Yang Qing leaned on the railing and quietly looked at the group of people in front of him.

This tour is a charter group organized by an online game company on Heron Island, and the people in it are half their employees and half gamers. The route of this tour is customized by them, and they appear here just to have one more senior tour guide to lead the group, and it will be more convenient to go through various procedures.

Yang Qing, a bee technology company that also has some knowledge in Ludao, also registers as a bee member, and often participates in answering some international travel questions and tasks on the CTA website. And I bought a lot of their products,Like the bee's electronic notebook,And the new small TV he has bought,The former's ultra-long standby mode is very convenient,The latter can accept the global terrestrial wireless TV signal so that he can receive the first consultation in a place where the 3G signal is not very good。

However, it was only when he went to Bee Company to contact his own travel agency that he found out that the main and most important business of Bee Company was the online game business! At least for most of the past six months, he had not seen an official offline gathering activity for electronic notebook users, but various questionnaires and sample surveys had been conducted one after another.

However, looking at the group of people in front of him, Yang Qing himself also felt that if he encountered this kind of bold soft girl coin player who threw 100,000 or 200,000 yuan, he estimated that he would have to come to others first.

The chubby, beer-bellied and brown bearded docent was spitting on the retired warship behind him, but Yang Qing turned his gaze to the other side, looking at the spinnaker tower, which was still under construction. It was a new landmark of the Millennium Project that the port town of Portsmouth had built for itself. The main body of the 170-meter-high tower has been basically completed, and from a distance, it is indeed the tower as its name, as if it is a white soft sail puffed by the wind on a high mast.

According to the local tourism department, the new height in the UK will be a great vantage point when completed, with visitors easily accessible by elevator to a height of 100 metres, overlooking the harbour and the surrounding area.

"Well, the British Empire is really not working......" In this famous military port with a history of several hundred years, even Yang Qing, who often travels south and north and has seen many scenic spots, can't help but feel some nostalgia for the past.

The city, born out of a military port and in response to the embarrassment of the Royal Navy, has now had to be transformed into tourism. With the independence of the colonies and the rise of American imperialism, while the Federal Navy has 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers around the world, the Royal Navy of the British Empire is so poor that it can only maintain three "invincible-class" light aircraft carriers. In the past, hundreds of steel giants across the seven oceans were scattered today, or resold Indian mallets, or dismantled and sold iron, and the rest became an exhibition hall in the "Historical Dockyard".

In order to follow the US imperialists to beat Saddam, the lead ship of the "Invincible class" "HM Innocentr-05" held a decommissioning ceremony here two years ago, and the siblings who served in 82 years, the modernized light aircraft carrier Excellence took over its status as the flagship of the Royal Navy.

HMS in front of the name of the Royal Navy ship is the abbreviation of His (Her) Majesty'sship, which means the ship of His Majesty the King (Her Majesty), which is the so-called Royal Navy naming of ships in countries with monarchies such as Sweden and the United Kingdom, in order to show "ownership". Because the nominal head of state of a Commonwealth country is the Queen of England, other Commonwealth countries also have similar letter prefixes on their names, such as HMCS for the Canadian Navy and HMAS for the Australian Navy.

In the historical dockyard museum where Yang Qing is standing at the moment, there are several old ships that are still carrying HMS, such as the Victory in front of him, and the 1860 ironclad ship Warrior in the distance, I wonder if the "big boss" Queen of England can receive a profit share from these "her ships"?

Victory

The Warrior class was the first ironclad ship of the British Empire, with a wooden hull with iron armor and a steam hybrid of sails. Because the rest of the same type was dismantled and sold, it became the oldest surviving ironclad ship in the world, and thus became a historic artifact, which was specially funded for refurbishment and maintenance, and was permanently housed in the Portsmouth Historical Dockyard Museum, which is one of the larger pavilions.

The exhibition halls here are not all ships, but there are still some ground pavilions, such as a dark box-shaped pavilion, which contains the salvaged shipwreck of Henry VIII's Mary Rose, and the future outcome of Nanhai No. 1, which is undergoing submarine salvage operations in China, should be very similar to it.

Built in 1845, the Mary Rose sank in the first battle due to too many guns and too high a center of gravity, and was salvaged in 1982. However, some British experts said that after identifying the remains of the crew, they found that most of the sailors were from southern Europe and Spain, probably because they did not understand English and did not close the bottom gun doors in time, so that the seawater poured into the cabin when the ship fired a salvo and the cannon shook......

Spanish Sailor: Blame me?

"The world's five famous shipwrecks include the British ship Mary Rose, which sank in 1545, the cruise ship Titanic, which sank in 1912, the American cruiser Lucitania, which sank in 1915, the German battleship Bismarck, which sank in 1941, and the Argentine battleship Belgrano, which sank in 1982......" The tour team walked to the front of the Marirose exhibition hall, and the docent began to tell the story of the world's five major shipwrecks.

