nbsp; It was a big sea vessel, but it was definitely not as big as Gao Hongsheng requested. Ice @ Fire! Chinese

The total displacement is not at all as Gao Hongsheng said, it should reach 5,000 tons, it should be about 3,000 tons.

However, this is already good, in modern times more than 3,000 tons of sea ships rarely go to the ocean, but in this era more than 3,000 tons is already a very large ship.

It is a little more than 100 meters long, more than 18 meters wide, and about three stories high.

It's just an all-steel steam passenger and cargo mixed ship, very similar to modern ships, except that the hull is full of huge rivets, and there is no smooth surface of modern ships.

A very good sea ship, a sea ship that was already very advanced in this era.

At least Gao Hongsheng didn't see the tall sails of other sea ships, but the towering three big chimneys.

Because many seagoing ships in this era are still steam-powered and sail-powered ships, and only the latest ships are fully steam-powered.

And don't think that the ship was small, how many tonnage were ironclads at that time? At that time, the armored cruiser was less than three thousand tons, and the cargo ship was already in its early three thousands.

As for Gao Hongsheng's 5,000-ton concept xìng merchant ship, Albert didn't care at all, how could that kind of new ship come to China, and this ship didn't know why it came to China, and a new ship like this should run on the Atlantic route.

Along the gangway, Gao Hongsheng panted and climbed up the bridge of the big ship, and an old captain with white hair stood by the gangway in a captain's suit and a big cap waiting for them.

Albert took a few quick steps, walked up to the captain and greeted with a smile, "Hello, Captain Aiken, this is my boss, Gao." The devil is high. ”

After hearing Albert's introduction on Aiken's rigid face, there was a slight change, he raised his eyebrows with interest, looked Gao Hongsheng up and down curiously, nodded at him, raised his hand and touched the brim, but did not raise the big cap like an ordinary gentleman, but withdrew his arm just by touching the brim with his fingers.

Then he smiled with a rigid smile, yes, the kind that smiled with a straight face but reluctantly, and in Chinese it is the kind that does not smile, and said, "Welcome to my ship, Mr. Gao." ”

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Captain Aiken." Gao Hongsheng did not have a trace of dissatisfaction because of Aiken's unreasonable behavior, but raised his big hat very respectfully, like Aiken did a standard gentleman's salute, and then bent slightly towards Aiken, and then said with a smile.

Gao Hongsheng saluted this old captain from the bottom of his heart, in this era, to have such an advanced all-steel all-steam-powered ship, it is simply a figure with advanced vision.

At least he thinks that if he were a person of this era, he would not spend a lot of money to build such an advanced cargo ship, such a cargo ship is several times the cost of those merchant ships in the same period, and the speed is not necessarily much faster than them, but it is more than a star and a half higher than those ships in terms of safety.

At the same time, the characters who can be called captains in this era have all come over in strong winds and waves, but they are not the captains who rely on various instruments to become captains.

Especially after Gao Hongsheng watched the movie of the Titanic, which would sink in more than ten years, in the face of his girlfriend's incomparably gossip thoughts, he had to investigate the captain's profession in this era, and he had an extremely strong reverence for the dedicated jīng god of the captain of this era.

Because in this era, most captains have a fine tradition that when they are shipwrecked, the captain must be the last to leave the ship.

It was not the same as when the shipwreck occurred not long ago when the Korean Seol was shipwrecked, and the captain immediately threw down the passengers and escaped on a life raft.

It was a disgrace to the reputation of all the captains who still sailed the seas over the centuries.

The reputation of infinite trust and reverence for the captains who sailed on the seas is based on the admiration of countless captains who finally followed their beloved ships and sank into the blue sea.

But the captain of South Korea did the qiē in the shipwreck, which completely shattered people's trust in the profession of captain.

Aiken was stunned, but he didn't change his attitude towards Gao Hongsheng because of his respect for him, and said lukewarmly: "Gao, did you bring three thousand pounds?" If I hadn't had a debt to pay, you wouldn't have been on my ship. ”

Albert translated Aiken's words, Gao Hongsheng did not show any dissatisfaction after listening to it, but immediately took out a small pile of pounds from his ** pocket, found out three thousand pounds and handed it to Albert, and asked him to transfer it to Aiken.

Then he smiled and said, "Oh! Brought, three thousand pounds, to Captain Aiken. ”

Aiken took the pound sterling handed over by Albert, checked it quickly, and then put it in his trouser pocket and said to Gao Hongsheng: "Okay, gentlemen, when can we set sail, you must know that we have to pay a lot of port fees for every day we stay." ”

After listening to Albert's translation, Gao Hongsheng smiled and said: "Okay, we are going to load the ship in the next few days, I hope your ship can load my goods, you must know that some of these goods are gifts for the empress of the Ossi Empire, Princess Sissi." My personal gift to her. ”

Gao Hongsheng figured out the name of this trip Guò Aiken and his crew to spread the word, and no one could spread some new things more than the crew, and the news he was going to spread around the world while drinking and chatting.

"Hmmm! Okay, I hope you can hurry, you know, we are very short on time, and I don't want to delay my trip because of you. ”

"We'll be soon, Captain Aiken. Good bye. Gao Hongsheng really didn't want to continue to touch the nails, so he said hello and got off the bridge with Albert and quickly disappeared into Aiken's eyes along the gangway.

It was really Gao Hongsheng who left too suddenly, as if the conversation was just halfway through, but the person who was talking suddenly disappeared, Aiken looked at the direction Gao Hongsheng left in surprise, smiled faintly and said to himself: "Devil Gao, a strange yellow person." ”

Then he touched his trouser pocket and said, "Hey! I don't know if the three thousand pounds will satisfy the appetites of those damn guys. With that, Aiken also disembarked and went out of the port area, called a carriage, and hurried to one of the port offices.

Now that the ship has been booked and the captain has been greeted, the next step is to load the ship.

These little things naturally have Albert and John's help, and Feng Laosi and they don't understand these things, they just treat themselves as guards and guard the goods tightly.

Gao Hongsheng brought not too many goods in the past, only about 200 tons, but the added value of it is great, these things alone used nearly 18 million yuan in modern times, and the RMB that Gao Hongsheng had finally accumulated basically spent a jīng light, and now he can be said to have changed from a rich man to a poor egg in modern times.

However, he is not worried at all, he is now holding the more than 200,000 pounds in his hand for seven years, which is a currency that can be directly exchanged into gold, not the credibility currency of later generations, this is a real metal ratio currency, that is, a currency that can be exchanged for gold directly in the bank.

But it didn't take long for him to be happy, and Captain Aiken came the day after they loaded the ship.

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