Chapter 355: The British Trip One
The Thames River, London, the capital of England.
Qiao Anbang took Liang Jiahan, Chu Yan and Yali on a small cruise ship to head towards the city of London. Standing at the bow of the boat, looking at the city of London, which had already become the largest city in the world in 1801, Qiao Anbang couldn't help but feel quite shocked and disappointed.
What’s shocking is that London was already so prosperous in the 1930s, with trains, taxis, ferries, cruise ships and other modern means of transportation.
The whole city is full of flowers, which actually gives Qiao Anbang a feeling of returning to the 21st century.
What is lost is that even Shanghai, the largest city in China, which is currently the most advanced and closest to the Western development trajectory, cannot be compared with London.
Once upon a time, the Chinese nation once led the world, and both economy, military power, and industry and commerce were far ahead of all countries and nations in the world. The Chinese nation has always claimed to be the Celestial Empire, the people have enough food and clothing to live and work in peace, the country is prosperous and strong and the world surrenders!
But in modern times, the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties gradually became weak, causing the Chinese nation to gradually lag behind the Western world, and finally fell into being wantonly bullied and invaded by a clown from the East, and almost destroyed the country and the race.
This is a shame for all Chinese people. Nowadays, the 400 million people in China have a vast territory of more than 14 million square kilometers and are actually bullied by an Oriental Island country that is less than one tenth of its population. What will be the face of the ancestors of the Chinese nation after their death in the future?
Thinking about the great style of our ancestors in the Han and Tang dynasties, the barbarians from all over the world heard that our Han and Tang dynasties all fled to the wind and knelt down to surrender. Why did the dignified Chinese fall to this point today?
As a child of China and descendants of Yan and Huang, Qiao Anbang's heart is getting more and more heartbroken the more he thinks. Fortunately, he now has the opportunity and ability to change the backward and poor situation of the Chinese nation. He will spend his whole life to work hard for it in his lifetime and make the Chinese nation stand tall again on the top of the world.
Qiao Anbang made up his mind in such a secret decision.
On the docking dock of a tributary of the Thames River, a British man in his thirties was carrying cargo on ashore with several companions from a small cargo ship.
It was the ** month, and London was at the hottest time of the year. Carrying was a very tiring job. When it was done in the heat, the British men took off their shirts, all of them bared their chests and exposed their backs, revealing the thick chest hair in front of their chests. The muscles on their arms and abdomen were protruding high, giving people a wild vision like a beast.
More than a dozen British men were exposed in public. If such a scene was placed in China, it would definitely cause the big girls and wives to scream and then cover their faces and run away.
But in London, people seem to be accustomed to such scenes. The British girls who occasionally leave the dock even walk while admiring the masculine burly bodies of the bearded men, and occasionally throw a few charming eyes at them.
John Rick is thirty-five and has a family member with a wife and three children.
It turned out that John Rick was a naval lieutenant in the Royal Navy Fleet. He was fired by the army because of a drunken accident two years ago. After demobilization, John had no choice but to drive the ship. With the help of his relatives and friends, he could only buy a small cargo ship and start freight work.
Not to mention the extremely hard work of getting up early and going to bed late every day. The key is that the money earned is only enough for John Rick to maintain the normal expenses of the family. Even John Rick wants to go to the bar and red light district with his friends.
So, John Rick's life is not satisfactory now, but he also knows that he will never be able to return to the Royal Navy Fleet to continue to serve as his Navy Lieutenant unless the war breaks out.
John Rick believes that the possibility of a war breaking out now is like finding the hair of Elizabeth Boss Leon in the Thames, the current queen of the British Empire and the Kingdom of Northern Ireland, which is extremely small, or impossible.
Because after the victory of the First World War, Britain, from the kings to the ordinary people, believed that the Germans would never dare to provoke the battle again, nor would they have the ability to fight against the British Empire again. After all, there was a Vansel contract that was pressing on their heads.
After moving all the goods with several companions and getting the wages, John Rick drove his own small cargo ship towards the direction of his return home.
Chewing gum in his mouth and humming an English song, the small cargo ship driven by John Rick had barely sailed out of the tributary and entered the main channel of the Thames.
"Oh, be careful!" Since Qiao Anbang contracted a cruise ship with high power and fast speed, the navigation speed was quite fast. When the cruise ship was about to pass through the convergence between the tributary and the main river, a small motorized cargo ship suddenly rushed out like an arrow from the tributary channel.
The cruise ship was too late to avoid it and was about to collide with it. Qiao Anbang, who was standing at the bow of the cruise ship, immediately shouted.
At this time, several helmsmen of Qiao Anbang cruise ship were panicked and quickly turned around and avoided. What surprised Qiao Anbang, Chu Yan and others was that when the two ships were about to collide, the small cargo ship suddenly accelerated. The helmsmen on the ship turned desperately, and finally caused the two ships to pass by at a distance of less than two meters apart.
After passing by, Qiao Anbang's cruise ship had completely stopped speed. The sailors and captains on the cruise ship turned their heads and looked back to the right, because there was just a sound of impact coming from there.