It seems that these five ships can be related to the British: the Mary Rose is an early British sail battleship; among the five ships, the Titanic, which is most famous because of the movie of the same name, is a British cruise ship; the Lusitania is a civilian converted warship, which will be handed over to the British Royal Navy after being armed, but it was sunk by a German submarine torpedo, killing 1,198 passengers, including 120 American citizens, and the World War I conscription poster has the agitation of "remember the Lusitania"; The unsinkable battleship "Bismarck" singled out eight battleships, battlecruisers, and two aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy, and finally sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean; the cruiser Belgrano was originally the "Phoenix" of the US military, which was launched in 1938 to fight World War II, and was decommissioned in 1950 and sold to Argentina for $1 million cabbage. The latter spent another $4 million to modernize it, and it was used until 1982, when it was sunk by a British nuclear submarine during the Anglo-Argentine War with three World War II-era Type 8 Type 4 fishes, and the old World War II torpedo capsized the old World War II warship.

In the eyes of Yang Qing, the Falklands War is more of a background and difficulty buff for the return of Hong Kong Island, and Argentina, a well-known developed country in agriculture and animal husbandry, suffered an economic crisis in the early 80s, and its currency depreciated more than six times. In order to deflect domestic conflicts, the junta chose to "reclaim" the Malvinas Islands on its doorstep, which were British colonies, and the islanders had to live by shepherding sheep and fishing, and most of them were of British descent and spoke English.

As a result of the war, the winning side received a buff of "+50 public opinion", but it was not the Argentine military junta that initiated it, but Margaret Thatcher's Conservative cabinet. It was against this background that the Sino-British negotiations on Hong Kong's return to the motherland were launched, and with the momentum of winning the Falklands War and winning re-election, they visited the mainland four times, but they "fell down."

After all, the British Empire has long been a thing of the past, and although the Queen still nominally rules the 31.46 million square kilometers of the British Commonwealth, covering 2.1 billion people in 22 time zones around the world, it is only in name. As the chief butler of the "super long standby" queen, although Mrs. Sachael's 11-year reign relied on privatization, deregulation, tax cuts, cancellation of exchange rate controls and other means to regain Britain's spirit and save the declining international status, but after the loss of colonial blood transfusion, the overall decline of European countries has always been unstoppable, and even the "Iron Lady" cannot really turn the tide.

Of course, all of this is now a thing of the past, the Conservative Party has been in opposition for 10 years since it stepped down in '97, and Margaret Hilda Thatcher, now 82, has suffered a stroke and has been forced to live in seclusion and rarely appears in public. If it weren't for the inauguration of a bronze statue of her in February, her attendance and speech, many people may not have remembered this once stunning female politician.

Follow the team all the way forward, because the members of the group have done their homework in advance, and they all have a good level of English, so Yang Qing only needs to lead the way to recognize people along the way, most of the time he is very leisurely, and there is enough time to look at the tour group he brings.

So he paid a large part of his attention to the young boy in front of him, who was looking around, and seemed to be curious about everything, and liked to get closer to observe closely. Along the way, he watched him touch all the things that were not labeled with the "donottouch forbidden touch": from cables to wooden floors, from old-fashioned naval gun models to bronze cannons, from sailors' tableware to various flags, Yang Qing's view of him gradually changed from disgust at the beginning to admiration, this is a "blue sailing dream"! The worshippers who made pilgrimages to the Buddha in the scenic spots of Southeast Asian Buddhist temples seem to have touched them all the way with such dedication and piety.

Well, if Atletico knew that his act of sampling and collecting data was understood by the captain, he would be ...... He will gladly admit that he is indeed on a pilgrimage, touching the soul of the ocean and the dream of the sea in these things.

It was very boring to simply visit and listen to the explanation for a long time, originally according to the original plan, it should be a visit in the morning, and a boat to go to sea in the afternoon, but because of the weather, the afternoon activities were temporarily changed to continue visiting. The Bee Company rents a small sailboat to collect some actual data on the rocking of the ship while sailing, and also arranges for the players to get on board and take a ride around the harbor.

Many of them have already signed up for sailing training and obtained the RYA certification from the Royal Sailing Association, so there is no problem in chartering a boat in the UK.

The sail cables of modern sailboats are mechanically and electrically controlled, and the difficulty of operation is not much more difficult than that of cars and motorcycles. As a "retro" but not "Mugu" ancient background game, it is also a natural choice to choose a modern sailing ship with easier operation, stability, seaworthiness and better comfort as a data collection platform.

