Port Said.

Ma Guangming woke up at six o'clock in the morning to start the week, escorting five merchant ships to Marseille.

Ma Guangming was the captain of LLL's No. 7 hunting submarine, and he had more than 50 sailors under his command who made a profit of nearly $100,000 a week from Marseille to Port Said.

With high profits comes high risk, just last week, the No. 4 hunting submarine was besieged by three German submarines while escorting, although the No. 4 hunting submarine sank a German submarine, its own ship was also sunk by the German submarine, more than 50 sailors were killed, and only a few lucky guys were rescued by passing ships holding a lifebuoy.

The No. 4 hunting submarine was immediately removed.

"Four", this number is really unlucky for the Chinese.

Ma Guangming's place in Port Said is called "Hunter's Compound", which was originally a castle-style hotel, because of the frequent traffic of the "LLL" company's ships, he simply bought this hotel and used it as a long-term residence of the "LLL" company.

At the gate of the hunter's compound, Ma Guangming met Chen Sheng, the first mate who hurried back.

Chen Sheng, like Ma Guangming, is a native of Weihai, originally a fisherman by the sea, and is no stranger to identifying hydrology, they are the first batch of Chinese to study on four destroyers such as the "Yangtze River", and because of their excellent performance, they were selected to serve as the captain of the submarine hunting.

Submarine hunting is actually a merchant ship converted destroyer, the weapon system is extremely simple, only two 75 mm guns and two depth charge delivery devices, simple operation, low cost, used to provide escort for merchant ships is the most suitable.

Ma Guangming and Chen Sheng are newcomers after all, and there is also a British captain on the ship to mention the point, usually the British captain does not participate in the command, but is only responsible for commanding the operation during the operation, which can be regarded as escorting Ma Guangming.

Seeing Chen Sheng running in a hurry out of breath, Ma Guangming scolded angrily: "Why are you in a hurry?" In a hurry to reincarnate? ”

"Don't talk nonsense, hurry up, the British are digging into our corners, and if it's too late, our business will let them run away." Chen Sheng didn't bother to reply, and dragged Ma Guangming to run in the direction of the dock.

"What's going on? You make it clear! Ma Guangming glared, and without thinking about it, he asked his nephew, who was studying with him, to go back and call someone.

"What else can happen, those Brits are digging into our corners, the five boats we found yesterday have been poached by the British, saying that they won't let us escort us tomorrow, and those bastards are still looking for people, if we don't think about an idea, our business will be robbed by the British." Chen Sheng estimated that he was on fire, and he scolded and scolded at will.

"Shouting people, ****!" Ma Guangming is even more popular.

So when the boys were called, a group of people hula ran to the dock. Not only the members of the No. 7 submarine hunter also came, but the No. 2 boat and the No. 3 boat, which were resting in the "Hunter's Compound," also went to help, and there were more than a dozen staff members of the "Hunter's Compound," a small 200 people.

On the docks, Captain Mike of the Hurricane, which belongs to the British "Poseidon" maritime security company, was full of ambition: "Please rest assured, the Poseidon Maritime Security Company is a responsible company, if your ship is at sea due to our poor protection, we will compensate you for all losses, Prudential will provide you with a guarantee, what is there to doubt?" ”

Mike is promoting the "Poseidon" maritime security company to a group of shipowners stranded in Port Said, and in order to add credibility, Mike even brings up "Prudential".

Prudential is the largest insurer in the UK and the world. Mike's "Poseidon" maritime security company has a bit of a background, and negotiations with the "Prudential Group" are ongoing.

"Prudential Group" is not optimistic about the business of the "Poseidon" maritime security company, not because it is not optimistic about the escort project, but it is not optimistic about escorting ships in the Mediterranean.

Everyone knows that the Mediterranean Sea is France's backyard, and the French have given up their global maritime hegemony to concentrate on safeguarding their interests in the Mediterranean, and it is unlikely that they will allow the "Poseidon" maritime security company to undertake escort missions in the Mediterranean.

Besides, the industry's dark horse "umbrella" company is not easy to mess with, the two bosses of this company have just joined forces to capture the German crown prince Wilhelm and 100,000 German soldiers on the battlefield, and the momentum is in full swing in the Entente countries. The group of aristocrats behind the "Poseidon" maritime security company is not necessarily a rival to the "umbrella" company in the Mediterranean.

"It's useless what you say now, the umbrella has already let out the wind, if we cooperate with you, we will not be protected by the umbrella company in the future, in case you can't hold out in the Mediterranean, run back to England and then run the Atlantic route, then what will we do?" There are shipowners who do not trust the "Poseidon" maritime security company.

The "Umbrella" company has made a name for itself in Port Said, and the shipowners still trust the "Umbrella" company, and the business that Mike took in the morning was from the British shipowner, and if it wasn't for Mike taking the initiative to lower the price, the shipowner would not have cooperated with Mike.

Just when Mike said this, several shipowners were obviously moved, but after hearing the shipowner's words, these people stood back a little and expressed a wait-and-see attitude.

Mike was secretly annoyed, but now was not the time to pretend to be an uncle, and he had to build up the confidence of these shipowners in the "Poseidon" maritime security company: "You can rest assured that since we are here, we have no intention of leaving." The umbrella undertakes their business, we take ours, and do not interfere with each other. ”

"It's true that you can't go, but it's not that you don't interfere with each other, you have robbed us of our business, you have already moved my cheese, and now you only think of fair competition?" With a rough voice, Ma Guangming separated the crowd, stood still in front of Mike, and yelled at Mike viciously: "Now, take your ship immediately and get out of Port Said for me, otherwise I will throw you out of Port Said, you can choose by yourself!" ”

The Chinese who have been "rewilded" by Qin Zhiyuan are now extremely aggressive, especially these Chinese in the Admiralty, they are not the "sick men of East Asia" with big pigtails on the back of their heads, but the "fighting nation" who fight when they disagree.

Perhaps because there were many British on the warships, the Chinese sailors could more or less speak English, and Ma Guangming was obviously the best.

"Hey, people of the Republic of China, pay attention to your attitude, this is Europe, not your Far East, this is the land of civilized people, not a place for you to play tricks." Mike was inward-looking.

In just a while, a large circle of people had gathered on the wharf, there were more than 200 Chinese wearing uniform clothes, and more than a dozen Englishmen saw that the situation was not good, and they were shrinking back one after another, and no one dared to stand forward as a bird.

"Republic of China? Hahaha...... Lao Tzu already knew that you would say this, see clearly, Lao Tzu is an upright Frenchman, a native of the French Republic, ****! Ma Guangming continued to be vicious.

"It's rude, even if you put on a suit, you can't become civilized." Mike was already weak-hearted, and was ready to turn around and leave.

English is actually a very inaccurate language, and many words in English have ambiguities. For example, the word "civilised" can be understood as "civilized" or "non-barbaric", but there is a big difference between the two meanings.

"Savage? Today, Lao Tzu will show you the barbaric one. Ma Guangming just wanted to make a big deal today, took off his clothes and threw them at his nephew, and howled at the top of his throat: "Brothers, copy guys!" ”

Uh-huh, sure enough, a bunch of "barbarians"!

(To be continued.) )