With the help of a group of old sailors, the eight students from the 32nd class of Navigation School not only recorded the hydrological information of the Hukou Waterway and the southern part of the lake, but also logged in to collect some rock and plant specimens and drew a simple map. During the whole process, they did not encounter Indians, nor did they find any signs of human activities at the landing site. After they returned, the last mission of the "East Coast Eagle" was completed.
Chapter completed!