After more than two months of overhaul, the Mouse Superman has regained its original handsome appearance, the desert camouflage on the hull has been repainted, and the big mouse heads on both sides of the bow are whitewashed with a special marine paint with fluorescence, which looks nothing special during the day, and at night it will emit green fluorescence, which looks very creepy, but Hong Tao likes it. Except for a new outfit, the appearance of the Mouse Superman has not changed much, except that on the top of the mast, there is a large round ball, which looks very weird.

Inside the sphere is a set of sea search radar called the "palm leaf" system, which is the main sea radar on large warships in the former Soviet Union in the 7th and 80s, with a search distance of 40 nautical miles, and can also be used as a navigation radar and a low-altitude early warning radar. The 300-kilowatt high-power solid-state transmitter has another peculiar feature, which is that it can use ionospheric reflection to more than double the detection range, but the accuracy is reduced by several orders to the point of nautical miles, which means that the error can reach one nautical mile.

This function is flashy for naval ships, and the error is too large to provide accurate parameters for the fire control radar, and it is almost the same as not seeing, so this function has not been developed in the later period, and it is now an outdated equipment. But for Hong Tao's Mouse Superman, it's just fine. The search distance of the navigation radar of ordinary civilian ships is only about 2 or 30 nautical miles, and with this palm leaf, the Mouse Superman finally has a pair of bright eyes, which can see farther on the sea surface, and can not only search for ships, but even low-altitude targets can be found.

In addition to a slight change in appearance, the Mouse Superman is also equipped with two diesel generator sets and electric drives, which can run up to 31 knots when driving at full power. If the restriction protection is removed, there is no problem with opening it above 33 knots. It's just that it can't be too long, otherwise it will have to be overhauled.

After getting on board. Hong Tao deliberately went to the hangar to take a turn, those broken tanks, broken planes or something are still there, on the surface it has been dusty for a long time, but after a careful look, Hong Tao found that the engine of one of the tanks was replaced, and he didn't know what model it was replaced with, anyway, it was not the original set of machines. It turned out that the machine was new, the oil seal had not been removed, and this set was obviously used. It's old.

Not only has the ship changed, but the people on board have also changed, the first batch of more than 30 crew members, there are currently less than 20 old faces left, less than half of them are carrying an agreement and a vision of a new life in the future, going home to have a baby and prepare to have a baby. This is the result of Hong Tao's deliberate restraint and more than a month away. If the second master hadn't been guarded for 7749 days, I'm afraid that in two months, these crew members would have to be replaced.

New ship, new crew. Beiliwei suggested that Hong Tao should not go on a long voyage directly, but first make a few short voyages to test the performance of the new ship, and by the way, let the new crew get familiar with the work on board. After a week of running-in, it's never too late to sail away. Of course, Hong Tao has no opinion, and what Beiliwei said is very correct and professional. That's what you have to listen to, so after the Mouse Superman left the deep-water docks on Wheat Island. Slowly turned around and drove slowly towards the southeast. The first stop is Jeju Island. After two more stops in Japan, they finally departed from Yokohama and officially began their voyage across the Pacific Ocean. The voyage will take about three weeks to reach the U.S. Navy's Third Fleet military base in Long Beach by the 25th at the latest, where it will dock ashore.

The total journey of this trip is more than 10,000 kilometers, fortunately, the Mouse Superman is not a sailboat, there is no need to worry about the wind direction all day long, you only need to determine the route, with the cruising speed can go exactly more than 800 kilometers a day, two weeks can run the whole way, plus a stop halfway, three weeks is enough. Now there are no children on the ship, and there is no old spy like Levin, who has completely become the sea kingdom of Hongtao, as long as the ship leaves the port, he is the king, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he has the power of life and death. For Hong Tao, who has been holding back for more than a month, he just used the boring time of more than ten days to make up for the losses of the previous paragraph, plus with the captain's accomplice of Beiliwei, the female crew members on the ship are all compliant, and there is no daylight!

In fact, this is not the case, when the Mouse Superman entered the port of Long Beach, the female crew were full of energy and elation, but only the flood of a seedling in the thousands of acres of land on the ship seemed a little sluggish. At this time, he remembered the advice of his ancestors, it was a steel knife for scraping bones, he had just let this knife scrape for more than ten days, and he did feel that the bones were a little soft.

