The '52-year-old Ford Crestliner, the '57-year-old Buick 'Century', the '58-year-old Chevrolet Lmpala, the '57-year-old Plymouth Fury, and the Pontiac StarChief all look like they are all exquisite treasures, and any one can be put on the Pebble Beach auction market.

But if you open the engine cover of these cars, you will find that these classic cars are actually 'zombie cars', these cars just have the appearance of classic classic cars, and the engines of all cars are varied, just take the Pontiac as an example, the original 4.7 displacement V8 engine has long been missing, and it has been replaced with a replacement product that makes Xiao Peng's eyes shine: a four-cylinder diesel engine from Huaxia Weichai.

Isn't this for a small forklift?

Xiao Peng even saw a car with a single-cylinder 6-horsepower diesel engine on a weeder。。。。。。

Xiao Peng instantly lost all interest in these classic cars------ isn't this selling dog meat on the head of a sheep?

It is purely to deceive the feelings of the people who eat melons!

Dana was obviously a little unhappy with Xiao Peng's reaction: "This is Cuba, do you want those classic cars that look good and are well maintained, or go to the Pebble Beach auction in California, our Cuba is not a place to pick up leaks." ”

Xiao Peng was overjoyed when he heard this: "Huh, you actually know about the Pebble Beach auction? Where have I really been, I have a few cars I bought there now, a Lamborghini 350GT, a Ferrari 250GTO, and a Ford Mustang Shelby." Oh, Shelby gave me a friend named Yang Meng. By the way, how did you find out about the Pebble Beach auction?"

A Cuban girl knows about the Pebble Beach auction in the Stars and Stripes, which is quite interesting, the two countries have not been in contact for more than half a century, right?

Dana didn't answer Xiao Peng's question, but stretched out her left hand, she had a ring on her ring finger, she couldn't tell what material it was, and the style was very simple, it looked more like a twisted iron bar.

Sun Pengcheng looked excited when he saw it, and slapped Garcia: "I'm going! When did you get married?"

Garcia hurriedly waved his hand after hearing this: "I'm not married!"

Dana smiled: "Sun, you misunderstood, this is not my wedding ring, this is my graduation ring." ”

"Graduation ring?" Xiao Peng was stunned after hearing this, looked at Dana and said, "You went to school in Maple Leaf Country?"

Dana nodded: "Yes, I graduated from Maple Leaf National Institute of Technology and studied mechanical and electrical engineering. This is not surprising, although our country has no contact with the Stars and Stripes, it does not mean that we have no contact with the Maple Leaf Country, every year there will be people sent abroad to go to school, Garcia can go to China for further study, and I also got the opportunity to study in the Maple Leaf Country. ”

Xiao Peng looked around, and then looked at Dana: "You came back from Maple Leaf Country to repair the car?"

Dana laughed, "No, no, no, this is my father's garage. I have my own job, and Garcia called me and said you wanted to come and see me. After all, it's illegal in the legal sense, oh, and you don't have to worry. No one cares about this, Garcia's leaders are going to come here to fix the car. ”

Sun Pengcheng interjected and asked, "Brother Peng, what's going on with this ring? How can you know that Dana is studying in the Maple Leaf Country when you see it?"

Xiao Peng pointed to Dana's finger: "This is known as the 'most expensive ring in the world'. Only graduates of several engineering colleges in Maple Leaf Country can get it, and others can't buy it with money. ”

Sun Pengcheng asked curiously: "What does this mean? Why can't money buy it? What kind of material is this?"

Xiao Peng replied: "It's an ordinary ring made of steel, but this ring hides eighty-eight lives." So this ring also has a name, which is called the 'Ring of Shame'. ”

Dana stretched out her thumb: "Mr. Xiao, so insightful!"

Xiao Peng scratched his head after hearing this: "My girlfriend is in college in Boston, and when I went to see her, I knew a few MIT students, and they told me about this ring. Their MIT students are envious of your ring. ”

Sun Pengcheng asked curiously: "What's going on with this ring?" Brother Peng, you should tell me about it." ”

Xiao Peng pointed at Dana: "Wouldn't it be better to let the person concerned introduce you?"

Dana smiled: "Actually, it's not as exaggerated as Xiao said, in fact, this should be regarded as a shame for the former engineer." ”

Listening to Dana's narration, Sun Pengcheng also figured out the ins and outs of this ring.

The mother river of this maple leaf country is the St. Lawrence River, which originates in Lake Ontario and ends in the St. Lawrence Bay into the sea. In 1854, Montreal built the Victoria Bridge over the St. Lawrence River, which directly became the main port in the eastern part of the Maple Leaf Country, and the Quebecers were anxious to see this situation and wanted to build a bridge, until 1887, the Quebec Bridge was officially opened, and it was not until 1900 that construction began.

