After leaving Japan, the warship Chen Mo was on went to China as planned and finally docked in Shanghai.
Of course, China also provided a very high-level reception. After all, Egypt had provided assistance to China before, and the relationship between the two countries was not bad.
A certain bald headmaster's cognate from another time and space personally went to Shanghai to meet with Chen Mo, the King of Egypt, and had a cordial and friendly conversation. What he said was that he wanted to get more assistance.
And tried to purchase arms, weapons and warships from Britain, the United States and other countries through Egypt.
In order to achieve this goal, the bald principal also sent his own deputy foreign minister and office director to be responsible for Chen Mo's reception during his stay in China.
Regarding this matter, Chen Mo did not refuse, but as the king, he was not responsible for the specific details of the negotiations. Just expressing an intention was enough.
Regarding the warship, the director of the bald principal's office told Chen Mo that they had raised enough money to purchase a cruiser and hoped to purchase an advanced cruiser from the United Kingdom through Egypt.
Speaking of which, China's navy was really pitiful at this time. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, China originally had the largest fleet in Asia and the ninth largest fleet in the world. However, the failure of a Sino-Japanese War of 1896-1896 led to the destruction of the entire fleet, and the remaining naval power was restored.
After years of war, it has never recovered its strength.
In addition, the warships were old and lacked maintenance and upkeep. At this time, the Chinese Navy really had few usable ships.
Coupled with the signing of the Washington Treaty during this period, the major powers reached an agreement not to assist China's naval construction and concluded the "Prohibition of Assistance to the Chinese Navy Agreement", which further dealt a huge blow to the construction of the Chinese Navy.
It can be said that during this period, the Chinese navy, which was once the largest in Asia, was in disarray and was struggling.
Although the "Prohibition of Assistance to the Chinese Navy Agreement" was abolished in 1928 with the nominal reunification of China, the Chinese navy at that time belonged to four different factions, each of which was independent and not subordinate to each other.
As a result, the Chinese navy has not only failed to usher in new developments due to unification and the lifting of restrictions, but has become increasingly difficult.
Before the outbreak of the war of aggression against China, the Chinese Navy at that time only had six cruisers, three destroyers, a few gunboats that were not naval ships at all, and a few transport ships.
Therefore, Chen Mo is willing and enthusiastic to help China strengthen its maritime military power.
The two sides have discussed this issue before, and Egypt has always been willing to help China build a bridge to purchase warships from the British.
However, China has been unable to come up with the money, and the matter has been delayed again and again.
This time, since China said it had raised money, Chen Mo was naturally willing to help and contact the British side.
It’s just that a warship is not cheap. Take the British last World War II warship Belfast after the Labor Party misled the country as an example. This light cruiser is the second ship of the Edinburgh-class light cruiser and was built in 1936.
Built and launched in 1938, with a displacement of 11,553 tons, it was one of the largest light cruisers built by Britain during World War II.
Its cost was 215,000 pounds. Based on the fact that 1 pound was exchanged for 4 U.S. dollars and 1 U.S. dollar was exchanged for 2.4 silver dollars at that time, it was almost two million silver dollars.
Such a sum of money is an out-and-out huge sum of money in China in this era.
Therefore, this matter can be said to be of great importance, and the Chinese side had to shamelessly ask Chen Mo to come forward and invite the British Minister in Shanghai to use his face to discuss this matter with the British.
Thanks to Chen Mo's intervention, the British gave them face, agreed to sell the ship to Chinese warships, and provided necessary crew training.
When the matter was settled, the Chinese side was naturally relieved. At the same time, in order to thank Chen Mo, a grand cocktail party was held to celebrate the matter.
At the grand cocktail party, well-dressed men and heavily made-up women were dancing. There was a lot of laughter and laughter amidst the feasting and feasting. People even mistakenly thought that this was a prosperous and prosperous era.
However, Chen Mo, who was supposed to be the focus of the reception, was sitting in a corner, watching all this alone, with only Jack standing beside him as a bodyguard.
"Captain, you don't seem happy?" Seeing that Chen Mo didn't seem very happy, Jack asked in a low voice.
"The lives of the upper class are the result of the poverty of the people at the bottom. Behind all the joy and laughter you see today are the bitter blood and tears of others. If you knew all this, would you still be happy?" Chen Mo seemed to be answering.
Jack's question, but more like talking to himself.
Jack didn't understand what Chen Mo was talking about. As a child who grew up in the 18th century, she never went to school and was not very literate. It was difficult for her to understand these things that were too advanced for her.
However, as Chen Mo's bodyguard and the vampire assassin he trained, Jack still instinctively hoped that Chen Mo would be happy, so he asked, "Do you need me to kill them?"
"Killing people doesn't solve the problem. If you want to change everything, you need to completely overthrow it, and someone is already doing this." At this point, Chen Mo couldn't help but reveal a smile on his face, but soon he
Disappeared.
Although there are indeed people who are doing the work of overthrowing the mountain, how many people have to pay the price of blood and lives in the process of overturning the mountain?
This was a difficult question to answer. Chen Mo couldn't answer it, but he knew that all the sacrifices were worth it.
Thinking of this, he took an empty glass on the table and silently poured a glass of wine, but did not pick it up. He just put it there, then poured himself another glass, picked up his own glass, and drank it with the table.
After clinking the glasses on the table, he drank the wine in one gulp.
"Tell the person who received us that I'm too drunk to leave first." After saying that, Chen Mo stood up and walked outside.
Chen Mo's departure naturally attracted attention immediately, but Jack stopped everyone and blocked everyone's mouths with what Chen Mo told her.
Although the people in charge of the reception could see that Chen Mo was not drunk, he was still a foreign head of state and had just done a big favor to China. Even if these people saw something, they had no position to persuade him to stay, so they just
The protagonist who was able to watch the reception just left.
However, although Chen Mo left the party, these people had no intention of ending the reception. On the contrary, the atmosphere of the reception had just become lively.
The song continues to sing, the dance continues to dance...