Long Beach is a large port city in Los Angeles County, which is located 3 or 40 kilometers south of Los Angeles City. Out of the habit of Chinese, Hong Tao will always confuse the Los Angeles region with Los Angeles City, when playing sailing in the past, he often said that he wanted to dock at Los Angeles Port, but Eliza and they couldn't understand, because Los Angeles City is not close to the sea at all, where is the port! And what our Chinese people usually call Los Angeles City, most of them refer to the Los Angeles metropolitan area, this thing can be big, together with Los Angeles City, there are nearly 100 cities, more than 10 million people are counted in this metropolitan area.

In a country like the United States, which is divided into administrative regions according to the county system, it can be a bit tricky to understand, especially after getting used to life in China, it is easier to get confused. Roughly speaking, the state is equivalent to our province, which is regarded as a first-class administrative region. The state is called county, and some of the words are translated as county, and some are translated as county, all of which mean the same thing, which is regarded as a second-level administrative district, which is roughly equivalent to a city in China. But there is a special situation here, that is, a metropolitan area like Los Angeles, which is at the same level as the county, belongs to the direct jurisdiction of the state, it is both the city of Los Angeles and the county of Los Angeles, but the city government and the county government are independent, but it is chaotic.

Further down, it's even more chaotic, the third pole administrative region in the United States is divided by each state itself, and there are all kinds of virtues. There are both cities and towns, and sometimes they are at the same level, sometimes they are subordinate, and there are also county districts, that is, they are neither under the management of the city nor the town, and are directly managed by the county government itself. In addition, there is a thing called UnincorporatedCensusDesignatedPlaces, which does not even have its own government, and is specially designated for the convenience of statistics, which are generally sparsely populated places such as mountains, forests, and the Gobi. It's not like to say they're villages, it's not like it, it's not like it, it's a bit of a thing administratively.

The reason why the administrative regions of the United States are so chaotic is mainly due to its system. Because the government of both the city and the town is elected by the citizens themselves, and then relies on the taxes of the city and town to pay wages. As soon as everyone feels that there is no need to spend money on hiring people to manage them, these mayors and mayors will step down, and the whole area will be left without a government. People living here only need to pay a part of the management fee to the county government, and the county government will send people to remove garbage and maintain law and order.

This is particularly true in the western states, where many municipalities have a government one year and no government next year. This year is still a city, and next year everyone will live together in a bad way, so let's divide it into two cities, each with its own one! The year after that, we will still think that everyone is living well together, so it will become a city again, and maybe we will pull the city or town next to it to make a bigger city again. In addition, the private land system in the United States, you can't divide a piece of land into two towns, and some towns with small populations have only a few families in total, and there is no household registration system, so maybe one day someone will move to another city to live, and there can't be one family left to call it a town. Anyway, for many reasons, the three-level administrative regions of the United States are extremely complex, and many Americans can't figure it out, and the foreign generation of immigrants who have just gone there are even more confused.

But at the county level, it cannot be added or abolished at will, and the first and second levels of government are regulated by the federal government, which also maintains the basic stability of the administrative districts. In this respect, the Americans have a very flexible grasp of the balance between freedom and the legal system, which not only ensures that everyone has a certain right to freedom, but also keeps this degree of freedom firmly controlled in the legal circle and cannot cross the line, and at the same time takes into account the interests of all parties.

Hong Tao is a direct victim of this administrative division, and without a lawyer, he would not even be able to figure out whether to pay taxes to the city, county, or federal government. Otherwise, in the United States, you can do without anything, except lawyers, without them, you can't even be a homeless person, because you don't know where to go to get government benefits.

Before he entered the port, Hong Tao saw the things and people he didn't want to see the most! The Odyssey was lying quietly in the military port, and next to it was the blue and white commander, and with these two things, Levin's old spy must also be there! But no, it's not enough, the appearance of the Mouse Superman is too scary, and its identity is more sensitive, not only are the Chinese ports unwilling to let it dock, but the American ports are also doing everything possible to prevaricate, and find all kinds of reasonable and legal reasons to make it difficult for Hong Tao. If all those formalities are completed, Hong Tao may have to drift at sea for a month.

At this time, Levin became Santa Claus again, and told Hong Tao with a smile that he could take in Hong Tao and his boat with his friends, and there was no docking fee. Hong Tao knew that he must not be holding back a good fart, but the situation was pressing, if he didn't want to stop, he had to stop, he couldn't really float on the sea. As for Levin's big pit, let's go and see the depth first, if you can climb up, you can jump with your eyes closed, if it's too deep, you can only wronged these crew members, go to the sea and drift for a month, anyway, what should you do or what should you do. (To be continued......)