They went on to say that if "it is considered that the sails should be kept in order to increase the range of the warships because we lack a suitable refueling station", then the answer is straightforward: "The refueling station must be provided." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

It is not surprising that when people of this position do not agree on some fundamental issues, there is confusion among others and they choose the seemingly safe approach of maintaining the status quo. However, the central thesis of the new Grand Navigator is that the stability of the present cannot be maintained forever. Through the Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute, a limited number of specialized readers read in 9079 the idea that "the undisturbed guarantee of peace does not guarantee that war will not break out." Even this explicit statement has had no impact on those who read it, let alone the American public at large.

It cannot but be said that this is one of the most paradoxical things of this century, when the ancient imperial Qianguo, which was known for its conservatism, profoundly realized the importance of its navy and made every effort to develop its navy, while the newly emerging United States allowed its naval development to stagnate or even retreat.

At this time, it was impossible for Ma Jifen to know that he and his classmates would experience a sea battle that shocked the world in the future in that fleet with the dragon flag flying, which profoundly affected the historical course of the two great powers in East Asia and the development trend of the world's navy, and also indirectly changed the history of the United States.

"Sir, there's the island ahead." A non-commissioned officer of the Qianguo State came over, saluted Ma Jifen with a Western-style military salute, and reported.

"Okay, give the order to go down and tell the landing team to prepare." Magiffen nodded and ordered.

"Do you want to stop at the island ahead?" Li Sizhu asked curiously.

"Yes, ma'am, but rest assured, we will only stay for a day or two at most, and we will not delay the trip." Ma Jifen understood what Li Sizhu was worried about, and said with a smile, "I promise, you will arrive in Washington one step ahead of His Excellency the Earl." ”

"I'm not worried about that." Li Sizhu shook her head, through getting along these days, she already had a considerable understanding and trust in Ma Jifen, "I'm just curious, why did you stop on an unnamed island halfway?" ”

"Because it's an order from His Excellency the Earl." Majifen explained with a smile, "And His Excellency the Earl has specially asked you to take a short tour of this island. ”

"Is this his order? Why? Li Sizhu was even more surprised.

"I don't know, but I am a soldier, an American soldier who is loyal to the Navy of the Great Qian's Empire, and I will carry out the orders of His Excellency the Earl to the letter." As he spoke, he took out a letter from his bosom and handed it to Li Sizhu.

Li Sizhu opened the telegram and read it, and sure enough, as Ma Jifen said, the letter was written by Lin Yiqing, asking Ma Jifen to follow the chart he gave him to explore an island in the Atlantic Ocean when he led the "Weijie" for ocean-going training, as one of the training subjects.

Li Sizhu noticed that the letter was written by Lin Yiqing a year ago, that is, before he set off for a visit to Europe, and that the telegram attached to the letter asking Ma Jifen to take him to that island was not long ago.

The letter was written by Lin Yiqing himself, and was accompanied by several detailed charts and maps, as well as Lin Yiqing's silver medal rubbing, and there is no doubt about its authenticity.

But why did he do it?

In this way, with a stomach full of questions, Li Sizhu sailed to the mysterious island with Ma Jifen and the landing team.

It is a beautiful green island, about 12 kilometers long and 7 kilometers wide, with several hills rising in the middle of the island, and there are many flowers because of the rain that has just fallen. The sand dunes are covered with a thick layer of flowers, this red sand flower, with some small eyes that are sometimes pink and sometimes white. The yucca flowers in the middle of the canyon rocks grow tall. The top is covered with pebble-sized curly flower bulbs the same color as the rising sun. Many strange pods grew where the spring water flowed. In the cracks of the cliffs on the sunny side, some small red and yellow bushes appeared.

There are also a lot of birds on the island. There are a lot of hummingbirds, and they can stand still in the air, and they look like small polished stones. They have a long tongue that they use to suck honey. There is also the blue bird, which is a bird that likes to quarrel. Black and white woodpeckers peck holes in the peduncles of yuccas, in tree beams, and even in whale bone fences. Red-winged blackbirds also flew from the south, along with flocks of crows, and a yellow-bodied and red-headed bird that Li Sizhu had never seen before.

