Chapter 187: The Holy See

Huang Tao directly bought a freighter and refitted it. The tonnage of the freighter is more than 50,000 tons, and the hull length of the freighter with the tonnage of more than 50,000 tons has reached more than 200 meters.

Except for a four-story building at the end, the rest of the building looks like an aircraft carrier. Flat and empty deck, easy to stack containers.

The four-story building, except for functional rooms such as galleys, has been made quite good for the living conditions of the ship's members. As a result, the captain, first mate, second officer, sailor and other crew members who had been recruited with the ship were quite satisfied.

Of course, the best living conditions, naturally the boss, the decoration specifications of the top floor are completely in accordance with the luxury cruise ship, there is a separate bathroom, kitchen. It's just a mansion that can move around the sea.

"Boss, get some more arms and come back!" Lin Yun said to Zeng Rong, who was about to travel.

"Okay, you contact the arms dealer first, see where the delivery is good, and I'll bring it back directly." Zeng Rong agreed.

"Boss, Mr. Zhang applied over there, let the boss buy some advanced smelting equipment in Europe, and brought it back by the ship." Zhang Lao is an expert from several Chinese countries. heard that Zeng Rong was going to travel around the world on a large cargo ship, and immediately transmitted a message to Zeng Rong through Huang Tao.

"Okay, you look at the equipment you want, I want to get it back." Zeng Rong also agreed to this.

"Boss, when you go to Europe, by the way, get some cars, household appliances or something, and give them to some important people as benefits, these things are much more cost-effective to import directly from the producing countries. It's a good choice to win people's hearts. Huang Tao also suggested.

"Okay, that's fine." Zeng Rong also agreed.

Planning an aluminum alloy factory, plus buying a ship, refitting, helping the ship to register the country, etc., the ship is registered in the country, so that it can dock in the ports along the route, and has been fed. This is another few months passed, and these months have passed, which is almost the delivery time agreed between Heibao and those multinational groups.

The production capacity of Heibao Company is actually larger than originally estimated, because the local workers are not skilled at the beginning, and the more skilled they are, the more skilled they are, the production capacity will naturally increase steadily.

What was originally estimated to take eleven months to produce, in fact, it was produced in nine months.

In addition to the arrival of a large amount of funds, and the cargo ship newly purchased by Zeng Rong was not idle, loaded with 50,000 tons of ultra-high hardness steel, and set sail directly, the purpose of which was Europe.

I heard that Heibao Company had purchased an ocean-going freighter of its own and was willing to personally deliver cargo to a limited number of multinational groups, but of course these companies had no reason to refuse.

Black Treasure Company's things, those sought-after scarce goods! Build a good relationship with Heibao Company, maybe you can get more ultra-high hardness steel in the future.

In addition to a group of crew members, it is an employee of Heibao Company who is proficient in international trade, and this employee's name is Shuai Wencai. The surname is very special, the name is also very special, she looks thin, quite skinny, and has a sense of wit, but she is a woman, a glasses girl with glasses.

Traveling with two beautiful women's families, Zeng Rong will definitely not take a male entourage out, it is a very unsightly thing.

The Irrawaddy River, which is Myanmar's largest port at the mouth of the Irrawaddy River, which also flows through Kachin State, provides water transportation for Black Treasure's ultra-hard steel to reach the port and then be loaded onto a ship to Singapore.

The goods are concentrated in Singapore and then wait for the cargo ships arranged by major multinational companies to be loaded. Zeng Rong's freighter also had to be shipped in Singapore. Because Myanmar's ports can only berth 10,000-ton cargo ships, 50,000-ton cargo ships cannot enter the port at all.

"It's like sailing on a boat on the sea!" Standing on the roof of the building, watching the waves rolling at the stern of the ship and the large freighter sailing smoothly on the sea, Zhu Lu shouted excitedly.

The ship has moved away from the coastline, and the sea is as calm as a mirror. Seagulls fly over the sea, making loud chirpings from time to time.

Such a scene really makes people feel a lot more open. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and the next day, Hu Min began to get seasick. By the time Hu Min's physical condition improved, the ship had entered the Indian Ocean from the Bay of Bengal.

After a major replenishment of supplies at Indian ports, the ocean-going freighters were not prepared to resupply and went directly to the Arabian Sea to replenish in the Gulf of Aden.

This voyage takes half a month, and it is indeed surprising to see the ocean for the first time, but after a long time, there is no novelty at the beginning.

However, cultivating on a ship is a different feeling. Especially at night, when the quiet moonlight falls on the boat, listening to the subtle sound of the waves in your ears, when you settle down at this time, it seems that the whole sea is in your heart, and your mind is unusually open, and the air engine will run a little faster.

Seeing that Zeng Rong and Zhu Lu were both practicing national arts, Hu Min also joined the cultivation team. Although Hu Min had practiced fighting techniques before, he had never been in contact with Guoshu.

