When Pimont saw the old Captain Phillips, who usually chattered in front of everyone, and boasted that he had traveled far and wide, well-informed and unfazed, and was now so shocked that his beard trembled with his body, he immediately felt that as the Governor, he should more or less set an example of gentlemanly calmness.

So he took a deep breath and smiled and wanted to look up to say hello to Xu Zhi in front of him.

However, suddenly a whistle sounded overhead, and he staggered, but fortunately, two hands stretched out from the side in time to prevent him from falling on the gangway.

However, this moment made Pimont's reserve completely unreserved, and he could only half-close his eyes at this time, half-held by two sailors up the iron gangway......

It wasn't until a long whistle in the air, vibrating Pimont's eardrums, that he was awakened from his stupor.

The whistle came from the gangway, and he looked up to see a line of tall sailors standing at the gangway, lined up along the deck, all without squinting, with their heads held high, standing in order...... Is it a sailor?

No, these handsome young men are supposed to be the king's Praetorian Guard, right?

This was the first thing that came to Pimont's mind when he saw these sailors, and from the spirit and appearance, it was obvious that those sloppy and rude sailors could not be compared to them at all.

The clothes and trousers of these sailors were very close-fitting, and they were all handsome, white and red, muscular, and had a toned body like a Greek mythological man.

Pimont, of course, knew that these people were actually ordinary sailors, and he had seen such sailors on the Pride, and there was no rudeness or ferocity in their eyes, and of course there was no obscenity and humility, but everyone showed a kind of confidence and a certain proud gaze.

Pimont also knows that the reason these people look so healthy is because of adequate nutrition and the result of enough exercise.

In this era, the average height of Europeans was less than 1.7 meters, and Pimont had seen various races, and he believed that the men of the Ming Empire were similar to Europeans in terms of nutrition and height, and these Australians were obviously superior to Europeans and men of the Ming Dynasty in terms of height and nutritional health.

However, at this time, he had to put away his strong curiosity for a while, and after trying to get himself on the deck, he gave a standard European aristocratic hat salute to a tall middle-aged man with a square face and thick eyebrows and a stern gaze who was walking briskly.

At this point, the long whistle came to an abrupt end.

Gu Jin appeared at the gangway on the upper deck, looking at all this condescendingly, and he nodded with satisfaction.

That whistle was originally part of the boarding etiquette of senior naval officers in the old world, but now Gu Jin has transformed this thing - the protocol whistle is a long sound, and if you encounter a superior who is higher than the captain on board, it will be two long whistles.

Gu Jin attaches great importance to etiquette on board, and he has added many of these courses to his sailing training courses, telling his students that having etiquette is not only beautiful, but also cultivates a sense of honor, and it is also the difference between professionalism and amateur play.

"Courtesy, courtesy, self-esteem, self-confidence, not pretentious, this is the code of conduct that you should strive to practice......"

Captain Gu usually said these words to these young people, and now it seems that this group of high school students have been trained quite well by him.

Gu Jin saw Pimont and Phillips walking up to the deck, so he walked down the gangway steadily, and after the other party's hat salute was finished, he took two steps, stretched out his right hand, and said with a smile:

"On behalf of the Combined Fleet of the Australian Federation, I welcome both of you aboard."

Xu Zhi, who was standing next to him at this time, hurriedly translated in French at the same time, and explained to the two people who were a little stunned standing in front of Gu Jin:

"The handshake is our Commonwealth of Australia etiquette."

After finally understanding what was going on, Pimont also hurriedly stretched out his hand, he felt that his cold right hand was held by Gu Jin's warm hand, and his somewhat apprehensive heart also settled down a little.

When Captain Phillips was also shaken in the same way, looking at Captain Phillips, whose beard was trembling, and Pimont, who was flushed and a little unsteady on his feet, Gu Jin said with a smile:

"I hope history can remember this day when the Australian Commonwealth and the Kingdom of Portugal met here, and I hope we can have the opportunity to go on hand in hand forever."

It wasn't until a few years later, when he recalled it on an occasion, that Pimont understood the significance of Captain Gu's words......

In the next four days, the talks between Pimont and Gu Jin continued uninterrupted.

In order to make the ship repair work smoother, the Pride also provided them with a variety of repair tools, from axes, chisels, saws, planers to German engineers' shovels.

Of course, these tools were to be returned, and with these tools, the progress of repairing the ship by the Pimont people was greatly accelerated.

Although Pimont and Austin later on, it seemed that the visit was for lunch, Gu Jin and the others on the ship had always been very warm to Pimont, and Gu Jin also asked them to bring some food for the sailors on the Dawn and Princess Casa.

The poor food of the crew in this era was not that the captain was unwilling to give the crew a good meal, but that there were no conditions to eat well, and it was often the case that the ship had only dried vegetables, hairy bacon and wormed black bread, and fresh water that had deteriorated.

Today, the hard-working sailors are restoring the Dawn and the Casa Princess, and people are praising the food they have brought from the Pride – and of course they praise God the most, and the crew believes that God allowed them to meet the Australians to eat such fine food.

In fact, Dr. Duan Leyue, the ship's doctor and cook, gave them nothing more than some boiled canned vegetables, of course, luncheon meat and ham sausages, the people on the Nicole and the Pride rarely eat these foods, although everyone doesn't want to admit it, but in fact many of these are foods that are about to expire or have just expired, if they are not a last resort, or meet this group of people, the final fate of these foods may be stored until they spoil, and finally thrown into the sea.

However, what the ordinary sailors didn't know was that they were just eating some "food", and they didn't experience the "luxury" of eating on the Nicole.

During this time, the officers of both the Aurora and the Casa Princess boarded Nicole more than once to "communicate" with the Australians, and in addition to enjoying the delicacies they had never seen in their lives, they also looked in amazement at the various eating and drinking utensils in front of them: glass bowls and glass plates for food, large glasses for drinking water, and small glasses for drinking.

In the face of these "priceless", even in the European court, which is a high-end eating utensils, these rough men who have been adrift at sea all the year round don't know how to eat for a while.

They trembled and picked up the glass bowl to drink the soup, and then trembled and picked up the glass wine glass to toast, the food in the utensils was already very shocking to their hearts, coupled with these beautiful, crystal clear utensils, even made people feel that they must be in some magical world, many people feel that they are experiencing a thing that can blow to others for a lifetime.

In fact, these are supermarket supplies in the old world, Gu Jin asked Dr. Duan to use them as much as possible, Captain Gu thinks that he usually doesn't pretend to be forced, but once he wants to install it, he must pretend to be a big one, and he will pretend it thoroughly!

The purpose of pretending to be forced is to shock these people, let these turtles see Australia, and let them know the prospects of doing business with Australians.

Anyway, after these glassware are used, they can be washed and sold in Holo Harbor, without delay......

At noon on the fourth day, Gu Jin took out three more bottles of liquor, an authentic brand-name wine from the old world - in a transparent glass bottle! It's just that there is no label on the bottle anymore, so Captain Gu, Pimont and Captain Phillips drank one of the bottles.

At this time, Phillips's performance seemed to be completely in the fluttering fairy world, and Pimont was already holding the shoulder of Xu Zhi, the only sober one, and was speaking indistinctly French and Portuguese native dialect.

Then, Gu Jin gave the remaining two bottles to the excited Pimont and the ecstatic Captain Phillips......