After dinner, sitting under the large umbrella in the open-air café, looking at the sea not far away reflecting the lights, and the crackling sound of raindrops hitting the wooden floor, Yang Qing said leisurely: "If everyone has done their homework like you, and knows the etiquette of visiting and dining, the image of the Chinese people in Europe can be much better." ”

"Etiquette, the college entrance examination is not examined, the school does not teach, and the parents don't know much about it, they are all needed, and they will only learn it when they want to reflect their elegant taste and pretend to be professional," Atletico Madrid, who was sitting opposite him, said casually while stirring coffee with a small spoon, "But your travel agency can consider opening a simple training for overseas travel. In particular, many people will choose to follow the example of others when they don't know what to do, as long as someone in the square throws away a piece of garbage freely, and the others see that 'oh, it's okay to throw garbage, it doesn't damage the city's appearance, and then he will follow and throw it away. It should be much better to do training in advance so that everyone knows what to do and what not to do. ”

Atletico Madrid's statement aroused some complaints from Yang Qing, "We are doing the training, but the tourists are not very active, and we also send out tourist destination information brochures, but many people don't read them." ”

Hearing Yang Qing say this, Atletico Madrid was slightly embarrassed, and hurriedly raised his glass and took a sip of coffee to cover up. Tang Jiayi next to him knew very well why Atletico Madrid was embarrassed, he didn't look at the information booklet issued by the travel agency, and he didn't bring it when he came.

After thinking about it, she said softly: "Actually, everyone should hate the boring text content on the data, I think you can try the form of the game." It doesn't have to be a game, in short, it can be interactive, simulating the various plots that tourists will encounter abroad, allowing everyone to make a choice, and then finally giving correct and wrong evaluations and explanations. Such a vivid scene character should be much better than a flat piece of paper. ”

"Sounds fine, but this kind of game should be very difficult to develop, right?" Yang Qing hesitated.

"It's not too difficult.,Even if you don't pursue 3D.,You can do it with PPT slides.,To some extent, it's closer to a Japanese-style galgame beautiful girl game.,After all, the main content is characters.、Scenes、Dialogue、Choice,These things。 However, this thing is not suitable for a professional and semi-professional game company like us to produce, because the amount of material collection and content preparation involved is too large, and it is more suitable for travel agencies to take the lead in production. After all, it would be more realistic for you to collect pictures of this kind of foreign scene, prepare dialogue menus, and set options. ”

Yang Qing nodded lightly when he heard this, and then said with a smile: "Haha, yes, it seems that I have to pay more attention to collecting materials in this area." Is it really possible to ppt?"

"Of course you can.,If you don't think the PPT engine is strong.,But you can do a good job of preparing the scene, character pictures and dialogue options.,Send it to me and I'll help you make a simple game similar to galgame.。 ”

Yang Qing was very interested in Atletico's proposal, and immediately set off with a digital camera.

The light bulb finally left, and Tang Jiayi refused Atletico's invitation to sit in her arms, but moved her chair, next to him, and then leaned her head on his shoulder, looking at the sea with lights and shadows swaying in the rain. The two of them didn't speak, just leaned quietly, enjoying the quiet world under the umbrella.

After a long time, Tang Jiayi, who was still ordinary, couldn't stand it anymore, sat up straight again, and gently rubbed the back of her neck with her left hand.

The romantic and fresh atmosphere of sitting together and watching the sea in the rain was destroyed by the beauty's neck rubbing, and Atletico couldn't help laughing, and then reached out to pull her hand away in his girlfriend's angry eyes, and pressed it gently.

With the light pressure of his fingers, the girl only felt a slight tingling sensation spreading over her shoulders and neck, becoming lighter and fading, and gradually disappearing. Reaching out and holding the big hand on his shoulder, "It's still a little incredible when I think about it now!"

"Global Village, Global Village, isn't that how it came about, although the network is interconnected, but because of the language barrier, most people still use the 'Greeting LAN', although using the American CPU, South Korean memory, domestic hard disks, watching movies from various countries, this feeling is still not direct enough. It's just a jetliner for a walk-and-go trip, with bun fritters 'Have you eaten?' in the morning and fish and chips 'it' safineday in the evening. It immediately became clear that we were in a foreign land. ”

"Just go, it seems that you can only go to Nepal, Sri Lanka and Syria, right?"

"It's okay, it's okay, the visa procedures will definitely become easier and easier in the future, after all, the visa exemption is for the convenience of tourists and the development of tourism. Seeing that the bright rain line under the light began to gradually become sparse and blurred, Atletico stood up and gently took Tang Jiayi's hand, walked out of the umbrella together, and let the last drizzle hit his hair, "If you don't go to those countries that are not visa-free, like Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, you will only go to Nepal and Maldives without visas." The new Malaysia and Thailand will start to be anxious and think about preferential policies. ”

This trip, according to Atletico Madrid's plan, taking an intercontinental train through Russia through Central Asia, through Belgium and France, and then through the Channel Tunnel directly to the United Kingdom should be the best choice. Or take a round-the-world cruise, passing through Southeast Asia Malacca, Sri Lanka, the Suez Canal, the Mediterranean, and the Strait of Gibraltar, which is also a good choice, after all, the purpose of this trip is to "see the ship".

However, because there is no visa-free policy for China in countries along the way, you need to apply for a visa for tourist transit, and Belgium and France in Europe can apply for a Schengen visa, but other Russian and Central Asian countries, Southeast Asian and South Asian countries still have to apply one by one, one person at a time. In the end, he simply gave up and flew straight to the UK.

"Yes, it's all like your Uncle Ma to learn, if you don't give visa-free, you won't cross the border, and you won't increase their GDP!"

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