Chen Ding was not a scholar, and he always understood "look no evil". He felt that it was very rude to stare at a girl like this. He quickly looked away. But after a while, he couldn't help but peek. He wanted to say
It was not clear how beautiful these girls were. The appearance of his wife and his maid were not bad, but these Australian girls exuded a special charm that he couldn't help but want to look at.
Their words were vaguely carried by the wind, but Chen Ding couldn't quite understand them because they spoke in "Newspeak". They seemed to have mentioned words like "new perfume...department store". Suddenly he saw a
The girl turned her gaze, and he thought he had been discovered and quickly glanced aside, but this time he saw an acquaintance.
His nephew Chen Lin was on the side of the boat not far away. Apparently, he was also peeking at the female students just now.
The eyes of the uncle and nephew met in the air, and both of them were startled. In addition to being surprised, their faces were full of embarrassment.
But at this moment, a vague word floated in the air: "Humph, you old woman!" It was also mixed with laughter. At this time, both uncle and nephew's faces turned red.
Chen Ding never expected that his nephew would send someone to deliver a letter to Mr. Wu more than ten days ago, saying that he would stay in Nansha, and in the blink of an eye he would be on the boat to Lingao. Could it be that something happened in Nansha Village? The third brother
Come up with new tricks again?
Originally, the reunion after a long absence had gone through many hardships. Uncles and nephews were often surprised and shed tears. However, they met again in such an embarrassing environment. They both averted their eyes and pretended not to know each other.
Wu Yijun didn't know that his cousin was also on the boat, chatting with Huo Maixiong who was traveling with him. Originally, he was too lazy to talk to the leader of the declining paper industry. But he spent a lot of money at the auction, which aroused Wu Yijun's curiosity.
Where did you find the money to make such a desperate investment? The money for the paper mill is not a small amount of money. The transfer fee is just the beginning, and more money will be spent next.
The movement of funds in the market has always been what Wu Yijun is most concerned about. Money will grow its own legs, which is what he often says. Wherever the big money flows, it means there are new opportunities. Money will not
If it falls into someone's hands for no reason, it must mean that person has some special use.
Unexpectedly, Huo Maixiong was so cunning and cunning that he could always get out of the way no matter how hard he tried. He kept silent about how he got the money.
Wu Yijun was feeling disappointed when he was suddenly stabbed in the waist. Turning around, it was Chen Ding. Before he could speak, Chen Ding said in a very low voice: "Lin'er is here too?"
"What did you say?" Wu Yijun was startled, thinking you are not seasick and confused, right?
"He's on the boat."
"Why don't you call him over?"
"No, no, don't call him." Chen Ding was embarrassed to mention the "accidental encounter" just now, "Anyway, we have to get off the boat when we get to Lingao. Just look for him after we get off the boat."
"What the hell?" Wu Yijun still didn't understand.
"Alas, anyway, don't say hello to him now. Just pretend not to know him."
The ship gradually approached the port. During the Second Five-Year Plan period, in order to solve the problems of poor water depth and low throughput of Bopu Port, two ports were re-planned and built in Lingao. One port was located in Xinying Port in the west of the special city.
In the future, Lingao's main external passenger and cargo port will also start construction of the Xinying-urban urban rail line. The other is at the Hongpai Port in Majiao Bay. Although the hydrological conditions here are generally not as good as Xinying, but from Bopu-Majiao Bay
The Niao urban railway has been opened to traffic. After disembarking from the Ma Niao ship, both passengers and cargo can be quickly transported to Bopu through this urban railway, and then transferred to the whole city.
The berthing port of the Baiyunshan is Hongpai Port.
Hongpai Port was originally built to support Ma Niao Steel. When the Baiyunshan ship entered Ma Niao Bay, the first thing it saw was Hongpai Island. A fortress was built on this bare small stone island to guard the bay. On the prismatic fortress
, the muzzle of the dark heavy cast-iron artillery looked solemnly at the strait. At the same time, the morning star flag was flying on the central observation deck that served as a lighthouse. A loaded sentry, wearing a coat, stood on the sentry post like a stone statue, looking at the bay.
There was a commotion among the crowd on the deck. For those who came to Gao for the first time, this scene was too "Australian and Song Dynasty" and it was too in line with people's imagination of Lingao under the Senate: solid stone buildings, huge cannons,
Elite soldiers...
The whistle on the Baiyun Mountain blew a long sound, and then a cannon shot came from the fortress. The group of laughing girls on the deck all stood at attention and bowed fifteen times; uniformed Fubo Army soldiers and police officers all raised their voices to the fortress.
The flag was saluted. The naturalized civilian cadres stood at attention and paid attention. The sentry standing at the sentry post raised his gun and returned the salute.
Although Chen Ding, Wu Yijun and the other natives on the deck didn't know what they were doing, the atmosphere on the deck instantly became solemn and solemn. They could feel it, and they couldn't help but stop talking and joking.