For this bridge, Maple Leaf Country is also fighting. Theodore Cooper, a graduate of the Maple Leaf Institute of Technology and already one of the best bridge engineers in the Stars and Stripes at the time, was invited as the chief engineer.

When designing the bridge, Theodore Cooper extended the span of the bridge by nearly 100 meters, on the grounds that it would avoid the impact of deep piers and ice edges, and that it would shorten the construction time and save money on the piers. But it turned out that he did just 519 to become the longest cantilever bridge in the world at the time.

In 1907, when the project entered a critical moment, the workers found that the rods under large pressure were bent and deformed, and the rivet holes that had been laid were misplaced. The news was reported to Cooper, but Cooper was in New York at the time----- to be precise, since the bridge was built, the chief engineer Cooper had never been on site to supervise the command, citing health problems (he was not yet sixty years old at the time, and died in his eighties). ）。 So Cooper didn't know anything about the scene and thought that the deformation was normal. Ask to continue construction. 、

The on-site engineer lacked the confidence and right to question Cooper's judgment, and the construction company was worried about delaying the construction period, so the workers repeatedly assured the workers that the bridge was very safe and there would be no problems, so the bridge finally failed, and on August 29, 1907, the Quebec Bridge under construction collapsed, half of the bridge fell into the water, and 75 workers died.

After the accident commission investigated and found that the cause of the accident was due to unreasonable design, Cooper increased the span of the bridge from 487.7 meters to 548.6 meters, and the weight of the bridge changed from 2,760 tons to 3,250 tons.

A few years later, the bridge was rebuilt, and the tragedy happened again, when a fulcrum broke and the longest bridge in the middle of the bridge collapsed, killing thirteen more people. In 1917, the bridge was finally opened to traffic, making it the longest cantilever span bridge to date. This bridge, which could have been an immortal masterpiece, became a disgrace to the people of the Maple Leaf Country.

Because the designer Cooper graduated from the famous Maple Leaf Institute of Technology, the school was also discredited, but the Maple Leaf Institute of Technology did not hide or conceal the matter, but united seven engineering colleges to raise funds to buy the steel wreckage of the bridge together, and created a ring, named 'Ring of Shame', the ring was also designed in the shape of a twisted iron bar, from that time, all graduates of the College of Engineering received such a ring when they received their graduation certificate.

Even all the engineers of the Maple Leaf Country must participate in a grand ceremony when they receive their engineer licenses, and everyone holds an iron chain and swears: consciously and voluntarily accept the norms of the engineer's growth, respect the rigorous and serious title of being loyal to the engineer, and wear the 'Ring of Shame' on the little finger of the left hand, admonishing themselves that the quality of the product is above all else, reminding them never to forget the lessons and shame of history.

Dana lost a lot of weight after returning to China, so she became wearing a ring finger, which caused a misunderstanding among several people.

Xiao Peng suddenly turned his head to Sun Pengcheng and said, "By the way, do you know why the government of the Maple Leaf Country is honest?"

The Maple Leaf Countries' government corruption perception index has been among the highest in the world for many years.

Sun Pengcheng shook his head: "I don't know, why is this happening?"

Xiao Peng said with a smile: "The Maple Leaf Government was inspired by this" Ring of Shame ", established a personal integrity file for each official, and issued a badge, if any official is not honest in politics, it will be recorded in the personal integrity file, and on the badge it will be marked as a lifelong shame, its function is equivalent to the 'Ring of Shame', through this means, the Maple Leaf Government has successfully curbed the corruption of officials, and over time, the power of the system has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the officials of the Maple Leaf Country are consciously ashamed of corruption and bribery. Therefore, there is very little corruption and fall of officials. ”

Garcia didn't want to hear this: "Corruption Perceptions Index, is there any other country in the world that is cleaner than ours? Our offices are about to become tourist attractions!"

After hearing this, Sun Pengcheng explained to Xiao Peng with a smile: "That's the case, Cuba here stipulates that as long as the people have an appointment, they can go to any government department to meet with the relevant leaders, so that the government departments can solve the problem for the people as quickly as possible." ”

Xiao Peng just wanted to nod his head in praise, but Garcia said with a bitter face: "Don't mention it, just because of this unfortunate regulation, it hurts us! Our Ministry of the Interior has always been the place that attracts the most attention of foreign tourists in the whole of Cuba, and many tourists will find ways to find our locals here and spend money to let them take those tourists to visit us, please! We are not a tourist attraction there, okay? Wouldn't it be okay to take two photos outside? It has to affect our work! Sometimes we all feel like monkeys in a zoo. ”

Xiao Peng laughed after hearing this: "To be honest, I also want to go to your Cuban Ministry of Internal Affairs to see, I really want to see how this most legendary department in the world works." ”