The water around the island is inky blue, and there seem to be many black holes under the water, and the young naval cadets paddle hard, and the boats slowly sail to the shore, from one hole to another, and as long as there is light in the black water, you can see many fish.

"This time it's a wilderness survival training class, and everyone should try not to use guns to capture prey!" Magiffen commanded loudly.

On the beach, Li Sizhu saw many beautiful seashells, and according to Majifen's order, the students began to collect abalone. Many students recognize the types of seashells, and Li Sizhu heard them say that the meat of the red sea shells is the most fragrant and the easiest to dry, but the green seashells and black seashells are also good. Because red sea shells are the most fragrant, starfish also love to hunt the most.

For the first time, Li Sizhu saw how the island's large, brightly colored starfish hunted, and this star-shaped animal crouched on top of the abalone shell, stretched out five long arms to grab the reef of the parasitic abalone, sucked the abalone shell with a suction cup, and then arched its body. The starfish tugged at the abalone shell, sucking it in with its disc and pushing it up with its legs, so that little by little it loosened the heavy shell and the reef it was parasitizing.

At this time, the tide is low and the reef outcrops are high. There were many red abalone on the edge of the reef, but few starfish, so in a few short days, several large vats were filled.

The sea was calm, because there were a lot of abalone in the dinghy, and the sailors needed help to take it away, the trainees tied up the dinghy, and a few people, followed by the hounds, climbed the reef to find fish, and prepared to fork a few to make a pot of fish soup as a snack after breakfast.

Several gray-blue dolphins are leaping on the surface of the sea outside the seagrass area. Inside the seagrass area, sea otters are playing a game they never get tired of. Around Li Sizhu, seagulls are catching scallops everywhere. There are especially plenty of scallops on the beach. They grow on floating seaweed leaves, so numerous that most of the seagrass near the reef causes them to be crushed to the bottom of the sea. Despite this, the seagulls were able to catch some scallops, which they took to the top of the reef with their beaks and flew high above the reef, threw the scallops down, and then swooped down on the reef to remove the scallop flesh from the broken shells.

The scallops rained down from the sky and landed on the reef, which looked interesting, but what the seagulls were doing was not something Li Sizhu could understand. She dodged and fished with the students, and finally reached the end of the reef where the big fish lived. She hooked two large-headed, long-toothed, meaty fish with a hook made of tendons and abalone shells, and she gave one to Miller, Majifen's hound, and some purple sea urchins for use as dyes for her nails.

"It's cheap for you, this island is too rich, there are too many things that can be used as food, and it is not difficult for you to survive at all." Ma Jifen watched the students happily stew fish soup and sighed.

"Maybe there will be tigers and elephants here, sir." One of the cadets joked with Majifen, "We'll stay for a while and we'll go get a few heads, and then you can make them into specimens and take them back to the United States." ”

Hearing his words, the students all burst out laughing.

"Hurry up and eat! Replenish your stamina! You lazy guys! Majifen scolded with a smile, "We won't be able to really run into a beast in a while, and when the time comes, if any of you dare to escape, I will ...... him" He suddenly realized that there was a lady in the team, and promptly shrunk the indecent words behind him.

"Shall we go into the mountains in search of treasure in a moment? Sir? Someone asked with a smile.

"That's right." Majifen restrained his smile and nodded solemnly. The students laughed again, but Ma Jifen didn't laugh, but took out the map that was entrained in Li Sizhu's letter and looked at it carefully.

"Is there really a treasure on this island?" Li Sizhu looked at one of the maps, which really looked like a treasure map, and was a little familiar, and couldn't help but be taken aback.

"Yes." Majifen replied, but his eyes did not take off the map, "Your Excellency the Earl wants me to find these treasures, and two-thirds of these treasures will be presented by you, Madam, to Her Majesty the Empress Dowager Renxi of the Great Qian Empire (the remaining third will naturally be divided between him and his subordinates). ”

After listening to Ma Jifen's answer, Li Sizhu suddenly understood why Lin Yiqing wanted Ma Jifen to take him to the island.