Not anything else, the scope of Hu Min's life, as well as the Western culture he accepted when he was studying abroad, all made Hu Min feel that the Chinese art of China was difficult to understand and difficult to learn.

I don't know if I don't learn, but this study, Zeng Rong found that Hu Min has a good potential in national arts.

Although they passed through many countries along the way, the three of them did not have the opportunity to go deeper. Because of the status of seafarers, they can only move within a certain range of the port. If you go beyond that area, you are entering the country illegally.

Because of the lack of time, several people only applied for visas for a few European countries. However, Zeng Rong and the three of them also planned to have a good time in Europe, and along the way, Africa, India and other countries, the three of them were not interested.

After being resupplied from Yemen's ports, it entered the Red Sea, which is called the Red Sea because of the local red algae blooms, which make some areas of the sea look red, giving it its name.

The Bab el-Mandeb Strait in the Red Sea is narrow and stormy, and it was not a very good route in the Age of Discovery, but since the opening of the Suez Canal, the most famous in the world, and the current ocean-going steamers are no better than the sailing ships of that era, with large tonnage, metal hulls, and very strong resistance to wind and waves, so the Red Sea has become an internationally important shipping lane.

Going through the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, is more than nine thousand kilometers shorter than the route around Africa.

Crossing the Suez Canal and entering the Mediterranean, the ocean freighter docked in Venice, Italy's largest port city.

Chinese people know Venice, but in the eyes of Chinese people, Venice is the kind of Western-style city with small bridges and flowing water, but they don't know that Venice is also the largest port in Italy. At that time, Marco Polo said that the only port in the world that can compare with Venice is the port of Quanzhou in ancient China.

It is a city built in the water, and in addition to more than a hundred small islands, many buildings have been built on many shallow beaches.

At that time, Venice concentrated some of the most powerful people in Europe, and these people spent a lot of money, material resources, and manpower, and even cut down the forests of northern Italy, using large logs as piles, and after the piles were laid, they laid a layer of planks on them, and then began to build houses.

Therefore, Venice, in addition to being called the city of water, the city of bridges, is also known as the city and there is a forest underneath. These woods are underwater, not worried about decay, just like the formation of agarwood, these woods are slowly carbonized in the water for a long time, but are as hard as iron. Once taken out of the water, it will quickly oxidize and decay, which is a strange phenomenon.

When the ship arrived in Venice, it was notified early in the morning that the multinational groups had come to pick up the cargo, and in addition to these things, the ocean-going freighter was receiving a lot of cargo and preparing to return to Burma.

Hundreds of vehicles of various grades and styles, as well as a large number of household appliances and some important smelting equipment, were continuously transported to Venice and loaded onto Zeng Rong's ocean-going freighters.

These things are naturally carried out by the port staff and the employees on the ship, and Zeng Rong, as the boss, is already sitting on a small boat with Venetian characteristics with two beauties, paddling slowly in the water city.

It's a strange city, and the only means of transportation in the city is a boat.

As soon as I got off the ocean-going freighter, I rocked the boat again, but it was not boring at all. It is a strange feeling to paddle a boat under various bridges and between various buildings.

It wasn't until the moon rose that the three of them were in a mood and found a hotel to live in.

Although Venice is very beautiful, it is not a place for the three of them to stay for a long time, and the time they can stay in Europe this time is only about ten days, and the three of them still have a lot of places to go.

Italy has a must-visit place on the itinerary of three people, and that is Rome. Rome is a metropolis with a world surname, and it is a famous historical and cultural city.

There are all kinds of magnificent ruins from the ancient Roman era, and most of the important buildings in the West were built of huge stones, so many ancient ruins can be preserved to this day.

Another point that is completely different from the Chinese state is that even though the ancient West was still a slave era, there was still no such strict hierarchy.

China's building specifications are strictly divided, and the scale of the emperor's palace must not be surpassed by the people below, otherwise it is an attempt to rebel and exterminate the nine clans. As a result, it is difficult to have magnificent buildings except for the palaces of previous dynasties.

And once a new dynasty is established, it likes to destroy the royal palaces of the previous dynasty, showing its determination to reform. Afang Palace was destroyed by a fire, and Luoyang was also burned and burned by Dong Zhuo and other warlords. Chang'an was also destroyed and burned down in the war.

But the West is different, Westerners are willing to leave behind the relics of antiquity, which is the crystallization of civilization and technology. Therefore, in ancient Rome, such as the Flavian amphitheater, the Colosseum, the Great Acrobatic Arena, the Temple of Panthion, the Public Baths of Diocletian, etc., are very well preserved.

Of course, there is another important place, the Catholic Church in the Vatican, which is also the place where the three of them must go.

Zeng Rong has some ideas, in the church in Britain, you can find so many items with gas engines, the Roman Catholic Church as the center of world Catholicism, the Holy Land, the Pope's Palace, how to say that there are also a lot of items with gas engines, right?

(To be continued)