As the ship sailed past the fortress, Chen Ding sighed: "The Australians really deserve their reputation!"
Wu Yijun has been in Guangzhou for a long time and is used to the behavior of Australians, but the scene just now still touched him a lot. It is not surprising that soldiers, police or "cadres" behave like this, a few little girls can do it too
In this way, the Australians have really mastered the art of controlling their subordinates. No wonder that all kinds of stubborn diseases that could restrain the people under the rule of the Ming Dynasty were completely dealt with by the Australians! It all depends on this arm.
Refers to "naturalized people"!
"Awesome, awesome." He couldn't help but whisper to himself,
His mood is quite complicated, and he is indeed a little happy to say that he can climb onto this steel ship of the Australians, not only himself, but also future generations can enjoy it. However, it is not easy to get on the ship of the Australians. Think about it.
It is as difficult as climbing to the sky. Once you go up, you can only follow it wholeheartedly and wholeheartedly.
Chen Ding, however, did not have as many thoughts as he did. He only said with great interest: "I have heard for a long time that Australians use military law to govern the country. They are really powerful!"
The ship sailed past the Hongpai Island Fortress, and many towers, pipelines and chimneys appeared on the coastline. Black smoke and white water vapor erupted into the sky. The sea breeze also brought pungent temperatures and rumbling roars. On the pier,
There are cranes like iron towers and loading and unloading conveyors with giant dragons lying on their backs; huge bulk cargo silos and slag and coal ash piled in the open air. Each one is like a small hill.
For the natives who had witnessed it for the first time, the impact of this beyond-cognition sight was far greater than that of the fortress just now. People stared nervously at the coastline. Some people said: "This is the Ma Niao Iron and Steel Company, which specializes in iron making...
…”
"Is it just like the iron workshop in Foshan?"
"Yes, almost."
"Hey, how much iron do you need to smelt and how can you use it all?"
"Australians use iron to build ships and pave roads. You can calculate how much iron is needed."
"Then, wouldn't it mean that all the iron in the world will be dug out by them?"
…
Chen Ding has been looking for the legendary "steel giant ship", but there are quite a few ships in Ma Niao Bay, including large ships no smaller than the Baiyun Mountain. However, the big iron ship has never been seen. He asked about the escort this time.
Only then did Chen Xiaobing, a naturalized civilian cadre they headed for, find out that the boat was docked at Bopu.
"...This place was originally just a deserted bay. There were only kitchen households drying salt and fishing households on the coast. After the elders came, they first built windmills in the Majiao Salt Farm here; and then here
A blast furnace was built and the Ma Niao Iron and Steel Company was built..."
"windmill?"
"It can't be seen from here, it's on the other side of the peninsula."
“Why do we use windmills to dry salt?”
"It's used to lift water. Can't we use seawater to dry salt?" Chen Xiaobing said with a smile, "With the windmill, it's different. The salt farm that originally only produced 500 tons of salt a year has now become a large-scale production of 10,000 tons of salt a year.
saltworks."
"Ten thousand tons of salt?" Chen Ding found it unbelievable. He knew that the Australian "kilo" commonly used in Guangzhou is one thousand for one ton of Australians. Each household uses only a few dozen kilograms of salt every year. "So.
There is so much salt, how can you eat it?"
"Haha, this salt is not for eating." Chen Xiaobing couldn't help laughing, which immediately made Chen Ding feel ignorant, "it is for making chemical raw materials."
"What are chemical raw materials?"
"This..." This was somewhat difficult for Chen Xiaobing. He actually knew very little about the chemical industry. Among the naturalized people, the chemical industry was the last place that everyone wanted to work. "It uses salt, coal, and other
Various things to make useful things. For example, chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and, by the way, if you want to open a cotton textile factory, then the dyes you will use for dyeing in the future will also be made by chemical factories."
Chen Ding thought to himself, this is probably what people often say, Australians have the power of ghosts and gods, and they can seize the wonders of nature. What can be done with salt? He couldn't figure it out even if he thought about it. Salt becomes brine after absorbing water.
Add water and it becomes salt water, and if it is burned and condensed, it is still a block of salt. It is still salt, so how can it be turned into something else? It is a pity that Mr. Wu runs a cotton spinning mill, not a "chemical factory", otherwise he can use this to make a
Understood.
The Baiyunshan gradually moved away from the wharf of the steel plant, and more and more ships were moored in the harbor. The largest number of them were ocean-going cargo ships carrying bulk cargo such as coal, iron ore, sea salt, etc. The second one was the steam barges sailing along the coast.
Rows of moorings line up in the bay.
"Look, the Australian warship!" someone shouted on the deck. Chen Ding followed the voice. Sure enough, there was a mighty warship moored on the coastline on the other side of the bay, surrounded by three or four small ones.
Speedboat Ma Niao is not the main base of the Fubo Army Navy, but due to the need to defend Lingao, a naval base team is deployed here, stationed with a naval detachment, including two 901 gunboats that have withdrawn from front-line service and four