The place where Majifen took the group was on a high ground about 3 kilometers west of the bay. There is a large rock and two poorly growing trees on the high ground. Behind the rocks is a clearing about ten paces wide and free of trees and grass, so that the wind does not blow, and you can see the harbor and the sea from here. There is a spring that flows out of a nearby narrow valley.

When they got to the high ground, everyone was a little tired, and some young people climbed up the rocks to rest. Li Sizhu also sat on the rock with everyone, and the top of the rock was flat and neat, just enough for people to stretch their legs and sleep straight. It was so high above the ground that it didn't have to fear wild beasts when it slept.

Here Majifen found some food and fresh water, which seems to have been collected and stored here by the island's indigenous people. This rock is arguably the safest place for the indigenous people to store food. But it's not winter yet, and there's no need to stock up on unnecessary food.

"There should be people on the island, where have they gone?" Someone asked.

"Maybe it's all eaten by the beasts." Someone replied with a smile.

"They might come and attack me. I'm going to kill them all. Someone continued.

Li Sizhu listened to the words of these young people, and his heart, which had been a little apprehensive since he went to the island, gradually settled down.

"Sir, I found a wooden stick in a grass hut, as well as a bow and arrows, and a dart gun. However, these dart guns are too small to spear fish, and they can't do anything else. ”

"Sir, I found a boat under the cliff, like a ...... Let's do a lot of style. ”

Listening to the reports of the students, Majifen was taken aback and immediately rushed to the bottom of the cliff and saw the wreckage of a small boat.

Indeed, as the student who discovered it said, Li Sizhu recognized it at a glance, this is a small boat commonly used by the people of Middle-earth.

But nothing was found in the boat below the cliff. Except for the rows of seaweed blown up by the storm, the beach was empty.

But there was something strange about one place, however.

"You guys, come and dig it up." He said to several of the trainees.

The surface of the sand was smooth, and the cadets dug many small holes. They're digging in a big area.

After a while, in the center of this circle, someone touched something hard, Li Sizhu thought it was a reef at first, but the students dug down with their hands, but found that it was the black lid of a box.

There was a burst of exclamation from the trainees, who quickly pushed the sand off the top of the box. The box was buried deep due to the waves, and they didn't plan to dig it out, but just to remove the sand so that the lid could be lifted.

As the sun rose, the tide rushed to the beach, rolling the sand all over the holes, and the waves buried the box deeper and deeper until it was completely buried. The trainees stood still, bracing themselves to withstand the waves, so that they would not have to look for the boxes again. When the tide went out, they began to dig harder and deeper, and then with their hands again, until finally the box was opened.

The boxes are filled with beads, bracelets, and colorful earrings. The trainees let out a cry of surprise. Majifen took out the ornaments and turned them around in the sunlight, making them sparkle.

"Sure enough, there is a treasure! Sir! Someone shouted in surprise.

"Madame, this is a fine Burmese sapphire, you can try it." Ma Jifen picked up a string of sapphire necklaces and handed it to Li Sizhu with a smile.

Li Sizhu put on the longest sapphire necklace and a jade bracelet, this bracelet was very suitable for her wrist, it seemed that she was extremely beautiful, and some students were a little stunned after seeing it.

Li Sizhu shook his wrist. Sapphire beads and bracelets make a tinkling sound. She slowly stood up and walked on the waves, feeling as if she had returned to the moment of her newlywed.

She suddenly remembered the people who had died here, and the people who had brought the jewels that had been worn on her. She went back to the box. She stood beside the box for a long time, looking at the bracelet on her hand and the beads around her neck, which looked so beautiful and lovely in the sunlight. "They don't belong to me." She said in her heart that she knew she was not going to wear these things.

She silently took off the sapphire necklace and jade bracelet again.

Ma Jifen watched her movements with some curiosity, but he knew that at this time, it was better not to ask.

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