In order to avoid facing the coming cruise ship, John Rick raised the speed of his cargo ship to the limit. Although he escaped the fate of being knocked over by the cruise ship, his cargo ship also directly hit another large cargo ship that happened to be coming from the river because of its speed.
":mygod, damnit!" There was a loud bang. John Rick's small cargo ship hit the side steel plate hull of the large cargo ship like an egg hitting a stone. The bow of the ship was suddenly severely deformed. Some of John's food guys inside the cargo ship were also carried up and fell into the bottomless river by inertia. Even John Rick himself was almost dumped out.
Fortunately, his arm strength was amazing and he grabbed the rudder tightly.
Spit out the chewing gum in his mouth, John Rick was surprised to find that water began to enter the bow of the ship.
"I'm awesome!" John swears and immediately starts asking for help from the freighter he hits: "Save me quickly, my ship is in the water, damn it!"
Qiao Anbang, who had returned to the stern, found that John Rick had collided with the ship, quickly asked Chu Yan to interpret the captain and the helmsman and instructed them to save the people immediately.
After receiving Qiao Anbang's instructions, the captain and sailors who had been booked by Qiao Anbang were rushed to save people. A sailor drove a rubber boat toward John Rick's cargo ship.
At the same time, rescuers were also sent on the freighter that John had hit for no reason.
However, when John Rick saw that the cruise ship that caused his crash and accident did not take the opportunity to leave, but instead sent someone to rescue him. He immediately pointed to the sailor who came to rescue and said, "Damn it, you are you, who rushed through the river, causing me to have an accident now. I want you to fully compensate..."
During a series of complaints, John, who saw that his cargo ship had already entered the water, got on the rubber boat sent by Qiao Anbang to rescue him, sat on the rubber boat, and watched his cargo ship slowly sinking because of the water. John Rick, who was still complaining to the rescue sailors for compensation, suddenly sat on the rubber boat and burst into tears.
"My ship..." John Rick was in a bad mood. His cargo ship was the source of life for the whole family. Now it was about to sink. How could he not feel uncomfortable or heartache?
On the cruise ship, Qiao Anbang turned around and pointed to the captain who had already arrived on the deck and said, "Can you rescue that ship?"
After listening to Chu Yan's translation, the captain shook his head and replied in English: "There is no way to save it now. If you want to regain that ship, you can only ask the salvage company to salvage it. However, it is just a small cargo ship with low prices. There is no need to ask the salvage company to salvage it, because the cost required in this way is enough to buy a small cargo ship again!"
After listening to Chu Yan's translation, Qiao Anbang frowned immediately. Looking at the British man who had been rescued and boarded the ship, he felt a little guilty in his heart.
When John Rick was rescued on the cruise ship, he sat on the deck in a daze and stared blankly at his cargo ship that had sunk to the point where only half of his hull was left. There was indescribable sadness in his eyes.
"Yanyan, go and tell him so that he doesn't have to be sad. I will cover all his losses today!" Qiao Anbang pondered for a while, turned to Chu Yan next to him and said.
"Yeah!" Chu Yan nodded happily, stepped forward, and said to John Rick in fluent English: "Sir, our boss asked me to tell you, don't be sad, all your losses today will be borne by us!"
"Really?" John Rick turned around when he heard the voice, but found that what he was talking to him was an incredibly beautiful oriental woman. Her delicate and fair eastern hole was no less than the devilish figure of the Westerner, which made John Rick stunned for a moment.
Feeling the loss of the foreign man's composure, Chu Yan smiled generously, nodded in a pleasant voice, "Yes, sir, we will never regret what our boss promises!"
"Oh!" John Rick nodded subconsciously as if falling into the clouds. Before he could completely wake up from Chu Yan's beauty, he even subconsciously said: "Beautiful lady, you are so beautiful, as beautiful as an angel!"
"Sir, you have suffered losses just now. I'm really sorry!" Qiao Anbang stepped forward at this time, but his big hand like a palm fan hugged Chu Yan's slim waist, and said to John Rick with a smile.
"Is he?" John Rick saw Qiao Anbang coming up and put his hand on the waist of the beautiful oriental beauty in front of him. He couldn't help feeling a little disappointed and asked Chu Yan.
Chu Yan first translated Qiao Anbang's words before answering him: "He is my boss and my lover!"
John Rick suddenly realized, and at the same time he noticed that behind the Chinese man in front of him, there were two beautiful women who were no less beautiful than the woman in front of him.
However, the gentlemanly demeanor of the British quickly restored John Rick to normal. He stood up and greeted Qiao Anbang and Chu Yan very politely: "Hello, my name is John Rick. I'm happy to see you for the first time!"
"Qiao Anbang, from China, this is my secretary and lover Chu Yan!" Qiao Anbang smiled and nodded to introduce himself.
After Chu Yan smiled and translated his smile, he asked humorously: "Mr. John, are you sure you are happy to see us?"
ps:linux_chou, the generous rewards and support from the great Antarctic White Rabbit and the boys who pursued their dreams. What I thanked most was Feng Ge 98's 20,000 gifts. I was very moved and could not repay them, so I could only work hard to write. In addition, I congratulate my brother on becoming the seventh head of the empire, the head is mighty, and Feng Ge 98's 98's magnificent!!
Chapter completed!